Marcelo Diversi
Biographic Data
| ID | 3887675 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marcelo Diversi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marcelo |
| FAMILY NAME | Diversi |
| SIGNATURE | DIVERSI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Washington State University Vancouver |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 160 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Authoethnography as an Act of Resistance Against Narratives of Hatred
On November 8, 2016, a presidential candidate running on a campaign marked by exclusion and hatred against so many Others won the election and the U.S. Executive Branch. We, the authors, went from being concerned with the reverberations of Trump's narrative of hatred to the shocking realization that we were entering an era of renewed politics of hatred and exclusion. In this article, we talk about how our autoethnography can help us find our comm…
Performing Betweener Autoethnographies Against Persistent Us/Them Essentializing
How to write our history interlaced with the history of so many oppressed humans from so many singularities and shared universalities? We search for an autoethnography that is performative and transgressive in face of brutal inequalities, obvious injustice, and lame justifications by those with more privilege and power "to name the world." We search for a form of being and writing that goes, without apologies, after the structures of power that s…
The Coin Will Continue to Fly
In this performance-theoretical text, we attempt to advance collaborative writing as decolonizing inquiry. Western inquiry has been dominated by the solitary writing of lone rangers of expertise, who are granted disproportionate narrative space to discourse about the Other. We think this exclusionary way of knowing keeps historically marginalized peoples from occupying Western academia as knowledge makers. Building on our collaborative writing ex…
Damming the Amazon
The Belo Monte Dam on the Xingu River, at the heart of the Amazon tropical forest, is not the first in the area. But it is going to be the largest. The third largest hydroelectric plant on the planet. It will dry out miles and miles of a river that sustains more than a dozen surviving indigenous tribes. More than 20,000 people will be displaced from their ancient lands, many forcibly moved into the new slums of little towns servicing the new dam.…
Real World
As the neoliberal nozzle continues to tighten its grip on education that is public, accessible, critical, inclusive, and liberatory, we hold an even fiercer belief that dogma-free intellectuals, here used according to Edward Said's definition, can serve as one of its most effective oppositional figures. While our decolonizing critique of neoliberalism is as wide as its imperial project, we focus our attention here on how we attempt to examine, ch…
Poverty Pimps in the Academy
The authors often talk about the moral and ethical predicaments they experience working with marginalized populations. But such conversations, confessions, and verbalized doubts happened in intimate settings, often with out office doors closed or when the hallways are quiet and empty. This is not a whisper of secrecy or conspiracy but one of self-reflexive contemplation about the privilege differential between the authors and the humans they enco…
Critical Homelessness
The experience (as opposed to the concept) of homelessness is hardly part of the academic discourse in education, cultural studies, or human development. One of the central goals of our special issue is to create a bridge between homelessness as a personal experience and homelessness as a public issue. Along with the personal experience that breaks free from the deficit-model informing dominant notions of homelessness, we also want to bring atten…
A Professor's Fortunate Suggestion
This is an essay about the transformative power of interpretive epistemologies for those who come into the social sciences seeking meaning in the messiness of human experience. It is about how an epistemological exercise gave the author symbolic tools to become sentient of his father's subjective oppressive force in his life-with the man living 5,000 miles away. A professor's simple suggestion unlocked unacknowledged yet ever-present epiphanies o…
Street Kids in Nikes
Brazilian street kids have been represented, with few exceptions, as victims of oppressed cultural forces that weaken the family and dilute social capital. To be sure, concentrated poverty, loss of extended family ties, low levels of education, and lack of governmental involvement have all given shape to a terribly strenuous childhood for many in the country. These kids, however, are more than victims. They are also active agents in the coconstru…
Ethnic Identity and Self-Esteem of Latino Adolescents
This article reviews 21 empirical studies in which the relationship between self-esteem and ethnic identity among Latino adolescents was examined. This analysis indicates that for some conceptualizations of ethnic identity there has been a positive relationship between ethnic identity and self-esteem, whereas with other conceptualizations the relationships between ethnic identity and self-esteemhave been inconsistent. The methodological limitatio…
Glimpses of Street Life
