Tony Schirato
Biographic Data
| ID | 95015 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tony Schirato |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tony |
| FAMILY NAME | Schirato |
| SIGNATURE | SCHIRATO T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Central Queensland University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Using Corpora in Discourse Analysis
How can you carry out discourse analysis using corpus linguistics? What research questions should I ask? Which methods should you use and when? What is a collocational network or a key cluster? Introducing the major techniques, methods and tools for corpus-assisted analysis of discourse, this book answers these questions and more, showing readers how to best use corpora in their analyses of discourse. Using carefully tailored case studies, each c…
Bourdieu: A Critical Introduction
Throughout his career, French philosopher Pierre Bourdieu sought to interrogate what he described as the 'social unconscious', the means by which power is held and transmitted across generations. Bourdieu's work has been hugely influential in disciplines across the social sciences and humanities for decades, yet Schirato and Roberts argue that few scholars are using his work to its full potential.Bourdieu's work is so wide-ranging that commentary…
The field of cultural production
Understanding Bourdieu
Bourdieu's work is formidable-the journey is tough. Follow this French foreign legion-take an apple, take a hanky-but take this book.Peter Beilharz , Professor of Sociology , La Trobe UniversityPierre Bourdieu's work on the sociology of culture and language, on practical reason, on education, on citizenship and the cultures of poverty, and on a range of other topics is now coming to be seen as one of the 20th century's most important contribution…
Understanding Foucault: A critical introduction
'An outstandingly good introduction to Foucault's work: lucid, measured, well organised, and covering this complex and in many ways heterogeneous body of work with remarkable thoroughness and ease.' - Professor John Frow, University of MelbourneMichel Foucault is now regarded as one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century. He is known for his sensibility of critique and his commitment to movements for social change. His analysis o…
Implicit Messages Regarding Unhealthy Foodstuffs in Chinese Television Advertisements: Increasing the Risk of Obesity
Previous studies indicated that television (TV) advertising is associated with higher rates of obesity. The rate of obesity and overweight continues to rise in mainland China, bringing into question whether TV advertising to young audiences might be partly to blame. This study investigated messaging delivered through TV advertisements regarding healthy and unhealthy foodstuffs. A total of 42 major food brands and 480 advertisements were analysed …
Understanding Sports Culture
Introduction Playing Sport Theories of Play, Games and Sport Intimations of Sport The Field of Sport Global Sport Sport, the Media and Spectatorship From Sport to Spectacle Contemporary Sport
Technology, Reason and Globalisation?—O Brother
The Coen Brothers' movie O Brother Where Art Thou is a ragbag of intertexts and gags that also pays very serious attention to questions of community and culture, class and race. In tracing the path of the protagonists through De-pression-era Mississippi, it takes its audiences through the experience of social transformation, from superstition and local concerns to a supposedly brave new (global and technological) world. Although the film is set i…
The Media as spectacle: September 11 as soap opera
The concept of “spectacle” is most often associated with the writings of Guy Debord, but has also been developed and extended by later theorists, most particularly Jonathon Crary. We make use of their ideas on the “spectacle” which is the mass media to address two important sets of questions: how and why does the media find itself in a position to carry out the “immobilising” function ascribed to it by both Debord and Crary; and what are the tech…
Understanding Globalization
Bourdieu's Concept of Reflexivity as Metaliteracy
For Bourdieu, the extent to which agents can attain knowledge of, and negotiate, various cultural fields is dependent upon, and explicable in terms of, two epistemological types. The first is a practical sense (the ‘logic of practice’), while the second involves a sort of conscious comprehension that he names ‘reflexivity’. Bourdieu defines reflexivity as an interrogation of the three types of limitations (of social position, of field and of the …
The field of Cultural Production
Understanding Bourdieu
Bourdieu's Notion of Reflexive Knowledge
This article addresses Pierre Bourdieu's work on the principal logics under which human beings negotiate fields and engage in practice: either practical or reflexive knowledge. Bourdieu argues that reflexivity is capable of being taught and learned, and consciously incorporated into different levels of praxis. We describe and analyse the paths Bourdieu takes in arriving at this notion via both the usual suspects associated with his body of theory…
Asia: Cultural Politics in the Global Age
Understanding contemporary Asian societies and cultures is not merely a matter of knowing when to bow and how low. This title looks beyond the cliches and stereotypes to explore the cultural dynamics of the region
The Asia-Pacific Triennial - synthesis in the making
The 'New' Men's Magazines and the Performance of Masculinity
In Australia in the 1990s, following on from the phenomenon of the 'new woman's magazine', a new market in lifestyle magazines for men has emerged, distinct from magazines such as Penthouse, Playboy and Picture. This paper examines the phenomenon of the 'new' men's magazines, and argues that these magazines are a site in which contemporary performances of masculinities can be analysed, just as feminist and other analyses have examined and critiqu…
Anything goes: Lefort, ideology and the “adventure of democracy’
