M Brock
Biographic Data
| ID | 66089 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Brock |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Brock |
| SIGNATURE | BROCK M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Södertörn University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9615-5597 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Rape(d) nation: Tropes of sexual violence and rape fantasies in far-right ‘Sweden-memes’
This paper examines prevalent tropes of sexual violence and rape circulating in far-right discourses in and around Sweden. Combining Discourse Analysis with a feminist reading of memes depicting rape collected in online spaces known to harbour far-right extremism, we ask: What is the scene of rape? What are its key tropes enacting in a discursive sense? How can we understand these iterations of sexual violation as key fantasmatic scenes of contem…
Female desire in phallocentric industries: A duo-ethnographic interrogation
The persistence of workplace inequality requires female subjects to examine their place in exploitative systems of production and consumption, and to identify means for emancipation beyond masculine dominant orders. In this paper we examine our past experiences as young women in the finance and oil industries, the phallocentric and extractive engines of global capitalism. We do this by employing a duo-ethnographic approach and a feminist reading …
The adult in the room: Mobilizing the figure of the child in Sweden and Germany
This discussion takes as its starting point recent right-wing protests and -rhetoric, forming part of a conservative moral panic surrounding Drag Queen Story Hour (DQSH) and LGBTQ+ pride events, and in particular the harm these are proclaimed to be causing children. While mobilizing the figure of the child for political purposes is not a recent phenomenon, the momentum and number of fellow travelers the instrumentalization of vulnerable innocence…
Performative male vulnerability and right-wing privilege: Vladimir Putin, Jordan Peterson and Rasmus Paludan
Screen agencies as cultural intermediaries: Delivering gender equality in the film and television sectors
This article examines the role of national screen agencies in the realisation of an equitable screen sector. Publicly funded screen agencies like Ffilm Cymru Wales, Screen Ireland, Det Danske Filminstitut (Danish Film Institute) and Hrvatski Audiovizualni Centar (Croatian Audiovisual Centre) directly shape the sector, both on screen and behind the camera. Using interviews with senior decision-makers within several European screen agencies, we cri…
From high camp to post-modern camp: Queering post-Soviet pop music
This article examines the post-Soviet transformations of Russian popular music culture ( Estrada), arguing that its aesthetics can be analysed from the perspective of camp, by looking at two cult music performers bridging the Soviet and post-Soviet realm – Valery Leontiev and Filipp Kirkorov. The analysis is grounded in a close reading of the artists’ career trajectories, selected videos and – to a lesser extent – textual analysis of their lyrics…
You Cannot Oppress Those Who Do Not Exist
Reports in April 2017 regarding a state-initiated wave of homophobic persecution in Chechnya attracted worldwide outrage. Numerous witnesses spoke of arrests, abuse, and murders of gay men in the republic. In response, a spokesman of Chechnya's president, Ramzan Kadyrov, claimed that "you cannot ... oppress those who simply do not exist." In this article, with the antigay purge in Chechnya and in particular the denial of queer existence as their …
East German museums of everyday history as depots for the nostalgic object
Political satire and its disruptive potential: Irony and cynicism in Russia and the US
When cynical distance and ironic posturing have become the prevalent means of relating to public life, political humour is no longer considered subversive. It has been argued that both in Russia and the United States, ideology has co-opted satire, meaning that citizens can consume outrage passively through various satirical media products, thereby displacing outrage and abstaining from more active forms of resistance. This articles explores the t…
A psychosocial analysis of reactions to Pussy Riot: Velvet Revolution or Frenzied Uteri
Mr Putin: Operative in the Kremlin
It is the figure of Vladimir Putin that has arguably dominated the public's perception of contemporary Russia within and outside its borders. Frequently, discussions of Putin and Putinism contain a
What's the difference between a melancholic apartheid moustache and a nostalgic GDR telephone?”
Both nostalgia and melancholia have been portrayed as psychological inabilities or refusals to mourn, coming to denote a common failure to having adapted to situations of social and political change. Both concepts have been used to either condemn the conditions they diagnose, or, alternatively, to hail them for their emancipatory potential. In this regard, both nostalgia and melancholia have been used effectively, separately and alongside one ano…
Lacanian ethics and the assumption of subjectivity
Psychoanalysis outside the clinic: Interventions in pychosocial studies
"Prosperity" Robinson. The Life of Viscount Goderich 1782-1859
The Whigs in Opposition, 1815-1830
Political satire and its disruptive potential: Irony and cynicism in Russia and the US
When cynical distance and ironic posturing have become the prevalent means of relating to public life, political humour is no longer considered subversive. It has been argued that both in Russia and the United States, ideology has co-opted satire, meaning that citizens can consume outrage passively through various satirical media products, thereby displacing outrage and abstaining from more active forms of resistance. This articles explores the t…
You Cannot Oppress Those Who Do Not Exist
Reports in April 2017 regarding a state-initiated wave of homophobic persecution in Chechnya attracted worldwide outrage. Numerous witnesses spoke of arrests, abuse, and murders of gay men in the republic. In response, a spokesman of Chechnya's president, Ramzan Kadyrov, claimed that "you cannot ... oppress those who simply do not exist." In this article, with the antigay purge in Chechnya and in particular the denial of queer existence as their …
Mr Putin: Operative in the Kremlin
It is the figure of Vladimir Putin that has arguably dominated the public's perception of contemporary Russia within and outside its borders. Frequently, discussions of Putin and Putinism contain a
Screen agencies as cultural intermediaries: Delivering gender equality in the film and television sectors
This article examines the role of national screen agencies in the realisation of an equitable screen sector. Publicly funded screen agencies like Ffilm Cymru Wales, Screen Ireland, Det Danske Filminstitut (Danish Film Institute) and Hrvatski Audiovizualni Centar (Croatian Audiovisual Centre) directly shape the sector, both on screen and behind the camera. Using interviews with senior decision-makers within several European screen agencies, we cri…
From high camp to post-modern camp: Queering post-Soviet pop music
This article examines the post-Soviet transformations of Russian popular music culture ( Estrada), arguing that its aesthetics can be analysed from the perspective of camp, by looking at two cult music performers bridging the Soviet and post-Soviet realm – Valery Leontiev and Filipp Kirkorov. The analysis is grounded in a close reading of the artists’ career trajectories, selected videos and – to a lesser extent – textual analysis of their lyrics…
What's the difference between a melancholic apartheid moustache and a nostalgic GDR telephone?”
