{"title":"Akua Ananse Is a “She”","authors":"Joëlle M. Cruz","doi":"10.1525/dcqr.2021.10.4.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/dcqr.2021.10.4.7","url":null,"abstract":"In this essay, I channel Kweku Ananse, the trickster in West African tales. Extending upon this figure, I re-gender Kweku Ananse as Akua Ananse and offer “spider stories” to make sense of my transnational identities as a West African and French woman, who is a professor in US academe. I offer a conversation between Akua Ananse, my French-speaking grandmother figure Marie, and my professional self. My spider stories subvert usual categories of knowledge and function as a form of episteme. They borrow from the genre of Indigenous folktales, which have historically been dismissed as appropriate knowledge under Western-centered worldviews.","PeriodicalId":36478,"journal":{"name":"Departures in Critical Qualitative Research","volume":"112 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76797863","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"My Self-Decolonizing Story as a Colonize(d)(r) Canarian Scholar/Worm","authors":"Carmen G. Hernández-Ojeda","doi":"10.1525/dcqr.2021.10.4.30","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/dcqr.2021.10.4.30","url":null,"abstract":"As a researcher in the United States, I became a diasporic colonize(d)(r) scholar—a colonized colonizer subject. In order to understand my camino and self-decolonize, I undertake an autoethnographic process to scrutinize my identity within the history of oppression, connivance, and resistance of Canary Islanders. I unpack my gaze as a colonized subject from the Canary Islands who, like her ancestors, participates in colonizing land and people elsewhere. This essay offers an embodied reflection that enriches decolonizing studies and contributes to decolonizing academia.","PeriodicalId":36478,"journal":{"name":"Departures in Critical Qualitative Research","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74207395","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Scaling the Necropolitical Anthropocene","authors":"Tyler S. Rife","doi":"10.1525/dcqr.2020.9.4.77","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/dcqr.2020.9.4.77","url":null,"abstract":"In this essay, I demonstrate how the ecological concept of “scaling” carries potential to animate critical logics in the Anthropocene. I argue that scaling can expose unexpected linkages across space and time that help to denaturalize particular ecological formations as entangled, rather than separate. I demonstrate the critical ecological potential of scaling by performing it rhizomatically, weaving across scales of space and time while juxtaposing theoretical concepts with my experiences of life as a resident in the urban desert landscape of Phoenix, AZ. This ecology ultimately reveals how climate change acts as a complex necropolitic of the Anthropocene.","PeriodicalId":36478,"journal":{"name":"Departures in Critical Qualitative Research","volume":"2 1","pages":"77-91"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82375172","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review: Put Your Hands Together: A Review of Javon Johnson’s Killing Poetry: Blackness and the Making of Slam and Spoken Word Communities","authors":"K. Hartsock","doi":"10.1525/dcqr.2020.9.4.114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/dcqr.2020.9.4.114","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36478,"journal":{"name":"Departures in Critical Qualitative Research","volume":"254 1","pages":"114-117"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76786422","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Notes from the Polar Night","authors":"Chris Ingraham","doi":"10.1525/dcqr.2020.9.4.35","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/dcqr.2020.9.4.35","url":null,"abstract":"Drawing from in situ fieldwork in Longyearbyen, Svalbard, the northernmost settlement on Earth, these notes bring out the affective, ambient, and atmospheric power of extended darkness during the polar night, when the sun does not appear above the horizon for several months at a time. Each entry is composed of 113 words to reflect the number of days without light in Longyearbyen during the winter of my visit. Through a mixture of ethnographic observations, researched academic scholarship, and some endeavors of poetic worldmaking, these notes attempt to evoke the ineffable force of global warming by performing the sort of acutely observed and felt attentiveness to planetary being that is needed for our time.","PeriodicalId":36478,"journal":{"name":"Departures in Critical Qualitative Research","volume":"13 1","pages":"35-43"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83675893","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review: Objects, Status, and Identity: A Review of Péter Berta’s Materializing Difference: Consumer Culture, Politics, and Ethnicity among Romanian Roma","authors":"Adina Schneeweis","doi":"10.1525/dcqr.2020.9.4.121","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/dcqr.2020.9.4.121","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36478,"journal":{"name":"Departures in Critical Qualitative Research","volume":"9 1","pages":"121-124"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89138241","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Opening Moves","authors":"Joshua T. Barnett","doi":"10.1525/dcqr.2020.9.4.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/dcqr.2020.9.4.1","url":null,"abstract":"Oscillating between naturalistic observations and conceptual forays, this essay simultaneously performs and introduces the notion of “composing climate change” at the heart of this special issue. Spanning personal narrative, poetry, dialogue, theoretical meditation, thick description, photographic essay, and other modes of scholarly writing, the contributors to this issue experiment with genre, style, and form as they seek to describe, evoke, grasp, disclose, and otherwise imagine what it means and—crucially—what it feels like to be an earthling in a time of tremendous ecological change and profound planetary transformation.","PeriodicalId":36478,"journal":{"name":"Departures in Critical Qualitative Research","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79713716","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review: Powerful Stigmas and Opening Up Possibilities for Reclaiming Food Sovereignty: A Review of Rebecca de Souza’s Feeding the Other: Whiteness, Privilege, and Neoliberal Stigma in Food Pantries","authors":"Megan K Schraedley","doi":"10.1525/dcqr.2020.9.4.118","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/dcqr.2020.9.4.118","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36478,"journal":{"name":"Departures in Critical Qualitative Research","volume":"59 1","pages":"118-120"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74379519","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Sympoiesis of Clouds","authors":"Christopher Collins","doi":"10.1525/dcqr.2020.9.4.44","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/dcqr.2020.9.4.44","url":null,"abstract":"In this essay, I use performative writing as a framework to explore the problem of climate change. Specifically, the shifting and accumulative nature of clouds serves as a trope for imaginatively restaging environmental issues. In the essay, I view the environment as a symbolic and material construction that is coproduced in connection to the personal, discursive, and collective unconscious. Through narrative, poetry, and performance, I argue for the concept of environmental performativity as a metonym for exploring the interdependent relationship among the individual, environment, and climate change.","PeriodicalId":36478,"journal":{"name":"Departures in Critical Qualitative Research","volume":"7 3","pages":"44-59"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72631536","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}