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Sonia Silva deposited Reification and Fetishism: Processes of Transformation in the group
Sociology on Humanities Commons 7 years, 9 months agoReification, fetishism, alienation, mastery, and control – these are some of the key concepts of modernity that have been battered and beaten by postmoderns and nonmoderns alike, with Bruno Latour, a nonmodern, discarding them most recently. Critical of this approach, which creates a rift between moderns and nonmoderns, the author engages in d…[Read more]
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Sonia Silva deposited Reification and Fetishism: Processes of Transformation in the group
Postcolonial Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 9 months agoReification, fetishism, alienation, mastery, and control – these are some of the key concepts of modernity that have been battered and beaten by postmoderns and nonmoderns alike, with Bruno Latour, a nonmodern, discarding them most recently. Critical of this approach, which creates a rift between moderns and nonmoderns, the author engages in d…[Read more]
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Sonia Silva deposited Art and Fetish in the Anthropolgy Museum in the group
Postcolonial Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 9 months agoSónia Silva is an Associate Professor of anthropology at Skidmore College. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Zambia, as well as museum work in Europe and the USA, Silva’s research deals with materiality, material religion, the notion of the fetish, ritual and religion, divination, witchcraft, violence, and museums. Silva is the author of Alon…[Read more]
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Marie-Thérèse Labossière Thomas deposited A Haitian Tale of Diasporas and Revolutions in the group
Postcolonial Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 9 months agoA family tale inspired the author to explore seemingly minor, but related details of the Saint-Domingue, French, and American Revolutions, including the population movements to and from the United States. “A Haitian Tale of Diasporas and Revolutions” is a documented historical and personal narrative through cultures and continents, as…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “Hijab as Commodity Form: Veiling, Unveiling, and Misveiling in Contemporary Iran,” Feminist Theory in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 10 months agoThis article considers how state-mandated veiling and unveiling reinforce modern capitalism. State regulations regarding veiling incorporate the female body into the political economy of the commodity form. In addition to serving as an empty signifier to be filled with exchange value for the male observer, the veil operates as an ideological…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “Memorializing Akhundzadeh: Contradictory Cosmopolitanism and Post-Soviet Narcissism in Old Tbilisi” (Interventions International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 2018) in the group
Postcolonial Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 10 months agoWhile the cosmopolitan turn in political and literary theory encourages us to move beyond national frameworks, the Caucasus remains mired in ethno-national categories from the Soviet past. This essay examines how these categories are being mobilized in the service of a nominally cosmopolitan agenda in the contemporary memorialization of the writer…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited Theorising Violence: Colonial Encounters and Anticolonial Reactions (MA level) in the group
Postcolonial Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 10 months agoHow does colonial violence generate anticolonial resistance? Is violence ever justified, whether as an end or as a means? What aesthetic strategies do writers deploy to legitimate the exercise of violence? What is the relationship between militant insurgency and literary form? Posing these and other questions, this course offers an introduction to…[Read more]
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Michael Miller deposited Abraham Abulafia’s Mystical Theology of the Divine Name and its Philosophical Revision in Walter Benjamin in the group
Frankfurt School Critical Theory on Humanities Commons 7 years, 10 months agoThe thirteenth century kabbalist Abraham Abulafia held Hebrew to be the divine language, designed by God as an ontological aspect of reality. Through meditating on and deconstructing names into their letters, one could then engage in the process of reunifying reality into the primordial Name of God, the Tetragrammaton. This paper offers an…[Read more]
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Sérgio Dias Branco deposited “Sembène, Ousmane (1923-2007)” in the group
Postcolonial Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 11 months agoEntry on Senagelese filmmaker and writer Ousmane Sembène.
