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Dehumanizing the Poor (of Color):: HBO’s The Wire on Carceral Expansion in the Neoliberal Age and Other Such ‘Paradoxes’
No full textAlthough carceral expansion in the United States’ neoliberal age appears paradoxical at first glance, building on Loïc Wacquant, this paper highlights that the Reagan and Clinton administrations instrumentalized punitive criminal justice to evoke a (racialized) sense of security in light of the social insecurity their neoliberal policies had created (neoliberal punitive turn). The paper then analyzes the TV series The Wire’s negotiation of the interlocking effects of neoliberalism and the “War on Drugs”; the show maintains that neoliberalism has fuelled the drug trade and other crime, while the “War on Drugs” has reproduced the very social conditions it was implemented to combat. Finally, the paper argues that the neoliberal punitive turn’s paradoxicality indeed resides in the affective regimes it has conjured, which position corporations as persons deserving of public aid (read: empathy), while the poor (of Color) are dehumanized and not only denied empathy, but even punished for their poverty
You Know the Words: A Content Analysis of College Fight Songs
No full textThis content analysis study examines the lyrics contained in the fight songs of the 130 NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision schools. Because fight songs are still being written and other fight songs are being updated to account for societal changes, a study of the themes that are common among fight songs would be valuable to those responsible for writing these important works. Literature related to college fight song studies, music, and branding, as well as music in advertising provides context to the study. The researchers engaged in a two-step process that involved theme identification and coded theme count. In the theme identification stage, the researchers used a common sample of two fight songs per conference to identify themes that consistently appeared in the song lyrics. The researchers then coded the full population of 130 songs seeking the identified themes across all songs. The most common themes were self-reference to the name of the university (97.7%), exclamation (93.1%), and togetherness (90%). The thematic analysis confirms the unification and excitement purposes that fight songs are intended to generate and confirm the role fight songs play in intercollegiate athletics branding— selling the concepts of unification and excitement to college sport consumers. The remaining themes included game-specific references, nickname, school colors, victory, vocalization, war, and word-splits
Peasant Struggles in Times of Crises: The Political Role of Rural and Indigenous Women in Chile Today
No full textThis article explores the political role of rural and indigenous women in the context of the socio-environmental, health and political crises in Chile, where social movements have pressured the political establishment to decisively move towards a change in Chile’s constitutional foundations. The study analyses the historical political demands and strategies of the National Association of Rural and Indigenous Women (ANAMURI) as a case of the women’s peasant movement with a relevant political role in shaping the social demands in the face of the crises. Following the political ecology of food through the decolonial and ecofeminist perspective and the social movement theory, findings indicate the current relevance of rural and indigenous women as political actors of change, a relevance that has been neglected for most of Chile’s history. With their leadership and socially grounded demands, peasant and indigenous women are influencing the political agenda decisively using strategies that are shared with other peasant movements in Latin America. Rural and indigenous women are fundamental political actors that should undoubtedly be considered when studying struggles for social change in the 21st century
Women in Wildfire Crises: Exploring Lived Experiences of Conflict through Forum Theatre (Creative Intervention)
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Acts of Citizenship in Time and Space among Agricultural Migrant Workers in Quebec during the COVID-19 Pandemic
No full textMigrant farm workers recruited under Canada’s temporary employment programs work in difficult environments, under poor working conditions, and live in unsafe housing in remote rural communities. Fearful of repatriation or replacement, many accept their working and living conditions as part of a necessary sacrifice to improve their living conditions and those of their families in the countries of origin. At the same time, some migrant farm workers assert their agency by escaping from farms, subverting regulations, or challenging various forms of discipline used to control their bodies and activities. Following Isin and Nielsen (2008), we refer to these actions as “acts of citizenship.” Drawing on research conducted among migrant farm workers during the COVID-19 pandemic in the province of Quebec, Canada, we situate these acts, particularly the tendency to escape from abusive and exploitative working relationships, in a particular space and time shaped by the COVID-19 pandemic. More specifically, we demonstrate the link between these acts and certain conditions and opportunities that arose at that time, such as increased support for migrant farmworkers by a non-governmental organization and the facilitation of movement of migrant farmworkers across the Canada-U.S.-border by the “migration industry.
Women in Movement & Feminisms: Critical Materialisms & Environmentalisms (Editors\u27 Introduction)
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A Posthuman Perspective on Nursing: In Conversation with Jamie Smith and Eva Willis
No full textThis article is an edited version of an online discussion between the editors of this Special Issue, Jamie Smith, and Eva Willis. Jamie is a nurse and sociologist who presented a paper on critical posthumanism and ‘person-centered care’ in nursing at the ‘Medical (Post)Humanities?’ conference held in April 2022. His consideration of nursing practice through a posthuman lens dovetailed with our own interests in the intersection between critical posthumanism and the practices of medicine and this interview stems from the meeting of these concerns. As a sociologist and practicing nurse trained in Germany, Eva Willis offered another perspective on the intersection of posthuman theory and clinical practice, expanding the conversation beyond the British context. The editors met to interview Eva and Jamie online (via GoogleMeet) on August the 17th 2022 and spoke for just under 2 hours. The conversation covered questions about what ‘posthumanism’ means in a clinical space (and how it can be translated across settings), how it informs notions of ‘care’ and ‘death’, and whether it can challenge prevailing ‘evidence-based’ and ‘person-centred’ paradigms operating in medicine.