2024-03-28T15:40:55Zhttp://digital.lib.washington.edu/dspace-oai/requestoai:digital.lib.washington.edu:1773/205052017-11-20T22:35:45Zcom_1773_4888col_1773_19654
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Ginorio, Angela
author
Knoll, Kristina R.
2012-09-13T17:20:35Z
2013-09-14T11:05:24Z
2012-09-13
Knoll_washington_0250E_10341.pdf
http://hdl.handle.net/1773/20505
Abstract Feminist Disability Studies: Theoretical Debates, Activism, Identity Politics & Coalition Building Kristina R. Knoll Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Associate Professor Angela Ginorio Gender, Women, & Sexuality Studies Department Through two intellectual and activist spaces that are fraught with identity politics, people from feminist and disability studies circles have converged in unique ways that have assisted in addressing the gaps in their respective fields. Although not all feminist disability studies scholars are comfortable with defining feminist disability studies or having an established doctrine that sets the field apart, my eleven interviews with people whose work spans feminist and disability studies demonstrates a presence of, and the need for, a feminist disability studies area of study. Utilizing feminist and disability studies literature and reflections by the participants, I argue that feminist disability studies engages with theories that may be contradictory and incomplete. This process has the potential to reveal power, privilege, and oppression, and therefore, it can provide opportunities for liberation. Methods in feminist disability studies emphasize the necessity of considering both disability studies and feminist perspectives while resisting essentialism in order to allow new identities to surface. In addition, feminist disability studies addresses why activism must be made accessible in order to fight ableism and to support work across identity-based groups. Therefore exactly how we work together across identities and identity groups is of paramount importance for our anti-oppression work. This multifaceted process has given rise to an amorphous, porous, and yet burgeoning, area of study that is providing new insights and tools for working across minority groups.
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activism; coalition; Disability Studies; diversity; identity Politics; intersectionality
Feminist Disability Studies: Theoretical Debates, Activism, Identity Politics, & Coalition Building
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oai:digital.lib.washington.edu:1773/205062016-02-16T11:23:03Zcom_1773_4888col_1773_19654
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advisor
Ginorio, Angela B
author
Diaz, Sara P.
2012-09-13T17:20:38Z
2015-12-14T17:55:51Z
2012-09-13
Diaz_washington_0250E_10667.pdf
http://hdl.handle.net/1773/20506
Gender, Race, and Science: A <italic>Feminista</italic> Analysis of Women of Color in Science is a methodological intervention that expands the boundaries of Feminist Science Studies to include the experiences of women of color scientists and to continue the resistance against persistent racialized gender ideologies within the field. In this dissertation, I propose a revision of the field I call "<italic>Feminista</italic> Science Studies." In the introduction, I map out a methodology which integrates decolonial historical case study methodology, feminist cultural and spatial studies, and US Third World feminist theories. I then apply my <italic>Feminista</italic> analytic to three cases. In each case, I use María Lugones' theory of fragmentation, multiplicity, and curdling to analyze the relationship between the socially marked bodies of women of color scientists to the epistemological paradigms in which they worked. The first case, on zoologist Roger Arliner Young (1899-1964), uses intersectionality and queer of color theory to push beyond the single-axis accounts by situating Young's individual experience in the context of the US Eugenics movement and Jim Crow segregation. In the second case, I argue that physicist Chien-Shiung Wu's (1912-1997) research threatened foundational values within Modern Science and, magnified by Cold War era anxieties, her exoticized Asian female body was perceived as disruptive to the militarized space of the nuclear laboratory. In my third case, I use border theory to analyze how Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648-1695) laid claim to the right to produce knowledge about nature, as a woman, by articulating an epistemology of mestizaje. In the conclusion, I make three claims based on these cases: 1) Women of color are positioned in opposition to modern Western science through the association of their bodies with a primitive and wild form of nature in our cultural scientific imaginary. 2) The strategies employed by these women of color for survival and success in science represent a form of oppositional differential consciousness in the service of scientific knowledge production. 3) The epistemological paradigms in which these women operated shape their experience by regulating their ability to conform and resist the social norms of science.
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Chien-Shiung Wu; feminism; Roger Arliner Young; science studies; Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz; women of color
Gender, Race, and Science: A Feminista Analysis of Women of Color in Science
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oai:digital.lib.washington.edu:1773/205072016-02-17T11:18:45Zcom_1773_4888col_1773_19654
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advisor
Ginorio, Angela
author
Castner, Rebecca
2012-09-13T17:20:40Z
2013-09-14T11:05:26Z
2012-09-13
Castner_washington_0250E_10129.pdf
http://hdl.handle.net/1773/20507
This dissertation makes crucial connections between poverty, welfare, race, and the penal system. There are several aspects to consider. The first is that women are made poor by inequitable governmental policies, practices, and relations. The second element is when they need help and seek assistance from the government, welfare does not pay enough to live on. Consequently, they are forced to break a welfare rule, in order to survive and keep their children alive. However, breaking a welfare rule can result in one or more felony counts, including perjury and welfare fraud. The third factor is that poor women and welfare moms are manufactured as criminal subjects through the media, welfare policies, and the public court documents amassed against women convicted of welfare fraud. After examining thirteen court case files of women convicted for welfare fraud in King County, Washington through a discourse analysis perspective, it was apparent that the welfare subject and the criminal subject were one and the same.
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Criminalization; Gender; Poverty; Race; Welfare; Women
Manufacturing Identities, Producing Poverty: Criminalizing Poor Women Through Welfare Fraud
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https://digital.lib.washington.edu:443/researchworks/bitstream/1773/20507/1/Castner_washington_0250E_10129.pdf
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oai:digital.lib.washington.edu:1773/217552016-02-17T11:18:28Zcom_1773_4888col_1773_19654
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advisor
Howard, Judith A.
author
Chancellor, Calla E.
2013-02-25T17:49:40Z
2015-12-14T17:55:47Z
2013-02-25
Chancellor_washington_0250E_10927.pdf
http://hdl.handle.net/1773/21755
This dissertation explores the discourse of queer youth as it has emerged as a distinct identity category in the U.S. from the late 1980's onwards. During this time, queer young people have come to be treated as a unique population and, particularly, as an "at-risk" population demanding study and intervention across the Social Sciences (e.g. in Psychology, Social Work and Education) as well as outside academia, most notably in the media. Similar to discourses about lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people (LGBTQ) generally, the discourse of queer youth has been profoundly shaped by a cultural politics structured through the metaphor of invisibility. My focus in this project is to look specifically at discourses of visibility as empowerment in order to better understand how the identities of LGBTQ youth are being defined within contemporary dominant discourses in the U.S.A. Given the higher incidence of suicide among LGBTQ young people, the dominant discourses in academia and media most commonly engage rhetorics of empowerment aimed at supporting and even `saving' queer youth. While sharing these goals, I argue that the rhetorics of visibility and empowerment presented to young people are troubling in their use of narrow versions of American liberal individualism that are often indistinct from, and/or aligned with, neoliberal ideologies that render invisible the material social differences and inequalities that shape the lives of many young people. In pursuing this critique, I examine the discourse of queer youth in three specific discourse domains. First, I examine the epistemological frameworks in the discourse in the emerging field of Social Science research on queer youth over the last 30 years. Second, in the first of two case studies, I examine the rhetorics of empowerment in three large-scale media projects aimed at queer young people in the U.S.A. over the last fifteen years: XY, Young Gay American (YGA), and the It Gets Better project. Lastly, in a second case study I turn to photovoice, a community-based participatory research method in which I ask how, if given the tools, would queer young people visualize themselves and their communities.
