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“Smarties, you know what’s up!”: curating a community and cultivating pleasure as a social justice influencer Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 2.426) Pub Date : 2024-03-17 Kristin M. Peterson
This article analyzes the Instagram postings of Blair Imani, an influencer who blends lifestyle content with social justice advocacy. Through an analysis of popular posts and follower engagement, I...
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Academia’s next top bottom: Title IX as performative advocacy Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 2.426) Pub Date : 2024-03-17 Ragan Fox
In this complaint biography, I consider how Title IX’s peri-performative protocols fail to address structural homophobia and transphobia. Peri-performativity is a spatial metaphor that theorizes co...
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Reproducing violence, racism, and erasure in research Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 2.426) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Cristiana Shipma McFarland, Elizabeth Wilhoit Larson
In 2019, we received a Top Paper Award for a paper presented at a national communication conference, despite our erasure of Black women from the history of midwifery in Alabama. We recognize and ac...
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Negotiating rhetorics of diversity through performances of propriety: a quare autocritography Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 2.426) Pub Date : 2024-03-03 Rico Self
In this essay, the author, a Black queer Mississippian, advances a methodology they term quare autocritography to reflect upon their experiences of precarity, exclusion, and isolation as a graduate...
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Radio Free Dixie from Cuba to the Black Belt: mapping Black nationhood through cartographies of sonic rhetoric Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 2.426) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Kate Siegfried
In this essay, I follow sound across hegemonic geopolitical boundaries to map its place-making force in the emergence of new forms of nationhood. Through an analysis of Mabel and Robert F. William’...
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Can You See Her? The Absent Presence of Black Female Subjectivity in Get Out (2017) Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 2.426) Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Daelena Tinnin-Gadson
This article investigates racial-sexual violence, and conceptualizations of Black female subjectivity as they are situated in the cinematic Black political imagination. Through a Black feminist ana...
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A rhetorical praxis of rebellious knowledge production: justice Sonia Sotomayor’s outsider jurisprudence in Utah v. Strieff Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 2.426) Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Katie L. Gibson
In 2016, Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote a stunning legal opinion that challenged the Supreme Court’s ruling in Utah v. Strieff and marked a watershed moment for her voice of dissent. In this essay, ...
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No Justice, No Streets! Black radical placemaking and its political aesthetics in George Floyd Square Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 2.426) Pub Date : 2024-01-03 George Villanueva
Building from Black geographies and Black media studies, I propose “Black radical placemaking” as a communicative approach to reimagine urban planning practices toward more racially equitable futur...
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Copies without an original: the performativity of biometric bordering technologies Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 2.426) Pub Date : 2023-12-30 Eleanor Drage, Federica Frabetti
We analyze two examples of biometrics in civil registration and migration contexts (the German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees’ voice biometry system and the UK HMPO passport photo checke...
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Branding being true: visibility politics and Nike’s engagement with LGBTQ+ communities Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 2.426) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Evan Brody
In this article, the author examines Nike’s engagement with LGBTQ+ communities through its Be True products and campaigns. An analysis of Nike’s official statements about the line, and its advertis...
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When Puppies start to hate: the revanchist nostalgia of the Hugo Awards’ PuppyGate controversy Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 2.426) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Max Dosser
In 2015, two groups of right-wing authors and fans – the Sad and Rabid Puppies – flooded the Hugo Awards with literature they deemed “popular” and anti-“message fiction.” These reactionaries mobili...
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Protecting women’s sports? Anti-trans youth sports bills and white supremacy Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 2.426) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Mia Fischer
An unprecedented number of anti-transgender youth sports bills have been introduced in various state legislatures across the United States since 2020. These bills seek to bar trans youth from playi...
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Neoliberal masculinity in the Ultimate Fighting Championship Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 2.426) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Jennifer McClearen
In this article, the author examines neoliberal masculinity in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) in the aftermath of Donald Trump’s election. She uses neoliberal masculinity as a framework f...
