Mary Christianakis
Biographic Data
| ID | 6006954 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary Christianakis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary |
| FAMILY NAME | Christianakis |
| SIGNATURE | CHRISTIANAKIS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Occidental College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4378-156X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Hijab, Girls’ Sports, and the Ongoing Effects of Colonial Feminism
Since 9/11 and the Global War on Terror, the West has fixated policy on the hijab, framing it as oppressive and as a threat to women's rights. This entrenched colonial perspective affects Muslim girl athletes globally. Public discourse on hijabs in sports often overlooks their complex symbolism and the athletes’ choices. Drawing on Indigenous, postcolonial, and critical feminist theories, we explore in this article how Muslim girl athletes naviga…
(Re)writing Identities
Using the published work of incarcerated youth in the United States, this paper explores how the youth creatively constructed their past, present, and future identities as students, sons, love partners, siblings, and juvenile offenders. The paper focuses on how writing transgresses the physical boundaries of confinement, while simultaneously reifying the centrality of incarceration as a life-changing experience; an experience had by tens of thous…
Victimization and Vilification of Romani Children in Media and Human Rights Organizations Discourses
Through an analysis of European newspapers, human rights organization reportage, and United Nations documents and websites, this article examines how public discourse regarding education, human rights, poverty, child rearing, and child labour manufactures a dangerous, implausible childhood for Romani children. These discourses, perpetrated by human rights organizations and news media, leverage the languages of intervention, cultural difference, n…
Children’s Text Development
Using a sociohistoric developmental lens, this paper traces the construction of texts composed by fifth graders in an urban classroom in order to answer the following questions: How do children develop as writers in school? How do writing and drawing function in children’s texts? How do teaching practices shape children’s writing development? Ethnographic data collected in a fifthgrade classroom reveal how children used drawing to create classroo…
Hybrid Texts
Consistent with a sociocritical frame and the analytic tools of hybridity theory, this article explicates how urban fifth-grade children made language hybrids using rap and poetry to participate in classroom literacy. Ethnographic data from a yearlong study illustrate two key findings. First, standards-based and canon-driven writing models maintained literacy and language borders through antihybrid practices based in antipopular ideologies. Secon…
Children, Technology, and Culture
Hybrid Texts
Consistent with a sociocritical frame and the analytic tools of hybridity theory, this article explicates how urban fifth-grade children made language hybrids using rap and poetry to participate in classroom literacy. Ethnographic data from a yearlong study illustrate two key findings. First, standards-based and canon-driven writing models maintained literacy and language borders through antihybrid practices based in antipopular ideologies. Secon…
Victimization and Vilification of Romani Children in Media and Human Rights Organizations Discourses
Through an analysis of European newspapers, human rights organization reportage, and United Nations documents and websites, this article examines how public discourse regarding education, human rights, poverty, child rearing, and child labour manufactures a dangerous, implausible childhood for Romani children. These discourses, perpetrated by human rights organizations and news media, leverage the languages of intervention, cultural difference, n…
Children, Technology, and Culture
Children’s Text Development
Using a sociohistoric developmental lens, this paper traces the construction of texts composed by fifth graders in an urban classroom in order to answer the following questions: How do children develop as writers in school? How do writing and drawing function in children’s texts? How do teaching practices shape children’s writing development? Ethnographic data collected in a fifthgrade classroom reveal how children used drawing to create classroo…
Hybrid Texts
Consistent with a sociocritical frame and the analytic tools of hybridity theory, this article explicates how urban fifth-grade children made language hybrids using rap and poetry to participate in classroom literacy. Ethnographic data from a yearlong study illustrate two key findings. First, standards-based and canon-driven writing models maintained literacy and language borders through antihybrid practices based in antipopular ideologies. Secon…
Victimization and Vilification of Romani Children in Media and Human Rights Organizations Discourses
Through an analysis of European newspapers, human rights organization reportage, and United Nations documents and websites, this article examines how public discourse regarding education, human rights, poverty, child rearing, and child labour manufactures a dangerous, implausible childhood for Romani children. These discourses, perpetrated by human rights organizations and news media, leverage the languages of intervention, cultural difference, n…
(Re)writing Identities
Using the published work of incarcerated youth in the United States, this paper explores how the youth creatively constructed their past, present, and future identities as students, sons, love partners, siblings, and juvenile offenders. The paper focuses on how writing transgresses the physical boundaries of confinement, while simultaneously reifying the centrality of incarceration as a life-changing experience; an experience had by tens of thous…
Hijab, Girls’ Sports, and the Ongoing Effects of Colonial Feminism
Since 9/11 and the Global War on Terror, the West has fixated policy on the hijab, framing it as oppressive and as a threat to women's rights. This entrenched colonial perspective affects Muslim girl athletes globally. Public discourse on hijabs in sports often overlooks their complex symbolism and the athletes’ choices. Drawing on Indigenous, postcolonial, and critical feminist theories, we explore in this article how Muslim girl athletes naviga…
Sociology (6 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Pedagogy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works)