The Sexual Politics of Abu Ghraib: Hegemony, Spectacle, and the Global War on Terror

Tétreault, Mary Ann

doi:10.1353/nwsa.2006.0064

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“…Analyses of such connections have indicated competing frameworks of African-American nationalism, African-American class mobility and anxiety as ‘material force[s]’ in advertisements for 1970s blaxploitation films (Kraszewski, 2002); themes of national security, counter-terrorism and technological progress arguably masquerading as justifications for broader American exceptionalism (Sikka, 2008); a ‘semiotic square’ of ‘techtopian’, ‘green Luddite’, ‘work machine’ and ‘techspressive’ ideologies concerning technology and consumer behavior (Kozinets, 2008); and the arbitrary, and highly contextual, divergent meanings of the word ‘victim’, particularly as it applies to women and victims of domestic violence (Reich, 2002). Analyses of articulation and the Abu Ghraib torture scandal have also been undertaken (Harp and Struckman, 2010; Tétreault, 2006); broader analyses are also common (DeLuca, 1999; Pillai, 1992; Pillai and Kline, 1998). Furthermore, negative associations between ideas can be articulated to establish otherness or foreignness of specific ideas, places or peoples; often that otherness is framed as an inversion of local, positive articulations, and thus rejected (Buruma and Margalit, 2004; Said, 1978).…”

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Imagined commodities? Analyzing local identity and place in American community newspaper website banners

Funk

2012

New Media & Society

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American community newspapers, as well as larger daily publications, do little to articulate a sense of local identity or place in the banners of their websites, or their newspaper names atop the web page. Instead, newspapers routinely articulate a professional identity above a local one – often omitting the name of the community entirely, and only occasionally offering a major visual expression of the community. This complicates Benedict Anderson’s sense of ‘imagined communities’, which argues that local identity is constructed through clear articulation by print media; if newspaper websites ignore local identity in their banners, then community newspapers today are imaging commodity rather than community. This qualitative analysis of 40 American community newspapers and 80 daily American newspapers divides that local articulation into four categories (absent identity, secondary identity, equal identity and visual identity) and explores implications for the academy and newspaper industry.

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Imagined commodities? Analyzing local identity and place in American community newspaper website banners

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2012

New Media & Society

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“…31 People's moral consideration in this respect varies. Consider, for example, responses to the 2004 Abu Ghraib torture pictures, which mostly caused outrage but were minimized by many conservative commentators (Tétreault, 2006).…”

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Narrowed Lives: Meaning, Moral Value, and Profound Intellectual Disability

Vehmas

Mietola

2021

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What is day-to-day life like for people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities who live in group homes? How do they express their desires and wishes? How do care workers think about them and treat them? Do they have basic rights to activities most of us take for granted: activities like sociability, sexuality, and moral affirmation? Narrowed Lives is an illuminating portrait of what life is like in Finnish group homes where adults who have profound intellectual and multiple disabilities live their lives. Based upon ethnographic data, it documents how care workers strive to guarantee individuality and dignity against a backdrop of scarce resources and misguided policies. This book argues that the lives of people with profound disabilities need not be determined by their impairments. It calls for a re-evaluation of disability policy so that its underlying conviction of people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities as equally valuable fellow humans would materialise in practice. This novel and accessible book combines ethnography and philosophy, and will be of interest to researchers and students in disability studies, special education and philosophy, as well as parents, professionals and policy makers.

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“…Under the complex circumstances surrounding what happened at Abu Ghraib, journalists were forced to make sense of it. How journalists formed an understandings of the torture at Abu Ghraib tells many stories about American ideologies, including those about race, heterosexuality, sexual politics, nationalism, religious beliefs, and class (see Jagodzinski, 2006;Mason, 2005;Tétreault, 2006). This research, however, focuses primarily on the gendered narrative that American magazines constructed and how the articulation of one woman to the Abu Ghraib prison atrocities simplified the narrative.…”

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The Articulation of Lynndie England to Abu Ghraib: Gender Ideologies, War, and the Construction of Reality

Harp¹,

Struckman²

2010

Journal of Magazine Media

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Hall (1980) argued that the media articulate non-necessary connections between messages and socially acceptable ideas. This research analyzes the process through which news magazines made a strong connection between Lynndie England and the Abu Ghraib prison scandal and how gender affected these articulations. By making England the symbol of the scandal, the media diverted attention away from broad issues and focused on an individual while reifying dichotomous images of women.

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The Sexual Politics of Abu Ghraib: Hegemony, Spectacle, and the Global War on Terror

Cited by 8 publications

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Imagined commodities? Analyzing local identity and place in American community newspaper website banners

Imagined commodities? Analyzing local identity and place in American community newspaper website banners

Narrowed Lives: Meaning, Moral Value, and Profound Intellectual Disability

The Articulation of Lynndie England to Abu Ghraib: Gender Ideologies, War, and the Construction of Reality

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