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LGBT youth; Photovoice; Queer youth; Youth media
Making it Better for Queer Youth: Troubling (Neo)liberal Rhetorics of Visibility and Empowerment
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https://digital.lib.washington.edu:443/researchworks/bitstream/1773/21755/1/Chancellor_washington_0250E_10927.pdf
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oai:digital.lib.washington.edu:1773/234602016-02-17T11:23:18Zcom_1773_4888col_1773_19654
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advisor
Yee, Shirley
author
Kim, Nina Young
2013-07-25T17:51:01Z
2013-07-25T17:51:01Z
2013-07-25
Kim_washington_0250E_11857.pdf
http://hdl.handle.net/1773/23460
This study examines the multidimensional history of Korean American Christian women's activism in the Pacific Northwest between 1940 and 2012. Few scholars have explored Korean American women's experience in American religious history especially the relationship between activism and religion among Korean American women. Using an intersectional perspective that takes into account various dimensions of Korean American Christian women activists reveals a distinct gendered, raced, and religious narrative of Korean American history in the Pacific Northwest. This study also analyzes Korean Bible women's histories to explain the importance of Korean American Christian activist women's current involvement. I argue that Korean American Christian women's gendered, raced, and religious activism, challenge conventional understandings of Korean American history, the purpose of activism, and the relationship between activism and religion.
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Activism; Bible women; Christianity; Korean American women
"The Call of God": Korean American Women's Activism in the Pacific Northwest
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https://digital.lib.washington.edu:443/researchworks/bitstream/1773/23460/1/Kim_washington_0250E_11857.pdf
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oai:digital.lib.washington.edu:1773/240962016-02-15T11:25:26Zcom_1773_4888col_1773_19654
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advisor
Allen, David G
author
Byrd, Renee Marie
2013-11-14T20:51:18Z
2015-12-14T17:55:56Z
2013-11-14
Byrd_washington_0250E_11741.pdf
http://hdl.handle.net/1773/24096
"Punishment's Twin": Theorizing Prisoner Reentry for a Politics of Abolition investigates prisoner reentry as a discursive formation which shores up the naturalization of the contemporary prison as a means of managing populations deemed disposable through the vicissitudes of neoliberal globalization. Using a combination of ethnography and critical discourse analysis, my project argues that prisoner reentry is deployed using a vocabulary, which mimics a critique of mass imprisonment, in order to expand the punishment system and render it more flexible, cost effective and legitimate. In the chapter, titled "`Where Ministry and Economics Meet': The Convergence of Neoliberal and Evangelical Rationalities within Prisoner Reentry," I analyze how neoliberal and evangelical Christian rationalities come together in prisoner reentry discourse. I intervene in the theorization of neoliberal political rationalities by showing how neoliberalism borrows from other ideologies in order to find purchase in a particular locale and that this borrowing is profoundly implicated with regimes of race and gender. Drawing on interviews with formerly imprisoned women in the Twin Cities, Chapter Three grapples with the politics of representation in prison activist scholarship. This chapter highlights two key findings from my interviews: 1) Using Priti Ramamurthy's concept of subjects-in-perplexity, I argue that the representation of the women's prison as an empowering space in Minnesota, as opposed to the disciplinary nature of residential reentry programs, naturalized the prison as the proper place where women prisoners could find help, healing and support; and 2) I found that the barriers attached to felony status often (re)produce the very vulnerability expected in accounts of imprisoned women's lives. Finally, the dissertation argues that in order to genuinely transform the conditions of mass imprisonment's emergence, prisoner reentry must be situated within a politics of abolition. Chapter Four provides a broad critique of `prisoner reentry' as a discursive formation. Chapter Five theorizes the concept of "abolitionist reentry praxis." "Punishment's Twin..." serves as a call to prison activists to be alert to the potentially dangerous development that mainstream articulations of prisoner reentry represents and imaginative in constructing reentry work for a world without prisons.
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Gender; Mass Incarceration; Neoliberalism; Prison Abolition; Prisoner Reentry; Prison Industrial Complex
'Punishment's Twin': Theorizing Prisoner Reentry for a Politics of Abolition
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https://digital.lib.washington.edu:443/researchworks/bitstream/1773/24096/1/Byrd_washington_0250E_11741.pdf
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oai:digital.lib.washington.edu:1773/334652017-11-20T22:34:56Zcom_1773_4888col_1773_19654
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advisor
Ramamurthy, Priti
author
O'Laughlin, Lauren
2015-09-29T17:54:03Z
OLaughlin_washington_0250O_14645.pdf
http://hdl.handle.net/1773/33465
Queer studies, feminist environmentalisms and critical animal studies have come together in recent panic about the effects of endocrine disruptors on wildlife, but they have not adequately attended to the ways that temporality operates. This thesis argues that temporality is fundamental in the construction of difference surrounding sex, gender, race, nation, and species, particularly in these sex panics. In so doing, it performs close readings of early environmental feminist literature and recent news articles, TED Talks, and documentaries on the “feminization” of frogs in the U.S. and also in the Aamjinwaang First Nation. This thesis expands Alaimo’s theory of evolutionary time (2012) and offers the framework of anxious time, a forward- and backward-looking temporality of anxiety and nostalgia that fixates on reproductive longevity of the species rather than present wellbeing. It argues that temporality can also be used subversively through a politics of imagination that recognizes our shared precarity with humans and non-humans alike.
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endocrine disruptors; intersex; queer; species; temporality
Rethinking Temporalities of Endocrine Disruptor Panics: Anxious Time and Evolutionary Time as Multispecies Intimacy
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https://digital.lib.washington.edu:443/researchworks/bitstream/1773/33465/1/OLaughlin_washington_0250O_14645.pdf
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oai:digital.lib.washington.edu:1773/364062016-07-15T10:21:48Zcom_1773_4888col_1773_19654
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advisor
Habell-Pallan, Michelle
author
Robert, Nicole
2016-07-14T16:33:57Z
2016-07-14T16:33:57Z
Robert_washington_0250E_15701.pdf
http://hdl.handle.net/1773/36406
This dissertation responds to the problem of disproportionate representations in U.S. history museums, which currently struggle to collect and narrate histories that accurately reflect the diverse identities of our nation. Exclusions based on race, gender and sexuality have misrepresented U.S. history as predominantly white, male and heteronormative. Drawing from queer theory, intersectional feminist theory and museum theories, I create a conversation that engages both theoretical and practical interventions into the important work of museum representation. I call this framework critical feminist museology. Two main points of praxis arise from my analysis of intersectional feminist and queer theories: 1) reflect critically on the institutions, systems and procedures that structure our pathways and our choices and 2) draw from this conscious perspective to identify pathways in-between the simplistic, binary trajectories of normalcy. With this guide, the principles of collaboration, reflection and relational responsibility were put into practice through a multi-year community-museum collaboration in Seattle. Exploring digital interventions, this research re-designs the process of narrative production in digital storytelling workshops. The result is a series of evocative, affective stories which fill an essential gap in historical archives while addressing issues of agency in representation. These digital stories function as a new kind of artifact, one which I call the evocative object, capable of addressing the competing needs to tell broad stories while attending to the diversity of authentic experiences within those broad categories. This project is a unique collaboration between theory and praxis, applying long-standing feminist and queer theories, and re-theorizing from the results of these collaborations. The tensions between institutional and community practices, evident in this collaboration, provide a rich framework for highlighting the social change work that occurs even when we do not meet all of our goals. The challenge to queer what are inherently static, codified histories is met when we utilize third-space feminist framings and queer disruptions of temporality and linearity.
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digital storytelling
evocative objects
feminism
inclusion
museum
queer theory
Queering U.S. History Museums: Heteronormative Histories, Digital Disruptions
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https://digital.lib.washington.edu:443/researchworks/bitstream/1773/36406/1/Robert_washington_0250E_15701.pdf
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oai:digital.lib.washington.edu:1773/369762016-09-23T10:22:41Zcom_1773_4888col_1773_19654
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advisor
Ginorio, Angela B
advisor
Yee, Shirley J
author
Rodríguez, Noralis
2016-09-22T15:40:38Z
RodrxEDguez_washington_0250E_16342.pdf
http://hdl.handle.net/1773/36976
The body of literature that documents feminist activist efforts to eradicate gender violence in Puerto Rico does not includes and interpret contemporary feminist responses to heteropatriarchal narratives, such as feminist street performances. The purpose of this study is to investigate how feminist anti-violence activism exposes interconnections between gender and ongoing processes of violence in Puerto Rico through the use of feminist street performances. Specifically, I look into street performances denouncing gender-based violence and the oppression of historically marginalized communities in Puerto Rico during 2009: Musas Desprovistas y Sin Sostén, Ponte En Mi Falda, and Silueta de Mujer. These performances were also responding to decisions made by the governmental administration of the time and the discriminatory impact these decisions had on historically marginalized communities. The historical and social context of these feminist street performances in Puerto Rico include: (a) a riot at the Oficina de la Procuradora de las Mujeres in 2002 and (b) two “anti-violence” campaigns promoting traditional gender and family roles by former governor Luis Fortuño from 2009 to 2013. Public records are used as a source for providing the social and historical context to complement the collection of 14 oral histories of respondents that participated these street performances. Drawing from Chicana border studies and Indigenous Pacific Island studies, this dissertation advances an island feminist perspective of two concepts: the ideal(ized) national body and alternative imaginaries. The ideal(ized) national body works as a gender paradigm intentionally inscribed on and experienced by female bodies—a body socially constructed and categorized as “female,” linked to cultural gender paradigms of womanhood and other qualities attributed to females. The alternative imaginaries generated by feminist grassroots practices, such as feminist street performances, shift heteropatriarchal narratives of the female body into alternative understandings of women’s multiple identities and experiences. By documenting feminist street performances I aim to provoke further discussions about island feminism inside and outside Puerto Rico. This study advances an interdisciplinary conversation between feminist, border, performance, body, Puerto Rican, and island studies.
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Borders
Colonialism
Gender violence
Island feminism
Puerto Rico
Street performance
Feminist Street Performances in Puerto Rico: Alternative Imaginaries Shifting the Ideal(ized) National Body
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https://digital.lib.washington.edu:443/researchworks/bitstream/1773/36976/1/RodrxEDguez_washington_0250E_16342.pdf
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oai:digital.lib.washington.edu:1773/369772016-09-23T10:23:01Zcom_1773_4888col_1773_19654
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advisor
Habell-Pallán, Michelle
author
De La Torre, Monica
2016-09-22T15:40:42Z
DeLaTorre_washington_0250E_15906.pdf
http://hdl.handle.net/1773/36977
My study fashions an innovative theoretical and methodological approach to the first study of farmworker women, technology, and media within community radio institutions. Radio KDNA in Granger, Washington—the nation’s first full-time Spanish-language noncommercial radio station—serves as a case study of Chicana/o-controlled Spanish-language community radio. Thematically, my research examines community radio broadcasting as a site of strategic intervention and political mobilization for Chicana/o producers and audiences. Noncommercial radio served as a cultural force in the late 1970s and through the 1980s to communicate with and mobilize local migrant farmworkers through culturally relevant Spanish-language programming. Chicana/o movement activists in rural central and eastern Washington used community radio as a tool for community building and social justice work. A study of KDNA provides a platform for analyzing the political possibility of noncommercial radio, in Spanish, for immigrant communities today. My research methods utilize oral history, textual analysis, digital media tools, and archival research. As one of the first in-depth studies of Spanish-language radio programming produced by and directed to farmworker women of Mexican descent, this dissertation brings together oral histories I conducted with Chicana/o community media activists and cultural texts informally archived at community radio stations and in personal archives (artifacts include photographs, founding documents, and program guides). As the first in-depth study of KDNA, I situate the emergence of Chicana/o-controlled community radio in the 1970s when social movements inspired a reimagining of public broadcasting as a free-form format that was communal and activist-driven. In this research, I demonstrate that Chicanas, specifically farmworker women both U.S. born and immigrant, were early adopters and innovators of community radio technologies through a process I call Chicana radio activism. Chicana radio activists radically deployed community radio technologies by occupying positions of leadership within the radio station, training women as radio producers, creating content and radio programming unique to the Chicana experience, and implementing anti-sexist practices within the radio station. Recording feminist activism within community radio stations is of particular importance to Chicano movement historiography because it uncovers new evidence of Chicana grassroots leadership. Chicana radio activism was a political movement manifested through the act of producing aural cultural representations within the broadcast platforms Chicana radio producers helped create. Through an integration of feminist policies and woman-centered programming, Chicana broadcasters ruptured predominantly male-dominated media spaces while countering the cultural nationalism that centered male experiences.
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Chicana radio producers
Chicano Movement
Community radio
Social movements
Women's Activism
Feminista Frequencies: Tuning In to Chicana Radio Activism in the Pacific Northwest, 1975-1990
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oai:digital.lib.washington.edu:1773/397912017-08-12T11:00:48Zcom_1773_4888col_1773_19654
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advisor
Welland, Sasha
author
Zhou, Shuxuan
2017-08-11T22:45:09Z
Zhou_washington_0250E_17506.pdf
http://hdl.handle.net/1773/39791
In contrast to much work on gender and development in the Global South, which has emphasized the influence of Global North-oriented capitalism, my research demonstrates that the gendering of labor and identities as well as the collective mobilization of subalterns in southern China are the outcomes of the articulation of both former socialist development projects and current neoliberal discourse. Gender, in my dissertation, is a necessary category of analysis to understand the workings of state power, technologies of governance, and subaltern oppositions. A gendered approach makes evident the ways in which former workers personalize and skillfully utilize discursive logics from different historical junctures to protest the current conditions of their lives. Grounded in gender studies, anthropology, and critical development studies, my project is also in dialogue with environmental studies, geography, political science, and studies of law and society. My dissertation is a historical and ethnographic examination of workers’ lives and labor amidst the reforms of the forestry industry in China since the 1950s. The dissertation demonstrates how, through the use of development projects, the Chinese state institutionalized the gendering of labor and social welfare. It also shows, however, that the forestry workers were able to re-purpose this same gendered institutionalization in order to create space for their own political voices. My work, based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in a mountainous area of Fujian Province in southern China between 2008 and 2015, illustrates gendered difference in the treatment of workers in the realm of labor divisions, state pensions and legal institutions as well as workers’ subsequent effective cultivation of a gendered legal consciousness to contest economic injustices from decades earlier. I use discursive analysis of state documents, oral histories with multiple generations of workers, and ethnographic attention to still-unfolding protests in order to make sense of these dynamics.
