Nicola Mai
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780226584959
- eISBN:
- 9780226585147
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226585147.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Gender and Sexuality
The book draws on unique and original research on the experiences of women, men, transgender people, minors and third party agents working in the sex industry in a variety of settings and jobs in the ...
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The book draws on unique and original research on the experiences of women, men, transgender people, minors and third party agents working in the sex industry in a variety of settings and jobs in the European Union, the Balkans and North Africa. Mobile Orientations addresses a critical issue within the transformation of global societies: the relation between the increase in migration flows, the expansion of the sex industry and the emergence of new forms of agency and exploitation. Moral panics about migrant ‘sex slaves’ being exploited in the global sex industry obfuscate the reality that only a minority is actually trafficked. The original research evidence analysed in Mobile Orientations counters the scenario of hegemonic exploitation presented by such moral panics. It shows that by migrating and working in the global sex industry, young women and men find opportunities to counter the increased precariousness and exploitability they meet in neoliberal times. The book’s autoethnographic writing style expresses the main theoretical contribution Mobile Orientations aims to make: to provide a nuanced and emic analysis of the complex understandings of agency and exploitation of migrants working in the global sex industry. The discussion of the methodological and expressive opportunities (and challenges) offered by ethnography and participatory filmmaking is integral part of the argument made by Mobile Orientations, which ultimately challenges the criteria of scientific and documentary authenticity and the forms of social exclusion engendered by the convergence between sexual humanitarianism and neoliberalism.Less
The book draws on unique and original research on the experiences of women, men, transgender people, minors and third party agents working in the sex industry in a variety of settings and jobs in the European Union, the Balkans and North Africa. Mobile Orientations addresses a critical issue within the transformation of global societies: the relation between the increase in migration flows, the expansion of the sex industry and the emergence of new forms of agency and exploitation. Moral panics about migrant ‘sex slaves’ being exploited in the global sex industry obfuscate the reality that only a minority is actually trafficked. The original research evidence analysed in Mobile Orientations counters the scenario of hegemonic exploitation presented by such moral panics. It shows that by migrating and working in the global sex industry, young women and men find opportunities to counter the increased precariousness and exploitability they meet in neoliberal times. The book’s autoethnographic writing style expresses the main theoretical contribution Mobile Orientations aims to make: to provide a nuanced and emic analysis of the complex understandings of agency and exploitation of migrants working in the global sex industry. The discussion of the methodological and expressive opportunities (and challenges) offered by ethnography and participatory filmmaking is integral part of the argument made by Mobile Orientations, which ultimately challenges the criteria of scientific and documentary authenticity and the forms of social exclusion engendered by the convergence between sexual humanitarianism and neoliberalism.
Edlie L. Wong
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781479868001
- eISBN:
- 9781479899043
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479868001.003.0003
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Cultural Studies
Chapter 2 broadens our understanding of Reconstruction to encompass the West and its “Chinese Question.” It builds upon the analytics for articulating racial difference—differential thinking—honed in ...
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Chapter 2 broadens our understanding of Reconstruction to encompass the West and its “Chinese Question.” It builds upon the analytics for articulating racial difference—differential thinking—honed in U.S. race and ethnic studies to illuminate an early politics of comparative racialization. Chinese American activists and writers such as Wong Chin Foo and Yan Phou Lee struggled to disarticulate the powerfully racializing discourse of heathenism that helped sustain the dialectic of black inclusion/Chinese (and Native American) exclusion. Black writers such as James Williams and William H. Newby wrote against Chinese exclusion, representing it as an outgrowth of the racial proscriptions that they had faced during legalized slavery. In juxtaposing lesser-known figures from early African American and Asian American print histories, this chapter investigates the analogization of blacks and Chinese in popular discourse and how these writers negotiated and contested these homogenizing racial representations in oratory and print journalism.Less
Chapter 2 broadens our understanding of Reconstruction to encompass the West and its “Chinese Question.” It builds upon the analytics for articulating racial difference—differential thinking—honed in U.S. race and ethnic studies to illuminate an early politics of comparative racialization. Chinese American activists and writers such as Wong Chin Foo and Yan Phou Lee struggled to disarticulate the powerfully racializing discourse of heathenism that helped sustain the dialectic of black inclusion/Chinese (and Native American) exclusion. Black writers such as James Williams and William H. Newby wrote against Chinese exclusion, representing it as an outgrowth of the racial proscriptions that they had faced during legalized slavery. In juxtaposing lesser-known figures from early African American and Asian American print histories, this chapter investigates the analogization of blacks and Chinese in popular discourse and how these writers negotiated and contested these homogenizing racial representations in oratory and print journalism.
