Thinking around Genre: The Moral Narrative and Femininity in Kenyan Popular Media

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 222-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dina Ligaga
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
Popular Press ◽  
Radio Drama ◽  
The Public ◽  
Counter Narratives ◽  
Narrative Format ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Moral Narrative

AbstractIn this article, I revisit a familiar narrative format of the moral narrative that I argue is used to narrate stories of (especially) women in the public sphere in Kenya. Reading a range of media texts, I trace a pattern of representation that I identify as contained within a recognizable genre of the moral narrative and use this genre to identify a structure of narrative of issues around gender and sexuality in Kenya. The examples are drawn from a popular radio drama program as well as from popular press reports of wayward women. The article also engages counter-narratives created by women such Vera Sidika and Huddah Monroe who, by publicly displaying their near-naked bodies in public platforms, create room for a counter-reading of discourses of gender and sexuality in the Kenyan public imaginary. This article will push the boundaries for reading popular cultural forms caught within generic constraints and reflect on the value counter-readings have in complicating readings of gender and sexuality in Kenya more generally.

Bleeping Deluxe

queerqueen ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 117-145
Author(s):  
Claire Maree
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Linguistic Performance ◽  
The Public ◽  
Late Night ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Media Censorship

Chapter 5 examines the visual and sonic mapping of excess onto the queerqueen figure through layering of censorship tropes such as redaction characters (fuseji) and pixelization onto audiovisual media. Censorship tropes index complex histories of the use of language and images in the public sphere. Manipulation of censorship tropes exposes discourses of discrimination that shape language use in the media. This chapter analyzes the use of censorship beeps in the late-night television show Matsuko no heya (Matsuko’s Room; Fuji Television Network) hosted by Matsuko Deluxe, a contemporary queerqueen superstar who gained mainstream popularity in the early 2000s. The show pivots on staged (im)politeness and a pretense of low-cost production and minimal editorial effects. In Matsuko no Heya, self-censorship edited into the footage (re)creates Matsuko’s image as a sharp-tongued, honest-speaking, entertaining personality. It simultaneously (re)creates Matsuko’s linguistic performance of gender and sexuality as that which already exceeds the limits of respectability.

scholarly journals Antigone’s Diary – Young Audiences as Co-creators of GPS-guided Radio Drama

2015 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 32
Author(s):  
Manilla Ernst ◽  
Willmar Sauter
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Local Environment ◽  
Text Messages ◽  
Test Bed ◽  
Radio Drama ◽  
Young Audiences ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Multimedia Performance

The play, Antigone’s Diary, is a re-written version of Sophocles’ classical play, developed with teenage schoolchildren in the riot-ridden suburb Husby, a 30-minute subway ride away from the centre of Stockholm. Rebecca Forsberg of RATS Theatre adapted the plot into an interactive radio performance with a mobile audience, walking through the suburb and responding via text messages to Antigone’s questions after each of the twelve scenes. Young audiences were of especial interest for this project. Therefore, school performances for teenagers are the focus of this survey. The responses of pupils were studied during and after performances by means of observations, qualitative interviews and quantitative analysis of the text messages that the participants sent in response to Antigone’s questions. The seriousness and enthusiasm of young audiences were one of the stunning outcomes of this survey and a number of quotations illustrate the immersive power of this production. Furthermore, this experiment also served as a test bed for the Department of Computer and System Science, to which Rats Theatre is closely tied. The multimedia performance, combining radio drama, mobile audiences in a local environment and the options of interactive participation, demonstrated the potential of participatory experiences to engage audiences in democratic processes that can be applied to issues of political interest and decision making in the public sphere.

scholarly journals Von Braun, Tikhonravov, and Space Flight in American and Soviet Post-War Popular Media

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalie Jarosz
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Space Flight ◽  
Popular Science ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
The Public ◽  
Science Media ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Post War ◽  
Personal Interests

Wernher von Braun and Mikhail Tikhonravov had the nature of their scientific roles shown through their connections to popular science media in the countries where they worked during the 1950s. Von Braun’s background was reflected through the edutainment of three Disneyland episodes, and Tikhonravov was unique in his association with Soviet popular science magazines. Their personal interests in relation to their work could also be shown through their interactions with the public sphere.

