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Making it happen: Keeping precarious workers’ experiences central during COVID-19
No full textThis commentary highlights industrial-organizational (I-O) psychology\u27s responsibility in supporting precarious workers by conducting workercentric research that draws on their unique experiences during COVID-19 and by identifying opportunities where research can drive meaningful change and improvement in this population\u27s lives. We expand on the focal article\u27s (Rudolph et al., 2021) call for more research on precarious work by offering concrete guidelines and specific resources to help researchers connect with this population, conduct workercentric research, and help drive government policy. We ground our guidelines by focusing on gig workers (e.g., Doordash, Instacart workers) but offer general suggestions for those researching other precarious workers and beyond. [excerpt
Indigenous Media: Dialogic Resistance to Climate Disruption
No full textThis chapter discusses the collaboration between four Indigenous studies scholars all interested in illuminating the aesthetics, ethics, and politics of contemporary Indigenous art and visual culture with regard to climate disruption. Even as Skawennati presents a keen commentary on the ongoing value of the Peacemaker story through space-time, the Second Life platform lends itself to amusing storytelling as most characters are rendered with idealized physiques. Mowarin demonstrates the interwoven relationship between sacred sites and ecological sustainability by presenting an argument-which could simply be opposed-but through an immersive experience that fosters embodied understanding. Spotlighting Indigenous artists from geographies as far apart as the North American Arctic to Australia, and covering a variety of media from hip-hop and multimedia installations, to machinima, to two types of virtual reality, the individual vignettes below nonetheless thread through a common theme. Juxtaposing allochronic assumptions of traditional versus modern, Galanin’s work breaks down western chronologies of linear temporal progression
From Bankers to Farmers: Finding a Sustainable Model for an Undergraduate Summer DH Program
Get PDFLibrarians R.C. Miessler and Kevin Moore provide an overview of how summer Digital Humanities programs at Musselman Library entered their last year of grant funding with an eye toward securing a commitment of institutional support. The presenters will reflect upon the overall sustainability of Musselman Library’s Digital Scholarship Summer Fellowship program and share their plans for ongoing management of the program
Interview with Nadia Edwards Womack, February 21, 2021
No full textNadia Edwards Womack was interviewed on February 21, 2021, by Devin McKinney about her early life, her education at Gettysburg College, and her subsequent professional life.
Collection Note: This oral history was selected from the Oral History Collection maintained by Special Collections & College Archives. Transcripts are available for browsing in the Special Collections Reading Room, 4th floor, Musselman Library. GettDigital contains the complete listing of oral histories done from 1978 to the present. To view this list and to access selected digital versions please visit https://gettysburg.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16274coll2/search
Interview with Wendelin Watts Whitfield, November 15, 2021
No full textWendelin Watts Whitfield was interviewed on November 15, 2021, by Devin McKinney about her childhood in Washington D.C., her education at Gettysburg College, and her work as a student with the children of Gettysburg\u27s Third Ward.