Both nostalgia and melancholia have been portrayed as psychological inabilities or refusals to mourn, coming to denote a common failure to having adapted to situations of social and political change. Both concepts have been used to either condemn the conditions they diagnose, or, alternatively, to hail them for their emancipatory potential. In this regard, both nostalgia and melancholia have been used effectively, separately and alongside one ano…
"Prosperity" Robinson. The Life of Viscount Goderich 1782-1859
The Whigs in Opposition, 1815-1830
Psychoanalysis outside the clinic: Interventions in pychosocial studies
What's the difference between a melancholic apartheid moustache and a nostalgic GDR telephone?”
Both nostalgia and melancholia have been portrayed as psychological inabilities or refusals to mourn, coming to denote a common failure to having adapted to situations of social and political change. Both concepts have been used to either condemn the conditions they diagnose, or, alternatively, to hail them for their emancipatory potential. In this regard, both nostalgia and melancholia have been used effectively, separately and alongside one ano…
Lacanian ethics and the assumption of subjectivity
Mr Putin: Operative in the Kremlin
It is the figure of Vladimir Putin that has arguably dominated the public's perception of contemporary Russia within and outside its borders. Frequently, discussions of Putin and Putinism contain a
A psychosocial analysis of reactions to Pussy Riot: Velvet Revolution or Frenzied Uteri
Political satire and its disruptive potential: Irony and cynicism in Russia and the US
When cynical distance and ironic posturing have become the prevalent means of relating to public life, political humour is no longer considered subversive. It has been argued that both in Russia and the United States, ideology has co-opted satire, meaning that citizens can consume outrage passively through various satirical media products, thereby displacing outrage and abstaining from more active forms of resistance. This articles explores the t…
East German museums of everyday history as depots for the nostalgic object
You Cannot Oppress Those Who Do Not Exist
Reports in April 2017 regarding a state-initiated wave of homophobic persecution in Chechnya attracted worldwide outrage. Numerous witnesses spoke of arrests, abuse, and murders of gay men in the republic. In response, a spokesman of Chechnya's president, Ramzan Kadyrov, claimed that "you cannot ... oppress those who simply do not exist." In this article, with the antigay purge in Chechnya and in particular the denial of queer existence as their …
From high camp to post-modern camp: Queering post-Soviet pop music
This article examines the post-Soviet transformations of Russian popular music culture ( Estrada), arguing that its aesthetics can be analysed from the perspective of camp, by looking at two cult music performers bridging the Soviet and post-Soviet realm – Valery Leontiev and Filipp Kirkorov. The analysis is grounded in a close reading of the artists’ career trajectories, selected videos and – to a lesser extent – textual analysis of their lyrics…
Screen agencies as cultural intermediaries: Delivering gender equality in the film and television sectors
This article examines the role of national screen agencies in the realisation of an equitable screen sector. Publicly funded screen agencies like Ffilm Cymru Wales, Screen Ireland, Det Danske Filminstitut (Danish Film Institute) and Hrvatski Audiovizualni Centar (Croatian Audiovisual Centre) directly shape the sector, both on screen and behind the camera. Using interviews with senior decision-makers within several European screen agencies, we cri…
Female desire in phallocentric industries: A duo-ethnographic interrogation
The persistence of workplace inequality requires female subjects to examine their place in exploitative systems of production and consumption, and to identify means for emancipation beyond masculine dominant orders. In this paper we examine our past experiences as young women in the finance and oil industries, the phallocentric and extractive engines of global capitalism. We do this by employing a duo-ethnographic approach and a feminist reading …
The adult in the room: Mobilizing the figure of the child in Sweden and Germany
This discussion takes as its starting point recent right-wing protests and -rhetoric, forming part of a conservative moral panic surrounding Drag Queen Story Hour (DQSH) and LGBTQ+ pride events, and in particular the harm these are proclaimed to be causing children. While mobilizing the figure of the child for political purposes is not a recent phenomenon, the momentum and number of fellow travelers the instrumentalization of vulnerable innocence…
Performative male vulnerability and right-wing privilege: Vladimir Putin, Jordan Peterson and Rasmus Paludan
Rape(d) nation: Tropes of sexual violence and rape fantasies in far-right ‘Sweden-memes’
This paper examines prevalent tropes of sexual violence and rape circulating in far-right discourses in and around Sweden. Combining Discourse Analysis with a feminist reading of memes depicting rape collected in online spaces known to harbour far-right extremism, we ask: What is the scene of rape? What are its key tropes enacting in a discursive sense? How can we understand these iterations of sexual violation as key fantasmatic scenes of contem…
Political science (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Politics (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works)