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Mulcahy, Linda, and David Sugarman. "Introduction: Legal Life Writing and Marginalized Subjects and Sources." Journal of Law and Society 42, no. 1 (February 9, 2015): 1–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6478.2015.00695.x.
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Bullard, Julia, Amber Dierking, and Avi Grundner. "Centring LGBT2QIA+ Subjects in Knowledge Organization Systems." KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION 47, no. 5 (2020): 393–403. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/0943-7444-2020-5-393.
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This paper contains a report of two interdependent knowledge organization (KO) projects for an LGBT2QIA+ library. The authors, in the context of volunteer library work for an independent library, redesigned the classification system and subject cataloguing guidelines to centre LGBT2QIA+ subjects. We discuss the priorities of creating and maintaining knowledge organization systems for a historically marginalized community and address the challenge that queer subjectivity poses to the goals of KO. The classification system features a focus on identity and physically reorganizes the library space in a way that accounts for the multiple and overlapping labels that constitute the currently articulated boundaries of this community. The subject heading system focuses on making visible topics and elements of identity made invisible by universal systems and by the newly implemented classification system. We discuss how this project may inform KO for other marginalized subjects, particularly through process and documentation that prioritizes transparency and the acceptance of an unfinished endpoint for queer KO.
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Hodgin, Nick. "Marginalized Subjects, Mainstream Objectives: Insights on Outsiders in Recent German Film." New Readings 8 (January 1, 2007): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.18573/newreadings.55.
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Durepos, Gabrielle, Ajnesh Prasad, and Cristian E. Villanueva. "How might we study international business to account for marginalized subjects?" critical perspectives on international business 12, no. 3 (July 4, 2016): 306–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/cpoib-03-2016-0004.
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Purpose The aim of this article is to encourage critical scholars of international business (IB) to engage with scholarship that turns to practice and situates knowledges. The paper contends that such undertakings have the potential to constructively politicize research in the field of international business. Design/methodology/approach The paper discusses the need for future research in the field to be studied more critically so as to be able to focus attention on those subjects detrimentally impacted by the operation of IB. It further identifies possibilities for doing so. Findings The paper argues that turning to practice and situating knowledges represents a move towards the emancipation of subjects marginalized – and, all too often, silenced – in the ordinary functioning of IB. Originality/value Moving against the grain of positivist orientated approaches to research in the field, whilst simultaneously building on the critical traditions to the study of IB, we consider how future scholarship might account for marginalized subjects.
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Gambino, Elena. "“A More Thorough Resistance”? Coalition, Critique, and the Intersectional Promise of Queer Theory." Political Theory 48, no. 2 (June 4, 2019): 218–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0090591719853642.
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Queer theorists have long staked their politics in an engagement with intersectionality. Yet intersectional scholars have been some of queer theory’s most vocal critics, decrying its failure to adequately engage persistent inequalities. I approach this seeming paradox in three parts. First, I situate intersectionality within the field of critical theory, arguing that it shares critical theory’s view of power. Both traditions, I argue, understand power to generate the very marginalized figures that it subordinates. Second, while intersectional and queer theories share this critical insight, the two frameworks offer fundamentally different understandings of what constitutes a democratic politics of redress. Where intersectional theorists promote coalition-building between differently marginalized subjects, queer theorists tend to figure sexually marginalized subjects as exemplary democratic agents. Finally, I argue that this slippage in conceptions of democracy has had negative consequences for critical theory and highlights the difficult but essential role of coalition as a political resource.
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Harris, Leila, and Natália Affonso. "(Dis)locating the norms: marginalized subjects as protagonists in here comes the sun." Antares: letras e humanidades 11, no. 22 (May 13, 2018): 3–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.18226/19844921.v11.n22.01.
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Silva, Nathália Brunet Procópio da, and Letícia Dias Fantinel. "Desigualdades e Resistências no Organizar de Práticas Festivas Marginalizadas." Organizações & Sociedade 28, no. 96 (March 2021): 112–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1984-92302021v28n9605pt.
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Abstract This article is based on the understanding of festivals as organizations and events that are multiform and establish mediations with society (Amaral, 1998a; Davel, 2016). Based on a multi-political perspective, our objective was to reflect on the social production of inequalities and forms of resistance in the organization of the congo capixaba festival, in the state of Espírito Santo. Our theoretical reflections were grounded in Certeau’s (Certeau, 1985, 2008, 2012; Certeau, Giard, & Mayol, 2003), Hall’s (2003, 2011) and Sansone’s (2004) discussions and reflections regarding contemporary black culture. Our empirical field of investigation was the Carnaval de Congo de Máscaras [Congo Masquerade Carnival], in Roda D’água, where we employed the ethnographic method as a data production and interpretation strategy. Our findings indicate the existence of “non-places” as products of historically produced conditions of social marginality, as well as an ethnic-racial invisibility reinforced in the festival’s organizational context. These non-places operate in the religious, touristic, and cultural macropolitical fields. On the other hand, we highlight how the subjects of such conditions deal with them by employing certain micropolitical tactics, which figure prominently in their everyday lives, and articulate themselves around a sense of tradition and belonging.
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Rose, Cameron, and Catherine Flynn. "Animating social work research findings: a case study of research dissemination to benefit marginalized young people." Visual Communication 17, no. 1 (September 26, 2017): 25–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1470357217727677.
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Findings in social work research are often disseminated in a manner that excludes the subjects of that research. In the SHINE for Kids – MyLifeNow research collaboration between a social work researcher, a communication design researcher and communication design students, research findings were animated in a variety of styles for distribution by the charitable organization. SHINE for Kids is a non-profit organization that assists and advocates for children with parents in prison. Transcripts of social work interviews with the children were modified into screenplays to be animated by communication design students. The animated documentary has advantages over the expository documentary mode, including protecting the identity of the subject and creating an affective video that constitutes a dual-process model of entertainment providing for a more socially connected pleasure.
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Silva, Nathália Brunet Procópio da, and Letícia Dias Fantinel. "Inequalities and Resistances in The Organization of Marginalized Festive Practices." Organizações & Sociedade 28, no. 96 (March 2021): 112–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1984-92302021v28n9605en.
