To Be a (M)other: A Feminist Performative Autoethnography of Abortion

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 95-103
Author(s):  
Shelby Swafford
Keyword(s):  
Ecriture Feminine ◽  
Abortion Debate ◽  
P 16 ◽  
A Site ◽  
Lyric Prose ◽  
Corporeal Body ◽  
The U.S ◽  
American Abortion Debate

This is an abortion story. A feminist story. A body story. An autoethnographic story. This is a story of learning how to story abortion in a culture unforgiving to abortion stories. A story of embodying a body deemed unworthy of embodiment. A story of enfleshment enmeshed amid silence and violence. Influenced by feminist embodied auto-epistemologies, this essay seeks to disrupt the functionality of the U.S. American abortion debate through a performative, somatic reclamation of my experience from the semantic constrictions of highly medicalized, politicized, and individualized hegemonic discourses. Engaging a feminist performative autoethnographic praxis informed by écriture feminine, I center my corporeal body as a site of epistemological value to speak back against the limiting narratives of/about abortion while illustrating the critical creative potentials of performative autoethnographic storytelling. This essay weaves theory, lyric prose, epistolary, and poetry to performatively reconstruct, reframe, and reclaim my abortion experience through an embodied autoethnographic framework, in hopes of illuminating possibilities for others to “[experiment] with how we might tell stories differently rather than simply telling different stories” (p. 16).

Contending with Carcerality: Discursive Resistance to Elite Appropriation of Antiviolence Activism in Indian Media

2021 ◽  
pp. 107780122110260
Author(s):  
Chiara C. Packard
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
New Delhi ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Cultural Struggle ◽  
Carceral Feminism ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
A Site ◽  
The U.S

Research has revealed how antiviolence activism can become entangled with the state's punitive agenda, leading to what some have called “carceral feminism.” However, this scholarship focuses primarily on the U.S. context. Additionally, few studies examine the cultural battles about gender-based violence that emerge in television media, a site of cultural struggle and meaning making. This study conducts a quantitative and qualitative content analysis of 46 Indian television panel broadcasts following a highly publicized rape in New Delhi in 2012. I find that elite state actors pursue punitive agendas, but feminists and other panelists engage in discursive resistance to this approach.

scholarly journals Hunger strike and the force-feeding chair: Guantanamo Bay and corporeal surrender

2018 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 294-312 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yasmin Ibrahim ◽  
Anita Howarth
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
The Body ◽  
American Empire ◽  
Hunger Strike ◽  
Full Disclosure ◽  
Guantanamo Bay ◽  
Force Feeding ◽  
Living Dead ◽  
A Site ◽  
Corporeal Body

Through the biotechnology of the force-feeding chair and the hunger strike in Guantanamo, this paper examines the camp as a site of necropolitics where bodies inhabit the space of the Muselmann – a figure Agamben invokes in Auschwitz to capture the predicament of the living dead. Sites of incarceration produce an aesthetic of torture and the force-feeding chair embodies the disciplining of the body and the extraction of pain while imposing the biopolitics of the American empire on “terrorist bodies”. Not worthy of human rights or death, the force-fed body inhabits a realm of indistinction between animal and human. The camp as an interstitial space which is beyond closure as well as full disclosure produces an aesthetic of torture on the racialised Other through the force-feeding chair positioned between visibility and non-visibility. Through the discourse of medical ethics and the legal struggle for rights, the force-feeding chair emerges as a symbol of necropolitics where the hunger strike becomes a mechanism to impede death while possessing and violating the corporeal body.

crease the proportion of machine sources in the near future. If radiation process­ ing continues to grow, the shortage of Co, which has caused some delays in deliveries in the past, will become more acute. This also points to an increasingly important role for electron accelerators. Generalizing conclusions about the relative economics of different types of irradiation may be misleading because the relative costs of different radiation facilities are considerably affected by local conditions such as costs of electricity, labor, transportation, and construction. The economics of operation also depends on the use level of a facility. Where operations can be continued day and night for months a year a radionuclide source may be more economic, however, where intermittent operations are more likely a machine source may be more advanta­ geous. Sociopolitical considerations relate to the observation that in some countries it is getting more and more difficult to overcome local opposition to the installation of new radioisotope sources. Fears for the safety of the environment in shipping and storing large inventories of 60Co or 137Cs are often cited as the main reason for this opposition. Regardless of whether these fears are justified, planners cannot disregard them. As an example, the National Food Processors Association (NFPA), with support from the U.S. Department of Energy, negotiated in the summer of 1985 for a site in Dublin, California, to build a demonstration and training facility for food irradiation, using 3 million Ci of ,Cs. The opposition

