Mary Louisa Cappelli
Biographic Data
| ID | 1121277 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary Louisa Cappelli |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary Louisa |
| FAMILY NAME | Cappelli |
| SIGNATURE | CAPPELLI M L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nevada State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0419-9411 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Good Ol’ Boys and Beer: A Moral Framework for Understanding Republican Values in Country Music
The narrative discourse of country music from 2016 to 2021 constructs a worldview clinging onto a nostalgic sense of community and moral values despite a world torn asunder by Covid 19, politics, race, gender, and religion. Country music during these tumultuous times offers listeners a moral community and a sense of unchanging place and shared meaning. In this article. I examine the construction of moral communities in contemporary country music …
Disrupting Spaces: Homelessness and Political Agency in Venice, California
Visual occupation of homelessness in public places disrupts traditional notions of community and space and testifies to the power of personal and political agency of unhoused individuals. This case study examines the public display of homelessness and daily social encounters with encampments in Venice, California. Using photographic images to analyze the social articulation of resistance, agency, and performance, the study contends that homeless …
Let Us Now Praise Mountain Lions: Revisiting Edward Abbey in the Santa Monica Mountains
More than 50 years have passed since Edward Abbey published Desert Solitaire—his persuasive tribute to the preservation of wilderness and wildlife, and over 30 years since he penned. In Praise of Mountain Lions: Original Praises (1984), Abbey predicted how hyper-urbanization and anthropogenic stressors would lead to habitat fragmentation and to an extinction vortex among mountain lion populations. In this essay, I engage in an interdisciplinary a…
Ecologies of Pain in Bessie Head’s When Rain Clouds Gather
Bessie Head's first novel, When Rain Clouds Gather, is perhaps one of her most ethico-political narratives to examine the introduction of modern capitalism and patriarchal science against the haunting spectral of traditional tribal systems in pre-Independence Botswana. Set in Golema Mmidi, which ironically translates to "grow crops," Head provides a detailed historical trajectory of how the imposition of agribusiness development projects onto tra…
Ayotzinapa 43: The Political Aesthetics of Drone Protest Graffiti
Mexico has a unique history of deploying man-hunting drones in its militarized arsenal of security patrols to control narco traffickers, bandas criminales and dissident populations. Considered to be the drone capital of Latin America with one of the first Drone Academies to teach the myriad aspects of drone piloting, Mexico is at the forefront of drone surveillance technology. It is also at the vanguard of Drone Art Performance. Angered by what i…
Black Lives Matter: The Emotional and Racial Dynamics of the George Floyd Protest Graffiti
Political Protest Graffiti is an increasingly visible form of rhetoric that provides a democratizing space to enable its disenfranchised peoples to articulate their own narratives. As a form of visual activism, the George Floyd Protest Graffiti acts to historically document the tragic sentiment of the collective protest demonstration and testify to political and racial struggles in America. In this essay, I examine the George Floyd Protest Graffi…
Reading ‘Pterodactyl, Puran Sahay, and Pirtha’ amongst the Barabaig Tribe of Eastern Tanzania
The Barabaig peoples are vulnerable economic and ecological refugees pushed to the furthest corner of the Bosutu Plains of Eastern Tanzania to eke out a subsistence existence amidst encroaching capital and globalizing forces. In many ways, the Barabaig face struggles similar to those encountered by the tribals in Mahasweta Devi’s “Pterodactyl, Puran Sahay, and Pirtha.” In this essay, I offer my own ethnographic research to survey the anguish of t…
Toward enacting a Zapatista feminist agenda somewhere in la Selva Lacondona: We are all Marias
Women’s participation in the Zapatista Revolutionary Movement improved women’s potential for gender justice as outlined in the 1994 Declaration of Women’s Rights; however, Zapatismo has struggled to implement and sustain a clear indigenous feminist agenda. In this essay, I argue that because The Indigenous Congress of Mexico does not recognize repressive indigenous patriarchal structures and solely blames capitalism and neoliberalism for persiste…
Standing With Standing Rock: Affective Alignment and Artful Resistance at the Native Nations Rise March
The protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline at Standing Rock in North Dakota created a dynamic landscape consisting of a wide-range of interwoven visual and textual narratives and political performances. In this article, I engage in participatory activism research to analyze how the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and indigenous grass root leaders deployed digital media platforms to mobilize individuals from diverse geographical locations and diver…
Women of the revolution: Gendered politics of resistance and agency in the cultural production of Margaret Randall
Margaret Randall’s cultural production of Sandino’s Daughters, Sandino’s Daughters Revisited, and Risking a Somersault in the Air examines the complicated socio-political processes and relentless struggles women encountered as revolutionary participants during the Sandinista Revolution. In this essay, I scrutinize the impact of gendered politics on female bodies and interrogate the written articulation of revolutionary feminist participation. I s…
