scholarly journals Vivian about ready to choke a b*tch! –

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Matti Nikkilä
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Work ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
Visual Material ◽  
Nexus Analysis ◽  
The Way

Drawing on nexus analysis, this study seeks to analyse some of the discursive practices and visual material produced during the Gamergate controversy. This is achieved through examining the cartoon mascot Vivian James and the discussions related to the character. The treatment of the character is discussed through the resemiotizations the character faced. Initially the character was designed with clear goals in mind to serve as a resource to perform boundary work within the community. This was achieved through an easily definable process of resemiotizations. However, the character eventually became objectified and sexualized, showing resemiotizations that were not within the initial goals of the community. This process of further resemiotizations also documents how the community was unable to maintain control over the character, which is also symptomatic of the way Gamergate was not able to sustain its efforts.

The Degenerate in Falling Slowly (1998)

2020 ◽  
pp. 192-223
Author(s):  
Peta Mayer
Keyword(s):  
Queer Theory ◽  
Stephane Mallarme ◽  
Domestic Fiction ◽  
Narrative Form ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
Death Drive ◽  
Sister Relationship ◽  
Rhetorical Form ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Way

Silence and rereading are key discursive practices of Miriam and Beatrice Sharpe, the sister protagonists of Falling Slowly. Their forms of absence and excess cause critics to herald the decline of Brookner’s powers in her early reception.The sisters also share a number of behaviours with the aesthetes and Decadents labelled degenerate in Max Nordau’s Degeneration including Joris-Karl Huysmans, Baudelaire and Stéphane Mallarmé. Such behaviours include dullness, decline, ennui, inactivity, boredom, invisibility, anxiety, restlessness and absence. This chapter spins the hierarchical figure of the degenerate across the sister relationship of the domestic fiction to produce a queering of the domestic fiction. Rejecting the normative impulse of the figure, it instead engages its deconstructive capacity to render transparent the mechanisms of epistemological production and expose the way in which subjects and objects attain status as real or unreal, healthy or sick, visible or invisible, literal or figurative, heterosexual or lesbian. Inspired by Lee Edelman’s No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive, it mobilises a ‘no future’ narrative as the narrative form of the degenerate. The rhetorical form of syllepsis, which governs shifts between the literal and figurative, is reappropriated from the male canon to underscore the open-ended nature of signification.

scholarly journals Examining the representations of social actors in FASD prevention campaigns

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Riki Yandt
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Medical System ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Health Campaigns ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Public Health Campaigns ◽  
Mother Blame ◽  
The Way

Through an exploration of public health campaigns targeting the prevention of FASD, I identified and challenged the concepts of mother blame and stigma found within the discursive practices of the medical system. Framed by feminist theory and critical discourse analysis (CDA), I used van Leeuwan’s approach to social actors to name and explore the representations of people depicted within the campaigns. The discussion focuses on how the current discourse on FASD informs the way that people are perceived and explores possible avenues to challenge and shift the way that substance use is discussed in relation to women and pregnancy.

scholarly journals The Silence of Nature in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness: An Ecocritical Study

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (37) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sambit Panigrahi
Keyword(s):  
Central Position ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Heart Of Darkness ◽  
Universal Scheme ◽  
Enlightenment Philosophy ◽  
The Way

Nature’s passivity in modern man’s discourse has been the area of focus in Ecocriticism. Ecocritics do believe that Nature has lost its vibrancy and vitality in the realm of modern man’s exclusively anthropocentric culture. Such ‘otherization’ of Nature has its roots in the Western philosophical and discursive practices. The Enlightenment philosophy has been instrumental in taking the dehumanization of Nature to a new low in the sense that it sees Nature as an inert, dull and dispirited entity that has its existence only for the material benefit of man. This kind of an attitude is clearly seen in the way the colonizing people in Conrad’s fiction dehumanize Nature and delineate it as a dull and lifeless entity. Based on these precepts this article intends to reread Conrad’s fiction from an ecocritical perspective and thus desires to expose the mechanism through which the human assumes for itself a central position in the universal scheme of things and relegates Nature to the realms o silence and instrumentality.

scholarly journals Is critical leadership studies ‘critical’?

Leadership ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 257-271 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Learmonth ◽  
Kevin Morrell
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Leadership Studies ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
Critical Leadership ◽  
Critical Leadership Studies ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Critical Project ◽  
The Way

‘Leader’ and ‘follower’ are increasingly replacing ‘manager’ and ‘worker’ to become the routine way to frame hierarchy within organizations; a practice that obfuscates, even denies, structural antagonisms. Furthermore, given that many workers are indifferent to (and others despise) their bosses, assuming workers are ‘followers’ of organizational elites seems not only managerialist, but blind to other forms of cultural identity. We feel that critical leadership studies should embrace and include a plurality of perspectives on the relationship between workers and their bosses. However, its impact as a critical project may be limited by the way it has generally adopted this mainstream rhetoric of leader/follower. By not being ‘critical’ enough about its own discursive practices, critical leadership studies risk reproducing the very kind of leaderism it seeks to condemn.

scholarly journals Examining the representations of social actors in FASD prevention campaigns

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Riki Yandt
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Medical System ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Health Campaigns ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Public Health Campaigns ◽  
Mother Blame ◽  
The Way

Through an exploration of public health campaigns targeting the prevention of FASD, I identified and challenged the concepts of mother blame and stigma found within the discursive practices of the medical system. Framed by feminist theory and critical discourse analysis (CDA), I used van Leeuwan’s approach to social actors to name and explore the representations of people depicted within the campaigns. The discussion focuses on how the current discourse on FASD informs the way that people are perceived and explores possible avenues to challenge and shift the way that substance use is discussed in relation to women and pregnancy.

