R Autry
Biographic Data
| ID | 39387 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R Autry |
| GIVEN NAMES | R |
| FAMILY NAME | Autry |
| SIGNATURE | AUTRY R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wesleyan University |
| ORCID | 0009-0004-2735-1617 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
A usable body: Coaxing the body into and out of captivity at the museum
The visual logic of ‘black’ identity as a social and historical fact is presented at museums depicting the transformation of enslaved Africans to racial citizens. I focus on the work of the body in narrating this transition at a black history museum: the historical object on display – the captive African and later the US citizen – and the imagined visitor moving through the physical space of the museum. I consider the visual treatment of the ensl…
J eanne T heoharis . A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History
Coming on the heels of her award-winning political biography of Rosa Parks, Jeanne Theoharis exposes and undoes the underpinnings of the popular discourse of the civil rights movement in A More Beautiful and Terrible History. Theoharis problematizes how the civil rights movement is understood by deconstructing some of its most iconic imagery and heavily invoked lessons, from a weary Rosa Parks refusing to leave her seat on the bus to the scope of…
Elastic monumentality? The Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial and counterpublic historical space
Can blatantly racist-nationalist imageries that are literally carved into stone be recast as inclusionary? Can it be ‘re-seen’ without being remodeled? By whose eyes and under what conditions? This essay examines the uneven development of the Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial in the United States. It questions how the impulse to memorialize in the aftermath of war and then re-memorialize relates to conflicts over the legacies of US slavery and …
The rats are still with us: Constructing Everyday Life at the Anacostia Museum in Washington, DC
How did the black cultural politics of the 1960s prompt the Smithsonian to break with tradition and establish the first experimental black community-based museum in Washington DC? Using a historical perspective, I examine how political-economic and institutional forces combine with more ideological concerns to construct flexible representations of race, urbanism, and community over time. I follow these developments across three decades to examine…
How Americans Make Race: Stories, Institutions, Spaces
The political economy of memory: The Challenges of Representing National Conflict at 'Identity-Driven' Museums
The Monumental Reconstruction of Memory in South Africa: The Voortrekker Monument
This article addresses debates around the fate of antiquated symbols of colonial domination in postcolonial societies. The handling of apartheid material culture still generates controversy more than 15 years after the country's first democratic elections. Built in 1949 to commemorate the Great Trek into the interior of the country, the Voortrekker Monument in Pretoria has stood as the embodiment of Afrikaner nationalism and mythology. A number o…
Against Free Markets, Against Science? Regulating the Socio-Economic Effects of Biotechnology
This study challenges the assumption that abstract 'globalization' forces are driving transformations in the relationships between states and markets. Employing three cases of policy debate regarding the regulation of agricultural biotechnology (ag-biotech), we examine the role of discourse in the formation of neoliberal regulatory schemes. We show that one important mechanism for the successful institutionalization of neoliberalism in the area o…
Against Free Markets, Against Science? Regulating the Socio-Economic Effects of Biotechnology
This study challenges the assumption that abstract 'globalization' forces are driving transformations in the relationships between states and markets. Employing three cases of policy debate regarding the regulation of agricultural biotechnology (ag-biotech), we examine the role of discourse in the formation of neoliberal regulatory schemes. We show that one important mechanism for the successful institutionalization of neoliberalism in the area o…
The political economy of memory: The Challenges of Representing National Conflict at 'Identity-Driven' Museums
The Monumental Reconstruction of Memory in South Africa: The Voortrekker Monument
This article addresses debates around the fate of antiquated symbols of colonial domination in postcolonial societies. The handling of apartheid material culture still generates controversy more than 15 years after the country's first democratic elections. Built in 1949 to commemorate the Great Trek into the interior of the country, the Voortrekker Monument in Pretoria has stood as the embodiment of Afrikaner nationalism and mythology. A number o…
Elastic monumentality? The Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial and counterpublic historical space
Can blatantly racist-nationalist imageries that are literally carved into stone be recast as inclusionary? Can it be ‘re-seen’ without being remodeled? By whose eyes and under what conditions? This essay examines the uneven development of the Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial in the United States. It questions how the impulse to memorialize in the aftermath of war and then re-memorialize relates to conflicts over the legacies of US slavery and …
Against Free Markets, Against Science? Regulating the Socio-Economic Effects of Biotechnology
This study challenges the assumption that abstract 'globalization' forces are driving transformations in the relationships between states and markets. Employing three cases of policy debate regarding the regulation of agricultural biotechnology (ag-biotech), we examine the role of discourse in the formation of neoliberal regulatory schemes. We show that one important mechanism for the successful institutionalization of neoliberalism in the area o…
The Monumental Reconstruction of Memory in South Africa: The Voortrekker Monument
This article addresses debates around the fate of antiquated symbols of colonial domination in postcolonial societies. The handling of apartheid material culture still generates controversy more than 15 years after the country's first democratic elections. Built in 1949 to commemorate the Great Trek into the interior of the country, the Voortrekker Monument in Pretoria has stood as the embodiment of Afrikaner nationalism and mythology. A number o…
The political economy of memory: The Challenges of Representing National Conflict at 'Identity-Driven' Museums
How Americans Make Race: Stories, Institutions, Spaces
The rats are still with us: Constructing Everyday Life at the Anacostia Museum in Washington, DC
How did the black cultural politics of the 1960s prompt the Smithsonian to break with tradition and establish the first experimental black community-based museum in Washington DC? Using a historical perspective, I examine how political-economic and institutional forces combine with more ideological concerns to construct flexible representations of race, urbanism, and community over time. I follow these developments across three decades to examine…
A usable body: Coaxing the body into and out of captivity at the museum
The visual logic of ‘black’ identity as a social and historical fact is presented at museums depicting the transformation of enslaved Africans to racial citizens. I focus on the work of the body in narrating this transition at a black history museum: the historical object on display – the captive African and later the US citizen – and the imagined visitor moving through the physical space of the museum. I consider the visual treatment of the ensl…
J eanne T heoharis . A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History
Coming on the heels of her award-winning political biography of Rosa Parks, Jeanne Theoharis exposes and undoes the underpinnings of the popular discourse of the civil rights movement in A More Beautiful and Terrible History. Theoharis problematizes how the civil rights movement is understood by deconstructing some of its most iconic imagery and heavily invoked lessons, from a weary Rosa Parks refusing to leave her seat on the bus to the scope of…
Elastic monumentality? The Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial and counterpublic historical space
Can blatantly racist-nationalist imageries that are literally carved into stone be recast as inclusionary? Can it be ‘re-seen’ without being remodeled? By whose eyes and under what conditions? This essay examines the uneven development of the Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial in the United States. It questions how the impulse to memorialize in the aftermath of war and then re-memorialize relates to conflicts over the legacies of US slavery and …
Sociology (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Art (5 works) · History (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works)