Alex Benson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3672976 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alex Benson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alex |
| FAMILY NAME | Benson |
| SIGNATURE | BENSON A |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Seeds of doubt
Data, Development Discourse, and Decolonization
Quantitative methodologies play a critical, though often unacknowledged, role in establishing and maintaining unequal power relations in Canada. This power imbalance is readily apparent in Indigenous sport-for-development initiatives, which are permeated by deficit perspectives that produce and accentuate understandings about Indigenous dysfunction. As a result, these initiatives, no matter how positively framed or how much progress is noted, mai…
T'rough Accident
Claude McKay's "Cudjoe Fresh from de Lecture" first saw print in his 1912 volume Songs of Jamaica. Its speaker, whose voice appears in a densely patterned representation of Jamaican Creole, meditates on biological variation and colonial history. Setting the poem against discourses of race and poetics in contemporaneous Kingston print culture (and other intertexts, from Paul Laurence Dunbar's "When Malindy Sings" to Erving Goffman's "The Lecture")…
Art without Culture
Product Review| June 01 2010 Art without Culture A review of Braddock, Alan C., Thomas Eakins and the Cultures of Modernity (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009). Cited in the text as TE. Alex Benson Alex Benson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Qui Parle (2010) 19 (1): 181–192. https://doi.org/10.5250/quiparle.19.1.0181 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Alex Benson; Art w…
Data, Development Discourse, and Decolonization
Quantitative methodologies play a critical, though often unacknowledged, role in establishing and maintaining unequal power relations in Canada. This power imbalance is readily apparent in Indigenous sport-for-development initiatives, which are permeated by deficit perspectives that produce and accentuate understandings about Indigenous dysfunction. As a result, these initiatives, no matter how positively framed or how much progress is noted, mai…
T'rough Accident
Claude McKay's "Cudjoe Fresh from de Lecture" first saw print in his 1912 volume Songs of Jamaica. Its speaker, whose voice appears in a densely patterned representation of Jamaican Creole, meditates on biological variation and colonial history. Setting the poem against discourses of race and poetics in contemporaneous Kingston print culture (and other intertexts, from Paul Laurence Dunbar's "When Malindy Sings" to Erving Goffman's "The Lecture")…
Art without Culture
Product Review| June 01 2010 Art without Culture A review of Braddock, Alan C., Thomas Eakins and the Cultures of Modernity (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009). Cited in the text as TE. Alex Benson Alex Benson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Qui Parle (2010) 19 (1): 181–192. https://doi.org/10.5250/quiparle.19.1.0181 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Alex Benson; Art w…
T'rough Accident
Claude McKay's "Cudjoe Fresh from de Lecture" first saw print in his 1912 volume Songs of Jamaica. Its speaker, whose voice appears in a densely patterned representation of Jamaican Creole, meditates on biological variation and colonial history. Setting the poem against discourses of race and poetics in contemporaneous Kingston print culture (and other intertexts, from Paul Laurence Dunbar's "When Malindy Sings" to Erving Goffman's "The Lecture")…
Data, Development Discourse, and Decolonization
Quantitative methodologies play a critical, though often unacknowledged, role in establishing and maintaining unequal power relations in Canada. This power imbalance is readily apparent in Indigenous sport-for-development initiatives, which are permeated by deficit perspectives that produce and accentuate understandings about Indigenous dysfunction. As a result, these initiatives, no matter how positively framed or how much progress is noted, mai…
Seeds of doubt
Art (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 work) · Art history (1 work) · Career Development and Diversity (1 work) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (1 work) · Citation (1 work)