Keith Walters
Biographic Data
| ID | 161226 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Keith Walters |
| GIVEN NAMES | Keith |
| FAMILY NAME | Walters |
| SIGNATURE | WALTERS K |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1433-387X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 97 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The material and the moral: Contradictory imperatives and the production of trafficking narratives in South India
Transnational anti-trafficking networks seek to 'rescue' cisgender women who sell sex in India. This article puzzles out why cis female sex workers might narrate themselves as victims of trafficking in need of rescue despite making comfortable livings as independent sex workers who control their own labour. I draw data from my own ethnographic observations, interviews with 130 Telugu-speaking sex workers, as well as publicly circulating media cli…
Contestations and contradictions: Feminist research on structures and institutions governing sex work in India
Taking exception to the persistent and recurrent exceptionalism of sex work within discourses on anti-trafficking, global health, brahmanical patriarchy and Indian nationalism, this special section comprises four articles. Originally conceived as part of a panel for a spring conference scheduled for summer 2020, the articles emerged in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic and include research by Dr Gowri Vijayakumar, Dr Vibhuti Ramachandran, Dr…
The Routledge Handbook of Arabic and Identity
Moral Security: Anti-trafficking and the Humanitarian State in South India
This article argues that global panic over sex trafficking animates a mode of global governmentality that fuses together otherwise contradictory registers of care and punishment in the disciplining of women who sell sex. This mode of governmentality, termed here "moral security," foregrounds feminine sexuality as the site of greatest social risk and needful intervention. By conflating sex work with sex trafficking, moral security enables the huma…
Applying Constant Comparative Method with Multiple Investigators and Inter-Coder Reliability
Building on practice, action research, and theory, the purpose of this paper is to present a 10-step method for applying the Constant Comparative Method (CCM) of grounded theory when multiple researchers perform data analysis and meaning making. CCM is a core qualitative analysis approach for grounded theory research. Literature suggests approaches for increasing the credibility of CCM using multiple researchers and inter-coder reliability (ICR),…
The Stickiness of Sex Work: Pleasure, Habit, and Intersubstantiality in South India
Sex work has often been analyzed in terms of labor rights, but this approach captures little of what becomes of women's bodies, their desires, and their experiences of class and gender through regular participation in commercial sex. I argue that women in Hyderabad, South India, understand themselves to be bodily transformed by the "hot" substances and pleasures that pervade sex work. Sex work can create dangers, but in contrast to other forms of…
Everything's an Argument with Readings
"We Communicated That Way for a Reason": Language Practices and Language Ideologies Among Hearing Adults Whose Parents Are Deaf
Families with deaf parents and hearing children are often bilingual and bimodal, with both a spoken language and a signed one in regular use among family members. When interviewed, 13 American hearing adults with deaf parents reported widely varying language practices, sign language abilities, and social affiliations with Deaf and Hearing communities. Despite this variation, the interviewees' moral judgments of their own and others' communicative…
Pedagogy and praxis: Simulations and skill sets
The purpose of this paper is to examine the expectations of human resource management professionals as they relate to reality‐based learning experiences that can shape college graduates' education. Computer‐based simulations can provide a strong opportunity for learning‐by‐doing, so it would be important to understand what skill sets should be targeted for these. Design/methodology/approach A survey was used for the research question: what work‐r…
Gendering French in Tunisia: Language Ideologies and Nationalism
This paper seeks to describe and account for a common ideology among Tunisians and North Africans more broadly that associates the use of French with women, thereby symbolically associating the use of Arabic with men. In this regard, the use of French can be said to be "gendered" there. In an effort to historicize this phenomenon, I sketch the social history of French in Tunisia, particularly in regards to the access female and male Tunisians wou…
Rethinking Scaffolding: Examining Negotiation of Meaning in an ESL Storytelling Task
The purpose of this study was to investigate what differentiated higher quality from lower quality negotiation-of-meaning interactions as well as the consequences of these interactions in a storytelling task. Participants included 21 students enrolled in ESL classes who told a personal narrative to a small audience consisting of the teacher and two classmates. A question-and-answer session immediately followed the first telling, after which the s…
Fergies prescience: The changing nature of diglossia in Tunisia
