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[Introduction to] Tendings
No full textIn Tendings, Nathan Snaza brings contemporary feminist and queer popular culture’s resurging interest in esoteric practices like tarot and witchcraft into conversation with Black feminist and new materialist thought. Analyzing writing and performances by Maryse Condé, Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English, Starhawk, Christina Sharpe, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, and others, Snaza introduces his theory of tending as a concept that links ontology, attunement, care, and anticipatory action to explore how worlds persist through everyday acts of participation. In contrast to the universalizing presuppositions of the enlightenment, Snaza shows how certain feminist occult and esoteric practices.https://scholarship.richmond.edu/bookshelf/1419/thumbnail.jp
The Resonance of Resonance: The State of Movement
No full textThis article explores a state of movement in the humanities into nonhuman entanglements. A key term, “resonance,” emerges in this movement. Predominating scholarship orients resonance as a flourishing. In this article, accounts of the destructiveness of mechanical resonance signal a telling lacuna in humanities scholarship, one this article works to remove
University of Richmond Magazine - Summer 2024
Get PDFThe University of Richmond\u27s Alumni Magazine was first published as The Alumni Bulletin in 1936 and continues to this day as the University of Richmond Magazine
Introduction
Get PDFAraneum: Richmond Journal of American & Global Affairs aspires to give a voice to the students who seek to address, through research and academia, the issues that we face as individuals, a community, a nation, and a world
Conceptions of Heroic Leadership in Civil Society
Get PDFWhile nations face multiple disruptions to civil society, individuals in late adolescence and early adulthood are overlooked for heroic leadership opportunities in some cultures. An underestimation of individuals’ abilities is sometimes fostered by biological definitions of human development that align competence with physical changes in the brain (Blakemore, 2012). Prolonged exposure to such disregard can encourage individuals to restrict the information they notice, fostering distortion in the intentions that support leadership readiness (Pratkanis, 2007). Studies of individuals’ conceptions of how the world operates can improve leadership readiness if such evidence is used to verify that individuals notice essential information. Using this logic to explore undergraduates’ readiness for heroic leadership, a highly diverse sample of individuals in late adolescence and early adulthood shared their understanding of human rights and civil society. These trait-focused conceptions were then compared with dispositional conceptions of heroism to explore variance in undergraduates’ readiness to embrace heroic opportunities
Agricultural Labor Trafficking in the U.S.: An Exchange Network Analysis
Get PDFLabor trafficking occurs when individuals are forced to work by force, fraud, or coercion. In the United States, agricultural labor trafficking is both widespread and underreported. It is often carried out by farm labor subcontractors, who conduct the labor trafficking on behalf of U.S. companies. Labor trafficking in U.S. agriculture continues year after year, as trafficked immigrant workers fear being further punished if they attempt to redress their workplace grievances. The H-2A visa system is designed to protect workers from labor trafficking abuses, but the system is ineffective and in need of reform. To learn more about agricultural labor trafficking and its relation to the H-2A visa system, our research team examined all the criminal and civil federal labor trafficking cases that took place from 2017 to 2021 as part of a year-and-a-half-long research project funded by the Department of Homeland Security in conjunction with the Criminal Investigative and Network Analysis (CINA) Center at George Mason University. After collecting data from legal documents associated with each case, we conducted a qualitative analysis to reconstruct the labor trafficking process in each case. We then applied exchange network theory to analyze the labor trafficking processes we found. We closed by critically evaluating the H-2A visa system and suggesting reforms to decrease the amount of labor trafficking each year based on the exchange network analysis we conducted. Given the lack of research on agricultural labor trafficking, our research was exploratory. It was also descriptive, in that we described how labor trafficking is carried out in the U.S, and it was explanatory, in that we closed with a theoretical explanation for labor trafficking