Aimee Carrillo Rowe
Biographic Data
| ID | 3630060 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aimee Carrillo Rowe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aimee Carrillo |
| FAMILY NAME | Rowe |
| SIGNATURE | ROWE A C |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State University, Northridge |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 114 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 26 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Xicanx Embodiment
Akin to Kin
This essay analyzes how traditional notions of family are "queered" in contemporary memoir. I explore how heterosexual coupling becomes unnatural, undermining its equation with reproduction-and even the predictable forward march of family time becomes circular, haunted by alternate kinship models. I refer to this dynamic as "akin to kin" to consider how these representations both approximate and depart from normative ideas of family. I analyze se…
A Queer Indigenous Manifesto
Research Article| June 01 2017 A Queer Indigenous Manifesto Aimee Carrillo Rowe Aimee Carrillo Rowe Aimee Carrillo Rowe is professor of communication studies and codirector of the Civil Discourse and Social Change Initiative at California State University, Northridge. Her teaching and writing focus on human and inhuman processes and performances of becoming as relational, embodied, and fluid across contexts, including U.S. popular culture, Indian…
Settler Xicana
This paper takes Chicana/Xicana indigeneity as a productive and problematic site to consider the vexed conjuncture between decolonial and postcolonial approaches to critical knowledge production. I examine the intersection between Chicana and Native feminisms as a point of entry to consider how the incommensurabilities between these formations get played out within specific sites of knowledge production. I read my positionality as a Californio Ra…
Settler Colonialism and Cultural Studies
In this editorial, we consider what is at work in a turn toward analyzing settler colonialism, and what this turn makes available in cultural studies and discussions of cultural production. Recent theorizations of settler colonialism reveal how cultural productions remain complicit with ongoing settlement, both in everyday practices and intellectual projects like queer studies, feminist studies, and critical race studies. This special issue consi…
Adelina Anthony Interview with Aimee Carrillo Rowe
This interview explores how performing artist, activist, writer, director, performer Adelina Anthony stages queer women of color affects as a complex terrain to mobilize a decolonial imaginary. Anthony's characters are complex, contradictory, surly, and resilient with whom audience members connect and feel deeply. Especially for queer women of color, who rarely get to see their own experiences on film or on stage, Anthony's work provides a critic…
Loving transgressions
This introductory article considers the importance of queer woman of color theorizations of affect in thinking more fully the recent interdisciplinary turn to affect. The affective turn has vitally invited culture and feminist critics to interrogate emotion beyond the individual to examine the political and cultural production of emotion. Even as women of color are often associated with excessive affect, the theoretical contributions women of col…
Borderlands Rhetoric
Book Review| June 01 2014 Borderlands Rhetoric Zines in Third Space: Radical Cooperation and Borderlands Rhetorics. Licona, Adela. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2012. xiv + 191 pp. Aimee Carrillo Rowe Aimee Carrillo Rowe Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2014) 20 (3): 381–384. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2422719 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Sit…
Answering the Call
This paper explores the daily, psychic journeys Indian call center agents undergo as they 'virtually migrate' between India and the US. A thin cable that runs half way around the globe bridges the 'here' and the 'there', connecting agents to faraway customers in real time. The new time-space relations generated by this virtual contact create conditions for these workers to undergo a global 'migration' from India and to America, even as their bodi…
Still the Silence
This book provides a series of reflections on the paradoxes and transformative possibilities of silence. Our title, Silence, Feminism, Power: Reflections at the Edges of Sound, evokes the paradoxical relationship between sound and silence that is obscured when we assume an equation between voice and agency, and its inverse equation—silence and oppression. Our impulse is to challenge the binaristic relationship that has been assigned since antiqui…
Answer the Call
Answer the Call explores the daily, psychic journeys Indian call center agents undergo as they virtually migrate between India and the U.S. The new time-space relations generated by this virtual contact create conditions for these workers to undergo a global "migration" from India and to America, even as their bodies remain bounded within the national homeland. This temporal arrangement displaces them from the daily rhythms of Indian life, genera…
