Showing papers in "Cultural Studies <=> Critical Methodologies in 2017"
TL;DR: The authors consider what is at work in a turn toward analyzing settler colonialism, and what this turn makes available in cultural studies and discussions of cultural production, and present a survey of recent work in this area.
Abstract: In this editorial, we consider what is at work in a turn toward analyzing settler colonialism, and what this turn makes available in cultural studies and discussions of cultural production. Recent ...
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors complicate common critical narratives about the neoliberalization of higher education by situating more recent trends within the genealogy of a modern/colonial global imaginary, which they call the modern/colonial global imaginary.
Abstract: In this article, we complicate common critical narratives about the neoliberalization of higher education by situating more recent trends within the genealogy of a modern/colonial global imaginary....
64 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, a market focus that creates students as consumers and faculty as service providers has dominated higher education, and concern regarding capitalism, profiteering, and the corporatization of higher education is not new.
Abstract: Concern regarding capitalism, profiteering, and the corporatization of higher education is not new. A market focus that creates students as consumers and faculty as service providers has dominated ...
56 citations
TL;DR: The authors explore commodities and consumption, two concepts central to critiques of the neoliberal university, and explore the limits of neolibera, by engaging with these concepts, they explore the limit of Neoliberal universities.
Abstract: In this article, we explore commodities and consumption, two concepts that are central to critiques of the neoliberal university. By engaging with these concepts, we explore the limits of neolibera...
40 citations
TL;DR: Black girls of color have been left out of discussions on youth participatory action research (YPAR) as well as gender and race-based scholarship related to school marginalization.
Abstract: Girls of color have been left out of discussions on youth participatory action research (YPAR) as well as gender- and race-based scholarship related to school marginalization. How Black girls and o...
39 citations
TL;DR: The authors analyzed interview discourses with 26 female immigrant faculty members from multiple disciplines in the U.S. academy, and found that the majority of the participants were female immigrants from the Middle East.
Abstract: In light of limited attention to immigrant faculty (aka, international faculty) in the U.S. academy, we analyze interview discourses with 26 female immigrant faculty members from multiple disciplin...
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the role of higher education as it serves the neoliberal imperative, focusing on the production and dissemination of academic knowledge, and emphasizing on two fundamental real...
Abstract: Focusing on production and dissemination of academic knowledge, this article discusses the role of higher education as it serves the neoliberal imperative. Emphasis is given to two fundamental real...
30 citations
TL;DR: The authors identified distinct mass media reporting stages used in the coverage of mass killings, and the inspiration they provided for future killers, and used content analysis to identify the sources of inspiration for future mass murderers.
Abstract: This article identifies distinct mass media reporting stages used in the coverage of mass killings, and the inspiration they provide for future killers. Ethnographic content analysis was used to id...
27 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the street is both a place of travel and a space for critical discourse, and as tensions between public and private spaces play out in the streets, street artists claim visible space t...
Abstract: In this article, the street is both a place of travel and a space for critical discourse. As tensions between public and private spaces play out in the streets, street artists claim visible space t...
27 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, a tenured high school teacher/researcher, an out bisexual sophomore, and a transgender senior discusses the challenges of being and becoming an out le...
Abstract: Written from the perspectives of a tenured high school teacher/researcher, an out bisexual sophomore, and a transgender senior, this article discusses the challenges of being and becoming an out le...
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyse the role of higher education in the responsibilisation of young people as consumers of a higher education 'product' and discuss the potential for productive spaces of resistance against the ever tighteningening constrictions of educational commercialisation and commoditisation.
Abstract: Focusing primarily upon the higher education policies of the Coalition government of 2010-15, this paper considers the function of higher education in England in the responsibilisation of young people as consumers of a higher education 'product'. The article elaborates a two-part theoretical framework which draws upon Gramsci and Foucault. This framework is then applied to analyse the 2011 white paper, Students at the Heart of the System. This is examined as an example of a technology of neoliberal governance which works at the creation and maintenance of a community of self-reliant consumer-citizens. Significant policy developments subsequent to the 2011 paper are also discussed. The article concludes with discussion of three issues: I will reflect upon the value of the theoretical framework employed within the study; future policy directions in the higher education sector under the new Conservative administration of 2015 will be considered; I will consider the potential for productive spaces of resistance against the ever-tightening constrictions of educational commercialisation and commoditisation.
TL;DR: The authors theorize the fugitive futurities of decolonization, seeking futures beyond colonial constructions of the possible and the sensible, and engage with a close reading of the Palest....
Abstract: This article theorizes the fugitive futurities of decolonization, seeking futures beyond colonial constructions of the possible and the sensible. To do this, I engage with a close reading of Palest...
