Laurian R Bowles
Biographic Data
| ID | 153460 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laurian R Bowles |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laurian R |
| FAMILY NAME | Bowles |
| SIGNATURE | BOWLES L R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Davidson College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4020-4908 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Way She Looks
Curated from the holdings of the Walther Collection, The Way She Looks: A History of Female Gazes in African Portraiture was an ambitious photography exhibition that occupied the Main Gallery and the University Gallery of the Ryerson Image Centre in Toronto. In conversation with the bourgeoning interest in African photography and the critical discourse around the fractures in Africa's photographic archives, The Way She Looks attended to gendered …
Black Feminist Ethnography and the Racial Politics of Porter Labor in Ghana
Black scholars have long been at the forefront of ethnographic accounts of race and racism. Still, ethnicity rather than race is a preferred valence for understanding identity politics in Africa. The marginalization of African and diasporic women's intellectual output on race and gender on the continent contributes to a vision of Africans as perennial subjects and overlooks a rich discourse on global antiblackness and white supremacy. With ethnog…
Epistolary storytelling
This article presents a series of letters the authors exchanged while conducting ethnographic research in Belize and Ghana. The letters reveal an affinity between feminist ethnographic praxis and a politically attuned epistemology of the senses, what the authors call a sensory feminist orientation to scholarship. Expanding on criticism of the way sensory hierarchies inform Western knowledge-building, the authors reevaluate their own epistolary ex…
Introduction to Paul Stoller's sensory poetics
To accept sensuousness is ... to lend one’s body to the world and accept its complexities, tastes, structures, and smells ... sensuous scholarship is ultimately a mixing of head and heart. It is an ope
Moral Capitalism
Scholars have long held interest in the way power is accumulated and reproduced. The paradox of moral capitalism is the problematic reproduction of marginality through uneven exchanges and the embodiment of ethical and moral considerations. Despite well-known indictments, the desire for a moral capitalism persists. This essay suggests that the contexts of moral capitalism are frequently informed by this awareness and the permission people give th…
Doing the Snap
This article describes the use of participatory photography to examine the lives of women migrants who work as head porters in urban Ghana. African markets are one of the few public spaces dominated by women, and this article analyzes how visual methodologies can successfully interrogate hierarchies of labor and the social marginalization of head porters known as kayayoo . Focusing on the sensory storytelling with photographs, this essay demonstr…
Dress Politics and Framing Self in Ghana
Transnational mobility, social capital, and cosmopolitan women traders in Ghana
The dynamic economic power of Ghanaian women as traders in cloth and foodstuffs is well documented in the humanities and social sciences. This paper focuses on an emergent category of Ghanaian traders, women who are educated abroad and travel the globe to purchase consumer items, art, and cloth to sell on the Ghanaian market. The narratives of these women highlight numerous sociohistorical moments relevant to the global economy. As first- and sec…
Transnational mobility, social capital, and cosmopolitan women traders in Ghana
The dynamic economic power of Ghanaian women as traders in cloth and foodstuffs is well documented in the humanities and social sciences. This paper focuses on an emergent category of Ghanaian traders, women who are educated abroad and travel the globe to purchase consumer items, art, and cloth to sell on the Ghanaian market. The narratives of these women highlight numerous sociohistorical moments relevant to the global economy. As first- and sec…
Epistolary storytelling
This article presents a series of letters the authors exchanged while conducting ethnographic research in Belize and Ghana. The letters reveal an affinity between feminist ethnographic praxis and a politically attuned epistemology of the senses, what the authors call a sensory feminist orientation to scholarship. Expanding on criticism of the way sensory hierarchies inform Western knowledge-building, the authors reevaluate their own epistolary ex…
Doing the Snap
This article describes the use of participatory photography to examine the lives of women migrants who work as head porters in urban Ghana. African markets are one of the few public spaces dominated by women, and this article analyzes how visual methodologies can successfully interrogate hierarchies of labor and the social marginalization of head porters known as kayayoo . Focusing on the sensory storytelling with photographs, this essay demonstr…
Dress Politics and Framing Self in Ghana
Introduction to Paul Stoller's sensory poetics
To accept sensuousness is ... to lend one’s body to the world and accept its complexities, tastes, structures, and smells ... sensuous scholarship is ultimately a mixing of head and heart. It is an ope
Transnational mobility, social capital, and cosmopolitan women traders in Ghana
The dynamic economic power of Ghanaian women as traders in cloth and foodstuffs is well documented in the humanities and social sciences. This paper focuses on an emergent category of Ghanaian traders, women who are educated abroad and travel the globe to purchase consumer items, art, and cloth to sell on the Ghanaian market. The narratives of these women highlight numerous sociohistorical moments relevant to the global economy. As first- and sec…
Dress Politics and Framing Self in Ghana
Moral Capitalism
Scholars have long held interest in the way power is accumulated and reproduced. The paradox of moral capitalism is the problematic reproduction of marginality through uneven exchanges and the embodiment of ethical and moral considerations. Despite well-known indictments, the desire for a moral capitalism persists. This essay suggests that the contexts of moral capitalism are frequently informed by this awareness and the permission people give th…
Doing the Snap
This article describes the use of participatory photography to examine the lives of women migrants who work as head porters in urban Ghana. African markets are one of the few public spaces dominated by women, and this article analyzes how visual methodologies can successfully interrogate hierarchies of labor and the social marginalization of head porters known as kayayoo . Focusing on the sensory storytelling with photographs, this essay demonstr…
Black Feminist Ethnography and the Racial Politics of Porter Labor in Ghana
Black scholars have long been at the forefront of ethnographic accounts of race and racism. Still, ethnicity rather than race is a preferred valence for understanding identity politics in Africa. The marginalization of African and diasporic women's intellectual output on race and gender on the continent contributes to a vision of Africans as perennial subjects and overlooks a rich discourse on global antiblackness and white supremacy. With ethnog…
Epistolary storytelling
This article presents a series of letters the authors exchanged while conducting ethnographic research in Belize and Ghana. The letters reveal an affinity between feminist ethnographic praxis and a politically attuned epistemology of the senses, what the authors call a sensory feminist orientation to scholarship. Expanding on criticism of the way sensory hierarchies inform Western knowledge-building, the authors reevaluate their own epistolary ex…
Introduction to Paul Stoller's sensory poetics
To accept sensuousness is ... to lend one’s body to the world and accept its complexities, tastes, structures, and smells ... sensuous scholarship is ultimately a mixing of head and heart. It is an ope
The Way She Looks
Curated from the holdings of the Walther Collection, The Way She Looks: A History of Female Gazes in African Portraiture was an ambitious photography exhibition that occupied the Main Gallery and the University Gallery of the Ryerson Image Centre in Toronto. In conversation with the bourgeoning interest in African photography and the critical discourse around the fractures in Africa's photographic archives, The Way She Looks attended to gendered …
Political science (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · African history and culture studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Visual arts (3 works)