Alexis Shotwell
Biographic Data
| ID | 272023 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexis Shotwell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexis |
| FAMILY NAME | Shotwell |
| SIGNATURE | SHOTWELL A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Carleton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0494-6202 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 112 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Learning How To Not Steal: Settler Practices for Being in Relation to Indigenous Sovereignties in Entangled Worlds
“Epistemophilia”—a love of knowledge—is key feature of colonialism. It includes the belief that knowing more is better, that knowledge should be shared, and that knowledge is separable from context. Settler-colonial education systems are in part systems of epistemic extraction and theft that buttress material and relational extractivism, attempting to steal land, relations, and practices. In this paper I explore how white settlers doing research,…
Building Complicity with Another World
The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred, by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein (Bold Type Books, 2021)
Weinstein's important new book The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred. It has quickly achieved more popular uptake than many of us who care about feminist STS would have dreamed possible. The reviews everywhere from CNN to Goodreads show that nonacademic, ordinary people, many of whom profess themselves terrified by science, read and love this book. Notably, what they say about it indicates that Prescod-…
Teaching, Supervising, and Supporting PhD Students: Identifying Issues, Addressing Challenges, Sharing Strategies
This is My Body”: Historical Trauma, Activist Performance, and Embodied Rage
It matters that many people now do not realize how drastically the embodiment of HIV and AIDS has changed in the past twenty-five years. But the experience of HIV-positive embodiment has been from
Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene by Donna J. Haraway
Reviewed by: Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene by Donna J. Haraway Alexis Shotwell Donna J. Haraway, Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016, 312 pp. ISBN 978-0-8223-6224-1 Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene is generous in offering a space for encounter and response to the critters, texts, and conversations it treats. Starting from the understanding…
Water and Ocean
A review of Elspeth Probyn. 2016, 'Eating the Ocean'. Durham: Duke University Press and Astrida Neimanis. 2017, 'Bodies of Water: Posthuman Feminist Phenomenology'. London: Bloomsbury
Implicit Knowledge: How it is Understood and Used in Feminist Theory
Feminist theorists have crafted diverse accounts of implicit knowing that exceed the purview of epistemology conventionally understood. I characterize this field as through examining thematic clusters of feminist work on implicit knowledge: phenomenological and foucauldian theories of embodiment; theories of affect and emotion; other forms of implicit knowledge. Within these areas, the umbrella concept of implicit knowledge (or understanding, dep…
Aspirational solidarity as bioethical norm: The case of reproductive justice
In this paper, I attend to a current strand in bioethics that forwards solidarity as a promising direction for bioethics theory and health-promoting practices. Drawing on resources from social and political philosophy, I argue that we can gain useful insight in bioethics if we understand solidarity as a political relation grounded not on shared social (political, economic) location but rather on shared visions for the sorts of worlds in which col…
Women Don't Get Aids, They Just Die From It”: Memory, Classification, and the Campaign to Change the Definition of Aids
In this paper, I examine activist group ACT UP's campaign to change the US Centers for Disease Control surveillance case definition of HIV and AIDS. This campaign's effects included a profound shift in how AIDS is understood, and thus in some real way in what it is. I argue that classification should be understood as a political formation with material effects, attending to the words of activists, most of them women, who contested the way AIDS wa…
Open Normativities: Gender, Disability, and Collective Political Change
In this essay, I argue for what I call open normativities: collectively crafted ways of being that shape subjectivities oriented toward widespread flourishing. Too often feminist and queer theory takes a simplistic and reductive approach to normativity. In the first part of this essay, I briefly trace a thread in current queer theory that equates normativity with oppression, patriarchy, racism, ablism, and more. I put forward a competing lineage …
Knowing Otherwise: Race, Gender, and Implicit Understanding
"Draws on philosophers, political theorists, activists, and poets to explain how unspoken and unspeakable knowledge is important to racial and gender formation; offers a usable conception of implicit understanding"--Provided by publishers.