Despite criticisms it has received, Ferguson's (1959b) account of diglossia should be recognized for its prescience. It offered not only an admittedly idealized characterization of diglossia in Arabic, but also pointed out how and why it might change. Focusing on Tunisia, this article demonstrates the many ways in which Fergie was right. It examines the changing demographics of Tunisians' access to the high variety of Arabic; the complex ways in …
He Can Read My Writing but He sho' Can't Read My Mind: Zora Neale Hurston's Revenge in Mules and Men
This reading of Zora Neale Hurston's Mules and Men considers the nature of oppositional discourse when the form of critique is a genre likely unrecognized and unappreciated by members of the majority culture and those trained in majority ways. Through an examination of the history of the book's production and a close reading of its opening and final tale, this article examines Mules and Men as an ethnography of communication in the form of a tric…
They Think You Ain't Much of Nothing: The Social Construction of the Welfare Mother
KAREN SECCOMBE Portland State University DELORES JAMES University of Florida* KIMBERELY BATTLE WALTERS Azusa Pacific University* Welfare reform is in the forefront of the political and social agenda in the United States. This research examines the ways that women on interpret use. From in-depth interviews with 47 women who received cash assistance in 1995, we examined the theories behind their accounts of the stigmatizing of recipients and why th…
Gender, identity, and the political economy of language: Anglophone wives in Tunisia
Using the frameworks of the political economy of language, and of language use as acts of identity, this study attempts to describe and analyze the situation of natively anglophone wives living with their Tunisian husbands in Tunisia - a speech community characterized by Arabic diglossia and Arabic/French bilingualism. Particular attention is devoted to these women's beliefs about using Tunisian Arabic (TA), the native language of their husbands,…
The Spread of Nonsexist Language: Planning for Usage That Includes Us All
Research Article| December 01 1994 12. The Spread of Nonsexist Language: Planning for Usage That Includes Us All Keith Walters Keith Walters University of Texas, Austin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Publication of the American Dialect Society (1994) 78 (1): 91–100. https://doi.org/10.1215/-78-1-91 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Keith Walters; 12. The Spread of Nonsexist Langua…
Sociolinguistics Today: International Perspectives
Sociolinguistics Today: International Perspectives. Kmgsley Bolton and Helen Kwok. eds. London and New York: Routledge, 1992. 383 pp
From Code‐Switching to Borrowing: Foreign and Diglossic Mixing in Moroccan Arabic . Jeffrey Heath
Advances in Cartographic Dialectology
They Think You Ain't Much of Nothing: The Social Construction of the Welfare Mother
KAREN SECCOMBE Portland State University DELORES JAMES University of Florida* KIMBERELY BATTLE WALTERS Azusa Pacific University* Welfare reform is in the forefront of the political and social agenda in the United States. This research examines the ways that women on interpret use. From in-depth interviews with 47 women who received cash assistance in 1995, we examined the theories behind their accounts of the stigmatizing of recipients and why th…
Gender, identity, and the political economy of language: Anglophone wives in Tunisia
Using the frameworks of the political economy of language, and of language use as acts of identity, this study attempts to describe and analyze the situation of natively anglophone wives living with their Tunisian husbands in Tunisia - a speech community characterized by Arabic diglossia and Arabic/French bilingualism. Particular attention is devoted to these women's beliefs about using Tunisian Arabic (TA), the native language of their husbands,…
Applying Constant Comparative Method with Multiple Investigators and Inter-Coder Reliability
Building on practice, action research, and theory, the purpose of this paper is to present a 10-step method for applying the Constant Comparative Method (CCM) of grounded theory when multiple researchers perform data analysis and meaning making. CCM is a core qualitative analysis approach for grounded theory research. Literature suggests approaches for increasing the credibility of CCM using multiple researchers and inter-coder reliability (ICR),…
Fergies prescience: The changing nature of diglossia in Tunisia
Despite criticisms it has received, Ferguson's (1959b) account of diglossia should be recognized for its prescience. It offered not only an admittedly idealized characterization of diglossia in Arabic, but also pointed out how and why it might change. Focusing on Tunisia, this article demonstrates the many ways in which Fergie was right. It examines the changing demographics of Tunisians' access to the high variety of Arabic; the complex ways in …
The Stickiness of Sex Work: Pleasure, Habit, and Intersubstantiality in South India
Sex work has often been analyzed in terms of labor rights, but this approach captures little of what becomes of women's bodies, their desires, and their experiences of class and gender through regular participation in commercial sex. I argue that women in Hyderabad, South India, understand themselves to be bodily transformed by the "hot" substances and pleasures that pervade sex work. Sex work can create dangers, but in contrast to other forms of…
Moral Security: Anti-trafficking and the Humanitarian State in South India
This article argues that global panic over sex trafficking animates a mode of global governmentality that fuses together otherwise contradictory registers of care and punishment in the disciplining of women who sell sex. This mode of governmentality, termed here "moral security," foregrounds feminine sexuality as the site of greatest social risk and needful intervention. By conflating sex work with sex trafficking, moral security enables the huma…
Gendering French in Tunisia: Language Ideologies and Nationalism
This paper seeks to describe and account for a common ideology among Tunisians and North Africans more broadly that associates the use of French with women, thereby symbolically associating the use of Arabic with men. In this regard, the use of French can be said to be "gendered" there. In an effort to historicize this phenomenon, I sketch the social history of French in Tunisia, particularly in regards to the access female and male Tunisians wou…
He Can Read My Writing but He sho' Can't Read My Mind: Zora Neale Hurston's Revenge in Mules and Men
This reading of Zora Neale Hurston's Mules and Men considers the nature of oppositional discourse when the form of critique is a genre likely unrecognized and unappreciated by members of the majority culture and those trained in majority ways. Through an examination of the history of the book's production and a close reading of its opening and final tale, this article examines Mules and Men as an ethnography of communication in the form of a tric…
Rethinking Scaffolding: Examining Negotiation of Meaning in an ESL Storytelling Task
The purpose of this study was to investigate what differentiated higher quality from lower quality negotiation-of-meaning interactions as well as the consequences of these interactions in a storytelling task. Participants included 21 students enrolled in ESL classes who told a personal narrative to a small audience consisting of the teacher and two classmates. A question-and-answer session immediately followed the first telling, after which the s…
Sociolinguistics Today: International Perspectives
Sociolinguistics Today: International Perspectives. Kmgsley Bolton and Helen Kwok. eds. London and New York: Routledge, 1992. 383 pp
Contestations and contradictions: Feminist research on structures and institutions governing sex work in India
Taking exception to the persistent and recurrent exceptionalism of sex work within discourses on anti-trafficking, global health, brahmanical patriarchy and Indian nationalism, this special section comprises four articles. Originally conceived as part of a panel for a spring conference scheduled for summer 2020, the articles emerged in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic and include research by Dr Gowri Vijayakumar, Dr Vibhuti Ramachandran, Dr…
Advances in Cartographic Dialectology
From Code‐Switching to Borrowing: Foreign and Diglossic Mixing in Moroccan Arabic . Jeffrey Heath
The Spread of Nonsexist Language: Planning for Usage That Includes Us All
Research Article| December 01 1994 12. The Spread of Nonsexist Language: Planning for Usage That Includes Us All Keith Walters Keith Walters University of Texas, Austin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Publication of the American Dialect Society (1994) 78 (1): 91–100. https://doi.org/10.1215/-78-1-91 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Keith Walters; 12. The Spread of Nonsexist Langua…
Sociolinguistics Today: International Perspectives
Sociolinguistics Today: International Perspectives. Kmgsley Bolton and Helen Kwok. eds. London and New York: Routledge, 1992. 383 pp
Gender, identity, and the political economy of language: Anglophone wives in Tunisia
Using the frameworks of the political economy of language, and of language use as acts of identity, this study attempts to describe and analyze the situation of natively anglophone wives living with their Tunisian husbands in Tunisia - a speech community characterized by Arabic diglossia and Arabic/French bilingualism. Particular attention is devoted to these women's beliefs about using Tunisian Arabic (TA), the native language of their husbands,…
They Think You Ain't Much of Nothing: The Social Construction of the Welfare Mother
KAREN SECCOMBE Portland State University DELORES JAMES University of Florida* KIMBERELY BATTLE WALTERS Azusa Pacific University* Welfare reform is in the forefront of the political and social agenda in the United States. This research examines the ways that women on interpret use. From in-depth interviews with 47 women who received cash assistance in 1995, we examined the theories behind their accounts of the stigmatizing of recipients and why th…
He Can Read My Writing but He sho' Can't Read My Mind: Zora Neale Hurston's Revenge in Mules and Men
This reading of Zora Neale Hurston's Mules and Men considers the nature of oppositional discourse when the form of critique is a genre likely unrecognized and unappreciated by members of the majority culture and those trained in majority ways. Through an examination of the history of the book's production and a close reading of its opening and final tale, this article examines Mules and Men as an ethnography of communication in the form of a tric…
Rethinking Scaffolding: Examining Negotiation of Meaning in an ESL Storytelling Task
The purpose of this study was to investigate what differentiated higher quality from lower quality negotiation-of-meaning interactions as well as the consequences of these interactions in a storytelling task. Participants included 21 students enrolled in ESL classes who told a personal narrative to a small audience consisting of the teacher and two classmates. A question-and-answer session immediately followed the first telling, after which the s…
Fergies prescience: The changing nature of diglossia in Tunisia
Despite criticisms it has received, Ferguson's (1959b) account of diglossia should be recognized for its prescience. It offered not only an admittedly idealized characterization of diglossia in Arabic, but also pointed out how and why it might change. Focusing on Tunisia, this article demonstrates the many ways in which Fergie was right. It examines the changing demographics of Tunisians' access to the high variety of Arabic; the complex ways in …
Pedagogy and praxis: Simulations and skill sets
The purpose of this paper is to examine the expectations of human resource management professionals as they relate to reality‐based learning experiences that can shape college graduates' education. Computer‐based simulations can provide a strong opportunity for learning‐by‐doing, so it would be important to understand what skill sets should be targeted for these. Design/methodology/approach A survey was used for the research question: what work‐r…
Gendering French in Tunisia: Language Ideologies and Nationalism
This paper seeks to describe and account for a common ideology among Tunisians and North Africans more broadly that associates the use of French with women, thereby symbolically associating the use of Arabic with men. In this regard, the use of French can be said to be "gendered" there. In an effort to historicize this phenomenon, I sketch the social history of French in Tunisia, particularly in regards to the access female and male Tunisians wou…
"We Communicated That Way for a Reason": Language Practices and Language Ideologies Among Hearing Adults Whose Parents Are Deaf
Families with deaf parents and hearing children are often bilingual and bimodal, with both a spoken language and a signed one in regular use among family members. When interviewed, 13 American hearing adults with deaf parents reported widely varying language practices, sign language abilities, and social affiliations with Deaf and Hearing communities. Despite this variation, the interviewees' moral judgments of their own and others' communicative…
Everything's an Argument with Readings
Applying Constant Comparative Method with Multiple Investigators and Inter-Coder Reliability
Building on practice, action research, and theory, the purpose of this paper is to present a 10-step method for applying the Constant Comparative Method (CCM) of grounded theory when multiple researchers perform data analysis and meaning making. CCM is a core qualitative analysis approach for grounded theory research. Literature suggests approaches for increasing the credibility of CCM using multiple researchers and inter-coder reliability (ICR),…
The Stickiness of Sex Work: Pleasure, Habit, and Intersubstantiality in South India
Sex work has often been analyzed in terms of labor rights, but this approach captures little of what becomes of women's bodies, their desires, and their experiences of class and gender through regular participation in commercial sex. I argue that women in Hyderabad, South India, understand themselves to be bodily transformed by the "hot" substances and pleasures that pervade sex work. Sex work can create dangers, but in contrast to other forms of…
The Routledge Handbook of Arabic and Identity
Moral Security: Anti-trafficking and the Humanitarian State in South India
This article argues that global panic over sex trafficking animates a mode of global governmentality that fuses together otherwise contradictory registers of care and punishment in the disciplining of women who sell sex. This mode of governmentality, termed here "moral security," foregrounds feminine sexuality as the site of greatest social risk and needful intervention. By conflating sex work with sex trafficking, moral security enables the huma…
The material and the moral: Contradictory imperatives and the production of trafficking narratives in South India
Transnational anti-trafficking networks seek to 'rescue' cisgender women who sell sex in India. This article puzzles out why cis female sex workers might narrate themselves as victims of trafficking in need of rescue despite making comfortable livings as independent sex workers who control their own labour. I draw data from my own ethnographic observations, interviews with 130 Telugu-speaking sex workers, as well as publicly circulating media cli…
Contestations and contradictions: Feminist research on structures and institutions governing sex work in India
Taking exception to the persistent and recurrent exceptionalism of sex work within discourses on anti-trafficking, global health, brahmanical patriarchy and Indian nationalism, this special section comprises four articles. Originally conceived as part of a panel for a spring conference scheduled for summer 2020, the articles emerged in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic and include research by Dr Gowri Vijayakumar, Dr Vibhuti Ramachandran, Dr…
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