Samuel J. Spinner
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- January 2022
- ISBN:
- 9781503628274
- eISBN:
- 9781503628281
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9781503628274.003.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Jewish Studies
The Introduction surveys the languages, media, and politics of Jewish primitivism and defines it in relation to modernist primitivism more broadly. Jewish primitivism redirected toward the self the ...
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The Introduction surveys the languages, media, and politics of Jewish primitivism and defines it in relation to modernist primitivism more broadly. Jewish primitivism redirected toward the self the dominant European primitivism that valorized racial and ethnic difference. Further, while typical European primitivism figured European aesthetics and society as challenged by the savage other, the identification of Jewish with primitive identity placed primitive aesthetics in the heart of Europe. Jewish primitivism spanned Yiddish, German, and Hebrew, and extended from central to eastern Europe; it expressed a powerful critique of the aesthetics as well as the politics of Jewish cultural nationalism. The necessity of social and cultural inclusion in Europe is questioned in Jewish primitivism even as the project is premised on that very inclusion. This account of Jewish primitivism reorients the scholarly perspective that views the place of primitivism in discourses on power, race, and colonialism strictly in terms of alterity.Less
The Introduction surveys the languages, media, and politics of Jewish primitivism and defines it in relation to modernist primitivism more broadly. Jewish primitivism redirected toward the self the dominant European primitivism that valorized racial and ethnic difference. Further, while typical European primitivism figured European aesthetics and society as challenged by the savage other, the identification of Jewish with primitive identity placed primitive aesthetics in the heart of Europe. Jewish primitivism spanned Yiddish, German, and Hebrew, and extended from central to eastern Europe; it expressed a powerful critique of the aesthetics as well as the politics of Jewish cultural nationalism. The necessity of social and cultural inclusion in Europe is questioned in Jewish primitivism even as the project is premised on that very inclusion. This account of Jewish primitivism reorients the scholarly perspective that views the place of primitivism in discourses on power, race, and colonialism strictly in terms of alterity.
Angela Jones
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781479842964
- eISBN:
- 9781479829422
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479842964.003.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Law, Crime and Deviance
Camming is the first book devoted solely to the erotic webcam industry, that empirically documents the history of the camming industry, the industry’s current size, the profitability of the camming ...
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Camming is the first book devoted solely to the erotic webcam industry, that empirically documents the history of the camming industry, the industry’s current size, the profitability of the camming industry, and that analyzes the motivations and the experiences of a relatively diverse sample of cam models. This chapter provides a brief background on the camming industry and discusses clients’ desire for embodied authenticity, and how interactive cam shows differ from traditional pornography. Given that many people view the consumption of virtual embodiment differently than they see the consumption of physical embodiment, and that these sexual interactions occur online, camming appeals to a wide range of workers and consumers. Importantly, these contextual elements create the conditions under which people open themselves up to experiencing new forms of pleasure, and in which workers can recapture pleasure as a fundamental part of their work. In addition to providing an overview of the industry, this chapter also outlines the analytical frameworks used throughout the book, which include the polymorphous paradigm of sex work and intersectionality. Finally, the critical pedagogies used in the book are described, which include progressive stacking, autoethnography, and a pornographic imagination.Less
Camming is the first book devoted solely to the erotic webcam industry, that empirically documents the history of the camming industry, the industry’s current size, the profitability of the camming industry, and that analyzes the motivations and the experiences of a relatively diverse sample of cam models. This chapter provides a brief background on the camming industry and discusses clients’ desire for embodied authenticity, and how interactive cam shows differ from traditional pornography. Given that many people view the consumption of virtual embodiment differently than they see the consumption of physical embodiment, and that these sexual interactions occur online, camming appeals to a wide range of workers and consumers. Importantly, these contextual elements create the conditions under which people open themselves up to experiencing new forms of pleasure, and in which workers can recapture pleasure as a fundamental part of their work. In addition to providing an overview of the industry, this chapter also outlines the analytical frameworks used throughout the book, which include the polymorphous paradigm of sex work and intersectionality. Finally, the critical pedagogies used in the book are described, which include progressive stacking, autoethnography, and a pornographic imagination.
Yasir Suleiman
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199747016
- eISBN:
- 9780199896905
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199747016.003.0003
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Sociolinguistics / Anthropological Linguistics
The chapter deals with the language-Self link in the study of Arabic in the social world. For this purpose, the chapter investigates two sites in the authors’ linguistic behaviour as a teacher ...
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The chapter deals with the language-Self link in the study of Arabic in the social world. For this purpose, the chapter investigates two sites in the authors’ linguistic behaviour as a teacher trainer in the Arabian Gulf region for the symbolic meanings these sites can. Central to this investigation is the concept of identity as a continuum which on one side is bounded by fixity and on the other by variability. The Self here is treated as a repertoire of roles, resources and attributes that are context-dependent. The material in this chapter is presented as an autoethnography. It is written in a first-person voice to reflect on the experiences of the researcher as researched subject, using memory, introspection, self-reports and personal interpretation to retrieve the data and explain them.Less
The chapter deals with the language-Self link in the study of Arabic in the social world. For this purpose, the chapter investigates two sites in the authors’ linguistic behaviour as a teacher trainer in the Arabian Gulf region for the symbolic meanings these sites can. Central to this investigation is the concept of identity as a continuum which on one side is bounded by fixity and on the other by variability. The Self here is treated as a repertoire of roles, resources and attributes that are context-dependent. The material in this chapter is presented as an autoethnography. It is written in a first-person voice to reflect on the experiences of the researcher as researched subject, using memory, introspection, self-reports and personal interpretation to retrieve the data and explain them.
Kenneth Chan
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9789622090552
- eISBN:
- 9789882207356
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789622090552.003.0007
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This chapter focuses on the way Chinese supernatural films pursue a kind of mythic autoethnography, where Chinese religious beliefs and superstitions receive an intensified makeover to emphasize the ...
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This chapter focuses on the way Chinese supernatural films pursue a kind of mythic autoethnography, where Chinese religious beliefs and superstitions receive an intensified makeover to emphasize the bizarre, the macabre, the mystical, and the inexplicable. It examines Bulletproof Monk's turn to fictitious Tibetan myths of immortality; Double Vision's cultic forms of Taoist beliefs; and The Myth's reworking of reincarnation and the semi-mythic story of the first Chinese emperor's obsession with the pill of immortality. It also analyzes the histrionics surrounding The Promise and its failure to be the film that it so anxiously aspires to be.Less
This chapter focuses on the way Chinese supernatural films pursue a kind of mythic autoethnography, where Chinese religious beliefs and superstitions receive an intensified makeover to emphasize the bizarre, the macabre, the mystical, and the inexplicable. It examines Bulletproof Monk's turn to fictitious Tibetan myths of immortality; Double Vision's cultic forms of Taoist beliefs; and The Myth's reworking of reincarnation and the semi-mythic story of the first Chinese emperor's obsession with the pill of immortality. It also analyzes the histrionics surrounding The Promise and its failure to be the film that it so anxiously aspires to be.
William L. Randall
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- September 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780199930432
- eISBN:
- 9780190267193
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199930432.001.0001
- Subject:
- Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology
Every day of life, we are enmeshed in countless storylines: those we spin around the experiences we remember, the people we relate to, and the world we inhabit, plus what others spin around us. And ...
