Media Landscapes: ‘Meet the Maker’—The Highs and Lows of Translating Gender and Sexuality Research into Practice

2019 ◽  
pp. 47-69
Author(s):  
Debbie Ollis
Keyword(s):  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Sexuality Research

Bodies and Methods in Motion

2004 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 8-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrence Hammar
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Research Unit ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Sexuality Research ◽  
Cultural Anthropologist ◽  
Senior Research Fellow ◽  
Senior Research ◽  
Health Nursing ◽  
Eastern Highlands

As a cultural anthropologist who specializes in gender and sexuality research in Papua New Guinea (PNG), I was honored to become Senior Research Fellow of the Operational Research Unit (ORU) at the Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research (IMR) in Goroka, capital of Eastern Highlands Province. I now head the Anthropology Section thereof. Although I am the only anthropologist there, even our new behavioral health nursing officer can't seem to get enough tape transcription and use of Atlas.ti, a qualitative data software program! The anthropology bug that bit me long ago was spawned by qualitative parents. It infected me with a missionary zeal about qualitative methods and perspectives that I have tried to instill in our new ORU as we have taken on exciting new projects. As well, I have returned four times to the site of Ph.D. dissertation research I conducted over one decade ago—Daru, capital of PNG's Western Province. Adding to this, on August 2, 2003, I got married PNG-style (yep—bridewealth, pigs, and everything), to my longtime companion (Urakume Mahala, nee Cassandra Lee) who also fell in love with PNG.

scholarly journals Thirty-year retrospective on language, gender and sexuality research

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 89
Author(s):  
Kira Hall ◽  
Rodrigo Borba ◽  
Mie Hiramoto
Keyword(s):  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Sexuality Research ◽  
Global Character ◽  
Thirtieth Anniversary ◽  
New Directions

This thirty-year retrospective on language, gender and sexuality research, launched in anticipation of the thirtieth anniversary of the 1992 Berkeley Women and Language Conference, showcases essays by luminaries who presented papers at the conference as well as allied scholars who have taken the field in new directions. Revitalising a tradition set out by the First Berkeley Women and Language Conference in 1985, the four biennial Berkeley conferences held in the 1990s led to the establishment of the International Gender and Language Association and subsequently of the journal Gender and Language, contributing to the field’s institutionalisation and its current pan-global character. Retrospective essays addressing the themes of Politics, Practice, Intersectionality and Place will be published across four issues of the journal in 2021. In this inaugural issue on politics, Robin Lakoff, Susan Gal and Alice Freed analyse the current political scenario from their feminist linguistic lenses, while Sally McConnell-Ginet and Norma Mendoza-Denton share more personal views of the politics involved in doing research on language, gender and sexuality. The theme series also pays tribute to significant scholars present at the 1992 Berkeley conference who are no longer with us; in this issue, Amy Kyratzis pays homage to the groundbreaking work of Susan Ervin-Tripp.

scholarly journals Thirty-year retrospective on language, gender and sexuality research

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 231
Author(s):  
Kira Hall ◽  
Rodrigo Borba ◽  
Mie Hiramoto
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
African American Women ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Vantage Point ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Sexuality Research ◽  
Global Character ◽  
Thirtieth Anniversary ◽  
New Directions ◽  
Gender Power

This thirty-year retrospective on language, gender and sexuality research, launched in anticipation of the thirtieth anniversary of the 1992 Berkeley Women and Language Conference, showcases essays by luminaries who presented papers at the conference as well as allied scholars who have taken the field in new directions. Revitalising a tradition set out by the First Berkeley Women and Language Conference in 1985, the four biennial Berkeley conferences held in the 1990s led to the establishment of the International Gender and Language Association and subsequently of the journal Gender and Language, contributing to the field’s institutionalisation and its current pan-global character. Retrospective essays addressing the themes of Politics, Practice, Intersectionality and Place will be published across four issues of the journal in 2021. In this second issue on the theme of practice, Deborah Tannen, Penelope Eckert, Marjorie Harness Goodwin, and Elinor Ochs and Tamar Kremer-Sadlik show how the field’s attention to the micro-details of situated, highly contextualised interaction offers a privileged vantage point for seeing how gender, power and other dimensions of social life emerge as mundane daily actions unfold. Shigeko Okamoto and Marcyliena H. Morgan review how research on the language practices of Japanese and African American women have been formative to the field while also describing the critical necessity of more attention to these areas moving forward. The theme series also pays tribute to significant scholars present at the 1992 Berkeley conference who are no longer with us; in this issue, Heidi E. Hamilton pays homage to the groundbreaking work of Deborah Schiffrin.

scholarly journals Thirty-year retrospective on language, gender and sexuality research

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kira Hall ◽  
Rodrigo Borba ◽  
Mie Hiramoto
Keyword(s):  
Geographical Location ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Sexuality Research ◽  
Engaged Scholarship ◽  
Digital Activism ◽  
Thirtieth Anniversary ◽  
Interactional Analysis ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Black Feminisms ◽  
The Uk

