In this article, I argue that in recent years not only have we witnessed the increasing cultural visibility of ageing women across Anglo-American landscape, but new represents emergence a ideal female subjecthood. Focusing on Netflix’s hit series Grace and Frankie, demonstrate how older are incessantly exhorted to become entrepreneurial, make self-investments, be happy. Challenging what scholar...

The brain image plays a central role in contemporary image culture and, in turn, (co)constructs contemporary forms of subjectivity. The central aim of this paper is to probe the unmistakably potent interpellative power of brain images by delving into the power of imaging and the power of the image itself. This is not without relevance for the neurosciences, inasmuch as these do not take place i...

Resume This article aims to analyze the dynamics of socio-political mobilization as manifested in 19th century Venezuela through a practice little studied this perspective: pronouncement.Almost always considered its armed dimension, it should be mentioned that also means, break pact, an interpellation government agents, at local and/or national level, is, expression collective will face specifi...

Purpose As tourism destinations grapple with declines in tourist arrivals due to COVID-19 measures, scholarly debate on overtourism remains active, discussions solutions that could be enacted contain the excessive regrowth of and return “overtourism”. social science holds an important role responsibility inform overtourism, this paper aims understand by examining it as a discursive formation. D...

Among scholarly discussions of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go (2005), the idea clones’ manipulation in order to fulfill their roles organ transplantation system is pervasive. Many posit that clones begin place sense self and identity within as suppliers. However, I argue there a lack discussion significance attributed role potential outlets “escape” submission exploitation. belief possibility...

In this contribution, we examine how people living around industrial gold mining concessions in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) view themselves relation to the extractive industries. We apply Hall’s notion articulation grasp layering subject formation time and space, or what call “sedimentation subjectivities”. The lens allows for a better understanding engage with positions they are...

Abstract Based on fieldwork in an urbanized village of Shenzhen, this paper analyzes the place schools reproduction Chinese state capitalism. It retraces circuit socialized capital that allows for social native elite and exclusion many migrant workers context Shenzhen’s development as a special economic zone its efforts to upgrade economy. The villagers, now forming urban upper-class rentiers, ...

In this study, we explore how ethnic minority Muslim girls in Norway manage social control as an everyday experience within a political context where communities are portrayed performing excessive control. Theoretically, our analysis draws on perspectives control, interactionist identity, and Hage’s (2010. “The Affective Politics of Racial Mis-interpellation.” Theory, Culture & Society 27 (7-8)...

This article revisits the controversy surrounding Deepa Mehta's Fire (1996), India's first publicly released film depicting female same-sex desire. The film has become a touchstone for discussions of the representation of queer and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) lives in India. While the majority of critical accounts of the film have rejected the use of "lesbian" on the basis of...