Syllabus: Race, Class and Gender

2011

2011

This dissertation examines the relationship between narrative, identity, the life story, and the social and textual practices of zine-making. The data set for this analysis is comprised of qualitative interviews with ten zine writers primarily based in Chicago, IL, in addition to a set of zines produced by these writers. The first part of the analysis examines a central narrative that emerged in the interviews, what I call the zine discovery narrative. These narratives construed the speakers’ early experiences with zines as “turning points” (Bruner 1994) in their life stories by describing and enacting “aha” moments that immediately led to their zine-making. The analysis focuses five speakers who produced (or did not produce) a discovery narrative performance. For each case, I show 1) whether and how the situated interaction of the interview impinged on the narrative performance, 2) how the speaker used the narrative to make the discovery experience fit into a larger sense of their life story, and 3) how the performance projected a self that was more (or less) connected to a full fledged “zinester” identity and a larger community of discovery narratives and narrators. The second part of the analysis interrogates how zine-makers construct writer identities in talk about zines. I telescope on the voices of two zine-makers who I interviewed and show the linguistic, interactional, and ideological resources each speaker manipulated to accomplish “speaking like a writer” and position their zine as a particular kind of autobiographical gesture. I show how these self-constructions emerged locally as situated performances that I collaborated in producing, and globally as larger discursive moves that position the self in relation to imagined others (e.g. English teachers and other zine writers) as well as circulating ideologies about DIY and writing. The third part of the analysis focuses on the zines themselves and their status as autobiographical “text-objects” (Poletti 2008). Through a close examination of three zines (Proof I Exist, Stream of Consciousness, and Brainscan), I show how zines are emphatically material and embodied objects. I analyze how these writers combine textual and visual elements (e.g. cut-and-paste layouts, use of photographs, and the graphic design of text) to bring off particular “performances of self” (Goffman 1959) while also shaping close and intimate relationships with their readers. Bringing these three analyses together, this dissertation illuminates the wide array of discursive and interactional resources speakers and writers draw on to construct and project identities as zine-makers. By paying attention to my own turns-at-talk, this dissertation also brings into greater relief the analyst’s role in eliciting, co-constructing, and retelling our participants’ stories and self histories.

portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2018

Zines have begun to gain a place in higher education as pedagogical tools, studied or made by students, and many academic libraries maintain zine collections. The library literature reveals little about how nonlibrarian faculty use zines in their classrooms. This paper describes the results of a survey of faculty from a range of academic disciplines and professions who teach with zines and other booklet forms. Survey results reveal the extent to which faculty zine pedagogies include collaboration with librarians and use of library collections. Faculty describe instructional activities and attitudes that many library professionals, including reference and instruction librarians, directors or deans, catalogers, acquisition and special collections librarians, and archivists, may find useful.

Course Description: Intersectionality, a term coined by legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989, though explored by feminists of colour for decades prior, involves a commitment to investigating multiple points of identity, resisting " single issue " or " single axis " frameworks, while remaining centrally interested in the experiences, communities, and identities of marginalized groups and most especially women and trans people of color. " Praxis, " in turn, has functioned as a feminist term that thinks about " practice " and " theory " in tandem. It stresses the process of creating knowledge, and the reflexivity involved in making feminist theory in particular. This course strives to think about intersectional praxis by way of feminist publishing, drawing centrally on black feminisms and women of colour feminisms. Intersectional Feminist Journal Praxis is a project-based course that bridges academic and popular feminism, art and text, feminist practice and theory, scholarship and activism. In this advanced seminar, students will be asked to collectively develop—from start to finish—an inaugural issue of a journal that myself, Research Assistant Shahar Shapira, and the Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies department will help them launch via Open Journal Systems Software. Support will also be offered by Kevin Stranack, Associate Director with the Public Knowledge Project, and funding has been provided by the Teaching and Learning Development Grant. The goal of the course is to mobilize students to partake actively, at all levels, in feminist publishing and feminist making while learning how to work collaboratively. The course will ask students to come up with a theme for the special issue, write a Call for Papers (CFP), solicit contributions from local activists and artists, work as writers and artists themselves on the issue, coordinate the peer-review and copy-editing of the pieces, author an introduction, undertake the design of the issue in online form, and organize a launch of the journal. Through this collaborative and hands-on course, students will have opportunities to think about the praxis of intersectional feminist action, the meanings of multiple voices and inter-media collaboration, and the dynamics of power flows and injustice. An intersectional, transnational, decolonial, and non-monolingual approach to journal-making will be encouraged. Students will be asked to dream big while having to negotiate the realities of online publishing. Readings will be assigned on feminist, intersectional, Indigenous, and transnational feminist digital practice and cultural production, collaboration, publishing, and praxis. A Feminist Media Lab will be facilitated as part of the course, which will offer students in-class time to work on the creation of the journal.

Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2015

Zines offer opportunities for men to share their passions for disciplinary knowledge and provide implications for content-literacy instruction.

История, археология и этнография Кавказа 16 - 2,, 2020

On the archaeological sites of the North Caucasus for the post-Hunnic Period (the so-called horizon of Shupovo, mid-V – mid-VI centuries AD), a number of indicative elements of horse equipment — bits, buckles, strap appliques, and metal appliques for saddles – were revealed. The same things are recorded in settled barbarians on the boundary of the nomadic steppe. Moreover, with the exception of saddle appliques, they are absent in the burials of the steppe nomads of the same time (Huns, Bulgarians, Ugrians). Nevertheless, it seems that the distribution of horse equip-ment is evidence of the spread of a kind of “military” fashion, primarily in the “leader” environment of sedentary barbarians, culturally, and maybe politically oriented to the nomadic steppe. The latter circumstance can explain the distribution of the things examined here primarily in the borderlands of the Great Steppe Belt. We can talk about barbarians who were in allied (or subordinate-allied) relations with the steppe nomads. In some cases, for the North Caucasus, such a model is directly confirmed by written sources. A number of bright finds of horse equipment come from the necrop-olis of Diurso near Novorossiysk, which belonged to the Goths - Tetraxites. As it is known, Goths Tetraxites living in the Eastern Crimea in the middle of the 5th century joined the Huns and moved to the Black Sea coast of the North Caucasus. The subordinate-allied position of the Goths-Tetraxites with respect to the Huns-Utigurs is indicated by the fact that during the subsequent war between the Utigurs and Kutrigurs the Goths were supposed to put an army of 2,000 soldiers to help the Utigurs.

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Resumo: Trata-se de artigo referente à história constitucional brasileira que identifica os traços fundamentais das oito Constituições que regeram o País desde 1824. A origem do constitucionalismo nacional, a arquitetura política subjacente e a evolução das técnicas de positivação no controle de constitucionalidade e na dogmática dos direitos fundamentais são retratadas nos seus pontos nodais, desde uma perspectiva jurídico-positiva do direito constitucional. Palavras-chave: História constitucional – Direito brasileiro – Constituições. Abstract: The article encompasses Brazilian constitutional history, identifying the fundamental features of the eight constitutions that have governed the country since 1824. The origin of national constitutionalism, the underlying political architecture and the development of normative text framing techniques on constitutional review and fundamental rights are described in their main aspects, from a legal-positivist perspective of constitutional law.

Pada masa Orde Baru sampai menjelang masa transisi tahun 1998, kondisi birokrasi di Indonesia mengalami sakit bureaumania seperti kecenderungan inefisiensi, penyalahgunaan wewenang, kolusi, korupsi dan nepotisme. Birokrasi dijadikan alat status quo mengkooptasi masyarakat guna mempertahankan dan memperluas kekuasaan monolitik. Birokrasi Orde Baru dijadikan secara struktural untuk mendukung pemenangan partai politik pemerintah. Padahal birokrasi diperlukan sebagai aktor public services yang netral dan adil, dalam beberapa kasus menjadi penghambat dan sumber masalah berkembangnya keadilan dan demokrasi, terjadi diskriminasi dan penyalahgunaan fasilitas, program dan dana negara. Reformasi merupakan langkah-langkah perbaikan terhadap proses pembusukan politik, termasuk buruknya kinerja birokrasi. Tujuan tulisan ini berupaya untuk mengelaborasi model reformasi birokrasi di Indonesia pasca Orde Baru.