Civic Homeland Security Culture: A Poll Study Approach and the Example of Pennsylvania

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Alexander Siedschlag
Keyword(s):  
Homeland Security ◽  
Security Culture ◽  
Study Approach

Crisis Pregnancy and the Colonization of the Clinic

2019 ◽  
pp. 111-140
Author(s):  
Natalie Fixmer-Oraiz
Keyword(s):  
Homeland Security ◽  
Teen Pregnancy ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
Teen Motherhood ◽  
Reproductive Politics ◽  
Security Culture ◽  
Health Clinics ◽  
Teen Mom ◽  
Crisis Pregnancy

This chapter explores how rhetorics of crisis have reshaped contemporary reproductive politics. First, it examines the significance of crisis teen pregnancy narratives in popular media (e.g., Juno, 16 and Pregnant, Glee, and Teen Mom) and how these narratives manage collective anxieties over abortion, adoption, and teen motherhood. It traces these trends alongside the colonization of comprehensive women’s health clinics by the evangelical crisis pregnancy center movement. The logic of homeland security culture, present in this case study through rhetorics of “crisis,” fuels the differential protection of domestic bodies and works to produce and reproduce national identity through the bodies of particular women and families.

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-30
Author(s):  
Natalie Fixmer-Oraiz
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Homeland Security ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
The United States ◽  
Reproductive Politics ◽  
Security Culture ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Control ◽  
Theoretical Foundations

This chapter explores how recent discourses of motherhood and nation are deeply enmeshed and mutually constitutive. I trace a brief history of reproductive politics in the United States, clarifying how the project of nation building has consistently enlisted motherhood and worked to govern women’s reproduction through differential modes of surveillance and control. This chapter provides the historical and theoretical foundations for the book; it notes the precedents to homeland maternity while also elaborating on how contemporary alignments of motherhood and nation are distinct and specific to homeland security culture.

Homeland Maternity

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalie Fixmer-Oraiz
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
National Security ◽  
Homeland Security ◽  
Reproductive Justice ◽  
Security Culture ◽  
Perceived Vulnerability ◽  
Political Function ◽  
A Site ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Critical Perspectives

Motherhood in the context of homeland security culture is a site of intense contestation—both a powerful form of currency and a target of unprecedented assault. In this book, I designate the term homeland maternity in order to theorize the relationship between motherhood and nation in US homeland security culture. While scholars of rhetoric, feminist, and cultural studies have explored homeland security culture and the politics of contemporary motherhood from critical perspectives, no study to date has considered how recent discourses of motherhood and nation are deeply enmeshed and, as this book argues, mutually constitutive. As reproductive bodies are represented as a threat to national security, either through supposed excess or deficiency, a culture of homeland maternity intensifies the requirements of motherhood as it works to discipline those who refuse to adhere. Homeland Maternity offers a way to understand how the policing of maternal bodies in contemporary US culture serves an overt but unexamined political function—namely, securing the nation in times of perceived vulnerability, and with profound implications for reproductive justice.

Information Security Culture

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 31-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joo S. Lim ◽  
Sean B Maynard ◽  
Atif Ahmad ◽  
Shanton Chang
Keyword(s):  
Information Security ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Security Management ◽  
Information Security Management ◽  
Security Culture ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Unified View ◽  
Multiple Case

There is considerable literature in the area of information security management (ISM). However, from an organizational viewpoint, the collective body of literature does not present a coherent, unified view of recommended security management practices. In particular, despite the existence of ‘best-practice' standards on information security management, organizations have no way of evaluating the reliability or objectivity of the recommended practices as they do not provide any underlying reasoning or justification. This paper is a first step towards the development of rigorous and formal instruments of measurement by which organizations can assess their security management practices. The paper identifies nine security practice constructs from the literature and develops measurement items for organizations to assess the adequacy of their security management practices. The study uses a multiple case study approach followed by interviews with a panel of four security experts to validate and refine these security practice constructs and their associated measures.

Post-Prevention?

2019 ◽  
pp. 85-110
Author(s):  
Natalie Fixmer-Oraiz
Keyword(s):  
Homeland Security ◽  
News Media ◽  
Emergency Contraception ◽  
Over The Counter ◽  
Security Culture ◽  
Public Debates

This chapter examines contentious public debates over the availability of emergency contraception (EC). Studying dominant news media, this chapter demonstrates how debates on over-the-counter EC fueled cultural panics over youth, abstinence, and so-called sexual purity. EC was thus discursively managed through rhetorics of “emergency” that drew on the ethos of science, relied on antiabortion cultural sentiment, and disciplined women differentially according to longstanding hierarchies of maternal worth. This chapter explores how reclassifications of EC intensified surveillance of women’s sexual and reproductive lives within homeland security culture.

Securing Motherhood on the Home Front

2019 ◽  
pp. 31-58
Author(s):  
Natalie Fixmer-Oraiz
Keyword(s):  
Homeland Security ◽  
Assisted Reproductive Technologies ◽  
Critical Dimension ◽  
Reproductive Technologies ◽  
Professional Women ◽  
Home Front ◽  
Security Culture ◽  
Young Professional ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
Opt Out

This chapter examines two recent surges in pronatalism that aligned elite white women’s fertility with national security. It first discusses the “opt-out revolution” of the early twenty-first century, which profiled an exodus of professional women from prestigious careers in favor of full-time domesticity. It turns then to the proliferation of fertility campaigns that targeted young professional women in the latter part of the decade, offering lifestyle directives and encouraging the use of assisted reproductive technologies to secure the possibility of pregnancy later in life. The chapter highlights how these pronatalist campaigns are usefully understood in concert; they highlight the valorization of elite motherhood as a critical dimension of homeland security culture.

Caregivers' Perceptions of Speech-Language Pathologist Talk About Child Language and Literacy Disorders

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 2049-2067
Author(s):  
Karmen L. Porter ◽  
Janna B. Oetting ◽  
Loretta Pecchioni
Keyword(s):  
Language And Literacy ◽  
Collective Case Study ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
School Aged Children ◽  
Speech Language Pathologist ◽  
Therapy Goals ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
Types Of Information

Purpose This study examined caregiver perceptions of their child's language and literacy disorder as influenced by communications with their speech-language pathologist. Method The participants were 12 caregivers of 10 school-aged children with language and literacy disorders. Employing qualitative methods, a collective case study approach was utilized in which the caregiver(s) of each child represented one case. The data came from semistructured interviews, codes emerged directly from the caregivers' responses during the interviews, and multiple coding passes using ATLAS.ti software were made until themes were evident. These themes were then further validated by conducting clinical file reviews and follow-up interviews with the caregivers. Results Caregivers' comments focused on the types of information received or not received, as well as the clarity of the information. This included information regarding their child's diagnosis, the long-term consequences of their child's disorder, and the connection between language and reading. Although caregivers were adept at describing their child's difficulties and therapy goals/objectives, their comments indicated that they struggled to understand their child's disorder in a way that was meaningful to them and their child. Conclusions The findings showed the value caregivers place on receiving clear and timely diagnostic information, as well as the complexity associated with caregivers' understanding of language and literacy disorders. The findings are discussed in terms of changes that could be made in clinical practice to better support children with language and literacy disorders and their families.

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