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The Power of a Brand: Paramount, Heartland Narrowcasting, and Taylor Sheridan’s Yellowstone
No full textTaylor Sheridan’s Yellowstone is, above all, the story of a brand. By situating the popular series in relation to both the streaming and culture wars, as well as a related schism in academic media studies, this article proposes that the political economy of media corporations and the narrative aesthetics of media texts must be understood in tandem. As the Paramount Network’s signature property, Yellowstone manifested the channel’s demographic mission to include women and “narrowcast” to heartland viewers. By sophisticated generic and narratological innovations, Yellowstone went further to create an aesthetic protocol of brand loyalty where the process of branding, at once ancient and modern, physical and symbolic, was made self-consciously central to the show’s redescription of rural cowboying as a cultural identity and marketable lifestyle. The show’s intertwining of branding and belonging, as well as its vigorous use of product placement and merchandising, modifies prior assumptions in the field of franchise studies. In the gap between brand synergy and brand dilution, Yellowstone presents itself as a paradigmatic case study for the new imbrications of narrative entertainment, commodity fetishism, and identitarian politics
Commodity cycles and financial instability in emerging economies
No full textCommodity-exporting economies display procyclicality with the price of commodity exports. However, the evidence for the relative importance of commodity price shocks for aggregate fluctuations remains inconclusive. Using Russian data from 2001 to 2018 we estimate a small open economy New Keynesian model with a banking system and leveraged domestic firms who default on their unsecured domestic debt. We show that allowing default rates to vary endogenously over the business cycle amplifies the estimated contribution of commodity price shocks. Endogenous default introduces time-varying wedges that amplify the response of commodity price shocks through demand and income effects rather than the relative price effects that are found in the country risk-premium, balance sheet, and financial accelerator channels. We find that the contribution of commodity prices to explaining fluctuations in GDP rises from 2.5 to 33.6% while for deposits and non-performing loans, it increases from 5.3% and 1.6% to 71.3% and 60.4%, respectively
Seasonal Carbon Budget Succession in Lake Erie\u27s Western Basin
No full textLake Erie\u27s Western Basin is a eutrophic region and likely hotspot for carbon transformation. While this basin has received much attention for its high nutrient loads from the Maumee River and recurring harmful algal blooms, carbon has gone understudied. To investigate the seasonal and spatial variability in inorganic and organic carbon budgets, we completed three surveys in spring, summer, and fall on a transect from the Maumee River to South Bass Island. In each survey, we observed higher spatial variability of all carbon species within 11 km of the Maumee River mouth relative to sites outside of Maumee Bay. This variability was driven by pulses of direct river water carbon, steep nutrient gradients, and patchy bloom conditions. Seasonal variability was also greater in Maumee Bay, with the highest river discharge in June adding large amounts of dissolved inorganic and organic carbon and pCO2 flux out of the water when productivity from the diatom bloom was smaller. In August, when and where we observed a Microcystis bloom, particulate organic carbon increased in concentration, and pCO2 flux switched directions into the water. In October, Chl-a concentrations and oxygen saturations were lowest, indicating a seasonal slowdown in productivity, and river discharge was the lowest, resulting in the lowest total carbon observed and dissolved organic matter chemistry indicating less contribution from the terrestrial watershed. In the open water outside of Maumee Bay seasonal and spatial carbon budget dynamics were more stable, highlighting the importance of riverine inputs on lake carbon cycling
Total Synthesis of (-)-Rauvomine B via a Strain-Promoted Intramolecular Cyclopropanation
No full textWe describe the first total synthesis of the unusual cyclopropane-containing indole alkaloid (-)-rauvomine B via a strategy centered upon intramolecular cyclopropanation of a tetracyclic N-sulfonyltriazole. Preparation of this precursor evolved through two generations of synthesis, with the ultimately successful route involving a palladium-catalyzed stereospecific allylic amination, a cis-selective Pictet-Spengler reaction, and ring-closing metathesis as important bond-forming reactions. The key cyclopropanation step was found to be highly dependent on the structure and conformational strain of the indoloquinolizidine N-sulfonyltriazole precursor, the origins of which are explored computationally through DFT studies. Overall, our synthesis proceeds in 11 total steps and 2.4% yield from commercial materials
Family-based and external discrimination experienced by multiracial individuals: Links to internalizing symptoms and familial support
No full textMultiracial individuals are exposed to many forms of interpersonal racial discrimination, including general discrimination against their monoracial groups and discrimination against being multiracial. Because their families include members of different racial groups, multiracial people may also be exposed to various forms of discrimination from within the family. In the present study, we leverage recent advances in latent profile analysis to identify distinct patterns of family-based and external (i.e., from outside the family unit) discrimination experienced by multiracial college students, the differential impacts of these discrimination patterns on depressive and anxiety symptoms, and whether parental support of participants\u27 multiracial experiences and identity impacts their exposure to different forms of discrimination. In a sample of 635 diverse multiracial college students (Mage = 21.2, SD = 5.3, range = 18-57, 74.0% female) from three U.S. universities, we identified three distinct discrimination profiles: High External and Familial Discrimination (43.2%), Average External Low Familial Discrimination (32.1%), and Low External and Familial Discrimination (24.7%). Profiles differed in depressive and anxiety symptomatology, with those in the High External and Familial Discrimination profile displaying the worst outcomes. Parental support of multiracial experiences was associated with lower levels of family-based discrimination. The complex relations between parental support, family-based discrimination, and multiracial participants\u27 internalizing symptomology are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved)
Pushing Back On “Black Don’t Crack”
No full textOn a culture that lauds a youthful appearance, the author reveals how racism, sexism, and ageism combine in ways that uniquely harm Black women as they seek professional respect in White spaces
The Standing History of Afro-Diasporic Traditions in Trinidad & Tobago
No full textIn the African Diaspora, many forms of music and physical expression embody ideas of liberation, emancipation, and resistance. By analyzing Afro-Trinidadian Diaspora musical traditions such as carnival, spiritual shouter practices, stick fighting, and the creation of steel pans, this project interrogates the manifestations of power, privilege, and oppression in the continuum of slavery and settler colonialism. These forms make it possible to see the effects and consequences of Afro-Trinidadians negotiating public and private space under British colonial rule pre-emancipation of Trinidad in 1962. The use of oral tradition, in particular, has guided many members of the African Diaspora to revolution, joy, passing down rituals, and cultivating community. As a Steel Pan performer of Trinidadian descent, I bridge gaps between practitioners, scholars, and intellectuals outside of the academy and explore Caribbean narratives through a more nuanced perspective while centering Caribbean voices through the use of oral histories. This research serves as an acknowledgment and ode to all who have fought to keep Afro-diasporic traditions alive and consistently center marginalized voices in the discourse. Additionally, my research uses textual, musicological, and ethnographic analysis of the development of African Diasporic traditions in Trinidad & Tobago. Investigating the roots of these traditions from enslavement onwards allows a detailed mapping of anti-colonial and revolutionary efforts in Trinidad & Tobago in a way that uplifts and respects the intellectualism of diverse populations and forms of expression
“We Need Our Tribalism:” The Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians and their Path from Termination to Restoration, 1946-1977
No full textBurning Hope: Staging Queer Ecology in a Time of Wildfire
No full textThis article analyzes three contemporary plays by trans and gender-non-conforming artists from the United States that engage with forest fires and queer ecology. These three plays - MJ Kaufman\u27s Sagittarius Ponderosa, Agnes Borinsky\u27s The Trees, and Kari Barclay\u27s How to Live in a House on Fire - tie wildfire to colonial histories of fire suppression and imagine a just climate transition as linked to queer and trans self-reinvention. The article describes this dramaturgical tactic as \u27burning hope\u27 - letting go of straight, settler desire and gesturing toward reciprocal obligation with the non-human world. Building on Kim TallBear\u27s call to attend to organic matter and Stephen Pyne\u27s study of fire history in the \u27Pyrocene\u27, the article imagines theatre as a prescribed burn that can re-orient audience relations to futurity. Burning hope does not abandon hope; it recognizes grief as mobilization for environmentalist solidarities