Sean Phelan
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3622741 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Sean Phelan |
| PRENOMES | Sean |
| SOBRENOME | Phelan |
| ASSINATURA | PHELAN S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Massey University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6488-1703 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 39 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 199 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2002 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Understanding medical trainees’ anti-fat dislike
Anti-fat prejudice reduction interventions in the medical training environment should 1) emphasize the importance of, and increase adherence to, positive attitudinal role modeling among faculty and residents, 2) promote body self-acceptance among trainees, and 3) provide education around the complex interplay of genetic and environmental contributors to combat blame-based stereotypes surrounding weight
The Disproportionate Impact of Structural and Cultural Factors on Covid-19 Outcomes in Hispanic Populations
The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated health disparities, disproportionately impacting Hispanic populations. Structural inequities, unfavorable social determinants of health (SDOH), and sociocultural values have all been found to be associated with higher COVID-19 transmission rates. To explore this further, we conducted a community-engaged, mixed methods study to examine how these factors influenced adherence to COVID-19 guidelines. Data was collect…
Enacting and rearticulating “accountability”
Seven theses about the so-called culture war(s) (or some fragmentary notes on ‘cancel culture)
How might we understand the forms of mediatized politics that are signified under the dreary heading of the ‘culture war(s)’? This article addresses this question in the form of seven theses. Informed by a distinct theoretical reading of Laclau and Mouffe’s concept of antagonism, I highlight the anti-political character of culture war discourses, particularly as amplified in a public culture dominated by the social media industry. The seven these…
Special Issue Introduction
How might we map the different horizons, questions, topics and concerns that come into view when we bring together the signifiers “critique”, “postcritique” and the “present conjuncture”? The canvas suggested by the question might seem impossibly broad and disorderly, but the different contributions to this special issue of Media Theory share a common desire to confront the question of what critique means today. This editorial introduction identi…
Where is ‘the political’ in the journal Political Communication ? On the hegemonic articulation of a disciplinary identity
Critical scholars have long critiqued the circumscribed theoretical boundaries of political communication research in its dominant disciplinary identity.This identity is usually attributed to the hegemonic authority of a functionalist paradigm of political communication anchored in the use of positivist epistemologies and quantitative methods.This article revisits these old debates from a post-foundational discourse theoretical perspective, drawi…
Friends, enemies, and agonists
The radical democratic theorist Chantal Mouffe has long criticized the moralization of politics in its neoliberalized Third Way form. The argument informs her analysis of the rise of the far right, which she suggests has partly been enabled by moralizing antagonisms that inhibit a culture of agonistic political contestation. This paper uses Mouffe to think about the current condition of mediatized public discourse, extending her critique of moral…
Neoliberalism and authoritarian media cultures
This study asks how the concept of neoliberalism can be adapted to a critical analysis of authoritarian political and media cultures that cannot be adequately understood through the Western-centric narratives that dominate the literature on neoliberalism. We examine the case of Vietnam, a country where the relationship between the media system and the political system is defined primarily by the power of the party-state autocracy. We explore the …
Association of Patient and System-Level Factors With Social Determinants of Health Screening
BACKGROUND: Health systems are increasingly recognizing the importance of collecting social determinants of health (SDoH) data. However, gaps remain in our understanding of facilitators or barriers to collection. To address these gaps, we evaluated a real-world implementation of a SDoH screening tool. METHODS: We conducted a retrospective analysis of the implementation of the SDoH screening tool at Mayo Clinic in 2019. The outcomes are: (1) compl…
Journalism ‘fixers’, hyper-precarity and the violence of the entrepreneurial self
The figure of the so-called journalism ‘fixer’ has received overdue academic attention in recent years. Scholars have highlighted the role played by fixers in international news reporting, a role historically obscured in the mythos of the Western foreign correspondent. Recent research has produced useful insights about the work done by fixers in ‘the shadows’ of the international news economy. However, it has also tended towards a domestication o…
What’s in a name? Political antagonism and critiquing ‘neoliberalism
