Brady G’sell
Biographic Data
| ID | 4258902 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brady G’sell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brady |
| FAMILY NAME | G’sell |
| SIGNATURE | G’SELL B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Iowa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
They Can’t Do That; This Is MY Iowa”: Refugees and Belonging in the Midwest
Refugees are a growing population in the state of Iowa. Many arrive through the state’s resettlement agencies, yet far more are secondary migrants—those placed elsewhere who voluntarily resettled in Iowa. Even amidst dominant discourses that either vilify immigrants or exclude them from the state narrative, refugees often hold strong claims to their new homeland. Drawing upon two years of ethnographic fieldwork with African refugees, this paper c…
Multiple Maternities: Performative Motherhood and Support Seeking in South Africa
This article makes a case for a performative understanding of motherhood through an analysis of low-income women’s performances of motherhood in an inner-city neighborhood in Durban, South Africa. Drawing upon performativity theory, I track how women applied repertoires of speaking and acting to garner resources from a variety of persons and institutions. On a local level, these performances of motherhood have important political and economic sta…
Multiple Maternities: Performative Motherhood and Support Seeking in South Africa
This article makes a case for a performative understanding of motherhood through an analysis of low-income women’s performances of motherhood in an inner-city neighborhood in Durban, South Africa. Drawing upon performativity theory, I track how women applied repertoires of speaking and acting to garner resources from a variety of persons and institutions. On a local level, these performances of motherhood have important political and economic sta…
Multiple Maternities: Performative Motherhood and Support Seeking in South Africa
This article makes a case for a performative understanding of motherhood through an analysis of low-income women’s performances of motherhood in an inner-city neighborhood in Durban, South Africa. Drawing upon performativity theory, I track how women applied repertoires of speaking and acting to garner resources from a variety of persons and institutions. On a local level, these performances of motherhood have important political and economic sta…
They Can’t Do That; This Is MY Iowa”: Refugees and Belonging in the Midwest
Refugees are a growing population in the state of Iowa. Many arrive through the state’s resettlement agencies, yet far more are secondary migrants—those placed elsewhere who voluntarily resettled in Iowa. Even amidst dominant discourses that either vilify immigrants or exclude them from the state narrative, refugees often hold strong claims to their new homeland. Drawing upon two years of ethnographic fieldwork with African refugees, this paper c…
Ethnography (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Agency (philosophy) (1 works) · Anthropology (1 works) · Children's Rights and Participation (1 works) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (1 works) · Gender Studies (1 works) · Immigration (1 works) · Islamophobia (1 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (1 works)