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China
collective action
development
forestry
gender
labor
Gender studies
Cultural anthropology
Asian studies
The Gendered Landscape of Chinese Forestry Reform: Labor, Narrative and Resistance, 1950s–Current
Thesis
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oai:digital.lib.washington.edu:1773/420362018-08-01T10:12:20Zcom_1773_4888col_1773_19654
ResearchWorks
advisor
Ramamurthy, Priti
advisor
Swarr, Amanda
author
O'Laughlin, Logan
2018-07-31T21:06:10Z
OLaughlin_washington_0250E_18826.pdf
http://hdl.handle.net/1773/42036
This dissertation interrogates contemporary anxieties about environmental toxins and their effects on sex, sexual development, and reproduction in North America. For instance, recent toxicology reports suggest that commonly-used pesticides can cause frogs to develop intersex traits and enact same-sex mating behaviors. Many concerned consumers and residents have described the environmental issues as threats to hetero-nuclear families in their public fears of what might be to come: being infertile, queer, intersex, and/or transgender. Feminist science studies, queer studies, and environmental studies have responded to these anxieties by examining how Western sociocultural myths of queerness as “unnatural” surface most saliently in moments of environmental threat. What remains penumbral in the critiques at the intersection of these fields, however, is how race and species operate in the articulation of these environmental threats. My work intervenes by arguing these toxicity panics are pernicious not only because they make normative judgments about sex, gender, and sexuality but also because they rely on logics of racism and dehumanization. The seemingly innocuous toxin-exposed animal figures are the Trojan Horses that allow these multiply-marginalizing ideologies to circulate. In this dissertation, I argue that animal figures play a crucial role in these environmental anxieties. Human interactions with environmental toxins – what I call “toxic encounters” – leave traces in the form of toxin-exposed animal figures that shape how humans conceptualize environmental disaster and protection. I assert that exposed nonhuman animals act as discursive ambassadors for the longevity of white, heterosexual human families in three scandals: (1) scientific reports of pesticides causing frogs to develop intersex traits; (2) media responses to the 2010 BP oil spill that disproportionately focus on the reproduction of oiled pelicans; and (3) farmers’ anxieties about feral pigs overpopulating North Carolina and bringing illness to their family farms. When culturally-significant animals such as pelicans and frogs in the U.S. are exposed to toxins, researchers and activists use them to warn of “future” environmental harm against white human families. In so doing, they often obscure how these toxins enact ongoing and historical reproductive violence against queer people, communities of color, and queer people of color. I argue that each of the toxic scandals in question must be understood as more than just interfaces in the present moment. By forwarding a multitemporal critical discourse analysis method, this dissertation examines what sitting with ghosts of the figures of frogs, pelicans, and pigs might accomplish. In so doing, I trace how historical and ongoing violence of chattel slavery and colonialism haunts the present in these toxic animal figures. I thus supplement my feminist critical discourse analysis with environmental historical analysis of colonialism’s effects on the North American landscape as well as analysis of how certain animals have come to be valuable in U.S. culture. I also critically analyze scientific literature about environmental toxins in order to understand how each has animal figure been understood as abject in the first place. This research strengthens the complicated links among queer theory, environmental studies, feminist science studies, and critical race theories by tracing how environmental normativity is articulated through biopolitical taxonomies of Human in these animal figures. And it intervenes in the tensions within critical animal studies between the real and the figurative to recognize that the entanglements are where the toxins often reside. As a feminist project, this work explicates how animal figures animate harmful environmental discourses in order to ultimately disrupt them.
en_US
none
animal figures
animal population politics
critical race theories of the Human
discursive environmental violence
multitemporality
queer environmental anxieties
Gender studies
Sexuality
Environmental studies
Toxic Animal Encounters: Queer Environmental Threats and Racialized Reproduction Anxieties
Thesis
URL
https://digital.lib.washington.edu:443/researchworks/bitstream/1773/42036/1/OLaughlin_washington_0250E_18826.pdf
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oai:digital.lib.washington.edu:1773/420372018-08-01T10:12:24Zcom_1773_4888col_1773_19654
ResearchWorks
advisor
Yee, Shirley
author
Morado-Peters, P. Michelle Kritz
2018-07-31T21:06:10Z
MoradoPeters_washington_0250O_18999.pdf
http://hdl.handle.net/1773/42037
The emergence of la pachuca, as an agent in Chicanx cultural production, directs attention to the process of meaning making which draw from elements of the past. The period between 1910 and the 1930s, which span the Mexican Revolution, the interwar period, to the Great Depression provide social and economic contexts to understand the formation subjectivity and identity formation. This essay underscores the role of gender as critical in an analysis of emergent nationalisms; the steady pull of industrialized labor; migration and settler expansion; to consider these as arenas in which historical agents negotiated subject formation amid ideologies of citizenship, belonging, and modernity. By exploring the relationship between these histories of gender, sexuality and identity formation, in relation to overlapping, often competing, nationalisms and the legacies of settler colonialism, we may better understand pachucos as well.
en_US
none
Chicana/o History
Gender
Women
Sexuality Studies
Mexican American History
Women's History
Women's studies
History
Before Their Time: Tracing the Emergence of the Figure of La Pachuca, 1910-1930s
Thesis
URL
https://digital.lib.washington.edu:443/researchworks/bitstream/1773/42037/1/MoradoPeters_washington_0250O_18999.pdf
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oai:digital.lib.washington.edu:1773/428762018-11-28T11:33:18Zcom_1773_4888col_1773_19654
ResearchWorks
advisor
Ramamurthy, Priti
author
Yulee, Jiwoon
2018-11-28T03:12:57Z
Yulee_washington_0250E_19237.pdf
http://hdl.handle.net/1773/42876
This dissertation examines newly unionized female janitorial workers’ struggle in the process of public sector privatization that has unfolded after the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis in South Korea. It offers a critique of the discourse of labor precarity and the universalizing neoliberal temporality under global financial capitalism that is expressed in the post-developmental state. This ethnographic study utilizes the oral histories of women workers in their fifties and sixties to trace their life histories which encompass the developmental state regime (1970s – 1990s) and the neoliberal reform era (1997 – present) in Korea. The elderly female janitors’ life-stories demonstrate how multiple institutions, mainly the state, the law, labor unions, and the family, participate in the process of capitalist social reproduction of feminized labor. Firstly, I argue that labor precarity is not a new accumulation strategy in global capitalism and Korean developmentalism. The newness narrative prevalent in studies of labor precarity forecloses a radical critique of the reproduction of capitalist social relations by erasing histories of the laboring subjects whose lives repeatedly fall into the old and new categories of the Other and the outsiders. Seen from the female workers’ standpoint, labor precarity has intensified from the inception of developmental capitalism to its afterlife under the present neoliberal regime in Korea. This politics of forgetting erases the heterogeneous histories of feminized labor and reinforces the hegemonic neoliberal temporality that is produced by global financial capitalism. Secondly, I contend that the middle-aged women’s struggles at work and in their poverty-stricken homes are emblematic sites of reproductive crises and of a general contradiction immanent in developmental state capitalism and its neoliberal becoming. This view decenters the Western welfare state-centric discourse of labor precarity and suggests rethinking contemporary social struggles from the sites of reproductive contradictions. Lastly, I propose the concept of spatial intimacy as a node for larger coalition building strategies among precarious laboring subjects living under uneven geographies of neoliberal conditions of life. This study suggests that the notion of spatial intimacy that attends to the ways laboring bodies traverse between the realms of production and reproduction to create surplus value enables us to draw a cognitive map connecting various sites of social reproductive crises and to envision a radical feminist politics of care and solidarity.
en_US
none
feminized labor
financial capitalism
labor precarity
neoliberal temporality
social reproduction
South Korea
Gender studies
Asian studies
Labor relations
Expressive Struggles: Neoliberal Temporalities and the Social Reproduction of Feminized Labor in South Korea
Thesis
URL
https://digital.lib.washington.edu:443/researchworks/bitstream/1773/42876/1/Yulee_washington_0250E_19237.pdf
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oai:digital.lib.washington.edu:1773/428772018-11-28T11:33:22Zcom_1773_4888col_1773_19654
ResearchWorks
advisor
Welland, Sasha
author
Khasawnih, Alma
2018-11-28T03:12:59Z
Khasawnih_washington_0250E_19125.pdf
http://hdl.handle.net/1773/42877
Much of the academic and popular literature on the graffiti and murals of the 2011 Egyptian revolution treats these works as illustrative documentation of the sociopolitical events of the revolution, neglecting to consider this visual culture as an active participant in shaping revolutionary discourse. Moreover, this documentation fails to contextualize these ephemeral works within their geographical location and date of origin. This dissertation asserts that these works of public participation are active sites of civic engagement, as graffiti and mural creators engage, negotiate, and claim public space with and against each other, the general public, and the state. Drawing on archival documentation of graffiti and murals, the project combines close iconographical readings with historical and contemporary contextualization of geographical location, while tracing the palimpsest layers of the revolutionary walls. In doing so, this examination of revolutionary visual culture underscores the ways in which access to public space is fashioned through gender, class, religious, and national identity. This dissertation follows an arc that begins in Chapter One by historically situating the production of visual culture as a tool of both political activism and nation-building. I demonstrate that some of these contemporary works challenge hegemonic state narratives and propose alternative national imaginaries, while at the same time perpetuating patriarchal nationalist ideologies that construct ideal Egyptian womanhood and manhood. Next, in Chapter Two, I turn to two frequently studied murals in order to argue that the choice of geographic site and their temporal context is paramount to our understanding of their meaning, as well as the role of urban visual culture in fashioning public space and access to the street. In Chapter Three, I consider what graffiti and murals reveal about sociopolitical tensions at the intersections of gender, religion, and class. Here I claim that graffiti and murals of the revolution challenge the regime by calling out its use of violence, yet at the same time, the visual iconography utilizes nation-state constructions of acceptable sexuality and gender roles. The final chapter, Chapter Four, focuses on so-called beautification projects where the state, the private sector, and private citizens each practice different levels of authoritarianism within the public space. Such projects, I conclude, transform the streets into sites of erasure in which the state enacts a politic of forgetting by covering up the visual culture of the revolution, thereby repressing the demands of the working-class under the guise of aesthetics. Grounded in feminist studies, cultural studies, and geography, this interdisciplinary project is situated in dialogue with postcolonial studies, urban studies, and political science. Mobilizing visual culture of the Egyptian revolution of 2011 as a case study, this dissertation stakes out a broader argument about the necessity to interrogate the nation-state as a basis for collectivity if we are to truly dismantle the hegemonic national narratives that bind women, rural peoples, and the working-classes into the margins and, in turn, produce other emancipatory imaginaries.
en_US
CC BY-NC-SA
Egypt
Feminist Studies
Graffiti Murals
Human Geography
Revolution
Middle Eastern studies
Gender studies
Geography
Embodied Writing: Gender and Class in the Graffiti and Murals of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution
Thesis
URL
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oai:digital.lib.washington.edu:1773/438692019-08-15T10:42:33Zcom_1773_4888col_1773_19654
ResearchWorks
advisor
Welland, Sasha S
author
Tian, Yiyu
2019-08-14T22:25:21Z
2019-08-14T22:25:21Z
Tian_washington_0250O_20010.pdf
http://hdl.handle.net/1773/43869
The thesis focuses on the bodily experiences of family dependent workers (jiashu) in Daqing, an industrial city in high-socialist China. Jiashu referred to housewives that were mobilized by the state as temporary “workers” but didn’t enjoy the due social status or welfare. The thesis uses two kinds of materials: life stories of Daqing jiashu who worked in the 1960s-70s, and a drama on Daqing jiashu, The Rising Sun. The Maoist Marxist theorization of women’s liberation prophesied that women would be liberated by fully participating in productive labor. Bound by their housewife identity, jiashu was never included in the state’s imagination of a utopian communist future. The state included jiashu’s productive bodies for socialist industrialization, and excluded jiashu’s reproductive bodies as their own “burden” that should be overcome by themselves. The high-speed economic growth of socialism largely depended on the gendered division of labor and these docile socialist female bodies.
en_US
none
Body
China
Daqing
Reproduction
Socialism
Temporality
Gender studies
Trapped in Time: Bodily Experiences of Family Dependent Workers (jiashu) in Daqing, a Model Industrial City in High-socialist China
Thesis
URL
https://digital.lib.washington.edu:443/researchworks/bitstream/1773/43869/1/Tian_washington_0250O_20010.pdf
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oai:digital.lib.washington.edu:1773/446442019-10-16T10:17:34Zcom_1773_4888col_1773_19654
ResearchWorks
advisor
Yee, Shirley J
author
McKenzie, Tylir Jadyn
2019-10-15T22:53:10Z
2019-10-15T22:53:10Z
McKenzie_washington_0250E_20703.pdf
http://hdl.handle.net/1773/44644
This dissertation is a self-study of the development and use of a feminist assessment assignment of student learning in online learning in higher education. This paper opens with an overview of current state online education and situates this project’s timing in the surging growth of online post-secondary education (Allen & Seaman, 2017). Feminist pedagogy played an important role both in the development of the research question, as well having overarching influence on the project’s implementation and theoretical framework. Typically, personal teaching practices are informed by broader pedagogic perspectives and the feminist pedagogic values and characteristics which inform my teaching within the online environment are discussed to provide the reader with deeper insight to these critical influences. This project sought to answer the question: how can I embody feminist teaching within the online environment to be a better teacher? To investigate this I focused my attention on one source of tension within the online environment – assessment, and as a result the post-course reflection [PCRv1.0] assignment was created during the fall of 2014. Using LaBoskey’s (2004) self-study methodology framework, this project traces the development of PCRv1.0, its use, and subsequent revisions PCRv2.0 (winter 2016) and PCRv2.1 (fall 2018). The results of the self-study showed that students responded positively to the final assignment which asked them to incorporate their personal experience into self-reflexive evaluation of their learning process within the online course. Revisions, made between the first and last iterations of the PCR studied here, brought significant clarity to the goals of the assignment. Specifically, through aligning the assignments goals more deliberately with the feminist pedagogic principles as identified in the theoretical framework, such as decentralizing teacher as sole authority, valuing student experience, and teaching as midwife. Perhaps most critically, the assignment and this project both serve to challenge traditional pedagogic norms – a central tenet of feminist pedagogy (Schoeman, 2015). While the primary purpose was to improve my teaching practices, in line with self-study methodology this project seeks to engage the reader in conversations regarding feminist teaching practices within the online teaching environment, as well as having implications for the broader online learning and feminist teaching communities.
en_US
CC BY
Feminist Assessment
Feminist pedagogy
Online Education
Pedagogy
Reflection
Self-study
Women's studies
Educational evaluation
Education
Praxis in the Trenches: A Self-study of feminist assessment of student learning in online education
Thesis
URL
https://digital.lib.washington.edu:443/researchworks/bitstream/1773/44644/1/McKenzie_washington_0250E_20703.pdf
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oai:digital.lib.washington.edu:1773/454042020-05-01T10:46:25Zcom_1773_4888col_1773_19654
ResearchWorks
advisor
Kenney, Nancy J.
advisor
Swarr, Amanda L.
author
Jarvis, Sean Christopher
2020-04-30T17:39:28Z
2020-04-30T17:39:28Z
Jarvis_washington_0250E_21301.pdf
http://hdl.handle.net/1773/45404
Informatic Aterlives and Database Erotics explores the tension between coercive documentation and violent erasure in surveillance studies by centralizing the role of the body in the political and cultural transformations that have accompanied the rise of mass surveillance. Through an interdisciplinary exploration of queer historiography, legal history, and affect theory, I use the surveilled body as a central text through which to explain the rise of a mode of governance in which mass surveillance is preferable not just to the state, but to many of the populations it governs. Using a queer and feminist lens, I argue that, as mass surveillance has permeated the interactions of both citizens and noncitizens with state institutions, surveillance has gained a performative function, in addition to the inquisitive role it has historically served. This performativity means that surveillance isn’t just a means of acquiring information on behalf of state institutions but a mechanism of reification for the power of those institutions to ask invasive questions and collect personal data. The performativity of surveillance has produced a transformation of citizenship and governance that has cleaved wide gulfs between proper and improper ways of providing data to state institutions and private corporations, a cultural shift with which both scholars and activists must contend.
en_US
CC BY-NC
Biomedia
Biopolitics
Migration
Sexuality
Surveillance
LGBTQ studies
Gender studies
Philosophy of science
Informatic Afterlives and Database Erotics: The Performativity of Surveillance in Economies of Fidelity
Thesis
URL
https://digital.lib.washington.edu:443/researchworks/bitstream/1773/45404/1/Jarvis_washington_0250E_21301.pdf
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oai:digital.lib.washington.edu:1773/457082020-08-14T10:53:52Zcom_1773_4888col_1773_19654
ResearchWorks
advisor
Keating, Christine
author
Velasquez, Catalina
2020-08-14T03:22:30Z
Velasquez_washington_0250O_21828.pdf
http://hdl.handle.net/1773/45708
This research exposes the ongoing violence from sustaining Western nation-state apparatuses. By considering U.S. asylum processes at the turn of the 21st century, it provides insights on how contemporary Western nation-state exported models of bureaucratized legalities and accompanying social norms produce and (re)produce transgender migrant subjectivities. To do so, this research employs three decolonial feminist methods: 1) critical rhetorical analysis of legal and media sources, 2) personal experiences and testimonio, and 3) a historically materialistic dialogical analysis. Through these methods, this research demonstrates the violent process of conversion of gender-nonconforming Global South subjects into transgender refugee ones.
en_US
none
Feminism
immigration
Neoliberal
Refugee
Testimonio
Transgender
Gender studies
Public policy
LGBTQ studies
Western Transnormativity and the U.S. Asylum Process: From Gender-Nonconforming Forced Migrant to Neoliberal Transgender Refugee
Thesis
URL
https://digital.lib.washington.edu:443/researchworks/bitstream/1773/45708/1/Velasquez_washington_0250O_21828.pdf
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oai:digital.lib.washington.edu:1773/463082020-10-27T10:44:56Zcom_1773_4888col_1773_19654
ResearchWorks
advisor
Ramamurthy, Priti
author
Misra, Akanksha
2020-10-26T20:37:29Z
2020-10-26T20:37:29Z
Misra_washington_0250E_22041.pdf
http://hdl.handle.net/1773/46308
This dissertation examines how everyday schooling practices in India and Turkey create normative gendered and sexual citizens, erasing the complicated histories of caste, class, race, religion, gender, and national belonging that constitute the sexual body. It draws on theoretical insights from postcolonial and indigenous feminist, feminist phenomenological, sexuality studies, and critical race/caste scholars to conceptualize the historical, racial, desiring body as always becoming and transforming itself and the world. Based on three years of extensive participant observations in schools and interviews with teachers, school administrators, non-profit workers, government officials, and education scholars in Istanbul, Hyderabad and New Delhi, this dissertation places corporeality and erotics at the center of analyses of schooling practices. It makes three major scholarly interventions. First, I argue that the body needs to be understood as a historical racial corporeal schema that is co-constituted by histories and articulations of race and nation and understands itself as such. I demonstrate the limits of the objective, individual, scientific, biological model of the body, which is a historical product of the project of European colonialism, nationalism and modernizing ideologies and institutions, including schools. Understanding the body as objective and biological entails ignoring the consequent biological teleologies of childhood development and civilizational narratives of progress which maintain violent hierarchies of patriarchy, race and heteronormativity. By showing adult educators’ failure to engage with the sensorial ways that children understand self and belonging to each other, nation and the world and their desiring excesses, I reveal how schooling and even progressive lessons like comprehensive sexuality education continue to understand the body as biological and thereby maintain historical biases of race and belonging in the name of development and ‘proper’, moral, sexual citizenship. Secondly, and based on the body as a historical racial corporeal schema, I propose gender as a lived, phenomenological experience. Drawing on in-depth interviews with experienced school teachers, I demonstrate how gender as their lived bodily experience is always shifting subjectivities or “becoming” and is always experienced based on their own historical corporeal schemas and relations to others. While gender maintains articulations of caste and (new) middle class belonging, the corporeal excesses of these women’s lives also challenge hierarchies and linear spatiotemporalities of time and modern schooling. Finally, I draw on the theorization of the body as a historical racial corporeal schema, body becoming, and excess desire and flow of sensorial connections to imagine unruly, uncivilized possible lifeworlds. I urge transnational feminist scholarship to harness a form of critical feminist praxis that doesn’t assume the separation of nation, borders and subjectivities but rather takes the body as the site where the (trans)national is lived and transformed in the everyday and is inseparable from historical articulations and unruly, inarticulable, corporeal excesses.
en_US
CC BY-NC-ND
Body
Gender
India
Schools
Sexuality
Turkey
Gender studies
Sexuality
Women's studies
The Erotics of Pedagogical Spaces: Schools, Sexuality and the Desiring Body in India and Turkey
Thesis
URL
https://digital.lib.washington.edu:443/researchworks/bitstream/1773/46308/1/Misra_washington_0250E_22041.pdf
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oai:digital.lib.washington.edu:1773/483952022-04-20T10:46:27Zcom_1773_4888col_1773_19654
ResearchWorks
advisor
Ramamurthy, Priti
author
Paul Gera, Nastasia
2022-04-19T23:41:01Z
PaulGera_washington_0250O_23910.pdf
http://hdl.handle.net/1773/48395
This thesis examines the histories of the Gond kingdom of Garha from the early modern to the early colonial period. In attending to the ecologies of this kingdom within a feminist analytical framework, it makes both historiographical and historical contributions to scholarship on South Asia’s histories. Chapter one demonstrates how the gendering and sexualization of elephants in early modern South Asia was crucial for state building in Garha, embedding the kingdom into the social, political, and economic fabric of the wider region. This chapter also reveals that Garha’s ecologies produced specific meanings for “queen,” who were socially and politically powerful actors in this kingdom. Chapter two examines shifts and continuities as the former kingdom of Garha came under British colonial rule in the nineteenth century. It demonstrates how British colonial actors mobilized gender and sexuality to discursively co-construct Gond people, forests, and the nonhuman animals who inhabited them as primitive, isolated, and unchanging, or “wild,” in the arenas of witchcraft, hard drinking, and hunting. This, then, enabled the production of an elite British colonial masculinity and a paternal British colonial state needed to “tame” the wild, justifying the appropriation of labor and resources from Garha. Nevertheless, this thesis also makes visible the on-going importance of Gond queens and other powerful Gond women, of internal differentiation among Gond communities, and of Gond people’s knowledges of forests and particular nonhuman beings in this region through the nineteenth century.
en_US
none
Ecologies
Garha
Gender and sexuality
Gond
History
South Asia
Gender studies
Ecology
History
Ecologies of Power: A Feminist History of State Building in the Gond Kingdom of Garha, 1500-1870s
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oai:digital.lib.washington.edu:1773/486642022-07-15T10:42:21Zcom_1773_4888col_1773_19654
ResearchWorks
advisor
Ramamurthy, Priti
advisor
Welland, Sasha
author
Wang, Stephanie Yingyi
2022-07-14T22:01:44Z
Wang_washington_0250E_24572.pdf
http://hdl.handle.net/1773/48664
This dissertation explores a central tension and contradiction between the social reproduction of NGOs and the social reproduction of activist workers in the People’s Republic of China since the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995. It investigates how feminist and LGBT rights NGOs are a specifically Chinese formation that is entangled with state regulation and the transnational non-profit funding complex. I theorize the triple mechanisms of moralization, illegalization, and professionalization in which the party-state absorbs the social reproduction function of NGOs while containing their political influence. At the same time, the transnational non-profit funding complex utilizes NGOs for political intervention in China. The party-state’s dynamic relations with the transnational non-profit funding complex foster a shifting enabling or disabling environment for these NGOs to socially reproduce themselves. These processes result in the devaluation and erasure of feminist and LGBT rights NGOs, as well as the labor value of activist workers. In particular, I theorize mental, emotional, communicative, and caring labor as the kinds of social reproductive labor activist workers perform. Though invisiblized and devalued as gendered and racialized labor, I suggest that they are of value because they require labor time socially necessary towards the execution and completion of NGO projects. However, the mechanisms of triple erasure transfer the cost of the social reproduction of NGOs unto the bodies of activist workers. I foreground the affective dimension of precarity which is manifested in the burnout, depression, and trauma of activist workers. The cruel activism lies in that the ways in which the feelings that fuel the activism can also serve to invisiblize and erase the workers’ affective labor, and legitimize power inequalities and disputes in activism. The contradictory affect of hope is precisely how activist workers are exploited at the intersection of state violence and the professionalizing NGO sector. I suggest that the affective struggles of activist workers are the embodied effects of the very contradictions of state-NGO relations in China.
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CC BY-NC
Affect
Feminism
Labor
LGBT rights
NGO
Precarity
Gender studies
LGBTQ studies
Asian studies
Cruel Activism: Precarity, Labor, and Affect of Chinese Feminist and LGBT Rights NGOs
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oai:digital.lib.washington.edu:1773/491942022-09-24T11:15:46Zcom_1773_4888col_1773_19654
ResearchWorks
advisor
Ginorio, Angela B
author
Ramirez Arreola, Maria Elizabeth
2022-09-23T20:40:56Z
RamirezArreola_washington_0250E_24648.pdf
http://hdl.handle.net/1773/49194
University of Washington Abstract Quieren Mi Labor Más No Mi Intelecto They Want My Hands Not My Brains: Mapping the Gendered and Racialized Journeys of Adult, English Learner, Immigrant Latin American Women in the U.S. Higher Education System. Maria Elizabeth Ramirez Arreola Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Dr. Angela B. Ginorio
Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies
This qualitative study examines the gendered and racialized educational experiences of eight nontraditional, adult English learners (EL), Latin American, and immigrant women. The study focuses on those that after migrating as in adults age to the United States, have eventually continued their higher educational attainment, disrupting the conventional narratives about adult immigrants and their lack of aspirations in higher education attainment. Such experiences have been largely excluded from U.S academic literature, as they are a minority within a minority. Nontraditional, adult EL, Latin American, immigrant students entering the United States higher education system are navigating college access in a system new to them as their access path is very different from international students or Latinx peers who attended the K-12 education system. Factors such as age, the digital divide, and typically being monolingual for the first 20-30 years of their lives increase exponentially, often becoming the first barriers on their path to higher education. They are navigating a new education system while facing immigration challenges such as family and financial responsibilities in their country of origin and receptor country. The data collected from eight qualitative testimonio interviews sought to capture information about their access path to higher education and the path access that they followed, the gendered and racialized experiences and their impact on the participants' education, and lastly, to identify how the participants successfully navigated the United States higher education system at the undergraduate and graduate level as they were either recently graduated or currently enrolled in universities and community colleges.
The study was intentional in utilizing testimonio as a method of research, a qualitative approach that gave participants a space to share their individual experiences and to collectively reclaim their invisibilized academic journeys as they resonated with one another. Conceptualized through a Latino Critical Race Theory and intersectionality lens framework provided an interdisciplinary perspective to examine how identity markers such as race, class, gender, national origin, phenotype, etc., and complex structures of oppression such as institutionalized racism and white privilege impacted the educational experiences of nontraditional, adult EL, Latin American immigrant, women. Migration studies theory illuminated allowed me to better understand the different contexts for migration from countries in Latin America, and finally, grounded in Chicana feminism allowed me to center the women’s experiences and draw from their experiences as a source of knowledge (Delgado Bernal, 1998). The study provides recommendations for universities administrative & faculty personal in practice & policy, advocating for different ways to positively create educational access for nontraditional, adult English learner students.
To perform a thorough analysis of their journeys, the following questions guided the study: a) What were the educational paths that adult Latin American immigrant women followed to access and succeed in the U.S higher education system? b) How do their testimonios reveal the gendered and racialized journey to college attainment? And c) How can an intersectional discussion of their academic journey depict the privileges and barriers that came into place for immigrant Latin American women to defy spaces where they have only been seen as laborers? These questions were informed by my own journey as an adult immigrant woman from Mexico who grew up monolingual and acquired English as a second language to enroll and obtain a college education in the U.S. I am also informed by the minimal literature on the subject and the historical context of the practices of exclusion from higher education institutions and how those continue to affect the experiences of underrepresented students in the United States (Long 2016). My testimonio, joined by eight others of nontraditional adult English learners, Latin American immigrant women, are critically analyzed to shine a light on the intersectional journeys of accessing and surviving in the U.S. higher education system, a system. that, according to the data produced in this study, severely ignores this small but growing population of adult English learners seeking access to postsecondary education (National Center for Education Statistics, 2017).
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none
Adult English learner (EL)
Gender Studies
Intersectionality
Latino Studies
Nontraditional Student
Testimonio
Education
Gender studies
Ethnic studies
Quieren Mi Labor Más No Mi Intelecto They Want My Hands Not My Brains Mapping the Gendered and Racialized Journeys of Adult English Learner Immigrant Latin American Women in the US Higher Education System
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oai:digital.lib.washington.edu:1773/500702024-02-21T17:20:04Zcom_1773_4888col_1773_19654
ResearchWorks
advisor
Reddy, Chandan
author
Romero, Fabian
2023-08-14T17:00:27Z
2023-08-14T17:00:27Z
Romero_washington_0250E_25330.pdf
http://hdl.handle.net/1773/50070
My doctoral dissertation examines how Indigiqueer P’urhépecha people in Michoacán and the diaspora face precarious presents and futures where their role within a nuclear family, belonging to society, and safety are conditional and based on their cooperation with racialized colonial heteropatriarchal norms. The concept of insurgent kinship weaves together this project, kin made through, as Adele E. Clarke explains in Making Kin not Population, “daily actions that transform partial relations into deeper ones” and “crafted through the exchange of sharing activities and other practices” with humans and more than humans that create “viable presents and futures” for queer P’urhépecha, with humans, more than human species and land. I write about the P’urhépecha migrant diaspora, a largely ignored academic topic. Also, until recently, scholarship on P’urhépecha people was done predominantly by external white and Chicano gazes. My work is among the current resurgence of creative and intellectual work about P’urhépecha people by P’urhépecha people. This research further examines the imposition of colonial heteropatriarchy by looking closely at the history of the P’urhépecha people and pueblos near the P’urhépecha Plateau. This work turns the gaze on the importation of colonial gender and sexuality by examining various ways that the Church, Family, and State have worked to create a dominant and violent heteropatriarchy. Whereas non-P’urhépecha scholars have relied on the P’urhépecha historical archive to theorize on the colonial roots of queer indigeneity, my scholarship intervenes by reclaiming and re-reading the P’urhépecha archive through an intentionally queer P’urhépecha lens. My research can discuss this archive in a way non-P’urhépecha scholars cannot, an essential contribution to queer studies.
This project uses the methods of autoethnography, oral history, narrative research, genealogical archival research, and Indigenous Feminist analysis. It is multi-genre and combines conventional academic writing with personal narrative, stories, and poetry. I argue that kinship with biological family, land, ancestors, and more than humans is not a given for Indigiqueer P’urhépecha born in rural communities near the P’urhépecha original pueblos of Michoacán, and kinship must be made with them. Insurgent kinship for Indigiqueer P’urhépecha people is more possible with the matriarchs of the family in part because colonial heteropatriarchy makes matriarchs and gender-diverse and LGBTQ people more vulnerable to violence. Using Lionel Cantú and Chandan Reddy’s work on migration and gender and sexuality, I contend that when P’urhépecha people go through the United States immigration process, the colonial hetero-patriarchy from Mexico is layered with the United States, and Indigiqueer migrants face an emboldened vulnerability to violence based on their sexuality and gender. Insurgent kinship with cities in the diaspora is possible by understanding Indigenous migrants' entanglement with settler colonialism and our position as settlers. The emboldened vulnerability may result in further migration for Indigiqueer migrants who find the city their “homing” place, rather than in their communities, a place of belonging, rebuilding, and strengthening their relationship to P’urhépecha knowledge and land-based practices, especially when insurgent kinship is made with intertribally with other Indigiqueer people. Lastly, insurgent kinship with dogs is made by understanding the eight millennia of relationships that Indigenous people in the Americas had before contact and severed further by ongoing colonialism that normalizes domination over relationships and understanding.
