Monica Popescu
Biographic Data
| ID | 126531 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Monica Popescu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Monica |
| FAMILY NAME | Popescu |
| SIGNATURE | POPESCU M |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State University, San Bernardino |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9785-7673 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 65 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Oxford Handbook of the History of the Global South
This handbook is currently in development, with individual articles publishing online in advance of print publication. At this time, we cannot add information about unpublished articles in this handbook; however, the table of contents will continue to grow as additional articles pass through the review process and are added to the site. Please note that the online publication date for this handbook is the date that the first article in the title …
Role-based privacy cynicism and local privacy activism: How data stewards navigate privacy in higher education
This study examines the impact of role-based constraints on privacy cynicism within higher education, a workplace increasingly subjected to surveillance. Using a thematic analysis of 15 in-depth interviews conducted between 2017 and 2023 with data stewards in the California State University System, the research explores the reasons behind data stewards' privacy cynicism, despite their knowledge of privacy and their own ability to protect it. We i…
Development of an Extended-Reality (XR)-Based Intervention to Treat Adolescent Obesity
Public health policies aimed at obesity reduction are more often directed toward adults than children. This is alarming given that rates of childhood obesity have been steadily increasing, and, if not treated early, adolescents with obesity may develop comorbidities into adulthood. Lifestyle-based interventions are the cornerstone of childhood obesity treatment. Recently, extended-reality (XR)-based interventions have been incorporated into the t…
Cold War Solidarities and Twenty-First-Century Frayed Alliances: Romanian-Ghanaian Vantage Points
During the Cold War, socialist countries in the Eastern Bloc forged fraternal relations with newly independent states on the African continent and other parts of the Third World. These alliances translated into economic exchanges, political and ideological ties, and cultural solidarities. Oftentimes subsumed under the rubric of internationalism, these understudied cultural exchanges reflect both the forward thinking elements of global socialism a…
At Penpoint: African Literatures, Postcolonial Studies, and the Cold War
In At Penpoint Monica Popescu traces the development of African literature during the second half of the twentieth century to address the intertwined effects of the Cold War and decolonization on literary history. Popescu draws on archival materials from the Soviet-sponsored Afro-Asian Writers Association and the CIA-funded Congress for Cultural Freedom alongside considerations of canonical literary works by Ayi Kwei Armah, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Ous…
Big data analytics and the limits of privacy self-management
This article looks at how the logic of big data analytics, which promotes an aura of unchallenged objectivity to the algorithmic analysis of quantitative data, preempts individuals’ ability to self-define and closes off any opportunity for those inferences to be challenged or resisted. We argue that the predominant privacy protection regimes based on the privacy self-management framework of “notice and choice” not only fail to protect individual …
Worlds apart? A postcolonial reading of post-1945 East-Central European cultures
Aesthetic solidarities: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o and the Cold War
Highlighting the absence of the Cold War from studies of postcolonial literature, this article focuses on the various levels at which the global conflict is reflected in Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's work and its reception. Beyond direct and oblique references to the Cold War, Ngũgĩ's choice of genre in Petals of Blood (historical novel in the socialist realist vein, at the expense of a discredited detective style of novel) speaks to the cultural solidarit…
Captive But Mobile: Privacy Concerns and Remedies for the Mobile Environment
We use the legal framework of captive audience to examine the Federal Trade Commission 2012 privacy guidelines as applied to mobile marketing. We define captive audiences as audiences without functional opt-out mechanisms to avoid situations of coercive communication. By analyzing the current mobile marketing ecosystem, we show that the Federal Trade Commission's privacy guidelines inspired by the Canadian “privacy by design” paradigm fall short …
Reading through a Cold War Lens: Apartheid-Era Literature and the Global Conflict
This article argues that apartheid-era literature was shaped by the Cold War cultural and political landscape. With genres and narrative structures shared with Western literary traditions (such as spy fiction) or Eastern Bloc literatures (such as socialist realism), apartheid-era literature nonetheless retained its local concerns and features. Starting from three initial topoi (the border as a real and mental topography, political and individual …