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Abstract This article is based on the understanding of festivals as organizations and events that are multiform and establish mediations with society (Amaral, 1998a; Davel, 2016). Based on a multi-political perspective, our objective was to reflect on the social production of inequalities and forms of resistance in the organization of the congo capixaba festival, in the state of Espírito Santo. Our theoretical reflections were grounded in Certeau’s (Certeau, 1985, 2008, 2012; Certeau, Giard, & Mayol, 2003), Hall’s (2003, 2011) and Sansone’s (2004) discussions and reflections regarding contemporary black culture. Our empirical field of investigation was the Carnaval de Congo de Máscaras [Congo Masquerade Carnival], in Roda D’água, where we employed the ethnographic method as a data production and interpretation strategy. Our findings indicate the existence of “non-places” as products of historically produced conditions of social marginality, as well as an ethnic-racial invisibility reinforced in the festival’s organizational context. These non-places operate in the religious, touristic, and cultural macropolitical fields. On the other hand, we highlight how the subjects of such conditions deal with them by employing certain micropolitical tactics, which figure prominently in their everyday lives, and articulate themselves around a sense of tradition and belonging.
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Sonstegard, Adam. "Artistic Liberty and Slave Imagery: "Mark Twain's Illustrator," E. W. Kemble, Turns to Harriet Beecher Stowe." Nineteenth-Century Literature 63, no. 4 (March 1, 2009): 499–542. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ncl.2009.63.4.499.
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A comparison of Edward Windsor Kemble's illustrations for the first edition of Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884––85) and for an 1891 edition of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) shows that Kemble could render enslaved African Americans or impoverished European Americans as delineated individuals or as stereotypical figures, as he catered to audiences that had a stake in seeing these characters as unique personalities or as racialized "types." Marketing Twain's and Stowe's novels for mass audiences, Kemble mediated between literary authors who invest marginalized characters with distinct personalities and empowered, mainstream audiences who were less willing to accept individuality in minority figures. Kemble was not the egregiously racist exception for his time, but a reliable rule for the mainstream American publishing establishment; he typified Gilded Age readers who enjoyed the privileges of purchasing, reading, and illustrating literary representations of marginalized subjects——subjects who clearly did not enjoy such social privileges themselves. When Kemble takes artistic liberties in illustrating literary representations of slavery, then, he demonstrates graphically how Gilded Age readers were taking their own liberties reinterpreting these stories of slaves.
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Murtiningsih, Bertha Sri Eko, Maria Advenita, and S. Ikom. "Representation of Patriarchal Culture in New Media: A case study of News and Advertisement on Tribunnews.com." Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences 8, no. 3 (May 24, 2017): 143–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.5901/mjss.2017.v8n3p143.
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AbstractPatriarchal culture has become the dominant issue in online media. Recently, online news and advertising media have less gender perspective. Its content tends to position women as marginalized subjects receiving negative stereotypes. This study aims to review women’s reality in online media, in the form of: 1) news published on tribunnews.com; 2) how women issues are presented by using gender perspective journalism. This research uses descriptive qualitative content analysis approach combined with discourse analysis method of Sara Mills with a focus on the position of the subject and the object. Tribun daily Media in its online form (www.tribunnews.com) is the locus of this research. Tribunnews.com is selected because it ranks in big three news portal in Indonesia, having an extensive and strong network as they are supported by more than twenty regional press. The results show that media has not been fully able to raise women’s issue in the mainstream. The media still portrays women within the bond of patriarchal culture, discrimination, and consumeristic lifestyle. The power of patriarchy dominates the news which marginalizes women. News content and its features follow the pattern of male dominating power. Tribunnews.com has been legitimizing gender bias by accepting exploitation on female’s physical appearance as normal and acceptable. In other instances, Tribunnews.com does not highlight intellectual and leadership values of women as actors. News in online media should be reformed to be more gender sensitive.
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Sasani, Samira, and Hossein Davari. "Louis Althusser and Thomas Hardy: How Victorian Ideologies Work in Under the Greenwood Tree." International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences 50 (March 2015): 155–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.18052/www.scipress.com/ilshs.50.155.
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In his early novel, Under the Greenwood Tree, Thomas Hardy attempts to show the readers how the inhabitants of a small village are repressed by the ideologies the dominant class or capitalism defines for them. The aim of these suppressive programs is to oppress the individuals by making them good and subordinate subjects. Althusser calls these ideologies created by the dominant class, Ideological State Apparatuses; however, in this novel one observes how some of the subjects try to revolt against these cruel rules by defining their own ideologies. One can also recognize that how the blatant break of these ideological programs by the revolutionary subject makes the subject look weird and eventually how he/she is alienated and marginalized by the society. On the other hand, the good subjects are made to believe that following these ideologies is usual and breaking of them is synonymous with interfering with the discipline and order of nature. Brought up in the Victorian age, Hardy understands how people are controlled by the ideologies and how they subscribe to them unwisely. In this novel he shows how a new and up-date product of capitalism—the organ—is introduced to a very traditional atmosphere in order to indoctrinate new changes in it. The so-called good subjects simply believe that change is necessary and inevitable. But this change has wisely planned by the oppressive capitalist powers for whom this change means the manipulation of these docile subjects, not only by separating them from their music community but also by depriving them of their traditional music.
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Rizzo, Alessandra. "Translation and Bilingualism in Monica Ali’s and Jhumpa Lahiri’s Marginalized Identities." Text Matters, no. 2 (December 4, 2012): 264–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/v10231-012-0069-0.
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This study, drawing upon contemporary theories in the field of migration, postcolonialism, and translation, offers an analysis of literary works by Monica Ali (of Bangladeshi origins) and Jhumpa Lahiri (of Bengali Indian parents). Ali and Lahiri epitomize second-generation immigrant literature, play with the linguistic concept of translating and interpreting as forms of hybrid connections, and are significant examples of how a text may become a space where multi-faceted identities co-habit in a process of deconstructing and reconstructing their own sense of emplacement in non-native places. Each immigrant text becomes a hybrid site, where second- and third generations of immigrant subjects move as mobile, fluctuating and impermanent identities, caught up in the act of transmitting their bicultural and bilingual experience through the use of the English language as their instrument of communication in a universe which tends to marginalize them. This investigation seeks to demonstrate how Ali and Lahiri represent two different migrant experiences, Muslim and Indian, each of which functioning within a multicultural Anglo-American context. Each text is transformed into the lieu where identities become both identities-intranslation and translated identities and each text itself may be looked at as the site of preservation of native identities but also of the assimilation (or adaptation) of identity. Second-generation immigrant women writers become the interpreters of the old and new cultures, the translators of their own local cultures in a space of transition.