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F*ck your condolences: the rhetoric of an impossible demand Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 2.426) Pub Date : 2023-08-08 Darrian Carroll
ABSTRACT On July 16, 2019, after Daniel Pantaleo’s non-indictment, Emerald Snipes-Garner, Eric Garner’s daughter, took to the steps of the New York Court House and demanded the impossible, that her deceased family members be alive. In this essay, I approach Snipes-Garner’s advocacy with a version of racial rhetorical criticism focused on how Black people rebuke racism. Attuning to Snipes-Garner’s impossible
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The Trump administration’s framing of the MS-13 gang: narrowing the borders of belonging with homeland maternity Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 2.426) Pub Date : 2023-07-30 Jimmy Lizama
ABSTRACT This article reveals how the Trump administration constructed an anti-immigrant narrative tailored for Central Americans that modified established anti-Mexican nativism. By reinscribing a hegemonic “mythos” about gangs, harnessing homeland maternity, and representing undocumented Central Americans as a primary factor for MS-13’s presence and waves of violence, the administration portrayed
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Staging progressive dissensus and the politics of Black silence: Black Lives Matter, Bernie Sanders, and the August 2015 rally in Seattle Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 2.426) Pub Date : 2023-07-27 Daniel Dilliplane
ABSTRACT In August 2015, Black Lives Matter activists Mara Willaford and Marissa Johnson interrupted a Seattle rally with a four-and-a-half-minute silent commemoration of Black teenager Michael Brown, preventing presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders from speaking. Using a Rancièrean political framework and a methodology of performance-inflected rhetorical criticism, I explore how this silent
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“Remaking the world memetically”: interrogating white nationalist subject formation through the circulation of the “Wagecuck” meme Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 2.426) Pub Date : 2023-07-06 Reed Van Schenck
ABSTRACT This essay examines the wagecuck, a 4chan meme portraying wage workers and NEET (Not in Education, Employment, or Training) counterparts, as an artifact of white nationalist desire. Through a rhetorical materialist analysis focused on exchange, I argue that wagecuck memes encourage viewers to pursue white recognition to offset anxieties of race, class, and sexuality. The meme circulates cuckold
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Rhetorical fractals: an Afrocentric analysis of #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 2.426) Pub Date : 2023-07-06 Emma Frances Bloomfield, Curtis Ladrillo Chamblee
ABSTRACT Derek Chauvin’s trial for murdering George Floyd was a flashpoint of public deliberation around justice, accountability, and police reform. Burkean approaches to guilt, and their corresponding Western understandings of language, can be extended through Afrocentric rhetorics. We propose the “rhetorical fractal” to encompass Black ways of knowing and communicating. Unlike a cycle that returns
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Introduction: possibilities of collaboration between public memory scholars and higher education public relations professionals Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 2.426) Pub Date : 2023-05-28 LaTonya J. Taylor
ABSTRACT This is the second part of a two-part forum called Interventions in Public Memory: Interrogating the Critical/Cultural Landscape of Higher Education, edited by Meredith M. Bagley. In this introduction, I explore the ways public memory scholars and higher education public relations professionals can collaborate to enhance critical/cultural approaches to institutional public memory on campuses
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Counter-tour as resuscitation: breathing life into the campus memory landscape Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 2.426) Pub Date : 2023-05-28 Meredith M. Bagley
ABSTRACT Based on a decade of work at my home campus, I argue that a counter-memory campus tour answers Ersula Ore and Matthew Houdek’s call for rhetorical storytelling of experiences and places related to race, violence, and white supremacy. I recount ways that counter-memory campus tours can “breathe life into memory” of first Black students and resuscitate their lived experience in profound ways
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Countercurricular rhetorical education: reimagining the university from the inside out Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 2.426) Pub Date : 2023-05-28 Allison Dziuba
ABSTRACT This essay articulates the theoretical basis for my term “countercurricular,” which denotes college students’ use of curricular and extracurricular learning to craft alternative or oppositional views. The countercurricular highlights how student organizers mobilize history to change the present, especially to inscribe into public memory recurring conflicts between students and university administrations
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Institutional pessimism and optimism in racial repair Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 2.426) Pub Date : 2023-05-28 Brandon Inabinet
ABSTRACT The 2017-2018 Task Force on Slavery and Justice at Furman University documented historical harms and initiated reparative action. In this article, I advance a theory of institutional optimism and pessimism that flows through the work of racial repair. Narrating my experience as co-chair of this process, I call others to learn from the protean agency and hope of minorities, rather than embrace
