Brittany Murray
Biographic Data
| ID | 3582571 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brittany Murray |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brittany |
| FAMILY NAME | Murray |
| SIGNATURE | MURRAY B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Davidson College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6201-6951 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Introduction: Impasse, Interregnum, Transition
In this introduction, Brittany Murray and Oded Nir argue that the current conjuncture confronts us with two seemingly contradictory temporalities: intolerable stasis, and frantic overactivity. The authors attempt to disentangle these two by tracing their presence in three fields: political economy, politics, and culture. They address writing by Aaron Benanav to address the sense of economic impasse. They argue that the doubling down on capitalist…
Autonomy of Art, Anxieties of Transition
In this article, the authors argue that our moment of transition in the capitalist mode of production requires us to rethink the received opposition between politically committed art and autonomous art, through a reading of the recent film Anatomy of a Fall. The first part of the article examines accounts of artistic autonomy. Previous definitions of autonomy identified a two-pronged threat to art, one of political propaganda and the other of cap…
Disentangling the Threat: Experimental Evidence on White Parents' Racialized Perceptions of Multiple Dimensions of School Safety
Parents cite concerns about safety when making school-choice decisions; however, conceptions of school safety are both ambiguous and racialized. This research provides experimental evidence on the effect of school racial composition on parents' perceptions of multiple dimensions of safety: socioemotional, violence, biological, and school order. Using a survey experiment in which respondents examine hypothetical school profiles with randomly varie…
Reeling: Violence, Exploitation and Artistic Labour in Lola Lafon’s Chavirer (2020)
Lola Lafon’s Chavirer (2020) depicts gender-based violence in the arts. This article examines Chavirer’s representation of artistic labor, beginning with a case of abuse and developing a wide-ranging critique of how inequity, exclusion, and exploitation shape artistic labor. The article then discusses how Chavirer adapts aesthetic form to bring artistic labor into the frame of the novel. Finally, the article situates the novel within current deba…
Missing the Forest for the Trees: Toward a Networked Racial Analysis of White Parents in Education Policy and Research
Education policy research on White parent opportunity hoarding overlooks whiteness studies and focuses on individual-level behaviors. In this article, we advance a racial network analysis of White parent collectives to better understand how White parents reinforce racial hierarchies in schools
A cross-sectional analysis of publication of pediatric global health abstracts from seven major international conferences
Research presented at conferences may increase context-specific evidence in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), where global childhood disease burden is greatest and where massive relative deficits in research persist. Publication of studies presented at conferences is necessary for complete results dissemination. Our objective was to determine the frequency of publication of pediatric global health conference abstracts and to identify fact…
Unmasking racial avoidance: Experimental evidence on parental school choice and public health policies during the Covid-19 pandemic
Confinement, Care, and Commodification in Mati Diop’s In My Room
In her article, “Confinement, Care, and the Commodification in Mati Diop’s In My Room,” Brittany Murray discusses a short film released in 2020 by the French and Senegalese director, Mati Diop. Shot in the artist’s studio in a Parisian banlieue during mandatory Covid-19 confinement, the film tackles the issues of grief, isolation, and care. The article shows how the film represents these issues, particularly urgent during the pandemic and yet bel…
Periodizing the Present: The 2020s, the Longue Durée , & Contemporary Culture
Practicing Parental Involvement: Heterogeneity in Parent Involvement Structures in Charter and Traditional Public Schools
Purpose: This study examines differences in the mechanisms that charter schools and traditional public schools use to facilitate parental school involvement and the degree to which these differences account for the high levels of involvement among charter school parents. Data and Research Methods: We merge data from principals and teachers from the nationally representative Schools and Staffing Survey and National Teacher and Principal Survey wit…
Remote or Removed: Predicting Successful Engagement with Online Learning during Covid-19
Using data from a spring 2020 survey of nearly 10,000 parents of elementary school parents in one large southeastern public school district, the authors investigate predictors of elementary school student engagement during the initial period of pandemic remote learning. The authors hypothesize that household material and technological resources, school programming and instructional strategies, and family social capital contribute to student engag…
Rethinking the crisis in historicity: Precarity and postmodernism in French science fiction and film after May ’68