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Every day of life, we are enmeshed in countless storylines: those we spin around the experiences we remember, the people we relate to, and the world we inhabit, plus what others spin around us. And this says nothing of the stories that we read in newspapers and novels, or watch on TV, or exchange with friends; plus the stories of family, community, and culture. Because stories are at work on several levels of our lives, narrative is not something we can think calmly and coolly “about,” for we are immersed in stories at every turn. We are continually involved in “narrative knowing” and “narrative thought,” and forever playing narrative psychologist: imagining stories about our own lives and speculating on those that others entertain about theirs. This book explores the narrative complexity of ordinary life. Written in an ordinary coffee shop, where that complexity is eminently apparent, it weaves anecdotes of encounters its author experiences with speculations on his own life story, probing the narrative complexity of our memories, emotions, and identities, and our experience of everything from romance to rumor and history to religion. This innovative exercise in “autoethnography” probes the intricacies of narrative psychology with the aid of narrative thought.Less
Every day of life, we are enmeshed in countless storylines: those we spin around the experiences we remember, the people we relate to, and the world we inhabit, plus what others spin around us. And this says nothing of the stories that we read in newspapers and novels, or watch on TV, or exchange with friends; plus the stories of family, community, and culture. Because stories are at work on several levels of our lives, narrative is not something we can think calmly and coolly “about,” for we are immersed in stories at every turn. We are continually involved in “narrative knowing” and “narrative thought,” and forever playing narrative psychologist: imagining stories about our own lives and speculating on those that others entertain about theirs. This book explores the narrative complexity of ordinary life. Written in an ordinary coffee shop, where that complexity is eminently apparent, it weaves anecdotes of encounters its author experiences with speculations on his own life story, probing the narrative complexity of our memories, emotions, and identities, and our experience of everything from romance to rumor and history to religion. This innovative exercise in “autoethnography” probes the intricacies of narrative psychology with the aid of narrative thought.
Nicola Mai
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780226584959
- eISBN:
- 9780226585147
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226585147.003.0002
- Subject:
- Sociology, Gender and Sexuality
Chapter 1 further explores the author's subjective positioning and presents in more detail the methodological implications of his intimate, autoethnographic approach. It focuses on the strategic ...
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Chapter 1 further explores the author's subjective positioning and presents in more detail the methodological implications of his intimate, autoethnographic approach. It focuses on the strategic nature of this approach for understanding the emergence of the mobile orientations encompassing the subjectivities and mobilities of migrants, most of whom decide to sell sex in the short term in order to avoid being exploited in other labour sectors and to afford a better life for themselves and their families in the future. The chapter presents the notion of intimate autoethnography, which acknowledges the nature of knowledge production as co-constructed by intersubjective and affective relations between observing and observed subjects. It also presents the ways in which the complex conditions of agency of migrant sex workers can be obfuscated by sexual humanitarian, homophobic and other stigmatizing discourses emphasizing their vulnerability. Throughout the chapter the author provides examples of the ways in which he was able to engage affectively and intersubjectively with the preferred selfrepresentations offered by research participants. The chapter also reviews the data presented in the book as well as existing ethnographic research showing that the neo-abolitionist equation of migrant (and nonmigrant) sex work with trafficking does not match reality.Less
Chapter 1 further explores the author's subjective positioning and presents in more detail the methodological implications of his intimate, autoethnographic approach. It focuses on the strategic nature of this approach for understanding the emergence of the mobile orientations encompassing the subjectivities and mobilities of migrants, most of whom decide to sell sex in the short term in order to avoid being exploited in other labour sectors and to afford a better life for themselves and their families in the future. The chapter presents the notion of intimate autoethnography, which acknowledges the nature of knowledge production as co-constructed by intersubjective and affective relations between observing and observed subjects. It also presents the ways in which the complex conditions of agency of migrant sex workers can be obfuscated by sexual humanitarian, homophobic and other stigmatizing discourses emphasizing their vulnerability. Throughout the chapter the author provides examples of the ways in which he was able to engage affectively and intersubjectively with the preferred selfrepresentations offered by research participants. The chapter also reviews the data presented in the book as well as existing ethnographic research showing that the neo-abolitionist equation of migrant (and nonmigrant) sex work with trafficking does not match reality.
Salvador Vidal-Ortiz
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- January 2022
- ISBN:
- 9781479805198
- eISBN:
- 9781479805235
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479805198.003.0039
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology
This is an abridged version of a 2004 article, which uses autoethnography to make larger conceptual/theoretical points about racial/ethnic identity categories for Puerto Ricans in the United States. ...
