Although the production of national spaces, citizens, and populations through enumerative practices has been well explored in a variety of disciplines, anthropological methods and analysis can help to illuminate the everyday practices of enumeration, their unexpected consequences, and the co-construction of identities through these processes by both the "counted" and the "counters." The authors...

The social history of film in the United States is examined to illuminate the ideological and organizational foundations of the valuation of art. Attempts to valorize film as art began in film’s first decades. Thereafter, a series of key events and actions in the late 1950s and 1960s, both inside and outside the film world, resulted in a shift in audiences’ perception of film—from a form of ent...

In this paper we explore popular television talk show debates about lesbian and gay parents. We show that the heterosexist framing of these debates compels lesbian and gay parents and their supporters to produce defensive and apologetic arguments that normalise lesbian and gay families. Lesbian and gay parents end up reinforcing the legitimacy of antilesbian/gay fears in the very act of demonst...

E PIDEICTIC RHETORIC—THE RHETORIC OF ‘‘PRAISE AND BLAME’’— grounds itself in a culture’s mainstream values. People or things (in this study, lifestyles and products) that purport to demonstrate or embody currently favored values are praised and thus reinforced in epideictic rhetoric, and those out of favor and perceived as nonmainstream in common culture are criticized. Chaim Perelman and Lucie...

This article examines two sex specials in British teenage girls’ magazines: Bliss and Sugar from a collection gathered during the period 1995 to 1998. The texts’ producers claim that the material relating to sex is transgressive and offers an emancipatory potential to young women. I argue that the texts, far from being emancipatory, act as regulatory mechanisms by constructing an ideal subject ...

Corpora have been put to many different uses in fields as varied as natural language processing, critical discourse analysis and applied linguistics, to mention just a few. As is to be expected, within each of those areas corpora fulfil different roles, from providing data to build statistical machine translation systems to revealing ideological stance in politicallysensitive texts. ‘Corpus lin...

As part of an extensive series of interviews about men and masculinity, small groups of 17 to 18-year-old male students were invited to look forward to their future romantic and domestic lives. Their responses were analysed using the approach and methods of discourse analysis in order to examine both the interpretative resources used within their accounts and to look at how the young men attemp...

This paper examines some of the main elements that shaped eugenic discourse and practices during the first decades of the Franco regime. It primarily addresses the ideological basis of racial hygiene stemming from Francoist medicine and psychiatry, examining its relationship with the concept of Spanishness (Hispanidad). It shows that Francoist eugenics had punitive and coercive aspects and outl...

Abstract In the aftermath of Eurozone crisis, a battle ideas emerged over whether ordoliberalism is part cause or solution economic problems in Europe. While German ordoliberals argued that their policy proposals were largely ignored before, during and after critics saw too much ordoliberal influence, especially form austerity policies. We argue neither view entirely correct. Instead, we observ...

With the continuous development of society, media literacy education has an increasingly important position and role in university ideological and political education. Therefore, making media literacy education suit university ideological and political education is of great significance to ensure the comprehensive efficiency of ideological and political education. The concept of media literacy ...