The concept of neoliberalism has been central to critiques of the dominant social order over the last 20 years. The use of the term itself is often a focus of repetitive debates, between those who affirm its conceptual validity and those who highlight its vagueness. Informed by Laclau's concepts of antagonism and heterogeneity, this article offers a theoretical account of how the term is articulated, especially in left-wing discourses (including …
The Interplay Between Group Identity, Suicidality, and Bullying in Midwestern Middle School Youth
Bullying peaks in middle school and is a risk factor for negative mental health outcomes, including suicidality. Suicide rates are higher in nonmetropolitan/rural areas and for American Indian/Alaska Natives compared to other racial/ethnic groups. Stigma-related bullying, a type of interpersonal discrimination, is increasingly considered an important driver of peer victimization. This study centers on the group identity characteristics of race/et…
Twitter as a right-wing populist’s playground
Neoliberalism, the Far Right, and the Disparaging of “Social Justice Warriors”
This paper examines the cultural politics of a conjunctural moment where the terms of neoliberal hegemony have been destabilized and the far right has been reinvigorated. Instead of simply assuming the “end” of neoliberalism, I explore the potential ideological and communicative affinities between neoliberal political rationality and online media practices that exemplify the emboldening of racist, misogynistic, and authoritarian discourses. I gro…
Just doing their job?’ Journalism, online critique and the political resignation of Metiria Turei
When Metiria Turei resigned as co-leader of the Green party of Aotearoa New Zealand in August 2017, there was clear disagreement about the role played by journalism in her resignation. The controversy began after Turei confessed to not disclosing full information to the authorities about her personal situation as a welfare recipient in the 1990s. Journalists insisted they were simply ‘doing their job’ by interrogating Turei’s story, while online …
Neoliberalism and Media
Critical discourse analysis and media studies
This chapter focuses on Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), but embeds the discussion in some general reflections on the place of the concept of discourse in media studies. It reflects on the emergence of CDA as a distinct approach in the 1980s and 1990s, especially as it resonated with the theoretical division between political economy and cultural studies in media studies. The chapter considers possible future iterations of media discourse studi…
The Journalistic Habitus, Neoliberal(Ized) Logics, and the Politics of Public Education
This article examines the relationship between neoliberalism and journalism as it relates to the articulation of a marketized education agenda. We examine the case of Campbell Brown, the former CNN anchor, who, after leaving journalism in 2010, reinvented herself as a high-profile education campaigner from 2012 to 2016, asserting an identity that was hostile to trade unions and supportive of charter schools. Brown initially represented her advoca…
The Politics of Interfield Antagonisms
Bourdieu’s field theory has been used to analyse the internal dynamics of the journalistic field, and to compare journalistic fields in different national contexts. However, studies of the power relations between the journalistic field and other social fields have been less common, despite the theory’s general assumptions about “the media’s” capacity to shape the coordinates and subjectivities of agents elsewhere. This article explores the interf…
Reinvigorating ideology critique
The concept of ideology has historically been a master signifier of critique in media and communication studies. However, the concept’s status has been decentred, to the extent that Downey, Titley and Toynbee recently argued – in this journal – ‘there’s no ideology critique’. I affirm their call for a reinvigoration of ideology critique in media studies, although I question the force of their claim that contemporary media researchers are indiffer…
Learn to Write Badly
Criticisms of the self-indulgent and abstruse nature of academic writing – from both left and right, from both inside and outside the academy – are nothing new. Academics are denounced for writing
Minority Primary Care Patients With Depression
BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: Racial and ethnic disparities in depression incidence, prevalence, treatment, and outcomes still persist. The hypothesis of this study was that use of collaborative care management (CCM) in treating depressed primary care patients would decrease racial disparities in 6-month clinical outcomes compared with those patients treated with usual primary care (UC). RESEARCH DESIGN/SUBJECTS: In a retrospective chart review analysis…
Neoliberalism, Media and the Political
Neoliberalism, Media and the Political examines the condition of media and journalism in neoliberal cultures. Emphasizing neoliberalism's status as a political ideology that is simultaneously hostile
Utilization of Hospital-Based Chaplain Services Among Newly Diagnosed Male Veterans Affairs Colorectal Cancer Patients
The rise and fall of neo-liberalism
The rise and fall of neo-liberalism: the collapse of an economic order? edited by Kean Birch and Vlad Mykhnenko, London and New York, Zed Books, 2010, 280 pp., £18.99 (paperback), ISBN 978184813349
The Association between Perceived Discrimination and Underutilization of Needed Medical and Mental Health Care in a Multi-Ethnic Community Sample
