Jenna N Hanchey
Biographic Data
| ID | 4044344 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jenna N Hanchey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jenna N |
| FAMILY NAME | Hanchey |
| SIGNATURE | HANCHEY J N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nevada, Reno |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0413-0123 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Introduction
In this review forum, I am honored to have five brilliant scholars reflecting on my monograph, Introduction: Review Forum on The Center Cannot Hold: Decolonial Possibility in the Collapse of a Tanz
Cosmic Care
After the end of the world
The end of the world is only ever the end of a world. And anything that claims a world as the world needs to be ended.1 Alexis Pauline Gumbs encourages us to explore “After the end of the world as
Existence as Resistance, WisCon 46, May 26–29, 2023, Madison, Wisconsin, United States
In a world that seems structured to kill most of its occupants, there is a utopian impulse in the act of existence itself. WisCon 46 represented a prefigurative utopian impulse through centering continued marginalized existence as resistance.1 Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha calls “prefigurative politics” the “fancy term for the idea of imagining and building the world we want to see now,” particularly in terms of access needs.2 The structure as…
African communication studies
In this introductory essay to the second of two themed issues, “(Re)Theorizing Communication Studies from African Perspectives,” we examine the possibilities created by applying African perspectives in communication studies. We first overview the trajectories initiated by previous African communication scholarship before turning to the applications and interventions highlighted within this issue. Throughout this issue, we invite our readers to ac…
Catastrophe colonialism
This article argues that post-9/11 global disaster films exemplify a social imaginary preparing white, Western subjects to envision settler (re)colonization of the Global South as the only option in the face of increasing ecological devastation. Using the films The Day After Tomorrow and 2012, I demonstrate how this catastrophe colonialism pairs the racialization of migration with the coloniality of disaster. Together, a perceived white right to …
The self is embodied”
This essay examines the politics of embodiment in The Wormwood Trilogy in relation to queerness, transness, and decoloniality, and how the struggles for embodied self-determination are metaphorically connected to the struggles for African liberation in Africanfuturism. I argue that The Wormwood Trilogy affirms African queer and trans relations to embodiment by not only proclaiming the embodiment of the self, but also recognizing the importance of…
Decolonizing queer modernities
In this essay, we advocate for a queer (post)colonial studies as a continuation of the critical foundational work that has been done by postcolonial feminists, women of color, queer people of color and non-academic activists. In doing so, we make the case for critical/cultural scholars to engage with queerness through postcoloniality and decoloniality as a way to lay bare the geopolitical imbalances and colonial entanglements in which queer schol…
The dream trainers
The Dream Trainers takes place in a fictional near-future U.S.-run compound in Tanzania. Nnedi Okorafor and Octavia Butler inspired the “world made of change.”11 Nnedi Okorafor, Lagoon (New York: Saga Press, 2015); Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower (New York: Grand Central Publishing, 1993). Alexis Pauline Gumbs and Wanuri Kahiu catalyzed my thought on the future politics of water.22 Alexis Pauline Gumbs, M Archive: After the End of the World …
African communication studies
In this introductory essay to the first of two themed issues, “(Re)Theorizing Communication Studies from African Perspectives,” we explore the decolonial potential of African perspectives in communication studies. African knowledge systems have something to teach, regardless of whether the West is listening. And yet, in the discipline of communication studies, the vast continent and its knowledge systems barely hold a presence. African knowledge …
Decolonizing aid in Black Panther
International aid often functions as a neocolonial extension of colonial power structures. Aid to Africa is particularly problematic because of ideologies casting the continent as backward and devoid of agency, which have material consequences for African lives. Afrofuturist imaginings offer a space where these politics of aid can be challenged, as Afrofuturism centers Africa and the African diaspora in our understandings of futurity, and works t…
Beyond Race Scholarship as Groundbreaking/Irrelevant
This introduction situates the 2019 National Communication Association Organizational Communication Division's Top Paper Panel walkout within a larger subdisciplinary history of erasing scholarship on racism, colonialism, as well as queer and trans* studies. I describe how such scholarship is labeled either groundbreaking or irrelevant—thereby relegating it to outside of the typical or expected domain of organizational communication
Desire and the Politics of Africanfuturism
We do not want to rule, colonize, conquer or take. We just want a home. What is it you want? —Okorafor, Lagoon, 2014You know the story, as they tell it. The aliens arrive, bringing confusion an
Doctors Without Burdens
Drawing from rhetorical field research at a nongovernmental aid organization in rural Tanzania, this essay investigates the relationship between U.S. hegemonic masculinity and neocolonialism in international aid work. Based on an analysis of how two different groups of U.S. medical students relate to their Tanzanian translators and patients, I demonstrate that aid provides a forum whereby hegemonic white masculinity can escape domestic crisis thr…
All of us phantasmic saviors
