Jamie Hakim is a lecturer in culture, media and creative industries. His research interests lie at the intersection of digital cultures, intimacy, embodiment and care. His book Work That Body: Male Bodies in Digital Culture was published by Rowman & Littlefield in 2019. His co-authored book Digital Intimacies: Queer Men and Smartphones in Times of Crisis was published by Bloomsbury in 2024. He was the recipient of the Stuart Hall Foundation X Cultural Studies Award 2020. As part of The Care Collective he has co-authored The Care Manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence (Verso, 2020). Jamie is also on the editorial board for Journal of Gender Studies and part of the Soundings editorial collective.

Research interests and PhD supervision

• Queer masculinities
• Embodiment
• Intimacy
• Care
• Nightlife

Selected publications

Hakim, J., Cummings, J., Young. I (2024) Digital Intimacies: Queer Men and Smartphones in Times of Crisis. London: Bloomsbury.

The Care Collective (2020) The Care Manifesto. London: Verso. (Translations: Turkish, Korean, Italian, Japanese, Greek, Spanish, Catalan)

Hakim, J. (2019) Work That Body: male bodies in digital culture. London: Rowman and Littlefield.

Hakim, J. (2019) The Rise of Chemsex: queering collective intimacy in neoliberal London, Cultural Studies, 33:2, 249-275.

Hakim, J. (2018) ‘The Spornosexual’: the affective contradictions of male body-work in neoliberal digital culture, Journal of Gender Studies, 27:2, 231-241, DOI: 10.1080/09589236.2016.1217771