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Hum(in)finity
No full textThis work of fantasy fiction deals with themes of intimacy and identity from the perspective of agender, aromantic, and asexual characters as they navigate through a society that is founded on a gender binary, romantic relationships, and sexuality. The main character, Cory, meets a non-human being that comes to be called Ae, and both discover how powerful a non-romantic, non-sexual intimacy can feel. While Cory wants leave earth with Ae to escape the limits of human biology and human society, which cause unbearable stress, others like Zoe and Aki are willing to stay within human society and make changes that will benefit everyone. Following the story is a note from the author that discusses narrative choices and rationales, fantasy genre, and media representation
Occupied joy: a practice of resistance, survival, and healing through the lens of Black and Palestinian liberation
No full textOccupied Joy: A Practice of Resistance, Survival, and Healing Through the Lens of Black and Palestinian Liberation argues that Black and Palestinian radical joy is a vital tool and site of resistance alongside more visible and direct acts of rebellion, elevating affective forms of resistance as also disruptive. This project employs interdisciplinary methodologies by examining a multi-genre inventory of written texts and cultural sites as literature in order to centralize the liberatory potentials of joy as both individual and communal within Black and Palestinian skateboarding subcultures (chapter 1), the poetry of Black and Palestinian women, such as June Jordan, Aja Monet, and Suheir Hammad (chapter 2), and Black and Palestinian graffiti and murals (chapter 3). By theorizing from a framework of “aliveness,” this project theorizes occupied joy as a practice of anticolonial worldmaking and Being, resisting the ontological abjection that dominates public perceptions of Black and Palestinian life, relationality, and solidarity
Tracing discourses of decolonial masculinities in African diasporic male writing of the long nineteenth century
No full textaleph-7210488The first concern of this study is to trace the evolution of the discourse that framed Black male
identity in quite static, monolithic, racialized terms during the long nineteenth century. The
second aims to identify the iterations of resistance that these Black thought leaders utilized
across the African Diaspora to resist western and Enlightenment logics and redefine themselves.
Third, the dissertation seeks to explain how these actions constitute a decolonial positionality,
augur Black futures, and illuminate what Richard Delgado describes as counter-storytelling and
sociologist Anat Ben David defines as counter-archiving.
In Chapter One, “Archiving Masculinity, Family, and Gentility, in Venture Smith’s A
Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture” I explore how Smith appropriates the
underlying concept of “venturing” to assert his masculinity by engaging in counter-archival
methods. From the frontispiece of Smith’s autobiography, Smith uses codex rhetoric essentially
to offer a critique of even publishing conventions.
I suggest that this tactic is Smith’s way of“re-genre-ating” notions of modality and creating Afro-futures even in early America. The title reads, “A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture.” Having been named Venture by his enslaver, Robertson Mumford, who purchased him to be a business venture, even in post-slavery,
Smith retains his enslaved name--something I interpret as a signifier of Smith’s subversiveness.
In chapter 2, “Re-sermonizing Christianity through re-imaginings: Faith and Black
Masculinity in John Marrant’s a Narrative of the Lord’s Wonderful Dealings with John
Marrant,” I show that John Marrant achieves his objectives by redefining the evangelical sermon
and then building on it. His reframing of the sermon genre includes his preaching to the
Cherokee and white audiences despite the prohibitions, his sentencing, and subsequent rebirth
after a Cherokee judge and king spares his life. Marrant centralizes notions of spiritism, pietism,
and Afro-centrism while carefully negotiating methodism, evangelicalism, and whiteness to
reshape the relationship of religion and Black agency.
In chapter 3, “I’ll ‘Fight Until Liberty Exists Among Us’: Military, Freedom, and Self
Fashioning as early Black Male Resistance,” I suggest that Toussaint Louverture accomplishes
this goal by reshaping the genre of the constitution as well as other documents to both fashion
himself and offer a liberatory future to his compatriots. This chapter considers the relationship
between masculinity and economics even in nineteenth-century Haiti. By showing Louverture
not only as an economically independent soldier but also as a general, gentleman and vulnerable
soul, the discussion frames Black machismo as an intricate, homosocial assemblage that peaks
when Louverture shows melancholy over Napoleon’s rejection of his desire for brotherhood. Chapter 3’s scope also documents the historical foundations of Haiti as a site of violent and
sometime visceral uprisings with possible implications for Haiti and the African Diaspora.
Chapter 4, “Diplomacy and Neocolonialism: Frederick Douglass and the Existential
Undoing of nineteenth-century American consulship,” argues that Frederick Douglass asserts his
identity by restructuring the Diplomatic cable which framed American consulship in the late
nineteenth-century to anticipate Afro-futurism. As American consul to Haiti under President
Benjamin Harrison, Douglass uses the Diplomatic cable to critique the racialized disrespect he
experiences at the hands of President Harrison and James Blaine, the then Secretary of State.
Douglass’s fight with Edward Covey not only serves as an existential pathway to shape the
Black author’s future; rather, the tussle itself embodies, foreshadows, and structures the public
spat that Douglass would engage in with President Benjamin Harrison and the US Government
years after, when he used this antedated experience on Covey’s farm to decolonize nineteenth-century American diplomacy and redefine it essentially on his terms
We Are Pregnant with Freedom
Full text linkSituated at the crossroads of author Stacie Selmon McCormick’s lived experiences as a Black birthing person, mother, and scholar, We Are Pregnant with Freedom traces Black sexual and reproductive liberation through the storytelling work of those most marginalized in reproductive justice research and discourse. The book recounts McCormick’s loss of twin sons to stillbirth, her near-fatal experience with preeclampsia, and her subsequent reproductive justice research and advocacy work with the Afiya Center, a Black-led reproductive justice organization in Texas. Its multidisciplinary narrative shatters the silences wrought by stigma and historical erasure, ultimately proposing a new grammar of reproductive justice that can serve the people as a vehicle for community building, healing, and bodily liberation.
“Stacie Selmon McCormick’s unique offering is her focus on storytelling, and specifically on Black women’s testimonies about their own reproductive journeys. Her collaboration with the Afiya Center grounds the book in community, weaving together scholarship, theory, and lived experience in service of imagining new futures. A fascinating, engaging, and impeccably researched read.” — DANI McCLAIN, author of We Live for the We: The Political Power of Black Motherhood
“We Are Pregnant with Freedom is exquisitely multidisciplinary, using a wide variety of cultural texts to investigate multiple forms of reproductive injustice. McCormick’s work sheds new light on our understanding of disability justice, carcerality, and anti-Blackness and the afterlives of slavery. This is a truly singular book that resists categorization.” — KHIARA M. BRIDGES, author of Reproducing Race: An Ethnography of Pregnancy as a Site of Racializatio
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
We Are Pregnant with Freedom: Black Feminist Storytelling for Reproductive Justice
No full textSituated at the crossroads of author Stacie Selmon McCormick's lived experiences as a Black birthing person, mother, and scholar, We Are Pregnant with Freedom traces Black sexual and reproductive liberation through the storytelling work of those most marginalized in reproductive justice research and discourse. The book recounts McCormick's loss of twin sons to stillbirth, her near-fatal experience with preeclampsia, and her subsequent reproductive justice research and advocacy work with the Afiya Center, a Black-led reproductive justice organization in Texas. Its multidisciplinary narrative shatters the silences wrought by stigma and historical erasure, ultimately proposing a new grammar of reproductive justice that can serve the people as a vehicle for community building, healing, and bodily liberation
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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