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This is an abridged version of a 2004 article, which uses autoethnography to make larger conceptual/theoretical points about racial/ethnic identity categories for Puerto Ricans in the United States. I utilize Puerto Rican-ness to illustrate the limitations of US “race” and ethnic constructs by furthering racialization analyses with seemingly contradictory categories such as “white” and “people of color.” I contrast personal experiences to those of racial/ethnic classificatory systems, the American imagery of Puerto Ricans, and simplistic, political identifications. Travel, colonial relations, intra-ethnic coalitional possibilities, and second-class citizenship are all aspects that expand on the notion of racialization as classically utilized in sociology and the social sciences. Although this is not a comparative study, I present differences between racial formation systems in Puerto Rico and the United States in order to make these points.Less
This is an abridged version of a 2004 article, which uses autoethnography to make larger conceptual/theoretical points about racial/ethnic identity categories for Puerto Ricans in the United States. I utilize Puerto Rican-ness to illustrate the limitations of US “race” and ethnic constructs by furthering racialization analyses with seemingly contradictory categories such as “white” and “people of color.” I contrast personal experiences to those of racial/ethnic classificatory systems, the American imagery of Puerto Ricans, and simplistic, political identifications. Travel, colonial relations, intra-ethnic coalitional possibilities, and second-class citizenship are all aspects that expand on the notion of racialization as classically utilized in sociology and the social sciences. Although this is not a comparative study, I present differences between racial formation systems in Puerto Rico and the United States in order to make these points.
Meena Gopal
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- December 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780190130640
- eISBN:
- 9780190993115
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190130640.003.0010
- Subject:
- Sociology, Sport and Leisure
Meena Gopal’s essay employs a feminist perspective of care and an autoethnographic method to explore the dimensions of a nurturing, mentoring practice in athletics. It is done through an unravelling ...
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Meena Gopal’s essay employs a feminist perspective of care and an autoethnographic method to explore the dimensions of a nurturing, mentoring practice in athletics. It is done through an unravelling of school, club and social intersections, illuminating possibilities of a sports commons even while nurturing competitive excellence. The labours of mentoring and care in the arena of athletics hopes to generate sport as a space that is participatory, inclusive and emancipatory. In the 1980s, the skewed nature of public schools meant that sport received less state support, while private institutions were able to nurture some sports talent due to sustained mentorship.Less
Meena Gopal’s essay employs a feminist perspective of care and an autoethnographic method to explore the dimensions of a nurturing, mentoring practice in athletics. It is done through an unravelling of school, club and social intersections, illuminating possibilities of a sports commons even while nurturing competitive excellence. The labours of mentoring and care in the arena of athletics hopes to generate sport as a space that is participatory, inclusive and emancipatory. In the 1980s, the skewed nature of public schools meant that sport received less state support, while private institutions were able to nurture some sports talent due to sustained mentorship.
Ming-Yuen S. Ma
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- January 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781526142122
- eISBN:
- 9781526155535
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7765/9781526142139.00008
- Subject:
- Art, Art Theory and Criticism
This chapter’s discussion is organized around the discursive as well as bodily understanding of the voice within Western intellectual traditions, through which it examines the voice’s disembodiment ...
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This chapter’s discussion is organized around the discursive as well as bodily understanding of the voice within Western intellectual traditions, through which it examines the voice’s disembodiment facilitated by media technology. Specifically, the voice that is split from the image in documentary and ethnographic filmmaking becomes what Mary Ann Doane calls the ‘radical other’. This chapter argues that the disembodied voice’s radical otherness has the potential to empower silenced or misrepresented subjects to re-claim their vocal power within these filmic traditions. However, this re-claimed voice is neither discursive nor normative. Instead, this voice is re-embodied through performative, improvisatory, and vibrational strategies, exemplified in live performances by Paul D. Miller (DJ Spooky-That Subliminal Kid) and Tanya Tagaq, alongside experimental documentaries and essay films including Chantal Akerman’s News from Home (1976), Chris Marker’s Sans Soleil (1982), and Trinh T. Minh-ha’s Surname Viet Given Name Nam (1989).Less
This chapter’s discussion is organized around the discursive as well as bodily understanding of the voice within Western intellectual traditions, through which it examines the voice’s disembodiment facilitated by media technology. Specifically, the voice that is split from the image in documentary and ethnographic filmmaking becomes what Mary Ann Doane calls the ‘radical other’. This chapter argues that the disembodied voice’s radical otherness has the potential to empower silenced or misrepresented subjects to re-claim their vocal power within these filmic traditions. However, this re-claimed voice is neither discursive nor normative. Instead, this voice is re-embodied through performative, improvisatory, and vibrational strategies, exemplified in live performances by Paul D. Miller (DJ Spooky-That Subliminal Kid) and Tanya Tagaq, alongside experimental documentaries and essay films including Chantal Akerman’s News from Home (1976), Chris Marker’s Sans Soleil (1982), and Trinh T. Minh-ha’s Surname Viet Given Name Nam (1989).
