“We'll Put a Boot in Your Ass, It's the American Way”

2021 ◽  
pp. 85-114
Author(s):  
Evan Renfro ◽  
Jayme Neiman Renfro
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
The United States ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
The Other ◽  
Use Case ◽  
Television Film ◽  
American Way ◽  
Trump Administration

Since before the founding of the United States through slavery, the extermination of the native populace, war after war, regime overthrow, and more wars, popular media have been used to stir resentments and produce violent fantasies in the general citizenry that often allow for policies of actual violence to be applied against “the other.” This chapter will analyze the affective coordinates of this system in the post-9/11 context, focusing especially on how nationalist-jingoism has now triumphed in the age of the Trump Administration. Crucial interrogations addressed in this chapter include: Why are white southern/rural males particularly susceptible to popular culture induced affective violence? What are the mechanics of profit and neoliberal imperatives of this structure? What is new about the linkage of these phenomena with the first Twitter-President? In pursuing these questions, the authors will use case studies involving the popular media vectors of television, film, and music.

Conclusion

Build ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 169-184
Author(s):  
Mark Katz
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
El Salvador ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Positive Outcomes ◽  
Funding Cuts ◽  
Trump Administration

The conclusion considers the value of the partnership between hip hop and diplomacy. Hip hop diplomacy has value in convening groups unlikely to collaborate otherwise; it can be a source of validation for hip hop artists and their communities; and it can generate a favorable view of the United States and good will towards its citizens. Such positive outcomes, however, are not automatic and require that programs be conducted with respect, humility, self-awareness and a willingness to collaborate with local partners. Although the State Department faced severe funding cuts in the first years of the Trump administration, hip hop diplomacy has remained well-funded, although its future is uncertain. Specific anecdotes and case studies come from Next Level programs in Bangladesh, El Salvador, and Morocco.

The U.S. Assistance to the MENA Arab Countries under the Trump Administration: The Logic of a Diff erentiated Approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 131-170
Author(s):  
V. I. Bartenev
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Executive Branch ◽  
Arab Countries ◽  
The Other ◽  
Unexpected Result ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
Mena Region ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Trump Administration

This paper identifi es and explains key changes in the U.S. aid policies towards Arab countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) under Donald Trump. It seeks to validate two widespread arguments — the one about the current administration’s revision of pivotal principles of providing foreign assistance, and the other one — about an accelerated disengagement of the United States from the MENA region since 2017. The paper consists of four sections. The fi rst section explores the transformation of the U.S. strategic thinking and regional context under the Trump administration and then posits fi ve hypotheses about possible changes in the volume and composition of the U.S. assistance to the MENA region (in comparison with the fi nal two years of the Obama administration), as well as the diff erences in the executive branch and the Congress’s positions. The second section explains particularities of the statistical data and the methods of its exploration, the third section presents the results of hypothesis testing using aggregated data on aid fl ows to the region, and the fi nal section explains these results, sometimes unexpected, using the data disaggregated by country. Three of fi ve hypotheses proved wrong based on the aggregate data. First, the Trump administration did not cut assistance to the MENA more substantially than to other regions of the globe. Second, it did not ringfence aid accounts which helped yield direct dividends to the U.S. businesses. Third, the Republican Congress was clearly less willing to support the executive’s aid chocies under a new Republican President than during the last years of a Democrat Barack Obama’s second term. Only two hypotheses proved correct — one about a prioritization of security and military assistance under Donald Trump and the other one — about disproportionate cuts of democracy promotion assistance. Such an unexpected result calls for refi ning both aforementioned arguments and taking into account the dissimilarities in the dynamics of assistance to diff erent countries. The United States tends to practice a diff erentiated approach in dealing with two largest Arab aid recipients (Egypt and Jordan) and with other Arab countries. The assistance to Cairo and Amman is ringfenced and protected, while aid to other recipients, including security assistance and FMF grants, is prone to quite drastic cuts. This diff erentiation is explained by the fact that cooperation with Egypt and Jordan rests not only on more solid strategic foundations but also on a strong support within the United States — both from the defense contractors interested in large export contracts and from an infl uential pro-Israel lobby. The U.S. will not abandon this highly diff erentiated approach after the 2020 elections but the structure of assistance to the MENA region might undergo quite a dramatic transformation.

