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Power relations in digitally-mediated communication: Exploring inequalities, discrimination, and new forms of injustice
No full text“Tired of being treated like broken glass to tip-toe around”: Uncovering ableism through PWDs’ voices on social media
No full textDespite the implementation of ad hoc equality policies and the positive actions taken by organizations (European Commission, 2021; Council of Europe, 2016, 2017), the living conditions of people with disabilities (PWDs) remain a pressing concern. Discrimination against PWDs endures due to persistent stereotypes and prejudicial attitudes, which prevent them from fully participating in societal activities. Social Media Sites (SMSs) have been identified as active spaces for hate speech online (HSO) (Balirano & Hughes, 2020, 2024; Hughes & Nisco, 2022a; Matamoros-Fernández & Farkas, 2021; Wanniarachchi et al., 2023), as individuals often hide behind fake accounts to spread their derogatory viewpoints. However, these platforms also serve as gathering places where people with similar experiences can share their opinions, feelings, and emotions (Raffone, 2022b). As (digital) disability discourse is still under-researched in Critical Discourse Studies (CDS) (Grue, 2011; Raffone, 2022a), this paper, guided by the principles of Corpus Linguistics (CL) (Baker et al., 2008; Baker, 2012a, 2012b), Critical Discourse Studies (CDS) (Fairclough, 1989; Van Dijk, 1998, 2005, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2014), and Social Media Critical Discourse Studies (SM-CDS) (Döveling et al., 2018; KhosraviNik, 2010, 2017, 2020, 2023; KhosraviNik & Unger, 2016; KhosraviNik & Esposito, 2018), will explore PWDs’ digitally-mediated discourse to shed light on the persistence of ableism and how disabled individuals discursively attempt to resist and challenge pre-existing hateful and discriminatory attitudes in social media spaces
Narcissism and intimate partner violence: The mediating role of desire for power
No full textThis study examined how distinct facets of narcissism – extraverted, antagonistic, neurotic, and communal – relate to intimate partner violence (IPV) and whether desire for power mediates these associations. Using a community sample of 515 Iranian adults in committed heterosexual relationships, participants completed validated measures of narcissism, desire for power, and three forms of IPV: physical violence, inflicted injury, and sexual coercion. Antagonistic narcissism was most consistently linked with IPV, showing direct associations with partner-inflicted injury and sexual coercion, and an indirect link with partner-directed violence via desire for power. Neurotic narcissism predicted partner-directed violence but was not mediated by power motives. Extraverted and communal narcissism were not directly related to IPV but showed positive indirect associations with partner-directed violence through desire for power. These findings highlight the multifaceted nature of narcissism and suggest that power motives play a nuanced role in the perpetration of IPV. By extending this research to a non-Western cultural context, the study underscores the importance of cultural sensitivity in understanding narcissism’s interpersonal consequences
Amy Prendergast, Mere Bagatelles: Women’s Diaries from Ireland, 1760-1810
No full textAmy Prendergast’s archival study of women’s diaries from eighteenth-century Ireland demonstrates that recovery work in women’s literature is far from complete. A significant contribution to diary studies, particularly in the context of Irish women’s literature and eighteenth-century studies, Mere Bagatelles: Women’s Diaries from Ireland, 1760-1810 showcases an impressive amount of archival discovery and manuscript engagement. The book’s opening list of eighteenth-century Irish diarists—more than forty in number—along with details of their diary manuscripts’ locations (some even missing or destroyed) speaks for itself. These are the kind of Irish texts that, up until now, have been very little (if at all) discussed in academic research. This book, however, is not simply a series of biographies or reading summaries. While offering her reader a distinct snapshot of each of the female diarists she discusses, capturing their writing styles and personal concerns, Prendergast also provides astute academic commentary about the nature of the diary form and Irish women’s writing more broadly. This book is primarily interested in form and feminism, but it does not shy away from Ireland’s colonial context either. In some of the most interesting parts of the book, Prendergast examines the privileged, Anglican diarists’ take on—or omission of—the Irish Catholic tenantry. Like the diaries it studies, Mere Bagatelles is multi-faceted, displaying a number of academic methodologies and a range of eighteenth-century concerns, from melancholia and grief to landscape and nationalism. Although niche in its subject matter and perhaps limited in its focus on a primarily Protestant female elite, Prendergast nevertheless expands and enlivens our picture of eighteenth-century Ireland by adding new colorful details to a familiar portrait of that century