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Place is everything: remembering responsibilities between and beyond land acknowledgments Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 2.426) Pub Date : 2023-05-28 Ashley Cordes
ABSTRACT Land acknowledgment statements in higher education have become pervasive performative gestures that serve to relieve settler guilt and manage public memory. This article details the distribution of stolen Indigenous lands to universities, and identifies problematics of university land acknowledgments. I offer the concept of “impoverished memory” to discuss the insufficient, duplicative means
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Crafting a technology of recovery: the story of the Virtual Martin Luther King Project Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 2.426) Pub Date : 2023-05-28 Victoria J. Gallagher, Max Renner
ABSTRACT This article tells the story of a rhetorically informed transmedia digital humanities project called the Virtual Martin Luther King Project (vMLK). As a project that is interdisciplinary and community engaged in its development and enactments, vMLK provides a particularly rich site for examining ways to (re)shape the critical/cultural landscapes of higher education. The article explicates
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Memory as everyday critical praxis Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 2.426) Pub Date : 2023-05-28 Patricia Davis
ABSTRACT Successful campaigns to remove Confederate monuments from U.S. campuses have been instrumental in restructuring these spaces to better reflect our diverse communities and foster the sense of belonging important to the well-being of all students. Nevertheless, these campaigns also obscure the more mundane ways in which hegemonic historical narratives continue to inform the memories students
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The transracial subject and the emotive regime: Rachel Dolezal, racial phronêsis, and inverted miscegenation Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 2.426) Pub Date : 2023-05-28 Nathan Rothenbaum
ABSTRACT This article analyzes Rachel Dolezal’s autobiography In Full Color: Finding My Place in a Black and White World as a means to excavate the contours of an emergent Emotive race regime—a regime from which claimants to transracial identities base their sense of belonging. I argue that this Emotive regime repurposes Aristotelian ethos as a referent for racial identity, and I then show the entailments
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Truth as White property: solidifying White epistemology and owning racial knowledge Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 2.426) Pub Date : 2023-05-01 Vincent N. Pham
ABSTRACT Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential election underscored the role of “Truth” and how it functions in an epistemological relationship with conservative identity. Drawing upon Cheryl Harris’s notion of “whiteness as property,” this article forwards a theoretical framework of “Truth as White property” whereby Truth functions as an extension of whiteness and as a possession of whiteness. Using Fox
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Reconnections: remembering land when the university wants us to forget Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 2.426) Pub Date : 2023-03-26 Michael Lechuga, Kate Drazner Hoyt, Shane Burrell
ABSTRACT In this essay, we describe how activist and creative impulses led to the establishment of the Multi-User Virtual Environment (MUVE Lab) at the University of New Mexico. The mission of the lab is rooted in a Pluriversal vision of environmental pedagogy, pulling from Indigenous ways of knowing to inform a creative practice that challenges the mechanisms of purposeful forgetting at the center
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Forgetting Fulbright: opposing racist public memory at the University of Arkansas Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 2.426) Pub Date : 2023-03-26 T. Jake Dionne, Joe Edward Hatfield, Nabiha Khetani, Joel Metcalf
ABSTRACT In summer 2020 at the University of Arkansas, a Black-led protest movement known as #BlackatUARK challenged the presence of a statue to William J. Fulbright due to his racist voting record. Despite the Arkansas state legislature quickly passing a law that made the removal of the memorial illegal, contributors to #BlackatUARK demonstrated how to forget Fulbright by recontextualizing his memory
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Disrupting institutional memory sites: racialized counter-memory at the University of Maryland Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 2.426) Pub Date : 2023-03-26 Alyson Farzad-Phillips
ABSTRACT As universities grapple with their long-standing and ever-present relationships with white supremacy, how do they choose to physically mark racial memories on campus, especially those related to racial violence? At the University of Maryland, competing messages from two different memorials for a slain Black student demonstrate the need to critique the form and content of university memorialization
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Town/gown hostilities and memory entrepreneurship Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 2.426) Pub Date : 2023-03-26 Jessy Ohl
ABSTRACT Increased controversy over the truth and meaning of the past has fueled an economic surge in public memory spurring competition between universities and cities for material and symbolic resources. Relations between “town and gown” are often fraught with distrust and sabotage as university administrators and government officials carve out their own memory territories for profit. As rhetorical
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Discouragement, delay, and doublespeak at southern universities: considerations and context for scholars of cultural studies Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 2.426) Pub Date : 2023-03-26 Stephen Monroe