Silence, Feminism, Power
An interrogation of the often-unexamined assumption that silence is oppressive, to consider the multiple possibilities silence enables. The volume features diverse feminist reflections on the nuanced
Your Ancestors Come
This essay examines the queer Xicana performer Adelina Anthony's triptych performance, La Hocicona Series, to trace the theoretically capacious convergences among queer time, indigenous spirituality, and performance. Anthony's characters move with an affective and spiritual force that brings audiences into fleeting contact with ancestors and goddesses, as sacred ceremony interanimates political critique, queer desire, abject subjects, and indigen…
Vendidas y Devueltas
This paper explores the temporal structures that shape Chicana subjectivity. The historical figure, La Malinche, is often imagined through acts of betrayal as "La Vendida" (literally the one who has been sold). I propose an alternative reading-that of "La Devuelta"-the one who is returned as an empowering Chicana figure. Drawing on and extending theories of queer temporality, I consider the way time passes and is recuperated by queer Chicanas who…
Erotic Pedagogies
This article considers the role of Audre Lorde's notion of the erotic as transformative pedagogical practices that can empower teachers and students to passionate learning and community formation. I argue that the erotic has been contained within the private sphere under neoliberalism through its articulation to heterosexuality, Whiteness, and U.S. exceptionalism. Neoliberalism contains the transformative potential of queer, feminist, and antirac…
Romancing the Organic Intellectual
Romancing the Organic Intellectual: On the Queerness of Academic Activism Aimee Carrillo Rowe (bio) Door!” said the chief. A booted foot and the trim of a skirt flashed past the small opening in the tent, then heavy blankets flopped into place. The lodge went dark. She stirred the bucket with a hollowed-out gourd, then dumped water over hot stones assembled in a hole in the center of the lodge. “Sssss,” said the stones, exhaling tufts of steam. “…
Holding
Holding" is a braided lyric essay that weaves narrative, performance, and theoretical strands to pose the question: How do we hold trauma, without it holding us? This question is particularly acute for queer people of color, who often undergo or inherit legacies of imperial trauma. It is also vital for researchers, writers, and performers who excavate imperial trauma. I suggest that collective and individual sacred healing practices provide a mea…
Subject to Power—Feminism Without Victims
This essay locates the subject of feminist inquiry within two articulations of power feminism: Foss and Foss's and Anzaldúa's. I argue that the former employs an individualistic notion of feminist subjectivity, while the latter presumes a subject embedded in, and hence accountable to, community. Parsing out these underlying assumptions enables a critical and recuperative reading of power feminism, proposing empowerment as a collective undertaking…
Power Lines
Like the complex systems of man-made power lines that transmit electricity and connect people and places, feminist alliances are elaborate networks that have the potential to provide access to institutional power and to transform relations. In Power Lines , Aimee Carrillo Rowe explores the formation and transformative possibilities of transracial feminist alliances. She draws on her conversations with twenty-eight self-defined academic feminists,…
Feeling in the Dark
Feeling in the Dark
Carrillo Rowe provides an analysis of Monster's Ball as a cultural narrative of white masculinity's redemption from the atrocities of racism through an interracial love story that erases white masculinity's national history and implication in a racist past while it displaces the black female body from that history and identification with the struggle for reparation. The nexus of sex, race, and desire is used to produce a new whiteness consistent …
The Sacred and the Profane
Moving Locations
After Words
In This Bridge We Call Home, AnaLouise Keating explains that her collaborative work with Gloria Anzalduia is a call new expressions of coalition predicated on a spiritual activism that begins with the personal yet moves outward, acknowledging our radical (2002, 18). Our efforts in this cluster have been demonstrate our own interconnectedness and invite still more connections across academic and nonacademic borders. During our panel presentation o…
Be Longing
This paper seeks to think of from the perspective of belonging to rethink a of as a of relation. I draw upon literature from third world and antiracist feminisms and cultural studies in order to ask: what gets left out when the conditions and effects of belonging to a location are assumed as a starting point for our theorizing? To map out and interrogate such conditions create new possibilities for theorizing collective subjectivity. And by exten…