The author has been writing short stories about his experiences with kids who live on the streets of Campinas, Brazil, since his last field trip in 1996. At the beginning of this article, he briefly explains his rationale for using short story, a literary genre, to represent lived experience in social sciences texts. He also explains how he wrote the stories. The four short stories are the heart of this text, in which the author has attempted to …
Ethnic Identity and Self-Esteem of Latino Adolescents
This article reviews 21 empirical studies in which the relationship between self-esteem and ethnic identity among Latino adolescents was examined. This analysis indicates that for some conceptualizations of ethnic identity there has been a positive relationship between ethnic identity and self-esteem, whereas with other conceptualizations the relationships between ethnic identity and self-esteemhave been inconsistent. The methodological limitatio…
Glimpses of Street Life
The author has been writing short stories about his experiences with kids who live on the streets of Campinas, Brazil, since his last field trip in 1996. At the beginning of this article, he briefly explains his rationale for using short story, a literary genre, to represent lived experience in social sciences texts. He also explains how he wrote the stories. The four short stories are the heart of this text, in which the author has attempted to …
Critical Homelessness
The experience (as opposed to the concept) of homelessness is hardly part of the academic discourse in education, cultural studies, or human development. One of the central goals of our special issue is to create a bridge between homelessness as a personal experience and homelessness as a public issue. Along with the personal experience that breaks free from the deficit-model informing dominant notions of homelessness, we also want to bring atten…
Performing Betweener Autoethnographies Against Persistent Us/Them Essentializing
How to write our history interlaced with the history of so many oppressed humans from so many singularities and shared universalities? We search for an autoethnography that is performative and transgressive in face of brutal inequalities, obvious injustice, and lame justifications by those with more privilege and power "to name the world." We search for a form of being and writing that goes, without apologies, after the structures of power that s…
Street Kids in Nikes
Brazilian street kids have been represented, with few exceptions, as victims of oppressed cultural forces that weaken the family and dilute social capital. To be sure, concentrated poverty, loss of extended family ties, low levels of education, and lack of governmental involvement have all given shape to a terribly strenuous childhood for many in the country. These kids, however, are more than victims. They are also active agents in the coconstru…
Authoethnography as an Act of Resistance Against Narratives of Hatred
On November 8, 2016, a presidential candidate running on a campaign marked by exclusion and hatred against so many Others won the election and the U.S. Executive Branch. We, the authors, went from being concerned with the reverberations of Trump's narrative of hatred to the shocking realization that we were entering an era of renewed politics of hatred and exclusion. In this article, we talk about how our autoethnography can help us find our comm…
The Coin Will Continue to Fly
In this performance-theoretical text, we attempt to advance collaborative writing as decolonizing inquiry. Western inquiry has been dominated by the solitary writing of lone rangers of expertise, who are granted disproportionate narrative space to discourse about the Other. We think this exclusionary way of knowing keeps historically marginalized peoples from occupying Western academia as knowledge makers. Building on our collaborative writing ex…
Real World
As the neoliberal nozzle continues to tighten its grip on education that is public, accessible, critical, inclusive, and liberatory, we hold an even fiercer belief that dogma-free intellectuals, here used according to Edward Said's definition, can serve as one of its most effective oppositional figures. While our decolonizing critique of neoliberalism is as wide as its imperial project, we focus our attention here on how we attempt to examine, ch…
Damming the Amazon
The Belo Monte Dam on the Xingu River, at the heart of the Amazon tropical forest, is not the first in the area. But it is going to be the largest. The third largest hydroelectric plant on the planet. It will dry out miles and miles of a river that sustains more than a dozen surviving indigenous tribes. More than 20,000 people will be displaced from their ancient lands, many forcibly moved into the new slums of little towns servicing the new dam.…
Poverty Pimps in the Academy
The authors often talk about the moral and ethical predicaments they experience working with marginalized populations. But such conversations, confessions, and verbalized doubts happened in intimate settings, often with out office doors closed or when the hallways are quiet and empty. This is not a whisper of secrecy or conspiracy but one of self-reflexive contemplation about the privilege differential between the authors and the humans they enco…
Glimpses of Street Life
