The Discursive Ecology Of Homophobia

Author : Eric Louis Russell
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781788923477

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The Discursive Ecology of Homophobia by Eric Louis Russell Pdf

Through an analysis of the discourse practices of populist Far Right groups in France, Italy and Belgian Flanders, this book makes a ground-breaking contribution to our understanding of the ways in which homophobic discourse functions. It proposes an innovative heuristic for the conceiving of the interplay of language, context and culture: discourse ecology. The author brings linguistic theories, methods and ways of understanding and thinking about language to a study of the overt and covert homophobic discourses of three non-Anglophone populist movements, and grounds the interpretation of such practices in observable data. In doing so the book encourages us all to reconsider the power we give language in our activism and scholarship, as well as in our private lives.

Author : Natalia Knoblock
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108998246

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The Grammar of Hate by Natalia Knoblock Pdf

Hate speech continues to be an issue of key social significance, yet while its lexical and discursive aspects have been widely studied, its grammatical traits have been hitherto overlooked. This book seeks to address this gap by bringing together a global team of scholars to explore the morphosyntactic features of hateful and aggressive discourse. Drawing on thirteen diverse cross-linguistic case studies, it reveals how hate is expressed in political discourse, slang, and social media, and towards a range of target groups relating to gender, sexual orientation, and ethnic identity. Based on ideas from functional and cognitive linguistics, each thematic part demonstrates how features such as morphology, word formation, pronoun use, and syntactic structures are manipulated for the purpose of expressing hostility and hate. An innovative approach to an age-old problem, this book is essential reading for researchers and students of hate speech and verbal aggression.

Author : Eric Louis Russell
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783030704704

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Alpha Masculinity by Eric Louis Russell Pdf

This book examines the linguistic and discursive mechanisms that realize the mythological American Alpha Male. Providing an in-depth dissection of corpora from an online socio-commercial community, a pop-psychology guru, and fictional gay erotica, it unravels the ways language, gender, and hegemony play out in this ideological figure of neopositive, essentialist masculinity. Through a detailed, multi-level analysis, Russell shows how the Alpha figure combines elements of dominance, normativity, and androcentrism and how these forces intersect with neoliberal and pseudoscientific discourses to establish a uniquely hybridized male hegemony, one that is familiar to most, but whose internal mechanisms remain largely unquestioned and unexamined. This book will be of interest to academic scholars in sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, cultural studies, and gender and sexualities studies.

Author : Eric Louis Russell
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781040006825

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Fighting Words! by Eric Louis Russell Pdf

Fighting Words! is a critical exploration of all kinds of “bad language” and how that language shapes, reinforces, or subverts identity, ideology, and power. Eric Louis Russell expertly investigates facets of taboo language, drawing on diverse interdisciplinary material to define key concepts and using them to examine the complex dynamics behind a wide range of examples from popular culture, from Donald Trump’s controversies to Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s WAP. What emerges from this analysis is the intersectionality of how language is performed and how it contributes to the shaping of identity and simultaneously shapes and is shaped by social attitudes, cultural assumptions, and systems of power with regard to race, sexuality, and gender. With fascinating "A Closer Look" boxes and a rich array of pedagogical features, this is the perfect text for advanced students and researchers in sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, and related fields.

Author : Donna M. Goldstein,Kristen Drybread
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000619294

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Corruption and Illiberal Politics in the Trump Era by Donna M. Goldstein,Kristen Drybread Pdf

This book explores the nexus of corruption, late capitalism, and illiberal politics in the Trump era. Through deep, contextualized analysis and careful critique, it offers valuable perspectives on how corruption is defined and understood in the current historical moment. The book asks: Is today's corruption something new, or is it a continuation of prior patterns of illiberalism? Chapters in this collection consider how corruption is practiced, mobilized, or invoked in a range of cases, each of which is embedded within larger concerns about what citizenship, social belonging, honesty, and justice mean in the United States today. The authors examine a constellation of unscrupulous actors and questionable actions, with topics ranging from sex scandals and shady real estate deals to the Trump administration’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Several essays directly address the increasingly violent rhetoric and the deliberately anti-democratic policies that have flourished during the Trump era. The book draws on anthropological insights and comparative analysis to place the policies and practices of Trump and his supporters in a wider global context. Corruption and Illiberal Politics in the Trump Era will be of great interest to readers from anthropology, sociology, political science, discourse studies, media studies, linguistics, and American studies.