Practicing Freedom: Disability And Gender Transformation
Conclusion: The Point, However, Is To Change It
Remembering For The Future: Reckoning With An Unjust Past
Shimmering Presences: Frog, Toad, And Toxic Interdependencies
Index
Content
Preliminary Material
Worlds To Come: Imagining Speculative Disability Futures
Consuming Suffering: Eating, Energy, And Embodied Ethics
Complexity And Complicity: An Introduction To Constitutive Impurity
Women Don’T Get Aids, They Just Die From It”: Memory, Classification, And The Campaign To Change The Definition Of Aids
Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times
Relational Understanding and White Antiracist Praxis
In this article, we argue that, in order for white racial consciousness and practice to shift toward an antiracist praxis, a relational understanding of racism, the 'self,' and society is necessary. We find that such understanding arises from a confluence of propositional, affective, and tacit forms of knowledge about racism and one's own situatedness within it. We consider the claims sociologists have made about transformations in racial conscio…
Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times
Resisting Definition: Gendering through Interaction and Relational Selfhood
This paper argues that trans and genderqueer people affect the gender formation and identity of non-trans people. We explore three instances of this relationship between trans and non-trans genders: an allegiance to inadequate liberal-individualist models of selfhood; tropes through which trans people are made to stand as theoretical objects with which to think about gender broadly; and a narrow focus on gender and evasion of an intersectional un…
Relational Understanding and White Antiracist Praxis
In this article, we argue that, in order for white racial consciousness and practice to shift toward an antiracist praxis, a relational understanding of racism, the 'self,' and society is necessary. We find that such understanding arises from a confluence of propositional, affective, and tacit forms of knowledge about racism and one's own situatedness within it. We consider the claims sociologists have made about transformations in racial conscio…
Open Normativities: Gender, Disability, and Collective Political Change
In this essay, I argue for what I call open normativities: collectively crafted ways of being that shape subjectivities oriented toward widespread flourishing. Too often feminist and queer theory takes a simplistic and reductive approach to normativity. In the first part of this essay, I briefly trace a thread in current queer theory that equates normativity with oppression, patriarchy, racism, ablism, and more. I put forward a competing lineage …
Building Complicity with Another World
Women Don't Get Aids, They Just Die From It”: Memory, Classification, and the Campaign to Change the Definition of Aids
In this paper, I examine activist group ACT UP's campaign to change the US Centers for Disease Control surveillance case definition of HIV and AIDS. This campaign's effects included a profound shift in how AIDS is understood, and thus in some real way in what it is. I argue that classification should be understood as a political formation with material effects, attending to the words of activists, most of them women, who contested the way AIDS wa…
Water and Ocean
A review of Elspeth Probyn. 2016, 'Eating the Ocean'. Durham: Duke University Press and Astrida Neimanis. 2017, 'Bodies of Water: Posthuman Feminist Phenomenology'. London: Bloomsbury
Implicit Knowledge: How it is Understood and Used in Feminist Theory
Feminist theorists have crafted diverse accounts of implicit knowing that exceed the purview of epistemology conventionally understood. I characterize this field as through examining thematic clusters of feminist work on implicit knowledge: phenomenological and foucauldian theories of embodiment; theories of affect and emotion; other forms of implicit knowledge. Within these areas, the umbrella concept of implicit knowledge (or understanding, dep…
Resisting Definition: Gendering through Interaction and Relational Selfhood
This paper argues that trans and genderqueer people affect the gender formation and identity of non-trans people. We explore three instances of this relationship between trans and non-trans genders: an allegiance to inadequate liberal-individualist models of selfhood; tropes through which trans people are made to stand as theoretical objects with which to think about gender broadly; and a narrow focus on gender and evasion of an intersectional un…
Relational Understanding and White Antiracist Praxis
In this article, we argue that, in order for white racial consciousness and practice to shift toward an antiracist praxis, a relational understanding of racism, the 'self,' and society is necessary. We find that such understanding arises from a confluence of propositional, affective, and tacit forms of knowledge about racism and one's own situatedness within it. We consider the claims sociologists have made about transformations in racial conscio…
Practicing Freedom: Disability And Gender Transformation
Conclusion: The Point, However, Is To Change It
Remembering For The Future: Reckoning With An Unjust Past
Shimmering Presences: Frog, Toad, And Toxic Interdependencies
Index
Content
Preliminary Material
Worlds To Come: Imagining Speculative Disability Futures
Consuming Suffering: Eating, Energy, And Embodied Ethics
Complexity And Complicity: An Introduction To Constitutive Impurity
Women Don’T Get Aids, They Just Die From It”: Memory, Classification, And The Campaign To Change The Definition Of Aids
Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times
Knowing Otherwise: Race, Gender, and Implicit Understanding
"Draws on philosophers, political theorists, activists, and poets to explain how unspoken and unspeakable knowledge is important to racial and gender formation; offers a usable conception of implicit understanding"--Provided by publishers.
