John Comer
Biographic Data
| ID | 279469 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Comer |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Comer |
| SIGNATURE | COMER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bern |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1239-3425 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 86 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Articulating Ease, Selling Sovereignty: Brokerage as Borderscaping in the Discourse of Investment Migration
For business it boils down to one thing: Affective legitimation in LGBTQ diversity discourse
This paper underscores how articulations of/about affect establish the 'how' and 'why' of what is authorized, encouraged, redeemed, or prohibited within discourses that legitimate neoliberal governmentality. Through an exemplary analysis of LGBTQ diversity discourse data, I demonstrate how institutionalized 'endorsements' of diversity frame employees' selves entirely as resources for capital, and legitimate ways that LGBTQ workers conduct themsel…
HoldTight: Neoliberal affects, embodied hopes, and anticipatory chronotopes in corporate LGBTQ diversity discourse
Across the contemporary world, neoliberalism operates as an anticipatory regime through which mediatised conceptions of the future are aligned to an aggressive (absolute) marketisation of social life. Alongside a critical, queer-theoretical attention to homonormativity, this article uses multimodal critical discourse studies techniques to analyse how such a neoliberal future for LGBTQ people is envisioned in #HoldTight, a pride campaign by an Aus…
‘Together, soon enough’: Melbourne’s affective-discursive landscape during and since lockdown
Orienting to theoretical descriptions of ‘affective-discursive practices’ (Wetherell, 2012) and linguistic/semiotic landscapes as ‘affective regimes’ ( Wee, 2016 ), this paper accounts for (some of) the complex ways in which the experience of pandemic and lockdown was articulated and felt across the landscape of Melbourne. I employ a novel combination of autoethnographic and citizen sociolinguistic approaches as self-reflexive research techniques…
Discourses of Global Queer Mobility and the Mediatization of Equality
This book critically unpacks the why and how around everyday rhetorics and slogans promoting global LGBTQ equality. Examining the means by which particular discourses of progress and hope are circulated globally, it offers unique insights into how LGBTQ livelihoods, relationships, and social movements are legitimated and valued in contemporary society. Adopting an innovative critical discourse-ethnographic approach, Comer draws on scholarship fro…
Equality on the sea’
In this paper, I examine LGBTQ tourism discourse about Cape Town, South Africa, which is often declared the 'gay capital of Africa'. The paper considers the implications of such claims and how, in the specific case of Cape Town, apparently playful rhetorics obscure deep-seated inequalities under the guise of visibility, equality and globality. Using a multimodal critical discourse analysis informed by queer theory, my paper examines the recurrent…
State Responses to National Democratic Party Reform
State Responses to National Demnocratic Party Reform
This research examines the proliferation of Democratic state presidential preference primaries from 1972-80, an unintended consequence of McGovern-Fraser reforms to delegate selection adopted following the acrimonious 1968 Democratic National Convention. Unlike previous work, which has addressed the primary proliferation qualitatively and in a way that does not permit sorting out the various elements that may underlie the adoption of party reform…
Robert Dale Miewald
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Female Empowerment: The Influence of Women Representing Women
The concept of political empowerment has been applied to ethnic and racial minorities, where it has been shown to positively influence political attitudes and participation. We examine whether political empowerment has the same positive consequences for women. Using data from the 1992 National Election Study and Almanac for American Politics 1990, 1992, and 1994, we explore whether women who are represented by women in Congress are more likely to…
Female empowerment: The influence of women representing women
Access to Health Care: Urban‐Rural Comparisons from a Midwestern Agricultural State
Lack of access to quality health care for a large number of Americans, particularly those living in rural areas, is a major health care problem. Differences in access between rural and urban areas are caused by obstacles to providing adequate care, such as hospital closures and physician shortages, and low income and/or employment that does not provide health insurance as an employee benefit. This study, based on a random sample of 6,000 househol…
Partisan and Incumbent Effects in State Legislative Redistricting
The effects of reapportionment on partisan balance and on the reelection of incumbents should be expected to differ, depending on whether the reapportionment process was effectively controlled by one party or was bipartisan or nonpartisan. These hypotheses are tested in 15 state legislatures for the post-1980 redistricting. Partisan effects are most likely to occur where the process is highly partisan. Even then, however, the partisan gains are l…
Disinnovation in the American States: Policy toward Health Systems Agencies
Requiring the states to involve consumers in health planning through local health planning boards (HSAs) was an attempt by the federal government to control health care costs. Elimination of this requirement more recently has meant some states have discontinued the program. The elimination of HSAs can be considered a case of policy disinnovation. Drawing on the innovation literature, the following variables were expected to correlate, although ne…
Ethnic Differences in Social and Political Participation: A Comparison of Some Anglo and Mexican Americans
Spring offensive 1972
The Gouffre à Bataillons — A French artillery officer at Dienbienphu, 1954
If I wake up in the morning with an ache in my left ball I send a couple of rounds through the post just to let them know I'm off for breakfast