Author : Frazer Heritage
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783031401848

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Incels and Ideologies by Frazer Heritage Pdf

This book explores how incels use language and other semiotic resources to construct ideologies of gender and race/ethnicity. The author theorises and positions incels' performances of masculinity against a backdrop of broader social sciences and linguistic literature, and discusses some of the limitations of different lenses through which incels have previously been understood, as well some of the ethical issues involved with researching a hostile community. Corpus linguistic methods and netnographic reflections are used to explore how incels construct ideologies about gender, gendered social actors, and race/ethnicity, as well as where these concepts intersect. Taking a post-structuralist critical analysis to this community reveals a number of way ideologies towards different groups based on social identities are linguistically constructed. This book will be relevant to those researching or studying language, gender, and sexuality, sociology, and criminology. Outside of academic applications, it is also written in a way that is accessible to external organisations interested in equality and the prevention of incel-ideology-motivated offline attacks.

Author : Ronald R. Butters,John M. Clum,Michael Moon
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822396598

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Displacing Homophobia by Ronald R. Butters,John M. Clum,Michael Moon Pdf

The editors have gathered essays that not only make a major contribution to the effort to replace homophobic discourse, but also speak persuasively to all readers interested in literature or literary history, contemporary theory, and popular culture.

Author : Kris Aric Knisely,Eric Louis Russell
Publisher : Channel View Publications
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781800415119

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Redoing Linguistic Worlds by Kris Aric Knisely,Eric Louis Russell Pdf

Language and gender are interconnected, social and relational acts through which we constantly remake our worlds. But what happens when our ways of doing gender cannot be neatly categorized into traditional binary systems, including not only the social groupings of roles, practices and identities, but also the forms and structures through which we do language? This book brings together a broad range of scholars to explore the undoing and redoing of gender binaries in non-Anglophone communities and contexts, in and through their linguistic and social reimaginings. Each of the contributions to this book reflects on this ongoing change and its place in our everyday lives, including the ways that its outcomes are both contested and fluid. This volume represents an important step in scholarship in language and gender, one that stands to inform a public increasingly aware of these remakings and one that calls on all of us to stand in the tensions of our own humanity and look through it for how our languaging might ‘do’ imaginary worlds that are more equitable, more connected, and more just for us all.

Author : Cecilia McCallum,Silvia Posocco,Martin Fotta
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 829 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781108669221

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The Cambridge Handbook for the Anthropology of Gender and Sexuality by Cecilia McCallum,Silvia Posocco,Martin Fotta Pdf

With contributions from a diverse team of global authors, this cutting-edge Handbook documents the impact of the study of gender and sexuality upon the foundational practices and precepts of anthropology. Providing a survey of the state-of-the-art in the field, it is essential reading for academic researchers and students of anthropology.

Author : Dorothee Beck,Adriano José Habed,Annette Henninger
Publisher : Verlag Barbara Budrich
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783847418580

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Blurring Boundaries – ‘Anti-Gender’ Ideology Meets Feminist and LGBTIQ+ Discourses by Dorothee Beck,Adriano José Habed,Annette Henninger Pdf

In politischen Auseinandersetzungen wird “Gender” als Sammelbegriff für Themen wie Frauen- und LGBTIQ + -Rechte, Gleichstellung der Geschlechter, sexuelle Bildung, feministisches Wissen und Geschlechterforschung verwendet. Während sich bisherige Veröffentlichungen auf die anti-gender Gruppen selbst oder feministische und queere Reaktionen auf diese konzentrieren, beleuchtet dieser Band die verschwimmenden Grenzen zwischen beiden Lagern. Im Fokus steht die Frage, inwieweit “Anti-Gender”-Behauptungen mit bestimmten Spielarten in der feministischen und LGBTIQ+-Politik interagieren und so Diskursbrücken zu liberalen und progressiven Teilen der Gesellschaft bauen. Anders als der „Sammelbegriff“ Gender vermuten lässt, ist das feministische und LGBTIQ+-Lager von politischen Konflikten, Meinungsverschiedenheiten und divergierenden Interessen durchzogen. Daher analysieren die Autor*innen die Verbindungen zwischen einigen dieser umstrittenen Positionen und dem “Anti-Gender”-Diskurs.

