Handel Kashope Wright
Biographic Data
| ID | 133610 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Handel Kashope Wright |
| GIVEN NAMES | Handel Kashope |
| FAMILY NAME | Wright |
| SIGNATURE | WRIGHT H K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 96 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
We’ve worn out the use of that word”: Australian New Youth on Multiculturalism, And the Politics of Identity, Difference and Belonging
Internationally a plethora of narratives within, beside and in opposition to multiculturalism has necessitated the rethinking of some key questions. Is multiculturalism apt for equitable representation? Can multiculturalism remain the hegemonic discourse and policy of diversity or is it destined to be supplanted? In this essay, we reconsider multiculturalism’s changing currency and pedagogical potential, contextualized in the global multicultural…
African Cultural Studies: An Overview
In this essay we draw on close to 100 journal essays and books to produce a necessarily partial and subjective survey of contemporary African cultural studies. Any such survey ought to take into account the politics of representation broadly conceptualized and in this case representation largely constitutes the survey. We made choices about identities and identification, space and place and the confluence of these factors in the articulation of A…
Once More, Whence and Whither Canadian Multiculturalism: A Review Essay of Revisiting Multiculturalism in Canada
Once More, Whence and Whither Canadian Multiculturalism? A Review Essay of Revisiting Multiculturalism in Canada Handel Kashope Wright (bio) Guo, S., and L. Wong. 2015. Revisiting Multiculturalism in Canada: Theories, Policies and Debates. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers. 345pp. $69.00 sc. Multiculturalism once held hegemonic sway in various nation-states, especially in the Anglophone Western world, as the preferred approach to addressing cultural an…
What has African Cultural Studies done for you lately? Autobiographical and global considerations of a floating signifier
This essay poses and attempts to answer the central question: ‘What does African Cultural Studies do?’ It takes an autobiographical approach to address the genealogy, status quo and the potential future of the floating signifier that is African Cultural Studies. It unpacks and multiplies African Cultural Studies and contextualises it as a form of African studies and as both interventionist in and contributory to transnational cultural studies. Af…
Contemporary orientations in African Cultural Studies
This paper offers a glimpse of work generated by the 2014 John Douglas Taylor conference on ‘Contemporary Orientations in African Cultural Studies’. The conference generated a number of inquiries into the time and place of contemporary African cultural work, many of which theorised beyond the frameworks that postcolonial and globalisation studies frequently offer. Within the shifting paradigms of Cultural Studies, the work of this conference (as …
The worldliness of Stuart Hall
This special issue addresses the worldliness of Stuart Hall, both in the naïve sense of the global scope of reception and influence of his work and in the more specific Saidian sense of the impact of his work in the formation of cultural studies generally and on specific praxis and intellectual projects. With articles addressing projects such as the Black arts movement in Britain; intellectual versus academic cultural studies in Australia; making…
Stuart Hall’s relevance for the study of African blackness
In this article I draw on Stuart Hall’s extensive writing on blackness generally, touch on the few instances of him directly addressing Africa and continental African blackness and on what Gayatri Spivak rightly sees as the missed articulation of Africa(ns) and the postcolonial cultural studies project in Hall’s work in order to undertake, à la Hall’s essay on Gramsci’s relevance for the study of race and ethnicity, a brief exercise on Hall’s rel…
Cultural studies and critical literacies
This article introduces a special issue on the topic of ‘Cultural Studies and Critical Literacies’. The collection of articles is related to the central theme of the inaugural Summer Institute of the Association for Cultural Studies: to explore the implications of studying literacy by combining perspectives from cultural studies and (critical) literacy studies. Furthermore, with this issue we want to map current trends in cultural studies by shar…
Is This an African I See Before Me
The following is a transcript of a Keynote Address delivered in March, 2007 at a public conference titled, Perceptions of Africa: A Three Day Dialogue Organized by the Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia
Qualitative researchers on paradigm proliferation in educational research: A question‐and‐answer session as multi‐voiced text
This unconventional essay is the (slightly modified) transcript of the question‐and‐answer period of an AERA conference session on the topic of paradigm proliferation. Through responses to the discussant’s prepared questions and audience members’ comments and questions, each panelist extends and defends the ideas put forward in her or his paper and responds to the issues raised from the perspectives of the other panelists that go against the grai…
Are we (t)here yet? Qualitative research in education’s profuse and contested present
This essay addresses the topic of the state of qualitative research in education by asserting that qualitative research in education is in quite a state. Drawing heavily on Denzin and Lincoln’s periodization of qualitative research as a guide, it outlines the various competing developments from within and outside that are vying to characterize the current moment and illustrates the difficulty of pinpointing the moment. Arguing for a conception of…
Does Hlebowitsh Improve on Curriculum History? Reading a Rereading for Its Political Purpose and Implications
Cultural Studies and Education: From Birmingham Origin to Glocal Presence
[Education is] one of the most pressing, promising, and paradoxical sites of cultural studies. (Larry Grossberg 1997) Cultural studies not only contributes enormously to the possibility of articula
An endarkened feminist epistemology? Identity, difference and the politics of representation in educational research
This paper proposes a postmodernism and cultural studies influenced collorary to Cynthia Dillard's notion of "an endarkened feminist epistemology." The paper illustrates that Dillard has developed the notion principally as enabling of a project of recueillement : the articulation of a black feminist epistemology and research paradigm. What remains unaddressed in this project (albeit understandably), is the question of what difference difference m…
Cultural studies as praxis: (Making) an Autobiographical Case
This autobiographical essay ‘takes cultural studies personally’, drawing on experience, identity and the personal to indicate how and why the author is proponent of and is working on developing a model of cultural studies as social justice praxis despite the constraints academia in general and of the university as an institution in particular. The paper travels roughly from the author’s student and teacher days in Sierra Leone through his graduat…
Returning cultural studies to education
Birmingham Texts on a Cultural Studies Approach to Education: A Review by Interview with Michael Green (Part I)
(2001). Birmingham Texts on a Cultural Studies Approach to Education: A Review by Interview with Michael Green (Part I) Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies: Vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 223-246
Michael Green's Reflections on Personal and Institutional Development of Cultural Studies in Education at Birmingham (Part II)
(2001). Michael Green's Reflections on Personal and Institutional Development of Cultural Studies in Education at Birmingham (Part II) Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies: Vol. 23, No. 4, pp. 335-348
Pressing, Promising, and Paradoxical: Larry Grossberg on Education and Cultural Studies
Nailing Jell-O to the Wall: Pinpointing Aspects of State- of-the-Art Curriculum Theorizing
should start by acknowledging that my present task, attempting to review and pin down characteristics of the status quo of the expansive and nebulous field of curriculum theorizing, and to do so in the span of a single essay, is, if not presumptuous, then certainly improbable. Given the penchant for employing metaphors and similes in curriculum theorizing, and the fact that in the field of educational research reviews, knowledge production has of…
Nailing Jell-O to the Wall: Pinpointing Aspects of State-of-the-Art Curriculum Theorizing
Dare we de-centre Birmingham: Troubling the 'origin' and trajectories of cultural studies
This article challenges the widely held assumptions that cultural studies originated in Britain and that the CCCS at Birmingham was the first site of organized cultural studies. Drawing on the very characteristics ascribed to early cultural studies work, the article illustrates that various moments at various other locations, from the Folk Schools of Denmark in the 1920s to Highlander School in North America's Appalachia in the 1930s to the Kamir…
"Baffling Power": History, Pedagogy and Body Politics, an Interview with Philip Corrigan
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Take Birmingham to the Curb, Here Comes African Cultural Studies: An Exercise in Revisionist Historiography
It is a little-known fact that cultural studies proper started in Africa in the 1970s. To be more precise, cultural studies originated at the Kamiriithu Community Education and Cultural Centre in the village of Limuru, Kenya in 1977. Its principal constructors were Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Ngugi wa Mirii, and the membership of the Centre. The central project around which it became manifest was a collective theatrical production involving the writing of…
Whatever Happened to (The) Discipline
Dare we de-centre Birmingham: Troubling the 'origin' and trajectories of cultural studies
This article challenges the widely held assumptions that cultural studies originated in Britain and that the CCCS at Birmingham was the first site of organized cultural studies. Drawing on the very characteristics ascribed to early cultural studies work, the article illustrates that various moments at various other locations, from the Folk Schools of Denmark in the 1920s to Highlander School in North America's Appalachia in the 1930s to the Kamir…
An endarkened feminist epistemology? Identity, difference and the politics of representation in educational research
This paper proposes a postmodernism and cultural studies influenced collorary to Cynthia Dillard's notion of "an endarkened feminist epistemology." The paper illustrates that Dillard has developed the notion principally as enabling of a project of recueillement : the articulation of a black feminist epistemology and research paradigm. What remains unaddressed in this project (albeit understandably), is the question of what difference difference m…
Are we (t)here yet? Qualitative research in education’s profuse and contested present
This essay addresses the topic of the state of qualitative research in education by asserting that qualitative research in education is in quite a state. Drawing heavily on Denzin and Lincoln’s periodization of qualitative research as a guide, it outlines the various competing developments from within and outside that are vying to characterize the current moment and illustrates the difficulty of pinpointing the moment. Arguing for a conception of…
Cultural studies as praxis: (Making) an Autobiographical Case
This autobiographical essay ‘takes cultural studies personally’, drawing on experience, identity and the personal to indicate how and why the author is proponent of and is working on developing a model of cultural studies as social justice praxis despite the constraints academia in general and of the university as an institution in particular. The paper travels roughly from the author’s student and teacher days in Sierra Leone through his graduat…
Stuart Hall’s relevance for the study of African blackness
In this article I draw on Stuart Hall’s extensive writing on blackness generally, touch on the few instances of him directly addressing Africa and continental African blackness and on what Gayatri Spivak rightly sees as the missed articulation of Africa(ns) and the postcolonial cultural studies project in Hall’s work in order to undertake, à la Hall’s essay on Gramsci’s relevance for the study of race and ethnicity, a brief exercise on Hall’s rel…
Cultural Studies and Education: From Birmingham Origin to Glocal Presence
[Education is] one of the most pressing, promising, and paradoxical sites of cultural studies. (Larry Grossberg 1997) Cultural studies not only contributes enormously to the possibility of articula
Nailing Jell-O to the Wall: Pinpointing Aspects of State- of-the-Art Curriculum Theorizing
should start by acknowledging that my present task, attempting to review and pin down characteristics of the status quo of the expansive and nebulous field of curriculum theorizing, and to do so in the span of a single essay, is, if not presumptuous, then certainly improbable. Given the penchant for employing metaphors and similes in curriculum theorizing, and the fact that in the field of educational research reviews, knowledge production has of…
Cultural studies and critical literacies
This article introduces a special issue on the topic of ‘Cultural Studies and Critical Literacies’. The collection of articles is related to the central theme of the inaugural Summer Institute of the Association for Cultural Studies: to explore the implications of studying literacy by combining perspectives from cultural studies and (critical) literacy studies. Furthermore, with this issue we want to map current trends in cultural studies by shar…
Qualitative researchers on paradigm proliferation in educational research: A question‐and‐answer session as multi‐voiced text
This unconventional essay is the (slightly modified) transcript of the question‐and‐answer period of an AERA conference session on the topic of paradigm proliferation. Through responses to the discussant’s prepared questions and audience members’ comments and questions, each panelist extends and defends the ideas put forward in her or his paper and responds to the issues raised from the perspectives of the other panelists that go against the grai…
Pressing, Promising, and Paradoxical: Larry Grossberg on Education and Cultural Studies
We’ve worn out the use of that word”: Australian New Youth on Multiculturalism, And the Politics of Identity, Difference and Belonging
Internationally a plethora of narratives within, beside and in opposition to multiculturalism has necessitated the rethinking of some key questions. Is multiculturalism apt for equitable representation? Can multiculturalism remain the hegemonic discourse and policy of diversity or is it destined to be supplanted? In this essay, we reconsider multiculturalism’s changing currency and pedagogical potential, contextualized in the global multicultural…
What has African Cultural Studies done for you lately? Autobiographical and global considerations of a floating signifier
This essay poses and attempts to answer the central question: ‘What does African Cultural Studies do?’ It takes an autobiographical approach to address the genealogy, status quo and the potential future of the floating signifier that is African Cultural Studies. It unpacks and multiplies African Cultural Studies and contextualises it as a form of African studies and as both interventionist in and contributory to transnational cultural studies. Af…
Take Birmingham to the Curb, Here Comes African Cultural Studies: An Exercise in Revisionist Historiography
It is a little-known fact that cultural studies proper started in Africa in the 1970s. To be more precise, cultural studies originated at the Kamiriithu Community Education and Cultural Centre in the village of Limuru, Kenya in 1977. Its principal constructors were Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Ngugi wa Mirii, and the membership of the Centre. The central project around which it became manifest was a collective theatrical production involving the writing of…
Educational change in Sierra Leone: Making a case for critical African drama
African Cultural Studies: An Overview