Correspondent; The People
Interviewing in a Mexican-American Community: An Investigation of Some Potential Sources of Response Bias
Journal Article INTERVIEWING IN A MEXICAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITY: AN INVESTIGATION OF SOME POTENTIAL SOURCES OF RESPONSE BIAS Get access SUSAN WELCH, SUSAN WELCH Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar JOHN COMER, JOHN COMER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MICHAEL STEINMAN MICHAEL STEINMAN †Assistant Professors of Political Science at the University of NebraskaLincoln Search fo…
Some Social and Attitudinal Correlates of Health Care Among Mexican Americans
Susan Welch, John Comer, Michael Steinman, Some Social and Attitudinal Correlates of Health Care Among Mexican Americans, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 14, No. 3 (Sep., 1973), pp. 205-213
Female Empowerment: The Influence of Women Representing Women
The concept of political empowerment has been applied to ethnic and racial minorities, where it has been shown to positively influence political attitudes and participation. We examine whether political empowerment has the same positive consequences for women. Using data from the 1992 National Election Study and Almanac for American Politics 1990, 1992, and 1994, we explore whether women who are represented by women in Congress are more likely to…
Interviewing in a Mexican-American Community: An Investigation of Some Potential Sources of Response Bias
Journal Article INTERVIEWING IN A MEXICAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITY: AN INVESTIGATION OF SOME POTENTIAL SOURCES OF RESPONSE BIAS Get access SUSAN WELCH, SUSAN WELCH Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar JOHN COMER, JOHN COMER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MICHAEL STEINMAN MICHAEL STEINMAN †Assistant Professors of Political Science at the University of NebraskaLincoln Search fo…
Partisan and Incumbent Effects in State Legislative Redistricting
The effects of reapportionment on partisan balance and on the reelection of incumbents should be expected to differ, depending on whether the reapportionment process was effectively controlled by one party or was bipartisan or nonpartisan. These hypotheses are tested in 15 state legislatures for the post-1980 redistricting. Partisan effects are most likely to occur where the process is highly partisan. Even then, however, the partisan gains are l…
Ethnic Differences in Social and Political Participation: A Comparison of Some Anglo and Mexican Americans
Some Social and Attitudinal Correlates of Health Care Among Mexican Americans
Susan Welch, John Comer, Michael Steinman, Some Social and Attitudinal Correlates of Health Care Among Mexican Americans, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 14, No. 3 (Sep., 1973), pp. 205-213
Discourses of Global Queer Mobility and the Mediatization of Equality
This book critically unpacks the why and how around everyday rhetorics and slogans promoting global LGBTQ equality. Examining the means by which particular discourses of progress and hope are circulated globally, it offers unique insights into how LGBTQ livelihoods, relationships, and social movements are legitimated and valued in contemporary society. Adopting an innovative critical discourse-ethnographic approach, Comer draws on scholarship fro…
State Responses to National Demnocratic Party Reform
This research examines the proliferation of Democratic state presidential preference primaries from 1972-80, an unintended consequence of McGovern-Fraser reforms to delegate selection adopted following the acrimonious 1968 Democratic National Convention. Unlike previous work, which has addressed the primary proliferation qualitatively and in a way that does not permit sorting out the various elements that may underlie the adoption of party reform…
HoldTight: Neoliberal affects, embodied hopes, and anticipatory chronotopes in corporate LGBTQ diversity discourse
Across the contemporary world, neoliberalism operates as an anticipatory regime through which mediatised conceptions of the future are aligned to an aggressive (absolute) marketisation of social life. Alongside a critical, queer-theoretical attention to homonormativity, this article uses multimodal critical discourse studies techniques to analyse how such a neoliberal future for LGBTQ people is envisioned in #HoldTight, a pride campaign by an Aus…
Equality on the sea’
In this paper, I examine LGBTQ tourism discourse about Cape Town, South Africa, which is often declared the 'gay capital of Africa'. The paper considers the implications of such claims and how, in the specific case of Cape Town, apparently playful rhetorics obscure deep-seated inequalities under the guise of visibility, equality and globality. Using a multimodal critical discourse analysis informed by queer theory, my paper examines the recurrent…
Female empowerment: The influence of women representing women
For business it boils down to one thing: Affective legitimation in LGBTQ diversity discourse
This paper underscores how articulations of/about affect establish the 'how' and 'why' of what is authorized, encouraged, redeemed, or prohibited within discourses that legitimate neoliberal governmentality. Through an exemplary analysis of LGBTQ diversity discourse data, I demonstrate how institutionalized 'endorsements' of diversity frame employees' selves entirely as resources for capital, and legitimate ways that LGBTQ workers conduct themsel…
State Responses to National Democratic Party Reform
Correspondent; The People
Interviewing in a Mexican-American Community: An Investigation of Some Potential Sources of Response Bias
Journal Article INTERVIEWING IN A MEXICAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITY: AN INVESTIGATION OF SOME POTENTIAL SOURCES OF RESPONSE BIAS Get access SUSAN WELCH, SUSAN WELCH Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar JOHN COMER, JOHN COMER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MICHAEL STEINMAN MICHAEL STEINMAN †Assistant Professors of Political Science at the University of NebraskaLincoln Search fo…
Some Social and Attitudinal Correlates of Health Care Among Mexican Americans
