Justin Douglas Mcdonald
Biographic Data
| ID | 233323 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Justin Douglas Mcdonald |
| GIVEN NAMES | Justin Douglas |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcdonald |
| SIGNATURE | MCDONALD J D |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at San Antonio |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8189-1516 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 60 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
“I hate being called a Dreamer … but”: Practitioners and undocumented students negotiating discursive tensions in the Dreamer narrative
Examining Cultural Identification and Alcohol Use Among American Indian and Caucasian College Students
Previous research consistently concludes American Indians (AI) demonstrate higher levels of alcohol use than Caucasians (CA); however, recent research suggests AIs may be drinking at similar or lower rates than CAs. Little research has examined cultural identification as a contributing factor to alcohol use. This study sought to examine cultural identification and its relationship to alcohol use between AI and CA college students. Participants co…
Revealing and Concealing Difference: A Critical Approach to Disclosure and an Intersectional Theory of “Closeting
In this essay, we integrate communication research on difference, intersectionality, queer theory, and stigma to develop a critical approach to disclosure that is attentive to power dynamics. Our critical approach to disclosure centers closeting processes in relation to multiple stigmatized, non-normative, and invisible forms of difference, in addition to sexuality/gender. The theory of closeting that we developed contributes to existing disclosu…
Queering methodologies and organizational research: Disrupting, critiquing, and exploring
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the methodological implications of queering organizational research. The author examines three related questions: what does queering organizational research entail?; how have organizational scholars queered research to date?; and how does queering organizational research and methodologies advance our understandings of organizing processes? Design/methodology/approach The paper begins with an overvie…
Organizational Communication Meets Queer Theory: Theorizing Relations of “Difference” Differently
In this essay, I show how further engagement with queer theory can contribute to organizational communication theorizing about difference. After reviewing the theoretical roots of difference and intersectionality research in organizational communication, I draw from queer theory to articulate three guiding principles for queer difference research: (a) emphasizing the notion of normativity; (b) adopting an anticategorical approach to difference, i…
Occupational Segregation Research: Queering the Conversation
Scholars of gender, work, and organization have long been concerned with developing explanations to occupational segregation; that is, the segregation of work by socially significant forms of difference such as sex and race. In this article, I argue that extant occupational segregation research is limited by its reliance upon binary thinking, as well as its neglect of forms of difference other than sex and race. In order to rethink this line of r…
Us foreigners: Intersectionality in a Scientific Organization
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore intersectionality as accomplished in interaction, and particularly national difference as a component of intersectionality. Design/methodology/approach – The authors use ethnographic, shadowing methods to examine intersectionality in-depth and developed vignettes to illuminate the experience of intersectionality. Findings – National difference mitigated the common assumption in scientific work tha…
Conforming to and Resisting Dominant Gender Norms: How Male and Female Nursing Students Do and Undo Gender
Much existing research has shown that men are able to construct and enact masculine identities in female-dominated occupational contexts. However, few studies have examined the experiences of both men and women in these occupations. Furthermore, few studies attend to how men and women in these occupations both conform to and resist gender norms. In this study, I draw on the undoing gender frameworks developed by Deutsch and Butler to address the …
Exercising Agency in an International Socioscientific Controversy: The Use of Human and Material Agents to Assert Canada’s Sovereignty in the Arctic
What determines a nation’s sovereignty over a particular territory? This question is now the subject of a heated debate on the international political scene, with global warming having rendered previously unreachable Arctic resources accessible to the five countries that have territorial claims in the far North: Canada, the United States, Russia, Denmark, and Norway. By building on the concepts of human and material agency, I demonstrate how both…
The Neoliberal Project and Governmentality in Rural Mexico: Emergent Farmer Organization in the Michoacán Highlands
This article explores the neoliberal project in the context of Mexico's new agrarian reform and the disjuncture between neoliberal ideals and on-the-ground reality. This is examined through the case of small-scale dairy farmers in northwestern Michoacán as they struggle to understand their relationship with a medium-scale dairy processor who is urging them to organize in the name of quality. This activity is consistent with the position of the ne…
Privatizing the Private Family Farmer: Nafta and the Transformation of the Mexican Dairy Sector
This article explores a much neglected class of rural producers in Mexico, commercial family farmers, whose position in a globalizing political economy is treated as either unproblematic or ignored altogether in the agrarian literature. I contend that these small-scale capitalist farmers, as well as their peasant and ejidal counterparts, are being privatized under Mexico's new neoliberal agricultural policies, culminating with the passage and imp…
Playing Safe: Helping Rates for a Dropped Mitten and a Box of Condoms
In a Canadian shopping centre, a mitten or a box of condoms was accidentally dropped in front of 80 individual members of the public. The dropper was helped to retrieve his object by 43% of 30 people who saw the mitten but only by 17% of 30 people who saw the condoms. This replicates Edwards' 1975 report that the rate of helping was lower for an embarrassing than for a neutral object
Conforming to and Resisting Dominant Gender Norms: How Male and Female Nursing Students Do and Undo Gender
Much existing research has shown that men are able to construct and enact masculine identities in female-dominated occupational contexts. However, few studies have examined the experiences of both men and women in these occupations. Furthermore, few studies attend to how men and women in these occupations both conform to and resist gender norms. In this study, I draw on the undoing gender frameworks developed by Deutsch and Butler to address the …
Organizational Communication Meets Queer Theory: Theorizing Relations of “Difference” Differently
In this essay, I show how further engagement with queer theory can contribute to organizational communication theorizing about difference. After reviewing the theoretical roots of difference and intersectionality research in organizational communication, I draw from queer theory to articulate three guiding principles for queer difference research: (a) emphasizing the notion of normativity; (b) adopting an anticategorical approach to difference, i…