In this essay we draw on close to 100 journal essays and books to produce a necessarily partial and subjective survey of contemporary African cultural studies. Any such survey ought to take into account the politics of representation broadly conceptualized and in this case representation largely constitutes the survey. We made choices about identities and identification, space and place and the confluence of these factors in the articulation of A…
Contemporary orientations in African Cultural Studies
This paper offers a glimpse of work generated by the 2014 John Douglas Taylor conference on ‘Contemporary Orientations in African Cultural Studies’. The conference generated a number of inquiries into the time and place of contemporary African cultural work, many of which theorised beyond the frameworks that postcolonial and globalisation studies frequently offer. Within the shifting paradigms of Cultural Studies, the work of this conference (as …
The worldliness of Stuart Hall
This special issue addresses the worldliness of Stuart Hall, both in the naïve sense of the global scope of reception and influence of his work and in the more specific Saidian sense of the impact of his work in the formation of cultural studies generally and on specific praxis and intellectual projects. With articles addressing projects such as the Black arts movement in Britain; intellectual versus academic cultural studies in Australia; making…
Does Hlebowitsh Improve on Curriculum History? Reading a Rereading for Its Political Purpose and Implications
Returning cultural studies to education
Michael Green's Reflections on Personal and Institutional Development of Cultural Studies in Education at Birmingham (Part II)
(2001). Michael Green's Reflections on Personal and Institutional Development of Cultural Studies in Education at Birmingham (Part II) Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies: Vol. 23, No. 4, pp. 335-348
Whatever Happened to (The) Discipline
Educational change in Sierra Leone: Making a case for critical African drama
Would We Know African Cultural Studies If We Saw It
(1995). Would We Know African Cultural Studies If We Saw It? Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies: Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 157-165
"Baffling Power": History, Pedagogy and Body Politics, an Interview with Philip Corrigan
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Take Birmingham to the Curb, Here Comes African Cultural Studies: An Exercise in Revisionist Historiography
It is a little-known fact that cultural studies proper started in Africa in the 1970s. To be more precise, cultural studies originated at the Kamiriithu Community Education and Cultural Centre in the village of Limuru, Kenya in 1977. Its principal constructors were Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Ngugi wa Mirii, and the membership of the Centre. The central project around which it became manifest was a collective theatrical production involving the writing of…
Whatever Happened to (The) Discipline
Dare we de-centre Birmingham: Troubling the 'origin' and trajectories of cultural studies
This article challenges the widely held assumptions that cultural studies originated in Britain and that the CCCS at Birmingham was the first site of organized cultural studies. Drawing on the very characteristics ascribed to early cultural studies work, the article illustrates that various moments at various other locations, from the Folk Schools of Denmark in the 1920s to Highlander School in North America's Appalachia in the 1930s to the Kamir…
Pressing, Promising, and Paradoxical: Larry Grossberg on Education and Cultural Studies
Nailing Jell-O to the Wall: Pinpointing Aspects of State- of-the-Art Curriculum Theorizing
should start by acknowledging that my present task, attempting to review and pin down characteristics of the status quo of the expansive and nebulous field of curriculum theorizing, and to do so in the span of a single essay, is, if not presumptuous, then certainly improbable. Given the penchant for employing metaphors and similes in curriculum theorizing, and the fact that in the field of educational research reviews, knowledge production has of…
Nailing Jell-O to the Wall: Pinpointing Aspects of State-of-the-Art Curriculum Theorizing
Birmingham Texts on a Cultural Studies Approach to Education: A Review by Interview with Michael Green (Part I)
(2001). Birmingham Texts on a Cultural Studies Approach to Education: A Review by Interview with Michael Green (Part I) Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies: Vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 223-246
Michael Green's Reflections on Personal and Institutional Development of Cultural Studies in Education at Birmingham (Part II)
(2001). Michael Green's Reflections on Personal and Institutional Development of Cultural Studies in Education at Birmingham (Part II) Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies: Vol. 23, No. 4, pp. 335-348
Returning cultural studies to education
An endarkened feminist epistemology? Identity, difference and the politics of representation in educational research
This paper proposes a postmodernism and cultural studies influenced collorary to Cynthia Dillard's notion of "an endarkened feminist epistemology." The paper illustrates that Dillard has developed the notion principally as enabling of a project of recueillement : the articulation of a black feminist epistemology and research paradigm. What remains unaddressed in this project (albeit understandably), is the question of what difference difference m…
