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Exam 3 Readings Flashcards

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commodity fetishism

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goes back to Karl Marx

under capitalism relationships between people become relationships to things

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commodity production shaped by…?

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industrial and corporate interests

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why would a campaign focus on educating consumers? (such as a tobacco campaign)

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because it emphasizes rational choice and individuality which appeals to consumers

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Guthman

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aim is to show how obesity talk reflects and reinforces neoliberal rationalities of “rule”

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obesity

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medicalized term for fatness, concedes fatness as a medical problem,

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obesity and geography

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(Guthman)
continuum of views including:
-obesity reflects contemporary cultural and economic landscape-emphasizing structural and spatial causes

  • (obesity-agnostic?) obesity in urban governance and other spatial projects
  • cultural politics of being fat and how they may be seen as social control
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why is there body size changes and changes in conception about body size?

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political economy of neoliberalism, there is contradiction in neoliberalism and capitalism that can only be resolved but looking at surplus distribution and bodies–> double fix of eating and bodies

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perfect subject (Guthman)

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buying and eating is encouraged
“deservingness” is performed by slimness

perfect subject buys more and weighs less—>
culture of bulimia

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food industry and obesity

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sells fattening foods and they sells ways to lose fat

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governance

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techniques and strategies of rule that encourage subjects to think and act in particular ways

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governmentality

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Foucoltian idea that different concepts of rule and rationale come into play at different times and places

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neoliberal governmentality

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extensive state intervention to create markets and other conditions in which competiton can flourish and at the same time claims that market is the most natural and optimal way to regualte social life???

also, it means that there are efforts to shift caring responsibility from public sphere (like welfare) to personal spheres (self-help)

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neoliberalism and the body

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concerned with making subjects capable of making nominally free choices meaning that the good neoliberal subject would strive for fitness which marks CAPABILITY

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themes of Guthman

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  1. neoliberal subject formation and the body
  2. problem of obesity as a social one with rhetoric aimed at population level
  3. productive power of obesity talk
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Marilyn Wann

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fat acceptance and health at any size movement

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ways obesity can be problematized

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  1. moral problem (social responsibility)
  2. social problem (the toxic environment)
  3. medical problem
  4. not a problem at all (fat resignification)
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according to michelle alexander the equivalent of jim crow

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is the mass incarceration of poor people of color in the US

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Alexander: felon now vs. black person in Jim Crow similarities

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employment discrimination, housing discriminiation, denial of right to vote, exclusion from jury service

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Alexander “awakening” facts

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  1. more african americans today are in correctional control than were enslaved in 1850
  2. In 2007 more black men were disenfranchised than in 1870, the year the Fifteenth Amendment was ratified prohibiting laws that explicitly deny the right to vote on the basis of race
  3. the majority of working-age African American men have criminal records
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according to alexander, what is responsible for the the new vast system of control? (mass incarceration)

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war on drugs and the “get tough” movemen

21
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drugs and incarceration

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people of all races use at similar rates but enemy of war has been racially caste
war waged almost exclusively in poor communities of color

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overall effect of “faces of meth”

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cultural anxiety of “white trash”

fear tactic based on aesthetic and fear of classification of white trash

23
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linnemann

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faces of meth critique

images and visuality are key features of contemporary punishment

24
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core premise of FOM

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faces of meth is fear appeal but also has the core presmise of “see what will happen if you use meth” and “why would someone do that to themselves”

25
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problems according to linnemann with FOM

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shock tactics
abject bodies
implication that all users will look like the people shown in faces of meth
not realistic in general (people probably not just on meth)
deeply racialized

26
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Weston

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political ecologies of the precarious

fordism

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Weston looks at what cities?

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new delhi, chicago and venice

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post-Fordist nostalgia according to Weston

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Weston talks about how working people in a emerging economy are without having lived the Fordist past look forward to in in the future in the hopes of attaining the material affluence (American dream)

those having already lived it look back on their nations fordist past and long for it in as it conjures up memories of a simpler and safer time

both cases have a nostalgia for a less precarious existence

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planetary precarity

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weston talks about how global warming/climate change as this planetary precarity

enviro changes render life more precarious

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Weston in Chicago

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talks about the smell of a new car as being the scent of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) which are harmful and potentially carcinogenic but symbolize being well-off and prosperous

smoke plumes used to symbolize this same thing

industry looked like smoke and industry meant power and prosperity

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Fordism and the workers

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the idea that the wages of the assembly line workers should be such that they can buy what they are producing—>the idea of growth of middle class and hailing workers as cosumers not just producers

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Weston on New Delhi

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marketting of the NANO a very inexpensive car which is small and economic and is marketted at the emerging middle class where a better life is aspirational-later becomes stigmatized as a poor mans car

theres more to be said here but prob not important

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Weston on Venice

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mode of production is in plastics-polyester, nylon and tourism which transports people

acqua alta=rising of the tides and it frequents venice as a sign of global degradation and a tactile reminder of climate change

intervention of MOSE which is meant to protect venetian lagoon from rising tides in the adriatic sea BUT relies upon heavy resource extraction that got the world into the predicament in the first place

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zirnite

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see ppt
talks about war on drugs and how much money is going into it even after the cold war

no evidence this militarizating decreases drug use

focus on supply rather than demand

35
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how a harmful industry use discourse to keep sales up

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have discourse about psych, behavior, choice and life skills (Benson)

36
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similarity in responses to critique of gun sales and tobacco sales

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both focus on the family and mass sentimentality etc.

37
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harm industry

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causing harm to humans as part of its ordinary functioning

38
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tobacco industry and tobacco problematization

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industry played a large role in containing tovacco problematization over this past century

39
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how does tobacco industry control problematization throughout history

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(Benson)

  • denied the science and set up institute for research on diesase to shape pub opin
  • pioneered corporate misinformation
  • pushing the idea that tech innovation can solve health risks
  • developed products that were “light” or more appealing to a health aware individual (deception)
  • strengthen the idea about freedom and individuality and risk
40
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tobacco industries current stance on tobacco

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acknowledge its bad for you, and provide infor and means to quit on websites but know that it doesn’t work or actually make people smoke less

push idea of corporate social responsibility

form industries such as Phillip Morris’ “Coalition for Responsible Tobacco Use” in 1995

focus on family education and educating children in order to humanize the firm

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CSR and tobacco

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corporate social responsibility, he corporations must actively engage their critics, and they often find it productive to participate in the shaping of politics related to their products

legal shelter by incorporating its tobacco businesses as separate entities, renamed itself the Altria Group, decided to engage critique, and developed a multifaceted public relations campaign to shape its value

42
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tobacco control initiatives by tobacco industries

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like the “we card” placards and the “talk to your kids about smoking” they don’t actually work although Phillip Morris claims they do-they don’t include the nitty gritty details which are the only ones that actually have shown reduction in smoking rates

this lack of success but apparent success is good for the tobacco industry

makes people think tobacco corporations are more responsible socially and thus the fault is not on them

43
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Family Smoking Prevention (Act?)

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2009
later became Tobacco Control Act
trumpetted primarily by Phillip Morris and Obama and The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids (vocal anti-tobacco advocacy group)
little to do with efforts we know work for controlling tobacco use and focusses on delivering full info

might be perpetuating myths

44
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Van-Hollen

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research on why women in south india demand oxytocin which induces pain and refuse anesthesia

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