Appropriating the civil sphere: the construction of German collective identity by right-wing populist actors during the Covid-19 pandemic [0.03%]
德国右翼民粹主义政治力量在新冠疫情期间对公共领域的渗透及国民身份认同的重塑
Polina Zavershinskaia
Polina Zavershinskaia
This paper considers the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on right-wing populists' constructions of German collective identity. In their "Covid-19 crisis" narratives, German populists attempted to rearrange the discursive and institutional s...
Gliding on the edge of the iron cage: performing rationality and artistry in the sport of figure skating [0.03%]
在铁笼边缘的滑行：花式滑冰运动中的理性和艺术表演
Zaoying Ji
Zaoying Ji
Prior studies on growing formal rationalization in evaluation systems have overwhelmingly shown that they operate as "iron cages," which redefine standards of excellence around quantifiable metrics. However, existing literature may have ove...
The Performance and Reception of Race-Based Athletic Activism: Toward a Critical, Dramaturgical Theory of Sport [0.03%]
基于种族的体育激进主义的表现和接受：迈向体育戏剧批评理论
Douglas Hartmann,Alex Manning,Kyle Green
Douglas Hartmann
The emergence of an unprecedented wave of race-based athletic activism in the last decade presents the opportunity to formulate a more critical, cultural theory of the significance and socio-political function of sport in contemporary life....
Whose voice matters? The gaming sphere and the Blitzchung controversy in eSports [0.03%]
谁的声音最重要？电子竞技中的Blitzchung事件与游戏圈社群反应
Ondřej Klíma
Ondřej Klíma
With eSports and video games rapidly gaining popularity, we are witnessing a rise of semi-autonomous gaming communities. I propose using Alexander's civil sphere theory and my concept of the gaming sphere to understand the dynamics of the m...
Militarizing politics of recognition through the Invictus Games: post-heroic exalting of the armed forces [0.03%]
通过Invictus运动会以军事化认同政治来歌颂武装部队：后英雄主义的赞扬
Brad West
Brad West
The Invictus Games is an international sporting competition involving military veterans who have become either wounded, injured or sick during their service. Having become a prominent event in the public sphere of participating nations that...
Framing performance and fusion: how music venues' materiality and intermediaries shape music scenes [0.03%]
framing performance和融合：有形场所与中介结构如何影响音乐场景
Myrtille Picaud
Myrtille Picaud
How do performances contribute to meaning-making processes in cultural fields? This paper focuses on the spaces where performances happen and how music is framed and staged by intermediaries. I engage critically with cultural pragmatics fro...
From reductive to generative crisis: businesspeople using polysemous justifications to make sense of COVID-19 [0.03%]
从还原式危机到生成式危机：企业家利用多义性理由阐释新冠肺炎疫情
Ioana Sendroiu
Ioana Sendroiu
Both lay understandings of crisis moments and influential psychological models of cognition in times of uncertainty emphasize how crises limit thinking. Conversely, scholars as diverse as Foucault, Swidler, Bourdieu, and Butler have elabora...
Looking beyond interaction: exploring meaning making through the windows of an art gallery [0.03%]
超越互动：通过美术馆的窗口探索意义的构建
Laura Harris
Laura Harris
How is meaning produced in and around the art gallery? Sociological answers to this question are limited by a narrow focus on inter-gallery group interaction and cognitive interpretation. I argue that such approaches would be strengthened b...
Everything's going according to Plan(demic): a cultural sociological approach to conspiracy theorizing [0.03%]
一切都按照计划进行（流行病）：对阴谋论的文化社会学方法
Bernadette Nadya Jaworsky
Bernadette Nadya Jaworsky
In this article, I examine the case of a viral film entitled "Plandemic," its sequel, and the epidemiologist that is its main subject, and develop a cultural sociology of conspiracy theorizing through the concept of "performative conspiracy...