Pub Date : 2022-06-26DOI: 10.1080/14791420.2022.2086279
Kyle D Christensen, Marina Levina
ABSTRACT The horror thriller Don't Breathe (2016) follows three robbers as they invade the home of a blind Navy SEAL veteran who violently battles against them. Among the robbers is Rocky, a white woman desperately seeking financial security. Don't Breathe depicts Rocky's body in various states of physical immobility, signifying her vulnerability. By only recognizing the vulnerabilities of poor white women's bodies, the film leaves unrecognized the vulnerabilities of others, especially poor bodies of color and disabled bodies. Furthermore, through Rocky, the film suggests that white women can benefit from the violent aid of white patriarchy precisely because their vulnerability/immobility receives recognition.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-21DOI: 10.1080/14791420.2022.2086280
J. Bennett
ABSTRACT Healthcare has traditionally been structured by biopolitical processes of indexing. The rhetorical practice of indexing stratifies bodies into risk categories and determines who has access to services and at what cost. Indexing generalizes features of identity, artificially classifying them into risk categories to maximize corporate profits. This dubious process accounts for traditional matters of health such as disease and illness, but also assesses broad demographic markers such as gender, race, and disability. This essay engages an attempt by disability activists to resist such practices through a 2005 sit-in at the Tennessee State Capitol.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/14791420.2022.2064525
Sarah F. Price
ABSTRACT Through a rhetorical analysis of Pose, Euphoria, and Supergirl, the author explores the transnormative health narrative that evolves from these popular series. She argues that the representations simultaneously bring awareness and positive visibility to the issues facing transgender communities while reinforcing a false and harmful gender binary. By constructing health narratives from media representation, this research uses public discourse and imagery to offer a comprehensive analysis of how media informs social realities that dictate medical access. She argues that trans representations of health invite both a resilience against and an assimilation toward hegemonic dictations of gender transition and transgender identity.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/14791420.2022.2061026
Whitney Gent
ABSTRACT When officials in a community try to site locally unwanted facilities, they often encounter a rhetorical double bind: neighbors call for action, but also respond by saying, “ … but not here.” These “Not in My Back Yard” (NIMBY) arguments often claim the democratic process and its ideals are being violated. Examining a controversy over housing for homeless people in Boulder, Colorado, I offer an expanded understanding of the forms of NIMBY argument. Additionally, I demonstrate that, while community members may have legitimate claims regarding democratic process, their arguments undermine democratic values by blocking access to material and discursive spaces.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/14791420.2022.2066145
Dustin A. Greenwalt, J. A. McVey
ABSTRACT This essay tracks how Gritty, the new mascot of the Philadelphia Flyers hockey team, emerged as a memetic icon for antifascism and the sometimes-contradictory ethos of far-left online publics. Emerging through expressive sharing, remixing, and appropriation of widely recognizable figures, memetic icons come to embody the ethos of publics, helping them foment dissent. Gritty specifically came to embody antifascists’ incivility towards fascism, as well as their desire to create a more just world. This article demonstrates how memes serve as an organizing tool for anti-capitalist politics and how tracing the circulation of images within publics shows how they produce icons.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/14791420.2022.2063354
Emily Krebs
ABSTRACT In the face of COVID-19 shutdowns, much of the world fundamentally adjusted its relationship to time, space, work, productivity, and rest. In this essay, I theorize the pandemic as forcing many people to live within “sick spacetime,” which involves 1) experiencing inconsistent mobility, 2) acknowledging the precarity of our bodyminds, and 3) living in the liminal state of being constantly in-wait. I use “sick spacetime” to problematize widespread calls for the “return to normal,” then outline a politics of crip/sick futurity in which orientations to time and space remain flexible as pandemic restrictions ease.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/14791420.2022.2064529
A. Basu, Parameswari Mukherjee
ABSTRACT India’s Vaccine Maitri campaign, launched to signal its success in the fight against COVID-19, and as a benevolent act to save lives in the neighbouring countries, was neither. In this article, we argue that the campaign was an act of diplomacy by the Indian nation. Through a “postdevelopment” theoretical lens, we position Vaccine Maitri as a campaign that was designed to propagate India’s goals of developmental expansion in the subcontinent and beyond. Through our analysis of the discourse on Vaccine Maitri, we unpack this hidden development agenda.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/14791420.2022.2064528
Marina Levina
ABSTRACT This is the final instalment of a two-part forum series titled Cultural Chronicles of COVID-19, edited by Marina Levina. In part 1, the forum focussed on the role of language in shaping cultural response to the pandemic. The second part of the forum engages with the United States and global politics surrounding COVID-19. The authors focus on race, disability, colonialism, and public health to examine how politics are conducted during the pandemic.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/14791420.2022.2063353
K. Kizito, Andrew Carter
ABSTRACT Public health research establishes clear links between race and health and identifies racism as a social determinant of health; however, little critical attention focuses on how public health discourses reproduce bordering mechanisms that reify Black health disparities. Centering the COVID-19 pandemic to explore how border logics reproduce such inequities, we introduce the “epidermal border” as an innovative and emancipatory framework for studying intersections of race and public health, drawing focus on the dermis (or skin) as our entry point of inquiry. This essay offers important insights into the theoretical and methodological development of more equitable public health interventions and practices.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/14791420.2022.2064526
Marina Levina
ABSTRACT This article introduces epidemiology as a methodology for performing critical cultural studies and for excavating meaning in times of disparate global crises. I explore the interconnections between COVID-19, the Black Lives Matter movement, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine to examine the interconnections between health, colonialism and whiteness. I introduce the term “epidemiology of whiteness” to illustrate how whiteness functions as an unexamined privilege that directly impacts population health.
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