scholarly journals PERFORMATIVITAS IDENTITAS GENDER DAN SEKSUALITAS DALAM NOVEL IMARAH YAKUBIAN KARYA ALA AL-ASWANI

MIMESIS ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Herpin Nopiandi Khurosan
Keyword(s):  
Gender Identity ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
General Public ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Private Sphere ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
And Gender

This study examines aspects of the performativity of gender identity and sexuality in the novel Imarah Yakubian by Alaa al-Awani. Through Judith Butler's theory of performativity, the author examines how the identity and gender sexuality performativity of the characters and how the attitude of the characters in the novel Imarah Yaqubian in responding to the dominance of heteronormativity.The results showed that Egyptian society which was dominated by heteronormativity ideology gave birth to the marginalization of homosexuals. Individuals who have 'deviant' gender and sexuality tendencies respond to compliance, negotiation, or resistance. Compliance in the novel IY was shown by Abduh by positioning and publicly showing himself as what was considered normal by the general public. The moderate-negotiate response was demonstrated by Hatim al-Rashid's figure by showing the things that were acceptable to the public in the public sphere and showing what he wanted in the private sphere.

scholarly journals Institutional references (European/Global Public Sphere)

10.34778/2zj ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dennis Lichtenstein
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
International Institutions ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Popular Press ◽  
Public Spheres ◽  
The Public ◽  
European Court ◽  
National Quality ◽  
The Public Sphere

The variable “institutional references” refers to international institutions which are mentioned in the coverage of national media outlets. International institutions can be related to the EU (e.g., the European Commission, the European Parliament) or other transnational communities (e.g., the NATO for the transatlantic community). Studies using the variable “institutional reference” aim to compare the share of mentions of transnational and national institutions and search for differences between countries and/or an increase of references over time. The variable has been measured in analyses on quality and the popular press and in single country studies as well as in comparative research. It is usually coded on the level of articles. Some studies consider headlines or the articles’ first paragraph only.   Field of application/theoretical foundation: The variable “institutional references” is used to analyze the monitoring of transnational governance in national media outlets. It is one indicator for the vertical transnationalization of the public sphere (Koopmans & Erbe, 2004; Trenz, 2004; Wessler et al., 2008).   References/combination with other methods of data collection: Research on vertical transnationalization of the public sphere has been combined with qualitative studies on editorial processes and interviews with journalists (Hepp et al., 2012). The aim is to gain a deeper understanding of which editorial processes and which occasions drive EU coverage.   Example studies: Wessler et al. (2008); Hepp et al. (2016)   Information on Wessler et al., 2008 Authors: Hartmut Wessler, Bernhard Peters, Michael Brüggemann, Katharina Kleinen-von Königslöw, Stefanie Sifft Research question/research interest: Comparison of the transnationalization of public spheres in six countries Object of analysis: National quality newspaper, popular press, regional papers Timeframe of analysis: 1982–2013 Variable name/definition: Institutional references   Information on Hepp et al., 2016 Authors: Andreas Hepp, Monika Elsler, Swantje Lingenberg, Anne Mollen, Johanna Möller, Anke Offerhaus Research question/research interest: Comparison of the transnationalization of public spheres in six countries Object of analysis: National quality newspaper, popular press, regional papers Timeframe of analysis: 1982–2013   Information about variable Variable name/definition: Institutional references “What international institutions were mentioned in the article? Institutions were coded, but concepts were not; for example the euro is not an institution. If the reference occurred in the header or the first paragraph of the article, it was coded as a primary institutional reference. Up to three primary institutional references could be coded per article. All international institutions that were mentioned in an article but had not already been coded as primary institutional references were coded as secondary institutional refences. Up to five secondary institutional references could be coded per article.” (Wessler et al., 2008, p. 212) 01 European Union in general (EU) 02 European Commission 03 European Council 04 Council of the European Union 05 European Parliament 06 European Court of Justice 07 European Central Bank 08 other EU institutions 09 EU Intergovernmental Conference 10 EU Convention 11 NATO 12 OECD 13 GATT/WTO 14 UN 15 UN Security Council 16 UN World Conference 17 Bretton Wood Institutions (World Bank, IMF) 18 Commonwealth 19 West European Union (WEU) 20 CSCE/OSCE (Conference/Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe) 21 European Court of Human Rights 22 EFTA 23 EEC 25 Warsaw Pact 997 Other institutions – please specify! 998 Unclear 999 Not applicable Level of analysis: Article Scale level: Nominal          Reliability: Kappa 0.79   References Wessler, H., Peters, B., Brüggemann, M., Kleinen-von Königslöw, K., Sifft, S. (2008). Transnationalization of Public Spheres. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Hepp, A., Elsler, M., Lingenberg, S., Mollen, A., Möller, J., Offerhaus, A. (2016). The Communicative Construction of Europe. Cultures of Political Discourse, Public Sphere and the Euro Crisis. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