This thirty-year retrospective on language, gender and sexuality research, launched in anticipation of the thirtieth anniversary of the 1992 Berkeley Women and Language Conference, showcases essays by luminaries who presented papers at the conference as well as allied scholars who have taken the field in new directions. Revitalising a tradition set out by the First Berkeley Women and Language Conference in 1985, the four biennial Berkeley conferences held in the 1990s led to the establishment of the International Gender and Language Association and subsequently of the journal Gender and Language, contributing to the field’s institutionalisation and its current panglobal character. Retrospective essays addressing the themes of Politics, Practice, Intersectionality and Place will be published across four issues of the journal in 2021. The final issue of our thirty-year retrospective shows how studies of language, gender and sexuality may be enlivened by seriously engaging with the notion of place – understood as one’s geographical location, locus of enunciation and/or position within the field. Bonnie S. McElhinny and María Amelia Viteri scrutinise lingering effects of colonialism and advocate for hope as a central affective dimension of decolonial practice. Drawing upon Black feminisms, Busi Makoni discusses the embodiment of refusal to racialised forms of patriarchy and Sonja L. Lanehart underlines the importance of bringing African American Women’s Language more centrally into the field’s remit. The next three essays move their foci to specific regions: Pia Pichler reflects on the entanglement of place, race and intersectionality in the UK; Janet S. Shibamoto-Smith warns against the dangers of reifying essentialised categories in Japanese language and gender research; Fatima Sadiqi criticises the underrepresentation of North Africa in the field by reviewing the emergence and resilience of feminist linguistics in the region. The two final essays highlight the importance of sociolinguistic activism and the urgent need of moving beyond the field’s Global North emphasis. Amiena Peck discusses the power of digital activism and the way it has reignited her passion for engaged scholarship. Ana Cristina Ostermann advocates for micro-interactional analysis as a method for illuminating Southern epistemologies of gender and sexuality. The theme series also pays tribute to significant scholars present at the 1992 Berkeley conference who are no longer with us; in this issue, Rusty Barrett and Robin Queen offer a lively account of the life and work of linguist and novelist Anna Livia.

Going South and zooming into what also matters in language, gender and sexuality

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Cristina Ostermann
Keyword(s):  
Social Interactions ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Sexuality Research ◽  
Scientific Development ◽  
Zoom In

This essay contributes to the ‘Thirty-year retrospective on language, gender and sexuality research’ on the theme of ‘Place’ by joining other colleagues under two threads: ‘going South’ and ‘going micro’. Under ‘going South’, I speak from my trajectory and place as a Brazilian scholar to highlight the geopolitical importance of the International Gender and Language Association (IGALA) and the journal Gender and Language, not just for the intellectual and scientific development of studies on language, gender and sexuality but also for research produced in nonhegemonic centres. In defending that we ‘go micro’ – i.e. that we zoom in our methodological lenses to social interactions in everyday life – I argue for the relevance of interactional studies to the investigation of language, gender and sexuality in action. I illustrate how microanalytical methodological lenses have guided my research, some of the findings they have helped me disclose and some of the applications they have helped me foster.

Theorizing Masclinity in Information Systems Research

2011 ◽  
pp. 1160-1165
Author(s):  
Ben Light
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Sexuality Research ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Masculinity Studies ◽  
Information And Communications Technologies ◽  
Systems Research ◽  
Information Systems Research ◽  
Communications Technologies ◽  
The Relationship

I want to argue that understanding masculinity is an important part of understanding gender and sexuality as it relates to information and communications technologies (ICTs), specifically those under the lens of the information-systems community. In order to do this, the landscape of gender and sexuality research in general is referred to along with such research in the field of information systems (IS), with reference as necessary to masculinity studies. I will then suggest some possible areas where a more thoroughgoing theorization may prove useful. In sum, future research might focus on the relationship between marginalised masculinities and the construction and consumption of IS in work organisations and society.

Navigating normativities: Gender and sexuality in text and talk

2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 481-489 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kira Hall ◽  
Erez Levon ◽  
Tommaso M. Milani
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Queer Theory ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Sexuality Research ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Initial Attempt ◽  
Biannual Meeting

This special issue was born out of a conversation initiated at a panel organized by two of us at the ninth biannual meeting of the International Gender and Language Association (IGALA), held at City University of Hong Kong in May 2016. The principal goal of the panel was to stimulate an academic discussion on the role of normativity and antinormativity in language, gender, and sexuality research in response to a series of critical interventions in cultural studies regarding some of the tenets underpinning queer theory (see Wiegman 2012; Penney 2014; Wiegman & Wilson 2015). It was our belief that sociolinguistics—with its focus on situated interpretations of social practice—has much to contribute, both theoretically and empirically, to these debates within cultural studies. This special issue is an initial attempt at articulating what such a contribution would be.

scholarly journals Language and Masculinities: History, Development, and Future

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 409-434
Author(s):  
Robert Lawson
Keyword(s):  
Social Issues ◽  
Social Performance ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Sexuality Research ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Independent Field ◽  
Linguistic Strategies ◽  
Future Research Directions ◽  
Historical Trajectory ◽  
Men And Masculinities

In the past two decades, the field of language and masculinities studies has become an established part of language, gender, and sexuality research, growing in response to concerns about the limited criticality directed toward men and masculinities in sociolinguistics. In doing so, the field has added to the conceptual and theoretical tool kit of sociolinguistics, furthering both our understanding of the linguistic strategies used by men in a variety of contexts and the myriad links connecting language and the social performance of gender. This review surveys the historical trajectory of scholarship broadly concerned with men, masculinities, and language and charts its development from more critical work on men and masculinities within sociology to its emergence as an independent field of inquiry. I outline some of the key contributions this body of work has made to sociolinguistic theory, methodology, and knowledge and suggest some future research directions through which the field may engage with contemporary social issues.

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