scholarly journals Crafting the Secrets of the Ancient Maya: Media Representations of Archaeological Exploration and the Cultural Politics of US Informal Empire in 1920s Yucatan

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Munro
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Politics ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Ancient Maya ◽  
Informal Empire

The Gospel According to Tim Tebow: Sporting Celebrity, Whiteness, and the Cultural Politics of Christian Fundamentalism in America

2017 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew G. Hawzen ◽  
Joshua I. Newman
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Politics ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
National Football League ◽  
Racial Politics ◽  
White Identity ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
American Media ◽  
The Media ◽  
Christian Fundamentalism

In this article, we explore the media and cultural politics of former National Football League (NFL) quarterback Tim Tebow. More specifically, we investigate paradoxical and contradictory media representations of Tebow as his celebrity surfaced within, and came to dominate, the Obama-era ‘American’ media landscape. In so doing, we draw lines of articulation from Tebow—as performative and representative embodiment of white identity politics and Christian fundamentalism—to broader frames of nation-based morality and racialized meritocracy. We end the article with a discussion on why mediated and mediating Tebow—as framed in contradictory yet religiously significant ways—was at once polarizing and codifying in the media’s ability to galvanize a contextually-significant set of cultural and racial politics.Dans cet article, nous explorons les politiques médiatiques et culturelles de l’ancien quarterback de la National Football League (NFL) Tim Tebow. Plus spécifiquement, nous étudions les représentations médiatiques paradoxales et contradictoires de Tebow étant donné que sa célébrité est apparue, et a fini par dominer, le paysage médiatique ‘américain’ pendant l’ère Obama. Pour ce faire, nous envisageons l’articulation de pistes allant de Tebow – en tant qu’incarnation performative et représentative des politiques identitaires blanches et du fondamentalisme chrétien – à des cadres plus larges de moralité nationale et de méritocratie racialisée. Nous terminons l’article sur une discussion expliquant pourquoi le médiatique et médiatisé Tebow – décrit dans des termes significativement contradictoires bien que religieux – a été immédiatement polarisé et codifié par la capacité des médias à galvaniser un ensemble contextuellement significatif de politiques culturelles et raciales.

scholarly journals A New Twist on the 'un-African' Script: Representing Gay and Lesbian African Weddings in Democratic South Africa

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael W. Yarbrough
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Cultural Politics ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
African Culture ◽  
Gay Couples ◽  
South Africans ◽  
Lesbian And Gay ◽  
The Media

This essay examines the media coverage surrounding two African weddings of lesbian and gay couples in South Africa, as a lens onto the evolving cultural politics of black queerness in that country. Two decades after South Africa launched a world-leading legal framework for LGBTI protections, I argue that these media representations depict the growing inclusion of black LGBTIQ people as a process of bridging the supposed “gap” between homosexuality and African culture. This new “bridging the gap” script seemingly rejects the older, dominant script portraying homosexuality as intrinsically “un-African.” But I argue that it instead reproduces the “un-African” script in a new, liberal guise, offering inclusion to black LGBTIQ South Africans on limited terms that continue to obscure their embeddedness within African histories and communities.

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