‘Odd How the War Changes Us’: May Sinclair and Women’s War Work

May Sinclair ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Liggins
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Sexual Difference ◽  
Hierarchical Structures ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Test Case ◽  
Woman Worker ◽  
War Fiction ◽  
The Public ◽  
May Sinclair ◽  
The Public Sphere

Due to her experiences in Hector Munro’s Ambulance Corps in Belgium in 1914, Sinclair was able to comment both in her memoir and her war fiction on the ways in which middle-class women’s involvement in the new working opportunities offered by the war helped to revise ideologies of gender and sexuality, not least in terms of their occupation of the public sphere. However, her public endorsement of women’s work is at odds with contradictory attitudes to the woman worker in her fiction, who is often repositioned in the boredom of home in the final chapters. Developing critical discussions of Sinclair as a writer of spinster fiction (Pease 2012; Liggins 2014), I address the ways in which unmarried heroines negotiate their outsider non-combatant position. Narratives about the hierarchical structures of these new ambulance corps always focus on the activity of driving as a test-case for women’s fitness for war service; I argue that this can be read in terms of negotiations about gender and power. Sexual difference appears inescapable on the Front, even as Sinclair considers ways in which it might be transcended through war work.

The Ecology of Emblem Eating: Environmentalism, Nationalism and the Framing of Kangaroo Consumption

2008 ◽  
Vol 127 (1) ◽  
pp. 82-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charlotte Craw
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
The Public ◽  
Home Cooking ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Native Foods

This paper investigates the alignment of environmentalist and nationalist narratives through an examination of discussions of kangaroo consumption in popular media such as newspapers and cookbooks. In her bible of contemporary home cooking, The Cook's Companion, Australian chef Stephanie Alexander remarks that using kangaroo meat must, as an indigenous product, ‘qualify a dish as Australian’. And, she adds, such usage makes environmental as well as iconic sense. As I discuss in this paper, Alexander's comments are indicative of the framing of native foods: indigenous ingredients are billed as the solution to both the search for an authentically Aussie cuisine and the plight of the continent's devastated ecologies. Using John and Jean Comaroff's work on the politics of ecological discussions, the paper examines the entanglement of territory and ecology — the slippage between the ‘native’, the ‘natural’ and the ‘nation’ — to reveal how the realm of ecology, conceived of as ‘natural’ and therefore exterior to politics, is used as a forum for very political questions of ‘belonging’. The paper demonstrates how the framing of environmental discussions in the public sphere cannot be separated from wider questions of the politics of settler (post-)colonies.

scholarly journals Urban Laughter as a “Counter-Public” Sphere in Augsburg: The Case of the City Mayor, Jakob Herbrot (1490/95–1564)

2007 ◽  
Vol 52 (S15) ◽  
pp. 77-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Kuhn
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Urban Society ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
Religious Movements ◽  
The Public ◽  
Bourgeois Society ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The City

Social movement scholarship has recently focused on “popular” media of protest; reading and singing provided a forceful communicative structure in semi-literate urban society, especially in Augsburg, the largest city of Reformation Germany. The case of Jakob Herbrot (1490/95–1564) combines the antagonisms of political, social, and religious movements; a rich Calvinist, he climbed the social ladder from a lowly regarded profession to the highest office of the imperial city in a precarious time of confessional armed conflict. Herbrot's conduct triggered a life-long series of accusations, polemics, satires, humorous ballads, and songs, material that allows a reassessment of the early modern discourse of Öffentlichkeit, as well as of urban laughter in the “public sphere” before its modern elevation to the central doctrine of bourgeois society. The sources suggest that humour was of essential importance to the public in the early modern city, a counter-public in the sense of an independent political arbiter.

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