... cultural phase shifts media circuits third and fourth natures multiscalar ethnography ...

... phase shifts media circuits third and fourth natures multiscalar ethnography ...

... Mothers live entangled with digital media: the affective circuits of contemporary mothering are intimately bound up with the communicative circuits of digital culture. This chapter is about how mothers come to sustain themselves through these digital entanglements, as encounters between digital...

... This chapter looks at how networks of women’s cinema in Asia constitute an important counter-public sphere in an era of media globalization. Young women directors are becoming visible within disparate Asian national cinemas, and their films’ themes and structures suggest a regional approach...

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.... It describes chapters about localized political struggle that have leveraged BTS in different ways. social movements militarism nationalism transnationalism geopolitics In “Empire Goes On: Transpacific Circuits of Care Work,” Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez links the gendered labor of entertainment...

..., circulate on social media and are overlaid with fan projections of their own desires about gender. The chapter focuses on social media expressions about Jimin to argue that Jimin’s persona provides a medium for fans to critique gender binaries and definitions. gender envy flower boys masculinity...

... and practices that have recast governmentality, development, humanitarianism, and even human rights, in line with post-9/11 global security regimes. The chapter identifies four dynamic political and institutional circuits that codified GBVAW inhabits, traverses, consolidates, and animates: securitization; state...

... to the waste of lives and regions in the manufacture of integrated circuits, subassemblies, and the millions of kilometers of cabling produced each year, to the end-of-life challenge of dealing with millions of redundant phones, computers, devices, and peripherals. By looking in detail at the trade in energy...

... This chapter explores linkages between processes of categorizing and counting individuals through the U.S. Census and other means, changes in advertising, and shifting meanings of race. Based in theoretical concepts of “biopolitics,” neoliberal ideologies of “postrace,” and “cultural circuits...

... If the functions of bodies today are to be known, it is no longer a matter of exploring faces or laying hands on the shell of the skin. Rather, the body is apprehended through media and their contiguity to quantification. What was inside—intimate to the body, a wet and squelchy realm to be known...

... into the lives of Nigeria's citizens. Ethnographic fieldwork in South West Nigeria traces diverse image-events ranging from the intimacy of family albums, public archives, and social media to the street and urban fabric dominated by the portraiture of competing political parties. In this milieu, demotic...

...The Specters of Cloning Chapter 3 critically examines the common approach to commercial pet cloning as a prosthetics of mourning in the age of genetic reproduction. Interweaving the media representations of an American woman who cloned her late pit bull (and was later identified...

... and the nation. Based on analyses of media reports, public speeches, and individual and focus group interviews, this chapter explores the phenomena of “archipelagic diasporas” and “celebrity culture,” and investigates the next generation of Caribbean Canadians’ and Pacific New Zealanders’ perceptions of Jean’s...