 | | | | How Do We Intervene in the Stubborn Persistence of Patriarchy in Communication Scholarship International Communication Association (ICA) scholars have been on the forefront of hot button issues that cut across all spectra of the communication discipline. From Twitter wars, outrageous Uber, and fake news to populist governance and datafication regimes more broadly, at the 2017 annual conference we heard talks, saw posters, and interacted with digital platforms that grounded the 'now' in longer trajectories of inequality, discrimination, and power disparities. These interventions seem more needed than ever to us at this critical juncture. The vicious return of outright expressions... |
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| Book Review: Affective Relations: The Transnational Politics of Empathy (Review by Nicole Laliberte) Carolyn Pedwell opens her book, Affective Relations: the transnational politics of empathy, with a Foucauldian-style reframing of the dominant discourse around empathy. Rather than assuming the benevolence of empathy and debating how to best cultivate it to produce a more empathetic society, Pedwell switches the conversation to ask "What is empathy?", "What does it do?", and "What are its risks?" (Pedwell, 2014, x). To answer these questions, she engages with and builds upon work in Translation Studies to highlight the interlocking politics of multiple forms of translation, from... |
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| From Mathura to Farooqui Rape Case: The Regressive Patriarchy Found its Way Back Way back in 1972, a tribal girl was raped in custody by two constables in Desai Ganj Police Station in Maharashtra. The Supreme Court in Tuka Ram v State of Maharashtra 1 (also known as Mathura's rape case) acquitted the two accused policemen on the ground that the victim has raised no alarm, there was no visible injury mark on her person thereby it could be assumed that she has consented and not protested, she is habituated to sex, `she might have incited the two drunk policemen' and therefore no rape is committed. Immediately after this verdict is pronounced, four legal luminaries, wrote... |
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