A Critical Look at Certainty Adverbs and the Essentializing Discourse of Black Female Identity in the Reality Television Show, Girlfriend Intervention

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-32
Author(s):  
Steven S. Giannino ◽  
Chrystal R. China
Keyword(s):  
Reality Television ◽  
Female Identity ◽  
Black Female ◽  
Television Show ◽  
Black Female Identity

The New Labour era, and beyond: narcissism comes of age

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harry Hendrick
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Parent Education ◽  
Reality Television ◽  
New Labour ◽  
Child Rearing ◽  
Breeding Ground ◽  
Social Investment ◽  
Television Show ◽  
Parental Love ◽  
Contractual Approach

After describing New Labour's use of 'the child' as a form of human capital in social investment, and its penal ASBO programme as a breeding ground for childism, the chapter focuses on the government's innovatory ideal of disciplinary governance, encoded in neoliberal practice, to explain how, with reference to parent education, the behavioural approach to child-rearing grew to be regarded as normal and natural. The chapter discusses Supernanny, the reality television show, as an example of how, through the principles of narcissism, behaviourism and childism were popularised. The chapter argues that the effect of the neoliberal parenting industry on parent-child relations has been to negate the 'unconditional' in parental love in preference to a managerial and contractual approach that epitomises the general principles of neoliberalism and the specifics of the narcissistic temperament.

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