C Tebaldi
Biographic Data
| ID | 45728 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C Tebaldi |
| GIVEN NAMES | C |
| FAMILY NAME | Tebaldi |
| SIGNATURE | TEBALDI C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Luxembourg |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6144-6853 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Make Women Great Again: Women, misogyny and anti-capitalism on the right
Introduction—Heroes and Hard Truths: Gender, Sexuality, and the Sociolinguistics of the Far Right
In his May 2024 commencement address to Benedictine College, a Catholic liberal arts college in Atchison, Kansas, American football player Harrison Butker positioned his Christian faith as "countercultural" and threatened by "the tyranny of diversity, equity, and inclusion." 1 He claimed that Catholics "fear speaking truth, because . . .truth is in the minority."He offered an example to prove his case: "Congress just passed a bill where stating s…
The Science of Desire: Beauty, Masculinity, and Ideology on the Far Right
Scores of male right-wing influencers offer advice to young men online on fitness, diet, and bodybuilding. Representations of the “right” kind of man draw attention to rippling muscles, square jaws, and beautifully symmetrical faces as evidence of racial superiority. This contemporary resurgence of “body fascism” in the hypersemiotized online spaces of the far right, however, remains underexamined. In this article, we analyze Man’s World magazine…
Disney Professor: Jordan Peterson’s Media Commentary as Far-right Mythopoesis
This article analyses Jordan Peterson’s video lectures about Disney films, which he uses to expound a theory of myth based on his 2002 book Maps of Meaning. This semiotic analysis of his lectures and YouTube media commentary focuses on how he constructs myths using visual-verbal metaphors, then positions himself in the centre of myth through visual media as the wise guide and conquering intellectual hero. This analysis shows his vision of myth su…
Pearl Nationalism: Tradwives and the Chronotopes of Femininity
This article looks at how gendered chronotopes of tradition are created in the work of four tradwives, or digital influencers who describe themselves as “feminine not feminist.” It first shows how each tradwie animates a distinct, highly mediatized, chronotope of tradition ranging, from the 1850s homestead to the 1950s suburban wife in pearls. Each uses submissive gender roles to create a unique vision of a past as domestic idyll embodied by a de…
Introduction to “Chronotopes of Gender”
The authors in this special issue explore the ways in which chronotopes are often gendered and gender performance is chronotopic. Articles examine a diverse range of discourses—tradwives, Chinese beauty influencers, paleofantasy health trends, Kiowa War Mothers, and Swahili-language Islamic marital advice—and unpack the ways that notions of gender rely on particular constructions of the “here-and-now” in contrast to various “theres-and-thens.” As…
Back-to-Nature with technologies of the self: A critical mixed methods analysis of aestheticized ideologies on Instagram
The wellness pipeline: Tracing far-right health narratives on X
This article examines how far-right groups advance political agendas through digital platforms, specifically by embedding reactionary ideology within health and wellness discourse. Our investigation concerns the “Barbarian Right” subculture on X (formerly Twitter), where reactionary content is often intertwined with wellness messaging. Using social network analysis of 42 accounts identified through digital ethnography, we mapped the structure of …
Privatizing creation: Neoliberal creativity in the language classroom
Although often seen as places of culture, cultivation and creativity, language courses borrow the language of creativity for test-centered practices. Research in sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology has long recognized language courses as sites for the legitimation of neoliberal ideals that emphasize language as global, individual, and economic, human capital for the global market. Yet research in education often focuses on language educa…
Socialism sucks: Campus conservatives, digital media, and the rebranding of Christian nationalism
In this blended ethnography, combining fieldwork with campus conservative organizations/figures and digital ethnography of their social media, we explore how capitalism, Christianity, and conservatism are brought together and branded for youth. We argue that campus conservative organizations like Turning Point USA are important sites for mainstreaming, branding, and circulating an assemblage of conservative, Christian, and racialized discourses a…
Branding the white nation: Platform capitalism and the semiotics of far-right organizing
This article focuses on the branding of Patriotic Alternative (PA), a British fascist organization and business, in three analytic steps: (i) branding as circulating ideologies as commodities; (ii) branding as creating-and selling-community, and (iii) branding as regimenting meaning. Building on work on the communicability of evil and language, nationalism, and political economy, we explore how PA uses the affordances of platform capitalism in a …
Metapolitical seduction: Women's language and white nationalism