ABSTRACT Delay and doublespeak have long been effective ways to communicate discouragement to those seeking change within white supremacist systems. Indeed, white Southerners in power have deployed these strategies of resistance at every turn during the decades since the Civil War. This has certainly been true in education. My essay explores examples of these rhetorical strategies still at work to
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Subject to/flesh, object/to verb (:) the business of naming Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 2.426) Pub Date : 2023-03-26 Louis M. Maraj
ABSTRACT How do quotidian speech-acts, lived experiences, and normative grammars/logics capture affects of antiBlack racism that co-constitute campus memory and landscapes beyond infrastructure and spectacular commemoration of exceptional past events/historical figures? How does Black resistance to white supremacist university structures (un)fold with/in them? This experimental essay considers power
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Naming, blaming, and “Framing”: Kimberlé Crenshaw and the rhetoric of Black feminist pedagogy Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 2.426) Pub Date : 2023-03-26 Alisa Hardy
ABSTRACT This article examines Kimberlé Crenshaw’s interview on Democracy Now! in 2015 and her 2016 TEDTalk, “The Urgency of Intersectionality,” to theorize Black women’s “activist rhetoric of blame.” Crenshaw enacts three distinctive features of Black feminist pedagogy in her activism for the #SayHerName Campaign. She challenges traditional “frames” of antiBlack police brutality, uses blaming vocabulary
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Hero, adventurer and advocate volunteers: A visual analysis of volunteer tourists’ identities on Instagram Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 2.426) Pub Date : 2023-03-07 Sofia Rastelli, Apoorva Nanjangud
ABSTRACT When the hybrid business of volunteer tourism (volunteer service coupled with leisure touristic activities) meets the self-referential language of Instagram, travel photography intertwines with the identity construction process. Accordingly, this article examines the visual and textual narratives used to build voluntourists’ identities in their posts from their experiences abroad. Authors
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“What’s wrong with Blackface?”: theorizing humor ecologies and Blackface as satire Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 2.426) Pub Date : 2023-02-19 Amanda N. Brand
ABSTRACT In this essay, I analyze the rhetorical implications of removing sitcom episodes containing Blackface from streaming platforms. By situating Blackface performances within what I call their humor ecologies, I attend to the dynamic interplay between comedic reflexivity, racial humor ideology, comic personae, and network influence. I argue that these factors enable audiences to glean meaning
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Introduction: interrogating the memory landscape of higher education Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 2.426) Pub Date : 2023-02-05 Meredith M. Bagley
ABSTRACT This is the first part of a two-part forum called Interventions in Public Memory: Interrogating the Critical/Cultural Landscape of Higher Education, edited by Meredith M. Bagley. In this installment, scholar activists engage critical questions of public memory on their own higher education campuses, including relationships to the land, resistance to institutional memory, and tensions of “town
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Reading Moonlight, reading the other Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 2.426) Pub Date : 2023-02-02 Keven James Rudrow, Amanda Nell Edgar
ABSTRACT This article brings a quare perspective to Moonlight’s reception. We argue that many straight viewers identified the film’s representational innovations but resisted its call to interrogate their preconceived notions about Black queerness. Instead, many audiences focused on others’ interpretations of the film. They perceived Black viewers as homophobic, demonstrating third-person effect, and
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“Thank you … . Facebook”: neocolonial practices of translation as self-Seduction Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 2.426) Pub Date : 2023-01-22 Nicole T. Allen
ABSTRACT This article examines the diverging translations of an unnamed protester photographed several times throughout the early days of the 2011 Egyptian uprisings. Using iconographic tracking, the paper argues that self-seductive translation is an important concept for critical cultural studies. Self-seductive translation targets neocolonial audiences with an identification chain that obscures the
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“‘Bach, Please’: Nashville bachelorette party culture’s investments in white Southern femininity” Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 2.426) Pub Date : 2023-01-22 Claire Sisco King
ABSTRACT In the 2010s, multiple media outlets declared Nashville an “It City.” No longer simply the home of country music, Nashville became a popular tourist destination with particular appeal to white women bachelorettes. Nashville’s bachelorette party culture encourages women to “celebrify” themselves by supporting scopic economies through public amenities and social media sharing—while simultaneously
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Economies of misery: success and surplus in the research university Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 2.426) Pub Date : 2022-11-06 Bryan J. McCann
ABSTRACT This article draws on the author’s experiences with alcoholism and mental illness to critique narratives of merit and success in the research university. Theorizing what the author calls economies of misery, the article describes anxiety, depression, and substance abuse as manifestations of the affective surplus that remains after one has achieved what the research university characterizes