This study examines the association between perceived discrimination and underutilization of needed medical and mental health care, in a representative, multi-ethnic community sample. Data were derived from a cross sectional survey of 10,098 White, U.S.-born Black, African-born Black, American Indian, Hispanic, and Southeast Asian adults in Hennepin County, Minnesota. Even after controlling for socio-demographic characteristics, health care acces…
The Discourses of Neoliberal Hegemony
The Irish Republic's economic success story has been simultaneously regarded as antithetical to and indicative of neoliberal hegemony. The question of the neoliberal pedigree of the Irish case is explored here from the perspective of mediatized representations of political economy. The paper's argument is advanced in three distinct stages. First, it outlines a theoretical and methodological rationale for the analysis itself. Second, it formulates…
Patient race and physicians' decisions to prescribe opioids for chronic low back pain
Neoliberalism, the Far Right, and the Disparaging of “Social Justice Warriors”
This paper examines the cultural politics of a conjunctural moment where the terms of neoliberal hegemony have been destabilized and the far right has been reinvigorated. Instead of simply assuming the “end” of neoliberalism, I explore the potential ideological and communicative affinities between neoliberal political rationality and online media practices that exemplify the emboldening of racist, misogynistic, and authoritarian discourses. I gro…
Some Recovery Processes in Mutual-Help Groups for Persons with Mental Illness; II
The Journalistic Habitus, Neoliberal(Ized) Logics, and the Politics of Public Education
This article examines the relationship between neoliberalism and journalism as it relates to the articulation of a marketized education agenda. We examine the case of Campbell Brown, the former CNN anchor, who, after leaving journalism in 2010, reinvented herself as a high-profile education campaigner from 2012 to 2016, asserting an identity that was hostile to trade unions and supportive of charter schools. Brown initially represented her advoca…
The newspaper as political antagonist
The 2003 political conflict over the ownership of the country's foreshore and seabed, which followed a June 2003 Court of Appeal ruling, was regarded by many New Zealanders as a defining moment in the evolution of the country's post-colonial relationship between the Crown and Maori. This article examines how the conflict was discursively constructed in the first editorial on the issue by New Zealand's four biggest-selling daily newspapers, all of…
What’s in a name? Political antagonism and critiquing ‘neoliberalism
The concept of neoliberalism has been central to critiques of the dominant social order over the last 20 years. The use of the term itself is often a focus of repetitive debates, between those who affirm its conceptual validity and those who highlight its vagueness. Informed by Laclau's concepts of antagonism and heterogeneity, this article offers a theoretical account of how the term is articulated, especially in left-wing discourses (including …
The discursive dynamics of neo-liberal consensus
The stock market floatation of Telecom Eireann (the soon to be renamed Eircom) in July 1999 was, and remains, “the biggest privatization in the history of the Irish state”. Through the application of a critical discourse analysis framework (Chouliaraki and Fairclough 1999; Fairclough 2003), this article examines editorial discourse both before and after the company’s initially ‘successful’ floatation in six Irish broadsheet newspapers. The differ…
Journalism ‘fixers’, hyper-precarity and the violence of the entrepreneurial self
The figure of the so-called journalism ‘fixer’ has received overdue academic attention in recent years. Scholars have highlighted the role played by fixers in international news reporting, a role historically obscured in the mythos of the Western foreign correspondent. Recent research has produced useful insights about the work done by fixers in ‘the shadows’ of the international news economy. However, it has also tended towards a domestication o…
Seven theses about the so-called culture war(s) (or some fragmentary notes on ‘cancel culture)
How might we understand the forms of mediatized politics that are signified under the dreary heading of the ‘culture war(s)’? This article addresses this question in the form of seven theses. Informed by a distinct theoretical reading of Laclau and Mouffe’s concept of antagonism, I highlight the anti-political character of culture war discourses, particularly as amplified in a public culture dominated by the social media industry. The seven these…
Reinvigorating ideology critique
The concept of ideology has historically been a master signifier of critique in media and communication studies. However, the concept’s status has been decentred, to the extent that Downey, Titley and Toynbee recently argued – in this journal – ‘there’s no ideology critique’. I affirm their call for a reinvigoration of ideology critique in media studies, although I question the force of their claim that contemporary media researchers are indiffer…
The “Radical”, the “Activist” and the Hegemonic Newspaper Articulation of the Aotearoa New Zealand Foreshore and Seabed Conflict