Settler Colonialism and Cultural Studies
In this editorial, we consider what is at work in a turn toward analyzing settler colonialism, and what this turn makes available in cultural studies and discussions of cultural production. Recent theorizations of settler colonialism reveal how cultural productions remain complicit with ongoing settlement, both in everyday practices and intellectual projects like queer studies, feminist studies, and critical race studies. This special issue consi…
Be Longing
This paper seeks to think of from the perspective of belonging to rethink a of as a of relation. I draw upon literature from third world and antiracist feminisms and cultural studies in order to ask: what gets left out when the conditions and effects of belonging to a location are assumed as a starting point for our theorizing? To map out and interrogate such conditions create new possibilities for theorizing collective subjectivity. And by exten…
Subject to Power—Feminism Without Victims
This essay locates the subject of feminist inquiry within two articulations of power feminism: Foss and Foss's and Anzaldúa's. I argue that the former employs an individualistic notion of feminist subjectivity, while the latter presumes a subject embedded in, and hence accountable to, community. Parsing out these underlying assumptions enables a critical and recuperative reading of power feminism, proposing empowerment as a collective undertaking…
Loving transgressions
This introductory article considers the importance of queer woman of color theorizations of affect in thinking more fully the recent interdisciplinary turn to affect. The affective turn has vitally invited culture and feminist critics to interrogate emotion beyond the individual to examine the political and cultural production of emotion. Even as women of color are often associated with excessive affect, the theoretical contributions women of col…
Erotic Pedagogies
This article considers the role of Audre Lorde's notion of the erotic as transformative pedagogical practices that can empower teachers and students to passionate learning and community formation. I argue that the erotic has been contained within the private sphere under neoliberalism through its articulation to heterosexuality, Whiteness, and U.S. exceptionalism. Neoliberalism contains the transformative potential of queer, feminist, and antirac…
Settler Xicana
This paper takes Chicana/Xicana indigeneity as a productive and problematic site to consider the vexed conjuncture between decolonial and postcolonial approaches to critical knowledge production. I examine the intersection between Chicana and Native feminisms as a point of entry to consider how the incommensurabilities between these formations get played out within specific sites of knowledge production. I read my positionality as a Californio Ra…
Romancing the Organic Intellectual
Romancing the Organic Intellectual: On the Queerness of Academic Activism Aimee Carrillo Rowe (bio) Door!” said the chief. A booted foot and the trim of a skirt flashed past the small opening in the tent, then heavy blankets flopped into place. The lodge went dark. She stirred the bucket with a hollowed-out gourd, then dumped water over hot stones assembled in a hole in the center of the lodge. “Sssss,” said the stones, exhaling tufts of steam. “…
A Queer Indigenous Manifesto
Research Article| June 01 2017 A Queer Indigenous Manifesto Aimee Carrillo Rowe Aimee Carrillo Rowe Aimee Carrillo Rowe is professor of communication studies and codirector of the Civil Discourse and Social Change Initiative at California State University, Northridge. Her teaching and writing focus on human and inhuman processes and performances of becoming as relational, embodied, and fluid across contexts, including U.S. popular culture, Indian…
Answering the Call
This paper explores the daily, psychic journeys Indian call center agents undergo as they 'virtually migrate' between India and the US. A thin cable that runs half way around the globe bridges the 'here' and the 'there', connecting agents to faraway customers in real time. The new time-space relations generated by this virtual contact create conditions for these workers to undergo a global 'migration' from India and to America, even as their bodi…
The Sacred and the Profane
Whose “America”? The Politics of Rhetoric and Space in the Formation of U.S. Nationalism
Research Article| May 01 2004 Whose “America”? The Politics of Rhetoric and Space in the Formation of U.S. Nationalism Aimee Carrillo Rowe Aimee Carrillo Rowe Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (2004) 2004 (89): 115–134. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2004-89-115 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Aimee Carrillo Rowe; Whose “America”? The Politics of Rhetoric a…
Reckoning loyalties
(2003). Reckoning loyalties: white femininity as 'crisis' Feminist Media Studies: Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 173-191
Whose “America”? The Politics of Rhetoric and Space in the Formation of U.S. Nationalism
Research Article| May 01 2004 Whose “America”? The Politics of Rhetoric and Space in the Formation of U.S. Nationalism Aimee Carrillo Rowe Aimee Carrillo Rowe Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (2004) 2004 (89): 115–134. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2004-89-115 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Aimee Carrillo Rowe; Whose “America”? The Politics of Rhetoric a…
Moving Locations
After Words
In This Bridge We Call Home, AnaLouise Keating explains that her collaborative work with Gloria Anzalduia is a call new expressions of coalition predicated on a spiritual activism that begins with the personal yet moves outward, acknowledging our radical (2002, 18). Our efforts in this cluster have been demonstrate our own interconnectedness and invite still more connections across academic and nonacademic borders. During our panel presentation o…
Be Longing
This paper seeks to think of from the perspective of belonging to rethink a of as a of relation. I draw upon literature from third world and antiracist feminisms and cultural studies in order to ask: what gets left out when the conditions and effects of belonging to a location are assumed as a starting point for our theorizing? To map out and interrogate such conditions create new possibilities for theorizing collective subjectivity. And by exten…
Feeling in the Dark
Feeling in the Dark
Carrillo Rowe provides an analysis of Monster's Ball as a cultural narrative of white masculinity's redemption from the atrocities of racism through an interracial love story that erases white masculinity's national history and implication in a racist past while it displaces the black female body from that history and identification with the struggle for reparation. The nexus of sex, race, and desire is used to produce a new whiteness consistent …
The Sacred and the Profane
Power Lines
Like the complex systems of man-made power lines that transmit electricity and connect people and places, feminist alliances are elaborate networks that have the potential to provide access to institutional power and to transform relations. In Power Lines , Aimee Carrillo Rowe explores the formation and transformative possibilities of transracial feminist alliances. She draws on her conversations with twenty-eight self-defined academic feminists,…
Subject to Power—Feminism Without Victims
This essay locates the subject of feminist inquiry within two articulations of power feminism: Foss and Foss's and Anzaldúa's. I argue that the former employs an individualistic notion of feminist subjectivity, while the latter presumes a subject embedded in, and hence accountable to, community. Parsing out these underlying assumptions enables a critical and recuperative reading of power feminism, proposing empowerment as a collective undertaking…
Holding
Holding" is a braided lyric essay that weaves narrative, performance, and theoretical strands to pose the question: How do we hold trauma, without it holding us? This question is particularly acute for queer people of color, who often undergo or inherit legacies of imperial trauma. It is also vital for researchers, writers, and performers who excavate imperial trauma. I suggest that collective and individual sacred healing practices provide a mea…
Erotic Pedagogies
This article considers the role of Audre Lorde's notion of the erotic as transformative pedagogical practices that can empower teachers and students to passionate learning and community formation. I argue that the erotic has been contained within the private sphere under neoliberalism through its articulation to heterosexuality, Whiteness, and U.S. exceptionalism. Neoliberalism contains the transformative potential of queer, feminist, and antirac…
Romancing the Organic Intellectual
Romancing the Organic Intellectual: On the Queerness of Academic Activism Aimee Carrillo Rowe (bio) Door!” said the chief. A booted foot and the trim of a skirt flashed past the small opening in the tent, then heavy blankets flopped into place. The lodge went dark. She stirred the bucket with a hollowed-out gourd, then dumped water over hot stones assembled in a hole in the center of the lodge. “Sssss,” said the stones, exhaling tufts of steam. “…
Still the Silence
This book provides a series of reflections on the paradoxes and transformative possibilities of silence. Our title, Silence, Feminism, Power: Reflections at the Edges of Sound, evokes the paradoxical relationship between sound and silence that is obscured when we assume an equation between voice and agency, and its inverse equation—silence and oppression. Our impulse is to challenge the binaristic relationship that has been assigned since antiqui…
Answer the Call
