Kate Lockwood Harris
Biographic Data
| ID | 297234 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kate Lockwood Harris |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kate Lockwood |
| FAMILY NAME | Harris |
| SIGNATURE | HARRIS K L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Minnesota |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8173-2777 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 64 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
De-whitening consent amidst Covid-19 rhetoric
This article exposes four white-supremacist tactics embedded within extant consent discourse that became increasingly mobilized through the COVID-19 pandemic. These tactics include discourses of militarism as well as the dismissal of Black autonomy, reproductive access, and disability within existing consent rhetoric. We argue that these tactics create renewed exigence for de-whitening consent, and we build such a de-whitened consent framework by…
The promise and peril of agency as motion: A feminist new materialist approach to sexual violence and sexual harassment
Organizational scholars have established that sexual harassment, the most studied kind of sexual violence, is an organizational problem. Extending this work, we analyze two critical events regarding sexual violence in the United States—one in the military and another at a university—in which discourse detracts from understanding the problem in this way. We draw upon feminist new materialism and its primary method—diffraction—to track ‘cuts’, the …
Time to #ToneUpOrgComm
Organizational communication should tone up, that is, refuse white fragility's demands to slow the pace of change
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…
Mapping Gender and Violence: Describing Reality, Resisting Abuse
Scholars of communication have long balanced two notions of communication. To borrow Carey’s (2009) language, communication has been both a map of the world—a way to describe preexisting reality—an
Performing reflexive caring: Rethinking reflexivity through trauma and disability
You care about difference. In this exigent mood we begin to rework reflexivity through disability and trauma studies. Using performative writing, we trouble you, me, and we in order to uncouple analytical rigor from individual bodies and identities. As we consider violence, injury, and ability, we complicate an imperative for personal disclosure. While continuing to insist on accountability to privilege, we highlight queer vulnerabilities, altern…
Re-situating organizational knowledge: Violence, intersectionality and the privilege of partial perspective
Scholars have called repeatedly for more nuanced understandings of power and organizational knowledge, but researchers have yet to integrate available critical frameworks that could link these concepts. Moreover, existing analyses of power in organizational knowledge tend to focus on role differences but do not yet consider how social differences – including gender, race and sexuality – shape knowledge. Working from a practice-based approach, I d…
Maybe She Was Provoked”: Exploring Gender Stereotypes About Male and Female Perpetrators of Intimate Partner Violence
The current study is concerned with the different types of gender stereotypes that participants may draw upon when exposed to news stories about intimate partner violence (IPV). We qualitatively analyzed open-ended responses examining four types of gender stereotypes-aggression, emotional, power and control, and acceptability of violence. We offer theoretical implications that extend past research on intimate terrorism and situational couple viol…
Reflexive voicing: A Communicative Approach to Intersectional Writing
Intersectionality has increasing traction in interdisciplinary inquiry, yet questions remain about qualitative intersectional methods. In particular, scholars have yet to consider how to write qualitative research in the service of intersectionality. Drawing upon my disciplinary training in communication studies, I argue that the field's theoretical grounding offers useful resources for advancing intersectional writing. Because communication theo…
Feminist Dilemmatic Theorizing: New Materialism in Communication Studies
Journal Article Feminist Dilemmatic Theorizing: New Materialism in Communication Studies Get access Kate Lockwood Harris Kate Lockwood Harris 1Department of Communication, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Communication Theory, Volume 26, Issue 2, May 2016, Pages 150–170, https://doi.org/10.1111/comt.12083 Published: 04 November 2015
(De)stabilizing Sexual Violence Discourse: Masculinization of Victimhood, Organizational Blame, and Labile Imperialism
Following calls to center nation, we analyze sexual violence discourse in the US Peace Corps. The texts we consider deploy three typical dichotomies—public/private, self/other, and agent/victim—that, in this case, reveal inconsistencies at the intersections of race and gender. We argue that these inconsistencies are evidence of lability, counterintuitive discursive shifts necessary to maintain white heteromasculine dominance. Instead of blaming i…
‘I’m not sexist, but . . .’: How ideological dilemmas reinforce sexism in talk about intimate partner violence
In order to extend knowledge about the communicative aspects of intimate partner violence (IPV), we ask how those who talk about IPV frame the relationship between gender and power. How does their framing account for the role of gender in IPV perpetration? A critical discourse analysis of conversations from focus groups and interviews reveals that when participants talk about IPV, they rely on ideological dilemmas in available understandings of t…
The Next Problem With No Name: The Politics and Pragmatics of the Word Rape
In this study I asked women how the word rape fit and did not fit their own experiences of forced or unwanted sex with acquaintances. Although some participants noted that the term removed self-blame and indicated severity, most suggested that the word was limiting. It did not distinguish varied harms, created uncomfortable expectations for participants' behavior, eliminated moments of agency, and dichotomized experiences. By considering these li…
The plans in unplanned pregnancy: Secondary gain and the partnership
