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Feeling Like Death

How La Pointe Courte (1955) and Le Bonheur (1965) Construct a Palpable Aesthetics of Mortality

Caitlin Wilson

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Agnès Varda's early narrative films are texturally rich meditations on love and mortality. Each film uses aesthetic strategies that lend a palpability to the heartbreak, grief, and loss explored therein. This article examines how Varda's use of hapticity makes the morbid enticing, luring the viewer closer to the films’ surface. I particularly examine how these films balance narrative storytelling alongside palpable images, investigating whether films are seen, felt, or both simultaneously.

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In  Screen Bodies

Published (Print):
01 Dec 2023
Article Type:
Research Article
Pages:
1–13 (13 total)
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From Empires of Nations to the Nation-State of Minorities

The Concept of National Minority in Russian Poland and the New Polish State 1900–1922

Wiktor Marzec

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The aim of this article is to investigate the concept of minority up to the temporary stabilization of its meaning in Polish concluded in the adoption of the March constitution of 1921. The history of the concept of national minority bore an imprint on the accommodation to the new political, territorial, and discursive circumstances after transition from empire to nation-state. The idea itself was well anchored in the liberal tradition, but the nationalist right also took it on board to protect the cultural hegemony of the Poles in the areas where they were a minority. Tackling the nexus of the emerging nation-state and the ensuing logic of minoritization sheds light on tiered visions of citizenship essential for understanding the 1921 debate. For this purpose, I use various available sub-corpora of texts—political leaflets, press, and parliamentary debates from the period 1788–1922.

Cover Contributions to the History of Concepts

In  Contributions to the History of Concepts

Published (Print):
01 Dec 2023
Article Type:
Research Article
Pages:
1–27 (27 total)
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From Invasive to Iconic

A New Cultural Typology of Introduced Species

Clayton Fordahl

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Recent years have seen a shift in the social scientific study of introduced species. Social scientists have shown that popular interpretations vary beyond the critical, invasive frameworks and include more celebratory or welcoming responses. Yet this research has taken the form of case studies. This has limited comparative inquiry. In response, this article develops a typology of sociocultural responses to introduced species by nonspecialists. The article then discusses major forms of collective meaning-making that go into creating these different cultural types.

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In  Nature and Culture

Published (Print):
01 Dec 2023
Article Type:
Research Article
Pages:
280–301 (22 total)
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Generation Marx

Anson Rabinbach

Christina Morina, The Invention of Marxism: How an Idea Changed Everything (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023) 557 pp.

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In  Contributions to the History of Concepts

Published (Print):
01 Dec 2023
Article Type:
Book Review
Pages:
83–88 (6 total)
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Girl in American Flag Hijab

Noha Beydoun

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In this article, I analyze the American flag as hijab both in the infamous “We the People” (2017) campaign poster by Shepard Fairey and its adaptation by Muslim girls and young women during protests against President Trump's inauguration and subsequent immigration policies (including the infamous Muslim Ban). Despite critical acclaim that hailed the American flag hijab largely as revolutionary, I argue that it embodies a symbolic visualization of a liberated Muslim woman figure that is central to the survival of American imperialism. Using frameworks that understand freedom shaped by neoliberal interests and interrogating the histories of the flag in both American immigration and colonial contexts, I demonstrate that the American flag as hijab for girls and women reinforces the larger constructs it seeks to resist.

Cover Girlhood Studies

In  Girlhood Studies

Published (Print):
01 Dec 2023
Article Type:
Research Article
Pages:
1–17 (17 total)
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The Girl in the Hijab

Contemporary Feminist Perspectives

Claudia Mitchell and Ann Smith

The image of a young girl wearing a hijab can be seen to be an iconic representation of the complex intersection between feminism on the one hand, and religion and culture on the other. While the hijab is a visible marker of traditional gender norms in some Islamic communities, many modern Muslim women and girls have reclaimed it as a symbol of faith, identity, and choice. In keeping with contemporary feminist dialogue, we seek to understand and respect these nuanced perspectives.

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In  Girlhood Studies

Published (Print):
01 Dec 2023
Article Type:
Editorial
Pages:
v–viii
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Goals, Strategies, and Tactics

Continuity and Change in Extinction Rebellion in the United Kingdom

Benjamin Farrer, Linda Doyle, and Soleil Smith

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Extinction Rebellion emerged in 2018 in the United Kingdom, and their activism quickly attracted the media spotlight, leading to similar groups springing up around this world. This swift ascendancy led to considerable interest in what is new or different about them. In this article, we review existing theories about this, and add an additional perspective. We argue that their most innovative feature is how they connect their tactics to their goals—i.e. their disruptive strategy. We use an original survey of members to support this argument. Our conclusions help pinpoint what is innovative about Extinction Rebellion UK, as well as to better understand their lessons for the broader environmental movement, especially in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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In  Contention

Published (Print):
01 Dec 2023
Article Type:
Research Article
Pages:
29–56 (28 total)
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Gut Feelings

Flatness, Appetites, and Aesthetics in Sheena Patel's I'm a Fan

Jennifer Jasmine White

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This article reads I'm a Fan as a major intervention into literary representations of women online, particularly within the context of Patel's materialist rendering of the operations of race, gender, and class in platform economies. Patel writes against a tendency toward what this article terms an emergent “flatness” in representations of women online, manifested aesthetically, ideologically, and affectively. Patel's debut offers an alternatively “de-flattened” account of life on the internet, partly through a focus on the hungry body of its narrator: an insistence that the internet is for women in particular “not a still, flat, surface thing” is explored via its effects on the feeling body. This article considers how I'm a Fan employs questions of algorithmic desire, taste and aesthetics, and the concept of autofiction as a “masticated life,” rematerializing, and therefore repoliticizing, gendered encounters with the platform.

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In  Screen Bodies

Published (Print):
01 Dec 2023
Article Type:
Research Article
Pages:
14–26 (13 total)
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“#HANDSOFFMYHIJAB”

A Digital Ethnography of Indian Hijab Stores’ Instagram Pages

Athira B.K. and Nidhi Balyan

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We examine the emerging meanings of hijab practice as feminist strategy, and as a symbol of visibility for young Muslim women and girls in India. Through digital ethnography based on Instagram pages of selected retailers of hijabs, we explore the possibility of hijab as a costume of insubordination, and Islamic fashion as a critical practice against the backdrop of the 2022 Karnataka hijab row. We employ an analysis of Instagram posts to mark the intersecting points of faith, fashion media, and market in framing aesthetics for clothing practices among young Indian Muslim women. We also explore new contours of feminist assertions in the Muslim community, and how the digitally mediated visibility of Muslim women and girls contests the notion of Islamic fashion as oxymoronic.

Cover Girlhood Studies

In  Girlhood Studies

Published (Print):
01 Dec 2023
Article Type:
Research Article
Pages:
69–86 (18 total)
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Hijab, Girls’ Sports, and the Ongoing Effects of Colonial Feminism

Mary Christianakis and Malek Moazzam-Doulat

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Since 9/11 and the Global War on Terror, the West has fixated policy on the hijab, framing it as oppressive and as a threat to women's rights. This entrenched colonial perspective affects Muslim girl athletes globally. Public discourse on hijabs in sports often overlooks their complex symbolism and the athletes’ choices. Drawing on Indigenous, postcolonial, and critical feminist theories, we explore in this article how Muslim girl athletes navigate hijab politics, expressing their agency through refusal and resistance.

Cover Girlhood Studies

In  Girlhood Studies

Published (Print):
01 Dec 2023
Article Type:
Research Article
Pages:
103–119 (17 total)