R James
Biographic Data
| ID | 20027 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R James |
| GIVEN NAMES | R |
| FAMILY NAME | James |
| SIGNATURE | JAMES R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Charlotte |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-2301-7496 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Sobre la música popular en la teoría poscolonial
This essay argues that while most scholars in this area treat music as an example of race, racial embodiment, and racial politics, this "example" model inaccurately treats each area (race, music, and sometimes gender) as a distinct discourse. If what is at stake in defining what constitutes music and what constitutes race is fundamentally the same issue "” the determination of the relationship between raced, colonized, or resonating bodies and th…
Kuznets Prize Awarded to Luca Bonacini, Giovanni Gallo, and Sergio Scicchitano
Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare Vol. 48, No. 2
Complete issue of Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare Volume 48, Number 2
Sonic Cyberfeminisms, Perceptual Coding and Phonographic Compression
I argue that sound-centric scholarship can be of use to feminist theorists if and only if it begins from a non-ideal theory of sound; this article develops such a theory. To do this, I first develop more fully my claim that perceptual coding was a good metaphor for the ways that neoliberal market logics (re)produce relations of domination and subordination, such as white supremacist patriarchy. Because it was developed to facilitate the enclosure…
Comment l’utilisation du big data par les sites de streaming change notre idée des formats et des genres musicaux dans la pop
Robin James est une philosophe américaine dont le travail prend au sérieux l’idée selon laquelle des théories mathématiques, et en particulier celles qui concernent les répartitions de l’uniformité et de la différence dans les statistiques, ont une influence transversale entre le domaine de la musique et la politique économique, ou s’avèrent en tout cas un moyen de comprendre ce qui s’y joue. Ainsi pour James, les explosions sous contrôle des dro…
Anticipation of 24 h severe energy restriction increases energy intake and reduces physical activity energy expenditure in the prior 24 h, in healthy males
Must Be Love On The Brain
As #MeToo activism has revealed cascades of famous and influential men to be serial sexual harassers and rapists, the question of what to do about aesthetically pleasing art made by morally and politically disgusting men has received renewed interest and urgency. I identify two different types of feminist responses to this question. The first kind of response modifies post-feminist and post-race approaches to diversity as a kind of beauty: replac…
Suddenness of death as a determinant of differential grief experiences
Previous research has shown that bereavement following the loss of a loved one can often produce a variety of physical and psychological effects for the individuals left behind. Specifically, the suddenness and violence of a death may be particularly important determinants of subsequent negative psychological functioning. The purpose of this study was to gain a better understanding of the grief experiences of individuals bereaved by different cau…
Is the post- in post-identity the post- in post-genre
The 'post-' in both post-identity politics and post-genre musical practice refers to the same thing. Through readings of Taylor Swift's 'Shake It Off', Diplo's description of his practice as a DJ, producer and impresario, Sasha Frere-Jones's infamousNew Yorkerpiece on indie rock miscegenation, and critical race theorists Cristina Beltran and Jared Sexton's critiques of post-racial politics, I demonstrate that progress past traditional commitments…
Post-Feminism's "New Sexual Contract" and Electronic Dance Music's Queered Femme Voices
Angela McRobbie argues that post-feminism's "new sexual contract" grants otherwise privileged white women the things traditionally denied women as a class, namely, economic success and self-ownership of their bodies as sexual property Because voice is commonly used as a metaphor for self-possessed agency, this article considers three ways white women and femme musicians across EDMC use vocal and authorial voices to reimagine post-feminist practic…
The effect of a fundamental movement skill intervention on physical skill self-efficacy and motor skill competence in overweight and obese children
Motor competence and weekend sedentary time predict body mass index in pre-schoolers
Incandescence, Melancholy, and Feminist Bad Vibes: A Response to Ziarek’s Feminist Aesthetics and the Politics of Modernism
