Vanessa Agard-Jones
Biographic Data
| ID | 419790 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vanessa Agard-Jones |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vanessa |
| FAMILY NAME | Agard-Jones |
| SIGNATURE | AGARD-JONES V |
| AFFILIATIONS | 1Department of Anthropology. Institute of French Studies. New York University. [email protected] |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 147 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
In love and struggle: Black life and the difference disciplines make
In this commentary, we respond to the article ‘Black livingness and insurgent ecological politics: Thinking across Black geographies/Atlantics/ecologies’, described as a love letter that prioritises confluences and the bringing together of Black spatialities as radical praxis. Our response attends to the alterity that is embedded in and surrounds these confluences and the struggle that, as Black feminist letters teach us, must accompany this love…
Bodies in the System: Biopolitics and Black Feminist Technoscience
This article examines the racialized biopolitics of health, environment, and information technology through the lens of Black feminist technoscience. Focusing on the work of community-based environmental health justice activists in Harlem, New York, Agard-Jones analyzes how these activists engage scientific data and deploy technological tools to challenge dominant narratives about environmental health risks and to advocate for more equitable and …
What the Sands Remember
Saint-Pierre and Sainte-Anne sit on opposite shores-both territorially and symbolically-of Martinique, a French territory in the Caribbean Sea. During the nineteenth century, Saint-Pierre was known as the "Sodom" of the Antilles, as a cosmopolitan city where decadence and liberal sexual mores were at the heart of bourgeois and elite culture. In 1902 Mount Pelée, the volcano that sits just above the city, erupted-killing Saint-Pierre's population …
Intimacy’s Politics: New Directions in Caribbean Sexuality Studies
Review of:Pleasures and Perils: Girls’ Sexuality in a Caribbean Consumer Culture. Debra Curtis. New Brunswick NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2009. xii + 222 pp. (Paper US$ 23.95)Economies of Desire: Sex and Tourism in Cuba and the Dominican Republic. Amalia L. Cabezas. Philadelphia PA : Temple University Press, 2009. xii + 218 pp. (Paper US$ 24.95)Queer Ricans: Cultures and Sexualities in the Diaspora. Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes. Minneapolis: Uni…
Tributes From Dr. Marable's Students
One of the greatest gifts that Dr. Marable leaves behind is Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society. I was present for the birth of the Journal in 1999 and many of the mee
Introduction: No Beached Whales
Black Gender and Sexuality: Spatial Articulations
How do Black gender and sexuality articulate spatially? At this moment, where are the quotidian spaces occupied by Black gendered and sexualized lives? We ask these questions in light of the years
Transnational Blackness: Navigating the Global Color Line
Black intellectuals in the US have long thought of racism as a global phenomenon. This book presents, for the first time, a full overview of the history, critical analysis and theoretical perspectives
Bodies in the System: Biopolitics and Black Feminist Technoscience
This article examines the racialized biopolitics of health, environment, and information technology through the lens of Black feminist technoscience. Focusing on the work of community-based environmental health justice activists in Harlem, New York, Agard-Jones analyzes how these activists engage scientific data and deploy technological tools to challenge dominant narratives about environmental health risks and to advocate for more equitable and …
What the Sands Remember
Saint-Pierre and Sainte-Anne sit on opposite shores-both territorially and symbolically-of Martinique, a French territory in the Caribbean Sea. During the nineteenth century, Saint-Pierre was known as the "Sodom" of the Antilles, as a cosmopolitan city where decadence and liberal sexual mores were at the heart of bourgeois and elite culture. In 1902 Mount Pelée, the volcano that sits just above the city, erupted-killing Saint-Pierre's population …
Introduction: No Beached Whales
Transnational Blackness: Navigating the Global Color Line
Black intellectuals in the US have long thought of racism as a global phenomenon. This book presents, for the first time, a full overview of the history, critical analysis and theoretical perspectives
Introduction: No Beached Whales
Black Gender and Sexuality: Spatial Articulations
How do Black gender and sexuality articulate spatially? At this moment, where are the quotidian spaces occupied by Black gendered and sexualized lives? We ask these questions in light of the years
Intimacy’s Politics: New Directions in Caribbean Sexuality Studies
Review of:Pleasures and Perils: Girls’ Sexuality in a Caribbean Consumer Culture. Debra Curtis. New Brunswick NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2009. xii + 222 pp. (Paper US$ 23.95)Economies of Desire: Sex and Tourism in Cuba and the Dominican Republic. Amalia L. Cabezas. Philadelphia PA : Temple University Press, 2009. xii + 218 pp. (Paper US$ 24.95)Queer Ricans: Cultures and Sexualities in the Diaspora. Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes. Minneapolis: Uni…
Tributes From Dr. Marable's Students
One of the greatest gifts that Dr. Marable leaves behind is Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society. I was present for the birth of the Journal in 1999 and many of the mee
What the Sands Remember
Saint-Pierre and Sainte-Anne sit on opposite shores-both territorially and symbolically-of Martinique, a French territory in the Caribbean Sea. During the nineteenth century, Saint-Pierre was known as the "Sodom" of the Antilles, as a cosmopolitan city where decadence and liberal sexual mores were at the heart of bourgeois and elite culture. In 1902 Mount Pelée, the volcano that sits just above the city, erupted-killing Saint-Pierre's population …
Bodies in the System: Biopolitics and Black Feminist Technoscience
This article examines the racialized biopolitics of health, environment, and information technology through the lens of Black feminist technoscience. Focusing on the work of community-based environmental health justice activists in Harlem, New York, Agard-Jones analyzes how these activists engage scientific data and deploy technological tools to challenge dominant narratives about environmental health risks and to advocate for more equitable and …
In love and struggle: Black life and the difference disciplines make
In this commentary, we respond to the article ‘Black livingness and insurgent ecological politics: Thinking across Black geographies/Atlantics/ecologies’, described as a love letter that prioritises confluences and the bringing together of Black spatialities as radical praxis. Our response attends to the alterity that is embedded in and surrounds these confluences and the struggle that, as Black feminist letters teach us, must accompany this love…
Sociology (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Race, History, and American Society (4 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Black women (2 works)