Lori Holyfield
Biographic Data
| ID | 3687828 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lori Holyfield |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lori |
| FAMILY NAME | Holyfield |
| SIGNATURE | HOLYFIELD L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Arkansas at Fayetteville |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 141 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Masculinity under attack: Melodramatic Resistance to Women in Combat
Although women in both Iraq and Afghanistan have taken part in ground combat and although restrictions have been lifted officially, there remains a strong resistance to the policy that now allows women to work in officially designated combat-related jobs. This resistance is especially strong among online comments to military media coverage. This study examines narratives of masculinity and resistance to women's presence in combat through online c…
Musical Ties That Bind: Nostalgia, Affect, and Heritage in Festival Narratives
Affective heritage embracement, a collective narrative of nostalgia, is identified at two popular music festivals. 'MusicFest' embraces a tradition of 'Red Dirt' country music through performance (music festival), whereas the 'Walnut Valley Festival' embraces a bluegrass/folk musical heritage through performance and participation (musicians' festival). The symbolic importance of musical interaction is explored to highlight the experienced emotion…
Memory Brokers, Shameful Pasts, and Civil War Commemoration
This article examines the commemoration of the American Civil War via the symbolic structure of “fragmented” and “multivocal” commemorative sites. Through observation, thick description, and interviews, this work examines the contested commemoration of the American Civil War with regard to race, slavery, and collective sentiment. The role of memory brokers in the commemoration process, both past and present, is identified, placing the commemorati…
Race discourse and the US Confederate Flag
Research reveals that racial hierarchies and ‘color‐blind’ racism is maintained through discourse. The current study utilizes exploratory data from focus groups in a predominantly white southern university in the United States to examine race talk, the Confederate Flag, and the construction of southern white identity. Drawing from critical discourse analysis, we answer the following questions: first, to what extent do discursive strategies surrou…
The Emergence and First Years of a Grassroots Women's Movement in Northwest Arkansas, 1970-1980
Anna M. Zajicek, Allyn Lord, Lori Holyfield, The Emergence and First Years of a Grassroots Women's Movement in Northwest Arkansas, 1970-1980, The Arkansas Historical Quarterly, Vol. 62, No. 2 (Summer, 2003), pp. 153-181
Moving Up and Out: Poverty, Education, and the Single Parent Family
It Ain't That Simple 2. Barriers to Success 3. Myths and Images: The Morality Trap 4. Education and Mobility 5. Chance and Choice 6. Starting a Single Parent Scholarship Program: Ingredients for Success 7. Where Do We Go from Here? Appendixes Notes References Index
From River God to Research Grunt: Identity, Emotions, and the River Guide
Leisure identities and occupational identities are often assumed to be opposites. Drawing on two ethnographic studies, evidence is provided to illustrate how organizational contexts (or lack thereof) both interrupt and influence the social construction of identities. River running is but one activity that provides participants with opportunities to achieve a desired identity using situated emotion cues. In this study river guides are examined to …
Manufacturing Adventure: The Buying and Selling of Emotions
Adventurous outdoor leisure is perceived as those recreational activities that pose either a real or perceived threat to participants. In commercial settings the risks are minimized but for novice consumers adventure often retains the intense emotional component that comes with adventure (e.g., navigating thunderous rapids). Previous discussions of the social-psychological consequences of risk taking have not focused on the novice; yet, social-ps…
Nixon Postmortem
Cultural theories of communication and media events transcend naive ideas about the media as mere transmitters of information; however, they attend insufficiently to information itself. Richard Nixon's eulogists outraged his critics as they tried to bring the moral, emotional, and informational aspects of the funeral into balance. Placing the Watergate scandal in the context of Nixon's progressive administration, the eulogists not only affirmed n…
Romance and agency: An argument revisited
Sociological discussions of romance novels are sparse. As a cultural artifact, the formulaic genre of romance fiction (and its more than 50 million readers) has been ignored by many scholars, disdained by some for its mass‐pop culture appeal, and condemned as a tool of the “patriarchal apparatus” by others. Some feminist scholars have cautioned against outright dismissal, however, pointing to oppositional codes and empowering elements in the text…
Adventure as Character Work: The Collective Taming of Fear
It is ultimately through experience that character is formulated and made evident. From an ethnographic examination of an adventure program (Ropes Adventure, Inc.) that attempts to mold the identity of adolescents who have been detained for minor felonies and misdemeanors, we examine how personal challenge can be channeled into moral messages. By evoking and then taming fear (adventure), organizations demonstrate the power of personal accomplishm…