scholarly journals Walls and Cows: Social Media, Vigilante Vantage, and Political Discourse

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 205630512092851
Author(s):  
Megan Ward
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Movement ◽  
Mob Violence ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Trump Administration

Vigilante groups in the United States and India have used social media to distribute their content and publicize violent spectacles for political purposes. This essay will tackle the spectacle of vigilante lynchings, abduction, and threats as images of vigilante violence are spread online in support of specific candidates, state violences, and election discourse. It is important to understand the impact of not only these vigilante groups, but understand the communicative spectacle of their content. Using Leo R. Chavez’s understanding of early 2000s vigilante action as spectacle in service of social movements, this essay extends the analysis to modern vigilante violence online content used as dramatic political rhetoric in support of sitting administrations. Two case studies on modern vigilante violence provide insight into this phenomenon are as follows: (1) Vigilante nativist militia groups across the United States in support of border militarization have kidnapped migrants in the Southwest desert, documenting these incidents to show support for the Trump Administration and building of a border wall and (2) vigilante mobs in India have circulated videos and media documenting lynchings of so-called “cow killers”; these attacks target Muslims in the light of growing Hindu Nationalist sentiment and political movement in the country. Localized disinformation and personal video allow vigilante content to spread across social media to recruit members for militias, as well as incite quick acts of mob violence. Furthermore, these case studies display how the social media livestreams and video allow representations of violence to become attention-arresting visual acts of political discourse.

scholarly journals Ochrona amerykańskiego stylu życia jako wartości w strategii cyberbezpieczeństwa Stanów Zjednoczonych

2021 ◽  
Vol Online First ◽  
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Brzostek
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Republican Party ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
The United States ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
A Value ◽  
American Way ◽  
National Infrastructure ◽  
Trump Administration

The National Cybersecurity Strategy of the United States of America, issued in 2018 by the Donald Trump administration, indicated as the first pillar, among others, preserving the American way of life. The article aims to present the American way of life as a value that binds Americans, becomes symbols of America and at the same time is one of the political slogans of the Republican party. The American way of life consists of a number of features, including human rights and fundamental freedoms, including freedom of speech, freedom of assembly and association are legally protected, including in cyberspace. According to Trump, the development of the Internet has made one of the greatest advances since the industrial revolution, enabling great advances in trade, healthcare, communications and every element of the national infrastructure, and the United States aims to uphold the principles of protecting and promoting open, interoperable, reliable and secure Internet.

Danny Almonte: Discursive Construction(s) of (Im)migrant Citizenship in Neoliberal America

2010 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 178-199 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan King-White
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
White Privilege ◽  
Youth Culture ◽  
The United States ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
Discursive Construction ◽  
Cautionary Tale ◽  
American Popular Culture ◽  
Little League

In this project I will trace former Little League Baseball star, Danny Almonte’s, celebrity identity and flexible citizenship with particular regard to the way that he has been used as both an exemplary Dominican immigrant and later a cautionary tale. As such this critical biography of Almonte’s rise and fall in American popular culture—informed by Henry Giroux’s extensive theorizing on youth culture, Ong’s concept of flexible citizenship, and Steven Jackson’s understanding of “twisting”—will critically interrogate the mediated discourses used to describe, define, and make Almonte into a symbol of a (stereo)typical Dominican male. In accordance with contemporaneous hyper-conservative and neoliberal rhetoric pervasive throughout the United States, I posit the notion that Almonte’s contested celebrity was formulated within the popular media as the embodiment of the minority “assault” on white privilege.

