Natalie Khazaal
Biographic Data
| ID | 1004757 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Natalie Khazaal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Natalie |
| FAMILY NAME | Khazaal |
| SIGNATURE | KHAZAAL N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7430-9794 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Media Analysis of Racism and Speciesism (Mars) test finds Oscars so AnthropoScenic in contemporary animated films
Introduction Animation transfers human races into animals, serving as a prime site for speciesism and racism. Methods Testing this observation on recent examples, our quantitative/qualitative study delves into a nine-year (2016-2024) span of Oscar-nominated animated feature and short films. We theorize how to make incisive, quantitative/qualitative, balanced trans-species intersectionality the foundation of critical research on racism and species…
Political Bias against Atheists: Talk Shows Targeting Arabic-Speaking Audiences
Atheism has stirred up controversy in the Arabic-speaking world since the 2011 uprisings, when atheists there began appearing in public. What role does Arabic mass media play in the modern politics of minorities such as atheists, given the heated debates that it hosts on atheism? This question is important because perceptions of media frames influence the behavior of politicians and the electorate-and, as a result, laws that affect minority group…
Like an Animal: Critical Animal Studies Approaches to Borders, Displacement, and Othering
The contributors of Like an Animal challenge most fundamental concepts in the fields of racism, dehumanization, borders, displacement, and refugees that rest on the assumption of humanism. They show how we can bend the arc of the moral universe toward justice at the border. The goal of this interdisciplinary collection is twofold. First, to invite border/migration studies to consider a broader social justice perspective that includes nonhuman ani…
Pretty Liar: Television, Language, and Gender in Wartime Lebanon
"Pretty Liar" explores the rise of language and gender politics on Lebanese television to tell the untold story of the co-evolution of Lebanese television and its audiences and how the civil war of 1975-1991 affected that co-evolution. The shift in public interest in television has been widely acknowledged and interpreted within an institutional context as a victory of the neo-liberal entrepreneurship of a new, agile brand over the government ine…
The cultural politics of religious defiance in Islam: How pseudonyms and media can destigmatize
Religious defiance that results in publicly leaving religion (apostasy) is an enormous taboo in Arab communities despite the recent surge in apostates’ numbers. Drawing from research on stigma, apostasy, authorship, and critical studies, I explore how a transnational Arab community, which emerges in the crossfire among democratizing politics of self-expression, regulation of public identity by digital technologies, and vast opposition networks, u…
Lobbying Against Compassion: Speciesist Discourse in the Vivisection Industrial Complex
The entire span of animal research from captivity to death causes immense suffering for hundreds of millions of nonhuman animals every year. Their suffering also disturbs the public, which is increasingly aware-due to animal advocacy, scientists' testaments, and growing direct evidence-that animals' use in biomedical research is more a matter of tradition than any proven superiority of vivisection over other modes of experimentation. Yet in respo…
An Angry Cow is Not a Good Eating Experience”: How US and Spanish media are shifting from crude to camouflaged speciesism in concealing nonhuman perspectives
Recent developments in the ideology of speciesism (meaning bias against members of other animal species) within the media deserve analysis. Such discussion is important because speciesism is a major ethical concern. Nonhuman animals suffer massive harm within the industrial farming complex, confined throughout their lives and a high proportion killed while still infants or juveniles. The joint efforts of material institutions, cultural narratives…
An Angry Cow is Not a Good Eating Experience”: How US and Spanish media are shifting from crude to camouflaged speciesism in concealing nonhuman perspectives
Recent developments in the ideology of speciesism (meaning bias against members of other animal species) within the media deserve analysis. Such discussion is important because speciesism is a major ethical concern. Nonhuman animals suffer massive harm within the industrial farming complex, confined throughout their lives and a high proportion killed while still infants or juveniles. The joint efforts of material institutions, cultural narratives…
Like an Animal: Critical Animal Studies Approaches to Borders, Displacement, and Othering
The contributors of Like an Animal challenge most fundamental concepts in the fields of racism, dehumanization, borders, displacement, and refugees that rest on the assumption of humanism. They show how we can bend the arc of the moral universe toward justice at the border. The goal of this interdisciplinary collection is twofold. First, to invite border/migration studies to consider a broader social justice perspective that includes nonhuman ani…
