Katrina M Powell
Biographic Data
| ID | 198819 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katrina M Powell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katrina M |
| FAMILY NAME | Powell |
| SIGNATURE | POWELL K M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Virginia Tech |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
“OutLaw Yard”: Reading Traces of Displacement as Testimonial Inscription
Media coverage of migrant and refugee camps often concerns not everyday life in camps, but violence or a camp's outright destruction. These portrayals risk inscribing camps into public memory as sites of danger and criminality, or of vulnerability without agency. What methods of engaging with a camp's aftermath and its representation might enable more complex understandings of the reality of life in camps? We engage the camp as a site of inscript…
Introduction: The Forms That Testimony (Still) Takes
Archives in Motion: Transitional Sites of Identity in Narratives of Displacement
Institutional systems steeped in colonialist and essentializing language (and practice) produce narratives of displacement that are reductionist, rendering the displaced as one-dimensional. Through narratives focused on victimhood, these narratives are used against people who are displaced, situating them with fixed identities of vulnerability. Autobiographical narratives of displacement, however, can challenge those reductionist narratives by re…
A Necessary Tension: Editors, Editing, and Oral History for Social Justice
In this multivoiced essay, the authors focus on two Voice of Witness Oral History for Social Justice projects in progress: Mi María: Puerto Rico after the Hurricane, and Resettled: Beginning (Again) in Appalachia. Using these projects as case studies, we discuss the challenges of amplifying voices from an editorial perspective, while at the same time attending to feminist commitments to speaking with communities rather than for them. In the follo…
Precarious Rhetorics
In the new collection, Precarious Rhetorics, the editors are committed to “bear[ing] witness to increasing and increasingly harsh restrictions on movement and mobility of entire populations and the politically induced causes and precarious conditions of displacement and dispossession” (p. 2). This inaugural collection in The Ohio State University Press’s new series, “New Directions in Rhetoric and Materiality,” provides compelling examinations of…
Reading Human Rights Literatures through Oral Traditions
Many oral traditions, including Appalachian stories, Aboriginal folktales, Maori songs from New Zealand, and the oral performances of griots in Africa, to name a few, resist linear plot lines. The various oral forms of indigenous cultures, and the subsequent contemporary written literature influenced, are often in "opposition to European tradition and the rejection of rationalism, in particular. Understanding the linkages between oral traditions …
The Moral Appeal of Environmental Discourses: The Implication of Ethical Rhetorics
Environmental sustainability demands civic action through both changes in individual and community behaviors in addition to national and international agreements and cooperation. In moral appeals to the environment, individuals are often called upon to behave in “good” ways—reduce, reuse, recycle—to “save the planet.” Behavior, and our attitudes about it, is therefore an important component to ongoing sustainability efforts. This pilot study, con…
Accepting Roles Created for Us: The Ethics of Reciprocity
Grounded in theories of feminist research practices and in two empirical studies we conducted separately, our argument is that seeing reciprocity as a context–based process of definition and re–definition of the relationship between participants and researcher helps us understand how research projects can benefit participants in ways that they desire.
Mary Metcalf s Attempt at Reclamation: Maternal Representation in Graham Swift s Waterland
Writing the Geography of the Blue Ridge Mountains: How Displacement Recorded the Land
This article discusses the multiple rhetoric(s) surrounding the displacement of mountain families in forming the Shenandoah National Park. Past and present representations of that displacement have made for a complex and vexed biography of the landscape of the Blue Ridge Mountains. This project argues that an examination of historical and contemporary representations together will provide further insight into that complexity
Writing the Geography of the Blue Ridge Mountains: How Displacement Recorded the Land
This article discusses the multiple rhetoric(s) surrounding the displacement of mountain families in forming the Shenandoah National Park. Past and present representations of that displacement have made for a complex and vexed biography of the landscape of the Blue Ridge Mountains. This project argues that an examination of historical and contemporary representations together will provide further insight into that complexity
Writing the Geography of the Blue Ridge Mountains: How Displacement Recorded the Land
This article discusses the multiple rhetoric(s) surrounding the displacement of mountain families in forming the Shenandoah National Park. Past and present representations of that displacement have made for a complex and vexed biography of the landscape of the Blue Ridge Mountains. This project argues that an examination of historical and contemporary representations together will provide further insight into that complexity
Accepting Roles Created for Us: The Ethics of Reciprocity
Grounded in theories of feminist research practices and in two empirical studies we conducted separately, our argument is that seeing reciprocity as a context–based process of definition and re–definition of the relationship between participants and researcher helps us understand how research projects can benefit participants in ways that they desire.
Mary Metcalf s Attempt at Reclamation: Maternal Representation in Graham Swift s Waterland
The Moral Appeal of Environmental Discourses: The Implication of Ethical Rhetorics
Environmental sustainability demands civic action through both changes in individual and community behaviors in addition to national and international agreements and cooperation. In moral appeals to the environment, individuals are often called upon to behave in “good” ways—reduce, reuse, recycle—to “save the planet.” Behavior, and our attitudes about it, is therefore an important component to ongoing sustainability efforts. This pilot study, con…
Reading Human Rights Literatures through Oral Traditions
Many oral traditions, including Appalachian stories, Aboriginal folktales, Maori songs from New Zealand, and the oral performances of griots in Africa, to name a few, resist linear plot lines. The various oral forms of indigenous cultures, and the subsequent contemporary written literature influenced, are often in "opposition to European tradition and the rejection of rationalism, in particular. Understanding the linkages between oral traditions …
Precarious Rhetorics
In the new collection, Precarious Rhetorics, the editors are committed to “bear[ing] witness to increasing and increasingly harsh restrictions on movement and mobility of entire populations and the politically induced causes and precarious conditions of displacement and dispossession” (p. 2). This inaugural collection in The Ohio State University Press’s new series, “New Directions in Rhetoric and Materiality,” provides compelling examinations of…
Archives in Motion: Transitional Sites of Identity in Narratives of Displacement
Institutional systems steeped in colonialist and essentializing language (and practice) produce narratives of displacement that are reductionist, rendering the displaced as one-dimensional. Through narratives focused on victimhood, these narratives are used against people who are displaced, situating them with fixed identities of vulnerability. Autobiographical narratives of displacement, however, can challenge those reductionist narratives by re…
A Necessary Tension: Editors, Editing, and Oral History for Social Justice
In this multivoiced essay, the authors focus on two Voice of Witness Oral History for Social Justice projects in progress: Mi María: Puerto Rico after the Hurricane, and Resettled: Beginning (Again) in Appalachia. Using these projects as case studies, we discuss the challenges of amplifying voices from an editorial perspective, while at the same time attending to feminist commitments to speaking with communities rather than for them. In the follo…
Introduction: The Forms That Testimony (Still) Takes
“OutLaw Yard”: Reading Traces of Displacement as Testimonial Inscription
Media coverage of migrant and refugee camps often concerns not everyday life in camps, but violence or a camp's outright destruction. These portrayals risk inscribing camps into public memory as sites of danger and criminality, or of vulnerability without agency. What methods of engaging with a camp's aftermath and its representation might enable more complex understandings of the reality of life in camps? We engage the camp as a site of inscript…
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