{"title":"Anti-politics as ‘culture of rejection’: the case of Serbia","authors":"Irena Fiket, Gazela Pudar Draško, Milan Urošević","doi":"10.1080/0031322x.2023.2228575","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0031322x.2023.2228575","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, Fiket, Pudar Draško and Uroševic situate the notion of ‘anti-politics’ within a broader theory of ‘cultures of rejection’, redefining it as a specific culture of rejection in the p...","PeriodicalId":46766,"journal":{"name":"Patterns of Prejudice","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138542326","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introducing ‘cultures of rejection’: an investigation of the conditions of acceptability of right-wing politics in Europe","authors":"Manuela Bojadžijev, Benjamin Opratko","doi":"10.1080/0031322x.2023.2214425","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0031322x.2023.2214425","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In this article Bodjadžijev and Opratko introduce the special issue on ‘Cultures of Rejection’. First, they describe the political and intellectual conjuncture in which the term ‘cultures of rejection’ was developed. Second, they introduce some core assumptions and methodological considerations informing the perspective that came to be associated with that term, and that eventually gave rise to original empirical research on the sociocultural conditions in which right-wing and authoritarian politics, movements and sentiments can thrive in contemporary Europe. In the third part, they introduce the common conceptual design and methodological approach of the research projects that follow, and their key findings in Serbia, Croatia, Austria, Germany and Sweden between 2019 and 2022.","PeriodicalId":46766,"journal":{"name":"Patterns of Prejudice","volume":"185 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138513440","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Platforms for hatredMonika Hübscher and Sabine von Mering (eds), <i>Antisemitism on Social Media</i> . New York and London: Routledge2022. xviii + 252pp. Illus. Notes. Ind. £130 hbk; £35.99 pbk. ISBN 978-1-03205-974-7 hbk; 978-1-03205-969-3 pbk.","authors":"Claire Burchett","doi":"10.1080/0031322x.2023.2251278","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0031322x.2023.2251278","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46766,"journal":{"name":"Patterns of Prejudice","volume":"78 22","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134900733","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chosenness and its discontentsAdam Sutcliffe, <i>What Are Jews For? History, Peoplehood and Purpose</i> . Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press2020. vii+358pp. Notes. Ind. £35 hbk. ISBN 978-0-691-18880-5.","authors":"Steven Beller","doi":"10.1080/0031322x.2022.2247936","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0031322x.2022.2247936","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTAdam Sutcliffe innovatively reinterprets modern Jewish intellectual history in terms of Jewish purpose. Where possible, he avoids judgemental discourse about antisemitism and emphasizes how Jewish thinkers have been participants, together with their Christian counterparts, in forming western self-understanding. In an approximately chronological order, he shows how the ‘underlying theological template’ of Jewish purpose, both in Jewish messianism and Christian millenarianism, has profoundly influenced modern thought, both religious and secular. The biblical model of the Jews as chosen people strongly influenced British and Dutch thought in the seventeenth century. Jewish purpose was of central interest to the Enlightenment, for good and ill; the French Revolution and the ‘progressive’ change of the nineteenth century led to further redefinitions of ‘what Jews were for’. Nationalism had its own effect, both in terms of Zionism and the various non-nationalist Jewish responses. At the same time, forms of normalization (including Zionism) proposed how Jews could fulfil their purpose by ‘fitting in’. Throughout the book, the dialectic between Jewish chosenness, particularity and difference on the one hand and, on the other, the claim that the Jews were chosen precisely to proclaim, and practise, universal values of ethics and social justice, frames a fascinating account of the ongoing debates about Jewish purpose. Sutcliffe rightly reminds us that the more inclusive, outward-looking, universalist model of Jewish purpose still has much cogency, despite being overshadowed of late by a narrower, inward-looking definition focused on the Holocaust and Israel.KEYWORDS: Christian ZionismJewish exceptionalismJewish purposeJewish universalismmessianismZionism Notes1 Salo Baron, ‘Ghetto and emancipation: shall we revise the traditional view?’, Menorah Journal, vol. 14, no. 6, 1928, 515–26 (526) (cited in Sutcliffe, 156).2 Eleanor Beardsley, ‘Alarm grows in France over anti-Semitic violence’, NPR Report, 3 May 2018, available online at www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2018/05/03/599515300/alarm-grows-in-france-over-anti-semitic-violence (viewed 3 August 2023).3 Robert Wistrich, Antisemitism: The Longest Hatred (New York: Pantheon 1992); Robert Wistrich, A Lethal Obsession: Anti-Semitism from Antiquity to the Global Jihad (New York: Random House 2010); David Nirenberg, Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition (New York: Norton 2014).4 See Antony Lerman, Whatever Happened to Antisemitism? Redefinition and the Myth of the ‘Collective Jew’ (London: Pluto Press 2022); Steven Beller, Antisemitism: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2015); Ron Kampeas, ‘US Jewish scholars push anti-Semitism definition allowing more Israel criticism’, Times of Israel, 17 March 2021.5 Lessing’s play is seen as one of the great Enlightenment statements on the need for religious tolerance, and a template for later concepts of religious pluralism.6 The third of three","PeriodicalId":46766,"journal":{"name":"Patterns of Prejudice","volume":"79 