Picture this: emotional and political responses to photographs of the Kenneth Bigley kidnapping

2006 ◽  
Vol 36 (5) ◽  
pp. 635-647 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aarti Iyer ◽  
Julian Oldmeadow
Keyword(s):  
Political Responses

Racial Order, Racialized Responses: Interminority Politics in a Diverse Nation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Efrén O. Pérez ◽  
E. Enya Kuo
Keyword(s):  
Survey Data ◽  
Racial Diversity ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Racial Groups ◽  
Demographic Changes ◽  
Unified Framework ◽  
Political Responses ◽  
Original Survey ◽  
Parallel Growth

America's racial sands are quickly shifting, with parallel growth in theories to explain how varied groups respond, politically, to demographic changes. This Element develops a unified framework to predict when, why, and how racial groups react defensively toward others. America's racial groups can be arrayed along two dimensions: how American and how superior are they considered? This Element claims that location along these axes motivates political reactions to outgroups. Using original survey data and experiments, this Element reveals the acute sensitivity that people of color have to their social station and how it animates political responses to racial diversity.

scholarly journals How do girls’ magazines talk about breasts?

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 206-226
Author(s):  
Nicola Brown ◽  
Christine Campbell ◽  
Craig Owen ◽  
Atefeh Omrani
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Female Adolescents ◽  
Breast Development ◽  
Teenage Girls ◽  
Political Responses

Girls’ magazines play an important role in female adolescents’ identity and their constructions of femininity. Despite breast development being common to all female adolescents, and breasts being a key signifier of femininity, the representation of breasts in girls’ magazines has not been investigated. A Foucauldian discourse analysis was conducted to understand the ways in which breasts are represented in two popular girls’ magazines ( Teen Vogue and Seventeen). Articles in Seventeen promoted a contradictory and potentially confusing postfeminist discourse, supporting calls for Body Positivity, whilst at the same time framing breasts as problematic and encouraging girls to aspire to an ideal breast. The reader was positioned as a consumer with the purchase and wearing of bras offered as a neoliberal solution to these problems. In contrast, Teen Vogue articles conveyed a feminist informed Body Positivity discourse. Readers were positioned as active feminist advocates, incited to adopt radical, collective, political responses in order to challenge the potentially damaging messages surrounding breast ideals and sexualisation. We argue that consistent feminist messages are needed across and within media to support teenage girls in negotiating their bodies and identities.

Floral Sensations

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catriona Sandilands
Keyword(s):  
Plant Life ◽  
Life Itself ◽  
Political Responses

This chapter turns on the concept ofsensationto sketch some of the ways plants are caught up in contemporary biopolitics. Specifically, the idea of the floral sensation both describes the spectacular qualities of (some) plants that make them particularly desirable commodities in the global floral industry, and gestures to recent research that indicate that plantshavesensations that are both similar to and radically different from human ones. Together, these meanings demonstrate that plants are extensively implicated in biopolitical relations, but as agents with specific capacities rather than as passive objects of manipulation. To understand the involvement of active plants in biopolitics, then, requires attentiveness both to the multiplicity of vegetal involvements in socio-political entanglements, and to the ways in which plants complicate questions of life itself; ethical and political responses to plant life must therefore move beyond assertions of plant similarity in the direction of also recognizing their unassimilable differences.

33 Days in Lockdown: Covid-19 Reflections from New Zealand

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanna Helen Trnka
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
States Of Emergency ◽  
Political Responses

New Zealand’s 33-day, ‘level 4 lockdown’ in response to covid-19 invites anthropological reflection across a number of themes. What follows are extracts of an online anthropological diary examining the first month of the crisis as it unfolded, suggesting how social and political responses to the pandemic invite reflection upon anthropological concepts as diverse as states of emergency; healing spaces; embodiment and movement; soundscapes; the constitution of collective affect; crises and historical temporality; museum artefacts; globalism; collective pain; surveillance; and imagined biographies.

Crisis in the Tar Sands: Fossil Capitalism and the Future of the Alberta Hydrocarbon Economy

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-36
Author(s):  
Tyler McCreary
Keyword(s):  
Capital Investments ◽  
Resource Value ◽  
Tar Sands ◽  
The Future ◽  
Territorial Claims ◽  
Political Responses ◽  
Development Trajectories ◽  
Climate Crisis ◽  
Radical Transformation

Abstract Using a case study of Alberta, Canada, this paper demonstrates how a geographic critique of fossil capitalism helps elucidate the tensions shaping tar sands development. Conflicts over pipelines and Indigenous territorial claims are challenging development trajectories, as tar sands companies need to expand access to markets in order to expand production. While these conflicts are now well recognised, there are also broader dynamics shaping development. States face a rentier’s dilemma, relying on capital investments to realise resource value. Political responses to the emerging climate crisis undercut the profitability of hydrocarbon extraction. The automation of production undermines the industrial compromise between hydrocarbon labour and capital. Ultimately, the crises of fossil capitalism require a radical transformation within or beyond capital relations. To mobilise against the tar sands, organisers must recognise the tensions underpinning it, developing strategies that address ecological concerns and the economic plight of those dispossessed and abandoned by carbon extraction.

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