Volume 22.2: In Relation to Microbes

Guest Editors: Valdimar Tr. Hafstein, Áki Guðni Karlsson & Veera Kinnunen

In Relation to Microbes: Fermenting Cultures from Food to Soil

Helga Ögmundardóttir & Eysteinn Ari Bragason

Compostories: Exploring Narratives of More-than-Human Relations in Soil Communities

Maria Giovanna Cassa

Setting the Table for Relatedness: Fermentation in Designing Permaculture Projects in Sardinia

Veera Kinnunen

Smell as Transspecial Correspondence

Ragnheiður Maísól Sturludóttir & Jón Þór Pétursson

In the Company of Bread: Sourdough Baking as Symbiotic Care

Lindsey Foltz

Microbial Entanglements in the Bulgarian Cellar: Control, Collaboration, and Quiet Food Sovereignty

Áki Guðni Karlsson, Bryndís Eva Birgisdóttir, & Jón Þór Pétursson

Fermented Living: Challenges in Adopting a Fermented Dietary Regime and the Role of Food Memories in Acquiring New Tastes

Response: Salla Sariola

Microbiosocial: What if the Holobiont was the Starting Point, not the Endpoint?

Response: Amber Benezra

Multiple, Messy, Microbial

Response: Bernhard Tschofen

Fermenting Cultures

Response: Daniel Münster

Fermentation and More-than-Human Health: How to Speak of/to Soils and Other Aliens?

Forum Series 1: Pandemics & Politics

The Editors

Introduction: Changing Landscapes

Dom Tartaglia, Kaitlyn L. Kinney, Christine J. Widmayer, Annamarie Morel, Daisy Ahlstone, & Jared L. Schmidt

Becoming Folkwise: Sustaining Digital Community While Socially Distant (Essay)

Juwen Zhang

Making Sense of the Pandemic of Racism: From the Asian Exclusion Act in 1924 to the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act in 2021

Response by: Fariha I. Khan

Lucy M. Long

Refrigerators, Cupboards, and Canning Jars: Emergent Meanings and Subversive Practices in Food Preservation and Storage During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Response by: Janet C. Gilmore

Andrea Kitta

God is My Vaccine: Religious Belief and COVID in the United States (Essay)

Levi Bochantin & James I. Deutsch

The Folkloric Roots and Pandemic Popularity of the QAnon Conspiracy Theory (Essay)

Malay Bera

Interrogating Social Distancing: Pandemic and Farmers’ Protest in India

Adam Hinden, Ziying You, & Zhen Guo

Online Activism and Grassroots Memorialization in the Age of COVID-19: Dr. Li Wenliang's Virtual Wailing Wall

Response by: Frederik Schmitz

About Cultural Analysis

Cultural Analysis is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to investigating expressive and everyday culture. The journal features analytical research articles, but also includes notes, reviews, and cross-disciplinary responses.

Established in 2000 in the Berkeley Folklore Archives, Cultural Analysis has published over 19 volumes and hosts a global editorial board and collective.

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    Cultural Analysis is global in scope, with an international editorial board.

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  • Cultural Analysis is global in scope, with an international editorial board.

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Cultural Analysis encourages submissions from a variety of theoretical standpoints and from different disciplines, including, but not limited to, anthropology, cultural studies, folklore, media studies, popular culture, psychology, and sociology.

Authors should submit research articles of approximately 8,000-10,000 words in length, in accordance with the Chicago Manual of Style, 17th Edition, and include an abstract of 100 words and a "Works Cited" section. Authors must provide either an electronic or a paper copy of their article. Microsoft Word is the preferred format for all electronic copies. Electronic copies may be sent as e-mail attachments to caforum1@gmail.com. Essays (2,500 to 3,500 words) are also welcomed.

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