en_US
CC BY-NC-SA
Indigenous
Michoacán
migrant studies
P’urhépecha
queer
two-spirit
Gender studies
American studies
Latin American studies
Insurgent Kinship: Queer P’urhépecha Migrations and Kinship
Thesis
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oai:digital.lib.washington.edu:1773/506252023-09-28T10:37:02Zcom_1773_4888col_1773_19654
ResearchWorks
advisor
Reddy, Chandan
advisor
Weinbaum, Alys E
author
Sorma, Mediha P
2023-09-27T17:16:40Z
Sorma_washington_0250E_26132.pdf
http://hdl.handle.net/1773/50625
This dissertation looks at the ways in which Kurdish women in Turkey produce insurgent bodies,non-statist discourses of resistance, and anti-national forms of kinship through radical practices
of mothering and reproduction. Focusing on the politicization/militarization of the domestic
space, the reproductive body, children, and racialized grief by Kurdish women, my research
takes issue with the scholarship on war and militancy which constructs militancy as an
exclusively masculine form of insurgency and sees motherhood and reproduction as private,
apolitical sites of affective relations. It also disrupts Global North feminist frameworks that see
mothers as vessels of peace by revealing Kurdish mothers’ militant and at times destructive
mothering practices.
en_US
none
Insurgent motherhood
Kurdish
Modern Turkey
Motherhood
Race and Reproduction
Transnational Feminism
Gender studies
Middle Eastern studies
Ethnic studies
Militant Mothers of the Kurdish Resistance: Statelessness, Mothering and Subaltern Politics in Contemporary Turkey
Thesis
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oai:digital.lib.washington.edu:1773/506262023-09-28T10:37:04Zcom_1773_4888col_1773_19654
ResearchWorks
advisor
Ginorio, Angela B
advisor
Habell-Pallan, Michelle
author
Viveros Avendaño, Iris Crystal
2023-09-27T17:16:40Z
ViverosAvendaxF1o_washington_0250E_25945.pdf
http://hdl.handle.net/1773/50626
This dissertation examines fandango practice in Seattle and its transnational collaborations in Mexico within a larger trajectory of participatory traditions as decolonial pedagogies that help to build spaces of dialogue, critical consciousness, and transborder solidarities. These trajectories, of Indigenous and Chicane activism, are reinforced by prior translocal organizing of Mexican immigrants in Seattle since the 1990’s with Grupo Cultural Oaxaqueño. I analyze fandango practice, including its music, as a community space that supports critical consciousness and in turn becomes a support in shaping transnational fandango spaces. Through a decolonial feminist praxis my analysis of fandango explores how women dancers - bailadoras - contribute to the collective fandango soundscape by creating percussive sounds with their bodies, when their rhythmic stomping, or zapateado might be otherwise bypassed by a more standard analysis that would focus only on the fandango music that is played with instruments. As a practitioner, I also know that the music of fandango, and specifically of dancers, involves acute listening to others in the percussive field. Inspired by fandango’s sensorial pedagogies and the learning de a oido, I introduce the concept “radical relational listening” to explore listening on the tarima, platform drum center staged of fandangos, as a decolonial method oriented towards embodying relations––with the community and a larger human and non-human existence. This radical listening is animated by felt epistemologies or sentipensares; the acting of the heart using the head (Botero Gomez, 2019: 302). Bailadoras find pleasure in listening via feminist intimacy and through a willful enactment of collectivity through rhythms. In my study, I use the Indigenous concept of sentipensar to bridge radical relational listening with decolonial temporality. the tarima is a temporal and conceptual space where the ancestral memory of women gathers in the presence of community (human and non-human). As I argue, the cyclical footwork that bailadoras embody on the tarima, is the materialization of a decolonial temporality because, in addition to keeping time in music, the foot percussion that women embody on the tarima is not oriented towards capitalist individualism, but instead invites us to synchronize our bodies in horizontal relationships to one another and the land. In this way, the decolonial temporality that bailadoras sound out on the tarima through our zapateado disrupts colonial logics of consumption and individualized progress marked by the hegemony and monotonous single beat of a clock. Zapateado fandanguero is oriented towards building these relations in real-time and in the present by activating a collective memory that is ancestral and felt. Relational listening conceptualized on the tarima provides a point of entry to engage in dialogue, which is also the foundation of convivencia. I consider the bailadoras’ contributions to fandango not only in terms of the music, but also in fandango’s community building in their roles as the main organizers of the Seattle Fandango Project (SFP). By centering the analytical lens on the tarima, platform drum located at the center of the community music space, I highlight how by providing structure to the music through their cyclical foot percussion, bailadoras also influence the gender politics of the space and our collective consciousness. Lastly, the collective foot percussion of bailadoras provides me with the theoretical platform to explore fandango practice as a catalyst for expanding critical consciousness by building community across borders, which provides a foundation for strategically deploying technologies that counter state violence in Mexico and the US. Through a Women of Color and Indigenous feminist framework, my study of participatory traditions in Seattle’s Grupo Cultural Oaxaqueño and the Seattle Fandango Project––seeks to bring visibility to the strategic organizing of Mexican immigrants and Chicanes fandango practitioners. Translocal fandango communities provide an opportunity to study embodied knowledge, affect, and joy as epistemological tools that facilitate transborder solidarity in response to state violence and capitalist oppression. By making visible fandango’s oppositional pedagogies, this dissertation reconsiders the depoliticization of AfroIndigenous participatory music traditions in the liberal university, and its conventional discourses that frame oppositional movements as exclusively conflictual and disruptive. I argue instead that building communities of social awareness around joy and dignity is a revolutionary act.
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none
affect
embodiment
fandango
indigenous
music
temporality
Women's studies
Aesthetics
Latin American studies
Feminista Dance Disruptions in Fandango Temporalities
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oai:digital.lib.washington.edu:1773/506272023-09-28T10:37:05Zcom_1773_4888col_1773_19654
ResearchWorks
advisor
Yee, Shirley J
advisor
Habell-Pallán, Michelle
author
Morado, Michelle Kritz
2023-09-27T17:16:41Z
Morado_washington_0250E_25852.pdf
http://hdl.handle.net/1773/50627
My study examines the creative kin-making practices of three community sites to demonstrate the ways kinships and kin-making practices traverse space and time. I locate pachucas, young women of the zoot suit era as demonstrating creative kin-making through their cultivation of a distinctly Mexican American, urban, working class identity. In the development of the subculture of pachuquismo, pachuca identity represented rebellious expressions of femininity and sexuality. A parallel subculture of the mid twentieth century, the butch/femme lesbian communities, also demonstrate the development of political identities of sexuality. The butch/femme communities of the mid twentieth also emerged in the underground spaces of of urban settings, occupied primarily by working class women. I argue that as these women claimed their right to occupy public space, and as they negotiated with the meaning making of identity, both as racialized and gendered subjects through the development of these subcultures, they, created future possibilities of identity exploration, particularly for youth of color in the contemporary moment. Rock Camps operate as a final site of kin-making through creative practices. Music camps for gender marginalized youth facilitate the exploration of gender, sexual, and racial identity formation. The setting of camp nurtures relational identity formation in the kinship formations of bands and within the camp community. I analyze digital and printed archives, oral histories, ethnographic research, and autoethnography in this project to demonstrate not only the kinship formations that developed within these sites of community, but also how the kinship formations remain active in the feminist organizing of the contemporary moment.
en_US
CC BY-NC-ND
Chicana feminism
D-I-Y
kin-making
Music and arts youth nonprofits
Queer studies
Rock camp for girls
Gender studies
LGBTQ studies
History
Creative Kin-Making Practices Among Queer Youth and Womxn of Color, 1950-2020
Thesis
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