Genderview Helen King: Menstruation has to be an important topic of study
No full textHelen King is professor emerita of Classical Studies at the Open University. As a historian, she is specialized in the history of the body, medicine and gender. She has held teaching and research positions across the UK and internationally. Her recent book, Immaculate Forms: Uncovering the History of Women’s Bodies, explores the history of four female body parts in the realm of medicine and religion
Éliane Beaufils et Climène Perrin (dir.). 2024. L’écologie en scène: Théâtres politiques et politiques théâtrales (Saint-Denis: Presses Universitaires de Vincennes)
No full textReview of Éliane Beaufils et Climène Perrin (dir.). 2024. L’écologie en scène: Théâtres politiques et politiques théâtrales (Saint-Denis: Presses Universitaires de Vincennes)
Milo Rau. 2023. Die Rückeroberung der Zukunft: Ein Essay (Hamburg: Rowohlt)
No full textThis is a review of Milo Rau. 2023. Die Rückeroberung der Zukunft: Ein Essay (Hamburg: Rowohlt)
Five-factor model personality traits and cognition in the Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocol sub-study of the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe
No full textFive-factor model (FFM) personality traits are associated with cognitive function. The present research seeks to replicate and extend prior research on FFM traits and performance in five cognitive domains and informant-rated cognition. Participants (N=2,501) from the Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocol sub-study of the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe completed a 10-item personality measure in 2017 and were administered a comprehensive cognitive assessment in 2022. Neuroticism was associated with lower global cognitive performance, episodic memory, speed-attention, visuo-spatial ability, verbal fluency and informant-rated cognitive decline; the effects were attenuated by clinical (e.g., hypertension) and behavioral (e.g., physical inactivity) risk factors for cognitive impairment, which may mediate the associations. Openness was associated with better performance in most cognitive domains, even after accounting for behavioral and clinical covariates. Conscientiousness was related to less informant-rated cognitive decline but was surprisingly unrelated to performance in any cognitive domain; extraversion and agreeableness were also largely unrelated to cognitive function. There was not a consistent pattern of moderation by sociodemographic factors, cognitive impairment, or depression across domains, suggesting more similarities than differences across groups. The present research suggests that even with brief FFM scales, neuroticism and openness have replicable associations with multiple cognitive domains, whereas a more comprehensive assessment of conscientiousness may be needed to detect robust associations with cognitive performance
The Flâneur through the Female Gaze: A Legitimization of Street Harassment?
No full textThe notion of dérive introduced by Debord (1957) involves a mapping that blends physical exploration with personal experiences, primarily aesthetic, for the participant. However, its practitioners, reminiscent of the Baudelairian flâneur archetype, typically exhibit a stable identity: they tend to be Western, middle-aged bourgeois men navigating a public space molded by capitalist and patriarchal ideologies, catering to consumerist and erotic perspectives (Jacobs, 1961; Berger, 1972). Consequently, their encounters are shaped by a privileged stance within the urban landscape, which is perceived as a stage offering experiences not equally accessible to those existing on the fringes of norms often to extras this theatrical setting. This contribution will focus on the case of women and will be based on different literary and cinematic fragments, and on two real-life cases. After their analysis, it will be shown that Western imagination takes the female pedestrian as an object liable to be pursued by men, regardless of the violation of her right to anonymity granted by the metropolis (Wilson, 1991; Kern, 2020). These challenges result in a psychogeography that, at its best, manifests as disjointed, disrupted by romanticized and sexist male attitudes