10","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134900877","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cultures of fear in South AfricaNicky Falkof, <i>Worrier State: Risk, Anxiety and Moral Panic in South Africa</i> . Manchester: Manchester University Press2022. iv + 244pp. Bibl. Ind. £85 hbk; £20 pbk. ISBN 978-1-526-16402-5 hbk; 978-1-526-17188-7 pbk.","authors":"Scott Burnett","doi":"10.1080/0031322x.2023.2251279","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0031322x.2023.2251279","url":null,"abstract":"Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes1 Margaret Wetherell, Affect and Emotion: A New Social Science Understanding (Los Angeles: Sage 2012), 19.2 Sara Ahmed, The Cultural Politics of Emotion, 2nd edn (New York: Routledge 2015).3 Scott Burnett, White Belongings: Race, Land, and Property in Post-Apartheid South Africa (Lanham, MD and London: Lexington Books 2022), 20.4 Nicky Falkof, Satanism and Family Murder in Late Apartheid South Africa: Imagining the End of Whiteness (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2015).5 Pumla Dineo Gqola, Rape: A South African Nightmare (Johannesburg: Melinda Ferguson Books 2015).","PeriodicalId":46766,"journal":{"name":"Patterns of Prejudice","volume":"3 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134992036","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Identification of Poly(ADP-ribose) Polymerase 9 (PARP9) as a Potent Suppressor for <i>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</i> Infection.","authors":"Zhenyu Zhu, Shufeng Weng, Fen Zheng, Qi Zhao, Ying Xu, Jiaxue Wu","doi":"10.1007/s43657-023-00112-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s43657-023-00112-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>ADP-ribosylation is a reversible and dynamic post-translational modification mediated by ADP-ribosyltransferases (ARTs). Poly(ADP-ribose) polymerases (PARPs) are an important family of human ARTs. ADP-ribosylation and PARPs have crucial functions in host-pathogen interaction, especially in viral infections. However, the functions and potential molecular mechanisms of ADP-ribosylation and PARPs in <i>Mycobacterium</i> infection remain unknown. In this study, bioinformatics analysis revealed significantly changed expression levels of several PARPs in tuberculosis patients compared to healthy individuals. Moreover, the expression levels of these PARPs returned to normal following tuberculosis treatment. Then, the changes in the expression levels of PARPs during <i>Mycobacterium</i> infection were validated in Tohoku Hospital Pediatrics-1 (THP1)-induced differentiated macrophages infected with <i>Mycobacterium</i> model strains bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) and in human lung adenocarcinoma A549 cells infected with <i>Mycobacterium smegmatis</i> (Ms), respectively. The mRNA levels of PARP9, PARP10, PARP12, and PARP14 were most significantly increased during infection, with corresponding increases in protein levels, indicating the possible biological functions of these PARPs during <i>Mycobacterium</i> infection. In addition, the biological function of host PARP9 in <i>Mycobacterium</i> infection was further studied. PARP9 deficiency significantly increased the infection efficiency and intracellular proliferation ability of Ms, which was reversed by the reconstruction of PARP9. Collectively, this study updates the understanding of changes in PARP expression during <i>Mycobacterium</i> infection and provides evidence supporting PARP9 as a potent suppressor for <i>Mycobacterium</i> infection.</p><p><strong>Supplementary information: </strong>The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s43657-023-00112-2.</p>","PeriodicalId":46766,"journal":{"name":"Patterns of Prejudice","volume":"40 1","pages":"158-170"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11169154/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80910798","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Obituary","authors":"Stephen J. Whitfield","doi":"10.1080/0031322x.2022.2126175","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0031322x.2022.2126175","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Patterns of Prejudice (Vol. 56, No. 1, 2022)","PeriodicalId":46766,"journal":{"name":"Patterns of Prejudice","volume":"176 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138513442","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The elephant in the room called ‘skin type IV’: ‘Südländer’ (Southerner) as a discriminatory category in German police reports","authors":"Clara Ervedosa","doi":"10.1080/0031322X.2023.2205690","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0031322X.2023.2205690","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Ervedosa’s article demonstrates from a cultural perspective that the categories ‘Südländer’ (Southerner) and ‘südländisches Aussehen’ (Southern looks) in German police reports are discriminatory since they challenge the central principles of the German constitution. They infringe the fundamental right in Article 3.3, that is, the right not to be racially discriminated against, the fundamental rights of human dignity (Article 1.1) and human equality (Article 3.1), as well as the constitutional right to be a German citizen regardless of one’s skin colour (Article 116). It argues that the terms are a form of skin-colour racism in that the police carry out their work—investigations, searches, inquiries and so on—on the basis of the perpetrator’s racialized phenotype. The categories basically stand for ‘Mediterranean looks’—even referred to in the past as the ‘Mediterranean race’—and phenotype: dark hair, dark eyes and so-called ‘skin type IV’, that is, ‘olive or brown skin’. They are the product of a tradition of racialized, exclusionary thinking that collides with the humanistic and democratic values of the Grundgesetz (Basic Law).","PeriodicalId":46766,"journal":{"name":"Patterns of Prejudice","volume":"56 1","pages":"123 - 156"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41396987","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}