A total of 128 North London women were interviewed using a semi‐structured interview technique. Life‐events, difficulties, variables relating to the quality of their sexual partnerships, self‐esteem and the secondary gain inherent in becoming pregnant were examined. Results indicated that women with unplanned pregnancies were significantly more likely to have been in a situation of potential secondary gain from a pregnancy than were women with pl…
The Patron of British Library MS Arundel 38
Journal Article THE PATRON OF BRITISH LIBRARY MS ARUNDEL 38 Get access KATE HARRIS KATE HARRIS New Hall, Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Notes and Queries, Volume 31, Issue 4, December 1984, Pages 462–463, https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/31-4-462 Published: 01 December 1984
Re-situating organizational knowledge: Violence, intersectionality and the privilege of partial perspective
Scholars have called repeatedly for more nuanced understandings of power and organizational knowledge, but researchers have yet to integrate available critical frameworks that could link these concepts. Moreover, existing analyses of power in organizational knowledge tend to focus on role differences but do not yet consider how social differences – including gender, race and sexuality – shape knowledge. Working from a practice-based approach, I d…
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…
The Next Problem With No Name: The Politics and Pragmatics of the Word Rape
In this study I asked women how the word rape fit and did not fit their own experiences of forced or unwanted sex with acquaintances. Although some participants noted that the term removed self-blame and indicated severity, most suggested that the word was limiting. It did not distinguish varied harms, created uncomfortable expectations for participants' behavior, eliminated moments of agency, and dichotomized experiences. By considering these li…
Maybe She Was Provoked”: Exploring Gender Stereotypes About Male and Female Perpetrators of Intimate Partner Violence
The current study is concerned with the different types of gender stereotypes that participants may draw upon when exposed to news stories about intimate partner violence (IPV). We qualitatively analyzed open-ended responses examining four types of gender stereotypes-aggression, emotional, power and control, and acceptability of violence. We offer theoretical implications that extend past research on intimate terrorism and situational couple viol…
Mapping Gender and Violence: Describing Reality, Resisting Abuse
Scholars of communication have long balanced two notions of communication. To borrow Carey’s (2009) language, communication has been both a map of the world—a way to describe preexisting reality—an
The plans in unplanned pregnancy: Secondary gain and the partnership
A total of 128 North London women were interviewed using a semi‐structured interview technique. Life‐events, difficulties, variables relating to the quality of their sexual partnerships, self‐esteem and the secondary gain inherent in becoming pregnant were examined. Results indicated that women with unplanned pregnancies were significantly more likely to have been in a situation of potential secondary gain from a pregnancy than were women with pl…
Feminist Dilemmatic Theorizing: New Materialism in Communication Studies
Journal Article Feminist Dilemmatic Theorizing: New Materialism in Communication Studies Get access Kate Lockwood Harris Kate Lockwood Harris 1Department of Communication, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Communication Theory, Volume 26, Issue 2, May 2016, Pages 150–170, https://doi.org/10.1111/comt.12083 Published: 04 November 2015
De-whitening consent amidst Covid-19 rhetoric
This article exposes four white-supremacist tactics embedded within extant consent discourse that became increasingly mobilized through the COVID-19 pandemic. These tactics include discourses of militarism as well as the dismissal of Black autonomy, reproductive access, and disability within existing consent rhetoric. We argue that these tactics create renewed exigence for de-whitening consent, and we build such a de-whitened consent framework by…
Performing reflexive caring: Rethinking reflexivity through trauma and disability
You care about difference. In this exigent mood we begin to rework reflexivity through disability and trauma studies. Using performative writing, we trouble you, me, and we in order to uncouple analytical rigor from individual bodies and identities. As we consider violence, injury, and ability, we complicate an imperative for personal disclosure. While continuing to insist on accountability to privilege, we highlight queer vulnerabilities, altern…
(De)stabilizing Sexual Violence Discourse: Masculinization of Victimhood, Organizational Blame, and Labile Imperialism
Following calls to center nation, we analyze sexual violence discourse in the US Peace Corps. The texts we consider deploy three typical dichotomies—public/private, self/other, and agent/victim—that, in this case, reveal inconsistencies at the intersections of race and gender. We argue that these inconsistencies are evidence of lability, counterintuitive discursive shifts necessary to maintain white heteromasculine dominance. Instead of blaming i…
Reflexive voicing: A Communicative Approach to Intersectional Writing
Intersectionality has increasing traction in interdisciplinary inquiry, yet questions remain about qualitative intersectional methods. In particular, scholars have yet to consider how to write qualitative research in the service of intersectionality. Drawing upon my disciplinary training in communication studies, I argue that the field's theoretical grounding offers useful resources for advancing intersectional writing. Because communication theo…
The Patron of British Library MS Arundel 38
Journal Article THE PATRON OF BRITISH LIBRARY MS ARUNDEL 38 Get access KATE HARRIS KATE HARRIS New Hall, Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Notes and Queries, Volume 31, Issue 4, December 1984, Pages 462–463, https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/31-4-462 Published: 01 December 1984
The plans in unplanned pregnancy: Secondary gain and the partnership
