Eric Aoki
Biographic Data
| ID | 348921 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eric Aoki |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eric |
| FAMILY NAME | Aoki |
| SIGNATURE | AOKI E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Colorado State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Nooses and Nazi swastikas on U.S. campuses
The terrorizing placement of nooses and Nazi swastikas on U.S. college and university campuses has sustained a climate of fear, trauma, and intimidation. University administration responses often invoke protest from targeted communities over their approach. Examining news reports and university statements between 2010 and 2023, we critique universities’ use of the rhetorical framework of “symbols” (e.g., “heinous symbols of hate,” “racist symbols…
Collective memory and sacred space in post-genocide Rwanda
We assess Mureithi's 2009 documentary, ICYIZERE: hope (Motion Picture, Josiah Films), as a document of representational space and collective memory. We argue that the post-genocide reconciliation workshop represented in the film embodies and constructs a sacred/secular space. The reconciliatory space is produced through (1) negotiations of dialectical tensions between past/present as well as individual/collective memory, and (2) (re)presentations…
Becoming (Hetero) Sexual? The Hetero-Spectacle of Idollators and their Real Dolls
Guys and Dolls, a BBC documentary premiering in 2007 sketches out the lives of four men in relationships with silicone-fleshed, anatomically correct Real Dolls (RDs). The men in the documentary treat their RDs as if they are alive—they dress their dolls, rub their feet, and discuss what sex and the relationship with their dolls is like. In relating with their RDs, the men respond to concerns of having “no female company” at all. In this essay, co…
(Re)Imagining the West
In 2009, the Whitney Gallery of Western Art (WGWA), located within the Buffalo Bill Historical Center (BBHC) in Cody, Wyoming, was redesigned-its art rehung and its vision of the West reimagined. The newly designed gallery replaced the structuring principles of history, artist, and genre that had governed the previous layout and design of the gallery with a thematic structure that elicits a series of affective dissonances. In this essay, we argue…
Memory and the West
The research collected in this special issue demonstrates that memory is mobilized symbolically and materially, spatially and temporally. It is fully embodied and often works affectively
Ways of (Not) Seeing Guns
Boasting over 6000 objects, including replicas of a western hardware store, a frontier stage stop, and a late nineteenth-century industrial factory, the Cody Firearms Museum, located at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming, is "the largest and most important collection of American firearms in the world."Footnote 1 The museum, which creates a decidedly visual space through its near-exclusive engagement with looking, employs an aesth…
Fatherhood on My Mind
This essay uses an academic letter format to address the topic of fatherhood through the personal perspective of a single, middle-aged, multi-ethnic, gay man. After providing auto-ethnographic reflections of childhood and family life, a survey of influential popular cultural texts and academic literature on fatherhood and parenting is provided. Finally, the letter ends with an in depth examination of the international film Bear Cub/Cachorro, alon…
Media Reviews
TRANSGENDER EMERGENCE: THERAPEUTIC GUIDELINES FOR WORKING WITH GENDER-VARIANT PEOPLE AND THEIR FAMILIES. Arlene I. Lev. New York: Haworth Clinical Practice Press, 2004. Reviewed by Rupert Raj. BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN. (2005). This Is That Productions. Screenplay adapted by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossanafrom a short story of the same title by E. Annie Proulx. Directed by Ang Lee. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal (Jack Twist), Heath Ledger (Ennis Del Mar), Ann…
Spaces of Remembering and Forgetting
Museums, memorials, and other historic places are key sites in the construction of collective memory and national identity. The Plains Indian Museum in Cody, Wyoming is one such space of memory where the (pre)history of “America” and its native peoples is told. Based on the view of texts as experiential landscapes, it is argued that this museum works to absolve Anglo-visitors of the social guilt regarding Western conquest through a rhetoric of re…
Media Reviews
ANGELS IN AMERICA (2004). Kushner, Tony. DVD. Home Box Office, Inc. 352 minutes. Reviewed by Jamie Skerski Department of Communication & Culture Reviewed by Alyssa Ann Samek. CURRENT RESEARCH ON BISEXUALITY (2004). Fox, R. C. (Ed.). Binghamton, NY: Harrington Park Press. Reviewed by Alyssa Ann Samek. FAMILIES LIKE MINE. Garner, A. (2004). New York, NY: Harper Collins. Reviewed by Scott A. Simpson