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McGuire, Keon M., and Jesus Cisneros. "Against Unseeing: Choosing an Embodied Ethics of Disidentification and Spiritual Grounding." Qualitative Inquiry 26, no. 8-9 (October 23, 2019): 1079–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1077800419881663.
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Despite historic and ongoing critiques of objectivity as the gold standard for evaluating the value of research, many doctoral students and early career scholars encounter the pressures to situate one’s work alongside such demands. However, such a demand often conflicts with those who are multiply marginalized and liminal subjects. Drawing on women of color feminist and ethnic and cultural studies scholars, in this article we argue for engaging liminalities as possibilities in our methodological orientation against intellectual unseeing.
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Vendramin, Valerija. "The Grammar of Knowledge: A Look at Feminism and Feminist Epistemologies." Šolsko polje XXXI, no. 5-6 (December 31, 2020): 139–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.32320/1581-6044.31(5-6)139-146.
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The aim of the article is to reflect indirectly first on all the contributions in this volume, and second to help fix the present line of thought onto feminist epistemologies. Some postulates of feminist epistemologies are presented. The key question of feminist epistemology as a field of inquiry is defined according to Iris Van Der Tuin (2016) – it involves “the epistemic status of the knowledge produced by privileged and marginalized subjects”, and the reflection about the intersection of knowledge and power. There are ethical and moral implications here: the challenge and responsibility to recognise power relations. If a knowing subject is understood as epistemically inferior, this has a negative effect on how they are understood in non-epistemic contexts (Fricker, 2017). Feminism, in other words, is an epistemological project (Bahovec, 2002).
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Chadwick, Rachelle. "Ambiguous subjects: Obstetric violence, assemblage and South African birth narratives." Feminism & Psychology 27, no. 4 (February 28, 2017): 489–509. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959353517692607.
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Obstetric violence is gaining recognition as a worldwide problem manifesting in a range of geopolitical contexts. While global public health attention is turning to this issue, there has been a lack of theoretical engagement by feminist psychologists with the phenomenon of obstetric violence. This paper contributes to the literature on obstetric violence via a feminist social constructionist analysis of “marginalized” and low-income South African women’s narratives of giving birth in public sector obstetric contexts. Drawing on interviews conducted in 2012 with 35 black, low-income women living in Cape Town, South Africa, the analysis focuses on obstetric violence as a relational, disciplinary, and productive process that has implications for the construction of women’s subjectivities and agency during childbirth. The findings focus on relational constructions of violence and agency in women’s narratives, including (a) the performance of docility as an act of ambiguous agency and (2) resistant bodies and modes of discipline. Framed within a Foucauldian approach to power and using the concept of assemblage, I argue that obstetric violence needs to be conceptualized as more than isolated acts involving individual perpetrators and victims. Instead, the analysis shows that obstetric violence functions as a mode of discipline embedded in normative relations of class, gender, race, and medical power.
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Jolly, R. J. "Desiring Good(s) in the Face of Marginalized Subjects: South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission in a Global Context." South Atlantic Quarterly 100, no. 3 (July 1, 2001): 693–715. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00382876-100-3-693.
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Piñeiro, Josué. "Epistemic Peerhood and Standpoint Theory." Southwest Philosophy Review 37, no. 1 (2021): 69–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/swphilreview20213719.
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This paper uses standpoint theory to explore whether all there is to establish epistemic peerhood between subjects is that they be (i) equally exposed to or familiar with the evidence pertaining to a disagreed claim, and be (ii) equals with regards to intelligence, freedom from bias and similar epistemic virtues within the domain of the claim in question. I argue that there is at least one general circumstance in which conditions (i) and (ii) are met, but nevertheless the subjects deviate in their likelihood to be mistaken about the claim in question, thus preventing them from being epistemic peers. Such a circumstance presents itself as a case in which the claim in question is part of those aspects of social relations and experiences of the marginalized.
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Wardi-Zonna, Katherine, and Anissa Janine Wardi. "In Passing: Arab American Poetry and the Politics of Race." Ethnic Studies Review 28, no. 2 (January 1, 2005): 17–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/esr.2005.28.2.17.
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Racial passing has a long history in America. In fact, there are manifold reasons for passing, not the least of which is to reap benefits-social, economic and legal-routinely denied to people of color. Passing is conventionally understood to be a volitional act that either situationally or permanently allows members of marginalized groups to assimilate into a privileged culture. While it could be argued that those who choose to pass are, in a sense, race traitors, betraying familial, historical and cultural ties to personhood,1 Wald provides another way of reading passing, or “crossing the line,” as a “practice that emerges from subjects' desires to control the terms of their racial definition, rather than be subject to the definitions of white supremacy” (6). She further contends that racial distinction, itself, “is a basis of racial oppression and exploitation” (6).
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Vázquez-Duran, Marisela, María Eugenia Jiménez-Corona, Laura Moreno-Altamirano, Enrique Octavio Graue-Hernández, Noé Guarneros, Leonardo Jiménez-Corona, and Aida Jiménez-Corona. "Social determinants for overweight and obesity in a highly marginalized population from Comitán, Chiapas, Mexico." Salud Pública de México 62, no. 5, sep-oct (August 29, 2020): 477–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.21149/10691.
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Objective. We assessed the prevalence of overweight and obesity and its association with some social determinants in a highly marginalized population in Mexico. Materials and methods. Cross-sectional study conducted in Comitán, Chiapas, from 2010 to 2012, comprising 1 858 subjects aged ≥20 years. We evaluated proximal, intermediate, and structural social determinants. Results. The prevalence of overweight and obesity was 37.9 and 16.5%, respectively. The probability of overweight and obesity was higher in participants with ≥primary school, self-reported non-indigenous origin, and medium level of marginalization compared with those with <primary school, self-reported indigenous origin, and high/ very high level of marginalization. Conclusion. The probability of overweight and obesity was higher in population with more favorable social conditions, which may be partially explained by changes in the traditional lifestyle with greater access to high energy foods and physical inactivity.