The author has been writing short stories about his experiences with kids who live on the streets of Campinas, Brazil, since his last field trip in 1996. At the beginning of this article, he briefly explains his rationale for using short story, a literary genre, to represent lived experience in social sciences texts. He also explains how he wrote the stories. The four short stories are the heart of this text, in which the author has attempted to …
Ethnic Identity and Self-Esteem of Latino Adolescents
This article reviews 21 empirical studies in which the relationship between self-esteem and ethnic identity among Latino adolescents was examined. This analysis indicates that for some conceptualizations of ethnic identity there has been a positive relationship between ethnic identity and self-esteem, whereas with other conceptualizations the relationships between ethnic identity and self-esteemhave been inconsistent. The methodological limitatio…
Street Kids in Nikes
Brazilian street kids have been represented, with few exceptions, as victims of oppressed cultural forces that weaken the family and dilute social capital. To be sure, concentrated poverty, loss of extended family ties, low levels of education, and lack of governmental involvement have all given shape to a terribly strenuous childhood for many in the country. These kids, however, are more than victims. They are also active agents in the coconstru…
A Professor's Fortunate Suggestion
This is an essay about the transformative power of interpretive epistemologies for those who come into the social sciences seeking meaning in the messiness of human experience. It is about how an epistemological exercise gave the author symbolic tools to become sentient of his father's subjective oppressive force in his life-with the man living 5,000 miles away. A professor's simple suggestion unlocked unacknowledged yet ever-present epiphanies o…
Poverty Pimps in the Academy
The authors often talk about the moral and ethical predicaments they experience working with marginalized populations. But such conversations, confessions, and verbalized doubts happened in intimate settings, often with out office doors closed or when the hallways are quiet and empty. This is not a whisper of secrecy or conspiracy but one of self-reflexive contemplation about the privilege differential between the authors and the humans they enco…
Critical Homelessness
The experience (as opposed to the concept) of homelessness is hardly part of the academic discourse in education, cultural studies, or human development. One of the central goals of our special issue is to create a bridge between homelessness as a personal experience and homelessness as a public issue. Along with the personal experience that breaks free from the deficit-model informing dominant notions of homelessness, we also want to bring atten…
Real World
As the neoliberal nozzle continues to tighten its grip on education that is public, accessible, critical, inclusive, and liberatory, we hold an even fiercer belief that dogma-free intellectuals, here used according to Edward Said's definition, can serve as one of its most effective oppositional figures. While our decolonizing critique of neoliberalism is as wide as its imperial project, we focus our attention here on how we attempt to examine, ch…
The Coin Will Continue to Fly
In this performance-theoretical text, we attempt to advance collaborative writing as decolonizing inquiry. Western inquiry has been dominated by the solitary writing of lone rangers of expertise, who are granted disproportionate narrative space to discourse about the Other. We think this exclusionary way of knowing keeps historically marginalized peoples from occupying Western academia as knowledge makers. Building on our collaborative writing ex…
Damming the Amazon
The Belo Monte Dam on the Xingu River, at the heart of the Amazon tropical forest, is not the first in the area. But it is going to be the largest. The third largest hydroelectric plant on the planet. It will dry out miles and miles of a river that sustains more than a dozen surviving indigenous tribes. More than 20,000 people will be displaced from their ancient lands, many forcibly moved into the new slums of little towns servicing the new dam.…
Performing Betweener Autoethnographies Against Persistent Us/Them Essentializing
How to write our history interlaced with the history of so many oppressed humans from so many singularities and shared universalities? We search for an autoethnography that is performative and transgressive in face of brutal inequalities, obvious injustice, and lame justifications by those with more privilege and power "to name the world." We search for a form of being and writing that goes, without apologies, after the structures of power that s…
Authoethnography as an Act of Resistance Against Narratives of Hatred
On November 8, 2016, a presidential candidate running on a campaign marked by exclusion and hatred against so many Others won the election and the U.S. Executive Branch. We, the authors, went from being concerned with the reverberations of Trump's narrative of hatred to the shocking realization that we were entering an era of renewed politics of hatred and exclusion. In this article, we talk about how our autoethnography can help us find our comm…
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