The cultural politics of religious defiance in Islam: How pseudonyms and media can destigmatize
Religious defiance that results in publicly leaving religion (apostasy) is an enormous taboo in Arab communities despite the recent surge in apostates’ numbers. Drawing from research on stigma, apostasy, authorship, and critical studies, I explore how a transnational Arab community, which emerges in the crossfire among democratizing politics of self-expression, regulation of public identity by digital technologies, and vast opposition networks, u…
Lobbying Against Compassion: Speciesist Discourse in the Vivisection Industrial Complex
The entire span of animal research from captivity to death causes immense suffering for hundreds of millions of nonhuman animals every year. Their suffering also disturbs the public, which is increasingly aware-due to animal advocacy, scientists' testaments, and growing direct evidence-that animals' use in biomedical research is more a matter of tradition than any proven superiority of vivisection over other modes of experimentation. Yet in respo…
An Angry Cow is Not a Good Eating Experience”: How US and Spanish media are shifting from crude to camouflaged speciesism in concealing nonhuman perspectives
Recent developments in the ideology of speciesism (meaning bias against members of other animal species) within the media deserve analysis. Such discussion is important because speciesism is a major ethical concern. Nonhuman animals suffer massive harm within the industrial farming complex, confined throughout their lives and a high proportion killed while still infants or juveniles. The joint efforts of material institutions, cultural narratives…
Lobbying Against Compassion: Speciesist Discourse in the Vivisection Industrial Complex
The entire span of animal research from captivity to death causes immense suffering for hundreds of millions of nonhuman animals every year. Their suffering also disturbs the public, which is increasingly aware-due to animal advocacy, scientists' testaments, and growing direct evidence-that animals' use in biomedical research is more a matter of tradition than any proven superiority of vivisection over other modes of experimentation. Yet in respo…
The cultural politics of religious defiance in Islam: How pseudonyms and media can destigmatize
Religious defiance that results in publicly leaving religion (apostasy) is an enormous taboo in Arab communities despite the recent surge in apostates’ numbers. Drawing from research on stigma, apostasy, authorship, and critical studies, I explore how a transnational Arab community, which emerges in the crossfire among democratizing politics of self-expression, regulation of public identity by digital technologies, and vast opposition networks, u…
Pretty Liar: Television, Language, and Gender in Wartime Lebanon
"Pretty Liar" explores the rise of language and gender politics on Lebanese television to tell the untold story of the co-evolution of Lebanese television and its audiences and how the civil war of 1975-1991 affected that co-evolution. The shift in public interest in television has been widely acknowledged and interpreted within an institutional context as a victory of the neo-liberal entrepreneurship of a new, agile brand over the government ine…
Like an Animal: Critical Animal Studies Approaches to Borders, Displacement, and Othering
The contributors of Like an Animal challenge most fundamental concepts in the fields of racism, dehumanization, borders, displacement, and refugees that rest on the assumption of humanism. They show how we can bend the arc of the moral universe toward justice at the border. The goal of this interdisciplinary collection is twofold. First, to invite border/migration studies to consider a broader social justice perspective that includes nonhuman ani…
Political Bias against Atheists: Talk Shows Targeting Arabic-Speaking Audiences
Atheism has stirred up controversy in the Arabic-speaking world since the 2011 uprisings, when atheists there began appearing in public. What role does Arabic mass media play in the modern politics of minorities such as atheists, given the heated debates that it hosts on atheism? This question is important because perceptions of media frames influence the behavior of politicians and the electorate-and, as a result, laws that affect minority group…
Media Analysis of Racism and Speciesism (Mars) test finds Oscars so AnthropoScenic in contemporary animated films
Introduction Animation transfers human races into animals, serving as a prime site for speciesism and racism. Methods Testing this observation on recent examples, our quantitative/qualitative study delves into a nine-year (2016-2024) span of Oscar-nominated animated feature and short films. We theorize how to make incisive, quantitative/qualitative, balanced trans-species intersectionality the foundation of critical research on racism and species…
Political science (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Environmental ethics (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Psychology (3 works)