Consuming Compassion

Aids, Figure Skating, and Canadian Identity

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2348828
AutoresSamantha King (0009-0008-6012-2022, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, autor correspondente)
Ano2000
Volume24
Fascículo2
Páginas148-175
Data de publicação2000-05-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Sport and Social Issues (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0193-7235 • E-ISSN: 1552-7638
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0193723500242004
OpenAlexW2083796289
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas13

This article explores media coverage of male figure skaters who have died of AIDS-related illnesses, and the implication of the 'AIDS crisis in figure skating' in ongoing struggles over HIV/AIDS policy in Canada. Although the Canadian media and public framed their responses to the crisis in terms of tolerance and compassion, the author shows how these responses reinforced a heteronormative logic of Canadian citizenship. Moreover, the author suggests that the performances of compassion and tolerance that emerged in the figure skating story are less evidence of the superior moral nature of Canada, as public discourse frequently suggests, than illustrations of the ways in which the struggle to define a distinct Canadian identity relies on narratives that imagine Canada as more compassionate and tolerant than the United States

Aesthetics · Art · Citizenship · Compassion · Identity (music · Literature · Media studies · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Health, Geopolitics, Historical Geography · Military history and social perspectives · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts