Laura E Lyons
Biographic Data
| ID | 1256136 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura E Lyons |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura E |
| FAMILY NAME | Lyons |
| SIGNATURE | LYONS L E |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Value of Hawaiʻi 3: Hulihia, the Turning
“Hulihia” refers to massive upheavals that change the landscape, overturn the normal, reverse the flow, and sweep away the prevailing or assumed. We live in such days. Pandemics. Threats to ʻāina. Political dysfunction, cultural appropriation, and disrespect. But also powerful surges toward sustainability, autonomy, and sovereignty. The first two volumes of The Value of Hawaiʻi ( Knowing the Past, Facing the Future and Ancestral Roots, Oceanic Vi…
Barbara Harlow: A Remembrance via Conferences, Readings, and Questions
I Have a Family
This essay analyzes legal and cultural texts that pertain to the 2002 murder of Gwen Araujo, to argue for the political possibilities that can be mobilized through familial grief over a human rights violation against a trans person. As family members speak from their positions of having undergone a profound experience of loss and call on the affective ties that make the violation their own, their relational witnessing and testimony takes place no…
Life Writing and Corporate Personhood
This introduction outlines different manifestations of corporate personhood, including advertising, skinvertising, activist corporate impersonation, and the equation of corporations with celebrity CEOs. We contextualize corporate personhood in relation to recent attempts to claim rights for fetuses, along with more progressive articulations of personhood in various environmental and animal rights campaigns
From the Indigenous to the Indigent: Homelessness and Settler Colonialism in Hawai‘i
In April 2007, Genshiro Kawamoto, a real estate mogul known as the ‘Donald Trump’ of Japan, made the unprecedented and media attention-getting move of turning over keys to three of his many mansions in the Kahala neighbourhood of Honolulu to Native Hawaiian families. Promising these previously homeless families a rent-free place to live for at least the next ten years, Kawamoto further announced his intentions to convert another five of his twent…
I'd Like My Life Back: Corporate Personhood and the BP Oil Disaster
In this essay, I analyze British Petroleum's initial attempts to manage its enormous environmental catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico and its concomitant public relations crisis through the use of its Chief Executive Officer Tony Hayward. In his public interviews and statements, he both personifies the corporation and distances himself from its decisions. At stake in these attempts to make use of life stories either to limit the damage (and liabil…
From Grief to Grievance: Ethics and Politics in the Testimony of Anti-War Mothers
In this paper, we consider the political purposes to which the complex and often powerful testimony chronicling loss of family members to the ‘war on terror’ is put in the United States. We argue that, it is critical to examine the different invocations of the family in these expressions of grief. In fact, we argue that it is crucial to do so in order to distinguish in ethical as well as political terms how the family is deployed, or sometimes di…
Bodies of Evidence and the Intricate Machines of Untruth
Franklin and Lyons discuss how the essays and interviews in this volume evidence the important ways that the agency that witnesses to human rights abuses possess is both circumscribed by state institutions and ideologies, and asserted in the face of state violence, past and present. They also analyze two contexts not addressed within the special issue. In examining Argentinian Claudia Bernardi's artwork, pictured on the cover, they consider the c…
Land, Leadership, and Nation: Haunani-Kay Trask on the Testimonial Uses of Life Writing in Hawai'i
Haunani-Kay Trask is descended from the Pi'ilani line of Maui and the Kahakumakaliua line of Kaua'i. A professor of Hawaiian Studies at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Trask served as director of the Center for Hawaiian Studies for nearly ten years. During her tenure as director, she played a primary role in the building of the Gladys Brandt Kamakakuokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies. Trask is the author of Eros and Power: The Promise of Fem…
On the Cusp of the Personal and the Impersonal: An Interview with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
In the spring semester of 2003, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University, occupied the position of Citizens' Chair at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. The Citizens' Chair was created in 1965 by the state legislature to attract individuals of extraordinary scholarly and creative accomplishments to our University with the mandate that their presence would benefit both the academic and the l…
Hand-to-hand history: Ephemera and Irish Republicanism