1995 ◽  
pp. 45-45
Keyword(s):  
Department Of Energy ◽  
Food Irradiation ◽  
Local Conditions ◽  
Electron Accelerators ◽  
Local Opposition ◽  
A Site ◽  
Near Future ◽  
And Training ◽  
Radionuclide Source ◽  
The U.S

Cold War, Bottom-up: The 1956 Catholicos Election

2020 ◽  
pp. 126-166
Author(s):  
Tsolin Nalbantian
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Public Relations ◽  
National Politics ◽  
Top Down ◽  
War Powers ◽  
Internal Politics ◽  
A Site ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
The U.S

Chapter 3 examines the 1956 Catholicos election in Lebanon.While the excitement and success of the repatriation movement was a public relations victory for the USSR supported by local Armenian institutions and assisted by Lebanese and Syrian governments, this election became a site of contestation by Cold War powers and by their state and non-state allies and proxies in the Middle East. This analysis allows us to look at the Cold War in the Middle East not from the top down, through the eyes of Washington or Moscow (or Lebanon’s or Egypt’s state authorities, for that matter) during flash points like the 1958 U.S. intervention in Lebanon or the U.S. and Soviet reactions to the Tripartite Aggression against Egypt in 1956. Rather, in that election, Armenians made use of Cold War tensions to designate a leader of the Armenian Church who was seen to suit the community’s interests. That story also expands our understanding of Lebanon’s Armenians: from refugees and outsiders in national politics to true participants, whose own internal politics, moreover, were of interest to Lebanon’s authorities and who by now felt free to invade and use public spaces beyond their own neighborhoods to make political statements.

Contradictions in Creating a Jihadi Capital: Sokoto in the Nineteenth Century and Its Legacy

2013 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Murray Last
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Religious Movement ◽  
Northern Nigeria ◽  
Field Site ◽  
Rural Town ◽  
Political Center ◽  
History Of ◽  
Sokoto Caliphate ◽  
A Site ◽  
The U.S

Abstract:The Sokoto caliphate in nineteenth-century northern Nigeria was an astonishing episode in the history of Africa: a huge, prosperous polity that created unity where none had existed before. Yet today its history is underexplored, sometimes ignored or even disparaged, both within Nigeria and in Europe and the U.S. Yet that history is extraordinary. Sokoto town was, and still is, an anomaly within Hausaland; built speedily on a “green-field” site as both a trading and a political center for the caliphate, it is a site of pilgrimage that to this day remains a rural town with no monumental buildings or fine edifices. As a by-product of a religious movement (jihad), Sokoto thus represents many of the dilemmas that faced and still face radically reforming Islamic groups if they expand rapidly and go to war. Thus Sokoto history remains deeply significant for modern Nigeria.

scholarly journals Multi-objective source scaling experiment

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Costley ◽  
Luis De Jesús Díaz, ◽  
Sarah McComas ◽  
Christopher Simpson ◽  
James Johnson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Shock Wave ◽  
Acoustic Waves ◽  
Low Frequency ◽  
Engineer Research ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Source Scaling ◽  
Explosive Charges ◽  
A Site ◽  
Development Center ◽  
The U.S

The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) performed an experiment at a site near Vicksburg, MS, during May 2014. Explosive charges were detonated, and the shock and acoustic waves were detected with pressure and infrasound sensors stationed at various distances from the source, i.e., from 3 m to 14.5 km. One objective of the experiment was to investigate the evolution of the shock wave produced by the explosion to the acoustic wavefront detected several kilometers from the detonation site. Another objective was to compare the effectiveness of different wind filter strategies. Toward this end, several sensors were deployed near each other, approximately 8 km from the site of the explosion. These sensors used different types of wind filters, including the different lengths of porous hoses, a bag of rocks, a foam pillow, and no filter. In addition, seismic and acoustic waves produced by the explosions were recorded with seismometers located at various distances from the source. The suitability of these sensors for measuring low-frequency acoustic waves was investigated.