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Jayashree Kamble deposited Love Studies in the group
Frankfurt School Critical Theory on Humanities Commons 7 years, 12 months agoProfile of the International Association for the Study of Popular Romance by Maggie Coughlin Worth in the Romance Writers of America newsletter, Romance Writers Report
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Tyler Bilton deposited An examination of hockey: identity, gender construction, hegemonic masculinity, women’s hockey, and Turkey in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years agoThe purpose of this study was to examine hockey’s identity, how the game constructs identity, and how the increasing participation of females in hockey in Canada and Turkey is altering identity. Through qualitative research and personal experience it is revealed that in order for hockey and Turkey to modernize, a new male identity needs to e…[Read more]
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Ted Underwood deposited The Transformation of Gender in English-Language Fiction in the group
Sociology on Humanities Commons 8 years agoPreprint to appear in a special issue of Cultural Analytics on “Identity.” The article explores the paradox that the representation of gender in fiction became more flexible while the sheer balance of attention between fictional men and women was growing more unequal. We measure the rigidity of gendered roles by asking how easy it is to infer…[Read more]
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Maia Kotrosits deposited Penetration and Its Discontents: Greco-Roman Sexuality, The Acts of Paul and Thecla and Theorizing Eros Without the Wound in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years agoThe notion that sexuality in the Greek and Roman periods was predicated on a social-sexual hierarchy that casts relationships in the binary terms of active/passive and penetrator/penetrated has been both influential and controversial over the last 30 years. Both the articulation of this hierarchy and its critique have been haunted by various…[Read more]
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Catherine Pope deposited “More like a woman stuck into boy’s clothes”: Sexual deviance in Florence Marryat’s Her Father’s Name in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years agoHer Father’s Name (1876) is one of Marryat’s most radical and intriguing novels, featuring Leona Lacoste, a cross-dressing heroine, and Lucilla Evans, a textbook hysteric who falls in love with her. For centuries, the diagnosis of ‘hysteria’ was conveniently applied to any woman who exhibited transgressive behaviour, whether it be through sexual…[Read more]
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Rivka Neriya-Ben Shahar deposited Women’s creation and renewal of religious rituals: A strategy for addressing their marginality in traditional societies in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years agoהדרת נשים מהמרחב הציבורי הדתי היא תופעה נרחבת ומוכרת. מתחילת שנות האלפיים אלפי נשים יהודיות, חילוניות, מסורתיות, דתיות וחרדיות, מרקעים סוציו־אקונומיים מגוונים, מתמודדות עם הדרה זו. הן יוצרות ומחדשות ריטואלים דתיים, וכך מפלסות מקום במרחב שהיה סגור בפניהן. השאלה הניצבת בבסיסו של מאמר זה היא מה הן האסטרטגיות שנשים משתמשות בהן כדי ליצור לעצמן ולחדש…[Read more]
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Rivka Neriya-Ben Shahar deposited “Amen meals are so feminine”: Women’s creation and renewal of rituals in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years agoמחקר זה מבקש לתאר ריטואלים הקשורים לאוכל שנשים יוצרות ומחדשות לעצמן. שאלת המחקר היא כיצד ומדוע נשים יוצרות ומחדשות ריטואלים. התשובה מבוססת על ניתוח דוגמאות של טקסים הקשורים באוכל שהתפתחו בישראל והתפשטו בקרב נשים יהודיות ברחבי אירופה וארה”ב מאז שנת 2000: “סעודות א ֵמנים” וטקסי הפרשת חלה ציבוריים. המתודולוגיה שננקטה היא איכותנית אתנוגרפית, ומבוס…[Read more]
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Rivka Neriya-Ben Shahar deposited Being the wife of a Torah scholar in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years agoThis paper examines how ultra-orthodox women perceive the socio-economic reality of contemporary ultra- orthodox society in Israel. In practice most ultra-orthodox women work, and they play an important role in the financial support of their family. The ultra-orthodox press, a major socialization mechanism, has a dualistic approach to this…[Read more]
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Rivka Neriya-Ben Shahar deposited Open spaces? Perceptions of the internet among Ultra-Orthodox women working in computerized environments in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years agoWe analyze patterns of rejection and adoption of new technology in a closed and conservative community through the study of ultra-Orthodox Jewish women working in computerized environments, and their perceptions and uses of the Internet. These women stand in the intersection between orthodoxy and modernity. Their workplaces are populated by…[Read more]
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Rivka Neriya-Ben Shahar deposited Forum of their own: Studying discussion forums of Ultra-Orthodox women online in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years agoהחברה החרדית בישראל היא חברה מסורתית המנסה לשמור על גבולותיה ולהתנהל כתרבות מובלעת בקרב החברה הישראלית-חילונית. אחד האתגרים ש ִאתם עליה להתמודד הוא חדירתן של טכנולוגיות תקשורת חדשות. האינטרנט הוא מן הטכנולוגיות השנויות ביותר במחלוקת במגזר החרדי, והוא מציב בפניו אתגרים ייחודיים. בשל תכונותיו של המדיום החדש קיים חשש כבד מחשיפת הציבור…[Read more]
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Rivka Neriya-Ben Shahar deposited Women’s images in the Ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) press: 1948-2008 in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years agoמאמר זה עוסק בדימויים ובייצוגים של נשים, כפי שהם משתקפים מטקסטים עיתונאיים שראו אור בישראל ונועדו לנשים חרדיות מאז קום המדינה.1 השאלות המרכזיות המוצגות כאן הן: כיצד משתקפת דמותה של האישה בעיתונות החרדית? האם היא נוכחת בה במרחב הפרטי ו/או הציבורי? כיצד כותבים העיתונים על נוכחותה במרחבים אלה? כדי לענות על שאלות אלה נבחן קורפוס רחב של מאות…[Read more]
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