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PEARLMAN, LAZLO. "‘Dissemblage’ and ‘Truth Traps’: Creating Methodologies of Resistance in Queer Autobiographical Theatre." Theatre Research International 40, no. 1 (February 6, 2015): 88–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0307883314000613.
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After more than thirty years of solo autobiographical theatre created by LGBTQQIA performers throughout the West, the primary focus of shows made by artists of these identities has more or less remained stable since 1980. In 1982, queer performance artist Tim Miller presented the autobiographical solo show Post-War, and he is part of what is now a tradition of presenting out, celebratory, authentic LGBTQQIA stories onstage. As a self-identified trans performance artist and performing researcher, I have taken part in this practice. Performances, extending from Miller in 1982 to J MASE III in 2014, continue to revolve around the necessity of ‘coming out’, presenting the stories of how we came to know and experience the ‘truths’ of our identities. Performance theorist Deirdre Heddon confirms that these autobiographical works have largely been concerned with, and successful in, ‘using the public arena to “speak out”, attempting to make visible denied or marginalized subjects, or to “talk back”, aiming to challenge, contest and problematize dominant representations and assumptions about those subjects'. Works such as Miller's Glory Box (1999), which used his personal history of having a partner who is not a US citizen to discuss gay marriage and legal immigration for same-sex couples, and trans and Tamil performer D’Loco Kid's D’FaQto Life (2013), which presented an intersectionally marginalized trans person of colour's experience and narrative, have been critical in supporting political and personal empowerment for audiences and performers alike.
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Šatkauskas, Ignas. "Where is the Great Outdoors of Meillassoux’s Speculative Materialism?" Open Philosophy 3, no. 1 (March 2, 2020): 102–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/opphil-2020-0007.
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AbstractQuentin Meillassoux’s speculative materialism aims to define access to reality of the natural world apart from its giveness to sentient subjects. This world apart is designated by Meillassoux as the “Great Outdoors” which was marginalized as a topic of philosophy after Kant’s critiques. The question of the incommensurability of human subjects and physical objects is taken up by Meillassoux and addressed by allowing mathematizable properties of physical objects to be referred to objectively in mathematical statements. In this paper we follow the discussion with speculative materialism conducted by Deborah Danowski and Eduardo Viveiros de Castro in The Ends of the World (2017). These authors show that Meillassoux’s conception of the “Great Outdoors” includes, yet insufficiently explores, the notion of ancestral humanity in Amerindian myth – and intimately related to the practice of hallucinogenic trance – as the means to address the problem of said incommensurability.
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Morley, Alyssa. "Unraveling the ‘female teacher effect’: The positioning and agency of female teachers in girls’ education reform." education policy analysis archives 27 (November 4, 2019): 141. http://dx.doi.org/10.14507/epaa.27.4249.
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Concerns about the academic performance of students from marginalized groups underscore calls for students to be taught by teachers of similar racial, ethnic, or gender identities (e.g., Miller, 2018). In sub-Saharan Africa, projects enlist women teachers as role models for girls in an effort to redress persistent gender disparities in education. However, in casting women teachers as inherent role models to girls, these projects run the risk of reinforcing long-standing portrayals of women in the Global South as a monolithic group with heightened responsibility for development (Chant, 2006; Mohanty, 1988). I identify one policy pilot in Malawi as a window for examining this phenomenon, and I pair discourse analysis and ethnographic analysis to investigate how women teachers are constructed in this policy and how these constructions unravel in practice. Drawing on anthropology of policy, I first trace how female teachers are created as particular types of “policy subjects” (Ball, Maguire, Braun, Hoskins, 2011). Then, I examine how teachers at one school grapple with these narrowly constructed roles. This study’s findings caution against a disproportionate reliance on same-gender teachers for role-modelling, particularly when these teachers also belong to marginalized groups.
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Heaton, Matthew M. "ALIENS IN THE ASYLUM: IMMIGRATION AND MADNESS IN GOLD COAST." Journal of African History 54, no. 3 (November 2013): 373–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021853713000522.
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AbstractThis article examines the experiences of immigrants from British and French West African colonies in the Accra lunatic asylum in the first half of the twentieth century. Placing particular emphasis on how immigrants got into and out of the asylum, the article argues that immigrants were marginalized and manipulated by colonial psychiatric institutions to a greater extent than non-migrant colonial subjects in Gold Coast. In making this argument, the article argues for the value of adding colonial origin and subjecthood to the racial and gendered perspectives that have dominated the history of health and medicine in Africa to date.
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Ang, Sze Wei. "The unreliability of the minor: Class consciousness and its social effects." Cultural Dynamics 32, no. 1-2 (January 23, 2020): 99–116. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0921374019900702.
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The minor helps us theorize the possibilities of agency because it first raises questions about legibility and reliability. This article takes the example of class dynamics in postcolonial Malaysia to understand why meaningful changes to culture can be difficult to achieve when class consciousness determines what is “proper” or “good” behavior. The minor has limited capacities to disrupt dominant cultures because unless minor subjects subscribe to normative values and behaviors they become illegible, that is, invisible and marginalized. They consequently possess limited cultural capital to effect change because they are assumed to be unreliable by dint of their illegibility.
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Friedman, Elisabeth Jay. "The Reality of Virtual Reality: The Internet and Gender Equality Advocacy in Latin America." Latin American Politics and Society 47, no. 3 (2005): 1–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-2456.2005.tb00317.x.
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AbstractThis article examines the internet's potential to democratize gender equality advocacy in Latin America. Based on field research in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico, it challenges the assumption that the internet's horizontal organization and widespread dissemination inherently or inevitably lead to greater democratization. It advances two interrelated arguments. First, the internet's potential to foster democratic relations and effective strategies in civil society depends on the consciousness with which advocates adopt, share, and deploy the technology. Second, the internet is a critical resource for marginalized or socially suspect groups and subjects, providing a unique means to express and transmit often ostracized ideas and identities.
