Kenneth Cohen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3948653 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kenneth Cohen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kenneth |
| FAMILY NAME | Cohen |
| SIGNATURE | COHEN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | District Six Museum Cape Town South Africa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Incarceration
This special issue considers how museums can take transformative action by interrogating and addressing issues of incarceration. The contributing authors argue that examining museum practice through the lens of incarceration can help reveal and even redress the structures and power dynamics that have generated visible and invisible types of oppressive and violent carcerality. This purpose builds on and extends the contributions museums have alrea…
Girlhood (It’s complicated)
Girlhood (It’s complicated) is an exhibition at the National Museum of American History (NMAH), part of the Smithsonian Institution, which opened in October of 2020. Created with federal funding as part of the American Women’s History Initiative (AWHI), the exhibition commemorates the centennial of women’s suffrage. To put a fresh spin on this anniversary and draw attention to larger, intertwining issues of gender and politics in the United State…
Understanding and Treating Chronic Shame
Sport for Grown Children’
This article explores the emergence of sporting-themed political cartoons in early nineteenth-century America. By using material culture and archaeological methodologies, rather than a traditional visual culture approach, it both explains the genre's development in terms of context (a changing electoral system) and also situates the cartoons within a wider range of sources revealing sport's broader function in that context. In the end, the ‘sport…
Community Coaching
This research examines the emergence, nature, and potential of community coaching-based strategies. Through a case study approach, and associated methods, community coaching purposes, activities and practices are identified and a definition of community coaching is established. Possible implications of a community coaching-based delivery strategy for Extension systems undertaking community development initiatives are advanced, as are opportunitie…
Methamphetamine Production on Public Lands
From stills to marijuana crops, our public lands have historically been the home of illicit activity. Methamphetamine production can now be added to the list. However, methamphetamine production presents unique threats and challenges that remain understudied. Methamphetamine production is highly toxic, and the disposal of this waste on forestlands represents a serious and growing environmental crime in the United States. This article examines thr…
A Mutually Comprehensible World
Captain George Etherington awoke to a particularly warm day on 2 June 1763, but the "sultry" conditions hardly dampened the British celebration of their king's birthday. Even at faraway Fort Michilimackinac, on land the French had not yet formally ceded, British traders and soldiers planned festivities. It seemed to Etherington that even the local Natives wanted to participate in the holiday. In the previous months the captain had dismissed as ru…
Methamphetamine Production on Public Lands
From stills to marijuana crops, our public lands have historically been the home of illicit activity. Methamphetamine production can now be added to the list. However, methamphetamine production presents unique threats and challenges that remain understudied. Methamphetamine production is highly toxic, and the disposal of this waste on forestlands represents a serious and growing environmental crime in the United States. This article examines thr…
Girlhood (It’s complicated)
Girlhood (It’s complicated) is an exhibition at the National Museum of American History (NMAH), part of the Smithsonian Institution, which opened in October of 2020. Created with federal funding as part of the American Women’s History Initiative (AWHI), the exhibition commemorates the centennial of women’s suffrage. To put a fresh spin on this anniversary and draw attention to larger, intertwining issues of gender and politics in the United State…
A Mutually Comprehensible World
Captain George Etherington awoke to a particularly warm day on 2 June 1763, but the "sultry" conditions hardly dampened the British celebration of their king's birthday. Even at faraway Fort Michilimackinac, on land the French had not yet formally ceded, British traders and soldiers planned festivities. It seemed to Etherington that even the local Natives wanted to participate in the holiday. In the previous months the captain had dismissed as ru…
Methamphetamine Production on Public Lands
From stills to marijuana crops, our public lands have historically been the home of illicit activity. Methamphetamine production can now be added to the list. However, methamphetamine production presents unique threats and challenges that remain understudied. Methamphetamine production is highly toxic, and the disposal of this waste on forestlands represents a serious and growing environmental crime in the United States. This article examines thr…
Community Coaching
This research examines the emergence, nature, and potential of community coaching-based strategies. Through a case study approach, and associated methods, community coaching purposes, activities and practices are identified and a definition of community coaching is established. Possible implications of a community coaching-based delivery strategy for Extension systems undertaking community development initiatives are advanced, as are opportunitie…
Sport for Grown Children’
This article explores the emergence of sporting-themed political cartoons in early nineteenth-century America. By using material culture and archaeological methodologies, rather than a traditional visual culture approach, it both explains the genre's development in terms of context (a changing electoral system) and also situates the cartoons within a wider range of sources revealing sport's broader function in that context. In the end, the ‘sport…
Understanding and Treating Chronic Shame
Girlhood (It’s complicated)
Girlhood (It’s complicated) is an exhibition at the National Museum of American History (NMAH), part of the Smithsonian Institution, which opened in October of 2020. Created with federal funding as part of the American Women’s History Initiative (AWHI), the exhibition commemorates the centennial of women’s suffrage. To put a fresh spin on this anniversary and draw attention to larger, intertwining issues of gender and politics in the United State…
Incarceration
This special issue considers how museums can take transformative action by interrogating and addressing issues of incarceration. The contributing authors argue that examining museum practice through the lens of incarceration can help reveal and even redress the structures and power dynamics that have generated visible and invisible types of oppressive and violent carcerality. This purpose builds on and extends the contributions museums have alrea…
Sociology (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · American Sports and Literature (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Art (2 works)