This paper examines the enregisterment of white nationalist women's language as metapolitical seduction, in anti-feminist conversion videos designed both to seduce men and to restore them to their proper place-above women. First, the paper analyzes the metapragmatics of submissive femininity, then the characters this far right fairy tale invents, and finally how they come to represent a metapolitical order which aligns gender, nation, tradition, …
Weaponizing reproductive rights: A mixed-method analysis of White nationalists’ discussion of abortions online
According to the Great Replacement conspiracy theory, nonwhites, globalists and elites are plotting to eliminate the white race and its dominance through anti-white policies and increased immigration. In that context, abortion among white women is perceived by white nationalists (WN) as a betrayal of their ‘biological’ and ‘traditional’ gender role – procreation of white babies. While WN condemn abortion among white women as a murderous sin, at t…
Tradwives and truth warriors
The language of white identitarian traditionalist women, or ‘tradwives’, recontextualises white nationalism in the language of sexual politics. It creates images of the enemy other as a ‘societal sodomiser’ and of an idealised woman who represents and defends the threatened family and nation. These homophobic horror stories create deep affective investment in white nationalist nostalgia and subsume women’s individuality to the image of the nation…
Of tradwives and TradCaths
Building on Borba’s theorisation of the anti-genderism register, the articles in this special issue explore anti-genderism as a political tool for the global right in four cases: online ‘tradwives’ or traditional wives defending national and sexual purity (Tebaldi), homonationalism in the Islamophobic forum r/thedonald (Brotherton), the natalist chronopolitics of Bolsonaro in Brazil (Silva and Dziuba) and the invocation of the spectre of gender t…
Granola Nazis and the great reset: Enregistering, circulating and regimenting nature on the far right
This paper analyzes the naturalization of Nazism, through semiotic processes of enregisterment, circulation, and regimentation of the register “nature-tradition” associated with a characterological figure I term the Granola Nazi . Granola Nazi is assembled through a rhematized set of semiotic elements, images, practices and forms of talk, which have come to indicate socially typified personae – strong virile white farmers, traditional earthy home…
Opening or Impasse? Critical Media Literacy Pedagogy in a Posttruth Era
Critical media literacy (CML) education is an approach to teaching about power, ideology, and hegemony through media. As a critical intervention in mainstream media literacy education, CML education integrates a cultural studies lens with a critical pedagogy orientation. In this article, we use critical auto-ethnography and personal reflective narratives or 'anti-biography' to explore the dynamics and tensions of teaching CML in the posttruth era…
Make Women Great Again: Women, misogyny and anti-capitalism on the right
peer reviewed
Reactionary education in the USA
Are the American right free-speech warriors battling the 'woke armies' of 'cancel culture' as they claim? Are they leveraging attacks on 'political correctness' to destabilise and undermine truth? We might look not just at what these right-wing claims are but at what they do. In my research I explore how the digital right sees itself as 'speaking post-truth to power', borrowing the language of critical pedagogy in the service of reaction. The rig…
The Terrorist and the Girl Next Door: Love Jihad in French Femonationalist Nonfiction
This paper explores the theme of Love Jihad in "true sex crime" novels, French mass-market paperbacks where a journalist or author recounts the temoignage of women who suffered sexual violence at the hands of Muslim men. Semiotic analysis of visual and textual representations shows a melodramatic triangle of female victims, Muslim male perpetrators, and heroic readers. These stories reflect, dramatize, and sexualize broader social constructions o…
Understanding and assessing uncertainty of observational climate datasets for model evaluation using ensembles
In climate science, observational gridded climate datasets that are based on in situ measurements serve as evidence for scientific claims and they are used to both calibrate and evaluate models. However, datasets only represent selected aspects of the real world, so when they are used for a specific purpose they can be a source of uncertainty. Here, we present a framework for understanding this uncertainty of observational datasets which distingu…
Speaking post-truth to power
In a YouTube interview, social studies teacher Tianna Dolichov suggested that teachers come together through social media. She posted her own frustrations with the limits of textbooks. She insisted
JeSuisSirCornflakes: Racialization and resemiotization in French nationalist Twitter
After the 2016 spelling reforms deleted the accent circumflex from some French vowels, on right-wing French Twitter, thecirconflexereappeared in the center of the French flag - echoing the flag of Vichy France. Tweets with the hashtag#JeSuisCirconflexeresemiotized the accent circumflex as icon of a lost Frenchness, or voiced the racial other in a colonial faux pidgin to frame them as illiterate and brutish. Drawing on research on resemiotization …
Banlieues to the Suburbs: World Language Education and Linguistic Gentrification
