‘Safe Little Norway’: Norwegian Noir and the Roots of Subversive Socio-political Commentary

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nina Muždeka
Keyword(s):  
Political Commentary

Learning the News: Pamphlet Mercuries and Newsbooks

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret J. M. Ezell
Keyword(s):  
Charles I ◽  
Political Commentary

News of the war from both sides’ perspectives was printed In the inexpensive pamphlets called mercuries or newsbooks, which also carried an account of the trial of Charles I. Prominent newsbook editors and authors such as Marchamont Nedham offered national news and political commentary mixed with entertaining verse, stories of wonders, and accounts of foreign dignitaries and customs.

Is Social Media a Digital Pulpit? How Evangelical Leaders Use Twitter to Encourage the Faithful and Publicize Their Work

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 309-339 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan P. Burge ◽  
Miles D. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Natural Extension ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
Political Language ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
The Public ◽  
Political Commentary ◽  
Religious Communication ◽  
Theories Of Religion ◽  
Social Media Platforms

Social media is altering how some religious leaders communicate with their followers and with the public. This has the potential to challenge theories of religious communication that have been developed through the study of traditional modes such as sermons. This study examines how leaders in U.S. evangelicalism take advantage of the public platform provided by Twitter. Using over 85,000 tweets from 88 prominent evangelical leaders, we find that these leaders often use their social media platforms as a natural extension of their current modes of communication. More specifically, evangelical leaders use their account to encourage and inspire their followers, while also conveying information about upcoming personal projects such as tours and book releases. In a small number of cases, evangelical leaders do make reference to political issues, but those individuals are ones who have already built a brand based on political commentary. Speaking broadly, the usage of political language by evangelical leaders is rare. The paper concludes with a discussion of how this analysis advances theories of religion and communication.KeywordsTwitter – social media – evangelicals – leaders

Fatal Adulteries: Sexual Politics in the English Revolution

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-29
Author(s):  
Samuel Fullerton
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Politics ◽  
Detailed Examination ◽  
English Revolution ◽  
Charles I ◽  
Political Commentary ◽  
Political Upheaval ◽  
Oliver Cromwell ◽  
King Charles I ◽  
Sexual Histories ◽  
Charles Ii

Abstract This article argues for a reconsideration of the origins of Restoration sexual politics through a detailed examination of the effusive sexual polemic of the English Revolution (1642–1660). During the early 1640s, unprecedented political upheaval and a novel public culture of participatory print combined to transform explicit sexual libel from a muted element of prewar English political culture into one of its preeminent features. In the process, political leaders at the highest levels of government—including Queen Henrietta Maria, Oliver Cromwell, and King Charles I—were confronted with extensive and graphic debates about their sexual histories in widely disseminated print polemic for the first time in English history. By the early 1650s, monarchical sexuality was a routine topic of scurrilous political commentary. Charles II was thus well acquainted with this novel polemical milieu by the time he assumed the throne in 1660, and his adoption of the “Merry Monarch” persona early in his reign represented a strategic attempt to turn mid-century sexual politics to his advantage, despite unprecedented levels of contemporary criticism. Restoration sexual culture was therefore largely the product of civil war polemical debate rather than the singular invention of a naturally libertine young king.

scholarly journals “OUT OF THE EAST CHRIST CAME”: SERBIA IN THE EYES OF AMERICAN WOMEN IN THE GREAT WARж „ХРИСТОС ЈЕ ДОШАО СА ИСТОКА“: СРБИЈА У ОЧИМА АМЕРИКАНКИ У ВЕЛИКОМ РАТУ

2017 ◽  
pp. 437-451
Author(s):  
Биљана Вучетић
Keyword(s):  
First World War ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
Large Contribution ◽  
World War ◽  
American Women ◽  
The Balkans ◽  
Political Commentary ◽  
The Great War ◽  
First World ◽  
Humanitarian Work

Abstract: This paper is based on research into American magazine accounts of Serbia, as well as on reports on Serbia made by eyewitnesses, American journalists, and humanitarians who visited Serbia. Many of them made a large contribution to the formation of a positive image of Serbia and above all, of the Serbian people. A special emphasis is placed on the discourse and activism of three American women, who were personally and professionally linked to Serbia in the years of the Great War. Demetra Vaka Brown in 1917 considered political commentary a central part of her work, and her commentaries on politics during WWI were especially in demand. Amelia Peabody Tileston was a humanitarian, whose letters are abundant in data on Serbia, its people and soldiers, and the atmosphere at the Salonica Front. Another American who witnessed the ravages of war in the Balkans after WWI was Rose Wilder Lane who was sent to the Balkans by the Red Cross to investigate conditions there. Keywords: First World War, Serbia, America, women, Amanda Peabody Tileston, Demetra Vaka, humanitarian work.

scholarly journals Book Review: Data Feminism

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shannon O'Reilly
Keyword(s):  
Data Science ◽  
Racial Profiling ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Data Ethics ◽  
Political Commentary ◽  
Intersectional Analysis ◽  
Visual Approach ◽  
And Gender

This book review critiques Lauren F. Klein and Catherine D'lgnazio's Data Feminism (2020). Klein and D'lgnazio take a visual approach to provide a synopsis—underpinned by social and political commentary—that explores the avenues through which data science and data ethics shape how contemporary technologies exploit injustices related to race and gender. Klein and D'lgnazio offer examples of this exploitation, such as the discriminatory surveillance apparatus that relies on racial profiling tactics. These examples are emboldened by the use of contemporary data strategies that—on the surface—strive to achieve a more equitable and ‘neutral’ hierarchal society. This review examines the text’s visual approach to demonstrating institutional inequities and the authors’ acknowledgement of their own privilege, specifically the role they play in upholding the oppressive systems they seek to dismantle through collaboration and intersectional analysis.