This article initially introduces and outlines the main aspects of Claude Lefort's theorising of democracy as a radically antagonistic and contingent political formation. This is followed by a critique of those theories, primarily through the application of Slavoj Zizek ‘s work on the politics of community as it applies to the emergence, in Australian politics, of Pauline Hanson and her ‘One Nation’ party and policies
Not what, but whose value: A response to Malcolm MacLean's review of Frow's cultural studies and cultural value
(1995). Not what, but whose value?: A response to Malcolm MacLean's review of Frow's cultural studies and cultural value. Social Semiotics: Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 299-308
Mabo and the politics of community
The main interest of this paper is to attempt to theorize, not the current Mabo debates, or even the various media productions of Mabo, but rather the notions of community which the media and other related institutions use to contextualize, situate, and evaluate Mabo. More specifically, I am going to suggest that various conservative productions of Mabo can be read as being predicated on discourses and narratives which strategically and necessari…
The Narrative of Orientalism
What returns? The politics of the unconscious
My space or yours: De Certeau, frow and the meanings of popular culture
Symptoms of american anxiety: Fathers/families, turtles and cape fear
The politics of forgetting: Freud,Totem and Tabooand the exclusion of women
What I would like to do in this article is to examine how, in Totem and Taboo, Freud's theories about the cultural centrality of the Oedipus complex produce a double scene of writing: a scene, like the narrative at the heart of Totem and Taboo, which works simultaneously and unconsciously to efface and re-inscribe the authority of the father. This article constitutes, then, an attempt to deconstruct one of the central texts of Freudian psychoanal…
Bourdieu's Concept of Reflexivity as Metaliteracy
For Bourdieu, the extent to which agents can attain knowledge of, and negotiate, various cultural fields is dependent upon, and explicable in terms of, two epistemological types. The first is a practical sense (the ‘logic of practice’), while the second involves a sort of conscious comprehension that he names ‘reflexivity’. Bourdieu defines reflexivity as an interrogation of the three types of limitations (of social position, of field and of the …
Bourdieu's Notion of Reflexive Knowledge
This article addresses Pierre Bourdieu's work on the principal logics under which human beings negotiate fields and engage in practice: either practical or reflexive knowledge. Bourdieu argues that reflexivity is capable of being taught and learned, and consciously incorporated into different levels of praxis. We describe and analyse the paths Bourdieu takes in arriving at this notion via both the usual suspects associated with his body of theory…
The 'New' Men's Magazines and the Performance of Masculinity
In Australia in the 1990s, following on from the phenomenon of the 'new woman's magazine', a new market in lifestyle magazines for men has emerged, distinct from magazines such as Penthouse, Playboy and Picture. This paper examines the phenomenon of the 'new' men's magazines, and argues that these magazines are a site in which contemporary performances of masculinities can be analysed, just as feminist and other analyses have examined and critiqu…
The Media as spectacle: September 11 as soap opera
The concept of “spectacle” is most often associated with the writings of Guy Debord, but has also been developed and extended by later theorists, most particularly Jonathon Crary. We make use of their ideas on the “spectacle” which is the mass media to address two important sets of questions: how and why does the media find itself in a position to carry out the “immobilising” function ascribed to it by both Debord and Crary; and what are the tech…
My space or yours: De Certeau, frow and the meanings of popular culture
Technology, Reason and Globalisation?—O Brother
The Coen Brothers' movie O Brother Where Art Thou is a ragbag of intertexts and gags that also pays very serious attention to questions of community and culture, class and race. In tracing the path of the protagonists through De-pression-era Mississippi, it takes its audiences through the experience of social transformation, from superstition and local concerns to a supposedly brave new (global and technological) world. Although the film is set i…
Symptoms of american anxiety: Fathers/families, turtles and cape fear
The politics of forgetting: Freud,Totem and Tabooand the exclusion of women
What I would like to do in this article is to examine how, in Totem and Taboo, Freud's theories about the cultural centrality of the Oedipus complex produce a double scene of writing: a scene, like the narrative at the heart of Totem and Taboo, which works simultaneously and unconsciously to efface and re-inscribe the authority of the father. This article constitutes, then, an attempt to deconstruct one of the central texts of Freudian psychoanal…
What returns? The politics of the unconscious
My space or yours: De Certeau, frow and the meanings of popular culture
Mabo and the politics of community
The main interest of this paper is to attempt to theorize, not the current Mabo debates, or even the various media productions of Mabo, but rather the notions of community which the media and other related institutions use to contextualize, situate, and evaluate Mabo. More specifically, I am going to suggest that various conservative productions of Mabo can be read as being predicated on discourses and narratives which strategically and necessari…
The Narrative of Orientalism
Not what, but whose value: A response to Malcolm MacLean's review of Frow's cultural studies and cultural value
(1995). Not what, but whose value?: A response to Malcolm MacLean's review of Frow's cultural studies and cultural value. Social Semiotics: Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 299-308
Anything goes: Lefort, ideology and the “adventure of democracy’
