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Name That Word
Cultural Critiques
Name That Theorist!
Big Ideas
The Missing Link
100
With the emergence of this concept, we no longer need to think in rational terms, since we’re not referring to any real thing. It’s all about images! What happened to reality?! In the end, images have no relation to reality!
What is Simulacrum
100
Name the concept that Angela McRobbie talks about when she examines the representations of women in popular culture
What is postfeminism
100
This duo thinks the culture industry is pretty bad. They say style is not a form of individuality “the culture industry creates its consumers by making them desire”
Who are Adorno and Horkheimer
100
Namaste argues that we misrepresent the violence done to trans women when we name this violence as simply homophobic, instead she proposes we use this term.
What is genderbashing
100
Stuart Hall argues that we turn to ________ rather than representation.
What is positionalities
200
that which we reject or exclude in order to understand and maintain ourselves as whole or complete
What is abjection or the abject
200
Foucault argued that this kind of body is “regulated by the norms of cultural life”
What is docile body
200
“The body - what we eat, how we dress, the daily rituals through which we attend to the body - is a medium of culture”
Who is Susan Bordo
200
Sarah Banet-Weiser thinks pop culture today has shifted to “urbanized” representation, where diversity sells. She calls this ________.
What is postracial
200
Donna Haraway calls this situated knowledge, which is a form of “ __________ objectivity.”
What is feminist objectivity
300
“the invisible yet over-determined intellectual glue cementing social relations in the public sphere” it naturalizes and make these relations of production the “truth” of the social and economic world. functions unconsciously by making us accept the terms of the current social order as given or natural.
What is ideology
300
Allyson Mitchell argued that this type of subculture allows “people to create their own culture and not rely on the mainstream to do it for them”
What is DIY or Do-It-Yourself
300
Imperialism lingers beyond the anti-colonial period Culture plays an important role in the modern imperial experience “the enterprise of empire depends upon the idea of having an empire”
Who is Edward Said
300
Halberstam argues that this kind of subcultural practice "disrupts the normative narratives of time” queer subcultures reveal alternatives to “family time and family life"
What is queer subculture
300
Angela Davis argues that prisons and incarceration are not the only models for justice. One option she suggests is: ___________ justice
What is restorative or reconciliatory justice
400
This theoretical framework argues that all cultural texts can be interpreted and read as part of a larger of hidden narrative logic.
What is structuralism
400
Judith Butler argues that gender is performative. By this, she means that we come to be gendered through this process...
What is the repetition of this performance
400
This person argued that there are 2 features of normalization: 1) “increasingly a population comes to be defined in relation to models and standards with internal norms” 2) “the body of the new individual is increasingly defined in relation to developmental norms of functioning, health, size, and so on”
Who is Cressida Heyes
400
Both Elizabeth Grosz and Eli Clare are interested in this word, but for different reasons.
What is freak
400
In God Loves Hair, Vivek Shraya is confronted with the failure of masculinity and air in his story story on ________.
What is eyebrows
500
"The way particular groups of men inhabit positions of power, wealth, and how they legitimate and reproduce the social relationships that generate their dominance"
What is hegemonic masculinity
500
Anita Sarkasian argues that ________ reinforce powerlessness as desirable.
What is video games
500
This person argued that homonormativity reflects the shifts in relations of sexuality and gender under neoliberalism.
Who is Lisa Duggan
500
Jenny Burman argues that this concept better describes the diasporic city today, instead of multiculturalism.
What is transnational
500
Zizek argues that if we want to change reality, we have to change ________
What is our fantasies