Patriotism, Competition, Nationalism, and Respect for the Military in U.S. Sports: Public recognition of American Institutionalized Sports Nationalism

Using new data from the National Sports and Society Survey (N = 3,993), this study first examines the extent to which U.S. adults recognize that sports teach love of country, competition as a way of life, respect for the military, and that U.S. sports teach how to be American. We characterize this sport and society process as American Institutionalized Sports Nationalism (AISN). Then, multiple regression analyses are used to assess the extent to which dominant statuses, indicators of traditionalism, and sports fandom are associated with beliefs about American Institutionalized Sports Nationalism and its component values. Results suggest that U.S. adults commonly agree that sports teach love of country, competition as a way of life, respect for the military, and how to be American; they are especially likely to agree that sports teach competition as a way of life and love of country. Many U.S. adults also recognize sports as teaching respect for the military and how to be American, but most do not. In addition, as expected, identifying as male, heterosexual, Christian, Republican, and as more of a sports fan are consistently and positively associated with agreeing that sports teach patriotic, capitalistic, militaristic, and nationalistic values. In contrast to expectations, we find evidence that White adults are less likely than Black and Latinx adults to recognize AISN and its component values; college educated adults are also less likely than those with a high school education or less to agree that sports teach patriotism, capitalism, militarism, and nationalism. This may be because sports have traditionally been perceived to offer more inclusive and fairer social and economic opportunities, for Nonwhites and the less educated. Regardless, it is important to continue to research which cultural messages are promoted through sports, why, and to what effect. The present study advances this research initiative.

Patriotism, competition, nationalism, and respect for the military in US sports: Public recognition of American institutionalized sports nationalism

Using new data from the National Sports and Society Survey ( N = 3993), this study first examines the extent to which US adults recognize that sports teach love of country, competition as a way of life, respect for the military, and how to be American. We characterize this sport and society process as American Institutionalized Sports Nationalism. Then, multiple regression analyses are used to assess the extent to which dominant statuses, indicators of traditionalism, and sports fandom are associated with beliefs about American Institutionalized Sports Nationalism and its component values. Results suggest that US adults commonly agree that sports teach love of country, competition as a way of life, respect for the military, and how to be American; they are especially likely to agree that sports teach competition as a way of life and love of country. Many US adults also recognize sports as teaching respect for the military and how to be American, but most do not. In addition, as expected, identifying as male, heterosexual, Christian, Republican, and as more of a sports fan is consistently and positively associated with agreeing that sports teach patriotic, capitalistic, militaristic, and nationalistic values. In contrast to expectations, we find evidence that White adults are less likely than Black and Latinx adults to recognize American Institutionalized Sports Nationalism and its component values; college educated adults are also less likely than those with a high school education or less to agree that sports teach patriotism, capitalism, militarism, and nationalism. This may be because sports have traditionally been perceived to offer rather inclusive and fair social and economic opportunities for non-Whites and the less educated. Regardless, it is important to continue to research which cultural messages are promoted through sports, why, and to what effect. The present study advances this research initiative.

Multidrug-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae infection in heterosexual men with reduced susceptibility to ceftriaxone, first report in Thailand

The global rapid emergence of azithromycin/ceftriaxone resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae threatens current recommend azithromycin/ceftriaxone dual therapy for gonorrhea to ensure effective treatment. Here, we identified the first two N. gonorrhoeae isolates with decreased ceftriaxone susceptibility in Thailand. Among 134 N. gonorrhoeae isolates collected from Thai Red Cross Anonymous Clinic, Bangkok, two isolates (NG-083 and NG-091) from urethral swab in male heterosexual patients had reduced susceptibility to ceftriaxone (MICs of 0.125 mg/L). Both were multidrug resistant and strong biofilm producers with ceftriaxone tolerance (MBEC > 128 mg/L). NG-083 and NG-091 remained susceptible to azithromycin (MIC of 1 mg/L and 0.5 mg/L, respectively). Reduced susceptibility to ceftriaxone was associated with alterations in PBP2, PBP1, PorB, MtrR, and mtrR promoter region. NG-083 belonged to sequence type (ST) 7235 and NG-091 has new allele number of tbpB with new ST. Molecular docking revealed ceftriaxone weakly occupied the active site of mosaic XXXIV penicillin-binding protein 2 variant in both isolates. Molecular epidemiology results revealed that both isolates display similarities with isolates from UK, USA, and The Netherlands. These first two genetically related gonococcal isolates with decreased ceftriaxone susceptibility heralds the threat of treatment failure in Thailand, and importance of careful surveillance.

