Managing Fear and Fantasy: Cultural Politics and Gameplay Governance in the National Basketball Association, 1990–2006

2020 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-132
Author(s):  
Steve Booth Marston
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Politics ◽  
Political Context ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
National Basketball Association ◽  
Black Athlete ◽  
Capitalist System ◽  
Dominant Ideology ◽  
Bodily Contact

In the 1990s and 2000s, National Basketball Association (NBA) officials instituted a series of new penalties for players initiating bodily contact on the court. This article demonstrates, through a focus on the rhetoric by which the new rules were written and supported, that gameplay governance reflected cultural-political context. Officials navigated Blackophobia and Blackophilia, as theorized by Yousman, by promising to both contain the threat and unleash the exciting athleticism of the Black athlete/body. Amid turn-of-the-century “crime” discourse, this rhetoric reiterated, and continues to reiterate, the apparent necessity of White neoliberal paternalism in relation to Black subjects. Such reiteration of dominant ideology has been central to officials’ efforts to integrate the NBA spectacle into the global-capitalist system.

scholarly journals Translating the Commune: Cultural Politics and the Historical Specificity of the Anarchist Text

2007 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald Bruce
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Cultural Politics ◽  
English Translation ◽  
Political Context ◽  
Functional Identity ◽  
Semantic Ambiguity ◽  
The Third ◽  
Historical Specificity ◽  
Specific Factors

Abstract Translating the Commune: Cultural Politics and the Historical Specificity of the Anarachist Text — This essay deals with three interrelated matters: the first is the role of discourse analysis and the conscious theorization of discourse typologies in translation methodologies; the second is the absence of any complete English translation of Jules Vallès's autobiographical/historical trilogy, Jacques Vingtras, comprised of L'Enfant (1879), Le Bachelier (1881), and L'insurgé (1885); and the third is the analysis of specific discursive characteristics which establish the formal and functional identity of the Discourse of the Commune. Though widely published in popular and scholarly editions in France, Vallès's novels have not been included in the lycée corpus through an act of conscious cultural exclusion. This has contributed to the exclusion of Vallès abroad and to the absence of translations of the trilogy. In order to remedy this situation the translator must be aware of the specific socio-political context surrounding these novels as well as the particular formal characteristics which make up the discourse from which these texts emerge. Radical decentralisation, narrative fragmentation, multiple enunciative positions, neologisms, a structure based on an unresolved binary dialectic, interdiscursive mixing and semantic ambiguity are common characteristics of the discourse of the Commune as they are transposed metaphorically from the anarchistic theoretical discourse of P.-J. Proudhon to the Vallès texts: these specific factors coupled with a cultural politics of exclusion have long marginalized the trilogy in various curricula and, in addition, led to its exclusion from non-francophone cultures both in the original French and in translation.

Sexual Affronts and Racial Frontiers: European Identities and the Cultural Politics of Exclusions in Colonial Southeast Asia

1992 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 514-551 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Stoler
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Cultural Competence ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Cultural Politics ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
National Identities ◽  
Colonial Rule ◽  
Sexual Morality ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Liberal Policy

This essay is concerned with the construction of colonial categories and national identities and with those people who ambiguously straddled, crossed, and threatened these imperial divides.1 It begins with a story about métissage (interracial unions) and the sorts of progeny to which it gave rise (referred to as métis, mixed bloods) in French Indochina at the turn of the century. It is a story with multiple versions about people whose cultural sensibilities, physical being, and political sentiments called into question the distinctions of difference which maintained the neat boundaries of colonial rule. Its plot and resolution defy the treatment of European nationalist impulses and colonial racist policies as discrete projects, since here it was in the conflation of racial category, sexual morality, cultural competence and national identity that the case was contested and politically charged. In a broader sense, it allows me to address one of the tensions of empire which this essay only begins to sketch: the relationship between the discourses of inclusion, humanitarianism, and equality which informed liberal policy at the turn of the century in colonial Southeast Asia and the exclusionary, discriminatory practices which were reactive to, coexistent with, and perhaps inherent in liberalism itself.2

Dealing with Disasters in an Age of Globalized Sentiment: Testing the Boundaries of the Cosmopolitan Ideal?

2013 ◽  
Vol 12 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 283-297 ◽  
Author(s):  
Darren O’Byrne
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Global Civil Society ◽  
Political Context ◽  
The Political ◽  
Capitalist System ◽  
Global Response ◽  
The World ◽  
Per Se

AbstractNatural disasters, such as the Japanese earthquake and tsunami of March 2011, have not only tested the fragility of the world capitalist system, but have asked questions of the ‘cosmopolitan ideal’ that underpins the discourse on global civil society prevalent in much literature on globalization. In this article I consider why the global response to such tragedies is markedly different to the more muted response to more overtly political tragedies, such as atrocities committed by states, and suggests that what it demonstrates is not a full cosmopolitanismper se, but a ‘selective cosmopolitanism’ grounded in a ‘de-politicization of feeling’. As a result, the political context of these natural disasters is often ignored and this calls for a repositioning of such disasters within a human rights framework and for an analysis of them informed by a critical globalization studies.

Identities

Out in Time ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 11-32
Author(s):  
Perry N. Halkitis
Keyword(s):  
Gay Men ◽  
Coming Out ◽  
Multiple Identities ◽  
Political Context ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Gay Identity ◽  
Life Narratives ◽  
Social Emotional ◽  
The Social ◽  
Behavioral Conditions

Gay men hold multiple identities, which define who they are and which shape their experiences of coming out. The chapter introduces the fifteen men of varying ages, races, ethnicities, and places of birth, whose life narratives provide the means for exploring the coming out process within and across generations and of the social, emotional, and behavioral conditions that have defined the lives of gay men. Five gay men who emerged into adolescence in the late 1950s, 1960s, and early 1970s constitute the Stonewall Generation; those who came of age in the late 1970s through the early 1990s are defined as members of the AIDS Generation; and those emerging into adulthood after the turn of the century belong to the Queer Generation. Each of the fifteen men is introduced in relation to his earliest memories of what would prove to be his gay identity and in the social-political context of the time.

