Disrupted Knowledge: Scholarship in a Time of Change

✍ Scribed by Tina Sikka, Gareth Longstaff, Steve Walls

• Publisher: Brill
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 333
• Series: Studies in Critical Social Sciences; 248
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Disrupted Knowledge: Scholarship in a Time of Change is a collection of essays that reflects the important work being done by the faculty in the School of Arts and Cultures at Newcastle University since 2020. It focuses on the intersecting disruptions of Covid-19, #BlackLivesMatter, political extremism, gender justice, the commodification of LGBTQ lives, and social media influence. Chapters in this book interrogate the themes of discourse, materiality, and affect; neoliberalism and commodification; media, citizenship, social relations and objects; the cultural politics of (in)visibility; and self-reflexivity and auto-ethnography.

Contributors are: James Barker, David Bates, Alexander Brown, Briony Carlin, Deborah Chambers, Abbey Couchman, Richard Elliott, Chris Haywood, Joss Hands, Sarah Hill, Gareth Longstaff, Joanne Sayner, Tina Sikka, Steve Walls, Michael Waugh, and Altman Yuzhu Peng.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Cover
Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: ‘Then, There and Everywhere’ – Situating Disrupted Knowledge
References
Chapter 1 ‘Pubs, Primark & Pasta-Making Machines’: Social Class, the ‘Covidiot’ and Neoliberal Narratives of Consumer Practice
1 Introduction
2 Enterprising Subjects, ‘Hero-Consumers’ and ‘Consumer-Citizenship’
2.1 The Enterprising ‘Lockdown Subject’
2.2 The ‘Consumer-Citizen’ and ‘Hero-Consumer’
3 Pubs, Primark and ‘Covidiots’: Neoliberalism and Lockdown Regulation
3.1 The ‘Covidiot’ as Contemporary ‘Folk Devil’
3.2 The ‘Drink’ Problem
3.3 Primark and the ‘Hordes’
4 Conclusion
References
Chapter 2 ‘A Huge Social Experiment’: Postdigital Social Connectivity under Lockdown Conditions
1 Introduction
2 The Postdigital Phase of Domestic Mediatization
3 Household Internet Use during Lockdown Conditions
3.1 Types of Platforms Accessed by Householders
4 The Upsurge in Video Calling during Lockdowns
5 The Visual Qualities of Video Calling
6 The Frictions of Video Calling as a Scopic Medium
7 Conclusion
References
Chapter 3 The Colour of Technology: Covid-19, Race, and the Pulse Oximeter
1 Racialisation and Medicalisation
2 Facial Recognition
3 The Pulse Oximeter
4 Race, the Pulse Oximeter, and Covid-19
5 Adjusting for Race
6 P.O. and the Materiality of Race
7 Covid-19 Cut
8 Conclusion
References
Chapter 4 The Pedagogy of the Distressed: Truth-Twisters and Toxification of Higher Education
1 The Rise of Truth-Twisting
2 Truth-Twisters and the ‘Blob’
3 The Toxification of Higher Education
4 Conclusion – Defending Critical Pedagogy
References
Chapter 5 ‘This Is Britain, Get a Grip’: Race and Racism in Britain Today
1 Racism, Whiteness and the State
2 Methods for Studying Race and Racism
3 ‘This Is Great Britain’: Racism and National Identity on Facebook
3.1 Britishness
3.2 Racism and Anti-racism
4 Conclusion
References
Chapter 6 Traditional Chinese Medicine Is Fake: Politicised Medical Commentaries in China in the Covid-19 Pandemic
1 Introduction
2 Background
2.1 Overt Nationalist Sentiments and Subtle Dissenting Opinions
2.2 The Politics of Debates on Traditional Chinese Medicine
3 Analytical Discussion
3.1 Expressing Medical Expert Opinions
3.2 Influenced by Nationalist Sentiments
3.3 Driven by Different Ideologies
4 Conclusion
References
Chapter 7 Representing the Stasi: Archives, Knowledge, and Citizenship in the Former German Democratic Republic
1 Introduction: the Stasi as a Site of Institutionalised Memory and Knowledge
2 The Stasi and the Nazis: before 1989
2.1 The Stasi and the Nazis: a Contemporary Debate on the ‘NS-Archive’
References
Chapter 8 (Not) Being the ‘Cool Disabled Person’: Queering / Cripping Postfeminist Girlhood on Social Media
1 Disabled Girls and Social Media
2 Methods
3 ‘Defining’ Disability
4 Queer-Crip Identities, and Disabled Performance Artists
5 ‘It’s Difficult’: the Affects of Postfeminist Girlhood
6 Queering/ Cripping Postfeminist Girlhood
7 Conclusion
References
Chapter 9 ‘Self, Self, Self’: Masculine Modes of Sexual Self-Representation and the Disruptive Politics of Jouissance on OnlyFans.com
1 Introduction: Disruptive Desires
2 Situating Jouissance
3 Onlyfans.com, Josh Moore and Sexual Self-Representation
4 Enigmatic Jouissance and Interpassive Desires
5 Conclusion
References
Chapter 10 Pandemic Dating: Masculinity, Dating Practice and Risk within the Context of Covid-19
1 Introduction
2 Just Keep ‘Swiping’ …
3 ‘Un-mask-uline’? Physical Risk and Male Bodies
4 Post-dating in a Pandemic
5 Dating from a Distance
6 Technological Affordances: Covid-19 Features
7 Post-Covid Masculinity
8 Risks and Dick Pics
9 Rejection and Resisting Restrictions
10 Conclusion
References
Chapter 11 Post-lockdown Sex: Uncertain Intimacies, Cultures of Desire, and UK Sex Clubs
1 Introduction
2 Disrupting Methodologies: Sex Clubs and the Emergence of Uncertain Intimacy
3 Cultures of Desire and Uncertain Intimacies
3.1 Social Sex
3.2 Scopophilic Touching
3.3 Physically Compelled
3.3.1 The Spell Was Broken
4 Conclusion
References
Chapter 12 Pain and Suffering, Uterus Trumpets and the Wild Ride: Autoethnographic Aca-fandom, Para-social Relationships and Diane Podcast
References
Chapter 13 ‘Standing in Your Cardigan’: Evocative Objects, Ordinary Intensities, and Queer Sociality in the Swiftian Pop Song
1 Introduction
2 Evocative Objects in the Swiftian Song
3 ‘Something That Feels Like Something’ – Ordinary Intensities and Intense Commodities in folklore and evermore
4 ‘betty’ as a Queer Evocative Object
5 Conclusion – a Disrupted World?
References
Chapter 14 My Doubtful Cézanne Assembling Emergent Knowledges of Matter and Mattering through Painting-by-Numbers and Autoethnography during Covid
1 Theoretical Signposts
2 Part One: Autoethnographies of Being and Knowing
2.1 First Story: Being with Nature through Cézanne-by-Numbers
2.2 Second Story: On Not Learning to Paint or Make ‘Art’, but Learning to Know Differently
3 Part Two: an Emergent Methodology
3.1 Making Visible the More-Than-Human in Autoethnography
3.2 To Conclude: In Support of Careful Knowledge Practices in Academia
References
Conclusion
1 Critical Disruptions
2 Discourse, Materiality and Effect
3 Neoliberalism and Commodification
4 Media, Citizenship, Social Relations and Objects
5 The Cultural Politics of (In)Visibility, the Scopic and How We Do and Don’t ‘See’
6 Self-Reflexivity and Auto-ethnography
References
Index
Back Cover