J Desmond
Biographic Data
| ID | 21831 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Desmond |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Desmond |
| SIGNATURE | DESMOND J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2180-4265 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 95 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 29 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Introduction
In this thematic issue of RIAS, we address a number of issues about the border, drawing on perspectives from multiple disciplines in the social sciences and humanities, from anthropology to political science, economics, and literature, and including the works of scholars based in Canada, the US, and Germany. Their works engage issues of Indigeneity, Africandescendant populations, Franco-Canadians, Gender and Race, Colonialisms, and the more-than-…
Border Crossings and Polar Bears
This article considers a specific, highly complex, and contentious case study, the uniquely Canadian phenomenon of the sale of hunting rights by First Nations Canadians to non-Indigenous, non-Canadian trophy hunters who want to hunt polar bears in Canada. These hunters, largely of European ancestry, come mainly from the United States and, more recently, from Western Europe as well. Ultimately, this analysis demonstrates both the necessity and the…
Zones of Production in Possible Worlds
This essay investigates dance's “conditions of possibility” to argue that while dance and dancing is, in some ways unique, it many other ways it is similar to other types of labor. These types of labor function not simply as a job, or even career, but also as a “calling,” in the sense that they provide a core part of an individual's identity in the world and organize their life practices. Key dimensions of dance's labor which influence its precar…
Vivacious Remains
That taxidermy, in whatever form, requires a recognizable physical trace of a once-living animal calls attention to the inescapably elegiac ground of taxidermy and its ability through such traces to point to the world outside the home, the museum, the gallery walls, and even literary taxidermic fictions. The remains function multidirectionally in time and space. They point outward to the wider world—backward in time to when and where the animal w…
Staging Privilege, Proximity, and “Extreme Animal Tourism”
Based on case studies of tourism in the Galapagos Islands and Antarctica, this chapter articulates a concept of “extreme animal tourism” as a category of analysis. Suggesting that tourism deserves increased attention in animal studies, the chapter tracks the conditions of possibility for this growing sector of hyperprivileged tourism, as opposed to mass tourism. It is a form of tourism that promises those who can afford to pay for it exceptional …
Make ‘America’ Smart Again”
One of my favourite memes to come out of the first 100 days of the Trump administration is an illustration of a UN-esque conference table surrounded by empty chairs marked with flags of various nat
Dancing Jewish
America' in India - Charting a New Terrain
Who is an Anthropologist? Scholarly Communities, Institutional Configurations and Intellectual Migrations
Towards a Prismatic “American Studies”
Legacies of 1898
Additional informationNotes on contributorsJane DesmondJane Desmond is North American Editor of Comparative American Studies, and Director of the International Forum for US Studies. She is currently Vice-President of the International American Studies Association, and Professor of Anthropology and Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her books include Staging Tourism: Bodies on Display from Waikiki to Sea …
As Others See Us
The American Effect: Global Perspectives on the United States, 1990-2003. Organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, July 3-October 12, 2003. Exhibition curator: Lawrence Rinder. Exhibition Web site: www.whitney.org. The American Effect: Global Perspectives on the United States, 1990-2003 . By Lawrence Rinder et al. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2003. 216 pages. $45.00 (cloth). The title of this exhibition, The American Effect: Globa…
Books
Making American Studies Dance
Waltzing in the Dark: African American Vaudeville and Race Politics in the Swing Era. By Brenda Dixon Gottschild. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. 270 pages. $45.00 (cloth). Dancing Class: Gender, Ethnicity, and Social Divides in American Dance, 1890-1920. By Linda J. Tomko. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1999. 283 pages. $18.95 (paper). Two new books by dance scholars Brenda Dixon Gottschild and Linda J. Tomko show the importanc…
Terra Incognita