Popular assessments of the media treatment of the foreshore and seabed conflict point to a picture largely consistent with the well-established argument that mainstream Aotearoa New Zealand media function as hegemonic agents of the dominant Pakeha culture. This paper reflects on the hegemonic representation of the 2003/4 conflict over the "ownership" of the country's foreshore and seabed by examining specifically how two ideologically potent sign…
Friends, enemies, and agonists
The radical democratic theorist Chantal Mouffe has long criticized the moralization of politics in its neoliberalized Third Way form. The argument informs her analysis of the rise of the far right, which she suggests has partly been enabled by moralizing antagonisms that inhibit a culture of agonistic political contestation. This paper uses Mouffe to think about the current condition of mediatized public discourse, extending her critique of moral…
Just doing their job?’ Journalism, online critique and the political resignation of Metiria Turei
When Metiria Turei resigned as co-leader of the Green party of Aotearoa New Zealand in August 2017, there was clear disagreement about the role played by journalism in her resignation. The controversy began after Turei confessed to not disclosing full information to the authorities about her personal situation as a welfare recipient in the 1990s. Journalists insisted they were simply ‘doing their job’ by interrogating Turei’s story, while online …
Where is ‘the political’ in the journal Political Communication ? On the hegemonic articulation of a disciplinary identity
Critical scholars have long critiqued the circumscribed theoretical boundaries of political communication research in its dominant disciplinary identity.This identity is usually attributed to the hegemonic authority of a functionalist paradigm of political communication anchored in the use of positivist epistemologies and quantitative methods.This article revisits these old debates from a post-foundational discourse theoretical perspective, drawi…
Neoliberalism and authoritarian media cultures
This study asks how the concept of neoliberalism can be adapted to a critical analysis of authoritarian political and media cultures that cannot be adequately understood through the Western-centric narratives that dominate the literature on neoliberalism. We examine the case of Vietnam, a country where the relationship between the media system and the political system is defined primarily by the power of the party-state autocracy. We explore the …
Twitter as a right-wing populist’s playground
Messy Grand Narrative or Analytical Blind Spot? When Speaking of Neoliberalism
Representing Islam in the Wake of September 11
This paper contrasts the immediate representations of Islam on US television and CNN's online messageboard by focusing on the noun phrases for 'Islamic' used in both media fora from September 11 to 16. The study found some notable congruities and differences in the associations made with Islam in each context. It considers these findings in terms of previous research on the representation of Islam and terrorism in 'Western' media; the official in…
Some Recovery Processes in Mutual-Help Groups for Persons with Mental Illness; II
The Discourses of Neoliberal Hegemony
The Irish Republic's economic success story has been simultaneously regarded as antithetical to and indicative of neoliberal hegemony. The question of the neoliberal pedigree of the Irish case is explored here from the perspective of mediatized representations of political economy. The paper's argument is advanced in three distinct stages. First, it outlines a theoretical and methodological rationale for the analysis itself. Second, it formulates…
Messy Grand Narrative or Analytical Blind Spot? When Speaking of Neoliberalism
The discursive dynamics of neo-liberal consensus
The stock market floatation of Telecom Eireann (the soon to be renamed Eircom) in July 1999 was, and remains, “the biggest privatization in the history of the Irish state”. Through the application of a critical discourse analysis framework (Chouliaraki and Fairclough 1999; Fairclough 2003), this article examines editorial discourse both before and after the company’s initially ‘successful’ floatation in six Irish broadsheet newspapers. The differ…
The “Radical”, the “Activist” and the Hegemonic Newspaper Articulation of the Aotearoa New Zealand Foreshore and Seabed Conflict
Popular assessments of the media treatment of the foreshore and seabed conflict point to a picture largely consistent with the well-established argument that mainstream Aotearoa New Zealand media function as hegemonic agents of the dominant Pakeha culture. This paper reflects on the hegemonic representation of the 2003/4 conflict over the "ownership" of the country's foreshore and seabed by examining specifically how two ideologically potent sign…
The Association between Perceived Discrimination and Underutilization of Needed Medical and Mental Health Care in a Multi-Ethnic Community Sample
This study examines the association between perceived discrimination and underutilization of needed medical and mental health care, in a representative, multi-ethnic community sample. Data were derived from a cross sectional survey of 10,098 White, U.S.-born Black, African-born Black, American Indian, Hispanic, and Southeast Asian adults in Hennepin County, Minnesota. Even after controlling for socio-demographic characteristics, health care acces…
Patient race and physicians' decisions to prescribe opioids for chronic low back pain
The newspaper as political antagonist
