Ashleigh E Mckinzie
Biographic Data
| ID | 161667 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ashleigh E Mckinzie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ashleigh E |
| FAMILY NAME | Mckinzie |
| SIGNATURE | MCKINZIE A E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Georgia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5302-0182 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 66 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Institutional, Ideological, and Interactional Constraints: The Case of Sexual Abuse in White Evangelical Settings 1
Drawing on 32 interviews with survivors, we examine sexual abuse in white evangelical contexts as a point of intervention in feminist debates over agency. In recent decades, scholars have tended to focus on how women in gender‐traditional religions exercise agency via submission and piety. We argue that the case of abuse points to the limits of agency as a lens to understand women and girls' experiences, and theorize ideological, institutional, a…
Embodying Inequality: Using Ethnographic Data to Teach Intersectionality
This article analyzes the effectiveness of an activity we developed to help students better understand intersectionality. Intersectionality is an analytic concept that signifies ways that inequalities may overlap to create unique forms of privilege and subjugation. In the activity, students use assigned vignettes from the perspective of research participants in our own ethnographic data (including excerpts from interviews and field notes) to inte…
Policing in Natural Disasters: Stress, Resilience, and the Challenges of Emergency Management
Riding the Waves of Work and Life: Explaining Long-Term Experiences with Work Hour Mismatches
Paid work has become more precarious in the recent decades, prompting many conflicts between employers and employees, including struggles over work hours. To better understand these struggles, we provide the first examination of long-term experiences with work hour mismatches (i.e., gaps between the number of hours people prefer to work per week and the number of hours they actually work). Using sequence analysis and nearly two decades of data fr…
You don’t miss it ‘til it’s gone: Insecurity, place, and the social construction of the environment
In this article, I examine the social construction of the environment, ideas about the risk society, place attachment and place detachment in the aftermath of two tornadoes that occurred in 2011 in Joplin, Missouri, and Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The specific research questions are: How does the physical world influence the social world in the face of radically changed surroundings due to disaster? How do disaster aftermaths shape the ways in which par…
An argument for context‐driven intersectionality
The concept of intersectionality has fundamentally changed feminist theorizing and the study of women and gender. However, intersectional research, theorizing, and practice also have been subject to important critiques. This article provides a brief genealogy of intersectionality and summarizes major critiques. We recognize value in these critiques as well as the ongoing power of an intersectional lens. We therefore advocate what we call “context…
The Politics of Compassion: The Sichuan Earthquake and Civic Engagement in China
A Tale of Two Cities: Variations in Perceptions of Disaster Recovery and the Importance of Intersectionality
In this article, the author examines long-term recovery from disaster in Joplin, Missouri, and Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Tornados devastated both cities in 2011. The author asks (1) how sociohistoric contexts influenced perceptions of recovery and (2) how perceptions of recovery vary within and across social groups and geographic contexts. This research is based on fieldwork that spans 2013 to 2016, archival data, and 162 interviews. There are three m…
Deconstruction of destruction stories: Narrative, Inequality, and Disasters
A commonly-held belief is that natural disasters do not discriminate. This paper, though, poses the following theoretical question: what does the elision of race, class, and gender in the news media say about disasters in the neoliberal era? It draws on the author's analysis of two prominent newspapers-The New York Times and USA Today-and their coverage of the recovery process after devastating tornadoes in two towns in the United States (Tuscalo…
Scared to Death: Reflections on Panic and Anxiety in the Field
This paper examines reflections about researcher emotions and the experience of having panic attacks and panic disorder as a result of fieldwork. Anxiety and panic are sparsely discussed in methodological appendices and handbooks about qualitative research, and the embodiment of mental health in the field has received even less attention. I have two aims in the paper: to describe the experience of panic attacks and to open a discussion about pani…
Resolving Negative Affect and Restoring Meaning: Responses to Deflection Produced by Unwanted Sexual Experiences
Unwanted sexual experiences are seldom acknowledged as “rape.” These are identity-threatening events that cause negative affect and cognitive confusion. According to affect control theory, such events produce deflection that is resolved through restorative acts, redefinition of behavior, or modification or redefinition of identities. Since deflection reduction is an underspecified aspect of the theory, we employ theories of power dependence to be…
Deviance and Social Control in an Alternative Community: The Unique Case of the Rainbow Family of Living Light
This article employs ethnographic fieldwork and interviews to examine social control and redefined deviance in a utopian countercultural group, The Rainbow Family of Living Light, to answer the question of how socially marginalized groups create and maintain collective identity. Working within a symbolic interactionist paradigm, and drawing on theoretical perspectives on reintegrative shaming, the authors examine the experiences of Rainbow Gather…
Musical Ties That Bind: Nostalgia, Affect, and Heritage in Festival Narratives
Affective heritage embracement, a collective narrative of nostalgia, is identified at two popular music festivals. 'MusicFest' embraces a tradition of 'Red Dirt' country music through performance (music festival), whereas the 'Walnut Valley Festival' embraces a bluegrass/folk musical heritage through performance and participation (musicians' festival). The symbolic importance of musical interaction is explored to highlight the experienced emotion…
An argument for context‐driven intersectionality
The concept of intersectionality has fundamentally changed feminist theorizing and the study of women and gender. However, intersectional research, theorizing, and practice also have been subject to important critiques. This article provides a brief genealogy of intersectionality and summarizes major critiques. We recognize value in these critiques as well as the ongoing power of an intersectional lens. We therefore advocate what we call “context…
Resolving Negative Affect and Restoring Meaning: Responses to Deflection Produced by Unwanted Sexual Experiences
Unwanted sexual experiences are seldom acknowledged as “rape.” These are identity-threatening events that cause negative affect and cognitive confusion. According to affect control theory, such events produce deflection that is resolved through restorative acts, redefinition of behavior, or modification or redefinition of identities. Since deflection reduction is an underspecified aspect of the theory, we employ theories of power dependence to be…
Musical Ties That Bind: Nostalgia, Affect, and Heritage in Festival Narratives
Affective heritage embracement, a collective narrative of nostalgia, is identified at two popular music festivals. 'MusicFest' embraces a tradition of 'Red Dirt' country music through performance (music festival), whereas the 'Walnut Valley Festival' embraces a bluegrass/folk musical heritage through performance and participation (musicians' festival). The symbolic importance of musical interaction is explored to highlight the experienced emotion…
Deconstruction of destruction stories: Narrative, Inequality, and Disasters
A commonly-held belief is that natural disasters do not discriminate. This paper, though, poses the following theoretical question: what does the elision of race, class, and gender in the news media say about disasters in the neoliberal era? It draws on the author's analysis of two prominent newspapers-The New York Times and USA Today-and their coverage of the recovery process after devastating tornadoes in two towns in the United States (Tuscalo…
Embodying Inequality: Using Ethnographic Data to Teach Intersectionality
This article analyzes the effectiveness of an activity we developed to help students better understand intersectionality. Intersectionality is an analytic concept that signifies ways that inequalities may overlap to create unique forms of privilege and subjugation. In the activity, students use assigned vignettes from the perspective of research participants in our own ethnographic data (including excerpts from interviews and field notes) to inte…
Policing in Natural Disasters: Stress, Resilience, and the Challenges of Emergency Management
The Politics of Compassion: The Sichuan Earthquake and Civic Engagement in China
A Tale of Two Cities: Variations in Perceptions of Disaster Recovery and the Importance of Intersectionality
In this article, the author examines long-term recovery from disaster in Joplin, Missouri, and Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Tornados devastated both cities in 2011. The author asks (1) how sociohistoric contexts influenced perceptions of recovery and (2) how perceptions of recovery vary within and across social groups and geographic contexts. This research is based on fieldwork that spans 2013 to 2016, archival data, and 162 interviews. There are three m…
Deviance and Social Control in an Alternative Community: The Unique Case of the Rainbow Family of Living Light
This article employs ethnographic fieldwork and interviews to examine social control and redefined deviance in a utopian countercultural group, The Rainbow Family of Living Light, to answer the question of how socially marginalized groups create and maintain collective identity. Working within a symbolic interactionist paradigm, and drawing on theoretical perspectives on reintegrative shaming, the authors examine the experiences of Rainbow Gather…
Institutional, Ideological, and Interactional Constraints: The Case of Sexual Abuse in White Evangelical Settings 1
Drawing on 32 interviews with survivors, we examine sexual abuse in white evangelical contexts as a point of intervention in feminist debates over agency. In recent decades, scholars have tended to focus on how women in gender‐traditional religions exercise agency via submission and piety. We argue that the case of abuse points to the limits of agency as a lens to understand women and girls' experiences, and theorize ideological, institutional, a…
You don’t miss it ‘til it’s gone: Insecurity, place, and the social construction of the environment
In this article, I examine the social construction of the environment, ideas about the risk society, place attachment and place detachment in the aftermath of two tornadoes that occurred in 2011 in Joplin, Missouri, and Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The specific research questions are: How does the physical world influence the social world in the face of radically changed surroundings due to disaster? How do disaster aftermaths shape the ways in which par…
Scared to Death: Reflections on Panic and Anxiety in the Field
This paper examines reflections about researcher emotions and the experience of having panic attacks and panic disorder as a result of fieldwork. Anxiety and panic are sparsely discussed in methodological appendices and handbooks about qualitative research, and the embodiment of mental health in the field has received even less attention. I have two aims in the paper: to describe the experience of panic attacks and to open a discussion about pani…
Deviance and Social Control in an Alternative Community: The Unique Case of the Rainbow Family of Living Light
This article employs ethnographic fieldwork and interviews to examine social control and redefined deviance in a utopian countercultural group, The Rainbow Family of Living Light, to answer the question of how socially marginalized groups create and maintain collective identity. Working within a symbolic interactionist paradigm, and drawing on theoretical perspectives on reintegrative shaming, the authors examine the experiences of Rainbow Gather…
Musical Ties That Bind: Nostalgia, Affect, and Heritage in Festival Narratives
Affective heritage embracement, a collective narrative of nostalgia, is identified at two popular music festivals. 'MusicFest' embraces a tradition of 'Red Dirt' country music through performance (music festival), whereas the 'Walnut Valley Festival' embraces a bluegrass/folk musical heritage through performance and participation (musicians' festival). The symbolic importance of musical interaction is explored to highlight the experienced emotion…
Resolving Negative Affect and Restoring Meaning: Responses to Deflection Produced by Unwanted Sexual Experiences
Unwanted sexual experiences are seldom acknowledged as “rape.” These are identity-threatening events that cause negative affect and cognitive confusion. According to affect control theory, such events produce deflection that is resolved through restorative acts, redefinition of behavior, or modification or redefinition of identities. Since deflection reduction is an underspecified aspect of the theory, we employ theories of power dependence to be…
A Tale of Two Cities: Variations in Perceptions of Disaster Recovery and the Importance of Intersectionality
In this article, the author examines long-term recovery from disaster in Joplin, Missouri, and Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Tornados devastated both cities in 2011. The author asks (1) how sociohistoric contexts influenced perceptions of recovery and (2) how perceptions of recovery vary within and across social groups and geographic contexts. This research is based on fieldwork that spans 2013 to 2016, archival data, and 162 interviews. There are three m…
Deconstruction of destruction stories: Narrative, Inequality, and Disasters
A commonly-held belief is that natural disasters do not discriminate. This paper, though, poses the following theoretical question: what does the elision of race, class, and gender in the news media say about disasters in the neoliberal era? It draws on the author's analysis of two prominent newspapers-The New York Times and USA Today-and their coverage of the recovery process after devastating tornadoes in two towns in the United States (Tuscalo…
Scared to Death: Reflections on Panic and Anxiety in the Field
This paper examines reflections about researcher emotions and the experience of having panic attacks and panic disorder as a result of fieldwork. Anxiety and panic are sparsely discussed in methodological appendices and handbooks about qualitative research, and the embodiment of mental health in the field has received even less attention. I have two aims in the paper: to describe the experience of panic attacks and to open a discussion about pani…
Riding the Waves of Work and Life: Explaining Long-Term Experiences with Work Hour Mismatches
Paid work has become more precarious in the recent decades, prompting many conflicts between employers and employees, including struggles over work hours. To better understand these struggles, we provide the first examination of long-term experiences with work hour mismatches (i.e., gaps between the number of hours people prefer to work per week and the number of hours they actually work). Using sequence analysis and nearly two decades of data fr…
You don’t miss it ‘til it’s gone: Insecurity, place, and the social construction of the environment
In this article, I examine the social construction of the environment, ideas about the risk society, place attachment and place detachment in the aftermath of two tornadoes that occurred in 2011 in Joplin, Missouri, and Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The specific research questions are: How does the physical world influence the social world in the face of radically changed surroundings due to disaster? How do disaster aftermaths shape the ways in which par…
An argument for context‐driven intersectionality
The concept of intersectionality has fundamentally changed feminist theorizing and the study of women and gender. However, intersectional research, theorizing, and practice also have been subject to important critiques. This article provides a brief genealogy of intersectionality and summarizes major critiques. We recognize value in these critiques as well as the ongoing power of an intersectional lens. We therefore advocate what we call “context…
The Politics of Compassion: The Sichuan Earthquake and Civic Engagement in China
Embodying Inequality: Using Ethnographic Data to Teach Intersectionality
This article analyzes the effectiveness of an activity we developed to help students better understand intersectionality. Intersectionality is an analytic concept that signifies ways that inequalities may overlap to create unique forms of privilege and subjugation. In the activity, students use assigned vignettes from the perspective of research participants in our own ethnographic data (including excerpts from interviews and field notes) to inte…
Policing in Natural Disasters: Stress, Resilience, and the Challenges of Emergency Management
Institutional, Ideological, and Interactional Constraints: The Case of Sexual Abuse in White Evangelical Settings 1
Drawing on 32 interviews with survivors, we examine sexual abuse in white evangelical contexts as a point of intervention in feminist debates over agency. In recent decades, scholars have tended to focus on how women in gender‐traditional religions exercise agency via submission and piety. We argue that the case of abuse points to the limits of agency as a lens to understand women and girls' experiences, and theorize ideological, institutional, a…
Sociology (10 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Disaster Management and Resilience (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works)