Coming Out as “We 3”
Using an academic letter format, I use a blended-method-ological approach of personal ethnography and qualitative case study to assess the three-partner, gay male relationship and the role of parental support. In working to understand better the relational “We 3,” I first provide an account of my relational experience with two other men. I discuss the process of our coming together and then make a methodological turn to provide insights from both…
Counter-Imagination as Interpretive Practice
This essay concerns the relationship between popular cinematic visions of the future and present day identity politics. We argue that despite its futuristic setting celebrating technological progress and multiculturalism. Luc Besson's 1997 film The Fifth Element constructs sexual and racial difference in a manner that privileges and naturalizes White heterosexual masculinity. The essay offers counter-imagination as an interpretive practice that d…
Ways of (Not) Seeing Guns
Boasting over 6000 objects, including replicas of a western hardware store, a frontier stage stop, and a late nineteenth-century industrial factory, the Cody Firearms Museum, located at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming, is "the largest and most important collection of American firearms in the world."Footnote 1 The museum, which creates a decidedly visual space through its near-exclusive engagement with looking, employs an aesth…
Spaces of Remembering and Forgetting
Museums, memorials, and other historic places are key sites in the construction of collective memory and national identity. The Plains Indian Museum in Cody, Wyoming is one such space of memory where the (pre)history of “America” and its native peoples is told. Based on the view of texts as experiential landscapes, it is argued that this museum works to absolve Anglo-visitors of the social guilt regarding Western conquest through a rhetoric of re…
Becoming (Hetero) Sexual? The Hetero-Spectacle of Idollators and their Real Dolls
Guys and Dolls, a BBC documentary premiering in 2007 sketches out the lives of four men in relationships with silicone-fleshed, anatomically correct Real Dolls (RDs). The men in the documentary treat their RDs as if they are alive—they dress their dolls, rub their feet, and discuss what sex and the relationship with their dolls is like. In relating with their RDs, the men respond to concerns of having “no female company” at all. In this essay, co…
Counter-Imagination as Interpretive Practice
This essay concerns the relationship between popular cinematic visions of the future and present day identity politics. We argue that despite its futuristic setting celebrating technological progress and multiculturalism. Luc Besson's 1997 film The Fifth Element constructs sexual and racial difference in a manner that privileges and naturalizes White heterosexual masculinity. The essay offers counter-imagination as an interpretive practice that d…
Collective memory and sacred space in post-genocide Rwanda
We assess Mureithi's 2009 documentary, ICYIZERE: hope (Motion Picture, Josiah Films), as a document of representational space and collective memory. We argue that the post-genocide reconciliation workshop represented in the film embodies and constructs a sacred/secular space. The reconciliatory space is produced through (1) negotiations of dialectical tensions between past/present as well as individual/collective memory, and (2) (re)presentations…
(Re)Imagining the West
In 2009, the Whitney Gallery of Western Art (WGWA), located within the Buffalo Bill Historical Center (BBHC) in Cody, Wyoming, was redesigned-its art rehung and its vision of the West reimagined. The newly designed gallery replaced the structuring principles of history, artist, and genre that had governed the previous layout and design of the gallery with a thematic structure that elicits a series of affective dissonances. In this essay, we argue…
Memory and the West
The research collected in this special issue demonstrates that memory is mobilized symbolically and materially, spatially and temporally. It is fully embodied and often works affectively
Counter-Imagination as Interpretive Practice
This essay concerns the relationship between popular cinematic visions of the future and present day identity politics. We argue that despite its futuristic setting celebrating technological progress and multiculturalism. Luc Besson's 1997 film The Fifth Element constructs sexual and racial difference in a manner that privileges and naturalizes White heterosexual masculinity. The essay offers counter-imagination as an interpretive practice that d…
Media Reviews
ANGELS IN AMERICA (2004). Kushner, Tony. DVD. Home Box Office, Inc. 352 minutes. Reviewed by Jamie Skerski Department of Communication & Culture Reviewed by Alyssa Ann Samek. CURRENT RESEARCH ON BISEXUALITY (2004). Fox, R. C. (Ed.). Binghamton, NY: Harrington Park Press. Reviewed by Alyssa Ann Samek. FAMILIES LIKE MINE. Garner, A. (2004). New York, NY: Harper Collins. Reviewed by Scott A. Simpson
