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Trump rode pain and victimhood to power, but grievance may not be an effective basis for governing
No full textFollowing President Donald Trump’s second inauguration on Monday January 20th, Lilie Chouliaraki and Kathryn Claire Higgins write that the now 47th president rode a narrative of persecution, pain and victimhood back to the White House. They argue that this victimhood is a deep-seated part of Trump’s identity and that he has leveraged the politics of grievance, blame and hate against marginalized communities while at the same time playing the role of champion of the disenchanted
Rethinking the protest paradigm: media kettling in the television coverage of the 2019 Chilean uprising
No full textAlthough the “protest paradigm” remains the default analytical framework in mediated protest studies, recent scholarship has questioned its explanatory capacity, particularly in light of changes to collective action and the increasing criminalization of protests. We advance these discussions by analyzing 361 reports on the 2019 Chilean uprising aired on both a private and a public broadcasting station, using television coverage as a heuristic device. Drawing on Chan and Lee’s original argument describing the existence of several protest paradigms, as well as debates on policing demonstrations, we propose that 2 paradigms were at play in the coverage: an “antagonistic” one, which delegitimizes and marginalizes dissent, and a “paternalistic” one, which celebrates “good” protesters and “well-behaved” collective action. These paradigms echo developments in policing protests, with journalists manufacturing what we call media kettling, a type of coverage that celebrates the right to protest but severely restricts collective action
Quickest change-point detection problems for multidimensional Wiener processes
No full textWe study the quickest change-point (disorder) detection problems for an observable multidimensional Wiener process with the constantly correlated components changing their drift rates at certain unobservable random (change-point) times. These problems seek to determine the times of alarms which should be as close as possible to the unknown change-point times at which some of the components have changed their drift rates. The optimal stopping times of alarm are shown to be the first times at which the appropriate posterior probability processes exit certain regions restricted by the stopping boundaries. We characterise the value functions and optimal boundaries as unique solutions to the associated free-boundary problems for partial differential equations. It is observed that the optimal stopping boundaries can also be uniquely specified by means of the equivalent nonlinear Fredholm integral equations in the class of continuous functions of bounded variation. We also provide estimates for the value functions and boundaries which are solutions to the appropriately constructed ordinary differential free-boundary problems
Little floods everywhere: what will climate change mean for you?
No full textThe consequences of climate change are often conceptualised in terms of the changing risks of natural disasters, or as reductions in future economic output. When understood in these terms, it is all too easy to believe that one might “get lucky”—that the floods won’t affect those of us who don’t live by the waterfront, and that the heatwaves won’t affect the salaries or job security of those of us who go to work in air conditioned offices. The consequences of climate change, serious though they may be, seem far away. Contrary to this perspective, we argue that changing risk profiles, even marginal or distant changes, are likely to strain the underlying fabric of societies, and thus have profound consequences for everyone. Even for individuals who are relatively insulated from the direct physical consequences of climate change, it may well be that there is little chance of “getting lucky.” This has important implications for how we perceive and assess the benefits of climate action. We therefore call for greater efforts to understand the system-wide social consequences of increasing disaster risks
Introduction: studying people building Europe
No full textThe editors identify and analyse the rich subfield that has developed in studies of personnel and professionals in various disciplines before passing in review the various contributions to this special issue
Reckless subjects, future capital? 'Youth' as an object of concern in international health organizations' discourse
No full textContemporary international organizations (IOs) are routinely portrayed as being more accessible to a wide variety of actors than ever before. The recent hyper-institutionalization of youth in international politics testifies to this pluralization, at least quantitatively. This paper traces the historical emergence of youth as an object of concern among health IOs. Covering a period of over 50 years, we analyse semantic fields surrounding youth and find that young people have primarily been portrayed as society’s future capital in development discourses or as a risk-prone group in the context of HIV/AIDS and reproductive health. Only since the beginning of the 21st century can we trace portrayals of youth that emphasize rights, inclusion and engagement in global health. Our study addresses an empirical research gap on youth in global health and prompts us to critically re-evaluate the optimistic liberal assessments that have marked International Relations (IR) theories on the ‘opening-up’ of IOs
Visual representations of wealth inequality in political communication
No full textWealth inequality is deepening in many countries around the world, presenting increasing challenges to public notions of fairness while simultaneously proving resistant to democratic intervention. This article looks at one element of the politics of wealth inequality which has so far received relatively little attention: visual representations in political communication. The authors collected an original dataset of 243 images posted on Facebook by UK news media and civil society organizations to explore how different actors visually represent the problem of wealth inequality. They used content analysis to demonstrate that news media in particular tends to visualize inequality through images of wealth itself, such as luxury goods and property, whereas civil society more often tries to contrast richness and poorness. They conducted social semiotic analysis on two sets of recurring tropes to investigate the complex trade-offs in how visual content frames inequality, whether through ambivalent focus on the super-rich or a claim to objectivity and completeness through birds-eye aerial photography
If the world is a family, what kind of family is it?
No full textThis Foreword is concerned with the trope that figures the world as a family. What ideas about the family inform, and are informed by, it? What effects does it have on the way global issues, relations and contexts are understood? In the course of exploring those questions, consideration is given, in turn, to evocations of the human family, references to the family of nations and discussions of the need to take action for the sake of our children. The Foreword illustrates something of the variety of family types that have been mobilized in representations of the world as a family, and shows how the effects produced have been mixed. While familial language has a venerable place in emancipatory discourses, it also works to install a false notion of unity rooted in biological filiation that helps to preserve divisions, sustain hierarchies and promote depoliticized approaches to political problems
Evaluating the impact of contextual offers in a highly selective institution: results from a mixed-methods contribution analysis
No full textEnglish university admissions increasingly make use of contextual offers, where applicants with certain socio-demographic characteristics can be offered marginally lower entry conditions. This paper presents novel insights on the impact of contextual offer policy on one institutions' patterns of enrolment in 2022/23 via a mixed methods contribution analysis. We present evidence that the policy contributed to widening access for targeted students despite the institutions' small and highly selective intake. This effect appears to be driven by increasing applicants' likelihood of accepting an offer and allowing a small number of students to enrol despite narrowly missing standard offer criteria. While contextual offer policies thus appear to be an effective tool for improving targeted students' enrolment at an institution, further research is needed to understand the impact of contextual offers on student outcomes and experiences
Capital markets union: the lure of grand designs and a call for modesty
No full textExamines the EU's capital markets union (CMU) agenda for financial markets, looking at the possibility of disruptive normative change to EU financial market governance including the limits of legislative reform, the likelihood of deregulation becoming a policy tool, and the risks to the CMU project