Judicial Discourse as Feeling Rules: Obscenity Regulation and Inner Life Control, 1873–1956
This essay argues that U.S. judicial decisions in obscenity cases at the beginning of the twentieth century reveal a systematic social process of emotion management that supported, in ways not previously recognized, the emotional culture of the middle class and, through it, middle-class status policy. Using a grounded theory analysis on a sample of 256 U.S. federal judicial opinions between 1873 and 1956, the analysis shows how the evidentiary ru…
Lewis Nkosi in Warsaw: Translating eastern European experiences for an African audience
This article discusses overlaps and dissimilarities between eastern Europeans' and Africans' subordinate position in relation to imperial powers from the perspective of a South African writer who lived in Poland. Lewis Nkosi's subtle and ironic style outlines the burden of colonialism and cultural marginalization shared by Poles and South Africans, but also reveals the paternalism and condescension disguised by socialist slogans of solidarity wit…
Communicating Turkish-Islamic identity in the aftermath of the Gaza flotilla raid: Who is the “us” in “us” versus “them
On May 31,2010, Israeli Defense Forces raided the ship Mavi Marmara, part of a six-vessel flotilla aiming to break the Israeli naval blockade of the Gaza Strip and to deliver supplies to Gaza. Using comments posted on Turkish online discussion forums in the aftermath of the raid that resulted in the death of nine passengers, this article analyzes how the incident was appropriated to negotiate between Turkishness and Islam as two alternative, yet …
The art of making classes in Serbia: Another particular case of the possible
Licence for shooting: South African literature, the media, and the cold war
The war in Angola represented one of the hot spots of the Cold War. Despite the length of the conflict and the number of warring parties involved, relatively little attention has been paid to the ways in which South African literature represented this conflict. This article focuses on the relationship between text and image, between literature and photojournalism. For Etienne van Heerden (“My Cuban” and “My Afrikaner”) and Mark Behr (The smell of…
Waiting for the Russians: Coetzee's the master of Petersburg and the logic of late postcolonialism
JM Coetzee's 1994 novel The Master of Petersburg has puzzled its readership with its geopolitical and temporal distance from the South African scene. I argue that the novel actually portrays some of the more salient features of the transition years, as it reflects on the position of the writer vis‐à‐vis a restructured field of political forces. A meditation on transition time and on the protracted dimension of waiting for a new world to be born, …
Cold War and Hot Translation
Translations: Lenin's Statues, Post-communism and Post-apartheid
Using Ivan Vladislavic's short story "Propaganda by Monuments" as a starting point, this article explores the trope of the spatial and cultural "translation" of a statue representing Lenin from one socio-political and historical background into another. This movement illuminates the connections and dissimilarities between post-communist Russia and post-apartheid South Africa. The statue's imaginary voyage not only reveals the workings of an incre…
Big data analytics and the limits of privacy self-management
This article looks at how the logic of big data analytics, which promotes an aura of unchallenged objectivity to the algorithmic analysis of quantitative data, preempts individuals’ ability to self-define and closes off any opportunity for those inferences to be challenged or resisted. We argue that the predominant privacy protection regimes based on the privacy self-management framework of “notice and choice” not only fail to protect individual …
The art of making classes in Serbia: Another particular case of the possible
At Penpoint: African Literatures, Postcolonial Studies, and the Cold War
In At Penpoint Monica Popescu traces the development of African literature during the second half of the twentieth century to address the intertwined effects of the Cold War and decolonization on literary history. Popescu draws on archival materials from the Soviet-sponsored Afro-Asian Writers Association and the CIA-funded Congress for Cultural Freedom alongside considerations of canonical literary works by Ayi Kwei Armah, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Ous…
Aesthetic solidarities: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o and the Cold War
Highlighting the absence of the Cold War from studies of postcolonial literature, this article focuses on the various levels at which the global conflict is reflected in Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's work and its reception. Beyond direct and oblique references to the Cold War, Ngũgĩ's choice of genre in Petals of Blood (historical novel in the socialist realist vein, at the expense of a discredited detective style of novel) speaks to the cultural solidarit…
Captive But Mobile: Privacy Concerns and Remedies for the Mobile Environment
We use the legal framework of captive audience to examine the Federal Trade Commission 2012 privacy guidelines as applied to mobile marketing. We define captive audiences as audiences without functional opt-out mechanisms to avoid situations of coercive communication. By analyzing the current mobile marketing ecosystem, we show that the Federal Trade Commission's privacy guidelines inspired by the Canadian “privacy by design” paradigm fall short …
Licence for shooting: South African literature, the media, and the cold war
The war in Angola represented one of the hot spots of the Cold War. Despite the length of the conflict and the number of warring parties involved, relatively little attention has been paid to the ways in which South African literature represented this conflict. This article focuses on the relationship between text and image, between literature and photojournalism. For Etienne van Heerden (“My Cuban” and “My Afrikaner”) and Mark Behr (The smell of…
Cold War Solidarities and Twenty-First-Century Frayed Alliances: Romanian-Ghanaian Vantage Points
During the Cold War, socialist countries in the Eastern Bloc forged fraternal relations with newly independent states on the African continent and other parts of the Third World. These alliances translated into economic exchanges, political and ideological ties, and cultural solidarities. Oftentimes subsumed under the rubric of internationalism, these understudied cultural exchanges reflect both the forward thinking elements of global socialism a…
Lewis Nkosi in Warsaw: Translating eastern European experiences for an African audience
This article discusses overlaps and dissimilarities between eastern Europeans' and Africans' subordinate position in relation to imperial powers from the perspective of a South African writer who lived in Poland. Lewis Nkosi's subtle and ironic style outlines the burden of colonialism and cultural marginalization shared by Poles and South Africans, but also reveals the paternalism and condescension disguised by socialist slogans of solidarity wit…
Communicating Turkish-Islamic identity in the aftermath of the Gaza flotilla raid: Who is the “us” in “us” versus “them
On May 31,2010, Israeli Defense Forces raided the ship Mavi Marmara, part of a six-vessel flotilla aiming to break the Israeli naval blockade of the Gaza Strip and to deliver supplies to Gaza. Using comments posted on Turkish online discussion forums in the aftermath of the raid that resulted in the death of nine passengers, this article analyzes how the incident was appropriated to negotiate between Turkishness and Islam as two alternative, yet …
Translations: Lenin's Statues, Post-communism and Post-apartheid
Using Ivan Vladislavic's short story "Propaganda by Monuments" as a starting point, this article explores the trope of the spatial and cultural "translation" of a statue representing Lenin from one socio-political and historical background into another. This movement illuminates the connections and dissimilarities between post-communist Russia and post-apartheid South Africa. The statue's imaginary voyage not only reveals the workings of an incre…
Waiting for the Russians: Coetzee's the master of Petersburg and the logic of late postcolonialism
JM Coetzee's 1994 novel The Master of Petersburg has puzzled its readership with its geopolitical and temporal distance from the South African scene. I argue that the novel actually portrays some of the more salient features of the transition years, as it reflects on the position of the writer vis‐à‐vis a restructured field of political forces. A meditation on transition time and on the protracted dimension of waiting for a new world to be born, …
Cold War and Hot Translation
Licence for shooting: South African literature, the media, and the cold war
The war in Angola represented one of the hot spots of the Cold War. Despite the length of the conflict and the number of warring parties involved, relatively little attention has been paid to the ways in which South African literature represented this conflict. This article focuses on the relationship between text and image, between literature and photojournalism. For Etienne van Heerden (“My Cuban” and “My Afrikaner”) and Mark Behr (The smell of…
Communicating Turkish-Islamic identity in the aftermath of the Gaza flotilla raid: Who is the “us” in “us” versus “them
On May 31,2010, Israeli Defense Forces raided the ship Mavi Marmara, part of a six-vessel flotilla aiming to break the Israeli naval blockade of the Gaza Strip and to deliver supplies to Gaza. Using comments posted on Turkish online discussion forums in the aftermath of the raid that resulted in the death of nine passengers, this article analyzes how the incident was appropriated to negotiate between Turkishness and Islam as two alternative, yet …
The art of making classes in Serbia: Another particular case of the possible
Reading through a Cold War Lens: Apartheid-Era Literature and the Global Conflict
This article argues that apartheid-era literature was shaped by the Cold War cultural and political landscape. With genres and narrative structures shared with Western literary traditions (such as spy fiction) or Eastern Bloc literatures (such as socialist realism), apartheid-era literature nonetheless retained its local concerns and features. Starting from three initial topoi (the border as a real and mental topography, political and individual …
Judicial Discourse as Feeling Rules: Obscenity Regulation and Inner Life Control, 1873–1956
This essay argues that U.S. judicial decisions in obscenity cases at the beginning of the twentieth century reveal a systematic social process of emotion management that supported, in ways not previously recognized, the emotional culture of the middle class and, through it, middle-class status policy. Using a grounded theory analysis on a sample of 256 U.S. federal judicial opinions between 1873 and 1956, the analysis shows how the evidentiary ru…
Lewis Nkosi in Warsaw: Translating eastern European experiences for an African audience
This article discusses overlaps and dissimilarities between eastern Europeans' and Africans' subordinate position in relation to imperial powers from the perspective of a South African writer who lived in Poland. Lewis Nkosi's subtle and ironic style outlines the burden of colonialism and cultural marginalization shared by Poles and South Africans, but also reveals the paternalism and condescension disguised by socialist slogans of solidarity wit…
Captive But Mobile: Privacy Concerns and Remedies for the Mobile Environment
We use the legal framework of captive audience to examine the Federal Trade Commission 2012 privacy guidelines as applied to mobile marketing. We define captive audiences as audiences without functional opt-out mechanisms to avoid situations of coercive communication. By analyzing the current mobile marketing ecosystem, we show that the Federal Trade Commission's privacy guidelines inspired by the Canadian “privacy by design” paradigm fall short …
Aesthetic solidarities: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o and the Cold War
Highlighting the absence of the Cold War from studies of postcolonial literature, this article focuses on the various levels at which the global conflict is reflected in Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's work and its reception. Beyond direct and oblique references to the Cold War, Ngũgĩ's choice of genre in Petals of Blood (historical novel in the socialist realist vein, at the expense of a discredited detective style of novel) speaks to the cultural solidarit…
Big data analytics and the limits of privacy self-management
This article looks at how the logic of big data analytics, which promotes an aura of unchallenged objectivity to the algorithmic analysis of quantitative data, preempts individuals’ ability to self-define and closes off any opportunity for those inferences to be challenged or resisted. We argue that the predominant privacy protection regimes based on the privacy self-management framework of “notice and choice” not only fail to protect individual …
Worlds apart? A postcolonial reading of post-1945 East-Central European cultures
At Penpoint: African Literatures, Postcolonial Studies, and the Cold War
In At Penpoint Monica Popescu traces the development of African literature during the second half of the twentieth century to address the intertwined effects of the Cold War and decolonization on literary history. Popescu draws on archival materials from the Soviet-sponsored Afro-Asian Writers Association and the CIA-funded Congress for Cultural Freedom alongside considerations of canonical literary works by Ayi Kwei Armah, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Ous…
Development of an Extended-Reality (XR)-Based Intervention to Treat Adolescent Obesity
Public health policies aimed at obesity reduction are more often directed toward adults than children. This is alarming given that rates of childhood obesity have been steadily increasing, and, if not treated early, adolescents with obesity may develop comorbidities into adulthood. Lifestyle-based interventions are the cornerstone of childhood obesity treatment. Recently, extended-reality (XR)-based interventions have been incorporated into the t…
Cold War Solidarities and Twenty-First-Century Frayed Alliances: Romanian-Ghanaian Vantage Points
During the Cold War, socialist countries in the Eastern Bloc forged fraternal relations with newly independent states on the African continent and other parts of the Third World. These alliances translated into economic exchanges, political and ideological ties, and cultural solidarities. Oftentimes subsumed under the rubric of internationalism, these understudied cultural exchanges reflect both the forward thinking elements of global socialism a…
Role-based privacy cynicism and local privacy activism: How data stewards navigate privacy in higher education
This study examines the impact of role-based constraints on privacy cynicism within higher education, a workplace increasingly subjected to surveillance. Using a thematic analysis of 15 in-depth interviews conducted between 2017 and 2023 with data stewards in the California State University System, the research explores the reasons behind data stewards' privacy cynicism, despite their knowledge of privacy and their own ability to protect it. We i…
The Oxford Handbook of the History of the Global South
This handbook is currently in development, with individual articles publishing online in advance of print publication. At this time, we cannot add information about unpublished articles in this handbook; however, the table of contents will continue to grow as additional articles pass through the review process and are added to the site. Please note that the online publication date for this handbook is the date that the first article in the title …
Political science (15 works) · Law (13 works) · Law (10 works) · Politics (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · History (8 works) · Art (7 works) · Cold war (7 works) · History (7 works) · African history and culture studies (5 works)