Recent ucsb_ed_spaces items

Editors' Note

Tue, 3 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Editors' Note

Book Review: Boys' Bodies: Speaking the Unspoken edited by Michael Kehler and Michael Atkinson

Tue, 3 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Book Review: Boys' Bodies: Speaking the Unspoken edited by Michael Kehler and Michael Atkinson

Book Review: Respectably Queer: Diversity Culture in LGBT Activist Organizations By Jane Ward

Tue, 22 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Book Review: Respectably Queer: Diversity Culture in LGBT Activist Organizations By Jane Ward

Book Review: The Aftermath of Feminism: Gender, Culture and Social Change by Angela McRobbie

Tue, 15 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Angela McRobbie explores the cultural forces that have negated feminism as a social movement by examining the post-feminist cultural environment in, The Aftermath of Feminism: Gender, Culture and Social Change. This book is not an empirical work, but rather a survey of changes in popular culture. McRobbie analyzes the ways in which popular culture is used to dismantle feminist gains. She is particularly interested in the future of feminism outside of academic institutions. This review highlights the major arguments in the text and concludes with a discussion of the usefulness of this book in academic courses and further study.

Perched: A Poet in The Academy

Fri, 11 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0000

This collaboration between a Vancouver poet and a Montreal-Boston visual artist is meant to introduce a poetic-artistic perspective to academic terrain.

The poems, written in spare diction, and the delicate nature of the forest, juxtapose the tensions between the industrialized academy and creativity. The goal of the work is to

re-connect poet/artist with the world, in a newly re-imagined place, a creative, thriving, organic, collaborative place.

The work describes the places (dreams, parks, ponds) where academia and nature collide. Here, the academy meets the sudden, startling signals of nature (birds, owls, mountains). In the final poem, “Light,” both poem and visual representation bend to the ground. The piece thus becomes a meditation on survival, brought by the grace and gentleness of the earth itself.

This artistic collaboration is ultimately meant to re-humanize and expand the narrow definitions of our workplace institutions through the interruption...

Radio and Collective Identity in the 2006 Oaxacan Uprising

Sat, 1 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000

This article examines the role of radio in advancing activist participation in a Mexican social movement, the Popular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca (APPO). I show how APPO radio stations elicited shared emotional connections and experiences for movement activists and potential allies within the community of radio listeners. The radio served as a backbone for the construction and negotiation of a collective identity. Using the 2006 Oaxacan uprising as a case study, I analyze the importance of radio in generating the tools necessary for mobilization, collective identity, and democratic participation.

Editors' Note

Mon, 1 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Editors' Note

Book Review: Contested Histories in Public Space: Memory, Race, and Nation edited by Daniel J. Walkowitz and Lisa Maya Knauer

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Book Review: Contested Histories in Public Space: Memory, Race, and Nation edited by Daniel J. Walkowitz and Lisa Maya Knauer

Challenges in Classifying Students with Emotional Disturbance: Perspectives of Appraisal Professionals

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000

This qualitative study examines the perspectives and assumptions of the appraisal professionals who are involved in and responsible for the evaluation of students with behavioral concerns. Appraisal professionals employed in two school districts participated in this study. Interviews were analyzed according to emergent themes that suggested two major assumptions of the participants. The first assumption involved the relationship between students’ social location and the condition known as Emotional Disturbance. The second assumption focused on systemic or institutional issues of classification. Implications for appraisal professionals and limitations are also discussed.

Boobs, Boxing, and Bombs: Problematizing the Entertainment of Spike TV

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Spike is the only television network in North America “for men.” Its motto, “Get more action,” is suggestive of pursuits of various forms of violence. We conceptualize Spike not as trivial entertainment, but rather as a form of pop culture that erodes the gains of feminists who have challenged the prevalence of normalized hegemonic masculinity (HM). Our paper highlights themes of Spike content, and connects those themes to the literature on HM. Moreover, we validate the identities and lives of men who cannot or refuse to subscribe to the pressures of hegemonic masculinity.

Book Review: The Purity Myth: How America’s Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women by Jessica Valenti

Mon, 1 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Jessica Valenti's book The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young Women, discusses the current contrains on female sexuality in America.

Book Review: Stripped: Inside the Lives of Exotic Dancers by Bernadette Barton

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Book Review: Stripped: Inside the Lives of Exotic Dancers by Bernadette Barton

Attitudes toward the LGBT Community in Higher Education

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000

This work examines the relationship between class standing and college affiliation on attitudes toward the LGBT community. Data were collected at a medium sized, public Southeastern University using an electronic survey instrument. A total of 1768 students responded to the survey. Results show that upper-level students and students in the College of Arts and Sciences exhibit more tolerance than their first and second year peers and students in the College of Education and College of Business respectively.