TL;DR: This article argued that the biopolitical logics of settler colonialism function according to a naturalization in Western thought of politics as a project of hierarchically ordering life in relation to power.
Abstract: This essay argues that the biopolitical logics of settler colonialism function according to a naturalization in Western thought of politics as a project of hierarchically ordering life in relation ...
TL;DR: Democracy's distraction by the politics of accountability and the public's disaffection in an ideologically bound culture of accountability further defines the work ahead for teacher educators in a... as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Democracy’s distraction by the politics of accountability and the public’s disaffection in an ideologically bound culture of accountability further defines the work ahead for teacher educators in a...
TL;DR: In this article, the authors highlight numerous encounters with and critiques of academic life in the corporate university, from disagreements with colleagues and anxiousness over the job market to academic freedom and academic freedom.
Abstract: In this article, the authors highlight numerous encounters with and critiques of academic life in the corporate university. From disagreements with colleagues and anxiousness over the job market to...
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used contemporary media to investigate the influence of global conflict on youth and ideological narratives mediating these conflicts can be seen in the popular media youth consume, and they found that anxieties associated with global conflict surround youth.
Abstract: Anxieties associated with global conflict surround youth and ideological narratives mediating these conflicts can be seen in the popular media youth consume. This investigation uses contemporary cu...
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors address the way in which neo-liberalism has operated in the Italian university system, an academic context that has its own history, values, and traditions.
Abstract: Neo-liberalism has spread throughout the world in tandem with globalization. This article attempts to address the way in which neo-liberalism has operated in the Italian university system, an academic context that has its own history, values, and traditions. A brief overview of the consequences of neo-liberalism in Italy is followed by a description of the stages in the neo-liberal university reforms that have characterized the Italian academic world since the end of the 1980s. Finally, three forms of resistance that hinder the process of neo-liberalization and make it non-linear are examined in depth.
TL;DR: The deliberate and well-crafted creep of neoliberalism into institutions of higher education has consequences for faculty that are likewise felt by students, families, and society at large as mentioned in this paper...
Abstract: The deliberate and well-crafted creep of neoliberalism into institutions of higher education has consequences for faculty that are likewise felt by students, families, and society at large. This ar...
TL;DR: The authors suggest that modernity is an "endless mastication" in which we, as both subject and subjects, are chewed-up and spat out amid the endlessly deferring signs of the presence and absence of meaning in social space.
Abstract: We are getting faster, or so we have been led to believe. Planes, trains, and automobiles—alongside the substrates of online modernity—have seemed to suggest to us that the world is a place we are constantly in need of catching up with. In turn, partially in response to institutional demands on productivity, some academics have suggested slow methods in research.1 Yet, what if we were never fast in the first place? What if the things and atmospheres of Western industrial modernity actually produce slow ontologies of feeling as we traverse space and place? Straddling history, literature, and (auto)ethnographic attunements to emotions and society, this article attempts to suggest there is a modernity which is slow—an “endless mastication”—in which we, as both subject and subjects, are chewed-up and spat out amid the endlessly deferring signs of the presence and absence of meaning in social space.
TL;DR: This paper analyzed a painting by Modoc/Klamath artist Peggy Ball through a Native feminist reading methodology, Vanport, which is named after a city that disappeared in a flood in 1948.
Abstract: In this article, I analyze a painting by Modoc/Klamath artist Peggy Ball through a Native feminist reading methodology. The painting, Vanport, is named after a city that disappeared in a flood in 1948. The artist survived that flood, and displacement as did thousands of others. The painting is a rememory map of dislocations and hauntings and disappearances. The painting remaps gentrified dislocations, telling stories that focus on the relationship of the present to the past and the past to the future. The painting itself is a Native feminist practice. The travel to places gone, to places that will reappear again; by people gone as well as by people presently alive; into times that existed, that never existed, that will exist again; to times made contemporaneous by time traveling dogs; with people co-present through desire—at the heart of all this time travel is recognition and survivance.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reflect on three spheres of academic work (program administration, teaching, and scholarship) and find evidence of the effects of neoliberalism in each sphere of pra...
Abstract: In this autoethnographic essay, I reflect on three spheres of academic work—program administration, teaching, and scholarship—and find evidence of the effects of neoliberalism in each sphere of pra...
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a conceptual framework for bringing counter-narrative of girls from outer space to the general public, with an overview of the authors' contributions and an introduction to the special issue on outer space.
Abstract: With an overview of the authors’ contributions, this introduction to the special issue on girls from outer space provides a conceptual framework for bringing counter-narratives of girls from the ma...