In this essay I propose new initiatives I hope to see in U.S. dance studies in the next decade. Rather than attempting a comprehensive literature survey, or citing all possible relevant material, I want to identify what appears to me to be terrae incognitae—unmapped and un- or under-explored realms of dance research—and to suggest that we collectively consider what the effects might be if they were brought into focus. While there are many such te…
Fricans On Stage
Africans On Stage: Studies in Ethnological Show Business. Bernth Lindfors. ed. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999. vii. 302 pp., illustrations, photographs, index
Picturing Hawai'i
positions: east asia cultures critique - Volume 7, Number 2, Fall 1999
Rockefeller Fellowship Program at the University of Iowa
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Embodying Difference
Moving Words
Invoking "The Native"
Bodies of the Text
Resituating American Studies in a Critical Internationalism
Resituating American Studies in a Critical Internationalism Jane C. Desmond (bio) and Virginia R. Domínguez (bio) This essay argues for a concerted effort throughout the American studies 1 scholarly community to embrace actively a paradigm of critical internationalism as we move into the next century. While we support the many current initiatives in this direction by the leadership of the American Studies Association and the Organization of Ameri…
Crafting Exhibitions
Book reviewed in this article: Crafting Exhibitions: Contemporary Navajo Weaving: The Gloria F. Ross Collection of the Denver Art Museum . Crafting Exhibitions: Reflections of the Weavers' World: The Gloria F. Ross Collection of the Denver Art Museum
Embodying Difference
Aman and a woman embrace. Each stands poised, contained. They look past each other, eyes focused on distant points in the space. Like mirror images, their legs strike out, first forward, then back. As one, they glide across the floor, bodies melded at the hips, timing perfectly in unison. They stop expectantly. The woman jabs the balls of her feet sharply into the floor, each time swivelling her hips toward the leading foot. The man holds her lig…
Resituating American Studies in a Critical Internationalism
Resituating American Studies in a Critical Internationalism Jane C. Desmond (bio) and Virginia R. Domínguez (bio) This essay argues for a concerted effort throughout the American studies 1 scholarly community to embrace actively a paradigm of critical internationalism as we move into the next century. While we support the many current initiatives in this direction by the leadership of the American Studies Association and the Organization of Ameri…
Embodying Difference
Aman and a woman embrace. Each stands poised, contained. They look past each other, eyes focused on distant points in the space. Like mirror images, their legs strike out, first forward, then back. As one, they glide across the floor, bodies melded at the hips, timing perfectly in unison. They stop expectantly. The woman jabs the balls of her feet sharply into the floor, each time swivelling her hips toward the leading foot. The man holds her lig…
Dancing out the Difference
Picturing Hawai'i
positions: east asia cultures critique - Volume 7, Number 2, Fall 1999
Ethnography, Orientalism and the avant-garde film
Drawing on the work of Edward Said and James Clifford, this article discusses the theoretical and practical possibilities for producing images of “otherness” which do not participate in an Orientalist discourse. Works by two avant‐garde filmmakers, Leslie Thornton and Trinh T. Minh‐ha, are examined in the light of these theoretical discussions. While avant‐garde film practice is no guarantee of escaping the pitfalls of Orientalism or cultural rel…
Terra Incognita
In this essay I propose new initiatives I hope to see in U.S. dance studies in the next decade. Rather than attempting a comprehensive literature survey, or citing all possible relevant material, I want to identify what appears to me to be terrae incognitae—unmapped and un- or under-explored realms of dance research—and to suggest that we collectively consider what the effects might be if they were brought into focus. While there are many such te…
Who is an Anthropologist? Scholarly Communities, Institutional Configurations and Intellectual Migrations
As Others See Us
The American Effect: Global Perspectives on the United States, 1990-2003. Organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, July 3-October 12, 2003. Exhibition curator: Lawrence Rinder. Exhibition Web site: www.whitney.org. The American Effect: Global Perspectives on the United States, 1990-2003 . By Lawrence Rinder et al. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2003. 216 pages. $45.00 (cloth). The title of this exhibition, The American Effect: Globa…
How I met Miss Tootie
Dancing out the Difference
Ethnography, Orientalism and the avant-garde film
