Lisa Zagumny
Biographic Data
| ID | 4858917 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lisa Zagumny |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lisa |
| FAMILY NAME | Zagumny |
| SIGNATURE | ZAGUMNY L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tennessee Technological University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5932-2894 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
President’s Corner
Maintaining the Myth
Deficit ideology about people who are poor permeates a plethora of social programs. Our research demonstrates how the state of Tennessee uses the Internet, legislation, law enforcement, the criminal justice system, and the media to reproduce and perpetuate deficit thinking about recipients of TennCare, the state’s health care insurance program. In routinely and systematically producing, publishing, and disseminating information about arrests, usi…
Orientalism(s), world geography textbooks, and temporal paradox
In this critical discourse analysis of six high-school world geography textbooks, we explore how constructions and representations of North Africa and Southwest Asia have served to reinforce Orientalist discourse in formal curriculum. Visual and written representations in these textbooks were overwhelmingly confounded by a traditional/modern dichotomy that constructed a paradoxical “Muslim world.” Gender and religion coding perpetuated the tempor…
The races and conditions of men’
Geography schoolbooks published in the United States were important opinion makers in the nineteenth century, often joining the Bible as the main source of information about the world outside North America. The texts examined here are noteworthy for their static and pejorative treatment of non-American cultures and may be seen as playing a key role in forming isolationist and chauvinist American public opinion. They also played a role in reinforc…
Sit-Ins in Knoxville, Tennessee
The races and conditions of men’
Geography schoolbooks published in the United States were important opinion makers in the nineteenth century, often joining the Bible as the main source of information about the world outside North America. The texts examined here are noteworthy for their static and pejorative treatment of non-American cultures and may be seen as playing a key role in forming isolationist and chauvinist American public opinion. They also played a role in reinforc…
Orientalism(s), world geography textbooks, and temporal paradox
In this critical discourse analysis of six high-school world geography textbooks, we explore how constructions and representations of North Africa and Southwest Asia have served to reinforce Orientalist discourse in formal curriculum. Visual and written representations in these textbooks were overwhelmingly confounded by a traditional/modern dichotomy that constructed a paradoxical “Muslim world.” Gender and religion coding perpetuated the tempor…
Sit-Ins in Knoxville, Tennessee
The races and conditions of men’
Geography schoolbooks published in the United States were important opinion makers in the nineteenth century, often joining the Bible as the main source of information about the world outside North America. The texts examined here are noteworthy for their static and pejorative treatment of non-American cultures and may be seen as playing a key role in forming isolationist and chauvinist American public opinion. They also played a role in reinforc…
Orientalism(s), world geography textbooks, and temporal paradox
In this critical discourse analysis of six high-school world geography textbooks, we explore how constructions and representations of North Africa and Southwest Asia have served to reinforce Orientalist discourse in formal curriculum. Visual and written representations in these textbooks were overwhelmingly confounded by a traditional/modern dichotomy that constructed a paradoxical “Muslim world.” Gender and religion coding perpetuated the tempor…
Maintaining the Myth
Deficit ideology about people who are poor permeates a plethora of social programs. Our research demonstrates how the state of Tennessee uses the Internet, legislation, law enforcement, the criminal justice system, and the media to reproduce and perpetuate deficit thinking about recipients of TennCare, the state’s health care insurance program. In routinely and systematically producing, publishing, and disseminating information about arrests, usi…
President’s Corner
Sociology (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Pejorative (2 works) · African history and culture analysis (1 work)