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Prieur, Annick, Sune Qvotrup Jensen, and Vibeke Bak Nielsen. "Lacking social skills: A social investment state’s concern for marginalized citizens’ ways of being." Critical Social Policy 40, no. 4 (September 26, 2019): 608–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0261018319878130.
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The Danish state is preoccupied with its citizens’ social skills, which are seen as important for the nations’ competitiveness. Such skills regard self-presentation, communication, emotional control etc. This article relies primarily on interviews with Danish social workers who are involved either in assessing young marginalized welfare clients’ personal readiness for schooling or employment or in preparing them for this through social skills training. Secondarily, it relies on fieldwork data from young Danes at the margins of the educational system and/or the labour market, who are frequently confronted with a devaluation of their personal ways of being. As personal resources related to ways of being, communicating, handling emotions etc. are ascribed social value, especially at the labour market they may work as a form of capital, while the lack of them may be a source of marginalization. These findings are discussed as signs of more general social normative demands, theoretically grasped in the meeting point of Bourdieu’s understanding of embodied cultural capital, of Skeggs’ analysis of how subjects are attributed value or not, and of Illouz’s investigation of the emotional demands contemporary capitalism puts on employees. Understanding the experiences of those who fail to comply with implicit social requirements for personal resources thus shed light on contemporary requirements regarding how to behave and communicate with other people as well as on the state’s investments in the most personal spheres of its citizens.
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Dharmaraj, Glory E. "Women as Border-Crossing Agents: Transforming the Center from the Margins." Missiology: An International Review 26, no. 1 (January 1998): 55–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/009182969802600105.
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While women have been marginalized in societies, by being in mission women have endeavored to remove the marginality of those they serve. Being at once objects and subjects of mission is a peculiar predicament of women in mission. This article examines how women engaged in mission negotiate with the center, namely, patriarchy. They submit to it, circumvent it, challenge it, and transform it. This article seeks to survey women's margin-center relations from the early Roman period to the present, and to explore briefly how the Women's Division of the United Methodist Church has been instrumental in leading the total denomination in the area of racial justice: an instance of margin transforming the center.
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Goodspeed-Chadwick, Julie. "Reconfiguring Identities in the Word and in the World: Naming Marginalized Subjects and Articulating Marginal Narratives in Early Canonical Works by Gertrude Stein." South Central Review 31, no. 2 (2014): 9–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/scr.2014.0012.
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Pringle, Richard. "Defamiliarizing Heavy-Contact Sports: A Critical Examination of Rugby, Discipline, and Pleasure." Sociology of Sport Journal 26, no. 2 (June 2009): 211–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/ssj.26.2.211.
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Pleasure can be regarded as a productive force in the constitution of the social significance of sport and desiring sport subjects. The organization and use of sport pleasure has been a relatively marginalized topic of examination. To promote and examine sport pleasure, I conducted semistructured interviews with seven passionate rugby players. Transcripts were analyzed via Foucauldian theorizing and revealed the intertwined workings of technologies of dominance and self in the constitution of rugby pleasures. As a strategy to defamiliarize and disrupt habitual and uncritical acceptance of rugby aggression, I argued that rugby pleasures were akin to sadomasochism. Rugby can be understood as a taboo-breaking game associated with transparent relations of power connected with the pleasure induced from physical domination and the fear of pain.
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Vasquez, Manuel A. "Paulo Freire and the crisis of modernity." Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses 26, no. 2 (June 1997): 185–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/000842989702600203.
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Brazilian educator Paulo Freire played an influential role in the development of grass-roots religious movements throughout the Third World from the 1960s to 1980s. Partaking of the Enlightenment affirmation of critical thinking as the key emancipatory tool, Freire's pedagogical method has empowered hitherto marginalized subjects. Toward the end of the 1980s, however, postmodernist critiques of Enlightenment rationality as domination have raised some troublesome doubts about the viability of modernist emancipatory projects, including Freire's method. In this article, I reformulate Freire's method to respond to the challenges of postmodernist critiques. I argue that despite some serious shortcomings, the emancipatory impulse behind Freire's pedagogy is worth preserving. Further, I see a revised Freirean approach as a salutary counterpoint to postmodernism's excessive localism and elective affinity with neoliberal capitalism.
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Musiimenta, Angella, Wilson Tumuhimbise, Elly Bangumya, Aaron T. Mugaba, Robert Mugonza, Phionah Kobutungi, and Michael J. Nankunda. "Exploring the Gender Gap in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM), and Soft Skills, and Knowledge of Role of Models Among Students in Rural Uganda." Journal of Education and Development 3, no. 3 (December 14, 2019): 31. http://dx.doi.org/10.20849/jed.v3i3.621.
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Background: Globally, women’s representation in STEM fields remains significantly lower than that of men. Studies assessing the STEM gender gap in disadvantaged rural-based schools are lacking.Objective: To examine the gender differences in attitudes towards STEM and soft skills, and knowledge of role models among students of Nakivale secondary school in Nakivale refugee settlement, southwestern Uganda.Methods: We employed a cross sectional study design that administered pilot tested questionnaires to 111 secondary school students in Nakivale secondary school.Results: More girls than boys reported negative attitudes towards STEM. Both boys and girls demonstrated low attitudes towards the 21st century skills (such as goal setting, leadership skills, team work skills, time management and computer/internet skills), low intentions of pursuing STEM-related subjects in future, as well as limited exposure to STEM role models.Implication: Interventions to address girls’ negative attitudes towards STEM, improve students’ 21st century skills, develop students’ interest in STEM subjects/careers, and link students to role models are urgently needed especially in marginalized areas such as refugee settlements.
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Mcenaney, Tom. "Forgotten Histories of the Audiobook." Journal of Musicology 36, no. 4 (2019): 437–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/jm.2019.36.4.437.