Productivity, crises and imports in the loss of manufacturing jobs

2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-61
Author(s):  
Kim Moody
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Broad Spectrum ◽  
Job Loss ◽  
The United States ◽  
Think Tanks ◽  
The Other ◽  
Class Conflict ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
Union Leaders ◽  
Trump Administration

The massive loss of manufacturing jobs in the United States even as manufacturing output continued to increase has been a source of debate between those who see this primarily as a result of globalization and trade, on one hand, and those for whom the dynamics of capitalism with its economic turbulence, job-displacing technology and productivity increases is the major cause, on the other. It is a debate with political implications. In the United States, those who see trade imbalances as the major cause of job loss compose a broad spectrum including many liberal economists, trade union leaders, related think tanks and the Trump Administration who place the blame on a foreign ‘other’ rather than multinational capital. Supporting this analysis are a series of recent academic articles that largely ignore economic crises and reject productivity, in particular, as reasons for declining manufacturing employment. This article will critically analyse their arguments and propose a different explanation rooted in the turbulence, competition and class conflict inherent in capitalism as these have unfolded in the United States during the neoliberal era.

The Fact(s) of Michael Jordan’s Blackness: Excavating a Floating Racial Signifier

1996 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
David L. Andrews
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Media Literacy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Racial Formation ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
Racial Ideologies ◽  
Critical Media ◽  
Important Site

This genealogical examination of Michael Jordan’s popular signification reveals a complex narrative that incorporates many of the historically grounded racial codes that continue to structure the racial formation of the United States. Borrowing judiciously from cultural studies, poststructuralist, and postmodern theorizing, this paper critically analyzes the imaged persona of Michael Jordan as an important site of mediated popular culture, at which specific racial ideologies are publicized and authorized in support of the reactionary agenda of the post-Reaganite American imaginary. As such, this paper attempts to develop a critical media literacy that encourages readers to interrogate their engagement with the racially oppressive discursive tracts circulated by the popular media.

Diversity in Diversity: Flexible Production and American Industrialization, 1880–1930

1991 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Scranton
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Machine Tool ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
The United States ◽  
Manufacturing Industries ◽  
The Other ◽  
Flexible Production ◽  
Batch Production ◽  
Second Industrial Revolution

The following case studies and analysis of the machine tool and jewelry manufacturing industries attempt to set the stage for a reconsideration of “the other side of industrialization” in the United States during the Second Industrial Revolution—the custom and batch production sectors. Recognizing that much work remains to be done in this area, the author nevertheless concludes that the diversity of circumstances and responses characterizing these industries makes it unlikely that one theory can be adduced to explain their highly contingent world.

United States, Russia, and Jordan Sign Limited Ceasefire for Syria

2017 ◽  
Vol 111 (4) ◽  
pp. 1053-1056
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Civil War ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
Trump Administration

As the civil war in Syria continues, some of the key actors have sought ways to reduce the conflict's toll on civilians. In May, 2007, Russia and the United States began exploring the possibility of establishing “safe” or “de-escalation” zones. On July 7, this dialogue yielded a trilateral agreement and memorandum signed by Russia, the United States, and Jordan to establish a ceasefire in southwest Syria. The resulting ceasefire—the first in Syria signed by the Trump administration—governs hostilities between Syrian government forces and associated troops on one side and rebels on the other. It began on July 9.

scholarly journals Gelombang Pop Culture Tik-Tok: Studi kasus Amerika Serikat, Jepang, India dan Indonesia

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Elisa Kusumawardhani ◽  
Deasy Silvya Sari
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Pop Culture ◽  
The United States ◽  
Domestic Market ◽  
Local Context ◽  
The West ◽  
The World

This article discusses TikTok as a global pop culture wave, with case studies in the United States, Japan, India and Indonesia. TikTok is a popular culture that does not come from the West but is able to develop and spread throughout the world and is accepted by the community. In fact, TikTok is growing rapidly in the United States, where the United States is often regarded as a source of popular culture. The author uses the concepts of culture, pop culture and globalization, as well as literature studies to study the wave of pop culture TikTok. The author found that in terms of applications, TikTok is able to compete with twitter, Instagram, facebook, linkedIn, etc. TikTok applications are able to adapt to the domestic market in terms of content and culture because it has a local team in the development of specialized content. TikTok often faces challenges so it is considered a bad application in terms of culture that does not fit the local context or is considered to have political tendencies. However, TikTok always improves in dealing with these issues

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