Lissa Skitolsky
Biographic Data
| ID | 1158809 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lissa Skitolsky |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lissa |
| FAMILY NAME | Skitolsky |
| SIGNATURE | SKITOLSKY L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Susquehanna University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Politics of Mourning in the Neoliberal State
Recently American scholars have examined the politics of mourning in relation to anti-black racism in the United States. Drawing on the work of queer theorist Maggie Nelson, I will illustrate that a political sense of mourning is also relevant to queer theory and life as a way to bear witness to the violence of the sex-gender system even as we find ways of navigating through it. Lastly, I will defend the claim that a sense of mourning-without-end…
Lang's Defence and the Morbid Sensibility of Genocide Studies
The combination of a prototype-based concept of genocide with the general cognitive tendency to perceive and interpret evidence in such a way as to maintain one's views renders one less likely to c
Inclusive Pedagogy: Beyond Simple Content
I would define the episteme retrospectively as the strategic apparatus which permits of separating out from among all the statements which are possible those that will be acceptable within, I won't say a scientific theory, but a field of scientificity, and which it is possible to say are true or false. The episteme is the "apparatus" which makes possible the separation, not of the true from the false, but of what may from what may not be characte…
Recollecting Violence: Michael Rothberg's Multidirectional Memory
Recollecting Violence:Michael Rothberg's Multidirectional Memory Lissa Skitolsky (bio) Michael Rothberg, Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization. Stanford: Stanford UP, 2009. In defending uniqueness, I am not simultaneously endorsing the injudicious claim that the Holocaust is more evil than alternative occurrences of extensive and systematic persecution, organized violence, and mass death. The character of…
Lang's Defence and the Morbid Sensibility of Genocide Studies
The combination of a prototype-based concept of genocide with the general cognitive tendency to perceive and interpret evidence in such a way as to maintain one's views renders one less likely to c
Inclusive Pedagogy: Beyond Simple Content
I would define the episteme retrospectively as the strategic apparatus which permits of separating out from among all the statements which are possible those that will be acceptable within, I won't say a scientific theory, but a field of scientificity, and which it is possible to say are true or false. The episteme is the "apparatus" which makes possible the separation, not of the true from the false, but of what may from what may not be characte…
Recollecting Violence: Michael Rothberg's Multidirectional Memory
Recollecting Violence:Michael Rothberg's Multidirectional Memory Lissa Skitolsky (bio) Michael Rothberg, Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization. Stanford: Stanford UP, 2009. In defending uniqueness, I am not simultaneously endorsing the injudicious claim that the Holocaust is more evil than alternative occurrences of extensive and systematic persecution, organized violence, and mass death. The character of…
Inclusive Pedagogy: Beyond Simple Content
I would define the episteme retrospectively as the strategic apparatus which permits of separating out from among all the statements which are possible those that will be acceptable within, I won't say a scientific theory, but a field of scientificity, and which it is possible to say are true or false. The episteme is the "apparatus" which makes possible the separation, not of the true from the false, but of what may from what may not be characte…
The Politics of Mourning in the Neoliberal State
Recently American scholars have examined the politics of mourning in relation to anti-black racism in the United States. Drawing on the work of queer theorist Maggie Nelson, I will illustrate that a political sense of mourning is also relevant to queer theory and life as a way to bear witness to the violence of the sex-gender system even as we find ways of navigating through it. Lastly, I will defend the claim that a sense of mourning-without-end…
Lang's Defence and the Morbid Sensibility of Genocide Studies
The combination of a prototype-based concept of genocide with the general cognitive tendency to perceive and interpret evidence in such a way as to maintain one's views renders one less likely to c
Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Genocide (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Cambodian History and Society (1 works) · Classics (1 works)