Anima Adjepong
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 147804 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Anima Adjepong |
| NOMBRES | Anima |
| APELLIDO | Adjepong |
| FIRMA | ADJEPONG A |
| AFILIACIONES | Simmons University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5796-1046 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 12 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 51 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 11 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2017 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Settler Colonialism–Genocide–Athleticide
In this paper, our scholarly collective traces how athleticide—defined here as the obliteration of sport, sporting cultures, and athletics through the killing, arrest, detention, or disabling of athletes, coaches, staff, officials, and administrators and the destruction of athletic infrastructure and history—has been part of the US–NATO-funded Israeli state’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza since October 2023. Although much of the literature foc…
Coloniality and the Fight for Queer Freedom in Ghana, Our Sister Killjoy as Guide
In this brief essay, I return to Ama Ata Aidoo’s (1977) Our Sister Killjoy as an opportunity to reflect on how coloniality structures anti-LGBTQ legislation, cultural opposition, and advocacy for queer rights in Ghana. Reflections from Sissie, the novel’s protagonist, offers a guide for queer organizers, activists, community groups, and allies to divest from Western models of freedom and rights attainment
Queer African Feminist Orientations for a Trans Sports Studies
This commentary makes a case for developing trans sports studies out of queer African feminism. Queer African feminism is an epistemological orientation that affirms a flexible gender system, despite contemporary colonial gender ideologies, which insist on biological dimorphism. Queer African feminism offers to sports studies an analytical framework that attends to how colonialism, patriarchy, religion, and capitalism structure gender and sexual …
Playing for oman Ghana
Feminist scholars of nationalisms acknowledge the gendered character of national identity. Due to their association with heterosexual masculinity, national sports teams are one avenue through which gendered nationalisms manifest. Football (soccer) represents the peak of sporting masculinity and national identity around the world. Following the inaugural Women’s World Cup in 1991, women’s football continues to gain global popularity, raising quest…
Erotic Ethnography
Qualitative methods training in sociology often warns of the dangers of sex in fieldwork and discounts the power of the erotic for knowledge production. This essay makes a case for a deeper engagement with the erotic in qualitative research. The erotic is an ineffable energy that connects us to one another on a sensual, spiritual, and political plane. Despite its scope, the erotic is typically reduced to sexual intimacy. This limitation maintains…
Afropolitan Projects
Beyond simplistic binaries of “the dark continent” or “Africa Rising,” Africans at home and abroad articulate their identities through their quotidian practices and cultural politics. Amongst the privileged classes, these articulations can be characterized as Afropolitan projects--cultural, political, and aesthetic expressions of global belonging rooted in African ideals. This ethnographic study examines the Afropolitan projects of Ghanaians livi…
Voetsek! Get[ting] lost
In this article, I revisit the women's 800-meter track final during the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games in order to revise normative constructions of 'the black athlete,' black women's masculinities, and African women's place in the 'sporting black diaspora.' Specifically, I consider the discussions about masculinity and black athleticism that followed the South African track athlete, Caster Semenya, after she won the silver medal in August 201…
Beyond Expectations
Invading ethnography
This article proposes invading ethnography as reflexive practice that disrupts normative representations of gender and sexuality. Writing from the perspective of the queer of color, this reflexive practice plays on the idea of the ethnographic researcher as an alien entity that invades a social setting, thereby calling attention to ethnography's colonial history. I model this practice by sharing an ethnographic narrative from my research with a G…
Afropolitan projects
This article explores how Africans born or raised in the United States employ ethnicity to understand their racial and cultural identities. I argue that African immigrants engage positive narratives about Africa along with their experiences of anti-black racism to articulate identities as "Africans of the world". I call this articulation of identity Afropolitan projects. The Afropolitan as an ethnicity is not meant to shield Africans from anti-bl…
‘We’re, like, a cute rugby team’
This article considers how race and sexuality mutually inform the ways women experience their sense of belonging in sport. An examination of how white and heterosexual privilege structure belonging for 15 women rugby players in the sport finds that the ways in which some players assert their belonging runs the risk of reifying oppressive norms associated with heterosexual femininity and white privilege. This analysis provides a nuanced understand…
Afropolitan projects
This article explores how Africans born or raised in the United States employ ethnicity to understand their racial and cultural identities. I argue that African immigrants engage positive narratives about Africa along with their experiences of anti-black racism to articulate identities as "Africans of the world". I call this articulation of identity Afropolitan projects. The Afropolitan as an ethnicity is not meant to shield Africans from anti-bl…
Invading ethnography
This article proposes invading ethnography as reflexive practice that disrupts normative representations of gender and sexuality. Writing from the perspective of the queer of color, this reflexive practice plays on the idea of the ethnographic researcher as an alien entity that invades a social setting, thereby calling attention to ethnography's colonial history. I model this practice by sharing an ethnographic narrative from my research with a G…
Queer African Feminist Orientations for a Trans Sports Studies
This commentary makes a case for developing trans sports studies out of queer African feminism. Queer African feminism is an epistemological orientation that affirms a flexible gender system, despite contemporary colonial gender ideologies, which insist on biological dimorphism. Queer African feminism offers to sports studies an analytical framework that attends to how colonialism, patriarchy, religion, and capitalism structure gender and sexual …