Editors' Note

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Editors' Note

Foreword

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Foreword

Book Review: Lydia's Open Door: Inside Mexico's Most Modern Brothel By Patty Kelly

Mon, 1 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0000

BOOK REVIEW- Lydia's Open Door: Inside Mexico's Most Modern Brothel by anthropologist Patty Kelly exlpores sex regulation and the state. It highlights how genderd and sexual norms are shaped and reshaped by time and space.

Book Review: Dude, You’re A Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School by C.J. Pascoe.

Mon, 1 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Book Review: Dude, You’re A Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School by C.J. Pascoe.

Book Review: How Does It Feel To Be A Problem? by Moustafa Bayoumi

Mon, 1 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Book Review: How Does It Feel To Be A Problem? by Moustafa Bayoumi

Book Review: Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity by Robert Jensen

Mon, 1 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Book Review: Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity by Robert Jensen

Interdisciplinary Ways of Knowing: A Collaborative Teacher Education Project for Culturally Responsive Pedagogy in Rural White America

Mon, 1 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0000

This project explores pre-service teacher attitudes while participating in literacy and humanities upper division education coursework within an outreach program in central Wyoming. A yearlong qualitative study was conducted to develop pre-professional experiences that may influence the preparation of teachers from rural settings for culturally diverse classrooms. Through collaborative planning across disciplines, the researchers provided parallel opportunities for pre-service teachers to acquire practices that are culturally responsive. Qualitative data was analyzed for themes that indicate the nature of their understanding. Results showed that 33% are novice, 41% are developing, and 26% are proficient on a rubric for culturally responsive awareness developed by the researchers, noting implications for collaborative, interdisciplinary learning at the pre-service level.

Traumatic Stress, Systemic Oppression, and Resilience in Post-Katrina New Orleans

Mon, 1 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0000

The purpose of this paper is to present traumatic stress as a framework for assessing and intervening with the post-Katrina residents of New Orleans. Applying resilience theory, the authors suggest that the unique historiography of African Americans in New Orleans serves as a foundation for the development of culturally appropriate interventions that can ameliorate the effects of disaster and systemic oppression. An African American female client provides a case illustration to illuminate the presentation of traumatic stress symptoms. Recommendations are provided for counselors and psychologists and clinical researchers to augment knowledge in this area.

Finding Space Beyond Variables: An Analytical Review of Urban Space and Social Inequalities

Mon, 1 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0000

One of the legacies of the Chicago School of urban sociology is the enduring view of urban space as a proxy for demographic, structural, economic or behavioral variables. In this paper I review that approach in its multiple forms, but also appraise the other ways that urban space has been attended to in social theory and empirical studies, focusing on relations of race, class, and sexuality. I present three major theoretical dimensions of the intersection of urban space, social inequality and social difference: (a) urban space as inscribed by boundaries and reflective of patterns of social difference and inequality; (b) urban space as a site and object of struggle between social groups; and (c) urban space as a vehicle for social reproduction through the logic of its universe.

Racial Stratification, Social Consciousness, and the Education of Mexican Americans in Fabens, Texas: A Socio-Historical Case Study

Mon, 1 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0000

In 1878, Charles Howard walked into the El Paso law office of Louis Cardis and shot him dead as Cardis was dictating a letter. Shortly thereafter Howard turned himself in to the local sheriff, and was later exonerated of all wrongdoing.

Though Howard was eventually to pay with his own life for this act of violence, the events before and after his shooting Louis Cardis highlight the extent to which racial stratification affected all social institutions in the small town of Fabens, Texas. This paper explores, at a descriptive level, one such relationship—that between racial stratification and the educational system. In our analysis we use historical materials as well as data from a 1969 community survey of Fabens’s in describing how racial stratification originated, evolved, and maintained a rigid system of inequality in the community. We then examine the “effect” racial stratification had on the educational system by describing the views parents, students, and teachers...

DMC in the Juvenile Justice System: Listening to the Voices of Our Youth

Mon, 1 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Disproportionate minority contact (DMC) is a nationwide public health disparity, with minority youth comprising 34% of the juvenile population, but representing 62% of the nation’s detained youth (Hsia, Bridges, & McHale, 2004). Multiple analytical approaches have been used to address DMC, but to bolster those findings, a qualitative approach is necessary. Using participatory action research embedded within a cultural bioecological framework, the current study explores the reflections and lived experiences of youth impacted by racial disparities in the juvenile justice system. Results are summarized under the themes of neighborhood influences, lack of positive adult role models, disengagement at home, school and community, experiences with law enforcement/court system, perceptions of racial inequality, and what the future holds. Youth-developed solutions for change are offered.

Foreword