The discursive practices of “guilting” in family discourse

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-227
Author(s):  
Rebekah J. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Graduate School ◽  
Parental Expectations ◽  
Adult Child ◽  
American Family ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
School Students ◽  
Family Discourse ◽  
Parent Interactions ◽  
The Way

Abstract This study looks at the way in which four members of a Midwestern American family co-construct the adult child identity of two graduate school students by using particular discursive practices while discussing topics related to parental expectations and decision-making. More specifically, it focuses on what constitutes “guilting” in the adult child-parent interactions. The data shows that guilting, both direct and indirect, is accomplished through making complaints and assessments. Participants orient to particular utterances as guilting and respond with justifications, explanations, or deflection. Guilting is shown to be used as a tool to control others’ future actions and/or to establish closer connection.

scholarly journals Vectors of Exchange: Translation Praxis in Cuadernos de Marcha and Revista Casa de las Américas

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 91-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
María Constanza Guzmán
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Latin American And Caribbean ◽  
National Borders ◽  
The Way

Historically, translation has been at the core of intellectual projects in Latin America and the Caribbean. This article investigates the translation praxis of two influential twentieth-century Latin American and Caribbean cultural journals whose influence reached beyond their own national borders: the Uruguayan Cuadernos de Marcha and the Cuban Revista Casa de las Américas. This paper examines the translation practices of these periodicals focusing on the material selected for translation. Looking at the discursive compositions that are constructed through translation, it discusses the vectors of intellectual exchange as they can be traced via translation, the way in which these periodicals create images of the Americas as a territory, and the extent to which these images either conform to or challenge the historical discursive practices that contribute to shaping existing regional imaginaries.

The Security Council and International Crimes in Syria

2020 ◽  
pp. 53-120
Author(s):  
Beth Van Schaack
Keyword(s):  
Security Council ◽  
International Criminal Court ◽  
Use Of Force ◽  
Criminal Court ◽  
Reform Effort ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
International Crimes ◽  
Violent Extremism ◽  
Syrian Conflict ◽  
The Way

Chapter 3 revisits some of the conflict history through the lens of (in)action at the U.N. Security Council, whose discursive practices, pronouncements, operational initiatives, and vetoed resolutions offer a distinctive window into the trajectory of the conflict and the international community’s meager and ineffectual reaction to the atrocities underway. This chapter traces these malfunctions on a number of fronts alongside the few areas of progress. The areas of concern include condemnations of human rights violations and abuses; attempts to impose ceasefires and expand humanitarian access; the use of force and the Responsibility to Protect; inspiring the parties to pursue a political transition; the international community’s preoccupation with counterterrorism and countering violent extremism measures; neutralizing Syria’s chemical weapons; futile efforts to impose U.N. sanctions; and—most relevant to this volume—attempts to promote accountability, including a French-led effort to refer the situation in Syria to the International Criminal Court. Along the way, the chapter assembles the vetoes deployed by the P-5 during the Syrian conflict and captures the deteriorating dynamics within the Council chamber. The paralysis in the Council sets the scene for the chapters that follow, which recount efforts to promote accountability elsewhere. The chapter concludes with a short discussion of the way in which the Syrian conflict has further stimulated the Security Council reform effort.

The return of religion or the end of religion? On the need to rethink religion as a category of social and political life

2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (7) ◽  
pp. 785-809
Author(s):  
Jayne Svenungsson
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
European History ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Western Philosophy ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
Ideological Bias ◽  
Theoretical Developments ◽  
The Way ◽  
Modern European History

During the last decades of the 20th century, Western philosophy saw a renewed interest in religion, often referred to as ‘the return of religion’. At about the same time, a growing number of anthropologists and historians began to draw attention to the cultural and ideological bias of the category of religion, revealing its roots in a particular phase of early modern European history. This article gives an overview of these significant theoretical developments and explores both the tensions and similarities between the different scholarly traditions. Drawing on both discourses, it argues that we need to rethink the way we use religion as a category for organizing social and political life. If religion can no longer be taken as a purely descriptive category but rather should be seen as part of specific discursive practices, then we need to critically ponder the implications of the ways in which we map certain customs, behaviours and motifs as ‘religious’ and others as ‘secular’.

Embodying of the self during interviews: An agential realist account of the non-verbal embodying processes of elderly people

2015 ◽  
Vol 65 (3) ◽  
pp. 356-375 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grit Höppner
Keyword(s):  
Elderly People ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Body Language ◽  
The Self ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
Interview Research ◽  
Health And Illness ◽  
Realist Perspective ◽  
The Way ◽  
Empirical Analyses

This article investigates from an agential realist perspective the way the embodying of the self is constituted during interviews. Since the aim is to analyze how, in Karen Barad’s words, ‘matter comes to matter,’ the approach presented here takes into account not only how discursive but also how material practices produce ‘embodying processes’ that differ according to situational references. The approach considers the influence of the agency of human and non-human bodies in terms of non-verbal body language. Using the case of Viennese elderly people, this article presents three sets of material-discursive practices that have formed and transformed the way in which they embody their selves during the interviews: through their reference to absent non-human materiality, to non-human materiality present in the interview, and to human materiality present in the interview the elderly people non-verbally materialized their ideas on gender, age, health, and illness. In analyzing embodying processes, the article shows the kind of contribution that an agential realist account can make to sociological interview research. It particularly highlights the need to rethink both the constitution of the self and the popular procedure of focusing almost exclusively on discursive practices and human bodies in empirical analyses.

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