Domesticating Citizenship: The Kairotopics of America's Post-9/11 Home Makeover.
A kairotopic analysis applied to the television program Extreme Makeover: Home Edition reveals how this program can be interpreted as making over democratic citizenship in post-9/11 America. Kairotopic analysis is one that involves the analysis of temporal-spatial elements. Applying such an analys...
| Publicado en: | Critical Studies in Media Communication Vol. 27; no. 1; pp. 84 - 105 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
March 2010
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| Sumario: | A kairotopic analysis applied to the television program Extreme Makeover: Home Edition reveals how this program can be interpreted as making over democratic citizenship in post-9/11 America. Kairotopic analysis is one that involves the analysis of temporal-spatial elements. Applying such an analysis to Extreme Makeover reveals how this program mediates citizenship through a particular material space-time: the contemporary American home. This show operates to redirect political agency into familiar (nuclear) familial space-times and to domesticate political practices by relocating social responsibility from public institutions to private corporations. In so doing, the program offers a paradoxical combination of neoliberal economic and governmental imperatives allied to the social and moral norms of neoconservativism to build a new national home that is both post-dissident and postfeminist. |
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