Open Normativities: Gender, Disability, and Collective Political Change
In this essay, I argue for what I call open normativities: collectively crafted ways of being that shape subjectivities oriented toward widespread flourishing. Too often feminist and queer theory takes a simplistic and reductive approach to normativity. In the first part of this essay, I briefly trace a thread in current queer theory that equates normativity with oppression, patriarchy, racism, ablism, and more. I put forward a competing lineage …
Aspirational solidarity as bioethical norm: The case of reproductive justice
In this paper, I attend to a current strand in bioethics that forwards solidarity as a promising direction for bioethics theory and health-promoting practices. Drawing on resources from social and political philosophy, I argue that we can gain useful insight in bioethics if we understand solidarity as a political relation grounded not on shared social (political, economic) location but rather on shared visions for the sorts of worlds in which col…
Women Don't Get Aids, They Just Die From It”: Memory, Classification, and the Campaign to Change the Definition of Aids
In this paper, I examine activist group ACT UP's campaign to change the US Centers for Disease Control surveillance case definition of HIV and AIDS. This campaign's effects included a profound shift in how AIDS is understood, and thus in some real way in what it is. I argue that classification should be understood as a political formation with material effects, attending to the words of activists, most of them women, who contested the way AIDS wa…
Implicit Knowledge: How it is Understood and Used in Feminist Theory
Feminist theorists have crafted diverse accounts of implicit knowing that exceed the purview of epistemology conventionally understood. I characterize this field as through examining thematic clusters of feminist work on implicit knowledge: phenomenological and foucauldian theories of embodiment; theories of affect and emotion; other forms of implicit knowledge. Within these areas, the umbrella concept of implicit knowledge (or understanding, dep…
Water and Ocean
A review of Elspeth Probyn. 2016, 'Eating the Ocean'. Durham: Duke University Press and Astrida Neimanis. 2017, 'Bodies of Water: Posthuman Feminist Phenomenology'. London: Bloomsbury
This is My Body”: Historical Trauma, Activist Performance, and Embodied Rage
It matters that many people now do not realize how drastically the embodiment of HIV and AIDS has changed in the past twenty-five years. But the experience of HIV-positive embodiment has been from
Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene by Donna J. Haraway
Reviewed by: Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene by Donna J. Haraway Alexis Shotwell Donna J. Haraway, Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016, 312 pp. ISBN 978-0-8223-6224-1 Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene is generous in offering a space for encounter and response to the critters, texts, and conversations it treats. Starting from the understanding…
Teaching, Supervising, and Supporting PhD Students: Identifying Issues, Addressing Challenges, Sharing Strategies
The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred, by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein (Bold Type Books, 2021)
Weinstein's important new book The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred. It has quickly achieved more popular uptake than many of us who care about feminist STS would have dreamed possible. The reviews everywhere from CNN to Goodreads show that nonacademic, ordinary people, many of whom profess themselves terrified by science, read and love this book. Notably, what they say about it indicates that Prescod-…
Building Complicity with Another World
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