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2021

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Review: 'Pragmatist Philosophy And Dance: Interdisciplinary Dance Research In The American South', Aili W. Bresnahan Jun 2021

Review: 'Pragmatist Philosophy And Dance: Interdisciplinary Dance Research In The American South', Aili W. Bresnahan

Philosophy Faculty Publications

Eric Mullis’ Pragmatist Philosophy and Dance is a thoroughly multi-disciplinary and transdisciplinary book that is centered on and deeply engaged in the experimental and lived experience of Pentecostal dance in the American and Appalachian South. The focal point for Mullis’ research is not observation and critique of dance as embodied religious practice from a critical distance (although he does engage it critically and analytically) but from the inside, embedding his own person and body into the environment with all the resources of the unifying self that he has at his disposal to not just understand the form but feel it …


An Examination Of The Themes Of Invisibility And Hypervisibility In Black Women’S Experiences Within The Prison System, Sarah N. Kuhns May 2021

An Examination Of The Themes Of Invisibility And Hypervisibility In Black Women’S Experiences Within The Prison System, Sarah N. Kuhns

Honors Theses

Using Kimberlee Crenshaw’s concept of intersectionality, the author argues that how incarcerated Black women are treated because of how others perceive their identities lead to certain traits of theirs being rendered invisible or hyper-visible. Their humanity and needs are rendered invisible while stereotypes of criminality, insanity and hyper-sexuality are hyper-visible. Because their humanity is not fully seen, while their criminality is seen as hyper-visible, state violence is used against them as a tool of control and domination. Due to the fact that incarceration and the state violence that comes with a prison sentence, prison abolition should be considered as a …


Dialectical Reasoning And Developing Responsive Models Toward Political Ecology, Dawson J. Vandervort May 2021

Dialectical Reasoning And Developing Responsive Models Toward Political Ecology, Dawson J. Vandervort

Honors Theses

In this thesis, I seek out the modes of thought that we have developed for making sense of the world and elucidate how the logic of domination and reduction of reason to a calculative tool has led to the climate crisis. Throughout my research, I look for models to overcome mechanized thought and find two useful remedies that will require time and effort to implement: critical self-reflection and storytelling skills. Self-reflection involves dialectically thinking or considering alternative approaches to how we understand the world rather than accepting the standard norms for thinking and using them without question. Storytelling involves the …


Engaging In Feminist Intercultural Dialogue As Spiritual Transformation: A Reply To R. Aída Hernández Castillo, Marilyn Fischer Mar 2021

Engaging In Feminist Intercultural Dialogue As Spiritual Transformation: A Reply To R. Aída Hernández Castillo, Marilyn Fischer

Philosophy Faculty Publications

The author responds to criticism of her book Jane Addams's Evolutionary Theorizing.