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Messy Eating, Samantha King, R Scott Carey, Isabel Macquarie, Victoria Millious, Elaine Power

Environment

Literature on the ethics and politics of food and that on animal-human relationships have infrequently converged. Representing an initial step towards bridging this divide, Messy Eating features interviews with thirteen prominent and emerging scholars about the connections between their academic work and their approach to consuming animals as food. The collection explores how authors working across a range of perspectives—postcolonial, Indigenous, Black, queer, trans, feminist, disability, poststructuralist, posthumanist, and multispecies—weave their theoretical and political orientations with daily, intimate, and visceral practices of food consumption, preparation, and ingestion.

Contributors: Neel Ahuja, Billy Ray Belcourt, Matthew Calarco, Lauren Corman, Naisargi Dave, Maneesha …

"You Can't Go Back To Holding Hands." Reading Judy Blume's Forever In The #Metoo Era, Jenna Spiering, Kate Kedley

Faculty Publications

Judy Blume’s Forever is a cultural artifact that gives readers a historical look at society’s attitudes about sex and sexuality at the time of publication in 1975. However, in the #MeToo era, Blume’s text is poised for new analysis in light of important conversations and concerns about sex, sexuality, and consent. In this article, Critical Youth Studies and Queer Theory are used to explore the ways in which young readers can critically engage with Blume’s novel and questions about virginity, sex, sexuality, and consent associated with the #MeToo movement.

#Whyididntreport: Using Social Media Analysis To Inform Issues With Sexual Assault Reporting, Jordyn Warren

LSU Master's Theses

The #MeToo movement allowed victims of sexual assault to go public with their stories. When Dr. Christine Blasey Ford came forward with allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh in September of 2018, she was scrutinized by President Trump for not reporting the incident to authorities “when it happened nearly 30 years ago.” Promptly, #WhyIDidntReport came to fruition on Twitter, uncovering the shame victims feel and the complexities behind why so many individuals didn’t and still don’t report their assaults. Victim-service agencies “provide victims with support and services to facilitate their physical and emotional recovery, offer protection from future victimizations, …

Unspoken Rules: Using The Game Of Mao To Teach Sensemaking And Cultural Approaches To Communication, Nina O'Brien, Cynthia Wang

Discourse: The Journal of the SCASD

This interactive classroom activity invites students to interrogate their common sense and taken-for-granted communication practices and assumptions. In the course of playing a “concealed rules” game, students enact the ritual view of communication and the process of sensemaking. The activity provides an experiential model for clarifying complex themes as well as for actively constructing student understanding of the theories. The activity directly challenges norms of classroom communication and interaction and promotes thoughtful and engaged classroom discussion and reflection. Instructors are provided clear instructions, recommended student readings and sample discussion questions. The activity and debrief usually require about one hour of …

Adorno In The Digital Age: Consumerism, Ideology, And Participation In The Beatles: Rock Band, Scott Haden Church

Discourse: The Journal of the SCASD

This essay presents an analysis of the ideologies in the online trailer to the virtual musical performance video game The Beatles: Rock Band. This analysis presents a contribution to the scholarly conversation by using Theodor W. Adorno’s theories, a novel and underutilized heuristic for analyzing video games. The trailer to The Beatles: Rock Band (Harmonix, 2009) promotes the ideology of consumerism through its mythologized depiction of the Beatles. The interactivity of video games may combat Adorno’s condemnation of the culture industry, allowing resistance to its hegemony via the performed de(con)struction of the text.

Camoface: Performances Of Ruralism In Duck Dynasty, Jason Jordan

Discourse: The Journal of the SCASD

In recent years, portrayals of the supposedly “real” exploits of rural persons in the United States have proliferated across the mediasphere. This paper examines the first season of the television show Duck Dynasty as an exemplar of this genre of entertainment. Using the concepts of ruralism, rurality, and rusticity the particular performances of rural life evidenced within the show are traced out. Ultimately, I argue that these performances of the rural constitute a strategic rhetoric that seeks to control what counts as authentic rurality. I term these sorts of strategic performances of rural authenticity as “camoface.”

How Can We Come To Care In And Through Design?, Li Jönsson, Ann Light, Kristina Lindström, Åsa Ståhl, Mathilda Tham

Nordes Conference Series

On a generic level, caring can be described as "everything that we do to maintain, continue, and repair our 'world' so that we can live in it as well as possible" (Fisher and Tronto, 1990). This paper asks how we as design researchers in Scandinavia come to care, for our world and more specifically for the local NORDES community. We do this by describing how we have maintained, continued and added (as a practice of repair) in relation to the most recent NORDES summer school (2018). The summer school invited students to work with tensions between despair, in a site …

Research Experiences Beyond The Comfort Zone, Juan Sanin

Nordes Conference Series

The intersection between design and care is shaping new design fields that are both promising and challenging. Design for healthcare is one of these fields: it brings opportunities for improving people’s experience of care through design research, but it takes designers out of their comfort zone. Scholars have reported success doing design for healthcare, but not much has been said about challenges, failures or confrontations found in this field. This paper argues that we should care more about discomforting aspects of design research to get a better understanding of what designing together involves. It presents a case of care (in)action …

Three Ecologies Diffracted: Intersectionality For Ecological Caring, Martín Ávila

Nordes Conference Series

This essay commemorates the 30th anniversary of the publication of Félix Guattari’s The Three Ecologies. It does so by proposing a ‘diffractive’ reading of the book, suggesting latent potential in each of the overlapping “ecologies” that conformed the ecosophy sketched by Guattari. There are mainly two aspects of The Three Ecologies addressed in this essay. Firstly, the understanding of the general frame of the interrelation of the three ecologies as an “intersectional” approach. Secondly, the understanding of this form of intersectionality as a possible platform to acknowledge other-than human ‘intersections’. Through the essay I exemplify with one of my own …

Japan’S Policy On The Trans-Pacific Partnership (Tpp) In Light Of Ir Theory And Analytical Eclecticism, Daisuke Akimoto Ph.D.

