Terms Flashcards
Globalization:
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Complicit:
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Binary logic (both/and vs. either/or):
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Common sense belief:
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Gender:
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Sex:
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Sexuality:
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Race/racism:
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Heteronormativity:
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Homonormativity:
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Nationalism:
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Homonationalism:
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Colonialism:
- Metropole establishes unequal social, economic, and cultural relations with another territory, now called a colony
- Large movement of people and resources from the metropole to the colony for the purposes of governing and extracting resources/wealth
Post colonialism:
- Process of gaining independence from when you used to be a colony
- Relationship with metropole (parent country) = severed
Settler colonialism:
- Colonialism hasn’t simply stopped
- Because of colonial past, there are effects
- Demand to go away
Meritocracy:
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Colour-blindness:
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Veiled racism:
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Microagressions:
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Microaffirmations:
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Intersectionality:
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Other/othering:
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Wage-labour contradiction:
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Environmental contraindication:
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Alienation:
- Capitalism deprives human beings of source of self worth and identity
- Worker derives none of the other personal satisfactions of work (other than means of survival) because the products of his labour do not belong to him
- Profits go to capitalists and sold for profit
- Estranged from process, their own humanity, deprived of satisfaction of owning the product of labour
Commodification:
Producing sellable things from historically unsellable things
Commodity fetishism:
- Fetishizes the products of labour and the relation between the commodities at the expense of the labour itself and the relations between the humans involved
- Gives commodities a mystified status that abstracts them from the human meaning they have in the real ways they are produced and used
- Prevents people from seeing that one class of people is exploiting another
Regimes of accumulation:
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Fordism:
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Post-Fordism:
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Financialization:
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Trickle-down economics:
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Externalities:
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Deregulation:
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Privatization:
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Roll out:
- Put in policies that create a situation in society that favours free markets
- Fewer government regulated industries
- Government tries to promote free enterprise
Roll back:
- Make government as small as you can
- Roll back services
P3s:
- Public private partnership
- Ex. building stadiums
Individualism:
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Free markets:
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Class:
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Means of production:
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Wealth inequality:
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Discourse:
set of interconnected texts that produce meaning
Subject positions:
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Regimes of truth:
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Power/knowledge:
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Resistance/agency/technology of the self:
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truth vs Truth:
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Sovereign power:
- Supreme ruler with ultimate power
- Can use to influence/force people
- Whoever has the power is sovereign
Hegemony:
- Subordinate class consent to their own domination by ruling class
- Threat can be enough to ensure consent
- Originally used to describe class relations
Discursive power:
- Discourse constructs the topic, defines/produces the objects of our knowledge
- Discourse marks something as inside the true, others outside
- No one directs this power or is responsible for it
Disciplinary power:
- Works through creating docility in its subjects
- Nobody holds this power
- Exercised by small, everyday behaviours
- learning to accept the current state of affairs as natural
- internalize panoptic gaze
Docility:
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Biopower:
- Under discursive power
- Ex. children = biopower issue
- What can you know about a population?
- Knowing aggregate statistics
- Ex. children are at risk, society is full of potential predators
Social construction:
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Sociological imagination:
Relationships between personal biography, history, and social forces beyond the control of the individual
Performativity:
- repetitive/iterative process
- Audience (RE: “rehearsal”)
- gender/identity is a performance (not stable/fixed)
Product/producer:
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Sport plus vs. plus sport:
- Should be adopting plus sport (Need to be doing development stuff plus sports)
- Sport plus tends to be used
(Sport programming plus some development benefits)
Third space and hybridity:
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Performativity:
- repetitive/iterative process
- Audience (RE: “rehearsal”)
- gender/identity is a performance (not stable/fixed)