necropolítica, governo sobre as infâncias negras e educação do rosto

In this article, we seek to discuss the recurrence of racism and prejudice toward black lives and childhoods, in spite of repeated initiatives to overcome it by social and educational policy-makers. Following the investigations launched by Michel Foucault on the biopower hypothesis, we revisit some of his interpreters, with the objective of discussing the challenges posed by racism to pedagogical provisions for black children and—following on a concept offered by Emmanuel Levinas--an education of the Face (el Rostro), as a weapon in the political field of struggle against the thanatological dimension of biopolitics. To do so, we retrace some scenes from the history of inclusion devices – especially those policies aimed at black populations. We reflect on the racism embedded in our historical unconscious and discuss how it affects the education of the black Face in our country. We problematize the peculiarities of Brazilian racial prejudice and explore its necropolitical positioning when it comes to the governance of black childhoods. We conclude that the current form of governmentality and education needs a movement of de-rostification—deconstuction of the black Face--in order to identify a future for black children that makes it possible to rise up against the hegemonic order of the white-male-heterosexual-christian-European, and to create processes of subjectivation that can build solidarity with the multiplicity of others-becoming-minoritarian.

Pride and Prejudice

The concept of graduate employability has gained great prominence in international education. However, there still exists a gap in sexual orientation discrimination in graduate employability among transgender and queer (TQ) international students. In our qualitative study investigating graduate employability of transgender and queer students graduating from Australian and Canadian institutions, we have interviewed 14 international graduates with transgender and queer identity regarding their perceptions of sexual orientation and recruitment discrimination at the workplaces. Utilizing intersectionality as a conceptual framework, we have studied employability-related problems that these marginalized students with their foreigner identities have experienced in the labor market. The findings will be around the social, cultural, and political impacts of Canadian and Australian working and recruitment environments on the varying extent of discrimination, namely local attitudes toward queer and transgender international graduates, the manifestation of antidiscrimination laws, and the extent to which employers value stereotypically male heterosexual personality traits.

Redemption Contests

This article investigates the role theology plays in generating political action in las Américas through research on the School of the Americas Watch. It commends theopolitics as a lens for analyzing the competing projects of US military training and protests against that training, both of which work under the sign of redemption. The materiality of these signs can be apprehended by asking who is saving whom from what, by what means, and for what end. Anthropological analysis of these redemption narratives reveals the regimes of the invisible that animate opposing political projects—redemption for one through imperial formations enabled by the messianic figure of the white, male, heterosexual warrior, and redemption for the other through the agential presence of the dead who haunt empire’s wake.

Of Comics and Charisma: Representing Transpacific White Masculinities

This article employs palimpsestuous reading practices to query the transpacific reach and imperial pedigree of the comic strip “Charisma Man.” Turning to Max Weber’s theory of “charismatic authority” to understand the comic’s humorous portrayals of white male heterosexual privilege in Asia, the article proposes that the comic strip illuminates the patterns of raced and gendered “hereditary charisma” that continue to haunt transpacific relations. “Charisma Man,” penned by a team of North American men living in Japan, links contemporary white migrants across Asia – especially native English teachers – with a longue durée of Euro-American imperial actors abroad and builds meaning through intertextual engagement with the iconic cultural texts Superman and Madame Butterfly. The article concludes that “Charisma Man” makes light of white male hereditary charisma in Asia through a layering of temporally-disjointed transpacific discourses and, in turn, adds one more layer to a palimpsestuous sedimentation of sexist and racist hierarchies, normalizing their continuation within contemporary globalization.

