Andrew B Jenks
Biographic Data
| ID | 6301580 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew B Jenks |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew B |
| FAMILY NAME | Jenks |
| SIGNATURE | JENKS A B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Delaware |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8709-2029 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Emergent questions of access: Disability and the integration of generative AI in teaching and learning
Those of us involved in higher education must address critical, emergent questions related to access and disability to fully realize the promise and potential of integrating generative AI into teaching and learning. Reframing questions Tanya Titchkosky asked in her monograph on disability in the university, in ‘The Question of Access: Disability, Space, and Meaning’, we will explore the following: Who will be consulted in these conversations?What…
Androgynous Coupling and the Engineering of Peace: A Cold-War Romance in Space
This article delves into the technopolitics of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, a groundbreaking collaboration between American and Soviet space engineers in 1975. The mission's objective was to design a docking system that would integrate the two superpower space systems, Apollo and Soyuz, thereby reducing tensions and promoting peace during the Cold War era. The engineers' task went beyond mere technical innovation, as they sought to create a tec…
The poverty of plastics bans: Environmentalism’s win is a loss for disabled people
Recent proposals in US cities to ban single-use plastic straws have been adopted quickly and met with little resistance. Environmentalists consider this a small but important win for reducing the harmful impact of single-use plastics on our planet overall. Yet there remains a critical mass of people who are systematically left out of the conversation: disabled people. These people are not only overlooked, they are othered for being poor or disabl…
Crip theory and the disabled identity: Why disability politics needs impairment
This article highlights the importance of recognizing both the ontology of impairment as it relates to the creation of the disabled identity as well as why articulations of the disabled identity being ‘crip’ obfuscate potential politics. Examining how the disabled identity has been cast as a coherent social and political category, rather than the messy and complicated identity it truly is, I argue the adoption of a post-structuralist orientation …
The Earthquake Observers: Disaster Science from Lisbon to Richter by Deborah R. Coen (review)
Reviewed by: The Earthquake Observers: Disaster Science from Lisbon to Richter by Deborah R. Coen Andrew Jenks (bio) The Earthquake Observers: Disaster Science from Lisbon to Richter. By Deborah R. Coen. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. Pp. 360. $35. Earthquakes are physical and seismic events, but also mental and metaphorical phenomena. This fascinating study examines the boundaries between science and society through the history of m…
Would Trotsky Wear a Blue Tooth? Technological Utopianism under Socialism, 1917–1989 (review)
Reviewed by: Would Trotsky Wear a Blue Tooth? Technological Utopianism under Socialism, 1917–1989 Andrew Jenks (bio) Would Trotsky Wear a Blue Tooth? Technological Utopianism under Socialism, 1917–1989. By Paul R. Josephson. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. Pp. 342. $65. Paul Josephson’s latest book argues that practitioners of socialist construction were technological utopians. Lenin, Trotsky, et al. had supreme confidence in the…
Stalin and the Soviet Science Wars (review)
Reviewed by: Stalin and the Soviet Science Wars Andrew Jenks (bio) Stalin and the Soviet Science Wars. By Ethan Pollock. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2006. Pp. viii+269. $35. Joseph Stalin is known by many titles: "Uncle Joe," "the Generalisimus," "General Secretary," "the Man of Steel." Less well known is Joseph Stalin, "the coryphaeus of science." Ethan Pollock has written an important book that reveals Stalin's paramount role i…
Model City USA: The Environmental Cost of Victory in World War II and the Cold War
Long shrouded in a cocoon of national-security secrecy, the history of the Lake Ontario Ordnance Works site in western New York sheds light on the enduring environmental, political, and social costs of victory in World War II and the Cold War. A micro-study of a nuclear waste site, this article analyzes connections among U.S. nuclear weapons waste management and the environment, local politics, grassroots activism, and international diplomacy. Ul…
Palekh and the forging of a Russian nation in the Brezhnev Era
Paleh et la formation d’une nation russe pendant la période brejnévienneL’article étudie la culture russe de la période brejnévienne à travers le village de Paleh, qui se situe à environ 300km au nord-est de Moscou. Les artistes de Paleh s’étaient fait connaître pour leur production d’art russe dit « traditionnel » à la fin de l’époque tsariste et pendant la période soviétique. Forts du succès qu’ils avaient remporté pendant les premières années …
Crip theory and the disabled identity: Why disability politics needs impairment
This article highlights the importance of recognizing both the ontology of impairment as it relates to the creation of the disabled identity as well as why articulations of the disabled identity being ‘crip’ obfuscate potential politics. Examining how the disabled identity has been cast as a coherent social and political category, rather than the messy and complicated identity it truly is, I argue the adoption of a post-structuralist orientation …
Model City USA: The Environmental Cost of Victory in World War II and the Cold War
