This review sketches a linguistic anthropology of images. While linguistic anthropology has not historically focalized images as a central theoretical object of concern, linguistic anthropologists’ research has increasingly concerned images of various sorts. Furthermore, in its critique of structuralist reductions of language, the field has advance...
This article builds a theoretical framework with which to confront the racializing capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered real-time Event Detection and Alert Creation (EDAC) software when used for protest detection. It is well-known that many AI-powered systems exacerbate social inequalities by racializing certain groups and individu...
Cet article, inscrit dans le champ de l’analyse du discours numérique et des Gender & Language Studies, propose de penser les réussites et les échecs discursifs de #MeToo en examinant un corpus de tweets variés (témoignages, critiques de militantes féministes et presse). Depuis 2017, le mouvement #MeToo est présenté comme agissant puisqu’il aurait ...
This paper offers an exploration of women’s experiences of engaging in digitally mediated care work. Data for this article is drawn from qualitative interviews conducted with 15 young women in Australia to explore their experiences of securing care work through a digital platform. Importantly, we focus on both online and offline dimensions of secur...
Scenarios are established as a popular management tool to deal with the uncertainty of the future. While prior research has investigated best practices and offered guidance on how to conduct scenarios exercises, insights from the literature on future-making practices suggest that further research is needed to understand the role of scenarios in est...
This article draws on the literature on the performativity of accounting language (Fauré et al., 2010; Gond et al., 2016), particularly acts of calculation, to demonstrate how implementing a single indicator can contribute to rendering inequalities both visible and invisible. We use the 2014 Lamy Law in France as an exploratory case study to addres...
Kurt Vonnegut's novels Cat's Cradle (1963), Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), and Slapstick (1976) portray male bodies that diverge from the norm in various ways. I argue that these works allow for a greater diversity of male bodies than many other narratives do. Not only are male non-conforming bodies front and center in many of Vonnegut's stories, they...
Au livre XIX de l’Iliade (113 et 127-131), deux serments de Zeus sont mentionnés dans le cadre d’une prise de parole d’Agamemnon. Il s’agit du seul lieu de la poésie homérique où Zeus apparaît dans l’acte de prêter serment. Pourtant, il existe de nombreux autres passages où Zeus préfigure des évènements ou promet des actions, en appuyant ou non sa ...
The Syrian civil war has been one of the most complex armed confrontations in modern era. In thiscontext, the military participation of Kurdish female fighters of the YPJ Units has received globalmedia coverage. This thesis explores the gendered dimension of media representations of YPJfighters and the representation of the construction of their mi...
Heteronormativity and the idea of binary sex constrain sport and exercise as well as many gender equality measures that are implemented in sport and exercise contexts. This strongly affects trans people's opportunities to participate. The purpose of the paper is to explore trans performativity in relation to gender equality efforts in sport and exe...