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Pants on Fyre: parasitic masculinity and the Fyre festival documentaries Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 2.426) Pub Date : 2022-10-30 Kristen Hoerl, Casey Ryan 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
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Advocacy and civic engagement in protest discourse on Twitter: an examination of Ghana’s #OccupyFlagstaffHouse and #RedFriday campaigns Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 2.426) Pub Date : 2022-10-19 Mark 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
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Chastising the child of necessity: peace journalism and Almajiri repatriation during COVID-19 Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 2.426) Pub Date : 2022-10-19 Ahmad Muhammad Auwal, Tamar Haruna Dambo, Metin 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
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Diffusion, transformation and hybridization: Taijiquan body culture in the United Kingdom Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 2.426) Pub Date : 2022-10-10 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
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“They just need to empower themselves:” reproducing queer (neo)liberalism in LGBTS Empowerment discourses of representatives of LGBTS Human Rights NGOs in Ghana Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 2.426) Pub Date : 2022-09-25 Godfried 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
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Contract partner with no rights: the construction of the taxpayer subject in the Belarusian government press Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 2.426) Pub Date : 2022-09-25 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
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Violent spectating: Hindutva music and audio-visualizations of hate and terror in Digital India Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 2.426) Pub Date : 2022-07-31 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
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Environmental myth-work: the discursive greening of the Olympic Games Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 2.426) Pub Date : 2022-07-21 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:
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Saving white women: vulnerability and the immobilized body in Don't Breathe (2016) Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 2.426) Pub Date : 2022-06-26 Kyle 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
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Resisting the rhetoric of indexing: disability, access, and the 2005 Tennessee State Capitol sit-in Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 2.426) Pub Date : 2022-06-21 Jeffrey A. 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
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Cultural chronicles of COVID-19, part 2: politics and praxis Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 2.426) Pub Date : 2022-05-30 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
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Epidemiology as methodology: COVID-19, Ukraine, and the problem of whiteness Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 2.426) Pub Date : 2022-05-30 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”
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A sour taste of sick chronicity: pandemic time and the violence of “returning to normal” Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 2.426) Pub Date : 2022-05-30 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
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Denied access: COVID-19, the epidermal border and Black health disparities Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 2.426) Pub Date : 2022-05-30 Kalemba 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”
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India’s COVID vaccine gestures: from maitri to coloniality Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 2.426) Pub Date : 2022-05-30 Ambar 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
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Get Gritty with it: memetic icons and the visual ethos of antifascism Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 2.426) Pub Date : 2022-05-03 Dustin A. Greenwalt, James Alexander 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
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Proving authentic femininity: transnormative health narratives in television Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 2.426) Pub Date : 2022-04-29 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
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“Here is the exceptional:” social media sharing and unavailable everydayness Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 2.426) Pub Date : 2022-04-29 Wolfgang Suetzl
ABSTRACT While social media sharing has been of great interest to communication scholarship, understanding sharing theoretically has been complicated by its everyday nature and the consequent difficulty of representing it in objectifying terms. To overcome the difficulty of defaulting into a conceptual framework that represents sharing as exchange, I employ a critical phenomenological approach to sharing
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“Not in My Back Yard”: Democratic rhetorics in spatial gatekeeping Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (IF 2.426) Pub Date : 2022-04-21 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