Long shrouded in a cocoon of national-security secrecy, the history of the Lake Ontario Ordnance Works site in western New York sheds light on the enduring environmental, political, and social costs of victory in World War II and the Cold War. A micro-study of a nuclear waste site, this article analyzes connections among U.S. nuclear weapons waste management and the environment, local politics, grassroots activism, and international diplomacy. Ul…
The poverty of plastics bans: Environmentalism’s win is a loss for disabled people
Recent proposals in US cities to ban single-use plastic straws have been adopted quickly and met with little resistance. Environmentalists consider this a small but important win for reducing the harmful impact of single-use plastics on our planet overall. Yet there remains a critical mass of people who are systematically left out of the conversation: disabled people. These people are not only overlooked, they are othered for being poor or disabl…
Palekh and the forging of a Russian nation in the Brezhnev Era
Paleh et la formation d’une nation russe pendant la période brejnévienneL’article étudie la culture russe de la période brejnévienne à travers le village de Paleh, qui se situe à environ 300km au nord-est de Moscou. Les artistes de Paleh s’étaient fait connaître pour leur production d’art russe dit « traditionnel » à la fin de l’époque tsariste et pendant la période soviétique. Forts du succès qu’ils avaient remporté pendant les premières années …
Model City USA: The Environmental Cost of Victory in World War II and the Cold War
Long shrouded in a cocoon of national-security secrecy, the history of the Lake Ontario Ordnance Works site in western New York sheds light on the enduring environmental, political, and social costs of victory in World War II and the Cold War. A micro-study of a nuclear waste site, this article analyzes connections among U.S. nuclear weapons waste management and the environment, local politics, grassroots activism, and international diplomacy. Ul…
Stalin and the Soviet Science Wars (review)
Reviewed by: Stalin and the Soviet Science Wars Andrew Jenks (bio) Stalin and the Soviet Science Wars. By Ethan Pollock. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2006. Pp. viii+269. $35. Joseph Stalin is known by many titles: "Uncle Joe," "the Generalisimus," "General Secretary," "the Man of Steel." Less well known is Joseph Stalin, "the coryphaeus of science." Ethan Pollock has written an important book that reveals Stalin's paramount role i…
Would Trotsky Wear a Blue Tooth? Technological Utopianism under Socialism, 1917–1989 (review)
Reviewed by: Would Trotsky Wear a Blue Tooth? Technological Utopianism under Socialism, 1917–1989 Andrew Jenks (bio) Would Trotsky Wear a Blue Tooth? Technological Utopianism under Socialism, 1917–1989. By Paul R. Josephson. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. Pp. 342. $65. Paul Josephson’s latest book argues that practitioners of socialist construction were technological utopians. Lenin, Trotsky, et al. had supreme confidence in the…
The Earthquake Observers: Disaster Science from Lisbon to Richter by Deborah R. Coen (review)
Reviewed by: The Earthquake Observers: Disaster Science from Lisbon to Richter by Deborah R. Coen Andrew Jenks (bio) The Earthquake Observers: Disaster Science from Lisbon to Richter. By Deborah R. Coen. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. Pp. 360. $35. Earthquakes are physical and seismic events, but also mental and metaphorical phenomena. This fascinating study examines the boundaries between science and society through the history of m…
Crip theory and the disabled identity: Why disability politics needs impairment
This article highlights the importance of recognizing both the ontology of impairment as it relates to the creation of the disabled identity as well as why articulations of the disabled identity being ‘crip’ obfuscate potential politics. Examining how the disabled identity has been cast as a coherent social and political category, rather than the messy and complicated identity it truly is, I argue the adoption of a post-structuralist orientation …
The poverty of plastics bans: Environmentalism’s win is a loss for disabled people
Recent proposals in US cities to ban single-use plastic straws have been adopted quickly and met with little resistance. Environmentalists consider this a small but important win for reducing the harmful impact of single-use plastics on our planet overall. Yet there remains a critical mass of people who are systematically left out of the conversation: disabled people. These people are not only overlooked, they are othered for being poor or disabl…
Androgynous Coupling and the Engineering of Peace: A Cold-War Romance in Space
This article delves into the technopolitics of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, a groundbreaking collaboration between American and Soviet space engineers in 1975. The mission's objective was to design a docking system that would integrate the two superpower space systems, Apollo and Soyuz, thereby reducing tensions and promoting peace during the Cold War era. The engineers' task went beyond mere technical innovation, as they sought to create a tec…
Emergent questions of access: Disability and the integration of generative AI in teaching and learning
Those of us involved in higher education must address critical, emergent questions related to access and disability to fully realize the promise and potential of integrating generative AI into teaching and learning. Reframing questions Tanya Titchkosky asked in her monograph on disability in the university, in ‘The Question of Access: Disability, Space, and Meaning’, we will explore the following: Who will be consulted in these conversations?What…
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