In this "reflection on the field," I use critical auto-ethnography to reflect on the process of bringing urban French vernacular to New England suburbs. I analyze teaching vernacular language as linguistic gentrification, using other people's words for the construction and continual performance of cosmopolitan whiteness. As I reflect on moving from cosmopolitan desires to critical awareness I share how my own identity is entangled in this process
Metapolitical seduction: Women's language and white nationalism
This paper examines the enregisterment of white nationalist women's language as metapolitical seduction, in anti-feminist conversion videos designed both to seduce men and to restore them to their proper place-above women. First, the paper analyzes the metapragmatics of submissive femininity, then the characters this far right fairy tale invents, and finally how they come to represent a metapolitical order which aligns gender, nation, tradition, …
Tradwives and truth warriors
The language of white identitarian traditionalist women, or ‘tradwives’, recontextualises white nationalism in the language of sexual politics. It creates images of the enemy other as a ‘societal sodomiser’ and of an idealised woman who represents and defends the threatened family and nation. These homophobic horror stories create deep affective investment in white nationalist nostalgia and subsume women’s individuality to the image of the nation…
Speaking post-truth to power
In a YouTube interview, social studies teacher Tianna Dolichov suggested that teachers come together through social media. She posted her own frustrations with the limits of textbooks. She insisted
Of tradwives and TradCaths
Building on Borba’s theorisation of the anti-genderism register, the articles in this special issue explore anti-genderism as a political tool for the global right in four cases: online ‘tradwives’ or traditional wives defending national and sexual purity (Tebaldi), homonationalism in the Islamophobic forum r/thedonald (Brotherton), the natalist chronopolitics of Bolsonaro in Brazil (Silva and Dziuba) and the invocation of the spectre of gender t…
JeSuisSirCornflakes: Racialization and resemiotization in French nationalist Twitter
After the 2016 spelling reforms deleted the accent circumflex from some French vowels, on right-wing French Twitter, thecirconflexereappeared in the center of the French flag - echoing the flag of Vichy France. Tweets with the hashtag#JeSuisCirconflexeresemiotized the accent circumflex as icon of a lost Frenchness, or voiced the racial other in a colonial faux pidgin to frame them as illiterate and brutish. Drawing on research on resemiotization …
Granola Nazis and the great reset: Enregistering, circulating and regimenting nature on the far right
This paper analyzes the naturalization of Nazism, through semiotic processes of enregisterment, circulation, and regimentation of the register “nature-tradition” associated with a characterological figure I term the Granola Nazi . Granola Nazi is assembled through a rhematized set of semiotic elements, images, practices and forms of talk, which have come to indicate socially typified personae – strong virile white farmers, traditional earthy home…
The Terrorist and the Girl Next Door: Love Jihad in French Femonationalist Nonfiction
This paper explores the theme of Love Jihad in "true sex crime" novels, French mass-market paperbacks where a journalist or author recounts the temoignage of women who suffered sexual violence at the hands of Muslim men. Semiotic analysis of visual and textual representations shows a melodramatic triangle of female victims, Muslim male perpetrators, and heroic readers. These stories reflect, dramatize, and sexualize broader social constructions o…
Opening or Impasse? Critical Media Literacy Pedagogy in a Posttruth Era
Critical media literacy (CML) education is an approach to teaching about power, ideology, and hegemony through media. As a critical intervention in mainstream media literacy education, CML education integrates a cultural studies lens with a critical pedagogy orientation. In this article, we use critical auto-ethnography and personal reflective narratives or 'anti-biography' to explore the dynamics and tensions of teaching CML in the posttruth era…
Branding the white nation: Platform capitalism and the semiotics of far-right organizing
This article focuses on the branding of Patriotic Alternative (PA), a British fascist organization and business, in three analytic steps: (i) branding as circulating ideologies as commodities; (ii) branding as creating-and selling-community, and (iii) branding as regimenting meaning. Building on work on the communicability of evil and language, nationalism, and political economy, we explore how PA uses the affordances of platform capitalism in a …
Banlieues to the Suburbs: World Language Education and Linguistic Gentrification
In this "reflection on the field," I use critical auto-ethnography to reflect on the process of bringing urban French vernacular to New England suburbs. I analyze teaching vernacular language as linguistic gentrification, using other people's words for the construction and continual performance of cosmopolitan whiteness. As I reflect on moving from cosmopolitan desires to critical awareness I share how my own identity is entangled in this process
Understanding and assessing uncertainty of observational climate datasets for model evaluation using ensembles