Cultural studies as praxis: (Making) an Autobiographical Case
This autobiographical essay ‘takes cultural studies personally’, drawing on experience, identity and the personal to indicate how and why the author is proponent of and is working on developing a model of cultural studies as social justice praxis despite the constraints academia in general and of the university as an institution in particular. The paper travels roughly from the author’s student and teacher days in Sierra Leone through his graduat…
Cultural Studies and Education: From Birmingham Origin to Glocal Presence
[Education is] one of the most pressing, promising, and paradoxical sites of cultural studies. (Larry Grossberg 1997) Cultural studies not only contributes enormously to the possibility of articula
Does Hlebowitsh Improve on Curriculum History? Reading a Rereading for Its Political Purpose and Implications
Qualitative researchers on paradigm proliferation in educational research: A question‐and‐answer session as multi‐voiced text
This unconventional essay is the (slightly modified) transcript of the question‐and‐answer period of an AERA conference session on the topic of paradigm proliferation. Through responses to the discussant’s prepared questions and audience members’ comments and questions, each panelist extends and defends the ideas put forward in her or his paper and responds to the issues raised from the perspectives of the other panelists that go against the grai…
Are we (t)here yet? Qualitative research in education’s profuse and contested present
This essay addresses the topic of the state of qualitative research in education by asserting that qualitative research in education is in quite a state. Drawing heavily on Denzin and Lincoln’s periodization of qualitative research as a guide, it outlines the various competing developments from within and outside that are vying to characterize the current moment and illustrates the difficulty of pinpointing the moment. Arguing for a conception of…
Is This an African I See Before Me
The following is a transcript of a Keynote Address delivered in March, 2007 at a public conference titled, Perceptions of Africa: A Three Day Dialogue Organized by the Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia
Cultural studies and critical literacies
This article introduces a special issue on the topic of ‘Cultural Studies and Critical Literacies’. The collection of articles is related to the central theme of the inaugural Summer Institute of the Association for Cultural Studies: to explore the implications of studying literacy by combining perspectives from cultural studies and (critical) literacy studies. Furthermore, with this issue we want to map current trends in cultural studies by shar…
The worldliness of Stuart Hall
This special issue addresses the worldliness of Stuart Hall, both in the naïve sense of the global scope of reception and influence of his work and in the more specific Saidian sense of the impact of his work in the formation of cultural studies generally and on specific praxis and intellectual projects. With articles addressing projects such as the Black arts movement in Britain; intellectual versus academic cultural studies in Australia; making…
Stuart Hall’s relevance for the study of African blackness
In this article I draw on Stuart Hall’s extensive writing on blackness generally, touch on the few instances of him directly addressing Africa and continental African blackness and on what Gayatri Spivak rightly sees as the missed articulation of Africa(ns) and the postcolonial cultural studies project in Hall’s work in order to undertake, à la Hall’s essay on Gramsci’s relevance for the study of race and ethnicity, a brief exercise on Hall’s rel…
Once More, Whence and Whither Canadian Multiculturalism: A Review Essay of Revisiting Multiculturalism in Canada
Once More, Whence and Whither Canadian Multiculturalism? A Review Essay of Revisiting Multiculturalism in Canada Handel Kashope Wright (bio) Guo, S., and L. Wong. 2015. Revisiting Multiculturalism in Canada: Theories, Policies and Debates. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers. 345pp. $69.00 sc. Multiculturalism once held hegemonic sway in various nation-states, especially in the Anglophone Western world, as the preferred approach to addressing cultural an…
What has African Cultural Studies done for you lately? Autobiographical and global considerations of a floating signifier
This essay poses and attempts to answer the central question: ‘What does African Cultural Studies do?’ It takes an autobiographical approach to address the genealogy, status quo and the potential future of the floating signifier that is African Cultural Studies. It unpacks and multiplies African Cultural Studies and contextualises it as a form of African studies and as both interventionist in and contributory to transnational cultural studies. Af…
Contemporary orientations in African Cultural Studies
This paper offers a glimpse of work generated by the 2014 John Douglas Taylor conference on ‘Contemporary Orientations in African Cultural Studies’. The conference generated a number of inquiries into the time and place of contemporary African cultural work, many of which theorised beyond the frameworks that postcolonial and globalisation studies frequently offer. Within the shifting paradigms of Cultural Studies, the work of this conference (as …
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