Friday 13 April 2012 at 09:00 - 10:30
MEDIA, CULTURE AND CONSUMPTION ROUNDTABLE 5, SPORTS HALL 2 West, B.
University of Bristol
Reenacting and Politically Orthodox Resistence: Authoritative Capital, Conflict and the Recreational Performance of the American Civil War
This paper explores the recreational activity of re-enacting national history as a performative ritual. Performance has become an increasingly popular way to theorise new forms of national remembrance, however, its application has been limited to acts promoting 'progressive' collective memories. Drawing on ethnography and semi-structured interviews with participants in the 135th anniversary Battle of Gettysburg, this paper analyses American Civil War re-enacting as a site promoting conservative political orthodoxy. As a performance the meaning of re-enacting can be theorised along dramaturgical lines, for example in terms of actors, costume production, 'stage' selection and narrative genre. In contrast to the theorising of progressive performative rites though the principal power of Civil War re-enactment is not in its display for audiences but in the authoritative capital for interpreting history attained through participation. This is significant with reenactors widely undertaking school classroom talks and displays in the United States, advocating for changes to the history curriculum, particularly the belief that the Civil War was fought over slavery. It is argued that this case highlights the need for sociology to move away from theorising ritual in terms of universal effects.
Fernandez-Pacheco Saez, J.L., Pascual, A.S. Complutense University The Folklorization of the Zulu Warrior: A Sociological Perspective from the Visual Analysis
The purpose of this paper is to provide a new perspective in colonization and folklorization processes from a sociological research based on Visual Sociological Analysis. Having the post-colonial studies forming part of the Theoretical framework and following the three analytical levels of visual methodology proposed by Rose (2001), we will use a “selective sample” of visual cultural artifacts to describe the process of using the image of the Zulu Warrior from
“Bloodthirsty savage” to a distorted “folklorizated touristic object” depending on the purpose and the
historical context. Therefore, we will obtain some conclusions from the analysis of the first engravings representing Shaka Zulu to the deeper analysis of some current paper-based publicity appeared in South African tourist magazines and maps. This process will take us to reflect about the cultural-historical context where the visual cultural artifact was produced, the deep analysis of the artifact itself as well as the historical context where is consumed.
Bulawka, H.M. Birmingham University Gender Lenses in the Media Portrayals of Polish Female Politicians: A Feminist Critical Discourse Study
Despite being admitted to discursive practices and formations which until recently remained under exclusive control of men, women’s inclusion in the public domain has not been approached by the Polish Press from the equality point of view. On the contrary, the highly gendered frames which communication and media professionals repeatedly adopt in their treatment of women ministers reiterate the acquired notion of female difference, thus lending a hand in women’s marginalization and exclusion. Informed by the theories and methods of Critical Discourse Analysis, Social Semiotics and Feminist Linguistics, the paper examines the ways in which prominent women in power are positioned by the current narratives of Poland’s journalist culture. By engaging with the magazine discourse (‘Wprost’, ‘Polityka’, ‘Newsweek Polska’), it focuses on the importance of language in generating epistemological claims about women and femininity. It demonstrates not only how female subjectivities are produced within Polish public domain, but also how the history and culture impinge on these constructions in a dialectical-relational manner. The findings indicate that the discursive processes underlying gendering are predominantly negative, resting on and endorsing the notions of female ‘markedness’, ‘otherness’ and ‘deviance’. The limited and reductive classifications that relegate women to inactivity, sexual scrutiny or aesthetic function partake in the practice of ‘symbolic annihilation’- a term coined by Tuchman (1978) to describe the ways in which the media deny women’s identities as persons of qualities, treating them with ‘condemnation, trivialization, or absence’. The study makes a strong case for a closer examination of the journalist input.
Mahadeen, E. Centre for Women's Studies, University of York
The Virginity Triangle: Investigating the Interplay between Text, Producer, and Consumer in Media Representations of Virginity in Jordan
In recent years, Jordania media witnessed a surge in coverage of phenomena related to female virginity such as honour crimes, hymen reconstruction surgery, virginity tests and fake hymens. The media's sudden interest in
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