Drawing on the work of Edward Said and James Clifford, this article discusses the theoretical and practical possibilities for producing images of “otherness” which do not participate in an Orientalist discourse. Works by two avant‐garde filmmakers, Leslie Thornton and Trinh T. Minh‐ha, are examined in the light of these theoretical discussions. While avant‐garde film practice is no guarantee of escaping the pitfalls of Orientalism or cultural rel…
Embodying Difference
Aman and a woman embrace. Each stands poised, contained. They look past each other, eyes focused on distant points in the space. Like mirror images, their legs strike out, first forward, then back. As one, they glide across the floor, bodies melded at the hips, timing perfectly in unison. They stop expectantly. The woman jabs the balls of her feet sharply into the floor, each time swivelling her hips toward the leading foot. The man holds her lig…
Mapping identity onto the body
Crafting Exhibitions
Book reviewed in this article: Crafting Exhibitions: Contemporary Navajo Weaving: The Gloria F. Ross Collection of the Denver Art Museum . Crafting Exhibitions: Reflections of the Weavers' World: The Gloria F. Ross Collection of the Denver Art Museum
Resituating American Studies in a Critical Internationalism
Resituating American Studies in a Critical Internationalism Jane C. Desmond (bio) and Virginia R. Domínguez (bio) This essay argues for a concerted effort throughout the American studies 1 scholarly community to embrace actively a paradigm of critical internationalism as we move into the next century. While we support the many current initiatives in this direction by the leadership of the American Studies Association and the Organization of Ameri…
Embodying Difference
Moving Words
Invoking "The Native"
Bodies of the Text
Rockefeller Fellowship Program at the University of Iowa
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Picturing Hawai'i
positions: east asia cultures critique - Volume 7, Number 2, Fall 1999
Terra Incognita
In this essay I propose new initiatives I hope to see in U.S. dance studies in the next decade. Rather than attempting a comprehensive literature survey, or citing all possible relevant material, I want to identify what appears to me to be terrae incognitae—unmapped and un- or under-explored realms of dance research—and to suggest that we collectively consider what the effects might be if they were brought into focus. While there are many such te…
Fricans On Stage
Africans On Stage: Studies in Ethnological Show Business. Bernth Lindfors. ed. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999. vii. 302 pp., illustrations, photographs, index
Books
Making American Studies Dance
Waltzing in the Dark: African American Vaudeville and Race Politics in the Swing Era. By Brenda Dixon Gottschild. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. 270 pages. $45.00 (cloth). Dancing Class: Gender, Ethnicity, and Social Divides in American Dance, 1890-1920. By Linda J. Tomko. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1999. 283 pages. $18.95 (paper). Two new books by dance scholars Brenda Dixon Gottschild and Linda J. Tomko show the importanc…
As Others See Us
The American Effect: Global Perspectives on the United States, 1990-2003. Organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, July 3-October 12, 2003. Exhibition curator: Lawrence Rinder. Exhibition Web site: www.whitney.org. The American Effect: Global Perspectives on the United States, 1990-2003 . By Lawrence Rinder et al. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2003. 216 pages. $45.00 (cloth). The title of this exhibition, The American Effect: Globa…
Towards a Prismatic “American Studies”
Legacies of 1898
Additional informationNotes on contributorsJane DesmondJane Desmond is North American Editor of Comparative American Studies, and Director of the International Forum for US Studies. She is currently Vice-President of the International American Studies Association, and Professor of Anthropology and Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her books include Staging Tourism: Bodies on Display from Waikiki to Sea …
Who is an Anthropologist? Scholarly Communities, Institutional Configurations and Intellectual Migrations
America' in India - Charting a New Terrain
Dancing Jewish
Staging Privilege, Proximity, and “Extreme Animal Tourism”
Based on case studies of tourism in the Galapagos Islands and Antarctica, this chapter articulates a concept of “extreme animal tourism” as a category of analysis. Suggesting that tourism deserves increased attention in animal studies, the chapter tracks the conditions of possibility for this growing sector of hyperprivileged tourism, as opposed to mass tourism. It is a form of tourism that promises those who can afford to pay for it exceptional …
Make ‘America’ Smart Again”
One of my favourite memes to come out of the first 100 days of the Trump administration is an illustration of a UN-esque conference table surrounded by empty chairs marked with flags of various nat
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