Kevin D. Cordi
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- January 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781496821249
- eISBN:
- 9781496821294
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496821249.003.0002
- Subject:
- Sociology, Culture
In this chapter Cordi shares the value of what he calls deep listening. He states this is the first point of story. He then expresses how important it is to listen to experience. He shares that his ...
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In this chapter Cordi shares the value of what he calls deep listening. He states this is the first point of story. He then expresses how important it is to listen to experience. He shares that his identity changes when he reflects on when he is in the middle of being a storyteller and teacher. Writing is the way he responds to it, but not simply telling his story, but critically examining how his and his students narratives helps tell many stories.Less
In this chapter Cordi shares the value of what he calls deep listening. He states this is the first point of story. He then expresses how important it is to listen to experience. He shares that his identity changes when he reflects on when he is in the middle of being a storyteller and teacher. Writing is the way he responds to it, but not simply telling his story, but critically examining how his and his students narratives helps tell many stories.
Karen Throsby
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780719099625
- eISBN:
- 9781526114976
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719099625.003.0001
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology
Opening with an autoethnographic extract detailing the end of the author’s English Channel swim, the chapter describes the sport of marathon swimming. It presents a working definition and a ...
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Opening with an autoethnographic extract detailing the end of the author’s English Channel swim, the chapter describes the sport of marathon swimming. It presents a working definition and a methodological account of the research on which the book is based. The chapter concludes with a summary of the chapters, highlighting the key arguments and concepts developed throughout the book.Less
Opening with an autoethnographic extract detailing the end of the author’s English Channel swim, the chapter describes the sport of marathon swimming. It presents a working definition and a methodological account of the research on which the book is based. The chapter concludes with a summary of the chapters, highlighting the key arguments and concepts developed throughout the book.
Shilyh Warren
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- January 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780252042539
- eISBN:
- 9780252051371
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5622/illinois/9780252042539.003.0004
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
Personal films made in the 1970s by white women, such as Joyce Chopra and Amalie Rothschild, have long been the subject of debate among feminist film scholars. Denied a literal and symbolic voice in ...
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Personal films made in the 1970s by white women, such as Joyce Chopra and Amalie Rothschild, have long been the subject of debate among feminist film scholars. Denied a literal and symbolic voice in patriarchal society, women passionately inscribed and folded themselves into the documentary material of culture and thus demanded and commanded space, permanence, and significance. Reading this group of films ethnographically, however, brings out a new discussion about the racial politics of second-wave feminist documentaries. This chapter argues that these documentaries reveal clues about the social formation of whiteness, which is produced primarily through the uncontested norms and privileges that define women’s personal experience and self-exploration.Less
Personal films made in the 1970s by white women, such as Joyce Chopra and Amalie Rothschild, have long been the subject of debate among feminist film scholars. Denied a literal and symbolic voice in patriarchal society, women passionately inscribed and folded themselves into the documentary material of culture and thus demanded and commanded space, permanence, and significance. Reading this group of films ethnographically, however, brings out a new discussion about the racial politics of second-wave feminist documentaries. This chapter argues that these documentaries reveal clues about the social formation of whiteness, which is produced primarily through the uncontested norms and privileges that define women’s personal experience and self-exploration.
Shilyh Warren
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- January 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780252042539
- eISBN:
- 9780252051371
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5622/illinois/9780252042539.003.0005
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This chapter explore matters of racial and ethnic difference and solidarity in films by white women and by women of color about communities of color. It argues that the films are most productively ...
