met with a standing ovation, and I would like to use them as a springboard to consider the lieu commun that “disruptive technology”—the term coined by Clayton Christensen in 1997 to refer to innovations that shake up or destroy existing businesses or
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In French Politics, Culture & Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2017
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 76–89 (14 total)
Disrupted PECMA Flows
A Cognitive Approach to the Experience of Narrative Complexity in Film
Veerle Ros and Miklós Kiss
Over the past two decades, Hollywood cinema has seen the proliferation of disruptive, nonclassical narrative techniques such as radical nonlinearity and excessive embedding—devices that were previously thought to be more or less exclusive to
Kate Myers
disrupts Shakespearean conventions in Nights at the Circus has been virtually overlooked. Perhaps a first stab at the over-the-top, self-conscious scrutiny of the Bard in Wise Children , Nights at the Circus deploys Shakespeare's penchant for the
In Critical Survey
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2021
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 93–105 (13 total)
Social Isolation and Disrupted Privacy
Impacts of COVID-19 on Adolescent Girls in Humanitarian Contexts
Sarah Baird, Sarah Alheiwidi, Rebecca Dutton, Khadija Mitu, Erin Oakley, Tassew Woldehanna, and Nicola Jones
infection control a monumental task in these settings as Bob Kitchen (2020) notes. In some areas, disruptions to routine services and food supplies because of the global preoccupation with COVID-19 and limitations to supply chains put additional strains
In Girlhood Studies
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2020
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 98–115 (18 total)
Objects as Archives of a Disrupted Past
The Lengnangulong Sacred Stone from Vanuatu in France, Revisited
Hugo DeBlock
Ambrym, performing a revived version of a rom masked dance ceremony during the Third National Arts Festival of Vanuatu in Port Vila in 2009. Photo is courtesy of the author. Conclusion: Objects as Archives of a Disrupted Past While the
(Dis)Connected Rail
Infrastructural Suspension and Phatic Politics in Romania
Adrian Deoancă
, but can also entail disruptions of spatial configurations, and can stand for the foreclosing of progress, generating experiences of frustration and abjection. As such, infrastructures can enforce segregation just as much as they produce connection. 4
Disrupting the Invisibility of Working-Class Girls
Redemption, Value, and the Politics of Recognition
Stephanie Skourtes
At a time when individualized narratives have replaced structural explanations like social class to account for inequality, girls who are on the urban fringe are not only made invisible but are under-valued as contributing members to a future, individually oriented society. This article offers a visual disruption in order to re-value the stigmatized, working-class girl by applying the concept of use-value to identify the girls' redemption narratives as an agentic process that is expressed affectively. Drawing from an ethnography of urban, working-class girls who utilize social services, this article reveals how class as culture operated along with other classification systems to inscribe the girls as a problem. Recognizing this, each girl had a redemption tale to tell so as to recover a sense of self; the self-narratives revealed alternative value systems that provided collective and practical value to them.
In Girlhood Studies
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2015
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 103–118 (16 total)
Disruptive Discourses
Kenyan Maasai Schoolgirls Make Themselves
Heather Switzer
This article examines the practical construction and effects of the schoolgirl as an emergent social category in contemporary Kenyan Maasai society against mainstream development's figuring of the girl-child. The paper relies upon ninety-eight interviews with schoolgirls between the ages of ten and seventeen in nine primary schools in Kajiado District, Kenya. A contradictory resistance to traditional gender norms and social forms characterizes the schoolgirls' narratives of education and development in their daily lives. These narratives are embedded in larger questions regarding the transnational intersections of ethnicity and gender in the formation of local identities in marginalized indigenous communities in postcolonial Kenya. Without disputing the practical necessities of educating girls, I problematize the seamless rhetoric concerning formal schooling as a neutral public good in order to open up the complex conversation about educational access and attainment in the global south today.
In Girlhood Studies
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2010
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 137–155 (19 total)
Holly Thorpe
War, conflict, and natural disasters disrupt millions of lives around the world each year. With fighting and wars raging across the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Africa, and Asia, death tolls are “on the rise,” 1 and the United Nations
Pacifying Disruptive Subjects
Police Violence and Anti-Fracking Protests
Will Jackson, Helen Monk, and Joanna Gilmore
This article considers the policing of protests against “fracking” at Barton Moss, Salford, Greater Manchester between November 2013 and April 2014. The article seeks to make sense of the policing response to the protest camp established at the Barton Moss site and to consider what the policing of anti-fracking protests reveals about state responses to resistance in the current era. The article begins by sketching out the background to fracking in the UK and to the specific protest at Barton Moss. It then provides some detail about the nature of policing experienced at the camp during its five-month operation before considering how the policing of anti-fracking protests—and protest policing more generally—need to be considered in relation to the general function of police. To do this we draw upon the concept of pacification to consider both the destructive and productive effects of the exercise of police power and suggest that this concept, and the reorientation of critical policing studies that it demands, are essential for understanding police and state violence in contemporary liberal democracies.