Cockfighting and backsliding: Deviance and postmodernism
Secrecy, Trust, and Dangerous Leisure: Generating Group Cohesion in Voluntary Organizations
The development and effects of group cohesion have been a long-standing concern in the small-group literature. Through an ethnographic examination of a leisure activity involving risk-mushroom collecting-we analyze how voluntary leisure groups maintain members' allegiance and affiliation, and thus create cohesion. Trust (communal concern) and secrecy (individual self-interest), based originally on information and subsequently on relationships, ar…
Secrecy, Trust, and Dangerous Leisure: Generating Group Cohesion in Voluntary Organizations
The development and effects of group cohesion have been a long-standing concern in the small-group literature. Through an ethnographic examination of a leisure activity involving risk-mushroom collecting-we analyze how voluntary leisure groups maintain members' allegiance and affiliation, and thus create cohesion. Trust (communal concern) and secrecy (individual self-interest), based originally on information and subsequently on relationships, ar…
Manufacturing Adventure: The Buying and Selling of Emotions
Adventurous outdoor leisure is perceived as those recreational activities that pose either a real or perceived threat to participants. In commercial settings the risks are minimized but for novice consumers adventure often retains the intense emotional component that comes with adventure (e.g., navigating thunderous rapids). Previous discussions of the social-psychological consequences of risk taking have not focused on the novice; yet, social-ps…
Adventure as Character Work: The Collective Taming of Fear
It is ultimately through experience that character is formulated and made evident. From an ethnographic examination of an adventure program (Ropes Adventure, Inc.) that attempts to mold the identity of adolescents who have been detained for minor felonies and misdemeanors, we examine how personal challenge can be channeled into moral messages. By evoking and then taming fear (adventure), organizations demonstrate the power of personal accomplishm…
Race discourse and the US Confederate Flag
Research reveals that racial hierarchies and ‘color‐blind’ racism is maintained through discourse. The current study utilizes exploratory data from focus groups in a predominantly white southern university in the United States to examine race talk, the Confederate Flag, and the construction of southern white identity. Drawing from critical discourse analysis, we answer the following questions: first, to what extent do discursive strategies surrou…
Musical Ties That Bind: Nostalgia, Affect, and Heritage in Festival Narratives
Affective heritage embracement, a collective narrative of nostalgia, is identified at two popular music festivals. 'MusicFest' embraces a tradition of 'Red Dirt' country music through performance (music festival), whereas the 'Walnut Valley Festival' embraces a bluegrass/folk musical heritage through performance and participation (musicians' festival). The symbolic importance of musical interaction is explored to highlight the experienced emotion…
From River God to Research Grunt: Identity, Emotions, and the River Guide
Leisure identities and occupational identities are often assumed to be opposites. Drawing on two ethnographic studies, evidence is provided to illustrate how organizational contexts (or lack thereof) both interrupt and influence the social construction of identities. River running is but one activity that provides participants with opportunities to achieve a desired identity using situated emotion cues. In this study river guides are examined to …
Masculinity under attack: Melodramatic Resistance to Women in Combat
Although women in both Iraq and Afghanistan have taken part in ground combat and although restrictions have been lifted officially, there remains a strong resistance to the policy that now allows women to work in officially designated combat-related jobs. This resistance is especially strong among online comments to military media coverage. This study examines narratives of masculinity and resistance to women's presence in combat through online c…
Nixon Postmortem
Cultural theories of communication and media events transcend naive ideas about the media as mere transmitters of information; however, they attend insufficiently to information itself. Richard Nixon's eulogists outraged his critics as they tried to bring the moral, emotional, and informational aspects of the funeral into balance. Placing the Watergate scandal in the context of Nixon's progressive administration, the eulogists not only affirmed n…
Cockfighting and backsliding: Deviance and postmodernism
Secrecy, Trust, and Dangerous Leisure: Generating Group Cohesion in Voluntary Organizations
The development and effects of group cohesion have been a long-standing concern in the small-group literature. Through an ethnographic examination of a leisure activity involving risk-mushroom collecting-we analyze how voluntary leisure groups maintain members' allegiance and affiliation, and thus create cohesion. Trust (communal concern) and secrecy (individual self-interest), based originally on information and subsequently on relationships, ar…
