Amber Ward
Biographic Data
| ID | 3887691 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amber Ward |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amber |
| FAMILY NAME | Ward |
| SIGNATURE | WARD A |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State University, Monterey Bay |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9263-9474 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Chasing Charms as Concept
This lived approach to inquiry is situated in transcendental empiricism through, what Deleuze called, a sensibility of creating and becoming; the inquiry also chases charms as concept. I have invented the concept charms to help re-orient thought through a relational journey at the threshold of apprehension when naming it a concept. Nearly a dozen letters addressed to a Critical Studies scholar grapple with and question charms as concept—oftentime…
I Am Not Your Negro Movie Review
This article reviews I Am Not Your Negro, a documentary film based on Remember this House, an unfinished manuscript written by James Baldwin. I Am Not Your Negro is a critical film for any public service professional who impacts the lives and livelihoods of Black people in the United States. The critical nature of this film rests in the tragedy of lives lost in a quest for justice for Black people in the US. Baldwin’s conceptualization of “the Ne…
(Re)encountering A Thousand Plateaus
We, now colleagues, look to our “first” collective encounter with Deleuze and Guattari that took place in a university course on poststructuralism, where one of us was the teacher and three were students. This encounter still disturbs us. And new and different encounters happen each time we reread A Thousand Plateaus, revisit our previous conversations, and/or rewrite this manuscript. Each encounter produces a new trail(ing). We follow some of th…
Withdrawn
Ward, A. (2020). Braiding as a Feminist Methodology: Tensions and Possibilities of Weaving Together. Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies, 21(1), 3-15. https://doi.org/10.1177/1532708620953200. This article was withdrawn after publication
Teaching, Troubling, Transgressing
The authors (teacher and doctoral students) seek to illuminate the transgressive experiences of teaching ↔ learning in a poststructural (PS) theory and research methods course. They aim to (a) illustrate teaching practices that open spaces for students (and faculty) to rethink, critique, unlearn, and ultimately un-inhabit dominant concepts and principles of qualitative research (QR) and the theory/method divide across research disciplines more br…
Teaching, Troubling, Transgressing
The authors (teacher and doctoral students) seek to illuminate the transgressive experiences of teaching ↔ learning in a poststructural (PS) theory and research methods course. They aim to (a) illustrate teaching practices that open spaces for students (and faculty) to rethink, critique, unlearn, and ultimately un-inhabit dominant concepts and principles of qualitative research (QR) and the theory/method divide across research disciplines more br…
I Am Not Your Negro Movie Review
This article reviews I Am Not Your Negro, a documentary film based on Remember this House, an unfinished manuscript written by James Baldwin. I Am Not Your Negro is a critical film for any public service professional who impacts the lives and livelihoods of Black people in the United States. The critical nature of this film rests in the tragedy of lives lost in a quest for justice for Black people in the US. Baldwin’s conceptualization of “the Ne…
(Re)encountering A Thousand Plateaus
We, now colleagues, look to our “first” collective encounter with Deleuze and Guattari that took place in a university course on poststructuralism, where one of us was the teacher and three were students. This encounter still disturbs us. And new and different encounters happen each time we reread A Thousand Plateaus, revisit our previous conversations, and/or rewrite this manuscript. Each encounter produces a new trail(ing). We follow some of th…
Teaching, Troubling, Transgressing
The authors (teacher and doctoral students) seek to illuminate the transgressive experiences of teaching ↔ learning in a poststructural (PS) theory and research methods course. They aim to (a) illustrate teaching practices that open spaces for students (and faculty) to rethink, critique, unlearn, and ultimately un-inhabit dominant concepts and principles of qualitative research (QR) and the theory/method divide across research disciplines more br…
I Am Not Your Negro Movie Review
This article reviews I Am Not Your Negro, a documentary film based on Remember this House, an unfinished manuscript written by James Baldwin. I Am Not Your Negro is a critical film for any public service professional who impacts the lives and livelihoods of Black people in the United States. The critical nature of this film rests in the tragedy of lives lost in a quest for justice for Black people in the US. Baldwin’s conceptualization of “the Ne…
(Re)encountering A Thousand Plateaus
We, now colleagues, look to our “first” collective encounter with Deleuze and Guattari that took place in a university course on poststructuralism, where one of us was the teacher and three were students. This encounter still disturbs us. And new and different encounters happen each time we reread A Thousand Plateaus, revisit our previous conversations, and/or rewrite this manuscript. Each encounter produces a new trail(ing). We follow some of th…
Withdrawn
Ward, A. (2020). Braiding as a Feminist Methodology: Tensions and Possibilities of Weaving Together. Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies, 21(1), 3-15. https://doi.org/10.1177/1532708620953200. This article was withdrawn after publication
Chasing Charms as Concept
This lived approach to inquiry is situated in transcendental empiricism through, what Deleuze called, a sensibility of creating and becoming; the inquiry also chases charms as concept. I have invented the concept charms to help re-orient thought through a relational journey at the threshold of apprehension when naming it a concept. Nearly a dozen letters addressed to a Critical Studies scholar grapple with and question charms as concept—oftentime…
Sociology (5 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Media studies (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism (2 works) · Psychoanalysis (2 works) · Active listening (1 work) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Apprehension (1 work)