scholarly journals Let’s Get Loud: Intersectionally Studying the Super Bowl’s Halftime Show

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sofie Van Bauwel ◽  
Tonny Krijnen
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Gender Inequity ◽  
Political Messages ◽  
Academic Cultures ◽  
Intersectional Analysis ◽  
Race And Sexuality ◽  
Five Elements ◽  
Opening Up

The study of popular culture has always been closely related to the study of class, gender, race, and sexuality. An increasing number of authors have called for an intersectional approach. However, the contradictory, fluid meanings articulated in popular culture render such an approach difficult, and many ignore the call for intersectional analysis. We will not. We will try to engage with an intersectional analysis of popular culture, using Shakira and Jennifer Lopez’s performance at the 2020 Super Bowl Halftime Show as a case to study the intersections of identity markers. We aim to bridge the different meanings attributed to their performance and to understand them as different elements in the intersectional configuration. A discourse analysis of the performance, and of reviews thereof, was performed to unravel five elements highlighted in the discourse: the quality of the show, Shakira and Lopez’s empowered performances, the incorporation of Latinidad elements, the performers’ sexiness, and perceived political messages. Our aim to understand how the contradictory discourses about these elements arose urges the reader to use listening to grapple with the complexity of intersectional analysis. Truly listening includes putting effort into opening up academic cultures, finding other voices. It is important to recognize global gender inequity, but we need to start investing far more to understand the politics of media representations as a transnational affair that causes multiple conceptions of gender (and other related) concepts to clash, mesh, and integrate.

scholarly journals Percepcja i projekcja krajobrazu: teorie, zastosowania, oczekiwania = Perception and projection of the landscape: theories, applications, expectations

2019 ◽  
Vol 91 (3) ◽  
pp. 365-384
Author(s):  
Tadeusz Jan Chmielewski ◽  
Szymon Chmielewski ◽  
Agnieszka Kułak
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Work ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
Landscape Perception ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Space Projection ◽  
Surrounding Space ◽  
New Research ◽  
Opening Up

The human species transforms the landscape to meet its needs, but landscape resources and valuable features at the same time affect wellbeing in the context of human activity. In these mutually conditioned interactions, two processes playing a key role are the so-called landscape perception and landscape projection. This article presents: (1) a review of theories playing a key role in the development of knowledge on landscape perception; (2) the basis for landscape projection as a logical and creative continuation of perception processes; (3) an outline of the theory of physiognomic landscape structure and of possibilities for it to gain practical application; (4) the results of the first Polish research into the public’s expectations where quality of the landscape is concerned. Perception of the landscape entails the receipt of stimuli from surrounding space with the help of the senses. It serves primarily in knowledge-based transformation of landscape systems, in a manner that meets ever-more exacting requirements on the part of society when it comes to living in an environment of the highest quality. Only a little scientific work has been devoted to the process of landscape projection. This is therefore a new research field, just opening up, which has the potential to give rise to a group of space-projection theories.

Queering Lactation: Contributions of Queer Theory to Lactation Support for LGBTQIA2S+ Individuals and Families

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 233-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robyn Lee
Keyword(s):  
Queer Theory ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Support Services ◽  
Feminist Politics ◽  
Intersectional Analysis ◽  
Lgbt Families ◽  
History Of ◽  
Opening Up

In this article I explore some contributions of queer theory to the provision of lactation support services. In doing so, I also undertake an intersectional analysis of queering lactation, recognizing that forms of oppression do not impact all individuals equally or in the same ways. While recognizing the history of tensions between queer and feminist politics and activism, I argue that queering lactation holds significant benefits for supporting lactation among LGBT families, as well as opening up possibilities for rethinking gender and possibilities for gender equality more generally.

scholarly journals Public Consultation: Collaboration of Government and Citizens in The Local Requirements-Based Policy Processing

2018 ◽  
Vol 73 ◽  
pp. 09014
Author(s):  
Sunu Astuti Retno ◽  
Maros Asra'i
Keyword(s):  
Deliberative Democracy ◽  
Conflicts Of Interest ◽  
Public Consultation ◽  
Public Issues ◽  
The Public ◽  
Recess Period ◽  
Governance Processes ◽  
Opening Up

Public consultation is an appropriate means for engaging the public in policy-making and opening up opportunities for every citizen to have their option in following various governance processes. The collaboration of government and citizens as a form of public consultation is a process of strengthening the capacity to build sustainable cooperation among various interest groups. The benefits of collaboration are reducing conflicts of interest and improving the quality of policies. Deliberative democracy is a democratic concept which is based on a mechanism of discussion and prioritizing dialogic ways as a foundation of public consultation. Deliberative democracy allows citizens to discuss public issues and provide lessons to government to act democratically and get legitimation to important issues. DPRD as a legislative body that has the obligation to accommodate the aspirations of the community as the embodiment of public consultation implemented in the recess time. The qualitative research method used in the Bungo district case study showed that the recess period had not been fully utilized. DPRD had not been able to respond to the needs of the community so it was found that the development done in Bungo Regency is not as needed.

scholarly journals What’s the deal with ‘websleuthing’? News media representations of amateur detectives in networked spaces

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Yardley ◽  
Adam George Thomas Lynes ◽  
David Wilson ◽  
Emma Kelly
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Criminal Justice ◽  
News Media ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Wound Culture ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
True Crime

This article explores websleuthing, a phenomenon widely discussed and debated in popular culture but little-researched by criminologists. Drawing upon a review of existing literature and analysis of news media representations, we argue that websleuthing is much more diverse than previously thought. Encompassing a wide range of motives, manifestations, activities, networked spaces and cases, websleuthing has a variety of impacts upon victims, secondary victims, suspects, criminal justice organisations and websleuths themselves. We conclude that websleuthing is the embodiment of true crime infotainment in a ‘wound culture’ (Seltzer, 2007, 2008) and as such, is deserving of more criminological scrutiny than has been the case to date.