In climate science, observational gridded climate datasets that are based on in situ measurements serve as evidence for scientific claims and they are used to both calibrate and evaluate models. However, datasets only represent selected aspects of the real world, so when they are used for a specific purpose they can be a source of uncertainty. Here, we present a framework for understanding this uncertainty of observational datasets which distingu…
Speaking post-truth to power
In a YouTube interview, social studies teacher Tianna Dolichov suggested that teachers come together through social media. She posted her own frustrations with the limits of textbooks. She insisted
JeSuisSirCornflakes: Racialization and resemiotization in French nationalist Twitter
After the 2016 spelling reforms deleted the accent circumflex from some French vowels, on right-wing French Twitter, thecirconflexereappeared in the center of the French flag - echoing the flag of Vichy France. Tweets with the hashtag#JeSuisCirconflexeresemiotized the accent circumflex as icon of a lost Frenchness, or voiced the racial other in a colonial faux pidgin to frame them as illiterate and brutish. Drawing on research on resemiotization …
Banlieues to the Suburbs: World Language Education and Linguistic Gentrification
In this "reflection on the field," I use critical auto-ethnography to reflect on the process of bringing urban French vernacular to New England suburbs. I analyze teaching vernacular language as linguistic gentrification, using other people's words for the construction and continual performance of cosmopolitan whiteness. As I reflect on moving from cosmopolitan desires to critical awareness I share how my own identity is entangled in this process
Make Women Great Again: Women, misogyny and anti-capitalism on the right
peer reviewed
Reactionary education in the USA
Are the American right free-speech warriors battling the 'woke armies' of 'cancel culture' as they claim? Are they leveraging attacks on 'political correctness' to destabilise and undermine truth? We might look not just at what these right-wing claims are but at what they do. In my research I explore how the digital right sees itself as 'speaking post-truth to power', borrowing the language of critical pedagogy in the service of reaction. The rig…
The Terrorist and the Girl Next Door: Love Jihad in French Femonationalist Nonfiction
This paper explores the theme of Love Jihad in "true sex crime" novels, French mass-market paperbacks where a journalist or author recounts the temoignage of women who suffered sexual violence at the hands of Muslim men. Semiotic analysis of visual and textual representations shows a melodramatic triangle of female victims, Muslim male perpetrators, and heroic readers. These stories reflect, dramatize, and sexualize broader social constructions o…
Opening or Impasse? Critical Media Literacy Pedagogy in a Posttruth Era
Critical media literacy (CML) education is an approach to teaching about power, ideology, and hegemony through media. As a critical intervention in mainstream media literacy education, CML education integrates a cultural studies lens with a critical pedagogy orientation. In this article, we use critical auto-ethnography and personal reflective narratives or 'anti-biography' to explore the dynamics and tensions of teaching CML in the posttruth era…
Weaponizing reproductive rights: A mixed-method analysis of White nationalists’ discussion of abortions online
According to the Great Replacement conspiracy theory, nonwhites, globalists and elites are plotting to eliminate the white race and its dominance through anti-white policies and increased immigration. In that context, abortion among white women is perceived by white nationalists (WN) as a betrayal of their ‘biological’ and ‘traditional’ gender role – procreation of white babies. While WN condemn abortion among white women as a murderous sin, at t…
Tradwives and truth warriors
The language of white identitarian traditionalist women, or ‘tradwives’, recontextualises white nationalism in the language of sexual politics. It creates images of the enemy other as a ‘societal sodomiser’ and of an idealised woman who represents and defends the threatened family and nation. These homophobic horror stories create deep affective investment in white nationalist nostalgia and subsume women’s individuality to the image of the nation…
Of tradwives and TradCaths
Building on Borba’s theorisation of the anti-genderism register, the articles in this special issue explore anti-genderism as a political tool for the global right in four cases: online ‘tradwives’ or traditional wives defending national and sexual purity (Tebaldi), homonationalism in the Islamophobic forum r/thedonald (Brotherton), the natalist chronopolitics of Bolsonaro in Brazil (Silva and Dziuba) and the invocation of the spectre of gender t…
Granola Nazis and the great reset: Enregistering, circulating and regimenting nature on the far right
This paper analyzes the naturalization of Nazism, through semiotic processes of enregisterment, circulation, and regimentation of the register “nature-tradition” associated with a characterological figure I term the Granola Nazi . Granola Nazi is assembled through a rhematized set of semiotic elements, images, practices and forms of talk, which have come to indicate socially typified personae – strong virile white farmers, traditional earthy home…
Privatizing creation: Neoliberal creativity in the language classroom
