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Through a Lens of Connection
No full textA paradigm shift within academia, and visual anthropology in particular, calls researchers to attune their lenses of human connection—vis-à-vis their digital lens and epistemologies. This paper will argue the potential of contemporary visual anthropology—employed as a community-based research methodology, form of knowledge mobilisation, and pedagogical tool—to challenge hegemonic asymmetrical power dynamics in dominant discourse and praxis. Through personal anecdotes conducting participatory research alongside counterparts in Peru and Panama, I will illuminate the ways in which applied visual anthropology bridges academic-public divides and cultivates intentional relations through its transdisciplinary, collaborative, and transformative agendas
Enhancing the Call of Place and Entangling Identities: A Braiding of Materials, Media, and Infrastructures to Place and Being
No full textLife is experienced in place. It is grounded, and we are connected through our experiences being grounded together in place. The call of place brings people (humans and more-than-humans) into a relational coexistence through sharing our interactions, and by being together in places. In exploring how meaningful cultural understanding between Indigenous land defenders and settler-descended activists can occur in these sites of coexistence, this paper examines how cultural entanglement that occurs through the shared experience in place can be enhanced through relationships to materials, media, and infrastructure. By evaluating if these different forms can enhance place’s call beyond its physical location, materials, media, and “infrastructure” can each be understood as a braiding of multivocal meanings capable of supporting the alteration of European worldviews to be more relational in a meaningful way that supports Indigenous resurgence
Multifunctionality of le in Nepali
No full textThis paper studies the use of le, a unit of language (UoL) in Nepali, and its multifunctionality. As a UoL, le denotes one single lexical item that demonstrates different functions, depending upon the syntactic contexts le is used in. The study discusses four different functions of le: le-ergative, le-instrumental, le-reason, and le-verb. As an ergative marker, le is a suffix on the subject of a transitive verb. However, as an instrumental marker, le is attached to an object that the subject uses to perform an action. The UoL le is attached to past participle forms of the verb, and it shows a reason as a reason-clause marker. In addition, le can also be used as a lexical verb. After these four functions are discussed, the paper attempts to associate the multifunctionality of le with four domains of Wiltschko’s (2014) Universal Spine Hypothesis (USH): classification, point-of-view, anchoring, and linking.
Keywords: le in Nepali; multifunctionality; Universal Spine Hypothesi
Laying Bare the War: Responses to the My Lai Massacre and the Trial of Lt. William Calley in American Public Opinion
No full textThis paper investigates the responses to the 1968 My Lai Massacre, and the subsequent trial of the atrocity’s chief perpetrator, Lieutenant (Lt.) William Caley. The focus of this inquiry will be centered on the reactions to the massacre and trial within contemporary American public discourse. To this end, the paper relies predominantly on the ways in which the responses to the massacre and trial were represented within the national press. These responses will be shown to highlight the divisions within American society that characterized the final years of the Vietnam War. Utilizing these sources, a substantial segment of this paper’s analysis will be dedicated to revealing the ways in which a divided American public responded to the details of the massacre after they became widely known. Finally, this paper will address the Calley trial and argue that it was the unique political and cultural realities of the time that allowed the majority of the American public to serve as apologists for the disgraced Lieutenant – regardless of whether they condemned or defended the conflict in South East Asia
Unboxing Childhood: Risk and Responsibility in the Age of YouTube
No full textIn this article, we look to viewer responses to James Bridle’s TED Talk on children’s YouTube to learn about the discursive landscape of childhood in the digital age. We first situate concerns about children’s use of YouTube within a history of moral panic and then conduct a thematic analysis of online comments to discover what viewers identify as the central concerns. We “unbox” three emergent themes of responsibility—corporate, parental, and societal—to understand how these themes might help us think about contemporary discourses of childhood “at risk,” critical media literacy, and children’s agency as social actors on the Internet
Pandemic Effects: Ableism, Exclusion, and Procedural Bias
No full textThe COVID-19 pandemic has changed social organizations and altered children’s worlds. As part of an ongoing longitudinal study of the institutional organization of disabled children’s lives, since March 2020 we have conducted interviews with families in rural and urban communities across Canada (65 families at the time of writing). The narrow focus of governments on the economy, childcare, and schooling does not reflect the scope of experiences of families and disabled children. We describe emerging findings about what the effects of the pandemic closures demonstrate about the social valuing of childhood, disability, and diverse family lives in early childhood education and care. Our research makes the case that ableism, exclusion, and procedural bias are the products of cumulative experiences across institutional sites and that it is critical we understand disabled childhoods more broadly if we are to return to more inclusive early childhood education and care