Marcus D Watson
Biographic Data
| ID | 636559 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marcus D Watson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marcus D |
| FAMILY NAME | Watson |
| SIGNATURE | WATSON M D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wyoming |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3576-1160 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Older Black Men Playing Dominoes: Talking Shit and Creating Black Place
The authors explore how a group of older Black men employ social, discursive, and semiotic practices to transform an ordinary room into a Black sense of place. These men have come to the same recreation center for decades to play dominoes and engage in talking shit—trading discursively clever and often uncensored remarks. More than a linguistic system, talking shit is a stylized expressive system of Black culture, of individual and collective ide…
Half-Connecting Theory: Developing African Psychology Theory in a “Radical Beginnings” Direction
In existential philosophy, “radical beginnings” refer to the task of uncovering the earliest, constitutive moments of a phenomenon’s existence. In this article, the author extends African psychology toward a radical beginnings direction by using the theory of half-connecting (HCT) to trace the origins of the African and European worldviews to the earliest stages of human development, particularly to the unconscious and physical bodies of people. …
White Supremacy’s Horcrux and Why the Black Power Movement Almost Destroyed It
Is "Black" Real or Even Good
The Negating Body: A Psychoanalytic-Phenomenology Approach to Explaining the Source of Dichtomizing
Criticizing the tendency of modernist thought to assume a world of dichotomies does not explain the dichotomies as social facts with serious consequences for human life and relations. Based on a critical reading of psychoanalysis and phenomenology, this article elaborates a theory for such an explanation. It argues that dichotomizing, far from being universal to human experience or the result of specific historical circumstances, is powered most …
Hidden Violence of Postcolonial Africa: A Communicative Ecology View of Ghana’s Upper East Region
We went to northern Ghana to study cell phones and interpersonal relationships but ended up studying communication and violence. The following event changed the focus: Marcus wanted to meet an interviewee before she left her home but had no way to get there from the guest house where he was staying
Cell Phones and Alienation among Bulsa of Ghana's Upper East Region: The Call Calls You Away
Many scholars have concluded, perhaps prematurely, that information and communication technologies (ICTs) are inherently empowering for Africans. In order to look more closely at the impact of ICTs on relationships and society, this article focuses on everyday life. Specifically, it uses ethnographic methods and the theory of "affordances" to illuminate the use of cell phones among Bulsa of Ghana's Upper East Region. While cell phones help users …
Half-Connecting: Development's Self-Defeating Logic in South Africa and Beyond
In the early years of development in Africa, a top-down, state-led approach to aid is said to have failed, in part, because of a lack of consideration and respect for the ideas of aid recipients. A new, bottom-up approach has promised to correct for the earlier paradigm but, according to many recent studies, has fared little better. Based on an ethnographic study of development in South Africa and an analysis of popular development theories, this…
Cell Phones and Alienation among Bulsa of Ghana's Upper East Region: The Call Calls You Away
Many scholars have concluded, perhaps prematurely, that information and communication technologies (ICTs) are inherently empowering for Africans. In order to look more closely at the impact of ICTs on relationships and society, this article focuses on everyday life. Specifically, it uses ethnographic methods and the theory of "affordances" to illuminate the use of cell phones among Bulsa of Ghana's Upper East Region. While cell phones help users …
The Negating Body: A Psychoanalytic-Phenomenology Approach to Explaining the Source of Dichtomizing
Criticizing the tendency of modernist thought to assume a world of dichotomies does not explain the dichotomies as social facts with serious consequences for human life and relations. Based on a critical reading of psychoanalysis and phenomenology, this article elaborates a theory for such an explanation. It argues that dichotomizing, far from being universal to human experience or the result of specific historical circumstances, is powered most …
Half-Connecting: Development's Self-Defeating Logic in South Africa and Beyond
In the early years of development in Africa, a top-down, state-led approach to aid is said to have failed, in part, because of a lack of consideration and respect for the ideas of aid recipients. A new, bottom-up approach has promised to correct for the earlier paradigm but, according to many recent studies, has fared little better. Based on an ethnographic study of development in South Africa and an analysis of popular development theories, this…
Is "Black" Real or Even Good
Half-Connecting: Development's Self-Defeating Logic in South Africa and Beyond
In the early years of development in Africa, a top-down, state-led approach to aid is said to have failed, in part, because of a lack of consideration and respect for the ideas of aid recipients. A new, bottom-up approach has promised to correct for the earlier paradigm but, according to many recent studies, has fared little better. Based on an ethnographic study of development in South Africa and an analysis of popular development theories, this…
Hidden Violence of Postcolonial Africa: A Communicative Ecology View of Ghana’s Upper East Region
We went to northern Ghana to study cell phones and interpersonal relationships but ended up studying communication and violence. The following event changed the focus: Marcus wanted to meet an interviewee before she left her home but had no way to get there from the guest house where he was staying
Cell Phones and Alienation among Bulsa of Ghana's Upper East Region: The Call Calls You Away
Many scholars have concluded, perhaps prematurely, that information and communication technologies (ICTs) are inherently empowering for Africans. In order to look more closely at the impact of ICTs on relationships and society, this article focuses on everyday life. Specifically, it uses ethnographic methods and the theory of "affordances" to illuminate the use of cell phones among Bulsa of Ghana's Upper East Region. While cell phones help users …
The Negating Body: A Psychoanalytic-Phenomenology Approach to Explaining the Source of Dichtomizing
Criticizing the tendency of modernist thought to assume a world of dichotomies does not explain the dichotomies as social facts with serious consequences for human life and relations. Based on a critical reading of psychoanalysis and phenomenology, this article elaborates a theory for such an explanation. It argues that dichotomizing, far from being universal to human experience or the result of specific historical circumstances, is powered most …
Is "Black" Real or Even Good
Older Black Men Playing Dominoes: Talking Shit and Creating Black Place
The authors explore how a group of older Black men employ social, discursive, and semiotic practices to transform an ordinary room into a Black sense of place. These men have come to the same recreation center for decades to play dominoes and engage in talking shit—trading discursively clever and often uncensored remarks. More than a linguistic system, talking shit is a stylized expressive system of Black culture, of individual and collective ide…
Half-Connecting Theory: Developing African Psychology Theory in a “Radical Beginnings” Direction
In existential philosophy, “radical beginnings” refer to the task of uncovering the earliest, constitutive moments of a phenomenon’s existence. In this article, the author extends African psychology toward a radical beginnings direction by using the theory of half-connecting (HCT) to trace the origins of the African and European worldviews to the earliest stages of human development, particularly to the unconscious and physical bodies of people. …
White Supremacy’s Horcrux and Why the Black Power Movement Almost Destroyed It
Sociology (7 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Ethnography (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works)