From Colonization to Revolution: Awakening Feminine Consciousness and Ecocritical Awareness in Christina Garcia’s Dreaming in Cuban
In light of the unprecedented number of travelers flocking to the small island of Cuba since the 2015 lifting of certain travel and financial restrictions, Christian Garcia’s debut novel Dreaming i
Decolonizing female consciousness in Bessie Head's A Question of Power
In A Question of Power, Bessie Head explores how South Africa's apartheid history has been transcribed upon female bodies. Head interrogates female madness as a vehicle to transverse and recollect the historical memories and personal stories of apartheid South Africa. In this essay, I explore the socio-cultural, racialized and gendered political stories that shape female identity during times of political transition. In so doing, I examine the di…
Innovative Strategies of Indigenous Resistance among the Wounaan People of Colombia
Innovative Strategies of Indigenous Resistance among the Wounaan People of Colombia Mary Cappelli (bio) THE WOUNAAN PEOPLE of northwestern Colombia's San Juan River are the latest casualty of a violent twenty-five-year reign of terror hastened by the convergence of coca growers, gold miners, paramilitaries, guerillas, and government troops—all vying for control of the waterways and resources along the ancestral stretch of traditional Wounaan terr…
Predator Politics: Coyote Wrenching in Edward Abbey’s Desert Solitaire and Barbara Kingsolver’s Prodigal Summer
Edward Abbey's Desert Solitaire and Barbara Kingsolver's Prodigal Summer urges readers to see coyotes as crucial members of the natural community whose predation is essential for the maintenance of biodiversity and ecological stability. Their cultural production provides a human story of ecocritical engagement for understanding the cascading effects of removing top predators from their ecosystems. By envisioning biocentric possibilities within pl…
Standing With Standing Rock: Affective Alignment and Artful Resistance at the Native Nations Rise March
The protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline at Standing Rock in North Dakota created a dynamic landscape consisting of a wide-range of interwoven visual and textual narratives and political performances. In this article, I engage in participatory activism research to analyze how the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and indigenous grass root leaders deployed digital media platforms to mobilize individuals from diverse geographical locations and diver…
Decolonizing female consciousness in Bessie Head's A Question of Power
In A Question of Power, Bessie Head explores how South Africa's apartheid history has been transcribed upon female bodies. Head interrogates female madness as a vehicle to transverse and recollect the historical memories and personal stories of apartheid South Africa. In this essay, I explore the socio-cultural, racialized and gendered political stories that shape female identity during times of political transition. In so doing, I examine the di…
Predator Politics: Coyote Wrenching in Edward Abbey’s Desert Solitaire and Barbara Kingsolver’s Prodigal Summer
Edward Abbey's Desert Solitaire and Barbara Kingsolver's Prodigal Summer urges readers to see coyotes as crucial members of the natural community whose predation is essential for the maintenance of biodiversity and ecological stability. Their cultural production provides a human story of ecocritical engagement for understanding the cascading effects of removing top predators from their ecosystems. By envisioning biocentric possibilities within pl…
Women of the revolution: Gendered politics of resistance and agency in the cultural production of Margaret Randall
Margaret Randall’s cultural production of Sandino’s Daughters, Sandino’s Daughters Revisited, and Risking a Somersault in the Air examines the complicated socio-political processes and relentless struggles women encountered as revolutionary participants during the Sandinista Revolution. In this essay, I scrutinize the impact of gendered politics on female bodies and interrogate the written articulation of revolutionary feminist participation. I s…
From Colonization to Revolution: Awakening Feminine Consciousness and Ecocritical Awareness in Christina Garcia’s Dreaming in Cuban
In light of the unprecedented number of travelers flocking to the small island of Cuba since the 2015 lifting of certain travel and financial restrictions, Christian Garcia’s debut novel Dreaming i
Decolonizing female consciousness in Bessie Head's A Question of Power
In A Question of Power, Bessie Head explores how South Africa's apartheid history has been transcribed upon female bodies. Head interrogates female madness as a vehicle to transverse and recollect the historical memories and personal stories of apartheid South Africa. In this essay, I explore the socio-cultural, racialized and gendered political stories that shape female identity during times of political transition. In so doing, I examine the di…
Innovative Strategies of Indigenous Resistance among the Wounaan People of Colombia
Innovative Strategies of Indigenous Resistance among the Wounaan People of Colombia Mary Cappelli (bio) THE WOUNAAN PEOPLE of northwestern Colombia's San Juan River are the latest casualty of a violent twenty-five-year reign of terror hastened by the convergence of coca growers, gold miners, paramilitaries, guerillas, and government troops—all vying for control of the waterways and resources along the ancestral stretch of traditional Wounaan terr…
