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Rockefeller
Resident Fellows in the Humanities at IRW
Gender-Race-Ethnicity:
Rearticulating the Local and the Global
The overall intellectual
goal of the IRW's 1998-2001 Rockefeller project, "Gender-Race-Ethnicity:
Rearticulating the Local and the Global" was to bring feminist
articulations of intersectionality into conversation with postmodern
understandings of the local and the global, broadening what had
hitherto been very localized, mostly U.S.-based discussions of
the intersectionality of gender, race, and ethnicity to include
transnational and global contexts.
Bishnupriya
Ghosh
Assistant Professor
of English, University of California-Davis
In Her Own
Image: Hindu, Muslim, Mormon Women and the Religious Right, 1990-1999
Professor Ghosh's project
examined global implications and links between religious right-wing
organizing around issues of women's bodies, sexuality, and work.
Using thee geopolitical contexts, she discussed gender, sexuality,
and feminist negotiations as they respond to and are challenged
by right-wing religious polities and politics.
Ara
Wilson
Associate Professor
of Women's Studies, The Ohio State University
Intimate
Economies: Markets, Sex, and Gender in Bangkok
Using interdisciplinary methods, this
project explored how national, ethnic, gender and sexual identities
are defined in and through six market areas including Bangkok's
Chinatown, a tourist prostitution sector, and the marketing of
Avon and Amway projects. These market areas are complex
social sites formed at the intersection of local, national, and
global realms and therefore provide evidence of how the interplay
of capitalist and traditional economies helps to defined "Thai"
and gender identities.
Professor Wilson's book,
Intimate Economies: A Feminist Ethnography of Capitalism in
Bangkok, is under contract to the University of California
Press.
Ana
Mariella Bacigalupo
Assistant Professor
of Anthropology, University at Buffalo, The State University of
New York
Shamans
of the Cinnamon Tree, Priestesses of the Moon: Gender and Healing
Among the Chilean Mapuche
Professor Bacigalupo
considers the role of gender in the ethnic identity, lives and
ritual practices of Mapuche shamans, or machi, as they
interact with local, Chilean national, and global processes.
Machi are women or feminized, cross-dressing men who
assume cross-gender and co-gender identities for the purpose of
healing. She argues that, since machi have been
known in their contemporary sense since the sixteenth century,
state bureaucracies and institutionalized religions. while controlling
how these shamans are perceived and represented in national discourse,
do not always play a decisive role in the gendering of shamanism.
The book based on her
Rockefeller project, Shamans of the Winter's Bark Tree: Gender,
Power, and Healing Among the Chilean Mapuche, is under contract
with the University of Texas Press.
Robin Adele Greeley
Assistant Professor
of Art History, University of Connecticut, Storrs
The Gendering
of Mexican Cultural Nationalism 1920-1946-1970
Taking on a crucial
but largely unexplored issue in the history of Latin America--the
gendered, racialized construction of subjectivity in post-Revolution
Mexico--Professor Greeley's project tracks the ways in which visual
representations of the Mexican nation became bound up in debates
on gender and race. Arguing that issues of masculinity and
femininity generated much of the framework through which more
public debates on politics, nation, class and race were formulated,
she discusses how the Mexican Muralists and Frida Kahlo variously
represented Mexican nationalism, race and gender.
Kiran
Asher
Assistant Professor
of International Development, Clark College
The Pacific
Lowlands of Colombia: Ethnic Territory, Economic Frontier or Biodiversity
Hotspot?
In a threefold project,
Professor Asher maps how national and multinational discourses
of biodiversity conservation and sustainable development intersect
with discourses and struggles for Afro-Colombian biodiversity
conservation and economic development. Secondly, she considers
how national plans for the Pacific region are at odds with Afro-Colombian
ethnic and territorial claims. Thirdly, she examines the
gendered nature of these interrelated discourses as they invoke
local well-being to procure local support, particularly that of
black women, for their interventions.
Negar
Mottahedeh
Assistant Professor
of Literature, Duke University
Doubled
Visions/Forked Tongues: The Reading of Dialects and Diversity
in Cinematic Language
Professor Mottahedeh's
project addresses the problematic nexus of contemporary Iranian
national filmic representations of women and ethnic others and
the imprint of Shi'ism on them. The resulting book will
discuss the impact of religious laws on the technology and techniques
of the Iranian feature film industry--a medium aggressively employed
in shaping and disseminating the contemporary image of the Islamic
Republic through a fabricated representation of Iranian women
and ethnic minorities in a global context.
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