Jennifer Hasty
Biographic Data
| ID | 102890 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer Hasty |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer |
| FAMILY NAME | Hasty |
| SIGNATURE | HASTY J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pacific Lutheran University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1374-0932 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 139 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Pan-African Nation
Existential Anthropology
Existential Anthropology
Existential Anthropology: Events, Exigencies, and Effects. Michael Jackson. New York: Berghan Books, 2005. 216 pp
Performing power, composing culture
This article examines how African political and discursive forms shape the seemingly universal practices of journalism at a state newspaper in Ghana. The daily work routine, relationships with sources, criteria of newsworthiness, narrative techniques - all are locally determined by Ghanaian standards of discourse and sociality. Local aesthetics of representation and discursive propriety establish a distinctive set of conventions for political spe…
The Press and Political Culture in Ghana
How the news gets made in Ghana.
The Pleasures of Corruption
This article juxtaposes popular understandings of corruption in public discourse with official practices of anticorruption in the institutions of the state in Ghana. Although global disciplinary campaigns against corruption target selfishness and greed, local practices of anticorruption intersect with affectively engaged social desires. These social desires are profoundly shaped by local notions of articulation, pressure, and flow, and they are m…
Sympathetic Magic/Contagious Corruption
Jennifer Hasty is a Member in the School of Social Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, participating in the annual focus seminar on corruption. She is currently on a one-year leave from her position as an assistant professor of anthropology at Pacific Lutheran University. Her book manuscript "Big Language and Brown Envelopes: The Press and Political Culture in Ghana" is under review by Indiana University Press
Forget the Past or Go Back to the Slave Trade!”
In the last two decades, global institutions have exerted increasing force on the nation-states of Africa, incorporating the continent into the processes of globalization while maintaining its marginal economic and political position within the global order.[2][1] How is this being accomplished
When Victims Become Killers
Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History - Volume 3, Number 1, Spring 2002
When Victims Become Killers
Reviewed by: When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism and the Genocide in Rwanda Jennifer Hasty Mahmood Mamdani, When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001) Ugandan political scientist Mahmood Mamdani is perhaps best known for his theoretical framing of the consequences of colonial administrative techniques in Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and t…
Rites of Passage, Routes of Redemption
This paper examines how the Ghanaian government has appropriated, crafted, and "repatriated" a Caribbean holiday, "Emancipation Day," for celebration as a tourist holiday. Commemorating the abolition of slavery in the British colonies, Emancipation Day has been transformed by the Ghana Ministry of Tourism into a Pan-African event to attract summer tourists from the African diaspora, involving them in performances of culture and history. Exploring…
Reinventing a Physiology of Collective Liberation”
(1994). “Reinventing a Physiology of Collective Liberation”: Going “Beyond Marx” in the Marxism(s) of Negri, Guattari, and Deleuze. Rethinking Marxism: Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 9-27
The Pleasures of Corruption
This article juxtaposes popular understandings of corruption in public discourse with official practices of anticorruption in the institutions of the state in Ghana. Although global disciplinary campaigns against corruption target selfishness and greed, local practices of anticorruption intersect with affectively engaged social desires. These social desires are profoundly shaped by local notions of articulation, pressure, and flow, and they are m…
Rites of Passage, Routes of Redemption
This paper examines how the Ghanaian government has appropriated, crafted, and "repatriated" a Caribbean holiday, "Emancipation Day," for celebration as a tourist holiday. Commemorating the abolition of slavery in the British colonies, Emancipation Day has been transformed by the Ghana Ministry of Tourism into a Pan-African event to attract summer tourists from the African diaspora, involving them in performances of culture and history. Exploring…
Performing power, composing culture
This article examines how African political and discursive forms shape the seemingly universal practices of journalism at a state newspaper in Ghana. The daily work routine, relationships with sources, criteria of newsworthiness, narrative techniques - all are locally determined by Ghanaian standards of discourse and sociality. Local aesthetics of representation and discursive propriety establish a distinctive set of conventions for political spe…
Sympathetic Magic/Contagious Corruption
Jennifer Hasty is a Member in the School of Social Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, participating in the annual focus seminar on corruption. She is currently on a one-year leave from her position as an assistant professor of anthropology at Pacific Lutheran University. Her book manuscript "Big Language and Brown Envelopes: The Press and Political Culture in Ghana" is under review by Indiana University Press
Forget the Past or Go Back to the Slave Trade!”
In the last two decades, global institutions have exerted increasing force on the nation-states of Africa, incorporating the continent into the processes of globalization while maintaining its marginal economic and political position within the global order.[2][1] How is this being accomplished
When Victims Become Killers
Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History - Volume 3, Number 1, Spring 2002
Reinventing a Physiology of Collective Liberation”
(1994). “Reinventing a Physiology of Collective Liberation”: Going “Beyond Marx” in the Marxism(s) of Negri, Guattari, and Deleuze. Rethinking Marxism: Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 9-27
Reinventing a Physiology of Collective Liberation”
(1994). “Reinventing a Physiology of Collective Liberation”: Going “Beyond Marx” in the Marxism(s) of Negri, Guattari, and Deleuze. Rethinking Marxism: Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 9-27
When Victims Become Killers
Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History - Volume 3, Number 1, Spring 2002
When Victims Become Killers
Reviewed by: When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism and the Genocide in Rwanda Jennifer Hasty Mahmood Mamdani, When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001) Ugandan political scientist Mahmood Mamdani is perhaps best known for his theoretical framing of the consequences of colonial administrative techniques in Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and t…
Rites of Passage, Routes of Redemption
This paper examines how the Ghanaian government has appropriated, crafted, and "repatriated" a Caribbean holiday, "Emancipation Day," for celebration as a tourist holiday. Commemorating the abolition of slavery in the British colonies, Emancipation Day has been transformed by the Ghana Ministry of Tourism into a Pan-African event to attract summer tourists from the African diaspora, involving them in performances of culture and history. Exploring…
Forget the Past or Go Back to the Slave Trade!”
In the last two decades, global institutions have exerted increasing force on the nation-states of Africa, incorporating the continent into the processes of globalization while maintaining its marginal economic and political position within the global order.[2][1] How is this being accomplished
The Press and Political Culture in Ghana
How the news gets made in Ghana.
The Pleasures of Corruption
This article juxtaposes popular understandings of corruption in public discourse with official practices of anticorruption in the institutions of the state in Ghana. Although global disciplinary campaigns against corruption target selfishness and greed, local practices of anticorruption intersect with affectively engaged social desires. These social desires are profoundly shaped by local notions of articulation, pressure, and flow, and they are m…
Sympathetic Magic/Contagious Corruption
Jennifer Hasty is a Member in the School of Social Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, participating in the annual focus seminar on corruption. She is currently on a one-year leave from her position as an assistant professor of anthropology at Pacific Lutheran University. Her book manuscript "Big Language and Brown Envelopes: The Press and Political Culture in Ghana" is under review by Indiana University Press
Existential Anthropology
Existential Anthropology
Existential Anthropology: Events, Exigencies, and Effects. Michael Jackson. New York: Berghan Books, 2005. 216 pp
Performing power, composing culture
This article examines how African political and discursive forms shape the seemingly universal practices of journalism at a state newspaper in Ghana. The daily work routine, relationships with sources, criteria of newsworthiness, narrative techniques - all are locally determined by Ghanaian standards of discourse and sociality. Local aesthetics of representation and discursive propriety establish a distinctive set of conventions for political spe…
The Pan-African Nation
Sociology (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Politics (7 works) · Law (6 works) · History (5 works) · African history and culture studies (4 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · History (4 works) · Media studies (4 works)