This article initially introduces and outlines the main aspects of Claude Lefort's theorising of democracy as a radically antagonistic and contingent political formation. This is followed by a critique of those theories, primarily through the application of Slavoj Zizek ‘s work on the politics of community as it applies to the emergence, in Australian politics, of Pauline Hanson and her ‘One Nation’ party and policies
The 'New' Men's Magazines and the Performance of Masculinity
In Australia in the 1990s, following on from the phenomenon of the 'new woman's magazine', a new market in lifestyle magazines for men has emerged, distinct from magazines such as Penthouse, Playboy and Picture. This paper examines the phenomenon of the 'new' men's magazines, and argues that these magazines are a site in which contemporary performances of masculinities can be analysed, just as feminist and other analyses have examined and critiqu…
The Asia-Pacific Triennial - synthesis in the making
Asia: Cultural Politics in the Global Age
Understanding contemporary Asian societies and cultures is not merely a matter of knowing when to bow and how low. This title looks beyond the cliches and stereotypes to explore the cultural dynamics of the region
The field of Cultural Production
Understanding Bourdieu
Bourdieu's Notion of Reflexive Knowledge
This article addresses Pierre Bourdieu's work on the principal logics under which human beings negotiate fields and engage in practice: either practical or reflexive knowledge. Bourdieu argues that reflexivity is capable of being taught and learned, and consciously incorporated into different levels of praxis. We describe and analyse the paths Bourdieu takes in arriving at this notion via both the usual suspects associated with his body of theory…
Understanding Globalization
Bourdieu's Concept of Reflexivity as Metaliteracy
For Bourdieu, the extent to which agents can attain knowledge of, and negotiate, various cultural fields is dependent upon, and explicable in terms of, two epistemological types. The first is a practical sense (the ‘logic of practice’), while the second involves a sort of conscious comprehension that he names ‘reflexivity’. Bourdieu defines reflexivity as an interrogation of the three types of limitations (of social position, of field and of the …
Technology, Reason and Globalisation?—O Brother
The Coen Brothers' movie O Brother Where Art Thou is a ragbag of intertexts and gags that also pays very serious attention to questions of community and culture, class and race. In tracing the path of the protagonists through De-pression-era Mississippi, it takes its audiences through the experience of social transformation, from superstition and local concerns to a supposedly brave new (global and technological) world. Although the film is set i…
The Media as spectacle: September 11 as soap opera
The concept of “spectacle” is most often associated with the writings of Guy Debord, but has also been developed and extended by later theorists, most particularly Jonathon Crary. We make use of their ideas on the “spectacle” which is the mass media to address two important sets of questions: how and why does the media find itself in a position to carry out the “immobilising” function ascribed to it by both Debord and Crary; and what are the tech…
Understanding Sports Culture
Introduction Playing Sport Theories of Play, Games and Sport Intimations of Sport The Field of Sport Global Sport Sport, the Media and Spectatorship From Sport to Spectacle Contemporary Sport
Implicit Messages Regarding Unhealthy Foodstuffs in Chinese Television Advertisements: Increasing the Risk of Obesity
Previous studies indicated that television (TV) advertising is associated with higher rates of obesity. The rate of obesity and overweight continues to rise in mainland China, bringing into question whether TV advertising to young audiences might be partly to blame. This study investigated messaging delivered through TV advertisements regarding healthy and unhealthy foodstuffs. A total of 42 major food brands and 480 advertisements were analysed …
Bourdieu: A Critical Introduction
Throughout his career, French philosopher Pierre Bourdieu sought to interrogate what he described as the 'social unconscious', the means by which power is held and transmitted across generations. Bourdieu's work has been hugely influential in disciplines across the social sciences and humanities for decades, yet Schirato and Roberts argue that few scholars are using his work to its full potential.Bourdieu's work is so wide-ranging that commentary…
The field of cultural production
Understanding Bourdieu
Bourdieu's work is formidable-the journey is tough. Follow this French foreign legion-take an apple, take a hanky-but take this book.Peter Beilharz , Professor of Sociology , La Trobe UniversityPierre Bourdieu's work on the sociology of culture and language, on practical reason, on education, on citizenship and the cultures of poverty, and on a range of other topics is now coming to be seen as one of the 20th century's most important contribution…
Understanding Foucault: A critical introduction
'An outstandingly good introduction to Foucault's work: lucid, measured, well organised, and covering this complex and in many ways heterogeneous body of work with remarkable thoroughness and ease.' - Professor John Frow, University of MelbourneMichel Foucault is now regarded as one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century. He is known for his sensibility of critique and his commitment to movements for social change. His analysis o…
Using Corpora in Discourse Analysis
How can you carry out discourse analysis using corpus linguistics? What research questions should I ask? Which methods should you use and when? What is a collocational network or a key cluster? Introducing the major techniques, methods and tools for corpus-assisted analysis of discourse, this book answers these questions and more, showing readers how to best use corpora in their analyses of discourse. Using carefully tailored case studies, each c…
Sociology (17 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · History (6 works) · Social and Cultural Dynamics (6 works) · History (5 works) · Politics (5 works)