{"title":"The medicalization of the culture wars","authors":"Jeffrey A. Bennett","doi":"10.1080/14791420.2024.2304253","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14791420.2024.2304253","url":null,"abstract":"Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies was a product of the 9/11 era. In this article, I consider the ways the COVID-19 pandemic displaced 9/11 as the defining event of our time and, in the pr...","PeriodicalId":46339,"journal":{"name":"Communication and Critical-Cultural Studies","volume":"133 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140196257","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Academia’s next top bottom: Title IX as performative advocacy","authors":"Ragan Fox","doi":"10.1080/14791420.2024.2325131","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14791420.2024.2325131","url":null,"abstract":"In this complaint biography, I consider how Title IX’s peri-performative protocols fail to address structural homophobia and transphobia. Peri-performativity is a spatial metaphor that theorizes co...","PeriodicalId":46339,"journal":{"name":"Communication and Critical-Cultural Studies","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140152392","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Smarties, you know what’s up!”: curating a community and cultivating pleasure as a social justice influencer","authors":"Kristin M. Peterson","doi":"10.1080/14791420.2024.2326203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14791420.2024.2326203","url":null,"abstract":"This article analyzes the Instagram postings of Blair Imani, an influencer who blends lifestyle content with social justice advocacy. Through an analysis of popular posts and follower engagement, I...","PeriodicalId":46339,"journal":{"name":"Communication and Critical-Cultural Studies","volume":"49 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140152482","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cristiana Shipma McFarland, Elizabeth Wilhoit Larson
{"title":"Reproducing violence, racism, and erasure in research","authors":"Cristiana Shipma McFarland, Elizabeth Wilhoit Larson","doi":"10.1080/14791420.2024.2325145","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14791420.2024.2325145","url":null,"abstract":"In 2019, we received a Top Paper Award for a paper presented at a national communication conference, despite our erasure of Black women from the history of midwifery in Alabama. We recognize and ac...","PeriodicalId":46339,"journal":{"name":"Communication and Critical-Cultural Studies","volume":"71 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140098959","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Negotiating rhetorics of diversity through performances of propriety: a quare autocritography","authors":"Rico Self","doi":"10.1080/14791420.2024.2316318","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14791420.2024.2316318","url":null,"abstract":"In this essay, the author, a Black queer Mississippian, advances a methodology they term quare autocritography to reflect upon their experiences of precarity, exclusion, and isolation as a graduate...","PeriodicalId":46339,"journal":{"name":"Communication and Critical-Cultural Studies","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140045795","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Radio Free Dixie from Cuba to the Black Belt: mapping Black nationhood through cartographies of sonic rhetoric","authors":"Kate Siegfried","doi":"10.1080/14791420.2023.2301292","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14791420.2023.2301292","url":null,"abstract":"In this essay, I follow sound across hegemonic geopolitical boundaries to map its place-making force in the emergence of new forms of nationhood. Through an analysis of Mabel and Robert F. William’...","PeriodicalId":46339,"journal":{"name":"Communication and Critical-Cultural Studies","volume":"54 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139770253","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A rhetorical praxis of rebellious knowledge production: justice Sonia Sotomayor’s outsider jurisprudence in Utah v. Strieff","authors":"Katie L. Gibson","doi":"10.1080/14791420.2023.2297975","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14791420.2023.2297975","url":null,"abstract":"In 2016, Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote a stunning legal opinion that challenged the Supreme Court’s ruling in Utah v. Strieff and marked a watershed moment for her voice of dissent. In this essay, ...","PeriodicalId":46339,"journal":{"name":"Communication and Critical-Cultural Studies","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139376275","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"No Justice, No Streets! Black radical placemaking and its political aesthetics in George Floyd Square","authors":"George Villanueva","doi":"10.1080/14791420.2023.2297973","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14791420.2023.2297973","url":null,"abstract":"Building from Black geographies and Black media studies, I propose “Black radical placemaking” as a communicative approach to reimagine urban planning practices toward more racially equitable futur...","PeriodicalId":46339,"journal":{"name":"Communication and Critical-Cultural Studies","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139375681","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Copies without an original: the performativity of biometric bordering technologies","authors":"Eleanor Drage, Federica Frabetti","doi":"10.1080/14791420.2023.2292493","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14791420.2023.2292493","url":null,"abstract":"We analyze two examples of biometrics in civil registration and migration contexts (the German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees’ voice biometry system and the UK HMPO passport photo checke...","PeriodicalId":46339,"journal":{"name":"Communication and Critical-Cultural Studies","volume":"209 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139376225","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Branding being true: visibility politics and Nike’s engagement with LGBTQ+ communities","authors":"Evan Brody","doi":"10.1080/14791420.2023.2272834","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14791420.2023.2272834","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTIn this article, the author examines Nike’s engagement with LGBTQ + communities through its Be True products and campaigns. An analysis of Nike’s official statements about the line, and its advertising campaigns, illuminates how Nike encourages an incitement to visibility for LGBTQ + individuals without attending to the material consequences of doing so. The author also unpacks how Nike yokes the embodiment of idealized identity traits to its products, a process identified as commodity actualization. The goal is to highlight the role that market activities play in supplanting traditional activism and to make the unstable relationship between visibility, truth, and equality legible.KEYWORDS: LGBTQ+visibilitysports medianeoliberalismcommodity activism AcknowledgementsThe author thanks Dr. Hollis Griffin and Dr. Nicky Lewis for their thoughtful feedback and advice on this article, as well as the anonymous reviewers for their generous recommendations. The author would also like to thank Dr. Robin M. Boylorn and Dr. Cassidy D. Ellis for their editorial guidance and helpful feedback during the publication process.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.Notes1 LGBTQ+ is used to refer to all individuals who are marginalized because of their sexual and/or gender identities. When other terms are used, they are done so to honor their usage by individuals who are quoted or have specific job titles that utilize a different acronym. 2012 is highlighted here as it was the year Be True began and the start of hypermediated “coming outs” of active professional athletes, such as: Megan Rapinoe (2012), Brittney Griner (2013), Jason Collins (2013), and Michael Sam (2014).2 GLAAD, “Accelerating Acceptance 2023,” 2023, https://assets.glaad.org/m/23036571f611c54/original/Accelerating-Acceptance-2023.pdf; GLAAD, “Accelerating Acceptance 2018,” 2018, https://www.glaad.org/files/aa/Accelerating%20Acceptance%202018.pdf; Nadia Suleman, “Young Americans Are Increasingly ‘Uncomfortable’ With LGBTQ Community, GLAAD Study Shows,” Time, June 25, 2019, https://time.com/5613276/glaad-acceptance-index-lgbtq-survey/; GLAAD, “Accelerating Acceptance 2020,” 2020, https://www.glaad.org/sites/default/files/Accelerating%20Acceptance%202020.pdf; The Human Rights Project, “LGBTQ+ Americans under attack: A report and reflection on the 2023 state legislative session,” 2023, https://hrc-prod-requests.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/Anti-LGBTQ-Legislation-Impact-Report.pdf; Movement Advancement Project, “Bans on Transgender Youth Participation in Sports,” 2023, https://www.lgbtmap.org/equality-maps/sports_participation_bans.3 Throughout this article I deliberately use communities, rather than community, to signal the diversity of bodies and experiences navigated by LGBTQ+ individuals. Since its inception, Nike has styled the name of the product line in various ways, such as BETRUE, #BeTrue, BeTrue, and Be True. At the time of publication, Nike is usin","PeriodicalId":46339,"journal":{"name":"Communication and Critical-Cultural Studies","volume":"15 10","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135341317","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}