Pub Date : 2022-10-30DOI: 10.1080/14791420.2022.2136394
Kristen E. Hoerl, C. Kelly
ABSTRACT The documentaries Fyre Fraud and FYRE: The Greatest Party that Never Happened recount the fraudulent and imprudent decision-making process that led up to the ill-fated Fyre Fest. These documentaries represent the music festival’s failure through depictions of white masculinity that seek parasitic attachment and proximity to the hegemonic ideal of masculine authority in the neoliberal marketplace. We argue that these movies map the operations of an imitative form of white masculine subjectivity that thrives in precarity, even as they recuperate the status of late-stage neoliberalism by symbolically removing parasitic masculinity from the neoliberal social order that it feeds on.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/14791420.2022.2130950
M. Nartey
ABSTRACT This article examines tweets produced by Occupy Ghana during its #OccupyFlagstaffHouse and #RedFriday campaigns. It sheds light on how activist discourses are most persuasively narrativized when they capitalize on local sentiment and language features characteristic of local communities and audiences. The findings reveal three mechanisms employed in the tweets: constructing the Ghanaian government as insensitive, representing Ghanaians as the suffering masses, and exploiting stance for sociopolitical objectives. The article highlights the synergy between social movement theory and social media critical discourse studies.
{"title":"Advocacy and civic engagement in protest discourse on Twitter: an examination of Ghana’s #OccupyFlagstaffHouse and #RedFriday campaigns","authors":"M. Nartey","doi":"10.1080/14791420.2022.2130950","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14791420.2022.2130950","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article examines tweets produced by Occupy Ghana during its #OccupyFlagstaffHouse and #RedFriday campaigns. It sheds light on how activist discourses are most persuasively narrativized when they capitalize on local sentiment and language features characteristic of local communities and audiences. The findings reveal three mechanisms employed in the tweets: constructing the Ghanaian government as insensitive, representing Ghanaians as the suffering masses, and exploiting stance for sociopolitical objectives. The article highlights the synergy between social movement theory and social media critical discourse studies.","PeriodicalId":46339,"journal":{"name":"Communication and Critical-Cultural Studies","volume":"19 1","pages":"385 - 401"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41825834","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/14791420.2022.2130951
Ahmad Muhammad Auwal, Tamar Haruna Dambo, M. Ersoy
ABSTRACT COVID-19 pandemic posed unprecedented challenges to global health and livelihoods. While countries take measures to protect their citizens and reduce hardships on vulnerable populations who seem to suffer most, COVID-19 puts a spotlight on Nigeria’s severe problem of child neglect. We investigate Nigerian newspapers’ adoption of a peace journalism approach to emphasize the underlying causes of child neglect in their reporting of the oppressive deportation of child beggars called Almajirai during COVID-19. A qualitative content analysis of articles obtained from six Nigerian newspaper websites indicates a positive response to peace-oriented journalism, which suggests a comprehensive peace journalism intervention is needed.
{"title":"Chastising the child of necessity: peace journalism and Almajiri repatriation during COVID-19","authors":"Ahmad Muhammad Auwal, Tamar Haruna Dambo, M. Ersoy","doi":"10.1080/14791420.2022.2130951","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14791420.2022.2130951","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT COVID-19 pandemic posed unprecedented challenges to global health and livelihoods. While countries take measures to protect their citizens and reduce hardships on vulnerable populations who seem to suffer most, COVID-19 puts a spotlight on Nigeria’s severe problem of child neglect. We investigate Nigerian newspapers’ adoption of a peace journalism approach to emphasize the underlying causes of child neglect in their reporting of the oppressive deportation of child beggars called Almajirai during COVID-19. A qualitative content analysis of articles obtained from six Nigerian newspaper websites indicates a positive response to peace-oriented journalism, which suggests a comprehensive peace journalism intervention is needed.","PeriodicalId":46339,"journal":{"name":"Communication and Critical-Cultural Studies","volume":"19 1","pages":"363 - 384"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44512472","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/14791420.2022.2128196
Ma Xiujie
ABSTRACT This study analyzes texts in British books, journals, newspapers, magazines, and websites alongside field research, interviews and visits to training institutions to document the history and expansion of Taijiquan (also known as Tai Chi) in the United Kingdom (UK). By applying Eichberg's “body cultures” model and suggested methodology, this paper explores the spread and change of Taijiquan, and the communication-based dynamics of its diffusion and transformation. This UK-focused research seeks to understand how the cross-cultural spread of Taijiquan contributes to cultural diffusions as part of the globalization process.
{"title":"Diffusion, transformation and hybridization: Taijiquan body culture in the United Kingdom","authors":"Ma Xiujie","doi":"10.1080/14791420.2022.2128196","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14791420.2022.2128196","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study analyzes texts in British books, journals, newspapers, magazines, and websites alongside field research, interviews and visits to training institutions to document the history and expansion of Taijiquan (also known as Tai Chi) in the United Kingdom (UK). By applying Eichberg's “body cultures” model and suggested methodology, this paper explores the spread and change of Taijiquan, and the communication-based dynamics of its diffusion and transformation. This UK-focused research seeks to understand how the cross-cultural spread of Taijiquan contributes to cultural diffusions as part of the globalization process.","PeriodicalId":46339,"journal":{"name":"Communication and Critical-Cultural Studies","volume":"19 1","pages":"402 - 420"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47664696","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-25DOI: 10.1080/14791420.2022.2113109
G. Asante
ABSTRACT In this article, I examine how LGBT empowerment is discursively constructed within the material context of postcolonial Ghana, arguing that LGBT empowerment emerges as a contentious site of “glocalized assemblage” that condenses multiple meanings and spatio-temporal histories of colonization, gender, and sexuality to produce contradictory and paradoxical effects on Sassoi. I explain how neoliberal frames of governmentality are embedded in LGBT-centred empowerment programmes through discursive evocations of community, personal responsibility and human rights education. In conclusion, I argue for queer (post)colonial approaches to LGBT empowerment that open up spaces for radical imaginations to social change in Ghana and across the Global South.
