Scale: Discourse and Dimensions of Social Life

Lempert, Michael; Carr, E. Summerson

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“…This 'effortless immediacy', I would argue can be imagined as another form of ideological scale-making (cf. Gal 2016;Carr and Lempert 2016). As I have argued throughout this chapter, following scholars like Chouliaraki and Vestergaard, the cosmopolitan habitus of transnational solidarity and care for others is increasingly seen as incremental and individual -the outcome of courageous 'equality champions'.…”

Section: Scalar Work: Enworlding 'Love'mentioning

confidence: 98%

“…Of course, these scales are inarguable, and I am not arguing that a Western LGBTQ lifestyle is not worthwhile. Yet, as Carr and Lempert (2016:3) highlight, the 'people and institutions that come out "on top" of scalar exercises often reinforce the distinctions that so ordained them'. This points to one of the most hard-to-apprehend aspects of scale-making: once a scale is made and enforced by the powerful, it can only be unmade, or reimagined, with great difficulty.…”

Section: Scales Chronotopes and Anticipatory Stances: A Genealogy Of ...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This points to one of the most hard-to-apprehend aspects of scale-making: once a scale is made and enforced by the powerful, it can only be unmade, or reimagined, with great difficulty. And, because LGBTQ human rights have been scaled globally through institutions of market-led globalization, it is very difficult to de-scale them or reduce their expansiveness -to restrain them to the contexts they emerged in (Carr and Lempert 2016). Through time, and space, a better world and time has been foreseen and is now difficult to unforesee.…”

Section: Scales Chronotopes and Anticipatory Stances: A Genealogy Of ...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Now that's inspiring'. The convention booklet scales the event and its indexical relations as enworlded (Carr and Lempert 2016), and articulates them as incremental actions: steps toward a better life for Africans, through the 'right to freedom and equality'. It also imbeds a sense of inevitability and rationality to that scaling.…”

Section: Pink Tourism As 'A Force For Good'mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This 'post-humanitarian' mindset is deeply connected to a burgeoning 'post-gay' one; an assumption, if always partial/provisional, that we are reaching a historical end-point with regard to how non-heteronormative lifestyles are recognised and freely lived. The final result of this scalar work is that solidarity with these marginalized people, hinging on a sense of 'global queer' community, itself seems to reinforce the unjust and unequal political-economic structures that entrench marginalization (Rao 2015;Carr and Lempert 2016).…”

Section: Summary: Tangled Discourses Of Mobility and Equalitymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Discourses of Global Queer Mobility and the Mediatization of Equality

Comer¹

2021

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This book critically unpacks the why and how around everyday rhetorics and slogans promoting global LGBTQ equality. Examining the means by which particular discourses of progress and hope are circulated globally, it offers unique insights into how LGBTQ livelihoods, relationships, and social movements are legitimated and valued in contemporary society.Adopting an innovative critical discourse-ethnographic approach, Comer draws on scholarship from the sociolinguistics of global mobility, queer linguistics, and digital media studies, offering in-depth analyses of representations of LGBTQ identity across a range of domains. The volume examines semiotic linkages between LGBTQ tourism marketing; Cape Town, South Africa, as a locus for contemporary ideologies of global mobility and equality; diversity management practices framing LGBTQ equality as a business imperative; and humanitarian discourses within transnational LGBTQ advocacy. Autoethnographic vignettes and principles from within queer theory are incorporated by Comer's critical discourse-ethnographic approach, giving voice to personal experience in order to sharpen scholarly understanding of the relationships between everyday 'social voices', globalized neoliberal political economy, and the media.Taken together, the volume expansively (if queerly) maps what Comer refers to as 'the mediatization of equality', and will be of interest to graduate students and scholars in critical discourse studies, sociolinguistics, and linguistic anthropology, as well as those working across such fields as media studies, queer studies, and sociology.

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Section: Scalar Work: Enworlding 'Love'mentioning

confidence: 98%

Section: Scales Chronotopes and Anticipatory Stances: A Genealogy Of ...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Scales Chronotopes and Anticipatory Stances: A Genealogy Of ...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Pink Tourism As 'A Force For Good'mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Summary: Tangled Discourses Of Mobility and Equalitymentioning

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Comer¹

2021

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Discourse Analysis

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Nightlinger²

2020

The International Encyclopedia of Linguistic Anthropology

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This entry discusses discourse analysis (hereafter “DA”) in linguistic anthropology and the related field of sociolinguistics, where “discourse analysis” refers to methods used to analyze the content, sociopolitical significance, and interactional effects of semiotic practices for the purpose of systematically showing how these practices shape social processes. Referring to DA in these fields as sociocultural studies of discourse, the entry reviews the historical emergence of this type of DA and engages key issues and future directions in such studies. These issues and directions include the production of authority and ideology; the co‐construction of race, language, and nationalism; and the relationship between language and commodification.

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Face

Nozawa¹

2020

The International Encyclopedia of Linguistic Anthropology

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In the study of language and culture, the idea of face has carved out at least three “spaces” of analytic concern. First, languages across the world possess numerous idiomatic expressions featuring “face.” In addition to this (i) cultural‐idiomatic space provided and reproduced through ethnolinguistic traditions, face also constitutes (ii) analytic‐metalinguistic space generated as part of a universal metalanguage of analysis. Over and above these spaces is the “literal” (sur)face of humans, animals, objects, and other materializable existents, (iii) material‐semiotic space of embodiment, inscription, defacement, effacement, and other socioculturally consequential semiotic events.

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Scale: Discourse and Dimensions of Social Life

Cited by 314 publications

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Discourses of Global Queer Mobility and the Mediatization of Equality

Discourses of Global Queer Mobility and the Mediatization of Equality

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