Cynthia Nelson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3618240 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cynthia Nelson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cynthia |
| FAMILY NAME | Nelson |
| SIGNATURE | NELSON C |
| AFFILIATIONS | American University in Cairo |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 194 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Situating Globalization: Views from Egypt
Conflict, Militarization, and Their After-Effects: Key Challenges for Tesol
Skyrocketing military spending, ongoing military conflicts, and human displacement worldwide have significant consequences for the teaching and learning of English. TESOL increasingly requires a robust research base that can provide informed, critical guidance in preparing English language teachers for work in and near conflict zones, for teaching refugees and asylum seekers, and, more broadly, for teaching English in highly militarized times. Th…
Live theatre: A dynamic medium for engaging with intercultural education research
In this paper, I discuss live theatre as a highly effective and dynamic medium for facilitating meaningful engagement with research on intercultural education. I make the case that ethnographic, or research-based, theatre can productively showcase challenging social issues and the sometimes confusing, poignant and humorous complexities of grappling with culturally unfamiliar and ambiguous situations. The paper features examples from the creation,…
Emerging queer epistemologies in studies of 'gay'-student discourses
Education is arguably one of the most significant, urgent, and rapidly changing arenas for research on language and sexual identity, but there has been little synthesis to date of the knowledge and theories of knowledge that are emerging through this work. Here I survey a relatively small but important segment of this disparate literature: studies that investigate classroom talk about and by students who either self-identify as gay, lesbian or qu…
Narratives of Classroom Life: Changing Conceptions of Knowledge
Narratives of classroom life—the type that blend analysis with artistry, in the form of plays, poems, stories, and the like—remain relatively uncommon within language education research. Yet such narratives have the potential to make a significant and timely contribution to the field, given the ways in which knowledge is being reconceptualised in this postmodern, transglobal era. Here I make a case that incorporating crafted classroom‐life narrat…
A Gay Immigrant Student's Perspective: Unspeakable Acts in the Language Class
This article focuses on a subset of the student cohort that has, until recently, been largely hidden from view in the literature of language education: gay immigrants. Little is known about what sorts of classroom experiences gay immigrant students find engaging or alienating, or why this sort of knowledge is needed. This case study uses interview excerpts to examine self‐accounts of three classroom interactions that were significant to Pablo (a …
Queer Inquiry in Language Education
Crafting Researcher Subjectivity in Ways That Enact Theory
The increasingly common practice of researchers writing their own subjectivity overtly into their research can be understood to have a number of uses. It can be considered a means of expanding or enriching one’s data sources; tracing one’s complex and fraught positionings vis-à-vis the research participants or the subject matter; or recognizing one’s own limitations as a researcher. Yet at the same time, texts in which the researcher’s subjectivi…
Why Queer Theory is Useful in Teaching: A Perspective from English as a Second Language Teaching
In education there has been growing interest in making teaching practices more inclusive of lesbian, gay, and bisexual people and issues. However, the emphasis on including-and legitimating-“sub-ordinate” sexual identities is being challenged by queer theory, which draws on post-structuralist theories of identity. With queer theory, the aim is not to accomplish inclusion but to facilitate inquiry-that is, to investigate the ways in which sexual i…
Sexual Identities in ESL: Queer Theory and Classroom Inquiry
Within ESL, interest has been growing in the pedagogical implications of poststructuralist theories of identity and in the need for gay-friendly teaching practices. However, research on identity has largely neglected the domain of sexual identity, and efforts to develop gay-friendly pedagogies have not yet engaged with poststructuralism. This article introduces some of the key concepts of queer theory, which draws on poststructuralism, and sugges…
Doria Shafik Egyptian Feminist: A Woman Apart
Heterosexism in ESL: Examining Our Attitudes
The following is the text of a speech delivered in March 1992 in Vancouver, Canada, at the 26th Annual TESOL Convention. It was part of a colloquium entitled “We Are Your Colleagues: Lesbians and Gays in ESL.” Lisa Carscadden, Jim Ward, and I presented the colloquium, the first official TESOL event to specifically address lesbian and gay issues, to an audience of more than 300 people. The oral character of the presentation has been preserved
Social/Cultural Anthropology: Wombs and Alien Spirits: Women, Men, and the Zár Cult in Northern Sudan. Janice Boddy
Women in 19th Century Egypt
Al-Harakah Al-Nissa'Iyah: The women's movement and political participation in modern Egypt
What mediates sex discrimination in hiring decisions
The voices of Doria Shafik: Feminist consciousness in Egypt, 1940–1960
Applied: The State of Ambiguity: Studies of Gypsy Refugees. Ignacy-Marek Kaminsky
Notes on the Development of a First Course in Social Sciences of Health and Healing in the Arab Republic of Egypt
Public and Private Politics: Women in the Middle Eastern world1
The main questions examined in this paper are: (1) What is the notion of power as this has been used by ethnographers writing about nomadic and sedentary societies of the Middle East? (2) Given this notion of power, what are the images of women and power in the domestic and public domains? (3) What are the epistemological consequences to ethnography if we re-think our notions of power and recognize its special features as a particular kind of soc…
The Desert and the sown: Nomads in the Wider Society.