Seksualitas dalam tubuh bergender

Media populer seperti film animasi atau anime menawarkan arena kontestasi. Penelitian ini menganalisis anime berjudul Kimi no Na Wa (2016) sebagai sebuah arena dengan melihat beberapa adegan tertentu. Tujuannya adalah untuk melihat bagaimana subjektivitas gender dan perbedaan seksual itu dibentuk di dalam anime ini. Dengan menggunakan metode psikoanalisis feminis film dari Laura Mulvey dan Kaja Silverman, penelitian ini menyimpulkan bahwa struktur naratif dalam anime ini masih dipengaruhi oleh male bias. Hal ini berpengaruh pada bagaimana pembentukan subjektivitas gender yang menjadikan perempuan sebagai objek tatapan sedangkan laki-laki sebagai subjek yang menatap. Selain itu, kamera yang bias gender berpotensi menciptakan tatapan yang sama dari penonton (terutama laki-laki heterseksual) kepada karakter perempuan. Ketika Taki bertransgresi ke tubuh Mitsuha, ia melakukan bentuk fetis untuk memuaskan hasratnya pada tubuh perempuan. Tetapi sebaliknya, ketika Mitsuha yang berada di tubuh Taki, hampir tidak adegan yang menunjukkan secara langsung bentuk fetis yang dilakukan perempuan terhadap tubuh laki-laki. Hal ini dimungkinkan karena tubuh perempuan bisa dibicarakan secara seksual namun pemikirannya dilarang untuk berpikiran seksual. Sebaliknya, tubuh laki-laki jarang untuk dibicarakan secara seksual tapi ia memiliki kebebasan untuk berpikir secara seksual. Pada akhirnya, struktur naratif anime ini seolah mereproduksi sistem patriarki masyarakat Jepang dalam pembentukan subjektivitas gender di sepanjang cerita. AbstractPopular media such as animation or anime offer a contested arena. This study analyzes the anime titled Kimi no Na Wa (2016) as an arena by looking at certain scenes. The aim is to see how gender subjectivity and sexual differences are formed in this anime. Using the film feminist psychoanalysis method from Laura Mulvey and Kaja Silverman, this study concludes that the narrative structure in this anime is still influenced by male bias. This has an effect on how the formation of gender subjectivity which makes women as the to be looked at while men as the bearer of the looking. In addition, gender-biased cameras have the potential to create the same gaze from the audience (especially male heterosexual) towards female characters. When Taki transgresses into Mitsuha's body, she performs a fetish form to satisfy her desires for a woman's body. But on the contrary, when Mitsuha was in Taki's body, there was hardly a scene that directly shows the fetish form that women do to a man's body. This is possible because women's bodies can be discussed sexually, but their thoughts are forbidden to have sexual thoughts. In contrast, a man's body is rarely talked about sexually but he has the freedom to think sexually. In the end, the narrative structure of this anime seems to reproduce the patriarchal system of Japanese society in the formation of gender subjectivity throughout the story.

Fantasy Subjects

Recent discourses around resettlement and national security often produce male heterosexual Syrian refugees as “threats” escaping war and their queer counterparts as “safe” refugees escaping only homophobia. Focusing on U.S. resettlement cases of Syrian LGBT applicants in Turkey, this chapter challenges this war/threat vs. homophobia/safe binary and argues that resettlement also targets Syrian LGBT refugees for securitization. By focusing on cases where the applicants were deemed illegible for resettlement because of failing to uphold war and homophobia as mutually exclusive grounds for seeking asylum, this chapter concludes that decision-makers in resettlement cases need to take into account the complex and intersectional lives and flight narratives of Syrian LGBT refugees.