The lack of engagement with ephemera in contemporary accounts of nationalism owes something both to the difficulty in finding this material and to assumptions that underwrite ideas not just about what constitutes source material but also about the proper subject matter of history itself. In this paper, I argue that ephemera offer an important resource for considering how those within the broad-based Irish republican movement record the intellectu…
At the End of the Day: An Interview with Mairead Keane, National Head of Sinn Fein Women's Department
As National Head of the Women's Department, Mairead Keane has been responsible for finding out what concerns Irish women feel are important to their daily lives. Her position involves both working with other activists to advance those issues outside of Sinn Fein and formulating policies and developing educational programs that address those concerns within the party. Sinn Fein is a legally recognized party, which operates through electoral politi…
From Grief to Grievance: Ethics and Politics in the Testimony of Anti-War Mothers
In this paper, we consider the political purposes to which the complex and often powerful testimony chronicling loss of family members to the ‘war on terror’ is put in the United States. We argue that, it is critical to examine the different invocations of the family in these expressions of grief. In fact, we argue that it is crucial to do so in order to distinguish in ethical as well as political terms how the family is deployed, or sometimes di…
Bodies of Evidence and the Intricate Machines of Untruth
Franklin and Lyons discuss how the essays and interviews in this volume evidence the important ways that the agency that witnesses to human rights abuses possess is both circumscribed by state institutions and ideologies, and asserted in the face of state violence, past and present. They also analyze two contexts not addressed within the special issue. In examining Argentinian Claudia Bernardi's artwork, pictured on the cover, they consider the c…
On the Cusp of the Personal and the Impersonal: An Interview with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
In the spring semester of 2003, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University, occupied the position of Citizens' Chair at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. The Citizens' Chair was created in 1965 by the state legislature to attract individuals of extraordinary scholarly and creative accomplishments to our University with the mandate that their presence would benefit both the academic and the l…
I Have a Family
This essay analyzes legal and cultural texts that pertain to the 2002 murder of Gwen Araujo, to argue for the political possibilities that can be mobilized through familial grief over a human rights violation against a trans person. As family members speak from their positions of having undergone a profound experience of loss and call on the affective ties that make the violation their own, their relational witnessing and testimony takes place no…
I'd Like My Life Back: Corporate Personhood and the BP Oil Disaster
In this essay, I analyze British Petroleum's initial attempts to manage its enormous environmental catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico and its concomitant public relations crisis through the use of its Chief Executive Officer Tony Hayward. In his public interviews and statements, he both personifies the corporation and distances himself from its decisions. At stake in these attempts to make use of life stories either to limit the damage (and liabil…
At the End of the Day: An Interview with Mairead Keane, National Head of Sinn Fein Women's Department
As National Head of the Women's Department, Mairead Keane has been responsible for finding out what concerns Irish women feel are important to their daily lives. Her position involves both working with other activists to advance those issues outside of Sinn Fein and formulating policies and developing educational programs that address those concerns within the party. Sinn Fein is a legally recognized party, which operates through electoral politi…
At the End of the Day: An Interview with Mairead Keane, National Head of Sinn Fein Women's Department
As National Head of the Women's Department, Mairead Keane has been responsible for finding out what concerns Irish women feel are important to their daily lives. Her position involves both working with other activists to advance those issues outside of Sinn Fein and formulating policies and developing educational programs that address those concerns within the party. Sinn Fein is a legally recognized party, which operates through electoral politi…
Hand-to-hand history: Ephemera and Irish Republicanism
The lack of engagement with ephemera in contemporary accounts of nationalism owes something both to the difficulty in finding this material and to assumptions that underwrite ideas not just about what constitutes source material but also about the proper subject matter of history itself. In this paper, I argue that ephemera offer an important resource for considering how those within the broad-based Irish republican movement record the intellectu…
