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From Panic To Pity: Circuits And Circulations Of The Contemporary Anti-Trafficking Crusade, Juliana Ramirez-Rodriguez
From Panic To Pity: Circuits And Circulations Of The Contemporary Anti-Trafficking Crusade, Juliana Ramirez-Rodriguez
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Theses
The creation, implementation, and ratification of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA), as well as the growth of parallel private initiatives against human trafficking, have emerged from a neoliberal political agenda that focuses on redefinitions of labor, sexuality, securitization of humanitarian campaigns, and immigration policies. In this thesis, I explore some of the meanings and effects of those redefinitions by focusing on the affective registers of pity and panic in their ability to mobilize publics toward restrictive forms of assistance to real and imaginary victims of the so-called phenomenon of “modern-day slavery.”
"Lean In," "Opt Out," And The Journey To Happiness: Brazilian College Women Imagine Freedom, Cecilia Troiano
"Lean In," "Opt Out," And The Journey To Happiness: Brazilian College Women Imagine Freedom, Cecilia Troiano
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Theses
This work focuses on understanding how nine Brazilian college women, from different ethnicities and sexual orientations, navigate their future expectations related to career and personal lives. Thus, the research explores how they are planning to create and maintain a work/life balance and how they are shaping their intentions in relation to the duality “lean in”/ “opt out,” a dichotomy that tells women to work hard and assert themselves or to leave the competitive workplace. Based on in-depth qualitative interviews held in Sao Paulo, Brazil, the author explores how the women’s idealized futures do not follow the propositions offered by “lean …
The Politics Of Impossibility: Cece Mcdonald And Trayvon Martin— The Bursting Of Black Rage, Taryn Jordan
The Politics Of Impossibility: Cece Mcdonald And Trayvon Martin— The Bursting Of Black Rage, Taryn Jordan
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Theses
What can the affect of black rage do in a era of impossibility marked by the circulation of neoliberal post-race post-feminist themes? I argue that black rage is a key weapon in the fight against our impossible era—black rage operates through an affective bursting apart, disrupting circulating narratives connected to a post racial, post feminist world and charting a new path of social unrest that has the potential to transform the social order. I locate political uses of black rage through two case studies: CeCe McDonald, a black Trans* woman who was brutally attacked by a group of transphobic and …
Queer Feelings, Political Potential: Tracing Affect In Performance Spaces, Dylan Mccarthy Blackston
Queer Feelings, Political Potential: Tracing Affect In Performance Spaces, Dylan Mccarthy Blackston
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Theses
This thesis layers theories of affect circulation, queer performance participation, counterpublics, and queer space and time with ethnographic work performed in queer performance spaces. In so doing, the thesis explores affective networks in queer performance spaces in order to begin a theoretical analysis of the connecting affects amongst queer performance participants. In my interviews, I found affective connections which I explored as keywords. These keywords express affects that, in part, create the affective networks of queer performance participants.