Professor Jo Littler

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Publications and research outputs

Book Section

“Stay Woke. Make Moves” Branding for a Feminist Future Amidst Pandemic Precarity Curran-Troop, Hannah; Gill, Rosalind and Littler, Jo. 2022. “Stay Woke. Make Moves” Branding for a Feminist Future Amidst Pandemic Precarity. In: Joel Gwynne, ed. The Cultural Politics of Femvertising: Selling Empowerment. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 141-162.
Neoliberal meritocracy, racialization and transnationalism Littler, Jo. 2020. Neoliberal meritocracy, racialization and transnationalism. In: Eva Ulrike Pirker; Katja Hericks and Mandisa Mbali, eds. Forward, Upward, Onward? Narratives of Achievement in African and Afroeuropean Contexts. Düsseldorf: hhu books, pp. 17-20. ISBN 9783942412025
The Affective Life of Neoliberalism: Constructing (Un)Reasonableness on Mumsnet Ehrstein, Yvonne; Gill, Rosalind and Littler, Jo. 2019. The Affective Life of Neoliberalism: Constructing (Un)Reasonableness on Mumsnet. In: Simon Dawes and Marc Lenormand, eds. Neoliberalism in Context: Governance, Subjectivity and Knowledge. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 195-213. ISBN 9783030260163

Creative hubs: a co-operative space? Sandoval, Marisol and Littler, Jo. 2019. Creative hubs: a co-operative space? In: Rosalind Gill; Andy C. Pratt and Tarek E. Virani, eds. Creative Hubs in Question: Place, Space and Work in the Creative Economy. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 155-168. ISBN 9783030106522
Rich TV. Poor TV: Work, Leisure and the Construction of "Deserved Inequality" in Contemporary Britain. Wiliamson, Milly and Littler, Jo. 2017. Rich TV. Poor TV: Work, Leisure and the Construction of "Deserved Inequality" in Contemporary Britain. In: June Deery and Andrea Press, eds. Media and Class: TV, Film, and Digital Culture. New York and London: Routledge, pp. 146-161. ISBN 9781315387970
Ideology Littler, Jo. 2017. Ideology. In: Laurie Ouellette and Jonathan Gray, eds. Keywords for Media Studies. New York: New York University Press, pp. 98-101. ISBN 9781479883653
On not being at CCCS Littler, Jo. 2016. On not being at CCCS. In: Kieran Connell and Matthew Hilton, eds. Cultural Studies 50 Years On: History, Practice and Politics. London: Rowman and Littlefield International, pp. 275-284. ISBN 9781783483921
Cultural Studies and Consumer Culture Littler, Jo. 2016. Cultural Studies and Consumer Culture. In: Deirdre Shaw; Andreas Chatzidakis and Michal Carrington, eds. Ethics and Morality in Consumption: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. New York: Routledge, pp. 233-247. ISBN 9781138790230
The Work of Work: Reality TV and the Negotiation of Neoliberal Labour in "The Apprentice" Couldry, Nick and Littler, Jo. 2008. The Work of Work: Reality TV and the Negotiation of Neoliberal Labour in "The Apprentice". In: Thomas Austin and Wilma De Jong, eds. Rethinking Documentary: New Perspectives and Practices. Maidenhead: Open University Press, pp. 258-267. ISBN 9780335221929
Celebrity CEOs and the cultural economy of tabloid intimacy Littler, Jo. 2007. Celebrity CEOs and the cultural economy of tabloid intimacy. In: Sean Redmond and Su Holmes, eds. Stardom and Celebrity: A Reader. London: SAGE Publications, pp. 230-243. ISBN 9781412923200
'Festering Britain': the 1951 Festival of Britain, decolonisation and the representation of the Commonwealth Littler, Jo. 2006. 'Festering Britain': the 1951 Festival of Britain, decolonisation and the representation of the Commonwealth. In: Simon Faulkner and Anandi Ramamurthy, eds. Visual Culture and Decolonisation in Britain. Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 21-42. ISBN 9780754640028
British heritage and the legacies of ‘race’ Littler, Jo. 2005. British heritage and the legacies of ‘race’. In: Jo Littler and Roshi Naidoo, eds. The Politics of Heritage: the legacies of ‘race’. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 1-20. ISBN 9780415322102
White past, multicultural present: heritage and national stories Littler, Jo and Naidoo, Roshi. 2004. White past, multicultural present: heritage and national stories. In: Helen Brocklehurst and Robert Phillips, eds. History, Nationhood and the Question of Britain. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 330-341. ISBN 9781403912961

Article

Social Mobility is a Joke: Working-class women and British TV comedy on ‘the social floor’ Littler, Jo and Skeggs, Bev. 2025. Social Mobility is a Joke: Working-class women and British TV comedy on ‘the social floor’. European Journal of Cultural Studies, ISSN 1367-5494
Preface: Space Invaders Revisited Littler, Jo and Saha, Anamik. 2025. Preface: Space Invaders Revisited. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 28(5), pp. 1203-1204. ISSN 1367-5494
Contributions, conjunctures and care: revisiting Formations of Class and Gender Wood, Helen and Littler, Jo. 2025. Contributions, conjunctures and care: revisiting Formations of Class and Gender. The Sociological Review, 73(2), pp. 344-361. ISSN 0038-0261

Conference or Workshop Item

‘Rich TV/Poor TV’: Work, leisure and the construction of ‘deserved inequality’ Williamson, Milly and Littler, Jo. 2018. '‘Rich TV/Poor TV’: Work, leisure and the construction of ‘deserved inequality’'. In: 68th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association: Voices. Prague, Czech Republic 24 - 28 May 2018.