Drawing from interviews and conversations with US American volunteers at an international aid organization in Tanzania, I argue that the subject constitution of US volunteers is dependent upon foreclosures that remove questions of their colonial and racial presence from conscious awareness. I explain how these foreclosures are covered by a white savior fantasy, and trace how volunteers at this particular organization use two primary tools to avoi…
The Discursive Emergence of Gendered Physiological Discrimination in Sex Verification Testing
Athletic female bodies challenge ideals of femininity, a tendency exacerbated by factors relating to gender expression, race, and nationality. In this article, the authors trace the discourse of sex verification testing in elite athletics. The study finds that most of the athletes historically suspected of not being “truly” female over the course of the tests somehow differed from White, Western assumptions about femininity. By highlighting disco…
(De)stabilizing Sexual Violence Discourse
Following calls to center nation, we analyze sexual violence discourse in the US Peace Corps. The texts we consider deploy three typical dichotomies—public/private, self/other, and agent/victim—that, in this case, reveal inconsistencies at the intersections of race and gender. We argue that these inconsistencies are evidence of lability, counterintuitive discursive shifts necessary to maintain white heteromasculine dominance. Instead of blaming i…
Decolonizing queer modernities
In this essay, we advocate for a queer (post)colonial studies as a continuation of the critical foundational work that has been done by postcolonial feminists, women of color, queer people of color and non-academic activists. In doing so, we make the case for critical/cultural scholars to engage with queerness through postcoloniality and decoloniality as a way to lay bare the geopolitical imbalances and colonial entanglements in which queer schol…
The Discursive Emergence of Gendered Physiological Discrimination in Sex Verification Testing
Athletic female bodies challenge ideals of femininity, a tendency exacerbated by factors relating to gender expression, race, and nationality. In this article, the authors trace the discourse of sex verification testing in elite athletics. The study finds that most of the athletes historically suspected of not being “truly” female over the course of the tests somehow differed from White, Western assumptions about femininity. By highlighting disco…
African communication studies
In this introductory essay to the first of two themed issues, “(Re)Theorizing Communication Studies from African Perspectives,” we explore the decolonial potential of African perspectives in communication studies. African knowledge systems have something to teach, regardless of whether the West is listening. And yet, in the discipline of communication studies, the vast continent and its knowledge systems barely hold a presence. African knowledge …
Desire and the Politics of Africanfuturism
We do not want to rule, colonize, conquer or take. We just want a home. What is it you want? —Okorafor, Lagoon, 2014You know the story, as they tell it. The aliens arrive, bringing confusion an
(De)stabilizing Sexual Violence Discourse
Following calls to center nation, we analyze sexual violence discourse in the US Peace Corps. The texts we consider deploy three typical dichotomies—public/private, self/other, and agent/victim—that, in this case, reveal inconsistencies at the intersections of race and gender. We argue that these inconsistencies are evidence of lability, counterintuitive discursive shifts necessary to maintain white heteromasculine dominance. Instead of blaming i…
The self is embodied”
This essay examines the politics of embodiment in The Wormwood Trilogy in relation to queerness, transness, and decoloniality, and how the struggles for embodied self-determination are metaphorically connected to the struggles for African liberation in Africanfuturism. I argue that The Wormwood Trilogy affirms African queer and trans relations to embodiment by not only proclaiming the embodiment of the self, but also recognizing the importance of…
Doctors Without Burdens
Drawing from rhetorical field research at a nongovernmental aid organization in rural Tanzania, this essay investigates the relationship between U.S. hegemonic masculinity and neocolonialism in international aid work. Based on an analysis of how two different groups of U.S. medical students relate to their Tanzanian translators and patients, I demonstrate that aid provides a forum whereby hegemonic white masculinity can escape domestic crisis thr…
All of us phantasmic saviors
Drawing from interviews and conversations with US American volunteers at an international aid organization in Tanzania, I argue that the subject constitution of US volunteers is dependent upon foreclosures that remove questions of their colonial and racial presence from conscious awareness. I explain how these foreclosures are covered by a white savior fantasy, and trace how volunteers at this particular organization use two primary tools to avoi…
(De)stabilizing Sexual Violence Discourse
Following calls to center nation, we analyze sexual violence discourse in the US Peace Corps. The texts we consider deploy three typical dichotomies—public/private, self/other, and agent/victim—that, in this case, reveal inconsistencies at the intersections of race and gender. We argue that these inconsistencies are evidence of lability, counterintuitive discursive shifts necessary to maintain white heteromasculine dominance. Instead of blaming i…
The Discursive Emergence of Gendered Physiological Discrimination in Sex Verification Testing
Athletic female bodies challenge ideals of femininity, a tendency exacerbated by factors relating to gender expression, race, and nationality. In this article, the authors trace the discourse of sex verification testing in elite athletics. The study finds that most of the athletes historically suspected of not being “truly” female over the course of the tests somehow differed from White, Western assumptions about femininity. By highlighting disco…
