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SOCI 377 after midterm 2 - Coggle Diagram

- - - - marked by centuries of british occupation
      - colonialism mobilizes different logics; cultural, religious, ethnic, racial differences
        
        gandhi: the divisions are not scientific facts, social facts that undergo constant change
        
        similar to poststructuralist theory
  - - - ppl characterized by contradictions
    - - can we not have politics based on puritanical thoughts
- - - - de-essentialize ideas of sexuality as biological
      - identities effect of different relations
      - heteronormativity- define kinds of sexual attraction, behaviour, etc
      - looks at how heteronormativity has been transgressed
      - normalized life course
      - assimilationist view: the only way to make room for queer identities is to carve out room where it already was
      - private/domestic sphere- sex belongs here
      - another author- sedgwick
    - - following 9/11. new kind of sexual politics. sexual exceptionalism
      - nations founded on heteronormativity
      - homonormativity + nationalism
      - way in which certain queer identities are normalized as belonging within american nation
      - oriental narrative: america, the west are uniquely accepting of sexual difference
      - american military believes theres something abt islamic norms that makes them homophobic and it intensifies the violence experienced
      - necropolitics and biopolitics
      - unknown knowns (as opposed to any of the other three versions)
      - inhumanity, inaccurate/unreliable info, long term destability consequences
- - - - theorize emergence of the public sphere as mechanism of democracy
      - mechanism that can make leaders/rulers accountable for the ways they govern
      - the public sphere: relatively new
      - public sphere becomes institutionalized
      - the public sphere is an institution where people can influence the way they're governed- not total but some form
      - mass media: more people can be included in the debate/discussion/exchange
        
        how capitalism corrupts democracy
    - - building on Habermas- think about institutions but don't take for granted their users as cis straight white men
      - power shapes the way and who gets to talk about specific issues
      - public emerges and forms around particular issues thru circulation of discourse
      - qAnon is the public, not all publics are good
      - not all publics operate for a long time, or the same way
      - temporality cycles
      - discourse circulates and moves differently than before
      - we're all socialized into certain conventions
    - - aspects of habermas, but need to critically revise theories to account for gendered/racialized relations
      - habermas doesnt fully account for the ways the public sphere should operate
      - like the assumption that when you're engaging in discussion you should be doing it as a citizen (NOT based on individual interests)
      - individual and common interests cant be differentiated easily
      - should not be forgetting or bracketing gendered, racialized identities
      - publicity: dynamic social force that can transform certain events/actors/places into points of visibility and commonality
      - how something becomes public is shaped by relations of power
    - - digital democracies
      - transformations in identity & personhood
      - reputational capital- how people understand who you are
      - digital realm is direct extension of the public sphere
      - important to think about how digital realm is changing ways which things can become public
      - reputational capital
        
        incremental, gradual collection of capital
        
        ritual apology
      - reputational volatility
        
        instability, change happens fast
        
        so famous that even scandal can generate financialization- trump's arrest
      - reputational warfare
        
        the use of reputation for political or personal ends
        
        volatility can be instrumentalized for one's own gain
        
        damage reputation, directly benefit the damagee's
        
        doxxing, swatting, revenge porn
        
        crosses lines btwn public and private
        
        zero sum thing
        
        to fix depp's reputation people started shitting on heard
        
        politics: capacity for making money
        
        tom cruise was/is in scientology- rehabilitation??