Strictly an act of street violence”
Intimate publicity and affective divestment in the New Orleans Mother’s Day shooting
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12739735 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ashley Noel Mack (0000-0002-4947-4288, Louisiana State University, corresponding author), Bryan J Mccann (0000-0001-5012-6072, Louisiana State University) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 334-350 |
| Publication date | 2017-09-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1479-1420 • E-ISSN: 1479-4233 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14791420.2017.1366661 |
| OpenAlex | W2751607729 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
On May 12, 2013, two men opened fire on a Mother’s Day second line parade in New Orleans’s Seventh Ward. This essay attends to discourses from public officials and news media following the shooting that reified what we describe as affective divestment from the suffering of historically marginalized bodies and communities. Specifically, public discourse characterized the shooting as an episode of “street violence” that did not warrant sustained national attention. Affective divestment is the consequence of rhetorical maneuvers that signal a pushing away from certain bodies by intimate publics—an estrangement at the symbolic level that has naturalized or rationalized the neglect of certain forms of suffering. Such estrangement, we argue, is a function of neoliberal logics that devalue and, at times, necessitate the suffering of disposable populations
Aesthetics · Art · Criminology · Divestment · Media studies · Parade · Political science · Publicity · Rhetorical question · Sociology · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · Law
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,43 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2025 (7) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |