A Crisis of Compassion

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Ala Sirriyeh
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cultural Scripts ◽  
Asylum Policy ◽  
Policy Debates ◽  
Contemporary Politics ◽  
The Media ◽  
Immigration And Asylum ◽  
The Uk

This book examines the role of compassion and its relationship to other emotions in asylum and immigration policy discourses in Australia, the UK and the United States. Focusing on the case of undocumented immigrants and refugees, it analyses the politics of compassion in immigration and asylum policy within the broader landscape of the rise of political cultural scripts such as ‘humanitarian reason’, ‘liberal terror’ and ‘compassionate conservativism’ in contemporary politics. This chapter presents an outline of the book's argument, first by considering the media and public hostility towards certain populations of migrants and refugees and then how compassion works as the workings of compassion as a basic social emotion. It then discusses the policy case studies that illustrate the role of a discourse of compassion within recent immigration and asylum policy debates in Australia, the UK and the United States. It also provides an overview of the chapters that follow.

Conclusion

2018 ◽  
pp. 161-168
Author(s):  
Ala Sirriyeh
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
The United States ◽  
Policy Discourse ◽  
Asylum Policy ◽  
Immigrants And Refugees ◽  
Immigration And Asylum ◽  
The Uk

This concluding chapter summarises the book's main themes built around the argument that a discourse of compassion has been appropriated to justify oppressive policies against migrants and refugees. These people have been met with hostility and exclusion by receiving governments, especially Australia, the UK and the United States. In analysing how people are placed within and outside of ‘circles of concern’ in contested immigration and asylum policy discourse, this book has discussed measures that emphasised the vulnerability of immigrants and refugees. It has also explored compassion as solidarity, an idea that it claims offers more promising prospects for social justice than the notion of compassion based on distance and pity, and how activists have linked compassion with outrage to address the causes of suffering and alleviate it in the long term.

Expanded Function Orthodontic Auxiliaries; a Proposal for their Introduction in the UK

1988 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 281-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. D. O'Brien ◽  
W. C. Shaw
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Cost Effectiveness ◽  
Orthodontic Treatment ◽  
The United States ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Treatment Provision ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Cost

The role of dental and orthodontic auxiliaries in Europe and the United States is reviewed, and the advantages of their employment in the United Kingdom are discussed in terms of increasing the cost-effectiveness of orthodontic treatment provision. A three-stage programme for the evaluation of Orthodontic Auxiliaries in the UK is proposed.

The British Discovery of American History: War, Liberalism and the Atlantic Connection

2005 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 357-369 ◽  
Author(s):  
MICHAEL HEALE
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
American History ◽  
The United States ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
The Awakening ◽  
The Media ◽  
Second World ◽  
Academic Study

The years following the Second World War, according to the Norwegian scholar Sigmund Skard, witnessed the “Rediscovery of America,” as European academics belatedly turned their attention to the United States at a time when its pre-eminent global role could not be ignored. In Britain some believed that the awakening was already under way, the Principal of what became Exeter University having described 1941 as the year of the British “discovery of America.” The jarring realization that the very survival of Britain depended on a close alliance with the American giant had precipitated not only frenetic governmental activity but also intense interest in the United States throughout the media. Perhaps the “discovery” or “rediscovery” of America in British consciousness cannot be dated with exact precision, but the years from the war to the mid-1960s may fairly be called the “take-off period” for the academic study of American history in Britain. This essay briefly considers the role of some of the participants in this endeavour.

scholarly journals The role of race and scientific trust on support for COVID-19 social distancing measures in the United States

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (7) ◽  
pp. e0254127
Author(s):  
Sara Kazemian ◽  
Sam Fuller ◽  
Carlos Algara
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Institutional Trust ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
The Media ◽  
Racial Lines ◽  
Novel Coronavirus

Pundits and academics across disciplines note that the human toll brought forth by the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in the United States (U.S.) is fundamentally unequal for communities of color. Standing literature on public health posits that one of the chief predictors of racial disparity in health outcomes is a lack of institutional trust among minority communities. Furthermore, in our own county-level analysis from the U.S., we find that counties with higher percentages of Black and Hispanic residents have had vastly higher cumulative deaths from COVID-19. In light of this standing literature and our own analysis, it is critical to better understand how to mitigate or prevent these unequal outcomes for any future pandemic or public health emergency. Therefore, we assess the claim that raising institutional trust, primarily scientific trust, is key to mitigating these racial inequities. Leveraging a new, pre-pandemic measure of scientific trust, we find that trust in science, unlike trust in politicians or the media, significantly raises support for COVID-19 social distancing policies across racial lines. Our findings suggest that increasing scientific trust is essential to garnering support for public health policies that lessen the severity of the current, and potentially a future, pandemic.

What’s in a Word?

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy A. Naples
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Liberal State ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
State Governance ◽  
The Media ◽  
Materialist Feminist

Drawing on a materialist feminist analysis of austerity discourse, this chapter foregrounds the dynamics of gender, race, nation, and class to put into sharp relief the “relations of ruling” that contour the everyday lives of diverse individuals, families, communities, and nations during and following the Great Recession of 2008–9. This approach allows for a comparison of the role of the state in the United States and Europe and considers the intersection of the media, state actors, and economic analysts in post-liberal state governance. This multi-institutional approach enhances our understanding of general patterns across the United States and the European Union as well as differences between nations.

Media and Mayhem in Corrections: The Role of the Media in Prison Riots

1996 ◽  
Vol 76 (4) ◽  
pp. 420-441 ◽  
Author(s):  
SUE MAHAN ◽  
RICHARD LAWRENCE
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
New Mexico ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
The United States ◽  
Santa Fe ◽  
The Media ◽  
Prison Riots

Three of the most infamous prison riots in the United States took place in Attica, New York; Santa Fe, New Mexico; and Lucasville, Ohio in 1971, 1980, and 1993, respectively. Although an examination of the three riots reveals differences in the uprisings, there are important similarities in the underlying conditions behind them. Analysis of the three riots shows the significant role played by representatives of the media both in negotiating with inmates and taking back the three institutions. In this article, the authors discuss the influence and effect of media coverage on prison riots based on what was learned from the participation of the media in the Attica, Santa Fe, and Lucasville uprisings.

scholarly journals Strategi Komunikasi Politik Amerika Serikat dalam Memanfaatkan Hollywood sebagai Media untuk Memperkuat Dominasi Global

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Elfan Kaukab ◽  
Atinia Hidayah
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
The United States ◽  
Movie Industry ◽  
Hollywood Movies ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Mass Media ◽  
Global Influence

The United States has a range of methods that is strong enough to carry out propaganda. The role of the mass media and Hollywood movie industry have become a tool of war used by the United States. The media is very influential in persuading one's thoughts and actions. Media is also able to carry out its social construction to wrap reality into an ideal one which is strongly believed because it has been occurring over periods of time. The purpose of this research is to analyze the United States in dominating global influence through Hollywood as a media that plays a role in running propaganda politics. The method used is an explanative analysis of the Black Panther movie. The result of this research is the significant role of the mass media in reconstructing global social conditions by the United States which tries to maintain its dominance through various kinds of propaganda, including those carried out through the production of Hollywood movies.

After the Fact

2018 ◽  
pp. 120-150
Author(s):  
Sara Blair
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New Left ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Self ◽  
Visual Artists ◽  
Social Crisis ◽  
Martha Rosler ◽  
The Media ◽  
Made In

In “After the Fact: Postwar Dissent and the Art of Documentary,” Sara Blair analyzes the redirection of photo-documentary practice by visual artists Richard Avedon and Martha Rosler. Specifically, the chapter emphasizes the self-consciousness with which postwar figures represent and conduct their labor for a context of urgent social crisis and dissent. Both photographers experiment with the properties and forms of documentary imaging, wrested from its familiar contexts: Avedon in an evolving series of portraits of New Left leaders, activists, war prosecutors, and dissidents made in the United States and on the ground in Vietnam, Rosler in projects focusing on the role of photojournalism, documentary, and the media itself in perpetuating both a fog of war and a set of presumptions about documentary as a form of knowledge and power.

Framing Blackness and Mixedness

2020 ◽  
pp. 55-96
Author(s):  
Jasmine Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Media Framing ◽  
The United States ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Mass Market ◽  
Racial Categories ◽  
Policy Debates ◽  
The Media ◽  
Racial Discourses

Chapter 2 focuses on mass-market newspaper and magazine depictions of actresses Jennifer Beals and Halle Berry in the United States and Camila Pitanga in Brazil. The chapter begins by laying out the national policy debates such as census racial categories and affirmative action in the 1990s and 2000s in order to relate how the media framing of these celebrities engages with changing ideas of race while at the same time furthering feminized racial commodification. Examining how these actresses negotiate and position themselves in relation to racial categories and racial discourses, the chapter explores how mixed black female celebrities serve as lightning rods for discussions of race, gender, and sexuality.

Under Press-ure

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Herb Boyd
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Race And Ethnicity ◽  
The United States ◽  
Black Press ◽  
Limited Extent ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
The Media ◽  
Wait And See ◽  
Black And Latino

This chapter considers the role of the Black press and, to a more limited extent, the Latino press in Obama's campaign. Given his desire to transcend race and ethnicity yet his need to mobilize Black and Latino voters, this specialized press played a key role in the campaign. Before Obama became the forty-fourth President of the United States, his campaign was viewed in three major ways by the media: There were those who cheered him along; those uncertain what to make of him but who retained a tame, mainstream, “wait and see” perspective; and those whose views ranged from “critically supportive” to firmly opposed. Since his election, there has been little change in these assessments, though at this time there is a clearer delineation between those for and against Obama in the mainstream media as they gather a better understanding of his pragmatic tendencies on policy and issues.

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