This article makes use of experimental writing to explore childhood trauma, and its subject. In i... more This article makes use of experimental writing to explore childhood trauma, and its subject. In it, I examine or tell myself within the gendered and raced context of my family history. However, this piece is also about ideologies and what it means to know something. Through experimental writing, I explore a nonlinear, repetitive kind of knowing and speaking the world that both challenges and compliments more traditional sociological ways of knowing society.
This is the fourth article in a series of experimental writing exploring childhood trauma and its... more This is the fourth article in a series of experimental writing exploring childhood trauma and its subject. In this piece, the author examines or narrates herself and her childhood experience within a social and familial context framed by gender and socioeconomic class. Through this experimental writing method, she explores a repetitive, nonlinear way of knowing and speaking of the world that both complements and challenges more traditional sociological ways of knowing.
This article is part of a series by the author exploring childhood trauma and its subject. In thi... more This article is part of a series by the author exploring childhood trauma and its subject. In this piece, the author examines her childhood experience and family history in their gendered and class context. Influenced by the work of Patricia Ticineto Clough, the author uses a nonlinear way of knowing and speaking remembered experience that both complements and challenges more traditional sociology.
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... for financial support in working on this project from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship ... more ... for financial support in working on this project from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, the Leopold Schepp Foundation, the ... O'Malley, Janet Spector, Andrew Maxfield, Sharon Saydah, Sean Maxfield, Kate Maxfield, Judson Byrd Finley, Kevin Maxfield, the late ...
“The innovative essays in this volume . . . demonstrat[e] the potential of the perspective of the... more “The innovative essays in this volume . . . demonstrat[e] the potential of the perspective of the affects in a wide range of fields and with a variety of methodological approaches. Some of the essays . . . use fieldwork to investigate the functions of affects—among organized sex workers, health care workers, and in the modeling industry. Others employ the discourses of microbiology, thermodynamics, information sciences, and cinema studies to rethink the body and the affects in terms of technology. Still others explore the affects of trauma in the context of immigration and war. And throughout all the essays run serious theoretical reflections on the powers of the affects and the political possibilities they pose for research and practice.”—Michael Hardt, from the foreword In the mid-1990s, scholars turned their attention toward the ways that ongoing political, economic, and cultural transformations were changing the realm of the social, specifically that aspect of it described by the notion of affect: pre-individual bodily forces, linked to autonomic responses, which augment or diminish a body’s capacity to act or engage with others. This “affective turn” and the new configurations of bodies, technology, and matter that it reveals, is the subject of this collection of essays. Scholars based in sociology, cultural studies, science studies, and women’s studies illuminate the movement in thought from a psychoanalytically informed criticism of subject identity, representation, and trauma to an engagement with information and affect; from a privileging of the organic body to an exploration of nonorganic life; and from the presumption of equilibrium-seeking closed systems to an engagement with the complexity of open systems under far-from-equilibrium conditions. Taken together, these essays suggest that attending to the affective turn is necessary to theorizing the social. Contributors . Jamie “Skye” Bianco, Grace M. Cho, Patricia Ticineto Clough, Melissa Ditmore, Ariel Ducey, Deborah Gambs, Karen Wendy Gilbert, Greg Goldberg, Jean Halley, Hosu Kim, David Staples, Craig Willse , Elizabeth Wissinger , Jonathan R. Wynn
This article makes use of experimental writing to explore childhood trauma, and its subject. In i... more This article makes use of experimental writing to explore childhood trauma, and its subject. In it, I examine or tell myself within the gendered and raced context of my family history. However, this piece is also about ideologies and what it means to know something. Through experimental writing, I explore a nonlinear, repetitive kind of knowing and speaking the world that both challenges and compliments more traditional sociological ways of knowing society.
This is the fourth article in a series of experimental writing exploring childhood trauma and its... more This is the fourth article in a series of experimental writing exploring childhood trauma and its subject. In this piece, the author examines or narrates herself and her childhood experience within a social and familial context framed by gender and socioeconomic class. Through this experimental writing method, she explores a repetitive, nonlinear way of knowing and speaking of the world that both complements and challenges more traditional sociological ways of knowing.
This article is part of a series by the author exploring childhood trauma and its subject. In thi... more This article is part of a series by the author exploring childhood trauma and its subject. In this piece, the author examines her childhood experience and family history in their gendered and class context. Influenced by the work of Patricia Ticineto Clough, the author uses a nonlinear way of knowing and speaking remembered experience that both complements and challenges more traditional sociology.
Page 1. SEEING WHITE AN INTRODUCTION TO WHITE PRIVILEGE AND RACE JEAN HALLEY AMY ESHLEMAN RAMYA M... more Page 1. SEEING WHITE AN INTRODUCTION TO WHITE PRIVILEGE AND RACE JEAN HALLEY AMY ESHLEMAN RAMYA MAHADEVAN VIJAYA Page 2. SEEING WHITE AN INTRODUCTION TO WHITE PRIVILEGE AND JEAN ...
... for financial support in working on this project from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship ... more ... for financial support in working on this project from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, the Leopold Schepp Foundation, the ... O'Malley, Janet Spector, Andrew Maxfield, Sharon Saydah, Sean Maxfield, Kate Maxfield, Judson Byrd Finley, Kevin Maxfield, the late ...
“The innovative essays in this volume . . . demonstrat[e] the potential of the perspective of the... more “The innovative essays in this volume . . . demonstrat[e] the potential of the perspective of the affects in a wide range of fields and with a variety of methodological approaches. Some of the essays . . . use fieldwork to investigate the functions of affects—among organized sex workers, health care workers, and in the modeling industry. Others employ the discourses of microbiology, thermodynamics, information sciences, and cinema studies to rethink the body and the affects in terms of technology. Still others explore the affects of trauma in the context of immigration and war. And throughout all the essays run serious theoretical reflections on the powers of the affects and the political possibilities they pose for research and practice.”—Michael Hardt, from the foreword In the mid-1990s, scholars turned their attention toward the ways that ongoing political, economic, and cultural transformations were changing the realm of the social, specifically that aspect of it described by the notion of affect: pre-individual bodily forces, linked to autonomic responses, which augment or diminish a body’s capacity to act or engage with others. This “affective turn” and the new configurations of bodies, technology, and matter that it reveals, is the subject of this collection of essays. Scholars based in sociology, cultural studies, science studies, and women’s studies illuminate the movement in thought from a psychoanalytically informed criticism of subject identity, representation, and trauma to an engagement with information and affect; from a privileging of the organic body to an exploration of nonorganic life; and from the presumption of equilibrium-seeking closed systems to an engagement with the complexity of open systems under far-from-equilibrium conditions. Taken together, these essays suggest that attending to the affective turn is necessary to theorizing the social. Contributors . Jamie “Skye” Bianco, Grace M. Cho, Patricia Ticineto Clough, Melissa Ditmore, Ariel Ducey, Deborah Gambs, Karen Wendy Gilbert, Greg Goldberg, Jean Halley, Hosu Kim, David Staples, Craig Willse , Elizabeth Wissinger , Jonathan R. Wynn
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