Predator Politics: Coyote Wrenching in Edward Abbey’s Desert Solitaire and Barbara Kingsolver’s Prodigal Summer
Edward Abbey's Desert Solitaire and Barbara Kingsolver's Prodigal Summer urges readers to see coyotes as crucial members of the natural community whose predation is essential for the maintenance of biodiversity and ecological stability. Their cultural production provides a human story of ecocritical engagement for understanding the cascading effects of removing top predators from their ecosystems. By envisioning biocentric possibilities within pl…
Toward enacting a Zapatista feminist agenda somewhere in la Selva Lacondona: We are all Marias
Women’s participation in the Zapatista Revolutionary Movement improved women’s potential for gender justice as outlined in the 1994 Declaration of Women’s Rights; however, Zapatismo has struggled to implement and sustain a clear indigenous feminist agenda. In this essay, I argue that because The Indigenous Congress of Mexico does not recognize repressive indigenous patriarchal structures and solely blames capitalism and neoliberalism for persiste…
Standing With Standing Rock: Affective Alignment and Artful Resistance at the Native Nations Rise March
The protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline at Standing Rock in North Dakota created a dynamic landscape consisting of a wide-range of interwoven visual and textual narratives and political performances. In this article, I engage in participatory activism research to analyze how the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and indigenous grass root leaders deployed digital media platforms to mobilize individuals from diverse geographical locations and diver…
Reading ‘Pterodactyl, Puran Sahay, and Pirtha’ amongst the Barabaig Tribe of Eastern Tanzania
The Barabaig peoples are vulnerable economic and ecological refugees pushed to the furthest corner of the Bosutu Plains of Eastern Tanzania to eke out a subsistence existence amidst encroaching capital and globalizing forces. In many ways, the Barabaig face struggles similar to those encountered by the tribals in Mahasweta Devi’s “Pterodactyl, Puran Sahay, and Pirtha.” In this essay, I offer my own ethnographic research to survey the anguish of t…
Black Lives Matter: The Emotional and Racial Dynamics of the George Floyd Protest Graffiti
Political Protest Graffiti is an increasingly visible form of rhetoric that provides a democratizing space to enable its disenfranchised peoples to articulate their own narratives. As a form of visual activism, the George Floyd Protest Graffiti acts to historically document the tragic sentiment of the collective protest demonstration and testify to political and racial struggles in America. In this essay, I examine the George Floyd Protest Graffi…
Ecologies of Pain in Bessie Head’s When Rain Clouds Gather
Bessie Head's first novel, When Rain Clouds Gather, is perhaps one of her most ethico-political narratives to examine the introduction of modern capitalism and patriarchal science against the haunting spectral of traditional tribal systems in pre-Independence Botswana. Set in Golema Mmidi, which ironically translates to "grow crops," Head provides a detailed historical trajectory of how the imposition of agribusiness development projects onto tra…
Ayotzinapa 43: The Political Aesthetics of Drone Protest Graffiti
Mexico has a unique history of deploying man-hunting drones in its militarized arsenal of security patrols to control narco traffickers, bandas criminales and dissident populations. Considered to be the drone capital of Latin America with one of the first Drone Academies to teach the myriad aspects of drone piloting, Mexico is at the forefront of drone surveillance technology. It is also at the vanguard of Drone Art Performance. Angered by what i…
Let Us Now Praise Mountain Lions: Revisiting Edward Abbey in the Santa Monica Mountains
More than 50 years have passed since Edward Abbey published Desert Solitaire—his persuasive tribute to the preservation of wilderness and wildlife, and over 30 years since he penned. In Praise of Mountain Lions: Original Praises (1984), Abbey predicted how hyper-urbanization and anthropogenic stressors would lead to habitat fragmentation and to an extinction vortex among mountain lion populations. In this essay, I engage in an interdisciplinary a…
Good Ol’ Boys and Beer: A Moral Framework for Understanding Republican Values in Country Music
The narrative discourse of country music from 2016 to 2021 constructs a worldview clinging onto a nostalgic sense of community and moral values despite a world torn asunder by Covid 19, politics, race, gender, and religion. Country music during these tumultuous times offers listeners a moral community and a sense of unchanging place and shared meaning. In this article. I examine the construction of moral communities in contemporary country music …
Disrupting Spaces: Homelessness and Political Agency in Venice, California
Visual occupation of homelessness in public places disrupts traditional notions of community and space and testifies to the power of personal and political agency of unhoused individuals. This case study examines the public display of homelessness and daily social encounters with encampments in Venice, California. Using photographic images to analyze the social articulation of resistance, agency, and performance, the study contends that homeless …
Political science (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Art (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Ecology (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · History (5 works)