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This chapter explore matters of racial and ethnic difference and solidarity in films by white women and by women of color about communities of color. It argues that the films are most productively read as autoethnographies: studies of the mutual imbrication of selves and others, some individual and others collective, all of which are subject to the realities of gender, class, and race, albeit distinctly. In the context of political documentaries, just as in the conceptual battles over ethnography, matters of representation refract these tensions between inside and outside, self and other, us and them. Autoethnography is key to detecting the way women’s documentaries of the 1970s play a role in these ethical and political negotiations and the visions of justice they seek.Less
This chapter explore matters of racial and ethnic difference and solidarity in films by white women and by women of color about communities of color. It argues that the films are most productively read as autoethnographies: studies of the mutual imbrication of selves and others, some individual and others collective, all of which are subject to the realities of gender, class, and race, albeit distinctly. In the context of political documentaries, just as in the conceptual battles over ethnography, matters of representation refract these tensions between inside and outside, self and other, us and them. Autoethnography is key to detecting the way women’s documentaries of the 1970s play a role in these ethical and political negotiations and the visions of justice they seek.
Gareth Dylan Smith
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- September 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781496832368
- eISBN:
- 9781496832405
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496832368.003.0008
- Subject:
- Music, Ethnomusicology, World Music
This chapter explores aspects of the Irish diaspora through accounts of performances, rehearsals, and touring with London Irish “psycho-ceilídh” band, Neck, from 2002 to 2016. It draws on both rich, ...
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This chapter explores aspects of the Irish diaspora through accounts of performances, rehearsals, and touring with London Irish “psycho-ceilídh” band, Neck, from 2002 to 2016. It draws on both rich, descriptive autoethnographic data from the author’s participant observations and field notes, and multiple audio-recorded interviews with the band’s leader, singer and main guitarist, Leeson O’Keeffe.Less
This chapter explores aspects of the Irish diaspora through accounts of performances, rehearsals, and touring with London Irish “psycho-ceilídh” band, Neck, from 2002 to 2016. It draws on both rich, descriptive autoethnographic data from the author’s participant observations and field notes, and multiple audio-recorded interviews with the band’s leader, singer and main guitarist, Leeson O’Keeffe.
Gregory J. Snyder
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780814769867
- eISBN:
- 9780814729205
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814769867.003.0005
- Subject:
- Law, Intellectual Property, IT, and Media Law
This chapter goes deeper into the naming of tricks and provides a firsthand account of the process of learning to skateboard from the author’s brother and key informant, Aaron Snyder, a former ...
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This chapter goes deeper into the naming of tricks and provides a firsthand account of the process of learning to skateboard from the author’s brother and key informant, Aaron Snyder, a former professional skateboarder. We also experience the author’s attempt to skateboard himself, which ends with a minor injury.Less
This chapter goes deeper into the naming of tricks and provides a firsthand account of the process of learning to skateboard from the author’s brother and key informant, Aaron Snyder, a former professional skateboarder. We also experience the author’s attempt to skateboard himself, which ends with a minor injury.
Mwenda Ntarangwi
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252040061
- eISBN:
- 9780252098260
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252040061.003.0001
- Subject:
- Anthropology, African Cultural Anthropology
This chapter summarizes in brief an ethnography which demonstrates a close collaboration between the subject and researcher; the role one hip hop artist plays in a counterdiscourse to Christianity's ...
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This chapter summarizes in brief an ethnography which demonstrates a close collaboration between the subject and researcher; the role one hip hop artist plays in a counterdiscourse to Christianity's conservative posture in Kenya; a methodological approach that blurs any assumed distance between object and subject; and the intersections, overlaps, and collaborations that have taken place in the life and work of Julius Owino—more famously known as Juliani—as an artist and the author's own as the ethnographer. This chapter provides the groundwork for later discussion by briefly examining the life and career of Juliani as well as his own relationship with the author, and by providing overviews of the major themes underpinning this volume as a whole—hip hop, youth culture, and Christianity.Less
This chapter summarizes in brief an ethnography which demonstrates a close collaboration between the subject and researcher; the role one hip hop artist plays in a counterdiscourse to Christianity's conservative posture in Kenya; a methodological approach that blurs any assumed distance between object and subject; and the intersections, overlaps, and collaborations that have taken place in the life and work of Julius Owino—more famously known as Juliani—as an artist and the author's own as the ethnographer. This chapter provides the groundwork for later discussion by briefly examining the life and career of Juliani as well as his own relationship with the author, and by providing overviews of the major themes underpinning this volume as a whole—hip hop, youth culture, and Christianity.
