Alexandra G Murphy
Biographic Data
| ID | 238733 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexandra G Murphy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexandra G |
| FAMILY NAME | Murphy |
| SIGNATURE | MURPHY A G |
| AFFILIATIONS | DePaul University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Discursive negotiations of Kenyan LGBTI identities: Cautions in cultural humility
This study identifies and analyzes sites of discursive negotiation regarding sexual and gender minority identities in Kenya. A demonizing master narrative of homosexuality is constructed through cultural myths prevalent in Kenyan media yet challenged by claims of innate identity through strategic essentialism and glocalized naming practices. Using participant observation and creative focus group methodologies with lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans*, …
Narrating sexual identities in Kenya: “Choice,” value, and visibility
This article examines the discursive construction of female same-sex sexual identities in Nairobi. We identify the discursive forces of "choice," devaluation, and invisibility as influential within Kenyan media representations of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex citizens. Using creative focus groups and participant observation, we demonstrate how same-sex attracted women in Nairobi resist and rearticulate these discursive forces …
Having Their Say: Sex Workers Discuss Their Needs and Resources
In many countries where HIV/AIDS is prevalent, social, cultural, and economic factors often mitigate the adoption of healthy reproductive behaviors and practices. One group that is particularly susceptible to mitigating influences is women who work in the sex trade. In this article, we utilize a culture-centered approach to determine how a population of sex workers in Nairobi, Kenya, perceives their individual, social, and structural needs and re…
Discursive Frictions: Power, Identity, and Culture in an International Working Partnership
This article builds on previous work in power, identity, and culture in organizational communication and transnational feminism. Drawing on a six-year capacity-building partnership between a U.S. and a Kenyan team to promote HIV/AIDS education, it explores the discursive frictions that can arise when universal goals, such as science and health, come into contact with the material, cultural, political, and religious realities of local practitioner…
The Dialectical Gaze: Exploring the Subject-Object Tension in the Performances of Women who Strip
Much of past research on female exotic dance has characterized strippers as deviant workers who are either passive, objectified victims of a sexploitation system that trades on their bodies for financial gain or as active subjects who work the exchange for their own benefit. Drawing on theories of power, performance, and communication, this work complicates the subject-object tension, showing how power circulates through a system of competing dis…
Organizational Politics of Place and Space: The Perpetual Liminoid Performance of Commercial Flight
Strapped in a narrow, metal tube catapulting across time zones and continents, air travelers find themselves suspended between other times and spaces in their lives. A number of social practices, however, transform the “nowhere” experience of air travel into one grounded in the familiar. Blending performance and organizational theories, this work explores the politics of air travel cultural performances. It focuses on the organizational strategie…
The Dialectical Gaze: Exploring the Subject-Object Tension in the Performances of Women who Strip
Much of past research on female exotic dance has characterized strippers as deviant workers who are either passive, objectified victims of a sexploitation system that trades on their bodies for financial gain or as active subjects who work the exchange for their own benefit. Drawing on theories of power, performance, and communication, this work complicates the subject-object tension, showing how power circulates through a system of competing dis…
Organizational Politics of Place and Space: The Perpetual Liminoid Performance of Commercial Flight
Strapped in a narrow, metal tube catapulting across time zones and continents, air travelers find themselves suspended between other times and spaces in their lives. A number of social practices, however, transform the “nowhere” experience of air travel into one grounded in the familiar. Blending performance and organizational theories, this work explores the politics of air travel cultural performances. It focuses on the organizational strategie…
Discursive negotiations of Kenyan LGBTI identities: Cautions in cultural humility
This study identifies and analyzes sites of discursive negotiation regarding sexual and gender minority identities in Kenya. A demonizing master narrative of homosexuality is constructed through cultural myths prevalent in Kenyan media yet challenged by claims of innate identity through strategic essentialism and glocalized naming practices. Using participant observation and creative focus group methodologies with lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans*, …
Discursive Frictions: Power, Identity, and Culture in an International Working Partnership
This article builds on previous work in power, identity, and culture in organizational communication and transnational feminism. Drawing on a six-year capacity-building partnership between a U.S. and a Kenyan team to promote HIV/AIDS education, it explores the discursive frictions that can arise when universal goals, such as science and health, come into contact with the material, cultural, political, and religious realities of local practitioner…
Organizational Politics of Place and Space: The Perpetual Liminoid Performance of Commercial Flight
Strapped in a narrow, metal tube catapulting across time zones and continents, air travelers find themselves suspended between other times and spaces in their lives. A number of social practices, however, transform the “nowhere” experience of air travel into one grounded in the familiar. Blending performance and organizational theories, this work explores the politics of air travel cultural performances. It focuses on the organizational strategie…
The Dialectical Gaze: Exploring the Subject-Object Tension in the Performances of Women who Strip
Much of past research on female exotic dance has characterized strippers as deviant workers who are either passive, objectified victims of a sexploitation system that trades on their bodies for financial gain or as active subjects who work the exchange for their own benefit. Drawing on theories of power, performance, and communication, this work complicates the subject-object tension, showing how power circulates through a system of competing dis…
Discursive Frictions: Power, Identity, and Culture in an International Working Partnership
This article builds on previous work in power, identity, and culture in organizational communication and transnational feminism. Drawing on a six-year capacity-building partnership between a U.S. and a Kenyan team to promote HIV/AIDS education, it explores the discursive frictions that can arise when universal goals, such as science and health, come into contact with the material, cultural, political, and religious realities of local practitioner…
Having Their Say: Sex Workers Discuss Their Needs and Resources
In many countries where HIV/AIDS is prevalent, social, cultural, and economic factors often mitigate the adoption of healthy reproductive behaviors and practices. One group that is particularly susceptible to mitigating influences is women who work in the sex trade. In this article, we utilize a culture-centered approach to determine how a population of sex workers in Nairobi, Kenya, perceives their individual, social, and structural needs and re…
Discursive negotiations of Kenyan LGBTI identities: Cautions in cultural humility
This study identifies and analyzes sites of discursive negotiation regarding sexual and gender minority identities in Kenya. A demonizing master narrative of homosexuality is constructed through cultural myths prevalent in Kenyan media yet challenged by claims of innate identity through strategic essentialism and glocalized naming practices. Using participant observation and creative focus group methodologies with lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans*, …
Narrating sexual identities in Kenya: “Choice,” value, and visibility
This article examines the discursive construction of female same-sex sexual identities in Nairobi. We identify the discursive forces of "choice," devaluation, and invisibility as influential within Kenyan media representations of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex citizens. Using creative focus groups and participant observation, we demonstrate how same-sex attracted women in Nairobi resist and rearticulate these discursive forces …
Sociology (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Work (physics (4 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Identity (music (3 works) · Sex work and related issues (3 works) · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (2 works)