Bodies of Evidence and the Intricate Machines of Untruth
Franklin and Lyons discuss how the essays and interviews in this volume evidence the important ways that the agency that witnesses to human rights abuses possess is both circumscribed by state institutions and ideologies, and asserted in the face of state violence, past and present. They also analyze two contexts not addressed within the special issue. In examining Argentinian Claudia Bernardi's artwork, pictured on the cover, they consider the c…
Land, Leadership, and Nation: Haunani-Kay Trask on the Testimonial Uses of Life Writing in Hawai'i
Haunani-Kay Trask is descended from the Pi'ilani line of Maui and the Kahakumakaliua line of Kaua'i. A professor of Hawaiian Studies at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Trask served as director of the Center for Hawaiian Studies for nearly ten years. During her tenure as director, she played a primary role in the building of the Gladys Brandt Kamakakuokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies. Trask is the author of Eros and Power: The Promise of Fem…
On the Cusp of the Personal and the Impersonal: An Interview with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
In the spring semester of 2003, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University, occupied the position of Citizens' Chair at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. The Citizens' Chair was created in 1965 by the state legislature to attract individuals of extraordinary scholarly and creative accomplishments to our University with the mandate that their presence would benefit both the academic and the l…
From Grief to Grievance: Ethics and Politics in the Testimony of Anti-War Mothers
In this paper, we consider the political purposes to which the complex and often powerful testimony chronicling loss of family members to the ‘war on terror’ is put in the United States. We argue that, it is critical to examine the different invocations of the family in these expressions of grief. In fact, we argue that it is crucial to do so in order to distinguish in ethical as well as political terms how the family is deployed, or sometimes di…
From the Indigenous to the Indigent: Homelessness and Settler Colonialism in Hawai‘i
In April 2007, Genshiro Kawamoto, a real estate mogul known as the ‘Donald Trump’ of Japan, made the unprecedented and media attention-getting move of turning over keys to three of his many mansions in the Kahala neighbourhood of Honolulu to Native Hawaiian families. Promising these previously homeless families a rent-free place to live for at least the next ten years, Kawamoto further announced his intentions to convert another five of his twent…
I'd Like My Life Back: Corporate Personhood and the BP Oil Disaster
In this essay, I analyze British Petroleum's initial attempts to manage its enormous environmental catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico and its concomitant public relations crisis through the use of its Chief Executive Officer Tony Hayward. In his public interviews and statements, he both personifies the corporation and distances himself from its decisions. At stake in these attempts to make use of life stories either to limit the damage (and liabil…
Life Writing and Corporate Personhood
This introduction outlines different manifestations of corporate personhood, including advertising, skinvertising, activist corporate impersonation, and the equation of corporations with celebrity CEOs. We contextualize corporate personhood in relation to recent attempts to claim rights for fetuses, along with more progressive articulations of personhood in various environmental and animal rights campaigns
I Have a Family
This essay analyzes legal and cultural texts that pertain to the 2002 murder of Gwen Araujo, to argue for the political possibilities that can be mobilized through familial grief over a human rights violation against a trans person. As family members speak from their positions of having undergone a profound experience of loss and call on the affective ties that make the violation their own, their relational witnessing and testimony takes place no…
Barbara Harlow: A Remembrance via Conferences, Readings, and Questions
The Value of Hawaiʻi 3: Hulihia, the Turning
“Hulihia” refers to massive upheavals that change the landscape, overturn the normal, reverse the flow, and sweep away the prevailing or assumed. We live in such days. Pandemics. Threats to ʻāina. Political dysfunction, cultural appropriation, and disrespect. But also powerful surges toward sustainability, autonomy, and sovereignty. The first two volumes of The Value of Hawaiʻi ( Knowing the Past, Facing the Future and Ancestral Roots, Oceanic Vi…
Sociology (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · History (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Art (3 works) · Art history (3 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Business (2 works)