Ben Tran
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780823273133
- eISBN:
- 9780823273188
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823273133.003.0002
- Subject:
- Literature, World Literature
Chapter 1 elaborates upon the relationship between the native intellectual’s vexed masculinity, analyzing reportage as a form of bodily knowledge indicative of the post-mandarin’s uncertain ...
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Chapter 1 elaborates upon the relationship between the native intellectual’s vexed masculinity, analyzing reportage as a form of bodily knowledge indicative of the post-mandarin’s uncertain sexuality. The chapter focuses on Tam Lang and Thạch Lam’s writings on prostitution, a recurring theme in Vietnamese reportage. These native male chroniclers persistently gazed at commercial sex workers who were sexually intimate with European men. The prospects of such liaisons were threatening in so far as they gave Vietnamese women access to modern culture, while the male Vietnamese observers remained excluded from modernization, despite their active pursuit of modern knowledge. The chapter argues that reportage is not merely a case of the colonized subject writing back against the colonizer, but that it also points to the post-mandarin’s ambiguous masculinity and authorial predicament in the triangular relationship between the European male figure and the Vietnam sex worker.Less
Chapter 1 elaborates upon the relationship between the native intellectual’s vexed masculinity, analyzing reportage as a form of bodily knowledge indicative of the post-mandarin’s uncertain sexuality. The chapter focuses on Tam Lang and Thạch Lam’s writings on prostitution, a recurring theme in Vietnamese reportage. These native male chroniclers persistently gazed at commercial sex workers who were sexually intimate with European men. The prospects of such liaisons were threatening in so far as they gave Vietnamese women access to modern culture, while the male Vietnamese observers remained excluded from modernization, despite their active pursuit of modern knowledge. The chapter argues that reportage is not merely a case of the colonized subject writing back against the colonizer, but that it also points to the post-mandarin’s ambiguous masculinity and authorial predicament in the triangular relationship between the European male figure and the Vietnam sex worker.
Breanna Mohr
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- September 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781479859290
- eISBN:
- 9781479875597
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479859290.003.0005
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
Chapter 5 is an autoethnographic account of author Breanna Mohr’s lived experiences working in a legal brothel. Initially choosing legal prostitution as an occupation when she was in her early ...
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Chapter 5 is an autoethnographic account of author Breanna Mohr’s lived experiences working in a legal brothel. Initially choosing legal prostitution as an occupation when she was in her early twenties, she found brothel work as a way to have freedom to create her own schedule so she could devote more time to getting her undergraduate degree. Mohr discovered her passion for sex work research towards the end of her undergraduate degree and decided to pursue graduate school to continue her research. In this chapter, Mohr analyzes some critical incidents that have shaped her life in the brothel. She reveals the tension felt in negotiating a price for her services and how she grapples with deciding what monetary value is fair, what she deserves, and what she can get from the client. She also reflects on how taking ownership over her sex worker identity in academia has reduced the impact of shame from the societal stigma placed on legal prostitutes. Mohr tells her story with detail and a raw insider perspective of the industry. Less
Chapter 5 is an autoethnographic account of author Breanna Mohr’s lived experiences working in a legal brothel. Initially choosing legal prostitution as an occupation when she was in her early twenties, she found brothel work as a way to have freedom to create her own schedule so she could devote more time to getting her undergraduate degree. Mohr discovered her passion for sex work research towards the end of her undergraduate degree and decided to pursue graduate school to continue her research. In this chapter, Mohr analyzes some critical incidents that have shaped her life in the brothel. She reveals the tension felt in negotiating a price for her services and how she grapples with deciding what monetary value is fair, what she deserves, and what she can get from the client. She also reflects on how taking ownership over her sex worker identity in academia has reduced the impact of shame from the societal stigma placed on legal prostitutes. Mohr tells her story with detail and a raw insider perspective of the industry.