Susan Welch, John Comer, Michael Steinman, Some Social and Attitudinal Correlates of Health Care Among Mexican Americans, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 14, No. 3 (Sep., 1973), pp. 205-213
Spring offensive 1972
The Gouffre à Bataillons — A French artillery officer at Dienbienphu, 1954
If I wake up in the morning with an ache in my left ball I send a couple of rounds through the post just to let them know I'm off for breakfast
Ethnic Differences in Social and Political Participation: A Comparison of Some Anglo and Mexican Americans
Disinnovation in the American States: Policy toward Health Systems Agencies
Requiring the states to involve consumers in health planning through local health planning boards (HSAs) was an attempt by the federal government to control health care costs. Elimination of this requirement more recently has meant some states have discontinued the program. The elimination of HSAs can be considered a case of policy disinnovation. Drawing on the innovation literature, the following variables were expected to correlate, although ne…
Partisan and Incumbent Effects in State Legislative Redistricting
The effects of reapportionment on partisan balance and on the reelection of incumbents should be expected to differ, depending on whether the reapportionment process was effectively controlled by one party or was bipartisan or nonpartisan. These hypotheses are tested in 15 state legislatures for the post-1980 redistricting. Partisan effects are most likely to occur where the process is highly partisan. Even then, however, the partisan gains are l…
Access to Health Care: Urban‐Rural Comparisons from a Midwestern Agricultural State
Lack of access to quality health care for a large number of Americans, particularly those living in rural areas, is a major health care problem. Differences in access between rural and urban areas are caused by obstacles to providing adequate care, such as hospital closures and physician shortages, and low income and/or employment that does not provide health insurance as an employee benefit. This study, based on a random sample of 6,000 househol…
Robert Dale Miewald
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Female Empowerment: The Influence of Women Representing Women
The concept of political empowerment has been applied to ethnic and racial minorities, where it has been shown to positively influence political attitudes and participation. We examine whether political empowerment has the same positive consequences for women. Using data from the 1992 National Election Study and Almanac for American Politics 1990, 1992, and 1994, we explore whether women who are represented by women in Congress are more likely to…
Female empowerment: The influence of women representing women
State Responses to National Democratic Party Reform
State Responses to National Demnocratic Party Reform
This research examines the proliferation of Democratic state presidential preference primaries from 1972-80, an unintended consequence of McGovern-Fraser reforms to delegate selection adopted following the acrimonious 1968 Democratic National Convention. Unlike previous work, which has addressed the primary proliferation qualitatively and in a way that does not permit sorting out the various elements that may underlie the adoption of party reform…
Equality on the sea’
In this paper, I examine LGBTQ tourism discourse about Cape Town, South Africa, which is often declared the 'gay capital of Africa'. The paper considers the implications of such claims and how, in the specific case of Cape Town, apparently playful rhetorics obscure deep-seated inequalities under the guise of visibility, equality and globality. Using a multimodal critical discourse analysis informed by queer theory, my paper examines the recurrent…
Discourses of Global Queer Mobility and the Mediatization of Equality
This book critically unpacks the why and how around everyday rhetorics and slogans promoting global LGBTQ equality. Examining the means by which particular discourses of progress and hope are circulated globally, it offers unique insights into how LGBTQ livelihoods, relationships, and social movements are legitimated and valued in contemporary society. Adopting an innovative critical discourse-ethnographic approach, Comer draws on scholarship fro…
‘Together, soon enough’: Melbourne’s affective-discursive landscape during and since lockdown
Orienting to theoretical descriptions of ‘affective-discursive practices’ (Wetherell, 2012) and linguistic/semiotic landscapes as ‘affective regimes’ ( Wee, 2016 ), this paper accounts for (some of) the complex ways in which the experience of pandemic and lockdown was articulated and felt across the landscape of Melbourne. I employ a novel combination of autoethnographic and citizen sociolinguistic approaches as self-reflexive research techniques…
For business it boils down to one thing: Affective legitimation in LGBTQ diversity discourse
This paper underscores how articulations of/about affect establish the 'how' and 'why' of what is authorized, encouraged, redeemed, or prohibited within discourses that legitimate neoliberal governmentality. Through an exemplary analysis of LGBTQ diversity discourse data, I demonstrate how institutionalized 'endorsements' of diversity frame employees' selves entirely as resources for capital, and legitimate ways that LGBTQ workers conduct themsel…
HoldTight: Neoliberal affects, embodied hopes, and anticipatory chronotopes in corporate LGBTQ diversity discourse
Across the contemporary world, neoliberalism operates as an anticipatory regime through which mediatised conceptions of the future are aligned to an aggressive (absolute) marketisation of social life. Alongside a critical, queer-theoretical attention to homonormativity, this article uses multimodal critical discourse studies techniques to analyse how such a neoliberal future for LGBTQ people is envisioned in #HoldTight, a pride campaign by an Aus…
Articulating Ease, Selling Sovereignty: Brokerage as Borderscaping in the Discourse of Investment Migration
Political science (14 works) · Law (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Economics (6 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works)