TL;DR: In South Park's "Going Native," the white character Butters becomes inexplicably angry only to uncover that his family contends the anger is "biologically" caused by their "ancestral" belonging to...
Abstract: In South Park’s “Going Native,” the white character Butters becomes inexplicably angry only to uncover that his family contends the anger is “biologically” caused by their “ancestral” belonging to ...
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore through a series of productions their analytic relationships with an interview with Iris, a fourth-grade student who participated in a post-intentional phenomenological study.
Abstract: In this article, we explore through a series of productions our analytic relationships with an interview with Iris—a fourth-grade student who participated in a post-intentional phenomenological stu...
TL;DR: Hoover Dam is a settler-colonial project, requiring Indigenous land and waterways while producing energy that enables further non-Indigenous settlement as discussed by the authors. But it has been criticised as a source of environmental degradation.
Abstract: Hoover Dam is a settler-colonial project, requiring Indigenous land and waterways while producing energy that enables further non-Indigenous settlement. In addition to the Dam’s engineering feats, ...
TL;DR: In a crowded, competitive, research marketplace, association with the latest high-status brands and must-have products is crucial as mentioned in this paper, which requires adding some connections (+s) to our thinking about our qualitative inquiry and its interfaces with the research marketplace such as those between funding, methods, publications, promotion and tenure.
Abstract: In a crowded, competitive, research marketplace, association with the latest high-status brands and must-have products is crucial. Have we, and are we, adapting our qualitative inquiry to be associated with these leading brands and products? Addressing this requires adding some connections (+s) to our thinking about our qualitative inquiry and its interfaces with the research marketplace, such as those between funding, methods, publications, promotion, and tenure. Understanding the complexity of these connections enables us to decide which to ignore, negate, or embrace, and works against normalization of adaptive versions of qualitative inquiry shaped by the research marketplace.
TL;DR: The authors examines the ways that anti-Black racism and white privilege infect discussions of gun violence and concludes that race and space overdetermine who is afforded the rights of safety and security, and where violence is normalized, expected, and therefore nothing to worry about.
Abstract: Gun violence is a daily reality; mass shootings, from suburban enclaves to inner city parks, are commonplace. Yet, all violence, all death, all lives, and all gun shootings are not treated equal. This essay examines the ways that anti-Black racism and White privilege (White supremacy) infect discussions of gun violence. In examining a series of incidents, and the broader media/political discourse, this article concludes that race and space overdetermine who is afforded the rights of safety and security, and where violence is normalized, expected, and therefore nothing to worry about. Race, space, and class affect the legality and illegibility of gun violence. Language: en
TL;DR: The authors examined the resistive actions and discourses that shape and reshape the hegemonic and resistant interplay between female youth with histories of domestic violence (HDVs) and educators.
Abstract: This article examines the resistive actions and discourses that shape and reshape the hegemonic and resistant interplay between female youth with histories of domestic violence (HDVs) and educators. Taken out of a larger critical ethnographic study, discussion demonstrates how one urban middle school girl with an HDV is positioned as an object of “emotional and behavioral disorder” and how she responded to violating pedagogies through performances of cultural resistance built out of her social experience of domestic violence. The article draws upon theoretical and methodological insights, including Butler’s notion of performativity, Scott’s theory of resistance, Hill-Collins’s standpoint theory, as well as Scollon and Scollon’s mediated discourse analysis. Similar to the girls in this study, sharing an identity of being a survivor of domestic violence herself, the author discusses how she and female participants (re)worked and (re)wrote agentic social moments in the field. Telling girls’ stories through counter-narratives and participatory research practices helps to reposition the often deficit subjectivities ascribed to girls with HDV.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors illustrate how silencing happens as a consequence of a structural change in the balance of power between the Finnish government and the universities, and how universities try to play safe due to the increased directive power of the government.
Abstract: A silenced student merely receives pedagogical messages, consumes educational goods, and is supposed to obey taken-for-granted orders of the university. In this article, we illustrate how silencing happens as a consequence of a structural change in the balance of power between the Finnish government and the universities. The universities try to play safe due to the increased directive power of the government. This has had effects on how universities define the roles of students: In the changed conditions, the universities see students as clients whose purpose is to study and graduate, but not to revolt or act as political beings.
TL;DR: The authors explore how using the literary arts-based methodology of collective poetic inquiry deepened their own self-knowledge as South African academics who choose to resist a neoliberal corporate model of power.
Abstract: We explore how using the literary arts-based methodology of collective poetic inquiry deepened our own self-knowledge as South African academics who choose to resist a neoliberal corporate model of...