Self, Spirit Possession and World View: An Illustration From Egypt
The Culture-Historical Configurations of the American Peoples [and Comments and and Reviews and Reply]
Distinct processes of ethnic formation have operated to create the extra-European peoples of the modern world, and their identification and classification is a preliminary step toward an understanding of their differing ways of life and problems of modernization and development. Examination shows that four great culture-historical configurations can be recognized: the Witness Peoples, the New Peoples, the Transplanted Peoples, and the Emergent Pe…
Changing Roles of Men and Women: Illustrations from Egypt
The objective of this paper is to explore and illustrate from contemporary Egypt certain patterns expressing the changing roles of men and women as they confront the demands, responsibilities, and opportunities of their society. Most discussions about changing roles in or modernizing societies in the Arab world begin with the assumption that it is primarily the rising status of women that is the most powerful force for change in the family and th…
Analysis of World View in a Mexican Peasant Village: An Illustration
Journal Article Analysis of World View in a Mexican Peasant Village: An Illustration Get access Cynthia Nelson Cynthia Nelson American University in Cairo Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 46, Issue 1, September 1967, Pages 52–61, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/46.1.52 Published: 01 September 1967
What mediates sex discrimination in hiring decisions
Public and Private Politics: Women in the Middle Eastern world1
The main questions examined in this paper are: (1) What is the notion of power as this has been used by ethnographers writing about nomadic and sedentary societies of the Middle East? (2) Given this notion of power, what are the images of women and power in the domestic and public domains? (3) What are the epistemological consequences to ethnography if we re-think our notions of power and recognize its special features as a particular kind of soc…
Queer Inquiry in Language Education
Sexual Identities in ESL: Queer Theory and Classroom Inquiry
Within ESL, interest has been growing in the pedagogical implications of poststructuralist theories of identity and in the need for gay-friendly teaching practices. However, research on identity has largely neglected the domain of sexual identity, and efforts to develop gay-friendly pedagogies have not yet engaged with poststructuralism. This article introduces some of the key concepts of queer theory, which draws on poststructuralism, and sugges…
Conflict, Militarization, and Their After-Effects: Key Challenges for Tesol
Skyrocketing military spending, ongoing military conflicts, and human displacement worldwide have significant consequences for the teaching and learning of English. TESOL increasingly requires a robust research base that can provide informed, critical guidance in preparing English language teachers for work in and near conflict zones, for teaching refugees and asylum seekers, and, more broadly, for teaching English in highly militarized times. Th…
A Gay Immigrant Student's Perspective: Unspeakable Acts in the Language Class
This article focuses on a subset of the student cohort that has, until recently, been largely hidden from view in the literature of language education: gay immigrants. Little is known about what sorts of classroom experiences gay immigrant students find engaging or alienating, or why this sort of knowledge is needed. This case study uses interview excerpts to examine self‐accounts of three classroom interactions that were significant to Pablo (a …
Emerging queer epistemologies in studies of 'gay'-student discourses
Education is arguably one of the most significant, urgent, and rapidly changing arenas for research on language and sexual identity, but there has been little synthesis to date of the knowledge and theories of knowledge that are emerging through this work. Here I survey a relatively small but important segment of this disparate literature: studies that investigate classroom talk about and by students who either self-identify as gay, lesbian or qu…
Heterosexism in ESL: Examining Our Attitudes
The following is the text of a speech delivered in March 1992 in Vancouver, Canada, at the 26th Annual TESOL Convention. It was part of a colloquium entitled “We Are Your Colleagues: Lesbians and Gays in ESL.” Lisa Carscadden, Jim Ward, and I presented the colloquium, the first official TESOL event to specifically address lesbian and gay issues, to an audience of more than 300 people. The oral character of the presentation has been preserved