Surgical management for venous leg ulcers: The role of hope, investment and agency

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (8) ◽  
pp. 1075-1084
Author(s):  
Philippa Tollow ◽  
Jane Ogden
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Surgical Management ◽  
Leg Ulcers ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Traditional Treatment ◽  
Venous Surgery ◽  
Traditional Approaches ◽  
Opening Up

A recent systematic review suggests that minimally invasive venous surgery for the treatment of leg ulcers may have a greater impact on quality of life than traditional approaches. A total of 11 participants who had previously undergone surgical management for leg ulcers took part in semi-structured interviews regarding their experiences. Using thematic analysis, three themes were identified: ‘Living in Flux’, ‘Perceptions of Chronicity’ and ‘Expectations’. Surgical treatment may not only improve patients’ quality of life due to treatment of the condition but also by opening up a sense of hope, investment and agency not associated with traditional treatment approaches.

Extended Peer Evaluation of an Analytical Deliberative Decision Support Procedure in Environmental Health Practice

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans Keune ◽  
Gudrun Koppen ◽  
Bert Morrens ◽  
Ann Colles ◽  
Johan Springael ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Support ◽  
Environmental Health ◽  
Quality Criteria ◽  
Learning By Doing ◽  
Peer Evaluation ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Health Practice ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Opening Up

How can we assess the quality of an analytical deliberative decision support procedure in environmental health practice? Objectifying quality criteria is difficult for several reasons. Opening up evaluation to a diversity of critics is one approach to take into account different actor perspectives and complexity. We describe how social scientists organized extended peer evaluation of a participatory multi-criteria procedure that was applied in Flemish environmental health practice. International peer review was combined with local extended peer evaluation. Social scientists collaborated closely with natural scientists and policy representatives in designing several evaluative activities and in interpreting the results.We discuss how these different perspectives came to reach conclusions, with a special focus on methodological decision-making. A process of learning by doing and negotiating, finding a methodological path amidst practicalities, complexity and ambition.

How autonomous is relative: popular music, the social formation and cultural struggle

Popular Music ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reebee Garofalo
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Popular Music ◽  
Background Music ◽  
Political Struggle ◽  
Corporate Structure ◽  
The Social ◽  
Cultural Struggle ◽  
Cultural Commodity

Writing about popular music in 1977 from what I would describe as a ‘classical’ Marxist perspective, Steve Chapple and I proclaimed unequivocally that:The position of the music as an increasingly important cultural commodity within a consumer economy weakened any of the explicit anti-materialist content of the music.… Musicians and the creative personnel within the industry were integrated into an entertainment business now firmly part of the American corporate structure. (Chapple and Garofalo 1977, p. 300)In 1981, four short years later, British sociologist and music critic Simon Frith described the structure and functioning of the music industry in much the same terms that Chappie and I had put forth, but his analysis shifted the emphasis considerably. Declared Frith:Cultural commodities may support the contemporary power of capital, but they have their civilising moments, and even as the most effortless background music, rock is a source of vigour and exhilaration and of good feelings that are as necessary for the next morning's political struggle as for the next day's work. My argument is that rock fun is as much a quality of the music's use as of its form. (Frith 1981, pp. 264–5)Attempting to avoid what he saw as an economically reductive position, Frith de-emphasised the role of monopoly corporations in controlling the marketplace and shaping popular culture. In the tradition of ‘cultural’ Marxism, he focused instead, and somewhat optimistically, on the power of the consumer to reappropriate the music in unintended ways, to ‘resignify’ its meaning, if you will.

Emancipation on thin ice : Women’s autonomy, reproductive justice, and social egg freezing

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 357-371
Author(s):  
Michiel De Proost ◽  
Gily Coene
Keyword(s):  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Gender Inequalities ◽  
Reproductive Justice ◽  
Reproductive Autonomy ◽  
Quality Of Treatment ◽  
Intersectional Analysis ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Egg Freezing ◽  
Social Egg Freezing

Abstract A growing number of women in different countries are freezing their eggs as a way to preserve fertility not just for medical reasons, but for what have been referred to as ‘lifestyle’ or ‘social’ reasons. Ethical debates so far have often focused on reproductive autonomy and gender inequalities in society. Based on a critical analysis of the available studies that explore women’s experiences, we conclude that women’s choice to freeze their eggs is much more ambiguous than mainstream approaches to bioethics usually suggest. Furthermore, we point to a gap in the literature of social egg freezing regarding issues of reproductive justice, including the multiple and intersecting structural conditions that govern who has access to this technology, and tease out some issues that still need to be further explored, such as the outcomes and quality of treatment for non-normative users. Expanding the debate with an intersectional analysis makes visible, as we demonstrate, how techniques such as social egg freezing fit into, and contribute to the propagation of, neoliberal gendered, heteronormative, and racialised societies.

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