Building on Ewa Ziarek’s account of “potentiality” and “incandescence” as feminist counter-modernisms, this essay argues that these aesthetic and political strategies have been co-opted by neoliberalism and domesticated into resilience discourse. This argument is made, in part, through a reading of singer Katy Perry’s 2012 song “Firework.” If resilience discourse is designed to automatically co-opt any and all transgression, deconstruction, criti…
From “No Future” to “Delete Yourself (You Have No Chance to Win)”: Death, Queerness, and the Sound of Neoliberalism: From “No Future” to “Delete Yourself (You Have No Chance to Win)”
Oppression, Privilege, & Aesthetics: The Use of the Aesthetic in Theories of Race, Gender, and Sexuality, and the Role of Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Philosophical Aesthetics
Gender, race, and sexuality are not just identities; they are also systems of social organization - i.e., systems of privilege and oppression. This article addresses two main ways privilege and oppression (e.g., racism, misogyny, heteronormativity) are relevant topics in and for philosophical aesthetics: (i) the role of the aesthetic in privilege and oppression, and (ii) the role of philosophical aesthetics, as a discipline and a body of texts, i…
Race and the Feminized Popular in Nietzsche and Beyond
I distinguish between the nineteenth‐ to twentieth‐century (modernist) tendency to rehabilitate (white) femininity from the abject popular, and the twentieth‐ to twenty‐first‐century (postmodernist) tendency to rehabilitate the popular from abject white femininity. Careful attention to the role of nineteenth‐century racial politics in Nietzsche's Gay Science shows that his work uses racial nonwhiteness to counter the supposedly deleterious effect…
Autonomy, Universality, and Playing the Guitar: On the Politics and Aesthetics of Contemporary Feminist Deployments of the “Master's Tools”
Some feminists have argued that the “master's tools” cannot be utilized for feminist projects. When read through the lens of non-ideal theory, Judith Butler's reevaluation of “autonomy” and “universality” and Peaches's engagement with guitar rock are instances in which implements of patriarchy are productively repurposed for feminist ends. These examples evince two criteria whereby one can judge the success of such an attempt: first, accessibilit…
Deconstruction, Fetishism, and the Racial Contract: On the Politics of "Faking It" in Music
I read Sara Kofman's work on Nietzsche, Charles Mills' _The Racial Contract_, and Kodwo Eshun's Afrofuturist musicology to argue that most condemnations of "faking it" in music rest on a racially and sexually problematic fetishization of "the real."
On Popular Music in Postcolonial Theory
ART adherence, demographic variables and CD4 outcome among HIV-positive patients on antiretroviral therapy in Chennai, India
This is an analysis of available chart data recorded by HIV counselors and physicians on patient adherence and CD4 count in 304 patients with HIV who were prescribed antiretroviral therapy (ART) in Chennai, India. HIV counselors had categorized the majority of patients' adherence as 'regular' (74.3%), with a significant minority being categorized as 'irregular' (17.8%), or 'recently missed some doses' (6.9%). Those categorized as 'irregular' had …
How accurate is the Reflotron cholesterol analyzer? 1. Accuracy of reflotron misrepresented in study
How accurate is the Reflotron cholesterol analyzer? 1. Accuracy of reflotron misrepresented in study. E van Beurden, and R James Stephen Havas CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.83.3.428 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Is the post- in post-identity the post- in post-genre
The 'post-' in both post-identity politics and post-genre musical practice refers to the same thing. Through readings of Taylor Swift's 'Shake It Off', Diplo's description of his practice as a DJ, producer and impresario, Sasha Frere-Jones's infamousNew Yorkerpiece on indie rock miscegenation, and critical race theorists Cristina Beltran and Jared Sexton's critiques of post-racial politics, I demonstrate that progress past traditional commitments…
Oppression, Privilege, & Aesthetics: The Use of the Aesthetic in Theories of Race, Gender, and Sexuality, and the Role of Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Philosophical Aesthetics
Gender, race, and sexuality are not just identities; they are also systems of social organization - i.e., systems of privilege and oppression. This article addresses two main ways privilege and oppression (e.g., racism, misogyny, heteronormativity) are relevant topics in and for philosophical aesthetics: (i) the role of the aesthetic in privilege and oppression, and (ii) the role of philosophical aesthetics, as a discipline and a body of texts, i…
Autonomy, Universality, and Playing the Guitar: On the Politics and Aesthetics of Contemporary Feminist Deployments of the “Master's Tools”