Although often seen as places of culture, cultivation and creativity, language courses borrow the language of creativity for test-centered practices. Research in sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology has long recognized language courses as sites for the legitimation of neoliberal ideals that emphasize language as global, individual, and economic, human capital for the global market. Yet research in education often focuses on language educa…
Socialism sucks: Campus conservatives, digital media, and the rebranding of Christian nationalism
In this blended ethnography, combining fieldwork with campus conservative organizations/figures and digital ethnography of their social media, we explore how capitalism, Christianity, and conservatism are brought together and branded for youth. We argue that campus conservative organizations like Turning Point USA are important sites for mainstreaming, branding, and circulating an assemblage of conservative, Christian, and racialized discourses a…
Branding the white nation: Platform capitalism and the semiotics of far-right organizing
This article focuses on the branding of Patriotic Alternative (PA), a British fascist organization and business, in three analytic steps: (i) branding as circulating ideologies as commodities; (ii) branding as creating-and selling-community, and (iii) branding as regimenting meaning. Building on work on the communicability of evil and language, nationalism, and political economy, we explore how PA uses the affordances of platform capitalism in a …
Metapolitical seduction: Women's language and white nationalism
This paper examines the enregisterment of white nationalist women's language as metapolitical seduction, in anti-feminist conversion videos designed both to seduce men and to restore them to their proper place-above women. First, the paper analyzes the metapragmatics of submissive femininity, then the characters this far right fairy tale invents, and finally how they come to represent a metapolitical order which aligns gender, nation, tradition, …
Introduction—Heroes and Hard Truths: Gender, Sexuality, and the Sociolinguistics of the Far Right
In his May 2024 commencement address to Benedictine College, a Catholic liberal arts college in Atchison, Kansas, American football player Harrison Butker positioned his Christian faith as "countercultural" and threatened by "the tyranny of diversity, equity, and inclusion." 1 He claimed that Catholics "fear speaking truth, because . . .truth is in the minority."He offered an example to prove his case: "Congress just passed a bill where stating s…
The Science of Desire: Beauty, Masculinity, and Ideology on the Far Right
Scores of male right-wing influencers offer advice to young men online on fitness, diet, and bodybuilding. Representations of the “right” kind of man draw attention to rippling muscles, square jaws, and beautifully symmetrical faces as evidence of racial superiority. This contemporary resurgence of “body fascism” in the hypersemiotized online spaces of the far right, however, remains underexamined. In this article, we analyze Man’s World magazine…
Disney Professor: Jordan Peterson’s Media Commentary as Far-right Mythopoesis
This article analyses Jordan Peterson’s video lectures about Disney films, which he uses to expound a theory of myth based on his 2002 book Maps of Meaning. This semiotic analysis of his lectures and YouTube media commentary focuses on how he constructs myths using visual-verbal metaphors, then positions himself in the centre of myth through visual media as the wise guide and conquering intellectual hero. This analysis shows his vision of myth su…
Pearl Nationalism: Tradwives and the Chronotopes of Femininity
This article looks at how gendered chronotopes of tradition are created in the work of four tradwives, or digital influencers who describe themselves as “feminine not feminist.” It first shows how each tradwie animates a distinct, highly mediatized, chronotope of tradition ranging, from the 1850s homestead to the 1950s suburban wife in pearls. Each uses submissive gender roles to create a unique vision of a past as domestic idyll embodied by a de…
Introduction to “Chronotopes of Gender”
The authors in this special issue explore the ways in which chronotopes are often gendered and gender performance is chronotopic. Articles examine a diverse range of discourses—tradwives, Chinese beauty influencers, paleofantasy health trends, Kiowa War Mothers, and Swahili-language Islamic marital advice—and unpack the ways that notions of gender rely on particular constructions of the “here-and-now” in contrast to various “theres-and-thens.” As…
Back-to-Nature with technologies of the self: A critical mixed methods analysis of aestheticized ideologies on Instagram
The wellness pipeline: Tracing far-right health narratives on X
This article examines how far-right groups advance political agendas through digital platforms, specifically by embedding reactionary ideology within health and wellness discourse. Our investigation concerns the “Barbarian Right” subculture on X (formerly Twitter), where reactionary content is often intertwined with wellness messaging. Using social network analysis of 42 accounts identified through digital ethnography, we mapped the structure of …
Make Women Great Again: Women, misogyny and anti-capitalism on the right
Political science (16 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Law (15 works) · Politics (15 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (8 works) · Media studies (8 works) · Ideology (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Law (6 works)