Performing the Filipina Mail-Order Bride

2020 ◽  
pp. 65-89
Author(s):  
Gina K. Velasco
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cultural Politics ◽  
Performance Art ◽  
Cultural Nationalism ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Context ◽  
Gay Marriage ◽  
Mail Order ◽  
Mail Order Brides ◽  
And Performance

Chapter 3 argues that the video and performance art project Always a Bridesmaid, Never a Bride, by the Filipina American video and performance art ensemble the Mail Order Brides / M.O.B., reconfigures the discourse of Filipina mail-order brides as abject figures. Always a Bridesmaid, Never a Bride undermines the heteronormativity and masculinism of Filipina/o American cultural nationalism while also critiquing the homonationalism of LGBT cultural politics in the United States. Always a Bridesmaid, Never a Bride is situated within a broader US political context of queer neoliberalism, in which gay marriage is a sign of homonational belonging. A queer neoliberal logic commodifies the labor of transnational Filipina bodies, revealing the inherent racism of the mainstream LGBT movement’s inability to address issues of race, migration, and labor.

scholarly journals Schiaparelli et les archéologues italiens aux bords du Nil : égyptologie et rivalités diplomatiques entre 1882 et 1922

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carole Jarsaillon
Keyword(s):  
Art Market ◽  
Political Context ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Arabic Text ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Archaeological Excavations ◽  
Egyptian Archaeology ◽  
The Way

In 1903, Ernesto Schiaparelli made the decision to excavate directly in Egypt rather than purchasing objects for the Museo Egizio of Turin on the art market. The MAI, the Italian Archaeological Mission in Egypt, was thus born, marking the first steps of the newly unified Italian nation-state in the field of Egyptian archaeology. When investigating the context of these early Italian excavations and the way the thriving science of Egyptology was managed in Egypt between 1882 and 1922, one notices the paramount importance of geopolitical stakes in the matter, and particularly the prominence of Anglo-French rivalry. The article explores how Italian Egyptology managed to thrive in this international political context, and seeks to assess to what extent these diplomatic stakes impacted the work of Schiaparelli’s team and its dissemination among the international Egyptological community. The author first looks into the organization of Egyptology and its Service of Antiquities as a tool of colonialism, as well as a political stake among European powers at the turn of the century, especially as regards the internationalization and expansion of archaeological excavations along the banks of the Nile. She then turns to the place of Italian Egyptology within this framework, and notably its relationship with the Service of Antiquities, its discoveries, and how knowledge about these discoveries was disseminated through official publications. ملخص البحث: أتخذ إرنستو سكياباريللى فى عام 1903م قرار الحفر (التنقيب عن الآثار) مباشرة فى مصر بدلاً من شراء القطع الآثرية للمتحف المصرى بتورينو من الأماكن المخصصة لبيعها. وهكذا ولدت البعثة الآثرية الإيطالية فى مصر(MAI) ، رمزاً إلى الخطوات الأولى للأمة الإيطالية الموحدة حديثاً فى مجال الآثار المصرية. عند إستقصاء ودراسة السياق والمحتوى لهذة الحفائر الإيطالية المبكرة، وإذا درسنا الطريقة التى أدارت إزدهار علم المصريات فى مصر بين عامى 1882 و 1922، يمكننا أن نلاحظ الأهمية الكبيرة للتحديات الجغرافية السياسية (الجيو-سياسية) فى هذة المسألة، وخاصة بروز التنافس الانجلو-فرنسى. يستكشف هذا المقال كيف تمكن علماء المصريات الإيطاليين من الأزدهار في هذا السياق السياسي الدولي، كما يهدف أيضاً إلى تقييم مدى تأثير هذه الرهانات والتحديات الدبلوماسية على عمل فريق سكياباريللى ونشره بين مجتمع علماء المصريات الدولى. تحرى المؤلف أولا تنظيم علم المصريات ومصلحة الآثار كأداة للاستعمار، بالإضافة إلى التحدى السياسى بين القوى الأوروبية في مطلع القرن، وخاصة فيما يتعلق بالتدويل (المشاركة الدولية) وتوسيع الحفائر الأثرية على طول ضفاف نهر النيل. ثم انتقل المؤلف إلى الحديث عن مكانة علم المصريات الإيطالي في هذا الإطار، ولا سيما علاقتها مع مصلحة الآثار، واكتشافاتها، وكيفية المعرفة عن هذه الاكتشافات كان من خلال النشر فى المنشورات الرسمية.

scholarly journals The Joke Is on You: Humor, Resistance through Culture, and Paradoxical Forms of Dissent in Communist Romania

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 17-24
Author(s):  
Bogdan Ştefănescu
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Cultural Politics ◽  
Political Context ◽  
Moral Evaluation ◽  
Cultural Discourse ◽  
The Political ◽  
Power Relationships ◽  
Discursive Analysis ◽  
Cultural Discourse Analysis

The author of the article focuses on showing that resistance through culture is part of a social and political dynamic that is complicated and paradoxical. He claims that a discursive analysis of power relationships and of the rapport between the private and official idioms in the political context of communist totalitarian societies can evince the daunting complexity of some forms of resistance-through-culture discourse. The author argues that with the appropriate critical instruments, cultural discourse analysis can broach the intricacies and paradoxes of power relationships in oppressive environments and can ground a more accurate and unprejudiced moral evaluation of resistance through culture as a phenomenon typical of totalitarian cultural politics.

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