Emma Rifai
Biographic Data
| ID | 455192 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emma Rifai |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emma |
| FAMILY NAME | Rifai |
| SIGNATURE | RIFAI E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Iowa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0957-978X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Whose techno-utopia? Power, privilege, and the religio-secular frameworks of the contemporary biohacking movement
Committed to providing a form of this-worldly salvation to its largely white, male, and wealthy practitioners, biohacking is a popular "citizen science" movement that applies a life-hacking mentality to the intimate spaces of the body by embracing DIY biology. Exploring the contours of its power and privilege in the United States today, this essay works to historicize the contemporary biohacking movement by attending to discourses produced by som…
Digital Waistlands: Pro-Ana Communities, Religion, and Embodiment
Pro-ana is an online community that shares resources that support the progression and maintenance of eating disorders. It simultaneously offers participants anonymity and visibility in virtual space as well as the chance to develop social connections with other like-minded individuals who support, rather than censure, their “deviant” behaviors. This paper attends to the intersection of religion, embodiment, and digital culture in the pro-ana move…
Weighty matter(s): Religion, secularism, and American weight loss culture
While calorie counting seems an utterly secular and mundane practice in the United States, body management has historically been and remains a weighty matter intimately linked with morality. Weight loss cultures and diet reform movements tell us quite a bit about both the aspirations as well as the apprehensions of particular times and places. Over the last few decades, scholars have started to chart different weight loss cultures in the United S…
The Story of Radio Mind: A Missionary's Journey on Indigenous Land
"The Story of Radio Mind: A Missionary’s Journey on Indigenous Land." Material Religion, 15(5), pp. 644–645
Religious Affects: Animality, Evolution, and Power
In a piece for Harper’s Magazine, former chronic dieter Sallie Tisdale reflected: “After a time, the number on the scale became my totem; more important than my experience—it was layered, metaphori
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Religious Affects: Animality, Evolution, and Power
In a piece for Harper’s Magazine, former chronic dieter Sallie Tisdale reflected: “After a time, the number on the scale became my totem; more important than my experience—it was layered, metaphori
The Story of Radio Mind: A Missionary's Journey on Indigenous Land
"The Story of Radio Mind: A Missionary’s Journey on Indigenous Land." Material Religion, 15(5), pp. 644–645
Digital Waistlands: Pro-Ana Communities, Religion, and Embodiment
Pro-ana is an online community that shares resources that support the progression and maintenance of eating disorders. It simultaneously offers participants anonymity and visibility in virtual space as well as the chance to develop social connections with other like-minded individuals who support, rather than censure, their “deviant” behaviors. This paper attends to the intersection of religion, embodiment, and digital culture in the pro-ana move…
Weighty matter(s): Religion, secularism, and American weight loss culture
While calorie counting seems an utterly secular and mundane practice in the United States, body management has historically been and remains a weighty matter intimately linked with morality. Weight loss cultures and diet reform movements tell us quite a bit about both the aspirations as well as the apprehensions of particular times and places. Over the last few decades, scholars have started to chart different weight loss cultures in the United S…
Whose techno-utopia? Power, privilege, and the religio-secular frameworks of the contemporary biohacking movement
Committed to providing a form of this-worldly salvation to its largely white, male, and wealthy practitioners, biohacking is a popular "citizen science" movement that applies a life-hacking mentality to the intimate spaces of the body by embracing DIY biology. Exploring the contours of its power and privilege in the United States today, this essay works to historicize the contemporary biohacking movement by attending to discourses produced by som…
Aesthetics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · History (2 works) · Religious studies (2 works) · Anonymity (1 works)