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This article investigates the different affordances of magnetic tape and print as they are entextualized in various co(n)texts by writers, ethnographers, and musicians throughout the Americas in the late 1960s. I analyze printed books made from tape recordings—Cuban anthropologist Miguel Barnet and his interview subject Esteban Montejo’s Biografía de un cimarrón (Biography of a Runaway Slave, 1966), Rodolfo Walsh’s true-crime denunciation ¿Quién mató a Rosendo? (Who killed Rosendo?, 1968), and Andy Warhol’s experimental a: a novel (1968)—to ask why these writers transduced their recordings into print rather than release them as audiobooks, how or if listening to those tapes would alter the meaning of their printed entextualizations, and what musical interactions with the same media in the same contexts can tell us about the limits both of print and of symbolic musical notation. Tracing the intersection of musical and literary works, the article argues that a writerly ethics of distortion, rather than fidelity, arises from this mutual encounter with sound on tape, and ponders how dialogic audiobooks might contest older issues of power and representation for those writers, North and South, who worked in support of marginalized (Afro-Cuban, working class, and queer) subjects.
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Butola, B. S. "Time as a Mode of Bio-politics." Human Geography 4, no. 2 (July 2011): 61–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/194277861100400205.
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There is a paradigm shift in human approach to time. Time, which was so far considered as an entity beyond human control is being used as an effective bio-political tool. Time as a social construct (social rhythm) has completely marginalized the time as natural or biological rhythm. The ‘greatness’ of the rulers including the political and intellectual was based on their ability to use time effectively to control, manipulate and maneuver their respective subjects at various times in the past, and introduced their own time schedule in the form of calendars, time tables and clocks etc. In the name of scientific and technological advancements, human have succeeded in getting access to the biological clocks of every organism and using the same for value generation and profit maximization and ultimately creating new colonies.
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Falk, Julia S., and John E. Joseph. "The Saleski family and the founding of the LSA linguistic institutes." Historiographia Linguistica 21, no. 1-2 (January 1, 1994): 137–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/hl.21.1-2.08fal.
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Summary The Linguistic Institutes (LIs) of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) were first envisaged by R. E. Saleski (1890–1971), an obscure scholar who for a time played a prominent role within the LSA (including the administration of the early LIs), but was inexplicably marginalized around 1931–32. E. H. Sturtevant’s 1940 history of the LI does not even mention Saleski’s name. Saleski proposed a course on “The Sociological Study of Language” for the 1929 LI – an extremely early date for such a course – and we consider the sources of his interest in this and related subjects. In addition to sketching Saleski’s life and career, we examine the careers of his sisters Else and Mary Agnes, like him minor academics, but steadfast members of LSA in its fledgling years.
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Chow, Alexander. "Calvinist Public Theology in Urban China Today." International Journal of Public Theology 8, no. 2 (May 8, 2014): 158–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15697320-12341340.
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AbstractChristianity in mainland China has often been characterized as a religion for the marginalized of society. However, since the 1990s, there has been a growing phenomenon within the country’s burgeoning urban metropolises with an increasing number of urban intellectuals converting to Protestantism. This article explores the theology of several representatives of these urban intellectual Christians who make use of the teachings of John Calvin and his followers. This article will show that there is a strong theological interest in engaging in the public sphere around subjects like the rule of law, constitutionalism and a civil society. Although the representatives cited in this article have been described as ‘Chinese New Calvinists’ or ‘Christian public intellectuals’, it is proposed here that a more appropriate understanding of this growing and significant group is as Chinese public theologians.
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Albański, Łukasz. "Shattered spaces of migrant childhood: Camps, borders and uncertain status." International Sociology 35, no. 5 (September 2020): 480–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0268580920957912.
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This review essay discusses how migrant childhood is inextricably spatial, and therefore tied up with the material and discursive dimensions of places such as camps and borders. The focus is on the issue of how marginalized political subjects as migrant minors claim their rights through space, because unaccompanied and undocumented minors live in a state of limbo that can persist indefinitely. It means that in many cases they live as unaccompanied or undocumented minors across borders without full legal recognition, experiencing permanent temporariness and uncertainty. This tenuous life in the shadows is marked as fully ambiguous and too often without leading to durable solutions towards permanent legal status. The Jungle and Lives in Limbo offer significant insights into the discussion about migrating children in a broad context of such places as borders and camps.
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Alkan, Ayten. "Deportation as an Urban Stray Dogs Management Policy: Forest Dogs of Istanbul." Lex localis - Journal of Local Self-Government 14, no. 3 (July 31, 2016): 613–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.4335/14.3.613-635(2016).
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The modern city, differing from other human settlements, moreover from all other habitats, is wholly organized in order to response to only one species’ -homo sapiens’- needs and desires. This exceptional habitat has also been a socio-spatial organization (re)stabilizing upon mechanisms of discipline, order, inclusion / exclusion, and clearance. The safety and security polity of the modern city, which serves to its imagined, conceived and desired - yet formal and shallow - sterility, dispatches systematically the excommunicated to the margins and / or to camps. Other animals are obviously the most invisible, most disposable and marginalized, and most silenced subjects of those mechanisms. This paper deals with one of those disposable subjects, stray dogs, in the context of a relatively new exclusion / clearance policy of urban municipalities in İstanbul -that is deportation and dumping of stray dogs to the surrounding forests. Considering the more recent local governmental projects to establish huge “concentration camps” at the outskirts of the metropolitan area, the study consequently tries to reexamine this policy of deportation as an undeclared provisional practice for an ultimate total displacement, relocation, and absolute insulation of stray animals.
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Acampora, Ralph. "Zoos and Eyes: Contesting Captivity and Seeking Successor Practices." Society & Animals 13, no. 1 (2005): 69–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1568530053966643.
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AbstractThis paper compares the phenomenological structure of zoological exhibition to the pattern prevalent in pornography. It examines several disanalogies between the two, finds them lacking or irrelevant, and concludes that the proposed analogy is strong enough to serve as a critical lens through which to view the institution of zoos. The central idea uncovered in this process of interpretation is paradoxical: Zoos are pornographic in that they make the nature of their subjects disappear precisely by overexposing them. The paper asserts that the keep are thus degraded or marginalized through the marketing and consumption of their very visibility and criticizes the pretense of preservation. Furthermore, the paper subjects the related framework of captivity to Foucauldian analysis and critique—we see that the "zoöpticon" deserves designation as an island of power in the carceral archipelago of hegemonic social institutions mapped by Foucault. Hence, this paper suggests that the zoo as we know it be phased out in favor of richer and less oppressive modes of encountering other forms of life; toward this end, the paper explores and assesses alternative approaches to, and practices of, nonhuman animal spectatorship and cross-species conviviality.
