https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/full\/10.1177\/02632764261427661<\/a><\/p>\n\nAbstract<\/p>\n\n
This article examines a utopian impulse in popular culture and activism through a reading of cultural objects disseminated from East Asia. It terms this impulse \u2018small-store utopianism\u2019, seeing it as a cultural imagination that anchors hope in small-scale retail spaces, and explores its emergence, characteristics, and potentiality.<\/p>\n\n
The article argues that: (1) this impulse emerges in response to various contexts shaped by intersecting forms of power and precarity that are entangled with forces such as neoliberalism and neostatism; (2) such a utopianism mythologizes small stores as having a capacity to deviate from their capitalist \u2018storeness\u2019 to shelter vulnerable bodies, memories, and experiments; and (3) such deviated storeness is enabled by storekeeping and storytelling \u2013 cultural practices which may foster infrastructures of hope in everyday life, grounding and disseminating other utopian visions such as convivialism and commoning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Author: Joseph (Cho-kiu) L Source: Theory, Culture & Society Link: https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/full\/10.1177\/02632764261427661<\/a> Abstract This article examines a utopian impulse in popular culture and activism through a reading of cultural objects disseminated from East Asia. It terms this impulse \u2018small-store utopianism\u2019, seeing it as a cultural imagination that anchors hope in small-scale retail spaces, and explores its […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145170531,"featured_media":6534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[776957933],"tags":[776958285,776958283,776958076,776958284],"class_list":["post-7891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category--en","tag-cultural-practices","tag-east-asian-studies","tag-newsroom","tag-small-store"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/typesetter.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/article.png?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pai6UY-23h","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7476,"url":"https:\/\/typesetter.hk\/en\/2025\/12\/23\/article-towards-a-cyberpunk-translation-for-global-cities-a-study-of-kowloon-city-in-hong-kong\/","url_meta":{"origin":7891,"position":0},"title":"[Article] Towards a “Cyberpunk Translation” for Global Cities: A Study of Kowloon City in Hong Kong","author":"\u624b\u6c11\u51fa\u7248\u793e","date":"23\/12\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Author: Song Ge Source: Perspectives: Studies in Translation Theory and Practice Link: https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/0907676X.2025.2509029 Abstract This research explores the relationship between cyberpunk aesthetics and translation in the context of Kowloon City, Hong Kong. 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