{"title":"“They just need to empower themselves:” reproducing queer (neo)liberalism in LGBTS Empowerment discourses of representatives of LGBTS Human Rights NGOs in Ghana","authors":"G. Asante","doi":"10.1080/14791420.2022.2113109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14791420.2022.2113109","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In this article, I examine how LGBT empowerment is discursively constructed within the material context of postcolonial Ghana, arguing that LGBT empowerment emerges as a contentious site of “glocalized assemblage” that condenses multiple meanings and spatio-temporal histories of colonization, gender, and sexuality to produce contradictory and paradoxical effects on Sassoi. I explain how neoliberal frames of governmentality are embedded in LGBT-centred empowerment programmes through discursive evocations of community, personal responsibility and human rights education. In conclusion, I argue for queer (post)colonial approaches to LGBT empowerment that open up spaces for radical imaginations to social change in Ghana and across the Global South.","PeriodicalId":46339,"journal":{"name":"Communication and Critical-Cultural Studies","volume":"19 1","pages":"344 - 362"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44328871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-25DOI: 10.1080/14791420.2022.2114601
Volha Kananovich
ABSTRACT This article explores the construction of the taxpayer in the government press in Belarus, an authoritarian post-Soviet country. The analysis shows that the taxpayer is articulated as a marginal, apolitical, agency-lacking subject in a hierarchical relationship with the government, reflective of the paternalistic ideology of the Belarus state. The study expands the current understanding of the taxpayer subject as a discursively privileged actor by recasting it in more context-sensitive terms, as a construct that reproduces the configuration of power in citizen-government relations and can affect citizens’ ability to treat taxpaying as a politically leveraging practice.
{"title":"Contract partner with no rights: the construction of the taxpayer subject in the Belarusian government press","authors":"Volha Kananovich","doi":"10.1080/14791420.2022.2114601","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14791420.2022.2114601","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article explores the construction of the taxpayer in the government press in Belarus, an authoritarian post-Soviet country. The analysis shows that the taxpayer is articulated as a marginal, apolitical, agency-lacking subject in a hierarchical relationship with the government, reflective of the paternalistic ideology of the Belarus state. The study expands the current understanding of the taxpayer subject as a discursively privileged actor by recasting it in more context-sensitive terms, as a construct that reproduces the configuration of power in citizen-government relations and can affect citizens’ ability to treat taxpaying as a politically leveraging practice.","PeriodicalId":46339,"journal":{"name":"Communication and Critical-Cultural Studies","volume":"19 1","pages":"325 - 343"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49012152","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/14791420.2022.2096912
Li Hu
ABSTRACT This article examines stories of migrant rural women in films by Chinese female directors, focusing on two films that span ten years of China's heightening urbanization and globalization: Women's Story (dir. Peng Xiaolian, 1989) and Out of Phoenix Bridge (dir. Li Hong, 1997). It analyses the gendered perspective the films bring to rural women's experience of migration and modernization, arguing that they challenge stereotypes of rural women as headstrong but uncivilized and less modern than urban residents. The films’ depiction of women's resistance toward patriarchal norms and their participation in the market economy enhances the understanding of China's post-reform modernity.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/14791420.2022.2095412
Ben Glasson
ABSTRACT Since the 1990s, the Olympic Games has styled itself as an environmental leader, devoting part of its platform to promoting sustainability. Analyzing official Olympic environmental communication reveals a strategy of environmental discourse that is undertheorized in scholarship on environmental communication. Discourse analysis shows Olympic sustainability discourse being punctuated by myth-work: strategic appeals to deeply sedimented myths of humankind’s place in nature. These myths are transmitted as meta-messages bound with the Olympic platform and ethos. The Olympic humanist tenets of virtue and unity dilute and undermine explicit environmental communication, producing a reassuring effect and ensuring the continuation of business as usual.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/14791420.2022.2099918
Anirban K. Baishya
ABSTRACT This paper examines the audiovisual genre of Hindutva pop and its connections to Hindu right-wing violence in India. Hindutva pop music videos instigate violence against Muslims and advocate the establishment of a Hindu state. Examining the YouTube channels on which these songs circulate, as well as the textual aspects of music videos, I argue that the genre becomes a machine for the transmission of political affect. Consequently, I argue for what I call “violent spectating” – a visceral and affective politics of spectacularized hatred that takes advantage of digital platforms but exists in constant dialogue and exchange with right-wing extremism offline.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-30DOI: 10.1080/14791420.2022.2090584
H. Yueh
ABSTRACT In recent cultural studies scholarship, native terms have been used to understand the affective state of a society. Accordingly, this paper focuses on the term “spicy Taiwanese sister,” regarding its derogatory gender implications in the context of Taiwan’s popular culture. Then, it discloses the strategic appropriation of the gendered term in the presidential campaign from 2019 to 2020. This analysis reveals why the affective campaigning led to a triumph of Taiwan’s democracy. The affect and effect of this presidential campaign could not have been fulfilled without the China factor.
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