Ben Chappell
Biographic Data
| ID | 139469 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ben Chappell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ben |
| FAMILY NAME | Chappell |
| SIGNATURE | BEN CHAPPELL |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bridgewater College, Virginia, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Vehicles
Metaphor, as an act of human fancy, combines ideas in improbable ways to sharpen meanings of life and experience. Theoretically, this arises from an association between a sign-for example, a cattle car-and its referent, the Holocaust. These "sign-vehicles" serve as modes of semiotic transportation through conceptual space. Likewise, on-the-ground vehicles can be rich metaphors for the moral imagination. Following on this insight, Vehicles present…
Eric Avila, The Folklore of the Freeway
Creating Aztlán
This work is a book review considering the title Creating Aztlán: Chicano Art, Indigenous Sovereignty, and Lowriding Across Turtle Island by Dylan A. T. Miner
Lowrider Space
Aren't lowriders always gangbangers? And, don't they always hold high status in their neighborhoods? Contrary to both stereotypes, the people who build and drive lowrider cars perform diverse roles while mobilizing a distinctive aesthetic that is sometimes an act of resistance and sometimes of belonging. A fresh application of critical ethnographic methods, Lowrider Space looks beyond media portrayals, high-profile show cars, and famous cruising …
Custom Contestations
This article examines the production of space and contestation of spatial governmentality that occurs in the everyday cruising practices of lowrider car customizers in Austin, Texas. Lowrider style, practiced mostly, but not exclusively, by Mexican Americans, is a form of automotive aesthetics which carries associations with working-class, Latino/a barrio communities. Drawing on critical theories of the production and governance of space, I trace…
Homegirls
Reviewed by: Homegirls: Language and Cultural Practice among Latina Youth Gangs Ben Chappell Homegirls: Language and Cultural Practice among Latina Youth Gangs. By Norma Mendoza-Denton. Malden: Blackwell Publishing. 2008. It is evident from the introduction that Homegirls is an extraordinary book. Norma Mendoza-Denton opens her linguistic ethnography of young female gang members in California with a series of letters to the various audiences whic…
Rehearsals of The Sovereign
The attacks of 9/11 have been generally viewed as a traumatic, historical rupture, ushering in the 'war on terror' as well as a warfare/security state in the US. Yet close attention to police practices on urban streets suggests that the actions of the state in this context are not without precedent. This article links apparently divergent situations in order to track the persistence of a rationality of government, which I call 'threat governmenta…
Custom Contestations
This article examines the production of space and contestation of spatial governmentality that occurs in the everyday cruising practices of lowrider car customizers in Austin, Texas. Lowrider style, practiced mostly, but not exclusively, by Mexican Americans, is a form of automotive aesthetics which carries associations with working-class, Latino/a barrio communities. Drawing on critical theories of the production and governance of space, I trace…
Rehearsals of The Sovereign
The attacks of 9/11 have been generally viewed as a traumatic, historical rupture, ushering in the 'war on terror' as well as a warfare/security state in the US. Yet close attention to police practices on urban streets suggests that the actions of the state in this context are not without precedent. This article links apparently divergent situations in order to track the persistence of a rationality of government, which I call 'threat governmenta…
Rehearsals of The Sovereign
The attacks of 9/11 have been generally viewed as a traumatic, historical rupture, ushering in the 'war on terror' as well as a warfare/security state in the US. Yet close attention to police practices on urban streets suggests that the actions of the state in this context are not without precedent. This article links apparently divergent situations in order to track the persistence of a rationality of government, which I call 'threat governmenta…
Homegirls
Reviewed by: Homegirls: Language and Cultural Practice among Latina Youth Gangs Ben Chappell Homegirls: Language and Cultural Practice among Latina Youth Gangs. By Norma Mendoza-Denton. Malden: Blackwell Publishing. 2008. It is evident from the introduction that Homegirls is an extraordinary book. Norma Mendoza-Denton opens her linguistic ethnography of young female gang members in California with a series of letters to the various audiences whic…
Custom Contestations
This article examines the production of space and contestation of spatial governmentality that occurs in the everyday cruising practices of lowrider car customizers in Austin, Texas. Lowrider style, practiced mostly, but not exclusively, by Mexican Americans, is a form of automotive aesthetics which carries associations with working-class, Latino/a barrio communities. Drawing on critical theories of the production and governance of space, I trace…
Lowrider Space
Aren't lowriders always gangbangers? And, don't they always hold high status in their neighborhoods? Contrary to both stereotypes, the people who build and drive lowrider cars perform diverse roles while mobilizing a distinctive aesthetic that is sometimes an act of resistance and sometimes of belonging. A fresh application of critical ethnographic methods, Lowrider Space looks beyond media portrayals, high-profile show cars, and famous cruising …
Creating Aztlán
This work is a book review considering the title Creating Aztlán: Chicano Art, Indigenous Sovereignty, and Lowriding Across Turtle Island by Dylan A. T. Miner
Eric Avila, The Folklore of the Freeway
Vehicles
Metaphor, as an act of human fancy, combines ideas in improbable ways to sharpen meanings of life and experience. Theoretically, this arises from an association between a sign-for example, a cattle car-and its referent, the Holocaust. These "sign-vehicles" serve as modes of semiotic transportation through conceptual space. Likewise, on-the-ground vehicles can be rich metaphors for the moral imagination. Following on this insight, Vehicles present…
History (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Social aspects (2 works) · Sovereignty (2 works) · Ancient history (1 work)