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Being A Scholar In The Digital Era: Transforming Scholarly Practice For The Public Good, Polly Thistlethwaite, Jessie Daniels
Being A Scholar In The Digital Era: Transforming Scholarly Practice For The Public Good, Polly Thistlethwaite, Jessie Daniels
Publications and Research
What opportunities do digital technologies present scholars? How do developments in digital media support scholarship and teaching, and how can academics apply them to further social justice activism? The authors, a sociologist and a librarian, examine scholarly practice in the digital era to explore how academics, journalists, and activists can combine efforts to support social justice issues. With scholarly communication undergoing rapid change, and with digital innovation applied in higher education for many reasons, authors outline what scholars can do to channel their work to benefit the public good.
Whitewashing In Hollywood Silently Affects Our Children, Sam Tracy
Whitewashing In Hollywood Silently Affects Our Children, Sam Tracy
Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
The reaction to the 2016 Oscars, which birthed the trending topic #OscarsSoWhite on Twitter, highlights a serious problem in our country — a lack of representation for non-white communities. Watching a movie in the 1950s is still somehow reminiscent of today. We have put an end to blackface, the practice of coloring a white person’s face with paint to fill the role of a historically non-white character without hiring an accurate representative. Yet major blockbuster films did not commonly hire non-white characters for major roles until just recently. Our movies now typically feature a white cast, with the exception of …
Women And Peace Building In Iraq, Yasmin Khodary
Women And Peace Building In Iraq, Yasmin Khodary
Political Science
Peace-building is comprehensively defined by the UN Secretary- General’s Policy Committee as a “range of measures targeted to reduce the risk of lapsing or relapsing into conflict by strengthening national capacities at all levels for conflict management and to lay the foundation for sustainable peace and development.” Peace transformation and reconstruction processes were perceived to provide windows of opportunity to reshape existing political settlements, especially through addressing underlying power dynamics. One very prominent actor and stakeholder that should be actively engaged in peace transformations, political settlements, and state reconstructions is, by all means, women. In line with the Security Council …
Resistance., Empire Resistance, Risd Archives
Resistance., Empire Resistance, Risd Archives
Politics
Advertisement for strategic planning session for 2016 post-election resistance.
Post Campaign Artists And Designers In Action, Risd Research, Risd Archives
Post Campaign Artists And Designers In Action, Risd Research, Risd Archives
Politics
Advertisement for a RISD Community meeting to contemplate the meaning of the 2016 Presidential Election and next steps for political and cultural engagement.
This Isn't Us, Nick Unknown, Risd Archives
This Isn't Us, Nick Unknown, Risd Archives
Politics
Political protest poster. Anti-Trump poster post 2016 presidential election.
No! Signs Of Protest, S. Smith, Risd Archives
No! Signs Of Protest, S. Smith, Risd Archives
Politics
Advertisement asking for posters and images related to post-election protests.
Social Equities That Don't Exist Yet., Project Lets, Risd Archives
Social Equities That Don't Exist Yet., Project Lets, Risd Archives
Racial Justice
Poster for Social Equities that Don't Exists Yet, an unbiased conversation sponsored by the RISD chapter of Project LETS (Let's Erase The Stigma). Project LETS is a mental health advocacy group as well as a peer support network, dedicated to erasing the stigma around mental health and talking about mental health issues, especially as it relates to the RISD experience.
Black Lives Matter Free Community Printing Event, As220, Risd Archives
Black Lives Matter Free Community Printing Event, As220, Risd Archives
Racial Justice
Poster promoting Black Lives Matter free printing event hosted by Providence artist collective AS220, displayed on campus.