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Rostbøll, Christian F. "The use and abuse of ‘universal values’ in the Danish cartoon controversy." European Political Science Review 2, no. 3 (November 2010): 401–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s175577391000024x.
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During the Danish cartoon controversy, appeals to universal liberal values were often made in ways that marginalized Muslims. An analysis of the controversy reveals that referring to ‘universal values’ can be exclusionary when dominant actors fail to distinguish their own culture’s embodiment of these values from the more abstract ideas. The article suggests that the solution to this problem is not to discard liberal principles but rather to see them in a more deliberative democratic way. This means that we should move from focusing on citizens merely as subjects of law and right holders to seeing them as co-authors of shared legal and moral norms. A main shortcoming of the way in which dominant actors in Denmark responded to the cartoons was exactly that they failed to see the Muslim minority as capable of participating in interpreting and giving shared norms. To avoid self-contradiction, liberal principles and constitutional norms should not be seen as incontestable aspects of democracy but rather as subject to recursive democratic justification and revision by everyone subject to them. Newcomers ought to be able to contribute their specific perspectives in this process of democratically reinterpreting and perfecting the understanding of universalistic norms, and thereby make them fit better to those to whom they apply, as well as rendering them theirs.
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Shehadeh, Hala. "Being Young and Muslim." American Journal of Islam and Society 28, no. 2 (April 1, 2011): 123–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v28i2.1256.
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Being Young and Muslim is a compilation of narratives that address thecultural politics of Muslim youth from multiple perspectives—youthfullifestyles, rebellion, and accommodations signify the “intricate relationshipbetween the young, youth identities and Islam” (19). The volume isdivided into five parts. Each part contains several chapters and contextualizesan aspect associated with being young and Muslim. Most of the chaptersin this volume were produced for two international workshops on the“Making of the Muslim Youth” that were presented in Leiden in February2005 and in The Hague in October 2006 (v). In the first chapter “Introduction:Being Young and Muslim in Neoliberal Times,” Linda Herrera andAsef Bayat present the focal points to be addressed throughout the volume:the approaches and directions Muslim youth will undertake in an era with“multiple constraints and opportunities of being young, Muslim, marginalized,and subjects of social control” (11) ...
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Jo, Hyeran. "International Humanitarian Law on the Periphery." Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies 11, no. 1 (June 22, 2020): 97–115. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18781527-bja10016.
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Does international law matter on the periphery, where potential subjects are marginalized with uncertain legal status and without lawmaking power? Under what conditions would international law matter among the actors on the periphery, to be accepted as law, remain relevant, and eventually be complied with? By adopting an interdisciplinary perspective from international law and international relations, this article assesses how international humanitarian law (ihl) is accepted and adhered to among the non-state armed actors (nsaas). The author argues that international law matters on the periphery when two conditions are met. The first is when incentives of nsaas are compatible with ihl’s goal of restraint. The second is when the interpretation of ihl at the local level is consistent with international law at the global level. This article provides ample examples of nsaas’ words and deeds to illustrate the arguments.
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Agosto, Denise E. "Thoughts about the past, present and future of research in youth information behaviors and practices." Information and Learning Sciences 120, no. 1/2 (January 14, 2019): 108–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ils-09-2018-0096.
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PurposeThis paper aims to provide a reflection on youth information behaviors and practices in the research literature and suggest future directions for scholarship in this area.FindingsThe author identifies areas for strengthening the impact of research and scholarship in the area of youth information behaviors and practices, including standardizing the age groups of research subjects, diversifying data collection methods, broadening the participation of marginalized groups and working to understand youth information behaviors and practices from youths’ own perspectives.Originality/valueThis paper offers a personal assessment of the current state of the field, provides a broad overview of the author’s research in this area and suggests ideas for moving this work forward. It also highlights the importance of making research results readily available to adults who work with and care for youth, including teachers, librarians, product designers, parents and other caregivers.
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Mastley, Carrie P. "Representation of Black History in Archives: A Collection-Centered Quantitative Analysis of the Billups-Garth Archive." Open Information Science 4, no. 1 (August 20, 2020): 187–203. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/opis-2020-0014.
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AbstractThis pilot study presents a collection-centered quantitative analysis of Black history resources available at the Billups-Garth Archive in Columbus, Mississippi. The Archive’s inventory lists for its record series and control files for its manuscript collections were assessed in order to determine the percentage of extant Black history resources in relation to the collection’s total holdings. Relevant collections were then evaluated to determine their mediums, subjects, and provenance. The results showed a dearth of collections related to Black history and indicated that very few were created by the Black community. Results also showed that most relevant resources were made up of textual documents as well as documents relating to everyday life and education. Overall, this study demonstrates how collection analyses may be undertaken to identify collection biases and collection deficiencies, especially deficiencies in representing the histories of marginalized communities.
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Richaud, Lisa, and Ash Amin. "Life amidst Rubble: Migrant Mental Health and the Management of Subjectivity in Urban China." Public Culture 32, no. 1 (January 1, 2020): 77–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/08992363-7816305.
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While previous studies have documented the trials of rural-to-urban migration in postreform China, little is known of the consequences of urban demolition and attendant uncertainty on migrant mental health. Exploring the affective and subjective dimensions of life lived amidst rubble in a migrant neighborhood on the outskirts of Shanghai, this essay describes and analyzes smallscale practices of endurance through dynamics of time, place, and sociality. These modes of dwelling in a ruined environment are key to what the authors refer to as the management of subjectivity, producing moments of being that potentially enable to feel and act otherwise. Considering the management of subjectivity in its own right rather than as mere echoes of postsocialist governmentalities, the authors sustain a dialogue with recent writing on the production of happy and self-reliant marginalized subjects through the Chinese authorities’ turn to “therapeutic governance.”
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Phu, Thy, and Elspeth H. Brown. "The Cultural Politics of Aspiration: Family Photography’s Mixed Feelings." Journal of Visual Culture 17, no. 2 (August 2018): 152–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1470412918782352.