Changing Roles of Men and Women: Illustrations from Egypt
The objective of this paper is to explore and illustrate from contemporary Egypt certain patterns expressing the changing roles of men and women as they confront the demands, responsibilities, and opportunities of their society. Most discussions about changing roles in or modernizing societies in the Arab world begin with the assumption that it is primarily the rising status of women that is the most powerful force for change in the family and th…
Narratives of Classroom Life: Changing Conceptions of Knowledge
Narratives of classroom life—the type that blend analysis with artistry, in the form of plays, poems, stories, and the like—remain relatively uncommon within language education research. Yet such narratives have the potential to make a significant and timely contribution to the field, given the ways in which knowledge is being reconceptualised in this postmodern, transglobal era. Here I make a case that incorporating crafted classroom‐life narrat…
Al-Harakah Al-Nissa'Iyah: The women's movement and political participation in modern Egypt
Live theatre: A dynamic medium for engaging with intercultural education research
In this paper, I discuss live theatre as a highly effective and dynamic medium for facilitating meaningful engagement with research on intercultural education. I make the case that ethnographic, or research-based, theatre can productively showcase challenging social issues and the sometimes confusing, poignant and humorous complexities of grappling with culturally unfamiliar and ambiguous situations. The paper features examples from the creation,…
Crafting Researcher Subjectivity in Ways That Enact Theory
The increasingly common practice of researchers writing their own subjectivity overtly into their research can be understood to have a number of uses. It can be considered a means of expanding or enriching one’s data sources; tracing one’s complex and fraught positionings vis-à-vis the research participants or the subject matter; or recognizing one’s own limitations as a researcher. Yet at the same time, texts in which the researcher’s subjectivi…
The voices of Doria Shafik: Feminist consciousness in Egypt, 1940–1960
The Culture-Historical Configurations of the American Peoples [and Comments and and Reviews and Reply]
Distinct processes of ethnic formation have operated to create the extra-European peoples of the modern world, and their identification and classification is a preliminary step toward an understanding of their differing ways of life and problems of modernization and development. Examination shows that four great culture-historical configurations can be recognized: the Witness Peoples, the New Peoples, the Transplanted Peoples, and the Emergent Pe…
Analysis of World View in a Mexican Peasant Village: An Illustration
Journal Article Analysis of World View in a Mexican Peasant Village: An Illustration Get access Cynthia Nelson Cynthia Nelson American University in Cairo Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 46, Issue 1, September 1967, Pages 52–61, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/46.1.52 Published: 01 September 1967
Changing Roles of Men and Women: Illustrations from Egypt
The objective of this paper is to explore and illustrate from contemporary Egypt certain patterns expressing the changing roles of men and women as they confront the demands, responsibilities, and opportunities of their society. Most discussions about changing roles in or modernizing societies in the Arab world begin with the assumption that it is primarily the rising status of women that is the most powerful force for change in the family and th…
The Culture-Historical Configurations of the American Peoples [and Comments and and Reviews and Reply]
Distinct processes of ethnic formation have operated to create the extra-European peoples of the modern world, and their identification and classification is a preliminary step toward an understanding of their differing ways of life and problems of modernization and development. Examination shows that four great culture-historical configurations can be recognized: the Witness Peoples, the New Peoples, the Transplanted Peoples, and the Emergent Pe…
Self, Spirit Possession and World View: An Illustration From Egypt
The Desert and the sown: Nomads in the Wider Society.