The 2003 political conflict over the ownership of the country's foreshore and seabed, which followed a June 2003 Court of Appeal ruling, was regarded by many New Zealanders as a defining moment in the evolution of the country's post-colonial relationship between the Crown and Maori. This article examines how the conflict was discursively constructed in the first editorial on the issue by New Zealand's four biggest-selling daily newspapers, all of…
Stereotype Threat and Health Disparities
Neither With You or Against You
Irish public sphere discourse about the United States has, particularly since the September 11 attacks, been regularly reproached for being ‘anti-American’. This paper explores the cultural politics of this charge by creatively juxtaposing the analysis of an Irish current affairs programme with a Hollywood made ‘Irish’ movie. The value of our analysis, we argue, is that, taken together, both objects enable us to problematize the politics of the o…
Discourse Theory and Critical Media Politics
Discourse Theory and Critical Media Politics
The Media as the Neoliberalized Sediment
The work of Laclau and Bourdieu can, in one sense, be opposed. If Laclau can be characterized as a political theorist who is antagonistic to a "sociologistic descriptivism" (Laclau & Mouffe, 2001, p. 2), Bourdieu can be described as a sociologist who is antagonistic to abstract theory. Laclau (1990) criticizes sociology for occluding the political logic of the social, while Bourdieu (1990) reproaches scholastic articulations of theory for dispara…
Media Critique, Agonistic Respect and the (Im)possibility of a “Really Quite Pretentious” Liminal Space
This essay reflects on the blogosphere reaction to a journal article of mine about the relationship between journalists and media academics in Aotearoa New Zealand. Much of the response reenacted the original essay's argument about journalistic antagonisms towards critical theoretical scholarship. I resituate the reaction in terms of the original essay's objectives, and discuss the chaotic nature of these academic field/journalistic field exchang…
The rise and fall of neo-liberalism
The rise and fall of neo-liberalism: the collapse of an economic order? edited by Kean Birch and Vlad Mykhnenko, London and New York, Zed Books, 2010, 280 pp., £18.99 (paperback), ISBN 978184813349
Neoliberalism, Media and the Political
Neoliberalism, Media and the Political examines the condition of media and journalism in neoliberal cultures. Emphasizing neoliberalism's status as a political ideology that is simultaneously hostile
Utilization of Hospital-Based Chaplain Services Among Newly Diagnosed Male Veterans Affairs Colorectal Cancer Patients
Learn to Write Badly
Criticisms of the self-indulgent and abstruse nature of academic writing – from both left and right, from both inside and outside the academy – are nothing new. Academics are denounced for writing
Minority Primary Care Patients With Depression
BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: Racial and ethnic disparities in depression incidence, prevalence, treatment, and outcomes still persist. The hypothesis of this study was that use of collaborative care management (CCM) in treating depressed primary care patients would decrease racial disparities in 6-month clinical outcomes compared with those patients treated with usual primary care (UC). RESEARCH DESIGN/SUBJECTS: In a retrospective chart review analysis…
The Politics of Interfield Antagonisms
Bourdieu’s field theory has been used to analyse the internal dynamics of the journalistic field, and to compare journalistic fields in different national contexts. However, studies of the power relations between the journalistic field and other social fields have been less common, despite the theory’s general assumptions about “the media’s” capacity to shape the coordinates and subjectivities of agents elsewhere. This article explores the interf…
Reinvigorating ideology critique
The concept of ideology has historically been a master signifier of critique in media and communication studies. However, the concept’s status has been decentred, to the extent that Downey, Titley and Toynbee recently argued – in this journal – ‘there’s no ideology critique’. I affirm their call for a reinvigoration of ideology critique in media studies, although I question the force of their claim that contemporary media researchers are indiffer…
Critical discourse analysis and media studies
This chapter focuses on Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), but embeds the discussion in some general reflections on the place of the concept of discourse in media studies. It reflects on the emergence of CDA as a distinct approach in the 1980s and 1990s, especially as it resonated with the theoretical division between political economy and cultural studies in media studies. The chapter considers possible future iterations of media discourse studi…
The Journalistic Habitus, Neoliberal(Ized) Logics, and the Politics of Public Education
This article examines the relationship between neoliberalism and journalism as it relates to the articulation of a marketized education agenda. We examine the case of Campbell Brown, the former CNN anchor, who, after leaving journalism in 2010, reinvented herself as a high-profile education campaigner from 2012 to 2016, asserting an identity that was hostile to trade unions and supportive of charter schools. Brown initially represented her advoca…
Neoliberalism and Media
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