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Zines for Research Exchange: A Conversation
No full textIn this piece Anne Pasek and Aksel Biørn-Hansen interview each other on their respective experiments in zine-based experimental research exchange: DIY Methods, an annual conference-by-postal-mail, and Liminal Excavations, a zine-based intervention at ICT4S (Information and Communication Studies for Sustainability) 2024. They reflect on practical lessons they’ve learned in facilitating alternative publishing for academic research as well as some of the ways print helps make the environmental, cultural, and emotional character of scholarly norms both easier to analyze and contest.Dans cet article, Anne Pasek et Aksel Biørn-Hansen s'entretiennent mutuellement de leurs expériences respectives en matière d'échange de recherches expérimentales basées sur des zines : DIY Methods, une conférence annuelle par courrier postal, et Liminal Excavations, une intervention sous forme de zine à ICT4S 2024. Ils réfléchissent aux leçons pratiques qu'ils ont apprises en facilitant l'édition alternative pour la recherche universitaire, ainsi qu'à certaines des façons dont l'impression aide à rendre le caractère environnemental, culturel et émotionnel des normes savantes à la fois plus facile à analyser et à contester
Acousmatic Warfare: Staging Sound in the Play(game)house of A Midsummer Night's Dream
No full textAcousmatic warfare, the use of sound without a visible source as a means of force, is presented in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream as sonic play akin to that of an innocuous, ephemeral play, game, or dream, prompting audiences to engage carefully with the play’s uncanny sonic effects. The staging of acousmatic sound makes possible the coexisting presence of both racialization and resistance. The inset play, Pyramus and Thisbe, presents a competitive and interactive play that both racializes and protects the artisan players by allowing them to use their authorial skills to stage sonic resistance against aristocratic powers
“Be In But Not Of” the University : Collective Refusal as Resistance to Isolation and Precarity
No full textMany of us in academia navigate a visceral tension: our role as learners, teachers, and employees allows us the refuge to do meaningful work and deep thinking on issues of importance, yet, this privilege comes amid long-standing and ongoing racialized exclusions and neoliberal rationalities of productivity in the academy. We explore, here, the role that collective refusal can play in this navigation. We describe ways that we can come together, even if our positionalities are different and our benefits uneven, to refuse the most oppressive aspects of higher education. We draw on various notions of refusal, largely rooted in Black and Indigenous scholarship, to identify both the harms of higher education and how “to be in but not of” (Harney and Moten 2013, 26) the university. This requires collective support of one another through acts of refusal in learning, knowledge production, and employment that allow us to have a shared stake in the reform of academic life
Privacy in the YCJA : When Cops and Schools Pass Notes
No full textIn the wake of the killing of George Floyd in 2020, global protests generated public scrutiny about policing in our communities. Between 2020 and 2022, many school boards in Canada began to re-evaluate the value of having police in schools, as school resource officers or school liaison officers, with many boards eventually electing to end these programs altogether. Interactions with police in and through schools can facilitate a process by which youth are pushed out of the school system and into the criminal justice system, commonly known as the school to prison pipeline.The Youth Criminal Justice Act (YCJA), which governs youth in conflict with the law, specifically in their interactions with the justice system and information that is permitted to be shared with other entities like schools. In part, these protections are provided to prevent stigmatization and promote rehabilitation. However, the YCJA had been amended to allow more information disclosures between police and school administrations. This article looks at the legislative history of the YCJA to provide context to these amendments. This article also explores how the court has interpreted privacy for youth under the Act, and how the privacy provisions operate in practice. Finally, it provides empirical research that relies upon interviews with key informants that shed light on the impacts of information sharing between police and schools on youth
America in Rome: Race, Stereotypes, and Cultural Identities in the Series Home Sweet Rome!
No full text“Home Sweet Rome!” (2023–to present), a Canadian–Italian co-production aimed at a young audience, provides an emblematic case for examining the circulation of cultural identities and racial representations in contemporary transnational media. The series follows Lucy, an American teenager who moves to Rome with her father and his new Italian wife. The series also introduces audiences to Charlotte, Lucy’s Franco-American and Afro-descendant classmate, who embodies a transatlantic identity that challenges traditional narratives of ethnicity and belonging and functions as a crucial counterpart to the protagonist. Drawing on cultural studies and Black diaspora studies, this article analyzes key sequences selected from several episodes, with a focus on framing, editing, music, and online audience reception. Positioned within the context of international co-productions and platform-based production models, Home Sweet Rome! emerges as a hybrid text mediating between local and global logics. The aim of the article is to show how the series, while following the conventions of preteen entertainment, challenges stereotypes and explores complex dynamics of cultural identity and social integration. In this sense, Home Sweet Rome! becomes a site of negotiation for transnational identities and new, albeit ambiguous, forms of inclusion within European media culture
