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... issue. The chapter analyzes the public discourse on urban noise pollution and its impact on the changing public attitudes toward the ban on drumming, as revealed in the articles published in the most prominent state-owned newspaper, the Daily Graphic. The Ga community instrumentalized the growing public...

... their value systems in protest, advocacy, and social movement work in response to institutional violence by shapeshifting ethics. In their activism and other resistance and abolitionist work, they are animated by a desire to effect change in public discourses and communities—specifically, to eradicate...

... state. In the post-World War II United States, both allegations of conspiracy and dismissals of “conspiracy theory” have become part of a robust discourse on human agency, sovereign power, and the health of the public sphere. Conspiracy discourse is a symptom of the conditions of knowledge in a security...

... This chapter focuses on the contemporary discourse that casts disabled people’s sexuality as a biological problem that needs a solution. Dealing with the most recent phenomenon, the chapter examines the emerging public discourse on the “sex drive” of disabled people, largely focusing on male...

... This chapter argues that the U.S. occupation and annexation of Hawai‘i shaped a public discourse of Hawaiian dependency associating Kānaka Maoli (native Hawaiians) with moral and biological susceptibility to Hansen’s disease, commonly known as leprosy. While the eroticized discourse surrounding...

... Advancing a historical analysis of race, immigration, and disability, Natalia Molina offers an examination of how public health and immigration discourses defined Mexican immigrants as culturally or physically unfit for citizenship. race medicine migration disability ...

..., based on the latest positivist ethnological, criminological, and social-Darwinist thinking. The defense mixed scholarly erudition with the racial hysteria of public discourse at the turn of the century. ...

... be conceptualized by mapping larger structural changes, such as the emergence of the new social groups and the rise of Dalit writing, within the Telugu public sphere and through a reading of Dalit discourse, including Dalit poetry, as forms of debates and literary controversies.  public sphere modernity...

... Screen worlds, specifically theatrical screen worlds, are layered spaces of participation and consumption. In Rwanda, they are part of broader considerations and public discourses around commemoration, knowledge production, and perceptions of class status and propriety. Through participant...

... seven) as a linchpin between late socialist and late capitalist forms of political satire. The program bears the characteristics and legacies of both forms and reveals unexpected similarities between public discourses otherwise radically separated into two different political systems during the Cold War...

... to distinguish themselves. U.S. public discourse domesticated full-body scanners via gendered and sexualizing scripts of being seen-through by the security state as a form of romantic love, attraction, and/or repulsion. In so doing, it obscured two important political developments: first, high-tech screening...

... This chapter focuses on the instability catalyzed in neoliberal discourses of individual responsibility and entrepreneurship in the lives of call center agents in Gurgaon and in a popular Hindi film Bunty aur Babli. Pivoting around the trope of movement and mobility, these discourses...

... religious and secular public engagements opened up further subjection to church and state authority and were met with sharp criticism from local elites, which reiterated age-old discourses of race, class, and gender in operation since slavery. The biased approach to the expansion of black social life...

... communities to protect themselves and each other. The health sector adopted a similar discourse compatible with a long-standing tradition of biomedical individualism by calling upon people as rational, calculating actors in a field of risk. The limits and side effects of the responsibilizing paradigm...