Author : Cornelia Möser,Jennifer Ramme,Judit Takács
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030813413

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Paradoxical Right-Wing Sexual Politics in Europe by Cornelia Möser,Jennifer Ramme,Judit Takács Pdf

How did far-right, hateful and anti-democratic ideologies become so successful in many societies in Europe? This volume analyses the paradoxical roles sexual politics have played in this process and reveals that the incoherence and untruthfulness in right-wing populist, ultraconservative and far-right rhetorics of fear are not necessarily signs of weakness. Instead, the authors show how the far right can profit from its own incoherence by generating fear and creating discourses of crisis for which they are ready to offer simple solutions. In studies on Poland, Hungary, Spain, Italy, Austria, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Portugal, France, Sweden and Russia, the ways far-right ideologies travel and take root are analysed from a multi-disciplinary perspective, including feminist and LGBTQI reactions. Understanding how hateful and antidemocratic ideologies enter the very centre of European societies is a necessary premise for developing successful counterstrategies.

Author : Meredith L. Weiss,Michael J. Bosia
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780252095009

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Global Homophobia by Meredith L. Weiss,Michael J. Bosia Pdf

While homophobia is commonly characterized as individual and personal prejudice, this collection of essays instead explores homophobia as a transnational political phenomenon. Editors Meredith L. Weiss and Michael J. Bosia theorize homophobia as a distinct configuration of repressive state-sponsored policies and practices with their own causes, explanations, and effects on how sexualities are understood and experienced in a variety of national contexts. The essays cover a broad range of geographic cases, including France, Ecuador, Iran, Lebanon, Poland, Singapore, and the United States. Combining rich empirical analysis with theoretical synthesis, these studies examine how homophobia travels across complex and ambiguous transnational networks, how it achieves and exerts decisive power, and how it shapes the collective identities and strategies of those groups it targets. The first comparative volume to focus specifically on the global diffusion of homophobia and its implications for an emerging worldwide LGBT movement, Global Homophobia opens new avenues of debate and dialogue for scholars, students, and activists. Contributors are Mark Blasius, Michael J. Bosia, David K. Johnson, Kapya J. Kaoma, Christine (Cricket) Keating, Katarzyna Korycki, Amy Lind, Abouzar Nasirzadeh, Conor O'Dwyer, Meredith L. Weiss, and Sami Zeidan.

Author : Michael Groneberg,Christian Funke
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783643111463

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Combatting Homophobia by Michael Groneberg,Christian Funke Pdf

Discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity concerns everybody, but it is foremost lesbian and gay persons who have to deal with it, especially when confronting the discovery of their homosexuality as a child or adolescent. In this book, education practitioners working with youth and researchers - from social, political, and educational sciences, as well as theology and philosophy - raise awareness of the wide spectrum of homophobia and offer solutions to the suffering it engenders in youths. The book will be helpful for parents, teachers, and others who are responsible for youth and education. It reviews concrete knowledge, combines it with scientific approaches, and identifies the need for further research. (Series: Gender-Diskussion - Vol. 13)

Author : Achim Rohde,Christina von Braun,Stefanie Schüler-Springorum
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317090007

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National Politics and Sexuality in Transregional Perspective by Achim Rohde,Christina von Braun,Stefanie Schüler-Springorum Pdf

National Politics and Sexuality in Transregional Perspective explores how modern identity politics around the world are gendered and sexualized in multiple ways. Constructions of the imagined collective "self" often contain references to a heteronormative order, whereas relevant internal or external "others" are often felt to deviate from this order through their gendered or sexual practices. By contrast, some Western countries have witnessed the evolution of LGBTQI-friendly discourses by certain political actors in recent years, often in the context of the post-9/11 culture wars. This pathbreaking book focuses on perceptions of "self" and "other" in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa from a gendered perspective. It deals with anti-LGBTQI as well as LGBTQI-friendly aspects of modern culture and politics in countries within these regions, focusing on the functions such discursive markers play in nationalist and racist imageries, in discourses legitimizing class differences from the nineteenth century to the present day, including globalized discourses in the context of 9/11 and its aftermath. It shows that discourses on sexuality and gendered performances in everyday life often undermine the stability of such binary constructions, as they point to the multiplicity, ambivalence and the indeterminate character of individual and collective identities under conditions of modernity. Addressing contemporary identity politics both in a wider historical context and within a transregional comparative framework thus helps to discern differences and similarities between different world regions and serves to dislocate essentialized notions of cultural differences based on gender and sex. This book will appeal to those with an interest in Political Sociology, Gender Studies, and Globalisation.

Author : Steven L. P. Joyce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Bisexual youth
ISBN : OCLC:68622238

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The Discursive Construction of Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Identity by Steven L. P. Joyce Pdf