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This article describes the relationship between family photography, oral history, and feeling. The authors explore questions about affect and family photography in relationship to black, queer relationality and to Asian, diasporic subjectivities. They argue that the affective modality of family photography for marginalized subjects is that of ‘mixed feelings’, which they analyze through a focus on ‘aspiration’ as central to the visual and affective discourses of family photography, oral history, and diaspora. Working with recent work by Christina Sharpe and Tina Campt, the authors describe aspiration within family photography as indexing both the normative temporalities of capitalist futurity and, at the same time, a utopian technology of black futurity that enables the making of necessary futures outside of white supremacy and heteronormativity. The research is part of a larger photography and oral history project, The Family Camera Network, which the article describes.
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Macejova, Zelmira, Pavol Kristian, Martin Janicko, Monika Halanova, Sylvia Drazilova, Daniela Antolova, Maria Marekova, Daniel Pella, Andrea Madarasova-Geckova, and Peter Jarcuska. "The Roma Population Living in Segregated Settlements in Eastern Slovakia Has a Higher Prevalence of Metabolic Syndrome, Kidney Disease, Viral Hepatitis B and E, and Some Parasitic Diseases Compared to the Majority Population." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17, no. 9 (April 29, 2020): 3112. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17093112.
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Background: The Roma population is one of the largest marginalized population groups in Europe. The aim of our work was to summarize the morbidity of lifestyle-related diseases and infectious diseases in the Roma population living in segregated settlements. Methods: We used data from the cross-sectional study HepaMeta, in which we examined 452 Roma subjects with an average age of 34.7 ± 9.1 years, 35.2% of which were men, and 403 non-Roma subjects with an average age of 33.5 ± 7.4 years, 45.9% of which were men. We collected data by means of a questionnaire, anthropometric measures, and we analyzed blood and urine samples. Results: Roma subjects had a higher incidence of metabolic syndrome (RR: 1.478 (1.159–1.885), p < 0.0001), obesity or waist circumference >94 cm in men/80 cm in women (RR: 1.287 (1.127–1.470), p < 0.0001), and HDL-C < 1.03 mmol/L in men or <1.29 in women (RR: 2.004 (1.730–2.321), p < 0.0001) than their non-Roma counterparts. Subjects of the Roma population were more frequently diagnosed with kidney disease (RR: 1.216 (1.096–1.349), p < 0.0001), HBsAg positivity (RR: 4.468 (2.373–8.415), p < 0.0001), anti HBc IgG positivity (RR: 3.13 (2.598–4.224), p < 0.0001), and anti HEV positivity (RR: 2.972 (1.226–7.287), p < 0.0001). Serological markers of Toxoplasma gondii infection and Toxocara spp. were observed much more frequently among Roma than non-Roma subjects (RR: 1.868 (1.520–2.296), p < 0.0001, for Toxoplasma gondii; and RR: 21.812 (8.097–58.761), p < 0.0001, for Toxocara spp.). Conclusions: Poor socio-economic conditions, an unhealthy lifestyle, and barriers precluding access to healthcare are factors that affect the Roma population in settlements and lead to an increased prevalence of metabolic syndrome and its components, kidney disease, viral hepatitis B and E, and some parasitic diseases.
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Sommervold, Margaret Machniak. "“Doctor Smartphone”." International Journal of Sociotechnology and Knowledge Development 8, no. 1 (January 2016): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijskd.2016010101.
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The rapid growth in the field of m-health has not gone unnoticed by the mainstream media in Norway. Norwegian newspapers have a strong presence and outreach and hence play an important role in shaping of the public discourse on various subjects with m-health being no exception. This article presents a Dispositive Analysis of 23 articles from 6 national newspapers concerning mobile health applications. The analysis resulted in an interpretation of the press's technology views as theories of technology, which informed the discussion in this paper. Further, the newspaper articles were understood as discursive practices and analyzed by applying the concept of dispositives. The results of the analysis suggest inclusion of Dispositive Analysis as a step in Participatory Design process as means of enriching the design practices as well as uncovering the marginalized ‘voices' and thus addressing the call for democratization of technology.
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Bryan, Jennifer E. "Hoccleve, the Virgin, and the Politics of Complaint." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 117, no. 5 (October 2002): 1172–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/003081202x60260.
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What is the relation between Marian lament and the distinctively modern, autobiographical complaints of Thomas Hoccleve? What, moreover, is the relation between Hoccleve's performances of private misery and his ability to offer advice and counsel to princes? This article argues that Hoccleve's “Complaint of the Virgin” can teach us to recognize the complex interweaving of gender, genre, ideality, and excess that informs Hocclevean complaints more generally. “The Complaint of the Virgin” explores a woman's exemplary transition from subversive investment in private connection and private suffering to self-abnegation and participation in public power. In doing so, the poem provides a model for Hoccleve's own movements between marginalized interiority and public rhetoric—and for his meditation between Lancastrian subjects and their sovereign. The Virgin offers a lesson in the 1364 Abstracts [PMLA pleasures and power of complaint, the disciplining of interiority, and the production of social relations through spectacle and sacrifice.
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Predoiu, Grazziella. "Sprachnomaden: Mehrsprachigkeit am Beispiel von Olga Grjasnowas Roman: Der Russe ist einer, der Birken liebt." Germanistische Beiträge 45, no. 1 (December 1, 2019): 13–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/gb-2019-0017.
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Abstract Olga Grjasnowa’s debut novel The Russian Is One Who Loves Birch Trees, revolving around themes such as national and linguistic boundaries, borderline transgressions and border crossings, the sense of home and the sense of alienation and the search for one’s own identity in the face of a life in the threshold of cultures. Using the example of a young woman who has emigrated from Azerbaijan, who was traumatized as a child, and who is trained as an interpreter in Germany, the article explores subjects such as loneliness, identity, limitations and hunger for language. By making interpreting her profession, the figure solidifies the leap from one culture to the next as a pattern of action and acts transculturally between different spaces. She finds access to marginalized groups, she has ambivalent erotic experiences with men as well as with women, which reflects her cultural indecision.