Heather Switzer
Biographic Data
| ID | 2551202 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Heather Switzer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Heather |
| FAMILY NAME | Switzer |
| SIGNATURE | SWITZER H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arizona State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9782-8255 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Haryanvi Jaat Girls’ Affective Resistance as Micro-modal Feminist Activism
In this article we explore how young Haryanvi Jaat women in urban India enact affective everyday forms of feminist resistance within patriarchal regimes that regulate sanctioned girlhood. Drawing on qualitative interviews with self-identified girls aged 18 to 24, we theorize what we refer to as relational transgression as a feminist practice enacted through the two micro-modal tactics that we call rigid timidity and girl time. These affective str…
Affective Infrastructures in Kenyan Maasai Schoolgirl Pregnancy Narratives
In this article, I explore how pregnant and parenting Maasai schoolgirls in rural Kenya inhabit emotions like regret, anger, and hope, and how these feelings act as social forces that shape perception, relationships, and action. Centering the narrative of a schoolgirl named Namelok, I examine schoolgirlhood as an affective orientation lived within and against Girls in Development discourse that links empowerment to delayed fertility and school co…
Feminist Friendship (Dispatch)
Oppositional Girlhoods and the Challenge of Relational Politics
(Post)Feminist development fables
The Nike Foundation's flagship corporate social responsibility campaign, 'The Girl Effect', has generated support for targeted investments in adolescent girls as the 'key' economic development in the global south. As a representational regime, the campaign is an example of an increasingly hegemonic discourse of global girl power via formal education. In an era of 'sexualisation moral panic' regarding representations of contemporary young female s…
Disruptive Discourses
This article examines the practical construction and effects of the schoolgirl as an emergent social category in contemporary Kenyan Maasai society against mainstream development's figuring of the girl-child. The paper relies upon ninety-eight interviews with schoolgirls between the ages of ten and seventeen in nine primary schools in Kajiado District, Kenya. A contradictory resistance to traditional gender norms and social forms characterizes th…
(Post)Feminist development fables
The Nike Foundation's flagship corporate social responsibility campaign, 'The Girl Effect', has generated support for targeted investments in adolescent girls as the 'key' economic development in the global south. As a representational regime, the campaign is an example of an increasingly hegemonic discourse of global girl power via formal education. In an era of 'sexualisation moral panic' regarding representations of contemporary young female s…
Oppositional Girlhoods and the Challenge of Relational Politics
Disruptive Discourses
This article examines the practical construction and effects of the schoolgirl as an emergent social category in contemporary Kenyan Maasai society against mainstream development's figuring of the girl-child. The paper relies upon ninety-eight interviews with schoolgirls between the ages of ten and seventeen in nine primary schools in Kajiado District, Kenya. A contradictory resistance to traditional gender norms and social forms characterizes th…
Disruptive Discourses
This article examines the practical construction and effects of the schoolgirl as an emergent social category in contemporary Kenyan Maasai society against mainstream development's figuring of the girl-child. The paper relies upon ninety-eight interviews with schoolgirls between the ages of ten and seventeen in nine primary schools in Kajiado District, Kenya. A contradictory resistance to traditional gender norms and social forms characterizes th…
(Post)Feminist development fables
The Nike Foundation's flagship corporate social responsibility campaign, 'The Girl Effect', has generated support for targeted investments in adolescent girls as the 'key' economic development in the global south. As a representational regime, the campaign is an example of an increasingly hegemonic discourse of global girl power via formal education. In an era of 'sexualisation moral panic' regarding representations of contemporary young female s…
Oppositional Girlhoods and the Challenge of Relational Politics
Feminist Friendship (Dispatch)
Affective Infrastructures in Kenyan Maasai Schoolgirl Pregnancy Narratives
In this article, I explore how pregnant and parenting Maasai schoolgirls in rural Kenya inhabit emotions like regret, anger, and hope, and how these feelings act as social forces that shape perception, relationships, and action. Centering the narrative of a schoolgirl named Namelok, I examine schoolgirlhood as an affective orientation lived within and against Girls in Development discourse that links empowerment to delayed fertility and school co…
Haryanvi Jaat Girls’ Affective Resistance as Micro-modal Feminist Activism
In this article we explore how young Haryanvi Jaat women in urban India enact affective everyday forms of feminist resistance within patriarchal regimes that regulate sanctioned girlhood. Drawing on qualitative interviews with self-identified girls aged 18 to 24, we theorize what we refer to as relational transgression as a feminist practice enacted through the two micro-modal tactics that we call rigid timidity and girl time. These affective str…
Gender Studies (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Narrative (4 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Girl (3 works) · Feminism (2 works) · Kenya (2 works)