All of us phantasmic saviors
Drawing from interviews and conversations with US American volunteers at an international aid organization in Tanzania, I argue that the subject constitution of US volunteers is dependent upon foreclosures that remove questions of their colonial and racial presence from conscious awareness. I explain how these foreclosures are covered by a white savior fantasy, and trace how volunteers at this particular organization use two primary tools to avoi…
Doctors Without Burdens
Drawing from rhetorical field research at a nongovernmental aid organization in rural Tanzania, this essay investigates the relationship between U.S. hegemonic masculinity and neocolonialism in international aid work. Based on an analysis of how two different groups of U.S. medical students relate to their Tanzanian translators and patients, I demonstrate that aid provides a forum whereby hegemonic white masculinity can escape domestic crisis thr…
Decolonizing aid in Black Panther
International aid often functions as a neocolonial extension of colonial power structures. Aid to Africa is particularly problematic because of ideologies casting the continent as backward and devoid of agency, which have material consequences for African lives. Afrofuturist imaginings offer a space where these politics of aid can be challenged, as Afrofuturism centers Africa and the African diaspora in our understandings of futurity, and works t…
Beyond Race Scholarship as Groundbreaking/Irrelevant
This introduction situates the 2019 National Communication Association Organizational Communication Division's Top Paper Panel walkout within a larger subdisciplinary history of erasing scholarship on racism, colonialism, as well as queer and trans* studies. I describe how such scholarship is labeled either groundbreaking or irrelevant—thereby relegating it to outside of the typical or expected domain of organizational communication
Desire and the Politics of Africanfuturism
We do not want to rule, colonize, conquer or take. We just want a home. What is it you want? —Okorafor, Lagoon, 2014You know the story, as they tell it. The aliens arrive, bringing confusion an
The self is embodied”
This essay examines the politics of embodiment in The Wormwood Trilogy in relation to queerness, transness, and decoloniality, and how the struggles for embodied self-determination are metaphorically connected to the struggles for African liberation in Africanfuturism. I argue that The Wormwood Trilogy affirms African queer and trans relations to embodiment by not only proclaiming the embodiment of the self, but also recognizing the importance of…
Decolonizing queer modernities
In this essay, we advocate for a queer (post)colonial studies as a continuation of the critical foundational work that has been done by postcolonial feminists, women of color, queer people of color and non-academic activists. In doing so, we make the case for critical/cultural scholars to engage with queerness through postcoloniality and decoloniality as a way to lay bare the geopolitical imbalances and colonial entanglements in which queer schol…
The dream trainers
The Dream Trainers takes place in a fictional near-future U.S.-run compound in Tanzania. Nnedi Okorafor and Octavia Butler inspired the “world made of change.”11 Nnedi Okorafor, Lagoon (New York: Saga Press, 2015); Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower (New York: Grand Central Publishing, 1993). Alexis Pauline Gumbs and Wanuri Kahiu catalyzed my thought on the future politics of water.22 Alexis Pauline Gumbs, M Archive: After the End of the World …
African communication studies
In this introductory essay to the first of two themed issues, “(Re)Theorizing Communication Studies from African Perspectives,” we explore the decolonial potential of African perspectives in communication studies. African knowledge systems have something to teach, regardless of whether the West is listening. And yet, in the discipline of communication studies, the vast continent and its knowledge systems barely hold a presence. African knowledge …
African communication studies
In this introductory essay to the second of two themed issues, “(Re)Theorizing Communication Studies from African Perspectives,” we examine the possibilities created by applying African perspectives in communication studies. We first overview the trajectories initiated by previous African communication scholarship before turning to the applications and interventions highlighted within this issue. Throughout this issue, we invite our readers to ac…
Catastrophe colonialism
This article argues that post-9/11 global disaster films exemplify a social imaginary preparing white, Western subjects to envision settler (re)colonization of the Global South as the only option in the face of increasing ecological devastation. Using the films The Day After Tomorrow and 2012, I demonstrate how this catastrophe colonialism pairs the racialization of migration with the coloniality of disaster. Together, a perceived white right to …
Existence as Resistance, WisCon 46, May 26–29, 2023, Madison, Wisconsin, United States
In a world that seems structured to kill most of its occupants, there is a utopian impulse in the act of existence itself. WisCon 46 represented a prefigurative utopian impulse through centering continued marginalized existence as resistance.1 Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha calls “prefigurative politics” the “fancy term for the idea of imagining and building the world we want to see now,” particularly in terms of access needs.2 The structure as…
Introduction
In this review forum, I am honored to have five brilliant scholars reflecting on my monograph, Introduction: Review Forum on The Center Cannot Hold: Decolonial Possibility in the Collapse of a Tanz
Cosmic Care
After the end of the world
The end of the world is only ever the end of a world. And anything that claims a world as the world needs to be ended.1 Alexis Pauline Gumbs encourages us to explore “After the end of the world as
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