Tomide Oloruntobi
Biographic Data
| ID | 3450187 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tomide Oloruntobi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tomide |
| FAMILY NAME | Oloruntobi |
| SIGNATURE | OLORUNTOBI T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of New Mexico |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3769-6254 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
On Intersections of Power and Vulnerability
This article explores the representational politics of motherhood in Nollywood. It argues that a latent hetero-normative/patriarchal ideology shapes the construction of motherhood in Nollywood. Through a postcolonial media critique of both lived experiences and six purposively selected movies, I analyze the interplay of power and vulnerability in Nollywood’s portrayal of motherhood. Themes of heteropatriarchal fetishism, paradox of matripotency, …
(Dis)Connecting with the USA
Black Queer Freedom
Gershun Avilez's Black Queer Freedom positions space as central to engagements of queer possibilities, freedom, and futures. With holistic review of queerness space, injury, and desire, Avilez theorizes about the multidimensionality of injuries experienced by and constituting queer living. Avilez operationalizes path to queer desires as methodic way of teaching, understanding, and responding to hegemonic articulations of normativity and theorizes…
Revisiting cross-cultural adaptation
This article provides an embodied approach to theorizing cross-cultural adaptation. I argue that a more diverse and holistic view of adaptation pays attention to the body as an experiencing subject in adaptation contexts. Engaging body geopolitics as guiding a concept, embodied approach to adaptation is a processual experiential approach in which the body engages intersubjective interactions that shapes a newcomer’s adaptation experiences. Using …
Revisiting cross-cultural adaptation
This article provides an embodied approach to theorizing cross-cultural adaptation. I argue that a more diverse and holistic view of adaptation pays attention to the body as an experiencing subject in adaptation contexts. Engaging body geopolitics as guiding a concept, embodied approach to adaptation is a processual experiential approach in which the body engages intersubjective interactions that shapes a newcomer’s adaptation experiences. Using …
Black Queer Freedom
Gershun Avilez's Black Queer Freedom positions space as central to engagements of queer possibilities, freedom, and futures. With holistic review of queerness space, injury, and desire, Avilez theorizes about the multidimensionality of injuries experienced by and constituting queer living. Avilez operationalizes path to queer desires as methodic way of teaching, understanding, and responding to hegemonic articulations of normativity and theorizes…
Revisiting cross-cultural adaptation
This article provides an embodied approach to theorizing cross-cultural adaptation. I argue that a more diverse and holistic view of adaptation pays attention to the body as an experiencing subject in adaptation contexts. Engaging body geopolitics as guiding a concept, embodied approach to adaptation is a processual experiential approach in which the body engages intersubjective interactions that shapes a newcomer’s adaptation experiences. Using …
Black Queer Freedom
Gershun Avilez's Black Queer Freedom positions space as central to engagements of queer possibilities, freedom, and futures. With holistic review of queerness space, injury, and desire, Avilez theorizes about the multidimensionality of injuries experienced by and constituting queer living. Avilez operationalizes path to queer desires as methodic way of teaching, understanding, and responding to hegemonic articulations of normativity and theorizes…
On Intersections of Power and Vulnerability
This article explores the representational politics of motherhood in Nollywood. It argues that a latent hetero-normative/patriarchal ideology shapes the construction of motherhood in Nollywood. Through a postcolonial media critique of both lived experiences and six purposively selected movies, I analyze the interplay of power and vulnerability in Nollywood’s portrayal of motherhood. Themes of heteropatriarchal fetishism, paradox of matripotency, …
(Dis)Connecting with the USA
Gender Studies (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Adaptation (eye (2 works) · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (2 works) · Embodied cognition (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Psychology (2 works)