Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.13169/intecritdivestud.2.2.0037
O. K. Oyelade, A. O. Omobowale
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.13169/intecritdivestud.4.1.0092
S. Bergstresser
This paper considers the continuation of involuntary psychiatric hospitalization during the COVID-19 pandemic, with a focus on the United States of America. Situating psychiatric diagnosis and hospitalization within the broader context of decades of social and historical research, as well as emergent fields such as feminist philosophy of disability, critical diversity studies (CDS), and mad studies, I argue that a socially mediated process which is legitimated with appeals to “health” and “safety” should not be maintained during a pandemic of a readily communicable virus that is especially dangerous for individuals clustered in inpatient settings. A CDS approach allows the clear identification of “severe mental illness” as a marked category of social difference which leads to multiple forms of social oppression. In this paper, I show how involuntary psychiatric hospitalization is a social process through which marked individuals are dehumanized and confined. Furthermore, I consider why the maintenance of the status quo, even under pandemic conditions, demonstrates that involuntary treatment is primarily a political, rather than a medical, process. Finally, I outline why the politics of involuntary treatment should concern longstanding disciplines such as public health and bioethics, as well as emergent disciplines like CDS.
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.13169/intecritdivestud.3.2.0021
Sapsford
Globally, long-held perceptions about gender are coming under scrutiny. Marginalized groups the world over are using social media to create platforms for themselves, thereby allowing activism and social engagement to flourish in ways that were not possible before. Forming part of this global social dynamism regard-ing gender are the efforts that South African academic institutions and society at large are making towards an active engagement with the process of rethinking patriarchal, colonial, and heteronormative structures. Our academic discourses should reflect our lived experiences, and research which does not seek to engage with the society that it focuses on is at risk of becoming irrelevant. Our country’s own liter-ary canon has the potential to incite meaningful interrogations of the world we live in. Literature can offer a somewhat more compact framework for analysing complex issues that affect our realities. One such issue is the prevalence of violence in South Africa against women, femininities in general, as well as non-conventionally masculine bodies.
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.13169/intecritdivestud.2.2.0006
Tazanu
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.13169/intecritdivestud.3.2.0073
DeCook
Dr Julia R. DeCook (PhD) is an assistant professor of Advocacy and Social Change in the School of Communication at Loyola University Chicago. Her research examines the ways that online hate groups (particularly the Manosphere and the far right) navigate the constraints and affordances of digital infrastructure to understand how they manage to persist despite attempts to ban them. She also researches disinformation and conspiracy theories, platform governance and policies on hate speech, and social justice as it pertains to communication and information architecture.
Julia R. DeCook博士，芝加哥洛约拉大学传播学院倡导与社会变革助理教授。她的研究考察了网络仇恨团体(尤其是管理圈和极右翼)如何驾驭数字基础设施的限制和便利，以了解他们是如何在试图禁止他们的情况下坚持下去的。她还研究虚假信息和阴谋论，仇恨言论的平台治理和政策，以及与通信和信息架构相关的社会正义。
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.13169/intecritdivestud.4.1.0107
Flowers
Dr Johnathan Flowers is a Professorial Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at American University. His current research focuses on developing an affective theory of experience, identity, and personhood through bridging American Pragmatism, Japanese Aesthetics, and Phenomenology. Flowers’s work also explores how identities are lived affectively through technology and society, with a specific emphasis on race, gender, and disability. ABSTRACT This paper will resituate the presumed accessibility gains that have emerged in the wake of COVID-19 not as gains for disabled people, but rather as the products of a world that is prepared for some people and some bodies and not for other people and other bodies. I will show that a more productive approach to understanding the sudden possibility of impossible accommodations would be accomplished by drawing upon Sara Ahmed’s treatment of the inheritance of a world, inheritance that places some objects within one’s reach while denying one access to other objects. On this view, ableism, as an organizing force in the world, serves to determine what bodies can and cannot do by virtue of the way that it “prepares” the world for some bodies and not for other bodies. As I will argue, the previous impossibility of the current widespread accommodations in academia and society broadly was due to the inheritance of an ableist world. designed to be inherited by some people and their bodies and not by other people and their bodies. the and points of encounter between but and and space navigate our tends to offer fits to majority bodies and create misfits with forms of embodiment, such as people with
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.13169/intecritdivestud.5.1.0038
Bhekizulu Bethaphi Tshuma
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.13169/intecritdivestud.2.2.0022
Sithole, Falkof
Her research is concerned with racial and spatial in contemporary South African media culture, a particular Johannesburg. ABSTRACT This article explores representations of black South African family structure in the popular local reality television programme Date My Family. Focusing on visual and verbal discourses, it considers the programme’s cultural relevance, presentation of social circumstances and understandings of black South African identity in relation to family structure. Within the world of Date My Family, western/European conceptions of the nuclear family, so often valorised within reality TV, are renegotiated, and families exhibit the more commonly African extended form. At the same time gender relations within these families shift away from apparently traditional modes, with female-headed households and absent fathers common. The extended families that feature in Date My Family reflect the fluidity and variability of contemporary norms of gender and family among black South Africans.
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.13169/intecritdivestud.5.2.0033
Laura Schelenz
An interdisciplinary endeavour at the intersection of American Studies, Critical Diversity Studies, as well as Science and Technology Studies, this article scrutinises so-called diversity-aware technology. A diversity-aware system is a computer system whose designers a) account for differences between the system’s stakeholders, and/or b) draw on a normative notion of diversity like “inclusion” or “fairness” in its design. Diversity concepts embedded in technology carry contested values and have effects on the technology’s stakeholders. Therefore, it is vital to conduct a critical review of designs leveraging diversity concepts. In an exploration of three cases (diversity-aware datasets, machine learning fairness, and diversity-aware social media), the article sheds light on the shortcomings of mainstream or “individual-level” diversity-aware technology. Such technology leverages individual-level notions of diversity (demographics, personality, culture) to cater to users, thereby obscuring social inequalities among them. Inspired by Black feminism and critical race theory, the article offers a social-justice-oriented conceptualisation of diversity-aware technology. It develops a definition and criteria for critical or “structural-level” diversity-aware technology, where diversity concepts are linked to the visibility and redistribution of power. The article offers inspiration for researchers of technology and designers who work with diversity concepts.
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.13169/intecritdivestud.2.2.0097
Myeza
Ayanda Myeza is currently a Masters student at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. She did her Bachelor of Arts degree in 2018 and shortly thereafter obtained her Honours degree with distinction majoring in Media Studies. Her areas of interest are within the fields of gender and cultural studies, particularly looking at the intersect between power, gender and race identities, and the media within a South African context.
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