Coming Out as “We 3”
Using an academic letter format, I use a blended-method-ological approach of personal ethnography and qualitative case study to assess the three-partner, gay male relationship and the role of parental support. In working to understand better the relational “We 3,” I first provide an account of my relational experience with two other men. I discuss the process of our coming together and then make a methodological turn to provide insights from both…
Media Reviews
TRANSGENDER EMERGENCE: THERAPEUTIC GUIDELINES FOR WORKING WITH GENDER-VARIANT PEOPLE AND THEIR FAMILIES. Arlene I. Lev. New York: Haworth Clinical Practice Press, 2004. Reviewed by Rupert Raj. BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN. (2005). This Is That Productions. Screenplay adapted by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossanafrom a short story of the same title by E. Annie Proulx. Directed by Ang Lee. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal (Jack Twist), Heath Ledger (Ennis Del Mar), Ann…
Spaces of Remembering and Forgetting
Museums, memorials, and other historic places are key sites in the construction of collective memory and national identity. The Plains Indian Museum in Cody, Wyoming is one such space of memory where the (pre)history of “America” and its native peoples is told. Based on the view of texts as experiential landscapes, it is argued that this museum works to absolve Anglo-visitors of the social guilt regarding Western conquest through a rhetoric of re…
Fatherhood on My Mind
This essay uses an academic letter format to address the topic of fatherhood through the personal perspective of a single, middle-aged, multi-ethnic, gay man. After providing auto-ethnographic reflections of childhood and family life, a survey of influential popular cultural texts and academic literature on fatherhood and parenting is provided. Finally, the letter ends with an in depth examination of the international film Bear Cub/Cachorro, alon…
Ways of (Not) Seeing Guns
Boasting over 6000 objects, including replicas of a western hardware store, a frontier stage stop, and a late nineteenth-century industrial factory, the Cody Firearms Museum, located at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming, is "the largest and most important collection of American firearms in the world."Footnote 1 The museum, which creates a decidedly visual space through its near-exclusive engagement with looking, employs an aesth…
Becoming (Hetero) Sexual? The Hetero-Spectacle of Idollators and their Real Dolls
Guys and Dolls, a BBC documentary premiering in 2007 sketches out the lives of four men in relationships with silicone-fleshed, anatomically correct Real Dolls (RDs). The men in the documentary treat their RDs as if they are alive—they dress their dolls, rub their feet, and discuss what sex and the relationship with their dolls is like. In relating with their RDs, the men respond to concerns of having “no female company” at all. In this essay, co…
(Re)Imagining the West
In 2009, the Whitney Gallery of Western Art (WGWA), located within the Buffalo Bill Historical Center (BBHC) in Cody, Wyoming, was redesigned-its art rehung and its vision of the West reimagined. The newly designed gallery replaced the structuring principles of history, artist, and genre that had governed the previous layout and design of the gallery with a thematic structure that elicits a series of affective dissonances. In this essay, we argue…
Memory and the West
The research collected in this special issue demonstrates that memory is mobilized symbolically and materially, spatially and temporally. It is fully embodied and often works affectively
Collective memory and sacred space in post-genocide Rwanda
We assess Mureithi's 2009 documentary, ICYIZERE: hope (Motion Picture, Josiah Films), as a document of representational space and collective memory. We argue that the post-genocide reconciliation workshop represented in the film embodies and constructs a sacred/secular space. The reconciliatory space is produced through (1) negotiations of dialectical tensions between past/present as well as individual/collective memory, and (2) (re)presentations…
Nooses and Nazi swastikas on U.S. campuses
The terrorizing placement of nooses and Nazi swastikas on U.S. college and university campuses has sustained a climate of fear, trauma, and intimidation. University administration responses often invoke protest from targeted communities over their approach. Examining news reports and university statements between 2010 and 2023, we critique universities’ use of the rhetorical framework of “symbols” (e.g., “heinous symbols of hate,” “racist symbols…
Sociology (8 works) · Art (7 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Media studies (4 works) · Political science (4 works)