scholarly journals What and How We See Matters: Critical Theories for Anti-Racist Adolescent Research

2021 ◽  
pp. 074355842110451
Author(s):  
Mariah Kornbluh ◽  
Leoandra Onnie Rogers ◽  
Joanna Lee Williams
Keyword(s):  
Adolescent Development ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Critical Theories ◽  
Developmental Science ◽  
The Status ◽  
Critical Approaches ◽  
Multiple Ways Of Knowing

The second installment of the Special Issue “Critical Approaches to Adolescent Development: Reflections on theories and methods for pursuing anti-racist developmental science” focuses primarily on theory and the theoretical lenses that shape how we “see” adolescents. Such a focus is necessary for moving forward anti-racist adolescent research. Theories serve as starting points, establishing our assumptions about what we know, the place where we move from. We cannot “do” better research if we do not take stock of what we “know” and more critically “how” we know it. The authors in this issue do this with candor, clarity, and intentionality, offering us theoretical frames that identify, name, and destabilize the status quo. They offer us anti-racist lenses and language to (re)define what adolescence and adolescent development is and does—and what it ought to be. They present theories that embed action and activism, that move us—across disciplines, outside of academic spaces, and into spaces that are often silenced and invisible. They shift our vision from objective, white-centric knowledge to multiple ways of knowing. It is our hope that the contributions in this double Special Issue will change how we see and do research with adolescents, and also change us as scholars and humans.

scholarly journals The Interaction between Linguistics and Computational Linguistics

2011 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy Baldwin ◽  
Valia Kordoni
Keyword(s):  
Computational Linguistic ◽  
Computational Linguistics ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The Status

Our purpose in this special issue is partly to reflect on the status quo and, in the process, identify potential areas where greater crossover between the fields of linguistics and computational linguistics can and perhaps should occur. It is also, however, to highlight sub-areas of computational linguistics where that crossover is happening, and can be seen to have enhanced the linguistic and computational linguistic impact of the research.

What works to address prejudice? Look to developmental science research for the answer

2012 ◽  
Vol 35 (6) ◽  
pp. 439-439 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melanie Killen ◽  
Kelly Lynn Mulvey ◽  
Aline Hitti ◽  
Adam Rutland
Keyword(s):  
Social Cognitive ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Moral Judgments ◽  
Childhood And Adolescence ◽  
What Works ◽  
Developmental Science ◽  
The Status ◽  
Historically Disadvantaged

AbstractDevelopmental perspectives on prejudice provide a fundamental and important key to the puzzle for determining how to address prejudice. Research with historically disadvantaged and advantaged groups in childhood and adolescence reveals the complexity of social cognitive and moral judgments about prejudice, discrimination, bias, and exclusion. Children are aware of status and hierarchies, and often reject the status quo. Intervention, to be effective, must happen early in development, before prejudice and stereotypes are deeply entrenched.

Introduction to Special Issue on Merit, Whiteness, and Privilege

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 3-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amardo Rodriguez ◽  
Mohan J. Dutta ◽  
Elizabeth F. Desnoyers-Colas
Keyword(s):  
Status Quo ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Human Diversity ◽  
The Status ◽  
Do So

Hegemons arise by smashing and terrorizing human diversity. They do so structurally, institutionally, and discursively—that is, through logics, rationales, and schemes. In this special issue, we grapple with the racism problem that pervades communication studies. In fact, the discipline has long had a racism problem, silenced by overarching structures that deploy the language of civility to erase conversations that call out this problem. This special issue, “Merit, Whiteness, and Privilege,” focuses on the racial, ideological, and epistemological logics, rationales, and schemes, such as falsely separating scholarly merit from diversity, that the status quo in communication studies employs to keep minority peoples marginalized. We contend that looking at the racism problem that pervades communication studies from a perspective of whiteness deepens our understanding of this problem in profound ways.

scholarly journals Planetary Boundaries and the Challenge to Governance in the Anthropocene

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 21 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Chandler
Keyword(s):  
Status Quo ◽  
Alternative Possibilities ◽  
Planetary Boundaries ◽  
Alternative Futures ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Status ◽  
Critical Approaches

This article considers the challenge to governance posed by new Anthropocene discourses of planetary boundaries. The first section introduces the problematic of the Anthropocene as a new geological epoch and also as symptomatic of the end of modernist ontological and epistemological assumptions of the divide between culture and nature. The Anthropocene is thus seen to fundamentally decentre the human as subject and the temporal linearity of Enlightenment progress. The second section analyses the implications of this closure for critical approaches to governance, which increasingly accept and reproduce these ontopolitical assumptions. The tasks of governance thus become transformed, no longer seeking to imagine alternative futures but rather drawing out alternative possibilities that already exist in the present. Governance becomes increasingly an act of affirmation rather than a discourse of change and transformation. The third section expands on this point to consider how contemporary governance approaches articulate the status quo in increasingly radical and enabling ways.

scholarly journals Political Masculinities, Crisis Tendencies, and Social Transition: Toward an Understanding of Change

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 431-443 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen Starck ◽  
Russell Luyt
Keyword(s):  
Political Party ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Peace Building ◽  
Social Transition ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Social Transitions ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Status ◽  
Rapid Industrialization ◽  
Definition Of