Let the Games Begin

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily L. Hiltz
Keyword(s):  
Natural Order ◽  
The Political ◽  
Hunger Games ◽  
Political Commentary ◽  
The Hunger Games ◽  
External Forces ◽  
Good And Evil ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

This essay examines Suzanne Collins’s monstrous “mutts” in her phenomenally popular series The Hunger Games. Hiltz is especially interested in Collins’s characterization of human-animal hybrids, investigating the relationship between the political commentary at work in the novels and these “monsters,” from the half-wolf, half-humans that nearly overtake Katniss at the Cornucopia in the first novel to the lizard-humans whispering her name throughout the viaducts beneath the city in the last. Hiltz focuses on the mutts as abject creatures, demonstrating the ways in which these uncanny monsters, quite literally making the familiar strange, are at once metaphors for the political control exerted by the Capitol, the rebels’ resistance to the Capitol’s power, and the disruption of natural order. She also concentrates on Katniss and Peeta muttations, each of them reformed by warring entities in service of “the greater good.” Most importantly, Hiltz emphasizes that Collins’s mutts are designed to demonstrate the fine and wavering line between good and evil, calling into question the nature of monstrosity, especially as it relates to human behavior. Her location of monstrosity in the protagonists themselves especially offers a new way of thinking about teen dystopic novels that engage horror as a means of conveying identities assaulted by external forces.

Manifest Dominion

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Huzzey
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Travel Writing ◽  
Slave Trade ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
North West ◽  
Imperial Authority ◽  
Competing Interests ◽  
Political Commentary ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Pacific

This chapter analyses how Britons responded to the febrile political and social crises of the Americas in the 1860s. Although the American Civil War created a particular challenge – and great confusion – to observers in the United Kingdom, that conflict was one of a wider range of concerns in balancing the demands of rival imperial and new post-colonial powers to preserve British influence. Considering opinions expressed travel writing and political commentary, the chapter argues that Britons struggled to balance competing interests – in economic affairs, in geopolitical strategy, in imperial authority, and in suppression of the slave trade – to maintain a manifestly uncertain dominion over the Americas. Touching on British concerns stretching from the Mosquito Coast to the Pacific north--west, the chapter suggests that crises in the Americas illuminated diverse priorities and anxieties.

Hunger Hurts

2019 ◽  
pp. 538-553
Author(s):  
Anita Howarth
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Digital Culture ◽  
British Society ◽  
Personal Knowledge ◽  
Hybrid Form ◽  
Welfare Benefits ◽  
Food Practices ◽  
Political Commentary ◽  
Household Food ◽  
Food Budget

Austerity food blogs have become prominent as household food budgets have become tighter, government finances constrained, and an ideology of austerity has become dominant. The British version of austerity privileges reducing government spending by cutting welfare benefits, and legitimizes this through individual failure explanations of poverty and stereotypes of benefit claimants. Austerity food blogs, written by those forced to live hand to mouth, are a hybrid form of digital culture that merges narratives of lived experience, food practices and political commentary in ways that challenge the dominant views on poverty. The popular blog A Girl Called Jack disrupts the austerity hegemony by breaking the silence that the stigma of poverty imposes on the impoverished and by personalizing poverty through Jack Monroe's narratives of her lived experience of it, inviting the reader's pity and refuting reductionist explanations of the causes of poverty. Monroe also challenges austerity through practices derived through her personal knowledge gained during her struggle to survive and eat healthily on £10-a-week food budget. This combination of narrative and survival practices written evocatively and eloquently resonate powerfully with readers; however the response to Monroe's blog highlights a deep uneasiness in British society over growing levels of poverty, and deep divisions over who is responsible for addressing it; and more fundamentally, over identifying and defining the modern poor and modern poverty.

Mythic Life

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Jay Lockenour
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
German History ◽  
Federal Republic Of Germany ◽  
Spiritual Quest ◽  
Political Commentary ◽  
Biographical Approach ◽  
History Of ◽  
Cultural Power ◽  
The Great War

This introductory chapter discusses Erich Ludendorff’s postwar political machinations, his publications, his conspiracy theories and his spiritual quest. It illustrates how the German World War I hero played a significant role in the country’s crucial moment when they sought to build a new Germany out of the ruins of the Empire and the Great War. In order to achieve a more complete understanding of Ludendorff’s place in German history after 1918 (including the post-1945 history of the Federal Republic of Germany), the chapter takes a biographical approach that differs from traditional biography and focuses on the two battles from 1914, Liège and Tannenberg, which appear out of all proportion in Ludendorff’s postwar writings. These battles establish characteristics — bold, courageous action and operational genius in defense of Germany — that Ludendorff wanted to associate with his mythos. It then examines Ludendorff’s struggles to create a “mythos.” That mythos allowed Ludendorff to tap into deep wellsprings of cultural power and symbolism. Ultimately, the chapter gives significant attention to Ludendorff’s importance as a prolific writer — of autobiography, political commentary, pseudo philosophy and history, and prophecy.

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