Twenty-Five Years Of Bananas, Beaches And Bases: A Conversation With Cynthia Enloe, Cynthia Enloe, Anita Lacey, Thomas Gregory
Twenty-Five Years Of Bananas, Beaches And Bases: A Conversation With Cynthia Enloe, Cynthia Enloe, Anita Lacey, Thomas Gregory
Sustainability and Social Justice
Cynthia Enloe’s book Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics brought a new approach to the study of war, conflict and political economy, an approach informed by and starting from a feminist curiosity. Such a starting point allows for recognition of the diverse, often disregarded gendered dynamics of militarization. A feminist curiosity facilitates making visible the politicization of everyday life via what Enloe calls a bottom-up approach to research and investigation. This account of a conversation between feminist scholars draws attention to the means by which researchers exercise the sociological imagination in their work on labour, militarism …
The Impact Of Anti-Gay Politics On The Lgbtq Movement, Amy L. Stone
The Impact Of Anti-Gay Politics On The Lgbtq Movement, Amy L. Stone
Sociology & Anthropology Faculty Research
Since the late 1970s, the Religious Right has mobilized to oppose the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) movement in the United States. Sociologists have studied the relationship between these two movements as a classic movement-countermovement dynamic, in which the strategies, actions, and framing of one movement impact the other. I analyze the way Religious Right reactive and proactive opposition to gay rights has affected the LGBTQ movement. First, I provide an overview of the literature on the negative impacts of the Religious Right, including the diversion of movement goals, transformation of frames, and marginalization of queer politics. Second, …
Perceptions Of Safety In Urban Spaces: The Fan District, Richmond, Va, Lindy C. Westenhoff
Perceptions Of Safety In Urban Spaces: The Fan District, Richmond, Va, Lindy C. Westenhoff
Senior Honors Projects, 2010-2019
This project identifies and spatially analyzes environmental factors that influence the perception of safety in populations of women within Richmond’s LGBT community. The project was conceived due to increasing calls for awareness about street harassment. Its purpose is to examine what physical factors, at the street level, increase or decrease feelings of safety or discomfort for women within this community.
In the first part of the project, survey data was collected from volunteer participants, members of either Diversity Richmond, downtown Richmond’s local LGBT resource center, or Madison Equality, the LGBT student organization at James Madison University. Using blank paper maps …
Intersectionality In Queer Activism: A Case Study, Haley Adams
Intersectionality In Queer Activism: A Case Study, Haley Adams
Undergraduate Theses
This paper explores the relationships between intersectionality and queer activism through a case study of the Louisville, Kentucky LGBTQ+ organization The Fairness Campaign. Intersectionality has been increasingly explored by academia, but rarely ventures beyond the “big three” categorical divisions of race, gender, and class; even rarer are studies of the practical application of intersectionality in activism, particularly queer activism. Through analysis of secondary data, I examine the ways in which intersectionality has, consciously or not, played a part in the history of the Fairness Campaign, as well as its role in the future of the organization.
Not Your Token, Black Artists And Designers (Baad), Risd Archives
Not Your Token, Black Artists And Designers (Baad), Risd Archives
Racial Justice
Poster for Not Your Token protest organized by RISD BAAD (Black Artists And Designers), held April 6, 2016 in Market Square, Providence, RI.
Text Reads:
Not Your Token
It is not our job to educate you.
But we will demand to be listened to.
Who does this "progressive" institution represent?
When 'western' education is the only thing of value.
Equality does not equal equity.
Our identities and experiences cannot be bought.
We are more than a statistic.
We are more than a data point.
We are more than loose change.
We are people with a desire to learn;
And we …
In The Shadow Of The Great Firewall: Censorship And Surveillance During Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement, Christine Andrelczyk
In The Shadow Of The Great Firewall: Censorship And Surveillance During Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement, Christine Andrelczyk
Theses and Dissertations
Through a case-study analysis, this project investigates why the People's Republic of China eschewed overtly repressive tactics and instead relied on subtle methods of coercion, such as surveillance and censorship, to mitigate activism during Hong Kong's pro-democracy Umbrella Movement. Drawing on historical evidence, reports, and quantitative data, this research explores the significance of subtle repression and coercion as it relates to the process of authoritarian consolidation in China and Hong Kong.