Romance and agency: An argument revisited
Sociological discussions of romance novels are sparse. As a cultural artifact, the formulaic genre of romance fiction (and its more than 50 million readers) has been ignored by many scholars, disdained by some for its mass‐pop culture appeal, and condemned as a tool of the “patriarchal apparatus” by others. Some feminist scholars have cautioned against outright dismissal, however, pointing to oppositional codes and empowering elements in the text…
Adventure as Character Work: The Collective Taming of Fear
It is ultimately through experience that character is formulated and made evident. From an ethnographic examination of an adventure program (Ropes Adventure, Inc.) that attempts to mold the identity of adolescents who have been detained for minor felonies and misdemeanors, we examine how personal challenge can be channeled into moral messages. By evoking and then taming fear (adventure), organizations demonstrate the power of personal accomplishm…
Cockfighting and backsliding: Deviance and postmodernism
Nixon Postmortem
Cultural theories of communication and media events transcend naive ideas about the media as mere transmitters of information; however, they attend insufficiently to information itself. Richard Nixon's eulogists outraged his critics as they tried to bring the moral, emotional, and informational aspects of the funeral into balance. Placing the Watergate scandal in the context of Nixon's progressive administration, the eulogists not only affirmed n…
Manufacturing Adventure: The Buying and Selling of Emotions
Adventurous outdoor leisure is perceived as those recreational activities that pose either a real or perceived threat to participants. In commercial settings the risks are minimized but for novice consumers adventure often retains the intense emotional component that comes with adventure (e.g., navigating thunderous rapids). Previous discussions of the social-psychological consequences of risk taking have not focused on the novice; yet, social-ps…
The Emergence and First Years of a Grassroots Women's Movement in Northwest Arkansas, 1970-1980
Anna M. Zajicek, Allyn Lord, Lori Holyfield, The Emergence and First Years of a Grassroots Women's Movement in Northwest Arkansas, 1970-1980, The Arkansas Historical Quarterly, Vol. 62, No. 2 (Summer, 2003), pp. 153-181
Moving Up and Out: Poverty, Education, and the Single Parent Family
It Ain't That Simple 2. Barriers to Success 3. Myths and Images: The Morality Trap 4. Education and Mobility 5. Chance and Choice 6. Starting a Single Parent Scholarship Program: Ingredients for Success 7. Where Do We Go from Here? Appendixes Notes References Index
From River God to Research Grunt: Identity, Emotions, and the River Guide
Leisure identities and occupational identities are often assumed to be opposites. Drawing on two ethnographic studies, evidence is provided to illustrate how organizational contexts (or lack thereof) both interrupt and influence the social construction of identities. River running is but one activity that provides participants with opportunities to achieve a desired identity using situated emotion cues. In this study river guides are examined to …
Race discourse and the US Confederate Flag
Research reveals that racial hierarchies and ‘color‐blind’ racism is maintained through discourse. The current study utilizes exploratory data from focus groups in a predominantly white southern university in the United States to examine race talk, the Confederate Flag, and the construction of southern white identity. Drawing from critical discourse analysis, we answer the following questions: first, to what extent do discursive strategies surrou…
Memory Brokers, Shameful Pasts, and Civil War Commemoration
This article examines the commemoration of the American Civil War via the symbolic structure of “fragmented” and “multivocal” commemorative sites. Through observation, thick description, and interviews, this work examines the contested commemoration of the American Civil War with regard to race, slavery, and collective sentiment. The role of memory brokers in the commemoration process, both past and present, is identified, placing the commemorati…
Musical Ties That Bind: Nostalgia, Affect, and Heritage in Festival Narratives
Affective heritage embracement, a collective narrative of nostalgia, is identified at two popular music festivals. 'MusicFest' embraces a tradition of 'Red Dirt' country music through performance (music festival), whereas the 'Walnut Valley Festival' embraces a bluegrass/folk musical heritage through performance and participation (musicians' festival). The symbolic importance of musical interaction is explored to highlight the experienced emotion…
Masculinity under attack: Melodramatic Resistance to Women in Combat
Although women in both Iraq and Afghanistan have taken part in ground combat and although restrictions have been lifted officially, there remains a strong resistance to the policy that now allows women to work in officially designated combat-related jobs. This resistance is especially strong among online comments to military media coverage. This study examines narratives of masculinity and resistance to women's presence in combat through online c…
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