This article re-examines the crisis in historicity, an aesthetic hallmark of postmodernism, in light of unemployment and economic precarity in France during the 1970s. Whereas influential critics like Jean Baudrillard, Jean-François Lyotard and Fredric Jameson famously diagnosed an inability to represent historical movement, I argue that the decade’s literature and film represent changes to the organisation of working time. The article first disc…
We’re in This Together”: Bridging and Bonding Social Capital in Elementary School PTOs
Scholarship on the links between families and schools encompasses contradictory notions about social capital and its relation to inequality. One view holds that schools can narrow inequality by generating dense relationships among families, while others suggest that advantaged parents can use these networks to hoard opportunities. This multiple case study analyzes qualitative data from diverse North Carolina elementary schools to learn how parent…
Left Behind: District Secession and the Re-segregation of American Schools
Sixty-five years after the Brown v. Board decision, American schools are re-segregated and re-segregating. The mechanisms of this re-segregation are legal action, voluntary moves towards unitary status, unintended consequences of integration-oriented strategies, and an increasing trend towards the fracturing, or splintering of school districts. Both economic and political theory would indicate that splintering districts would work to pull racial …
Remote or Removed: Predicting Successful Engagement with Online Learning during Covid-19
Using data from a spring 2020 survey of nearly 10,000 parents of elementary school parents in one large southeastern public school district, the authors investigate predictors of elementary school student engagement during the initial period of pandemic remote learning. The authors hypothesize that household material and technological resources, school programming and instructional strategies, and family social capital contribute to student engag…
We’re in This Together”: Bridging and Bonding Social Capital in Elementary School PTOs
Scholarship on the links between families and schools encompasses contradictory notions about social capital and its relation to inequality. One view holds that schools can narrow inequality by generating dense relationships among families, while others suggest that advantaged parents can use these networks to hoard opportunities. This multiple case study analyzes qualitative data from diverse North Carolina elementary schools to learn how parent…
Left Behind: District Secession and the Re-segregation of American Schools
Sixty-five years after the Brown v. Board decision, American schools are re-segregated and re-segregating. The mechanisms of this re-segregation are legal action, voluntary moves towards unitary status, unintended consequences of integration-oriented strategies, and an increasing trend towards the fracturing, or splintering of school districts. Both economic and political theory would indicate that splintering districts would work to pull racial …
Missing the Forest for the Trees: Toward a Networked Racial Analysis of White Parents in Education Policy and Research
Education policy research on White parent opportunity hoarding overlooks whiteness studies and focuses on individual-level behaviors. In this article, we advance a racial network analysis of White parent collectives to better understand how White parents reinforce racial hierarchies in schools
Unmasking racial avoidance: Experimental evidence on parental school choice and public health policies during the Covid-19 pandemic
Disentangling the Threat: Experimental Evidence on White Parents' Racialized Perceptions of Multiple Dimensions of School Safety
Parents cite concerns about safety when making school-choice decisions; however, conceptions of school safety are both ambiguous and racialized. This research provides experimental evidence on the effect of school racial composition on parents' perceptions of multiple dimensions of safety: socioemotional, violence, biological, and school order. Using a survey experiment in which respondents examine hypothetical school profiles with randomly varie…
Left Behind: District Secession and the Re-segregation of American Schools
Sixty-five years after the Brown v. Board decision, American schools are re-segregated and re-segregating. The mechanisms of this re-segregation are legal action, voluntary moves towards unitary status, unintended consequences of integration-oriented strategies, and an increasing trend towards the fracturing, or splintering of school districts. Both economic and political theory would indicate that splintering districts would work to pull racial …
Rethinking the crisis in historicity: Precarity and postmodernism in French science fiction and film after May ’68
This article re-examines the crisis in historicity, an aesthetic hallmark of postmodernism, in light of unemployment and economic precarity in France during the 1970s. Whereas influential critics like Jean Baudrillard, Jean-François Lyotard and Fredric Jameson famously diagnosed an inability to represent historical movement, I argue that the decade’s literature and film represent changes to the organisation of working time. The article first disc…
We’re in This Together”: Bridging and Bonding Social Capital in Elementary School PTOs