Rare Or Well Done? A Waitress Wonders How To Best Serve Environmental Education, Katherine Renz
Rare Or Well Done? A Waitress Wonders How To Best Serve Environmental Education, Katherine Renz
Summit to Salish Sea: Inquiries and Essays
Environmental education (EE) promises to facilitate the transformation of attitudes and behavior on a broad scale. Yet the field has not fulfilled its potential. This article takes an auto-ethnographical approach in considering the reluctance of environmental educators to discuss environmental problems. How is the discipline weakened by equating critical thinking and ecologically motivated despair with a negative attitude rather than honestly acknowledging the grief and promoting resiliency and empowerment instead? Through the lens of a professional waitress, this article argues that the service industry offers a privileged though overlooked venue for EE. Rather than framing EE as an isolated event …
2016 Mlk Convocation, Sarah L. Hickey
2016 Mlk Convocation, Sarah L. Hickey
MLK Convocations
This is the program for the annual MLK Convocation at Otterbein University.
Black Lives Matter
Racial Justice
Black Lives Matter print poster displayed on campus.
Racism Is Not Normal, Misogyny Is Not Normal, Fraud Is Not Normal, Dwri Letterpress, Risd Archives
Racism Is Not Normal, Misogyny Is Not Normal, Fraud Is Not Normal, Dwri Letterpress, Risd Archives
Racial Justice
Letterpress printed poster created by Providence-based artist DWRI Letterpress displayed on campus.
Beware Twitter: Trump's Mouth Lies, 2econd Amendment, Risd Archives
Beware Twitter: Trump's Mouth Lies, 2econd Amendment, Risd Archives
Politics
Anti-Trump poster.
Down With Trumpets, Risd Archives
Trump As A Chicken, Students Of Risd
Trump As A Chicken, Students Of Risd
Politics
Political protest poster. Anti-Trump poster caricature of Trump as a chicken.
Exposed, Students Of Risd
Exposed, Students Of Risd
Politics
Political protest poster. Anti-Trump, anti-Ted Cruz, anti-Republican poster. Test reads: "You're not homophobic. You're just a republican. Exposed. The political use of homophobia has become a ubiquitous part of the contemporary political landscape and political gain."
We Demand, Black Artists And Designers (Baad), Risd Archives
We Demand, Black Artists And Designers (Baad), Risd Archives
Racial Justice
We Demand poster. Demands focused on racial justice made by RISD students to the administration in 2016.
Community Is Stronger Than Hate
Community Is Stronger Than Hate
Racial Justice
Community is Stronger Than Hate poster displayed on campus.
Trump As A Beaver, Students Of Risd
Trump As A Beaver, Students Of Risd
Politics
Political protest poster. Anti-Trump poster caricature of Trump as a beaver.
“Realists Of A Larger Reality” Conceptualizing Creative Possibilities That Couldwork In Expanding Contemporary Human Rights, Amanda J. Beckley
“Realists Of A Larger Reality” Conceptualizing Creative Possibilities That Couldwork In Expanding Contemporary Human Rights, Amanda J. Beckley
Senior Projects Fall 2016
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.
Plugging Into Movement Work: White Racial Justice Action In The Era Of Colorblind Racism, Garrett Naiman
Plugging Into Movement Work: White Racial Justice Action In The Era Of Colorblind Racism, Garrett Naiman
Doctoral Dissertations
This qualitative study explored the practices and consciousness of eight white identified participants, born 1970 or later, who are actively engaged in racial justice action. Although the field of critical whiteness studies has expanded markedly over the past couple of decades, little has been written specifically about white racial justice activists (and activism). This may be serving as a disconnect for white people who are trying to find their way in racial justice movement work.
Participants were involved in one or more of the following: community organizing, education, religious work and cultural arts. Research data was primarily generated/collected through qualitative …