<<Slide 1 Opening>> <<Slide 2 Quote>> “No one prepared me for living life as a fat person.” I re-read that statement from Jacqueline Brady several times and reflected on how her mother prepared her for life as a black woman but didn’t warn her of the teasing, taunting, and judgment she would face as a … [Read more…]
Phenomenology is the study of structures of consciousness as experienced from the first-person point of view. In qualitative phenomenological research, lived experience refers to a representation of the experiences and choices of a given person, and the knowledge that they gain from these experiences and choices. Phenomenology as a methodological framework has evolved into a process that seeks reality in individuals’ narratives of their lived experiences … [Read more…]
Sonia, Kruks. “Simone De Beauvoir: Engaging Discrepant Materialisms.” New Materialisms : Ontology, Agency, and Politics, Duke University Press, 2010, pp. 258–280. The larger theoretical trend that Kruks draws our attention to is Simone de Beauvoir working in and across both phenomenology and a Marxist-inflected culturally oriented structuralist materialism. While Beauvoir is often read as phenomenology, she … [Read more…]