K Mcgill
Biographic Data
| ID | 17800 |
|---|---|
| NAME | K Mcgill |
| GIVEN NAMES | K |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcgill |
| SIGNATURE | MCGILL K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Southern Connecticut State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2450-7194 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Language and Racial Capitalism: Linguistic Anthropological Approaches to Minoritized Labor, Standard Language, and Racial Bias
This article examines racial capitalism from a semiotic perspective, arguing that economic value, like language and race, can be described in situated and indexical terms. I attempt to show how raciolinguistic bias in and around the workplace is linked to a larger labor market in which minoritized labor is reproduced in a systemic way, and to explore hegemonic formations of racialization in the workplace and beyond. The jumping-off point for much…
Language and economic value: A multimodal approach
Spectacle, Value, and Basic Income; Or, Labor and the 'Maddening State
This article describes the protest efforts of a group of unemployed proponents of basic income in Germany. These efforts are theorized around the concepts of spectacle and abjection. Hungering bodies and corpses figure prominently. Ultimately, however, the spectacular character of these protests can be traced not just to the vulnerability of human bodies in a shared social space but also to the logic of value in a capitalist society. Where goods …
Language, labor and reification
Ontology, belief and the politics of sanction: An application of Badiou's Theory of the Event
In this article, I apply Alain Badiou's theory of the event to make sense of the beliefs of an anti-sanction activist in Germany. Sanctions are deductions to unemployment benefits imposed by jobs counselors on their unemployed clients. Ethnographic research with Renate shows how her beliefs about the welfare state and her own personal life are examined by her as conditions for the abolition of sanctions in Germany, which is considered here as an …
Tangled Up in These Conceptualities: Sanction, Protest, and Ideology in Berlin, Germany
This article examines one informant's approach to the relationship between ideological concepts and political power. I argue that ideological representation must be understood on its own terms, rather than within a larger theory of discourse. I point toward three key qualities of every encounter with ideological representation: subjectivity, discontinuity, and commitment. The fieldwork on which this article is based occurred in Berlin, Germany, d…
Global Inequality: Anthropological Insights
Brief, accessibly written, and peppered with vivid ethnographic examples that bring contemporary research to life, Global Inequality is an introduction to the topic from a unique and important perspective.
New Jersey’s Historical Development of a Statewide Children’s System of Care, Including the Lessons Learned From Embedding Cans Tools: Developments, Innovations, and Data Analysis
New Jersey has made significant investments in their creation of a “statewide” reform to better serve the most vulnerable children and their families. Many states can learn from New Jersey’s statewide reform, which now celebrates completion of its first decade. This article details the historic timeline of the implementation processes as well as the structural components of a system of care. The particular role of each system entity is identified…
Discourse, Organization, and the Welfare State in the Former East Berlin
In this article, I examine the statements and actions of two key informants, both of whom direct welfare programs in a district of the former East Berlin. I argue that this evidence points to a particular modality of political rationalization, which I dub organizational discourse. The entanglement of organizational discourse and governmentality are explored, as is the place of organizational discourse within both the liberal welfare state and the…
Political Economy and Language: A Review of Some Recent Literature
No Magic Tricks: Commodity, Empowerment, and the Sale of StreetWise in Chicago
Use-value and exchange-value are pragmatic features of commodity exchange which are apparent from the careful study of specific interactions, as well as from the viewpoint of economic processes at large. While Marx's well-known attempt to describe this pair of concepts in Capital (2001) takes the latter tack, I attempt here to take the former-i.e., to approach the composition of the commodity from the point of view of the pragmatics of interactio…
The Discursive Construction of the German Welfare State: Interests and Institutionality
This article consists of an initial theoretical attempt to describe "interests" as widespread social phenomena which emerge specifically from discursive interaction. I focus on the way in which the indexical signaling of discourse participation roles and public/private standings provide key conditions of possibility for the emergence of interests in interactional real time. The case at hand involves the German welfare state, a social institution …
Tangled Up in These Conceptualities: Sanction, Protest, and Ideology in Berlin, Germany
This article examines one informant's approach to the relationship between ideological concepts and political power. I argue that ideological representation must be understood on its own terms, rather than within a larger theory of discourse. I point toward three key qualities of every encounter with ideological representation: subjectivity, discontinuity, and commitment. The fieldwork on which this article is based occurred in Berlin, Germany, d…
The Discursive Construction of the German Welfare State: Interests and Institutionality
This article consists of an initial theoretical attempt to describe "interests" as widespread social phenomena which emerge specifically from discursive interaction. I focus on the way in which the indexical signaling of discourse participation roles and public/private standings provide key conditions of possibility for the emergence of interests in interactional real time. The case at hand involves the German welfare state, a social institution …
Spectacle, Value, and Basic Income; Or, Labor and the 'Maddening State
This article describes the protest efforts of a group of unemployed proponents of basic income in Germany. These efforts are theorized around the concepts of spectacle and abjection. Hungering bodies and corpses figure prominently. Ultimately, however, the spectacular character of these protests can be traced not just to the vulnerability of human bodies in a shared social space but also to the logic of value in a capitalist society. Where goods …
Ontology, belief and the politics of sanction: An application of Badiou's Theory of the Event
In this article, I apply Alain Badiou's theory of the event to make sense of the beliefs of an anti-sanction activist in Germany. Sanctions are deductions to unemployment benefits imposed by jobs counselors on their unemployed clients. Ethnographic research with Renate shows how her beliefs about the welfare state and her own personal life are examined by her as conditions for the abolition of sanctions in Germany, which is considered here as an …
No Magic Tricks: Commodity, Empowerment, and the Sale of StreetWise in Chicago
Use-value and exchange-value are pragmatic features of commodity exchange which are apparent from the careful study of specific interactions, as well as from the viewpoint of economic processes at large. While Marx's well-known attempt to describe this pair of concepts in Capital (2001) takes the latter tack, I attempt here to take the former-i.e., to approach the composition of the commodity from the point of view of the pragmatics of interactio…
The Discursive Construction of the German Welfare State: Interests and Institutionality
This article consists of an initial theoretical attempt to describe "interests" as widespread social phenomena which emerge specifically from discursive interaction. I focus on the way in which the indexical signaling of discourse participation roles and public/private standings provide key conditions of possibility for the emergence of interests in interactional real time. The case at hand involves the German welfare state, a social institution …
Discourse, Organization, and the Welfare State in the Former East Berlin
In this article, I examine the statements and actions of two key informants, both of whom direct welfare programs in a district of the former East Berlin. I argue that this evidence points to a particular modality of political rationalization, which I dub organizational discourse. The entanglement of organizational discourse and governmentality are explored, as is the place of organizational discourse within both the liberal welfare state and the…
Political Economy and Language: A Review of Some Recent Literature
No Magic Tricks: Commodity, Empowerment, and the Sale of StreetWise in Chicago
Use-value and exchange-value are pragmatic features of commodity exchange which are apparent from the careful study of specific interactions, as well as from the viewpoint of economic processes at large. While Marx's well-known attempt to describe this pair of concepts in Capital (2001) takes the latter tack, I attempt here to take the former-i.e., to approach the composition of the commodity from the point of view of the pragmatics of interactio…
New Jersey’s Historical Development of a Statewide Children’s System of Care, Including the Lessons Learned From Embedding Cans Tools: Developments, Innovations, and Data Analysis
New Jersey has made significant investments in their creation of a “statewide” reform to better serve the most vulnerable children and their families. Many states can learn from New Jersey’s statewide reform, which now celebrates completion of its first decade. This article details the historic timeline of the implementation processes as well as the structural components of a system of care. The particular role of each system entity is identified…
Global Inequality: Anthropological Insights
Brief, accessibly written, and peppered with vivid ethnographic examples that bring contemporary research to life, Global Inequality is an introduction to the topic from a unique and important perspective.
Tangled Up in These Conceptualities: Sanction, Protest, and Ideology in Berlin, Germany
This article examines one informant's approach to the relationship between ideological concepts and political power. I argue that ideological representation must be understood on its own terms, rather than within a larger theory of discourse. I point toward three key qualities of every encounter with ideological representation: subjectivity, discontinuity, and commitment. The fieldwork on which this article is based occurred in Berlin, Germany, d…
Ontology, belief and the politics of sanction: An application of Badiou's Theory of the Event
In this article, I apply Alain Badiou's theory of the event to make sense of the beliefs of an anti-sanction activist in Germany. Sanctions are deductions to unemployment benefits imposed by jobs counselors on their unemployed clients. Ethnographic research with Renate shows how her beliefs about the welfare state and her own personal life are examined by her as conditions for the abolition of sanctions in Germany, which is considered here as an …
Language, labor and reification
Language and economic value: A multimodal approach
Spectacle, Value, and Basic Income; Or, Labor and the 'Maddening State
This article describes the protest efforts of a group of unemployed proponents of basic income in Germany. These efforts are theorized around the concepts of spectacle and abjection. Hungering bodies and corpses figure prominently. Ultimately, however, the spectacular character of these protests can be traced not just to the vulnerability of human bodies in a shared social space but also to the logic of value in a capitalist society. Where goods …
Language and Racial Capitalism: Linguistic Anthropological Approaches to Minoritized Labor, Standard Language, and Racial Bias
This article examines racial capitalism from a semiotic perspective, arguing that economic value, like language and race, can be described in situated and indexical terms. I attempt to show how raciolinguistic bias in and around the workplace is linked to a larger labor market in which minoritized labor is reproduced in a systemic way, and to explore hegemonic formations of racialization in the workplace and beyond. The jumping-off point for much…
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