Some feminists have argued that the “master's tools” cannot be utilized for feminist projects. When read through the lens of non-ideal theory, Judith Butler's reevaluation of “autonomy” and “universality” and Peaches's engagement with guitar rock are instances in which implements of patriarchy are productively repurposed for feminist ends. These examples evince two criteria whereby one can judge the success of such an attempt: first, accessibilit…
Must Be Love On The Brain
As #MeToo activism has revealed cascades of famous and influential men to be serial sexual harassers and rapists, the question of what to do about aesthetically pleasing art made by morally and politically disgusting men has received renewed interest and urgency. I identify two different types of feminist responses to this question. The first kind of response modifies post-feminist and post-race approaches to diversity as a kind of beauty: replac…
Sonic Cyberfeminisms, Perceptual Coding and Phonographic Compression
I argue that sound-centric scholarship can be of use to feminist theorists if and only if it begins from a non-ideal theory of sound; this article develops such a theory. To do this, I first develop more fully my claim that perceptual coding was a good metaphor for the ways that neoliberal market logics (re)produce relations of domination and subordination, such as white supremacist patriarchy. Because it was developed to facilitate the enclosure…
Anticipation of 24 h severe energy restriction increases energy intake and reduces physical activity energy expenditure in the prior 24 h, in healthy males
Post-Feminism's "New Sexual Contract" and Electronic Dance Music's Queered Femme Voices
Angela McRobbie argues that post-feminism's "new sexual contract" grants otherwise privileged white women the things traditionally denied women as a class, namely, economic success and self-ownership of their bodies as sexual property Because voice is commonly used as a metaphor for self-possessed agency, this article considers three ways white women and femme musicians across EDMC use vocal and authorial voices to reimagine post-feminist practic…
Incandescence, Melancholy, and Feminist Bad Vibes: A Response to Ziarek’s Feminist Aesthetics and the Politics of Modernism
Building on Ewa Ziarek’s account of “potentiality” and “incandescence” as feminist counter-modernisms, this essay argues that these aesthetic and political strategies have been co-opted by neoliberalism and domesticated into resilience discourse. This argument is made, in part, through a reading of singer Katy Perry’s 2012 song “Firework.” If resilience discourse is designed to automatically co-opt any and all transgression, deconstruction, criti…
Race and the Feminized Popular in Nietzsche and Beyond
I distinguish between the nineteenth‐ to twentieth‐century (modernist) tendency to rehabilitate (white) femininity from the abject popular, and the twentieth‐ to twenty‐first‐century (postmodernist) tendency to rehabilitate the popular from abject white femininity. Careful attention to the role of nineteenth‐century racial politics in Nietzsche's Gay Science shows that his work uses racial nonwhiteness to counter the supposedly deleterious effect…
How accurate is the Reflotron cholesterol analyzer? 1. Accuracy of reflotron misrepresented in study
How accurate is the Reflotron cholesterol analyzer? 1. Accuracy of reflotron misrepresented in study. E van Beurden, and R James Stephen Havas CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.83.3.428 Published Online: October 07, 2011
How accurate is the Reflotron cholesterol analyzer? 1. Accuracy of reflotron misrepresented in study
How accurate is the Reflotron cholesterol analyzer? 1. Accuracy of reflotron misrepresented in study. E van Beurden, and R James Stephen Havas CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.83.3.428 Published Online: October 07, 2011
On Popular Music in Postcolonial Theory
ART adherence, demographic variables and CD4 outcome among HIV-positive patients on antiretroviral therapy in Chennai, India
This is an analysis of available chart data recorded by HIV counselors and physicians on patient adherence and CD4 count in 304 patients with HIV who were prescribed antiretroviral therapy (ART) in Chennai, India. HIV counselors had categorized the majority of patients' adherence as 'regular' (74.3%), with a significant minority being categorized as 'irregular' (17.8%), or 'recently missed some doses' (6.9%). Those categorized as 'irregular' had …
Deconstruction, Fetishism, and the Racial Contract: On the Politics of "Faking It" in Music
I read Sara Kofman's work on Nietzsche, Charles Mills' _The Racial Contract_, and Kodwo Eshun's Afrofuturist musicology to argue that most condemnations of "faking it" in music rest on a racially and sexually problematic fetishization of "the real."
Autonomy, Universality, and Playing the Guitar: On the Politics and Aesthetics of Contemporary Feminist Deployments of the “Master's Tools”
Some feminists have argued that the “master's tools” cannot be utilized for feminist projects. When read through the lens of non-ideal theory, Judith Butler's reevaluation of “autonomy” and “universality” and Peaches's engagement with guitar rock are instances in which implements of patriarchy are productively repurposed for feminist ends. These examples evince two criteria whereby one can judge the success of such an attempt: first, accessibilit…
Race and the Feminized Popular in Nietzsche and Beyond
I distinguish between the nineteenth‐ to twentieth‐century (modernist) tendency to rehabilitate (white) femininity from the abject popular, and the twentieth‐ to twenty‐first‐century (postmodernist) tendency to rehabilitate the popular from abject white femininity. Careful attention to the role of nineteenth‐century racial politics in Nietzsche's Gay Science shows that his work uses racial nonwhiteness to counter the supposedly deleterious effect…
From “No Future” to “Delete Yourself (You Have No Chance to Win)”: Death, Queerness, and the Sound of Neoliberalism: From “No Future” to “Delete Yourself (You Have No Chance to Win)”
Oppression, Privilege, & Aesthetics: The Use of the Aesthetic in Theories of Race, Gender, and Sexuality, and the Role of Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Philosophical Aesthetics
Gender, race, and sexuality are not just identities; they are also systems of social organization - i.e., systems of privilege and oppression. This article addresses two main ways privilege and oppression (e.g., racism, misogyny, heteronormativity) are relevant topics in and for philosophical aesthetics: (i) the role of the aesthetic in privilege and oppression, and (ii) the role of philosophical aesthetics, as a discipline and a body of texts, i…
Incandescence, Melancholy, and Feminist Bad Vibes: A Response to Ziarek’s Feminist Aesthetics and the Politics of Modernism
Building on Ewa Ziarek’s account of “potentiality” and “incandescence” as feminist counter-modernisms, this essay argues that these aesthetic and political strategies have been co-opted by neoliberalism and domesticated into resilience discourse. This argument is made, in part, through a reading of singer Katy Perry’s 2012 song “Firework.” If resilience discourse is designed to automatically co-opt any and all transgression, deconstruction, criti…
The effect of a fundamental movement skill intervention on physical skill self-efficacy and motor skill competence in overweight and obese children
Motor competence and weekend sedentary time predict body mass index in pre-schoolers
Is the post- in post-identity the post- in post-genre
The 'post-' in both post-identity politics and post-genre musical practice refers to the same thing. Through readings of Taylor Swift's 'Shake It Off', Diplo's description of his practice as a DJ, producer and impresario, Sasha Frere-Jones's infamousNew Yorkerpiece on indie rock miscegenation, and critical race theorists Cristina Beltran and Jared Sexton's critiques of post-racial politics, I demonstrate that progress past traditional commitments…
Post-Feminism's "New Sexual Contract" and Electronic Dance Music's Queered Femme Voices
Angela McRobbie argues that post-feminism's "new sexual contract" grants otherwise privileged white women the things traditionally denied women as a class, namely, economic success and self-ownership of their bodies as sexual property Because voice is commonly used as a metaphor for self-possessed agency, this article considers three ways white women and femme musicians across EDMC use vocal and authorial voices to reimagine post-feminist practic…
Suddenness of death as a determinant of differential grief experiences
Previous research has shown that bereavement following the loss of a loved one can often produce a variety of physical and psychological effects for the individuals left behind. Specifically, the suddenness and violence of a death may be particularly important determinants of subsequent negative psychological functioning. The purpose of this study was to gain a better understanding of the grief experiences of individuals bereaved by different cau…
Comment l’utilisation du big data par les sites de streaming change notre idée des formats et des genres musicaux dans la pop
Robin James est une philosophe américaine dont le travail prend au sérieux l’idée selon laquelle des théories mathématiques, et en particulier celles qui concernent les répartitions de l’uniformité et de la différence dans les statistiques, ont une influence transversale entre le domaine de la musique et la politique économique, ou s’avèrent en tout cas un moyen de comprendre ce qui s’y joue. Ainsi pour James, les explosions sous contrôle des dro…
Anticipation of 24 h severe energy restriction increases energy intake and reduces physical activity energy expenditure in the prior 24 h, in healthy males
Must Be Love On The Brain
As #MeToo activism has revealed cascades of famous and influential men to be serial sexual harassers and rapists, the question of what to do about aesthetically pleasing art made by morally and politically disgusting men has received renewed interest and urgency. I identify two different types of feminist responses to this question. The first kind of response modifies post-feminist and post-race approaches to diversity as a kind of beauty: replac…
Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare Vol. 48, No. 2
Complete issue of Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare Volume 48, Number 2
Sonic Cyberfeminisms, Perceptual Coding and Phonographic Compression
I argue that sound-centric scholarship can be of use to feminist theorists if and only if it begins from a non-ideal theory of sound; this article develops such a theory. To do this, I first develop more fully my claim that perceptual coding was a good metaphor for the ways that neoliberal market logics (re)produce relations of domination and subordination, such as white supremacist patriarchy. Because it was developed to facilitate the enclosure…
Kuznets Prize Awarded to Luca Bonacini, Giovanni Gallo, and Sergio Scicchitano
Sobre la música popular en la teoría poscolonial
This essay argues that while most scholars in this area treat music as an example of race, racial embodiment, and racial politics, this "example" model inaccurately treats each area (race, music, and sometimes gender) as a distinct discourse. If what is at stake in defining what constitutes music and what constitutes race is fundamentally the same issue "” the determination of the relationship between raced, colonized, or resonating bodies and th…
Sociology (12 works) · Political science (9 works) · Aesthetics (8 works) · Art (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Music History and Culture (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Politics (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works)