Collection Note: This oral history was selected from the Oral History Collection maintained by Special Collections & College Archives. Transcripts are available for browsing in the Special Collections Reading Room, 4th floor, Musselman Library. GettDigital contains the complete listing of oral histories done from 1978 to the present. To view this list and to access selected digital versions please visit https://gettysburg.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16274coll2/search
Popular Feminism(s) Reconsidered: Popular, Racialized, and Decolonial Subjectivities in Contention
Get PDFThis issue is concerned with the salience of “popular feminism” as an analytic category for naming the myriad contemporary forms of gendered awareness and agency appearing among Latin America’s poor, working-class and racialized communities. Although we have an analytic agenda, our underlying concern here is with the politics of feminism—the construction of intersectional feminist praxes of gender, race, and economic justice and their relation to other projects for social justice. Our focus on popular feminism addresses the relationship between the subaltern subjectivities of marginalized women, their relation to feminist political agency, and the relation of both to mixed-gender efforts for social transformation on the broader left. Although it may be a current within them, popular feminism is distinct from the mass feminisms on the streets and online, the “feminisms of the 99 percent,” that have gripped the continent in recent years. It is the feminism of the poor and the subaltern, whose concerns for gender justice are inescapably co-constituted with their collective struggles for material, cultural and psychic survival against racist violence, land dispossession, environmental despoliation, and economic deprivation. One well-known contemporary example of self-identified popular feminism is that of the Consejo Cívico de Organizaciones Populares y Indígenas de Honduras (Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras—COPINH) whose founder, Berta Cáceres, a recipient of the Goldman Environmental Prize, was assassinated in 2016. Her assassination signaled retribution for COPINH’s hard-fought struggle against the rapacious capitalist, patriarchal, and colonizing practices destroying the land, rivers, and lives of the Lenca people. COPINH activists recently participated in an International Feminist Organizing School involving 200 grassroots feminists from around the world organized by the World – a popular feminist initiative March of Women, among others
Brazilian Male Sex Workers in Termas: In and Out of Sex Work
No full textMale sex workers in Brazil often work in termas, which are bathhouses that provide strategic environments for social interactions and the provision of sexual services. The author notes that Brazilian male sex workers have begun to see their trade as a viable career from which they can exit and re-enter at will. This idea runs counter to a common generalization in other cultures that male sex workers are “trapped” in their chosen vocation. In fact, the Brazilian garotos are similar to independent male escorts and, like many of them, are often quite entrepreneurial. In the termas, the author notes, garotos establish friendships and social networks with one another and with clients. These networks, which are useful in the long run, are at the center of a potential occupational model suggesting the viability of male sex work as a long-term career in Brazil. Legalizing and legitimizing sex work in Brazil might provide male sex workers with more legal protections, more structured benefits, and greater social acceptance. Based on interviews conducted over ten years, this longitudinal study demonstrates that garotos are more diverse than is sometimes assumed. The author also emphasizes how they enter and exit the male sex trade with different motivations, ambitions, and options. Ultimately, the garotos’ experiences push against the assumption that male sex work is necessarily oppressive and that all male sex workers are forced into a victim-like occupational role. Without denying the challenges faced by all sex workers, including susceptibility to sexually transmitted diseases, increased alcohol and drug use, and violence, this study forcefully counters a tendency among researchers to downplay potentially positive aspects of male sex work. In doing so, it reaches a conclusion that many will find just surprising: For some men, selling sex is not just an occupational choice. Rather, it is their best (and most rational) occupational choice
Restoring Humanity through Human Trafficking Courts?
No full textThis chapter is the first known synthesis of the array of local-level evaluations on human trafficking courts. The chapter also makes recommendations for operational improvement and increased program fidelity
Predictors of the Intention to Receive a SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine
No full textBackground
It is imperative to understand the predictors of vaccine hesitancy for current and future pandemics. Methods
A representative sample (age, race & gender) of 1054 US adults was collected in October 2020 to examine the predictors of vaccine hesitancy. Participants were asked several questions including their intention to receive a vaccine for the novel coronavirus. Results
Predictors significantly associated with a greater intention to receive a COVID-19 vaccine included greater perceived feelings of vulnerability to COVID-19, having received a flu vaccination at the time the question was asked, more liberal political orientation, non-Black race, male gender, and a lower naturalness bias. Conclusions
Vaccines are essential for mitigating current and future pandemics. Multiple strategies are important in encouraging people to be vaccinated and the predictors highlighted here and elsewhere are likely to be useful targets
The Fall of the Ikko Ikki: The Demise of the Honganji in the Late Sengoku Period
Get PDFDuring the late Sengoku Period Japan witnessed the fall of the Honganji, a sect of Pure Land Buddhism. The Honganji was a significant military, political, and economic power and commanded armies of commoners known as Ikko Ikki. The Honganji fell because it challenged the traditional social order of Japan, lacked unity, and stood against warlord Oda Nobunaga during his bid for hegemony. The fall of the Honganji resulted in consequential policies and impacted Japanese society going into the Tokugawa period