Erotic Ethnography
Qualitative methods training in sociology often warns of the dangers of sex in fieldwork and discounts the power of the erotic for knowledge production. This essay makes a case for a deeper engagement with the erotic in qualitative research. The erotic is an ineffable energy that connects us to one another on a sensual, spiritual, and political plane. Despite its scope, the erotic is typically reduced to sexual intimacy. This limitation maintains…
Settler Colonialism–Genocide–Athleticide
In this paper, our scholarly collective traces how athleticide—defined here as the obliteration of sport, sporting cultures, and athletics through the killing, arrest, detention, or disabling of athletes, coaches, staff, officials, and administrators and the destruction of athletic infrastructure and history—has been part of the US–NATO-funded Israeli state’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza since October 2023. Although much of the literature foc…
Voetsek! Get[ting] lost
In this article, I revisit the women's 800-meter track final during the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games in order to revise normative constructions of 'the black athlete,' black women's masculinities, and African women's place in the 'sporting black diaspora.' Specifically, I consider the discussions about masculinity and black athleticism that followed the South African track athlete, Caster Semenya, after she won the silver medal in August 201…
‘We’re, like, a cute rugby team’
This article considers how race and sexuality mutually inform the ways women experience their sense of belonging in sport. An examination of how white and heterosexual privilege structure belonging for 15 women rugby players in the sport finds that the ways in which some players assert their belonging runs the risk of reifying oppressive norms associated with heterosexual femininity and white privilege. This analysis provides a nuanced understand…
Afropolitan projects
This article explores how Africans born or raised in the United States employ ethnicity to understand their racial and cultural identities. I argue that African immigrants engage positive narratives about Africa along with their experiences of anti-black racism to articulate identities as "Africans of the world". I call this articulation of identity Afropolitan projects. The Afropolitan as an ethnicity is not meant to shield Africans from anti-bl…
Beyond Expectations
Invading ethnography
This article proposes invading ethnography as reflexive practice that disrupts normative representations of gender and sexuality. Writing from the perspective of the queer of color, this reflexive practice plays on the idea of the ethnographic researcher as an alien entity that invades a social setting, thereby calling attention to ethnography's colonial history. I model this practice by sharing an ethnographic narrative from my research with a G…
Voetsek! Get[ting] lost
In this article, I revisit the women's 800-meter track final during the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games in order to revise normative constructions of 'the black athlete,' black women's masculinities, and African women's place in the 'sporting black diaspora.' Specifically, I consider the discussions about masculinity and black athleticism that followed the South African track athlete, Caster Semenya, after she won the silver medal in August 201…
Afropolitan Projects
Beyond simplistic binaries of “the dark continent” or “Africa Rising,” Africans at home and abroad articulate their identities through their quotidian practices and cultural politics. Amongst the privileged classes, these articulations can be characterized as Afropolitan projects--cultural, political, and aesthetic expressions of global belonging rooted in African ideals. This ethnographic study examines the Afropolitan projects of Ghanaians livi…
Playing for oman Ghana
Feminist scholars of nationalisms acknowledge the gendered character of national identity. Due to their association with heterosexual masculinity, national sports teams are one avenue through which gendered nationalisms manifest. Football (soccer) represents the peak of sporting masculinity and national identity around the world. Following the inaugural Women’s World Cup in 1991, women’s football continues to gain global popularity, raising quest…
Erotic Ethnography
Qualitative methods training in sociology often warns of the dangers of sex in fieldwork and discounts the power of the erotic for knowledge production. This essay makes a case for a deeper engagement with the erotic in qualitative research. The erotic is an ineffable energy that connects us to one another on a sensual, spiritual, and political plane. Despite its scope, the erotic is typically reduced to sexual intimacy. This limitation maintains…
Queer African Feminist Orientations for a Trans Sports Studies
This commentary makes a case for developing trans sports studies out of queer African feminism. Queer African feminism is an epistemological orientation that affirms a flexible gender system, despite contemporary colonial gender ideologies, which insist on biological dimorphism. Queer African feminism offers to sports studies an analytical framework that attends to how colonialism, patriarchy, religion, and capitalism structure gender and sexual …
Coloniality and the Fight for Queer Freedom in Ghana, Our Sister Killjoy as Guide
In this brief essay, I return to Ama Ata Aidoo’s (1977) Our Sister Killjoy as an opportunity to reflect on how coloniality structures anti-LGBTQ legislation, cultural opposition, and advocacy for queer rights in Ghana. Reflections from Sissie, the novel’s protagonist, offers a guide for queer organizers, activists, community groups, and allies to divest from Western models of freedom and rights attainment
Settler Colonialism–Genocide–Athleticide
In this paper, our scholarly collective traces how athleticide—defined here as the obliteration of sport, sporting cultures, and athletics through the killing, arrest, detention, or disabling of athletes, coaches, staff, officials, and administrators and the destruction of athletic infrastructure and history—has been part of the US–NATO-funded Israeli state’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza since October 2023. Although much of the literature foc…
Gender Studies (9 obras) · Sociology (9 obras) · Political science (7 obras) · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (6 obras) · Gender Studies (5 obras) · Queer (5 obras) · Sports, Gender, and Society (5 obras) · Law (4 obras) · Politics (4 obras) · Aesthetics (3 obras)