[Commlist] Pandemic Citizenship Special Edition of Continuum

*Pandemic Citizenship Special Edition of /Continuum: Journal of Media & 
Cultural Studies/*

Guest editors, Sean Redmond and Jian Xu

**

The cultural representations and discourses of the Covid-19 pandemic 
have taken up two central pillars: one where citizenship and civility 
are seen to break down and the forces of exploitative global capitalism 
take greater hold; and one where productive citizenship is activated 
through acts of kindness, generosity, and heroism, or through resistance 
and protest strategies. These representations and discourses often sit 
side by side, revealing both the ideological contradictions inherent in 
the representations and discourses of Covid-19, and the economic and 
social divisions that in part have shaped human responses to the pandemic.

What interests this special edition is this dialectic: Covid-19 being 
the prism through which we can see how contemporary life moves and is 
moved by the tectonic plates of global capitalism. This dialectical 
approach allows us to explore how the pandemic has been majorly 
mobilized to shine a light on productive citizenship and the way 
‘everyday’ agency has energized and renewed forms of creative 
participation in the social world. Conversely, the dialectic of the 
pandemic has also allowed us to question whether these forms of 
productive citizenship have in fact destabilized the power structures of 
global capitalism or are demotic only – illusionary in their ability to 
be reformatory.

*Contents*

Sean Redmond and Xian Ju: Pandemic Citizenship 
<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10304312.2021.2023096>

Isabel Delano, Mehitabel Glenhaber, Do Own (Donna) Kim, Paulina Lanz, 
Ioana Mischie, Tyler Quick, Khaliah Peterson-Reed, Christopher J. 
Persaud, Becky Pham, Rahul Reddy, Javier Rivera, Essence L. Wilson, 
Henry Jenkins & Sangita Shresthova: Flying Cars and Bigots 
<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10304312.2021.2003303>

Sean Redmond: A Pandemic of Creative Loneliness 
<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10304312.2021.1962249>

Andreas Hepp & Anne Schmitz: The Limits of the Maker Ideology 
<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10304312.2021.2003755>

Toby Miller, André Dorcé, Enrique Uribe Jongbloed & Jorge Saavedra: 
Citizenship and neoliberalism: pandemic horror in Latin America 
<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10304312.2021.2020724>

Spring Duvall: Quiet celebrity in the time of pandemic: stripping away 
artifice in performances of self, cultures of citizenship, and community 
care <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10304312.2021.1998372>

Joke Hermes & Linda Kopitz: ‘We can sh*t for another 10 years.’ Toilet 
paper, pandemic politics and cultural citizenship 
<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10304312.2021.1998373>

Jian Xu & Xinyu Zhao: Coping with the ‘double bind’ through vlogging: 
pandemic digital citizenship of Chinese international students 
<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10304312.2021.2008319>

Jilly Boyce Kay & Helen Wood: ‘The race for space’: capitalism, the 
country and the city in Britain under COVID-19 
<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10304312.2021.2001435>

Jamie Hakim, Ingrid Young & James Cummings: Sex in the time of 
coronavirus: queer men negotiating biosexual citizenship during the 
COVID-19 pandemic 
<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10304312.2021.1992350>


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