A total of 128 North London women were interviewed using a semi‐structured interview technique. Life‐events, difficulties, variables relating to the quality of their sexual partnerships, self‐esteem and the secondary gain inherent in becoming pregnant were examined. Results indicated that women with unplanned pregnancies were significantly more likely to have been in a situation of potential secondary gain from a pregnancy than were women with pl…
The Next Problem With No Name: The Politics and Pragmatics of the Word Rape
In this study I asked women how the word rape fit and did not fit their own experiences of forced or unwanted sex with acquaintances. Although some participants noted that the term removed self-blame and indicated severity, most suggested that the word was limiting. It did not distinguish varied harms, created uncomfortable expectations for participants' behavior, eliminated moments of agency, and dichotomized experiences. By considering these li…
‘I’m not sexist, but . . .’: How ideological dilemmas reinforce sexism in talk about intimate partner violence
In order to extend knowledge about the communicative aspects of intimate partner violence (IPV), we ask how those who talk about IPV frame the relationship between gender and power. How does their framing account for the role of gender in IPV perpetration? A critical discourse analysis of conversations from focus groups and interviews reveals that when participants talk about IPV, they rely on ideological dilemmas in available understandings of t…
(De)stabilizing Sexual Violence Discourse: Masculinization of Victimhood, Organizational Blame, and Labile Imperialism
Following calls to center nation, we analyze sexual violence discourse in the US Peace Corps. The texts we consider deploy three typical dichotomies—public/private, self/other, and agent/victim—that, in this case, reveal inconsistencies at the intersections of race and gender. We argue that these inconsistencies are evidence of lability, counterintuitive discursive shifts necessary to maintain white heteromasculine dominance. Instead of blaming i…
Feminist Dilemmatic Theorizing: New Materialism in Communication Studies
Journal Article Feminist Dilemmatic Theorizing: New Materialism in Communication Studies Get access Kate Lockwood Harris Kate Lockwood Harris 1Department of Communication, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Communication Theory, Volume 26, Issue 2, May 2016, Pages 150–170, https://doi.org/10.1111/comt.12083 Published: 04 November 2015
Maybe She Was Provoked”: Exploring Gender Stereotypes About Male and Female Perpetrators of Intimate Partner Violence
The current study is concerned with the different types of gender stereotypes that participants may draw upon when exposed to news stories about intimate partner violence (IPV). We qualitatively analyzed open-ended responses examining four types of gender stereotypes-aggression, emotional, power and control, and acceptability of violence. We offer theoretical implications that extend past research on intimate terrorism and situational couple viol…
Reflexive voicing: A Communicative Approach to Intersectional Writing
Intersectionality has increasing traction in interdisciplinary inquiry, yet questions remain about qualitative intersectional methods. In particular, scholars have yet to consider how to write qualitative research in the service of intersectionality. Drawing upon my disciplinary training in communication studies, I argue that the field's theoretical grounding offers useful resources for advancing intersectional writing. Because communication theo…
Performing reflexive caring: Rethinking reflexivity through trauma and disability
You care about difference. In this exigent mood we begin to rework reflexivity through disability and trauma studies. Using performative writing, we trouble you, me, and we in order to uncouple analytical rigor from individual bodies and identities. As we consider violence, injury, and ability, we complicate an imperative for personal disclosure. While continuing to insist on accountability to privilege, we highlight queer vulnerabilities, altern…
Re-situating organizational knowledge: Violence, intersectionality and the privilege of partial perspective
Scholars have called repeatedly for more nuanced understandings of power and organizational knowledge, but researchers have yet to integrate available critical frameworks that could link these concepts. Moreover, existing analyses of power in organizational knowledge tend to focus on role differences but do not yet consider how social differences – including gender, race and sexuality – shape knowledge. Working from a practice-based approach, I d…
Mapping Gender and Violence: Describing Reality, Resisting Abuse
Scholars of communication have long balanced two notions of communication. To borrow Carey’s (2009) language, communication has been both a map of the world—a way to describe preexisting reality—an
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…
The promise and peril of agency as motion: A feminist new materialist approach to sexual violence and sexual harassment
Organizational scholars have established that sexual harassment, the most studied kind of sexual violence, is an organizational problem. Extending this work, we analyze two critical events regarding sexual violence in the United States—one in the military and another at a university—in which discourse detracts from understanding the problem in this way. We draw upon feminist new materialism and its primary method—diffraction—to track ‘cuts’, the …
Time to #ToneUpOrgComm
Organizational communication should tone up, that is, refuse white fragility's demands to slow the pace of change
De-whitening consent amidst Covid-19 rhetoric
This article exposes four white-supremacist tactics embedded within extant consent discourse that became increasingly mobilized through the COVID-19 pandemic. These tactics include discourses of militarism as well as the dismissal of Black autonomy, reproductive access, and disability within existing consent rhetoric. We argue that these tactics create renewed exigence for de-whitening consent, and we build such a de-whitened consent framework by…
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