scholarly journals De/constructing the Academic Hood

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (S1) ◽  
pp. 68-85
Author(s):  
Louise Michelle Vital ◽  
Christina W. Yao
Keyword(s):  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Research Training ◽  
The United States ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Doctoral Studies ◽  
Methodological Nationalism ◽  
Spatial Positioning ◽  
A Site ◽  
The U.S

Doctoral education is often lauded as a site of academic socialization and research training for nascent scholars. However, discussions of socialization seldom problematize the dangers of intellectual imperialism and methodological nationalism inherent in doctoral researcher socialization. As such, the traditional socialization practices for doctoral students in the United States (U.S.) must be interrogated and expanded to move towards equitable practices for research, especially for students conducting international research. Using social and spatial positioning as our conceptual framing, we problematize and question current approaches and practices to doctoral researcher training in the U.S. We use the academic hood, which is granted upon successful completion of doctoral studies, as a metaphor to reconsider how to reflect upon and navigate power dynamics and knowledge production within the U.S. academy.

Miami as Stage

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julio Capó
Keyword(s):  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Urban Center ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Leisure And Recreation ◽  
A Site ◽  
The City ◽  
The U.S

This chapter builds on chapter three in taking seriously boosters’ framing of Miami as a fairyland. It pays particular attention to the ways the city was “staged,” both literally and figuratively, in the American imagination. It notes how theatricality, spectacle, and publicity collided in the urban center to help sell the fairyland to outsiders. It explores some of the powerful metaphors used to market the city’s transgressive identity. Race and empire in particular played key roles in marketing the city for tourist consumption, as Miami boosters measured their city’s success against developments in the Caribbean, especially in Cuba. The chapter also explores the ways the literal stage—in both theater and film—located Miami as a site for white leisure and recreation. Underpinned as it was by racist and colonial practices and ideologies, the idea of Miami as a site for pushing the boundaries of gender and sexuality entered the U.S. imagination.

Becoming Americans in Paris: The Commune as Frontier in Turn-of-the-Century Adventure Fiction

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Michelle Coghlan
Keyword(s):  
Gilded Age ◽  
Popular Fiction ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Historical Romances ◽  
Adventure Fiction ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
Red Flag ◽  
A Site ◽  
The U.S

This chapter charts the reconfiguration of the Commune’s domestic threat in American popular fiction in the 1890s. I show how America’s fin-de-siècle preoccupation with the revolution of 1871 consistently reframes Paris as a frontier of empire even as it critically reimagines it as a site where American tourists—or, more specifically, Gilded Age American men—might be said to “find” themselves. Setting Edward King’s 1895 boys’ book, Under the Red Flag, alongside G. A. Henty’s A Woman of the Commune, and two other immensely popular but virtually forgotten historical romances of the period, The Red Republic and An American in Paris, I argue that the 1890s were a particularly apt time to revisit the Commune because of the very real labor unrest plaguing the country, and more importantly because the “romance of the Commune” served to revise American conceptions of revolution at a moment when the U.S. was reimagining its role abroad and reevaluating its attitude towards empire.

Epilogue

2019 ◽  
pp. 211-218
Author(s):  
Nancy Shoemaker
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Rockefeller Foundation ◽  
Third Wave ◽  
World War ◽  
The Third ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Many ◽  
A Site ◽  
The U.S

This epilogue addresses how David Whippy, Mary D. Wallis, and John B. Williams—as they pursued respect in different ways—became party to the many changes taking place in Fiji due to foreign influence. Whippy, Wallis, and Williams were all involved, in one way or another, in the U.S.–Fiji trade. In the twentieth century, new incentives enticed Americans to Fiji. American global activism and private development schemes involved Fiji as much as other places around the world, and medical aid and research sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation and a Carnegie Library at Suva introduced new forms of American influence in the islands. World War II, of course, brought Americans to the islands in droves. However, the main avenue by which Americans would come to Fiji was through the third wave of economic development that succeeded the sugar plantations of colonial Fiji: tourism. Now that the face of Fiji presented to the rest of the world evokes pleasure instead of fear, references to the cannibal isles have become nothing more than a nostalgic nod to Fiji's past. Previously considered a site of American wealth production, the islands have now become a site of American consumption.

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