Answer the Call explores the daily, psychic journeys Indian call center agents undergo as they virtually migrate between India and the U.S. The new time-space relations generated by this virtual contact create conditions for these workers to undergo a global "migration" from India and to America, even as their bodies remain bounded within the national homeland. This temporal arrangement displaces them from the daily rhythms of Indian life, genera…
Silence, Feminism, Power
An interrogation of the often-unexamined assumption that silence is oppressive, to consider the multiple possibilities silence enables. The volume features diverse feminist reflections on the nuanced
Your Ancestors Come
This essay examines the queer Xicana performer Adelina Anthony's triptych performance, La Hocicona Series, to trace the theoretically capacious convergences among queer time, indigenous spirituality, and performance. Anthony's characters move with an affective and spiritual force that brings audiences into fleeting contact with ancestors and goddesses, as sacred ceremony interanimates political critique, queer desire, abject subjects, and indigen…
Vendidas y Devueltas
This paper explores the temporal structures that shape Chicana subjectivity. The historical figure, La Malinche, is often imagined through acts of betrayal as "La Vendida" (literally the one who has been sold). I propose an alternative reading-that of "La Devuelta"-the one who is returned as an empowering Chicana figure. Drawing on and extending theories of queer temporality, I consider the way time passes and is recuperated by queer Chicanas who…
Borderlands Rhetoric
Book Review| June 01 2014 Borderlands Rhetoric Zines in Third Space: Radical Cooperation and Borderlands Rhetorics. Licona, Adela. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2012. xiv + 191 pp. Aimee Carrillo Rowe Aimee Carrillo Rowe Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2014) 20 (3): 381–384. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2422719 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Sit…
Answering the Call
This paper explores the daily, psychic journeys Indian call center agents undergo as they 'virtually migrate' between India and the US. A thin cable that runs half way around the globe bridges the 'here' and the 'there', connecting agents to faraway customers in real time. The new time-space relations generated by this virtual contact create conditions for these workers to undergo a global 'migration' from India and to America, even as their bodi…
Adelina Anthony Interview with Aimee Carrillo Rowe
This interview explores how performing artist, activist, writer, director, performer Adelina Anthony stages queer women of color affects as a complex terrain to mobilize a decolonial imaginary. Anthony's characters are complex, contradictory, surly, and resilient with whom audience members connect and feel deeply. Especially for queer women of color, who rarely get to see their own experiences on film or on stage, Anthony's work provides a critic…
Loving transgressions
This introductory article considers the importance of queer woman of color theorizations of affect in thinking more fully the recent interdisciplinary turn to affect. The affective turn has vitally invited culture and feminist critics to interrogate emotion beyond the individual to examine the political and cultural production of emotion. Even as women of color are often associated with excessive affect, the theoretical contributions women of col…
A Queer Indigenous Manifesto
Research Article| June 01 2017 A Queer Indigenous Manifesto Aimee Carrillo Rowe Aimee Carrillo Rowe Aimee Carrillo Rowe is professor of communication studies and codirector of the Civil Discourse and Social Change Initiative at California State University, Northridge. Her teaching and writing focus on human and inhuman processes and performances of becoming as relational, embodied, and fluid across contexts, including U.S. popular culture, Indian…
Settler Xicana
This paper takes Chicana/Xicana indigeneity as a productive and problematic site to consider the vexed conjuncture between decolonial and postcolonial approaches to critical knowledge production. I examine the intersection between Chicana and Native feminisms as a point of entry to consider how the incommensurabilities between these formations get played out within specific sites of knowledge production. I read my positionality as a Californio Ra…
Settler Colonialism and Cultural Studies
In this editorial, we consider what is at work in a turn toward analyzing settler colonialism, and what this turn makes available in cultural studies and discussions of cultural production. Recent theorizations of settler colonialism reveal how cultural productions remain complicit with ongoing settlement, both in everyday practices and intellectual projects like queer studies, feminist studies, and critical race studies. This special issue consi…
Sociology (21 works) · Political science (18 works) · Gender Studies (16 works) · Aesthetics (13 works) · Art (13 works) · Law (13 works) · Politics (13 works) · Gender Studies (12 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (11 works) · Psychology (10 works)