Journal of International and Global Studies

Japan’s policy toward the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement has been controversial at the political, academic, and public levels. The domestic debate on the TPP literally split public opinion in Japan, and academic analyses are apt to be argumentatively divided into pros and cons. Likewise, earlier studies regarding the TPP in the field of international relations offered particular theoretical perspectives, yet tended not to conduct eclectic theoretical examination. In order to overcome the research gap, this paper attempts to provide both narrative and theoretical explanations by applying international relations (IR) theory in combination with “analytical eclecticism” as a research method in …

Cross-Cultural Analysis Of Japanese And Mediterranean Entrepreneurs During The Global Economic Crisis, Diego R. Toubes Ph.D., Julio García Del Junco Ph.D., Masataka Abe Ph.D.

Journal of International and Global Studies

This paper aims to identify similarities and differences in the attitudes and traits of entrepreneurs in four countries, Japan and three Mediterranean countries, and it analyzes how cultural diversity can influence business and entrepreneurial experience. To this end, two questionnaires were completed by entrepreneurs of 188 small businesses in Japan, Italy, Spain and Portugal at a time when all these countries had been hit by the global economic crisis. The indices of the Hofstede dimensions were obtained from the VSM 94 questionnaire. The second open-ended questionnaire adds information about each case in the field of entrepreneurship. The qualitative case analysis …

Constructing An Anthropology Of Infrastructure, Alfonso P. Castro

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review on:

• Anand, Nikhil, Akhil Gupta, & Hannah Appel (Eds.). The Promise of Infrastructure. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2018.
• Scudder. Thayer. Large Dams: Long-Term Impacts on Riverine Communities and Free-Flowing Rivers. Singapore: Springer, 2018.

Sloane-White, Patricia. Corporate Islam: Sharia And The Modern Workplace. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017., El-Sayed El-Aswad

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

Sandler, Todd. Terrorism: What Everyone Needs To Know. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018., Reshmi Kazi Ph.D.

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

Mark Maguire, Ursula Rao, Nils Zurawski (Eds.). Bodies As Evidence: Security, Knowledge, And Power. Duke University Press, 2018., Sarah Maya Rosen

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

Habib, M.A.R. Hegel And Empire: From Postcolonialism To Globalism. Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017., Harold A. Young Ph.D.

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

De La Cadena, Marisol And Blaser, Mario (Eds.). A World Of Many Worlds. Durham And London, Duke University Press, 2018., Sally A. Applin Ph.D.

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

Neuman, Tamara. Settling Hebron. Jewish Fundamentalism In A Palestinian City. Philadelphia, Pa: University Of Pennsylvania Press, 2018., Ilana Maymind Ph.D.

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

Chong, Kimberly. Best Practice: Management Consulting And The Ethics Of Financialization In China. Durham And London: Duke University Press, 2018., Jiangnan Li

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

Caglar, Ayse And Nina Glick Shiller. Migrants And City-Making: Dispossession, Displacement, And Urban Regeneration. Durham And London: Duke University Press, 2018., Steven Ybarrola Ph.D.

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

Rowe, P. S. (Ed.). Routledge Handbook Of Minorities In The Middle East. London And New York: Routledge, 2019., Gennaro Errichiello Ph.D.

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

Pace, Michelle & Somdeep Sen (Eds.). Syrian Refugee Children In The Middle East And Europe: Integrating The Young And Exiled. London And New York: Routledge, 2018., Padmini Banerjee Ph.D.

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

Wolfgang Schneider, Beate Kegler, And Daniela Koß (Eds.) Vital Village: Development Of Rural Areas As A Challenge For Cultural Policy. Bielefeld (Germany): Transcript, 2017., Tarique Niazi Ph.D.

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

The Death Penalty: The Law Lords Alter Course In The Commonwealth Caribbean, Harold A. Young J.D./Llb, Phd

Journal of International and Global Studies

This article is a critical examination of the decisions of the Judicial Council of the Privy Council (JCPC) in death penalty appeals from the Commonwealth Caribbean from 1966 to 2008. It contributes to our understanding of how court rulings may be influenced by specific aspects of the judicial environment, which is shaped by the majority party in parliament, whose prime minister selects judges and which may make substantive changes in the law. In a quantitative examination of death penalty appeals, I find an increased likelihood that the court will set aside the death penalty when the judicial environment changes.

Helff, Sissy & Stefanie Michels (Eds.). Global Photographies: Memory, History, Archives. Transcript Verlag, 2018., Pramod K. Nayar Ph.D.

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

Scott Straus & Barry Driscoll. International Studies: Global Forces, Interactions, And Tensions. Los Angeles: Cq Press (Sage Publications, Inc.), 2019., Tarique Niazi Ph.D.

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

Radhika Mongia. Indian Migration And Empire: A Colonial Genealogy Of The Modern State. Durham, Nc.: Duke University Press, 2018., Tarique Niazi Ph.D.

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

Michael G. Vann And Liz Clarke, The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt: Empire, Disease, And Modernity In French Colonial Vietnam. New York And Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018., Matthew Galway Ph.D.

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

Liana Chua, Joanna Cook, Nicholas Long And Lee Wilson (Eds.). Southeast Asian Perspectives On Power. London: Routledge, 2017., Olli Suorsa Ph.D.

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

Erlich, Reese. The Iran Agenda Today: The Real Story Inside Iran And What's Wrong With U.S. Policy. London And New York: Routledge, 2019., Michele F. Fontefrancesco Phd, Afhea

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.