Scholarship on the links between families and schools encompasses contradictory notions about social capital and its relation to inequality. One view holds that schools can narrow inequality by generating dense relationships among families, while others suggest that advantaged parents can use these networks to hoard opportunities. This multiple case study analyzes qualitative data from diverse North Carolina elementary schools to learn how parent…
Practicing Parental Involvement: Heterogeneity in Parent Involvement Structures in Charter and Traditional Public Schools
Purpose: This study examines differences in the mechanisms that charter schools and traditional public schools use to facilitate parental school involvement and the degree to which these differences account for the high levels of involvement among charter school parents. Data and Research Methods: We merge data from principals and teachers from the nationally representative Schools and Staffing Survey and National Teacher and Principal Survey wit…
Remote or Removed: Predicting Successful Engagement with Online Learning during Covid-19
Using data from a spring 2020 survey of nearly 10,000 parents of elementary school parents in one large southeastern public school district, the authors investigate predictors of elementary school student engagement during the initial period of pandemic remote learning. The authors hypothesize that household material and technological resources, school programming and instructional strategies, and family social capital contribute to student engag…
Confinement, Care, and Commodification in Mati Diop’s In My Room
In her article, “Confinement, Care, and the Commodification in Mati Diop’s In My Room,” Brittany Murray discusses a short film released in 2020 by the French and Senegalese director, Mati Diop. Shot in the artist’s studio in a Parisian banlieue during mandatory Covid-19 confinement, the film tackles the issues of grief, isolation, and care. The article shows how the film represents these issues, particularly urgent during the pandemic and yet bel…
Periodizing the Present: The 2020s, the Longue Durée , & Contemporary Culture
A cross-sectional analysis of publication of pediatric global health abstracts from seven major international conferences
Research presented at conferences may increase context-specific evidence in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), where global childhood disease burden is greatest and where massive relative deficits in research persist. Publication of studies presented at conferences is necessary for complete results dissemination. Our objective was to determine the frequency of publication of pediatric global health conference abstracts and to identify fact…
Unmasking racial avoidance: Experimental evidence on parental school choice and public health policies during the Covid-19 pandemic
Reeling: Violence, Exploitation and Artistic Labour in Lola Lafon’s Chavirer (2020)
Lola Lafon’s Chavirer (2020) depicts gender-based violence in the arts. This article examines Chavirer’s representation of artistic labor, beginning with a case of abuse and developing a wide-ranging critique of how inequity, exclusion, and exploitation shape artistic labor. The article then discusses how Chavirer adapts aesthetic form to bring artistic labor into the frame of the novel. Finally, the article situates the novel within current deba…
Missing the Forest for the Trees: Toward a Networked Racial Analysis of White Parents in Education Policy and Research
Education policy research on White parent opportunity hoarding overlooks whiteness studies and focuses on individual-level behaviors. In this article, we advance a racial network analysis of White parent collectives to better understand how White parents reinforce racial hierarchies in schools
Introduction: Impasse, Interregnum, Transition
In this introduction, Brittany Murray and Oded Nir argue that the current conjuncture confronts us with two seemingly contradictory temporalities: intolerable stasis, and frantic overactivity. The authors attempt to disentangle these two by tracing their presence in three fields: political economy, politics, and culture. They address writing by Aaron Benanav to address the sense of economic impasse. They argue that the doubling down on capitalist…
Autonomy of Art, Anxieties of Transition
In this article, the authors argue that our moment of transition in the capitalist mode of production requires us to rethink the received opposition between politically committed art and autonomous art, through a reading of the recent film Anatomy of a Fall. The first part of the article examines accounts of artistic autonomy. Previous definitions of autonomy identified a two-pronged threat to art, one of political propaganda and the other of cap…
Disentangling the Threat: Experimental Evidence on White Parents' Racialized Perceptions of Multiple Dimensions of School Safety
Parents cite concerns about safety when making school-choice decisions; however, conceptions of school safety are both ambiguous and racialized. This research provides experimental evidence on the effect of school racial composition on parents' perceptions of multiple dimensions of safety: socioemotional, violence, biological, and school order. Using a survey experiment in which respondents examine hypothetical school profiles with randomly varie…
Sociology (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Psychology (5 works) · School Choice and Performance (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Parental Involvement in Education (4 works) · Politics (4 works)