SPECTRA
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A peer-reviewed, graduate student-run journal of the ASPECT program
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A Tale of Two Systems: Learning to Cooperate and Compete in the International System
(Virginia Tech Publishing, 2017-09-08)I argue that states and leaders in competitive frameworks learn to behave with realist policies from their interactions with other states and leaders and, in the absence of these interactions, rely on other mechanisms. ... -
Two Times: Being and Becoming in Jane Bennett and Matthew Scherer
(Virginia Tech Publishing, 2017-09-08)In an era of exponentially increasing globalization, the experience of time has changed. Tasks that once took days or weeks, now take hours or seconds. This shrinking of time, or the speeding up of activities and processes ... -
Black Feminist Thought and why it Matters Today
(Virginia Tech Publishing, 2017-09-08)As tensions based on race, gender and class continue, I believe it is imperative for scholars reexamine Patricia Hill Collins’ Black Feminist Thought. Collins uses an intersectional approach to describe the unique oppression ... -
Revealing and Acting: Anxiety and Courage in Heidegger and Arendt
(Virginia Tech Publishing, 2017-09-08)In Martin Heidegger’s concept of care, he explains the process of becoming as an intersubjective relation that extends beyond mere spatial proximity of one being to an other. Through this common and basic experience of ... -
The 21st Century is Lacanian: Thoughts in Reading Élisabeth Roudinesco's Lacan: In Spite of Everything
(Virginia Tech Publishing, 2017-09-08)Roudinesco, Élisabeth. Lacan: In Spite of Everything. Verso Books, 2014. Paperback. £12.09 ISBN: 9-781-78168162-6 -
Symbiogenic Interaction: The State and University Development Rationalities
(Virginia Tech Publishing, 2016-12-03)I discuss the changes taking place in higher education in the United States. I argue that the changes in higher education are the result of a distinct development rationality termed academic capitalism by Sheila Slaughter ... -
Special Section on Celebrity Humanitarianism: Excerpted Introduction from Celebrity Humanitarianism and North—South Relations: Politics, Place and Power
(Virginia Tech Publishing, 2016-12-03)As I wrote this book introduction, North—South relations were pessimistically characterized by a tone of humanitarian crisis over how to respond to the worst outbreak of the Ebola virus in history... -
Building New Platforms for Civil Society: the Right to Image in Syrian Abounaddara Collective’s Cinema of Emergency
(Virginia Tech Publishing, 2016-12-03)In the past five years, the Syrian conflict became “the most socially mediated civil conflict in history” i, bringing into spotlight controversial debates that involve freedom of expression, freedom of information, and the ... -
Defining a Crisis: the Impact of Attention and Crisis Language on Diabetes in America
(Virginia Tech Publishing, 2016-12-03)Public health crises are shaped by the nature of public discourse surrounding them. Attention and portrayal of disease in the media and advocacy from interest groups play a significant role in defining, labeling, and framing ... -
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College Adjuncts as the 21st Century “One Dimensional Man”
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Responsibility to Redress: Global Harm, Obligation and the Afghan and Iraqi Refugee Crises
(Virginia Tech Publishing, 2016-12-03)The U.S. led invasions and occupations of Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq in 2003 created displacement crises that continue to this day. Yet despite the on-going consequences of these actions, and immediate needs of millions ... -
Journey: Artist's Statement
(Virginia Tech Publishing, 2016-12-03)The painting presented here is named "Journey" and it tells the story of an emotional journey... -
Special Section on Celebrity Humanitarianism: Celebrity Humanitarianism--The Ideology of Global Charity
(Virginia Tech Publishing, 2016-12-03)My book, Celebrity Humanitarianism: The Ideology of Global Charity, focuses on three contemporary types of celebrity humanitarianisms: the global charity work of entertainment stars such as Bono, Geldof, Jolie, and Madonna; ... -
Eco-body: A Biological Anthropology for Technological Evolution
(Virginia Tech Publishing, 2016-12-03)This body of work explores the transformation of the human body, both physically and mentally as increased reliance upon electronic technology forces conditions of artificial that replace the “natural”. This fundamental ... -
Mushunguli to Bantu Jareer: A Trajectory Analysis of the People Now Known as Somali Bantu
(Virginia Tech Publishing, 2016-12-03)This essay is a trajectory analysis of the people now known as Somali Bantu. Beginning with their settlement of the southern Jubba Valley and on through to their third country resettlement in the United States on P2 refugee ... -
Special Section on Celebrity Humanitarianism: Celebrity Humanitarianism and Its Critics
(Virginia Tech Publishing, 2016-12-03)Comments and reflections on Lisa Ann Richey (ed), Celebrity Humanitarianism and North-South Relations: Politics, Place and Power (London: Routledge, 2016), and Ilan Kapoor, Celebrity Humanitarianism: The Ideology of Global ... -
A Non-Liberal Account of Development
(Virginia Tech Publishing, 2016-12-03)For much the 20th century, development aid to the deeply impoverished nations of the Global South has taken the form of humanitarian assistance. Development projects have been motivated, first, by a humanist principle that ... -
Marcuse, Foucault, and The Purge: Film Review
(Virginia Tech Publishing, 2016-12-03)James DeMonaco’s 2013 horror film The Purge, which imagines a near-future America in which a fascist government declares all crime (including murder) legal for one night a year, received generally bad reviews. Most reviewers ... -
Black Cultural Heritage and the Subversion of the Stereotypical Images of the Black Woman in Toni Morrison's Sula
(Virginia Tech Publishing, 2016-04-14)One consequence of American slavery was the de-gendering of female slaves, divesting them of a traditional feminine gender identity that their White mistresses were encouraged to assume, thus rendering female slaves sexed ...
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