Satire can function both as a form of resistance that unsettles existing gender orders and as a mechanism through which such orders are reproduced. This study situates the satirical engagement with Wolf Warrior-style militarized masculinity within the context of neo/non-liberal China, examining the agentic potential of user practices and their complex relationship with gender norms. Drawing on digital ethnography and critical visual analysis, the study identifies three primary modes of satire: double-voiced parody, narrative rewriting and visual manipulation. These practices, to some extent, expose the performativity and instability of militarized masculinity as embedded in China's historical and cultural context. However, the study also argues that such satire does not constitute a form of direct political confrontation; rather, it operates as a soft contestation within the constraints of strict censorship and ideological boundaries. Within this ambiguous and depoliticized mode of expression, satire may simultaneously undermine symbolic authority while inadvertently reinforcing the normative centrality of militarized masculinity.
This paper examines cellars as heterotopic sites for studying domestic waste management and the discursive production of value. Orienting to scholarship on materiality, space and affect, we conceptualize storage as a situated practice that endows space with social meaning and through which people enact particular identities and social values. Drawing on discourse-ethnographic data from cellar tours in four Swiss households, we present a mediated discourse analysis organized around four rhetorical tactics: erasure and deferral, relationalities, minimalism/excess and memory. These multimodal tactics help domestic actors negotiate competing value regimes and perform 'good citizenship' by managing clutter out of sight. We show how cellars conceal overflow to maintain curated domestic order and thereby, complicate social norms around tidiness and excess. We argue that cellars as heterotopias bend time-space relations and expose a discursive-material politics of value where storage practices index responsible citizenship and uphold social order. This renders the cellar simultaneously an ordinary infrastructure of domestic waste management and a micro-political site where negotiations around what - and who - holds value in society demand attention to waste as a matter of care.
This paper considers media portrayals of the case of Virginia L. Giuffre v Prince Andrew as a means of exploring the hegemonising qualities of news discourse. Informed by theoretical accounts of hegemonic domination, news texts pertaining to the alleged sexual assaults of Virginia by Andrew are analysed using techniques and approaches from CDA. This reveals features that reinforce victim-blaming ideologies surrounding sexual violence, disinvite critical scrutiny of powerful societal institutions, and reflect a wider entrenchment of conservative ideology and intransigent masculinity in news production. The findings of the study contribute principally to feminist critical discourse studies and broader understandings of discursively enacted hegemony.
This paper investigates a set of interactive resources for mining and energy education produced by the Australian mining industry and endorsed by Australia's Education Department. Building on Eaton, E., & Day, N. (2020. Petro-pedagogy: Fossil fuel interests and the obstruction of climate justice in public education. Environmental Education Research, 26(4), 457-473) 'petro-pedagogy', the study employs critical multimodal discourse analysis to show that these 'Oresome interactives', while often educational, disproportionately promote the interests of the mining industry. The resources represent the industry as an inevitable and positive part of modern Australian living, present the environmental impacts of mining as minimal and represent alternative energy sources as unstable, rare and unsightly. The paper concludes by calling for caution with regard to the use of such 'gifted' educational resources.