Revealing and Concealing Difference: A Critical Approach to Disclosure and an Intersectional Theory of “Closeting
In this essay, we integrate communication research on difference, intersectionality, queer theory, and stigma to develop a critical approach to disclosure that is attentive to power dynamics. Our critical approach to disclosure centers closeting processes in relation to multiple stigmatized, non-normative, and invisible forms of difference, in addition to sexuality/gender. The theory of closeting that we developed contributes to existing disclosu…
Occupational Segregation Research: Queering the Conversation
Scholars of gender, work, and organization have long been concerned with developing explanations to occupational segregation; that is, the segregation of work by socially significant forms of difference such as sex and race. In this article, I argue that extant occupational segregation research is limited by its reliance upon binary thinking, as well as its neglect of forms of difference other than sex and race. In order to rethink this line of r…
Playing Safe: Helping Rates for a Dropped Mitten and a Box of Condoms
In a Canadian shopping centre, a mitten or a box of condoms was accidentally dropped in front of 80 individual members of the public. The dropper was helped to retrieve his object by 43% of 30 people who saw the mitten but only by 17% of 30 people who saw the condoms. This replicates Edwards' 1975 report that the rate of helping was lower for an embarrassing than for a neutral object
Privatizing the Private Family Farmer: Nafta and the Transformation of the Mexican Dairy Sector
This article explores a much neglected class of rural producers in Mexico, commercial family farmers, whose position in a globalizing political economy is treated as either unproblematic or ignored altogether in the agrarian literature. I contend that these small-scale capitalist farmers, as well as their peasant and ejidal counterparts, are being privatized under Mexico's new neoliberal agricultural policies, culminating with the passage and imp…
The Neoliberal Project and Governmentality in Rural Mexico: Emergent Farmer Organization in the Michoacán Highlands
This article explores the neoliberal project in the context of Mexico's new agrarian reform and the disjuncture between neoliberal ideals and on-the-ground reality. This is examined through the case of small-scale dairy farmers in northwestern Michoacán as they struggle to understand their relationship with a medium-scale dairy processor who is urging them to organize in the name of quality. This activity is consistent with the position of the ne…
Exercising Agency in an International Socioscientific Controversy: The Use of Human and Material Agents to Assert Canada’s Sovereignty in the Arctic
What determines a nation’s sovereignty over a particular territory? This question is now the subject of a heated debate on the international political scene, with global warming having rendered previously unreachable Arctic resources accessible to the five countries that have territorial claims in the far North: Canada, the United States, Russia, Denmark, and Norway. By building on the concepts of human and material agency, I demonstrate how both…
Conforming to and Resisting Dominant Gender Norms: How Male and Female Nursing Students Do and Undo Gender
Much existing research has shown that men are able to construct and enact masculine identities in female-dominated occupational contexts. However, few studies have examined the experiences of both men and women in these occupations. Furthermore, few studies attend to how men and women in these occupations both conform to and resist gender norms. In this study, I draw on the undoing gender frameworks developed by Deutsch and Butler to address the …
Organizational Communication Meets Queer Theory: Theorizing Relations of “Difference” Differently
In this essay, I show how further engagement with queer theory can contribute to organizational communication theorizing about difference. After reviewing the theoretical roots of difference and intersectionality research in organizational communication, I draw from queer theory to articulate three guiding principles for queer difference research: (a) emphasizing the notion of normativity; (b) adopting an anticategorical approach to difference, i…
Occupational Segregation Research: Queering the Conversation
Scholars of gender, work, and organization have long been concerned with developing explanations to occupational segregation; that is, the segregation of work by socially significant forms of difference such as sex and race. In this article, I argue that extant occupational segregation research is limited by its reliance upon binary thinking, as well as its neglect of forms of difference other than sex and race. In order to rethink this line of r…
Us foreigners: Intersectionality in a Scientific Organization
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore intersectionality as accomplished in interaction, and particularly national difference as a component of intersectionality. Design/methodology/approach – The authors use ethnographic, shadowing methods to examine intersectionality in-depth and developed vignettes to illuminate the experience of intersectionality. Findings – National difference mitigated the common assumption in scientific work tha…
Queering methodologies and organizational research: Disrupting, critiquing, and exploring
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the methodological implications of queering organizational research. The author examines three related questions: what does queering organizational research entail?; how have organizational scholars queered research to date?; and how does queering organizational research and methodologies advance our understandings of organizing processes? Design/methodology/approach The paper begins with an overvie…
Revealing and Concealing Difference: A Critical Approach to Disclosure and an Intersectional Theory of “Closeting
In this essay, we integrate communication research on difference, intersectionality, queer theory, and stigma to develop a critical approach to disclosure that is attentive to power dynamics. Our critical approach to disclosure centers closeting processes in relation to multiple stigmatized, non-normative, and invisible forms of difference, in addition to sexuality/gender. The theory of closeting that we developed contributes to existing disclosu…
Examining Cultural Identification and Alcohol Use Among American Indian and Caucasian College Students
Previous research consistently concludes American Indians (AI) demonstrate higher levels of alcohol use than Caucasians (CA); however, recent research suggests AIs may be drinking at similar or lower rates than CAs. Little research has examined cultural identification as a contributing factor to alcohol use. This study sought to examine cultural identification and its relationship to alcohol use between AI and CA college students. Participants co…
“I hate being called a Dreamer … but”: Practitioners and undocumented students negotiating discursive tensions in the Dreamer narrative
Sociology (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Gender Diversity and Inequality (5 works) · Management and Organizational Studies (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works)