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Pramod Ranjan deposited Bahujan discourse puts JNU in the crosshairs in the group
Festivals, Rituals, Public Spectacles, and Popular Culture on Humanities Commons 3 years, 6 months agoIf we closely study the recent string of incidents in JNU while keeping their background in mind, we will realize that the Bahujan-Left unity had set alarm bells ringing in the RSS camp. To grasp this better, we will have to revisit the first Mahishasur Martyrdom Day, organized by the All India Backward Students’ Forum (AIBSF) in JNU in October 2…[Read more]
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Meredith Warren deposited Affective Resistance to Sirach’s Androcentric Presentation of a Daughter’s Body in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 years, 6 months agoThis article concentrates on the affective impacts of the relationship between the bodies of the father and his daughter in Sirach. It relies on gender studies as well as affect theory to explore how intensities pass from body to body in the biblical text, and also to the bodies of those who read it. The father’s body is marked by gynophobic a…[Read more]
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Gabriela Méndez Cota deposited A queer ecological reading of ecocultural identity in contemporary Mexico in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 years, 6 months agoThis chapter analyzes activist narratives that foreground agroecological systems such as milpa farming. Here, corn has been most visibly used as a unifying metaphor for Mexican identity, while quelites (‘tender edible weeds’), which grow spontaneously at the feet of corn plants, have historically commanded much less attention. Recently, how…[Read more]
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Gabriela Méndez Cota deposited Muerte cósmica y existencia vegetal in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 years, 8 months agoChapter on Emanuele Coccia’s meditations on plants, from the perspective of feminist extinction inspired by Claire Colebrook.
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Gabriela Méndez Cota deposited Post-Globalscape. Images and the End of the World. in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 years, 8 months agoReflections on Post-Globalscape, an exhibition curated by Gerardo Mosquera for Intermingling Flux: 2021 Guangzhou Image Triennial, Guangdong Lingnan Fine Arts Publishing House, Editor in Chief Wang Shaoqiang.
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Valeria Graziano deposited Verso una teoria delle pratiche prefigurative in the group
Performance Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 9 months agoVerso una teoria delle pratiche prefigurative – traduzione dall’inglese.
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Valeria Graziano deposited Rivoluzioni domestiche contro domesticazioni tecnologiche in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 years, 9 months agoUna critica ai miti dell’automazione da una prospettiva femminista
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Valeria Graziano deposited Quando il prendersi cura ha bisogno della pirateria: sull’uso della disobbedienza contro i regimi di proprietà imperiali in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 years, 9 months agoSul perchè la cura ha sempre più a che fare con la disobbedienza della proprietà privata
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Valeria Graziano deposited When Care Needs Piracy: The Case for Disobedience in Struggles Against Imperial Property Regimes in the group
Performance Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 9 months agoWhy to care means to disobey private property
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Valeria Graziano deposited When Care Needs Piracy: The Case for Disobedience in Struggles Against Imperial Property Regimes in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 years, 9 months agoWhy to care means to disobey private property
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Sonia D. Andras deposited Creating City Chic. The Parisian Influence on Interwar Bucharest Fashion Preprint PDF in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 years, 10 months agoThis paper examines the influence of urban fashion ideas disseminated worldwide from France and how they impacted the Romanian ideas of style and beauty, as well as the nature of the communication between Paris and the so-colled ”Little Paris”. My aim is to decode the interwar Romanian interpretation of the new woman notion and assess what typ…[Read more]
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Armin Selbitschka deposited Sacrifice vs. Sustenance: Food as a Burial Good in Late Pre-Imperial and Early Imperial Chinese Tombs and Its Relation [to] Funerary Rites in the group
Performance Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 10 months agoOne of the medical manuscripts recovered from Tomb No. 3 at Mawangdui (dated 186 B.C.E.) states that, “When a person is born there are two things that need not to be learned: the first is to breathe and the second is to eat.” Of course it is true that all healthy newborn human beings possess the reflexes to breathe and eat. Yet, the imp…[Read more]
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Swati Arora deposited Walk in India and South Africa: notes towards a decolonial and transnational feminist politics in the group
Performance Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 10 months agoThe essay discusses Maya Rao’s Walk and The Mothertongue Project’s Walk: South Africa to explore the languages of transnational and embodied feminist politics that these performances conjure. The two performances are instances of artistic responses to sexualized violence in India and South Africa as they engage with the politics of walking in the…[Read more]
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Swati Arora deposited Walk in India and South Africa: notes towards a decolonial and transnational feminist politics in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 years, 10 months agoThe essay discusses Maya Rao’s Walk and The Mothertongue Project’s Walk: South Africa to explore the languages of transnational and embodied feminist politics that these performances conjure. The two performances are instances of artistic responses to sexualized violence in India and South Africa as they engage with the politics of walking in the…[Read more]
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Swati Arora deposited Walking at Midnight: Women and Danger on Delhi’s Streets in the group
Performance Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 10 months agoI discuss the walking practice of Delhi-based artist Mallika Taneja in the context of its engagement with, and intervention in, the contemporary conversations on sexualised violence, gender, space and mobility in India. Taneja’s work is part of a variety of feminist activism to take place in India since the horrific gang rape of Jyoti Singh in D…[Read more]
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Swati Arora deposited Walking at Midnight: Women and Danger on Delhi’s Streets in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 years, 10 months agoI discuss the walking practice of Delhi-based artist Mallika Taneja in the context of its engagement with, and intervention in, the contemporary conversations on sexualised violence, gender, space and mobility in India. Taneja’s work is part of a variety of feminist activism to take place in India since the horrific gang rape of Jyoti Singh in D…[Read more]
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Anita Z Goldschmied deposited Structuring your choices: the literature review road-map in the group
Critical Disability Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 12 months agoThe article is an example of a visual map of the literature review on a page. Such a road-map or concept map structures the literature and helps readers grasp the key threads and messages, including the theoretical positioning of your review. This review looked at the genealogy of hidden dis/ability based on Latour’s and Baudrillard’s work.
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Anita Z Goldschmied deposited Exploring joy as an active actor in reframing experiences of dis/ability in the group
Critical Disability Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 1 month agoI work with images, stories, objects and employ object-oriented Actor-Network-Theory to co-author research with my clients. This allows us to focus on untraditional but remarkable things like hope, wants and happiness. Together, we have emerged an innovative approach that attempts to match our everyday life and all of its surprises. Disability is…[Read more]
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Monica Mody deposited The Borderlands Feminine: A Feminist, Decolonial Framework for Re-membering Motherlines in South Asia/Transnational Culture in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 4 years, 2 months agoThis paper uses Gloria Anzaldúa’s borderlands framework to resignify and recover the marginalized, forgotten sacred feminine and, thereby, South Asian motherlines. The borderlands is conceived of as a new consciousness, an alternative to that which is written in history. It offers a radical synthesis of spiritual healing with anti-oppression wo…[Read more]
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Valeria Graziano deposited On Domestic Fantasies and Anti-work Politics: A Feminist History of Complicating Automation in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 4 years, 2 months agoIn this article we place the discussions of automation in post-work imaginaries within and alongside feminist critiques
and understandings of domestic technology. Structured in three parts, the first surveys debates on the future of work,
showing how feminist materialist critiques of technology would lend themselves to an anti-work rather than…[Read more] - Load More