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Aug 30, 2023 · For like-minded dissidents, contempt for the conformist culture and politics of the fifties often took the form of a sniping withdrawal from politics. When the counterculture and radical politics of the sixties arrived, Allen was hitting his early and mid-thirties.
In developing my argument, I first clarify the definition of intersectionality, then move on to examine each of the two rhetorical strategies in McCall's and Hancock's most definitive works on this subject.
Jan 12, 2021 · Intersectionality is a framework that recognizes the interconnectedness of sociopolitical categories that overlap with systems of discrimination or disadvantage. The study of intersectionality is interdisciplinary and does not have one academic home.
What does it mean for a movement organization to miss a political opportunity? Traci M. Sawyers and David S. Meyer ( 1999 ) theorize missed opportunities as arising from the choices activists make when they enter abeyance; this approach connects invisibility to movement decline (Taylor 1989 ).
Jul 23, 2020 · This special issue reconsiders silence in relation to both speech acts and other forms of political action. Equipped with new understandings of silence, it re-assesses the role of silence and of silent agency in both democratic and authoritarian systems.
- Mónica Brito Vieira
- 2021
J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter novels and Warner Bros.’ blockbuster adaptations popularized sorcery to an unprecedented extent, sparking academic inquiries into the series’ social and racial politics or its relationship to the Christian belief system. 1 Yet, at the height of ‘Pottermania’, Hollywood renewed its interest in another type of ...
In Disappearing Acts, Diana Taylor looks at how national identity is shaped, gendered, and contested through spectacle and spectatorship.