This introduction to the special issue on “Political Masculinities and Social Transition” rethinks the notion of “crisis in masculinity” and points to its weaknesses, such as cyclical patterns and chronicity. Rather than viewing key moments in history as points of rupture, we understand social change as encompassing ongoing transitions marked by a “fluid nature” (Montecinos 2017, 2). In line with this, the contributions examine how political masculinities are implicated within a wide range of social transitions, such as nation building after war, the founding of a new political party in response to an economic crisis, an “authoritarian relapse” in a democracy, attempts at changing society through terrorism, rapid industrialization as well as peace building in conflict areas. Building on Starck and Sauer’s definition of “political masculinities” we suggest applying the concept to instances in which power is explicitly either being (re)produced or challenged. We distinguish between political masculinities that are more readily identified as such (e.g., professional politicians) and less readily identified political masculinities (e.g., citizens), emphasizing how these interact with each other. We ask whether there is a discernible trajectory in the characteristics of political masculinities brought about by social transition that can be confirmed across cultures. The contributors’ findings indicate that these political masculinities can contribute to different kinds of change that either maintain the status quo, are progressive, retrogressive, or a mixture of these. Revolutionary transitions, it seems, often promote the adherence to traditional forms of political masculinity, whereas more reformatory transition leaves discursive spaces for argument.

Thinking with and beyond the informal–formal relation in urban thought

Urban Studies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 620-623 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin McFarlane
Keyword(s):  
Urban Studies ◽  
Critical Reflection ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Formal Relation ◽  
The City ◽  
The Way ◽  
Multiple Ways Of Knowing

This commentary to the special issue on ‘Transcending (in)formal urbanism’ reviews key threads common across the issue and opens up questions as to the work that the informal–formal dynamic does for urban studies. It points out the general agreement in that none of the papers rejects the utility of the category of informal and that the terms informal and formal still have value and utility. In doing so, the special issue articles offer three key contributions to demonstrate the ways in which the informal either composes or becomes a close partner to the formal, de-link informality from its more commonplace registers, and sketch how the formal and informal have always been blurred in practice. Centrally, this calls for a critical reflection on the structures of thought through which the informal–formal relation emerges. It advances an understanding of how informal and formal operate as a kind of ‘intellectual governmentality’ reiterating the same ways of seeing, carving up, and analysing the city, getting in the way of our ability to research urbanism differently. The appreciation of the informal–formal dynamic is situated as part of the challenge to build a more global urban studies that works with multiple ways of knowing and researching. To what extent does remaining within a structure of thought around the informal–formal relation enable or get in the way of that? Borrowing alternatives from movements to ‘provincialising’ that structure of thought, this commentary calls for a renewed interest in the potential, and limits, of the informal–formal inheritance in urban thought.

Inhabiting Cultures as a Way to Other Worlds

2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (04) ◽  
pp. 982-990
Author(s):  
GEORGE LIPSITZ
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
New World ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Frantz Fanon ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Expressive Culture ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The People ◽  
The Status ◽  
Political Form

In a powerful but frequently overlooked passage in The Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon describes expressive culture as a register of incipient social relations. He maintains that long before liberation struggles assume organized political form, perceptive observers will detect the emergence of unusual kinds of expression popping up to summon the people to view the status quo as both unreal and unacceptable.1 The essays in this special issue dedicated to the theme of Inhabiting Cultures display precisely this evidence of incipient critique and transformation. They demonstrate that tomorrow is today; that the reigning cultural forms authored and authorized by domination, exclusion and oppression have become exhausted and obsolete; and that the stirrings of a new world in the making are already here.

That Really Escalated Quickly—Online Learning Moves Into the Mainstream: Introduction to the Special Issue

2021 ◽  
pp. 016264342110060
Author(s):  
Michael J. Kennedy ◽  
Joseph R. Boyle
Keyword(s):  
Special Education ◽  
Online Learning ◽  
Research And Development ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Additional Research ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Online Teachers ◽  
The Status

Early in 2020, it became clear the COVID-19 pandemic was on its way toward disrupting the status quo in education in a substantial manner. As schools reacted by moving teaching and learning online, teachers, staff, parents, students, and other stakeholders were thrust into a world of learning previously discussed in this journal, but unknown to most in the field of special education. In this introduction to the special issue on online learning, we highlight key themes across the six articles, as well as lay out a vision for additional research and development that is required in our field.

scholarly journals Boundaries of Belonging: Theorizing Black African Migrant Experiences in Australia

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 38
Author(s):  
Kathomi Gatwiri ◽  
Leticia Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Status Quo ◽  
Moral Panics ◽  
Black African ◽  
Critical Theories ◽  
The Status ◽  
Black Bodies ◽  
African Migrant ◽  
Conditional Acceptance ◽  
Colonial Histories ◽  
White Hegemony

As nationalist ideologies intensify in Australia, so do the experiences of ‘everyday racism’ and exclusion for Black African immigrants. In this article, we utilize critical theories and engage with colonial histories to contextualize Afrodiasporic experiences in Australia, arguing that the conditional acceptance of Black bodies within Australian spaces is contingent upon the status quo of the white hegemony. The tropes and discourses that render the bodies of Black African migrants simultaneously invisible and hyper-visible indicate that immigration is not only a movement of bodies, but also a phenomenon solidly tied to global inequality, power, and the abjection of blackness. Drawing on critical race perspectives and theories of belonging, we highlight through use of literature how Black Africans in Australia are constructed as ‘perpetual strangers’. As moral panics and discourses of hyper-criminality are summoned, the bordering processes are also simultaneously co-opted to reinforce scrutiny and securitization, with significant implications for social cohesion, belonging and public health.

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