Public and Private Politics: Women in the Middle Eastern world1
The main questions examined in this paper are: (1) What is the notion of power as this has been used by ethnographers writing about nomadic and sedentary societies of the Middle East? (2) Given this notion of power, what are the images of women and power in the domestic and public domains? (3) What are the epistemological consequences to ethnography if we re-think our notions of power and recognize its special features as a particular kind of soc…
Notes on the Development of a First Course in Social Sciences of Health and Healing in the Arab Republic of Egypt
Applied: The State of Ambiguity: Studies of Gypsy Refugees. Ignacy-Marek Kaminsky
The voices of Doria Shafik: Feminist consciousness in Egypt, 1940–1960
Women in 19th Century Egypt
Al-Harakah Al-Nissa'Iyah: The women's movement and political participation in modern Egypt
What mediates sex discrimination in hiring decisions
Social/Cultural Anthropology: Wombs and Alien Spirits: Women, Men, and the Zár Cult in Northern Sudan. Janice Boddy
Heterosexism in ESL: Examining Our Attitudes
The following is the text of a speech delivered in March 1992 in Vancouver, Canada, at the 26th Annual TESOL Convention. It was part of a colloquium entitled “We Are Your Colleagues: Lesbians and Gays in ESL.” Lisa Carscadden, Jim Ward, and I presented the colloquium, the first official TESOL event to specifically address lesbian and gay issues, to an audience of more than 300 people. The oral character of the presentation has been preserved
Doria Shafik Egyptian Feminist: A Woman Apart
Sexual Identities in ESL: Queer Theory and Classroom Inquiry
Within ESL, interest has been growing in the pedagogical implications of poststructuralist theories of identity and in the need for gay-friendly teaching practices. However, research on identity has largely neglected the domain of sexual identity, and efforts to develop gay-friendly pedagogies have not yet engaged with poststructuralism. This article introduces some of the key concepts of queer theory, which draws on poststructuralism, and sugges…
Why Queer Theory is Useful in Teaching: A Perspective from English as a Second Language Teaching
In education there has been growing interest in making teaching practices more inclusive of lesbian, gay, and bisexual people and issues. However, the emphasis on including-and legitimating-“sub-ordinate” sexual identities is being challenged by queer theory, which draws on post-structuralist theories of identity. With queer theory, the aim is not to accomplish inclusion but to facilitate inquiry-that is, to investigate the ways in which sexual i…
Crafting Researcher Subjectivity in Ways That Enact Theory
The increasingly common practice of researchers writing their own subjectivity overtly into their research can be understood to have a number of uses. It can be considered a means of expanding or enriching one’s data sources; tracing one’s complex and fraught positionings vis-à-vis the research participants or the subject matter; or recognizing one’s own limitations as a researcher. Yet at the same time, texts in which the researcher’s subjectivi…
Queer Inquiry in Language Education
A Gay Immigrant Student's Perspective: Unspeakable Acts in the Language Class
This article focuses on a subset of the student cohort that has, until recently, been largely hidden from view in the literature of language education: gay immigrants. Little is known about what sorts of classroom experiences gay immigrant students find engaging or alienating, or why this sort of knowledge is needed. This case study uses interview excerpts to examine self‐accounts of three classroom interactions that were significant to Pablo (a …
Narratives of Classroom Life: Changing Conceptions of Knowledge
Narratives of classroom life—the type that blend analysis with artistry, in the form of plays, poems, stories, and the like—remain relatively uncommon within language education research. Yet such narratives have the potential to make a significant and timely contribution to the field, given the ways in which knowledge is being reconceptualised in this postmodern, transglobal era. Here I make a case that incorporating crafted classroom‐life narrat…
Emerging queer epistemologies in studies of 'gay'-student discourses
Education is arguably one of the most significant, urgent, and rapidly changing arenas for research on language and sexual identity, but there has been little synthesis to date of the knowledge and theories of knowledge that are emerging through this work. Here I survey a relatively small but important segment of this disparate literature: studies that investigate classroom talk about and by students who either self-identify as gay, lesbian or qu…
Live theatre: A dynamic medium for engaging with intercultural education research
In this paper, I discuss live theatre as a highly effective and dynamic medium for facilitating meaningful engagement with research on intercultural education. I make the case that ethnographic, or research-based, theatre can productively showcase challenging social issues and the sometimes confusing, poignant and humorous complexities of grappling with culturally unfamiliar and ambiguous situations. The paper features examples from the creation,…
Situating Globalization: Views from Egypt
Conflict, Militarization, and Their After-Effects: Key Challenges for Tesol
Skyrocketing military spending, ongoing military conflicts, and human displacement worldwide have significant consequences for the teaching and learning of English. TESOL increasingly requires a robust research base that can provide informed, critical guidance in preparing English language teachers for work in and near conflict zones, for teaching refugees and asylum seekers, and, more broadly, for teaching English in highly militarized times. Th…
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