Carrie A Rentschler
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 640269 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Carrie A Rentschler |
| NOMBRES | Carrie A |
| APELLIDO | Rentschler |
| FIRMA | RENTSCHLER C A |
| AFILIACIONES | McGill University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2073-0559 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 108 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2004 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Health Creator
“Health creator” is now a common term across academic work (e.g., Avella, 2024) and public parlance (e.g., Moore, 2020), also featuring in the title of one of the traditional panels at AoIR2024. However, as a label, it directs our attention away from matters of ill health (e.g., suffering, diagnosis, loss), overlooking the work of those who share their lived experience of illness and missing the multiple implications this work has for creators, a…
The Continuous Glucose Monitor as Boundary Object
This talk examines how diabetic use of self-tracking continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) and diabetic data sensibilities that come from CGM use have been increasingly generalized to non-diabetic users and uses of CGM devices since 2021, when CGMs were approved in some international jurisdictions for use without requisite medical necessity. Communities of non-diabetic practice use the CGM to measure their glucose like diabetic users do, but in fram…
“Shitty Graphs”
Diabetes is a self-quantified chronic disease, where measuring blood sugars is the very grounds for understanding and surviving the condition. This article analyzes how people with type 1 diabetes who use continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) share their CGM data visualizations on social media platforms and develop data intimacies with other diabetics around the visual vernaculars of CGM graphs: the “flat line” ideal and the “shitty graph.” CGM grap…
Enacting the Politics of Care With Chronic and Crip Technologies
Drawing from feminist and queer technoscience studies, this panel examines the constitutive entanglements of bodies, technologies and systems in Type 1 diabetic continuous glucose monitoring and the intimate feeling of their numbers and data visualization; in the selfie politics of mastectomies on Instagram and the platform vernaculars people use to make the grief of breast cancer’s gendered loss representable; in the ways Bay Area Deaf AIDS acti…
The Eavesdropper and Onlooker as Proximate Agents of Social Change
The eavesdropper and the onlooker have become models of activist potential. Their proximity to enactments of racist and gendered social violence, and their abilities to witness, record and disseminate records of this violence via smartphones and social media networks, define some of the conditions for social change around the situations in which bystanders are located online. Drawing from John Peters’ analysis of eavesdropping as the transformati…
Media witnessing and the feminist labors of making survivors believable
This article examines the work survivors of sexual violence and abuse do to assert their credibility and the labor, in turn, that feminist journalists and activists do to help make victims and survivors believable. Drawing on a video clip made by the survivor that appears in Big Mouth and examples of survivor-based media witnessing in Canada, I analyze how survivors, anti-violence advocates, and feminist reporters build networks of media witnessi…
Rape Culture
Background: Since 2012, the feminist term rape culture has been broadly used in Canada and the U.S. to explain the cultural and structural supports that reproduce sexual violence, yet in recent years it has come under attack by anti-feminists. Analysis: This article examines opinion columns written by women published between 2012 and 2019 that target feminist frameworks on sexual violence, the terminology of rape culture, and campus feminism. Con…
Transmitting Insulin
In this article, we examine how insulin pens and pumps – two major devices for delivering insulin, the anabolic hormone used to treat Type 1 diabetes – are designed to conceal and fashion insulin delivery around their appearance as key communication technologies. Insulin pens and insulin pumps transform the aesthetics of insulin delivery away from the medicalized appearance of syringes toward that of beautiful technological artifacts. They both h…
MeToo and Student Activism against Sexual Violence
This article examines the movement organizing and media activist work university students do to address sexual violence, the problem of faculty/student relationships, and the failures of some institutional response. It notes, in particular, how students make sexual violence public through the use of open letters; how they create anonymous and informal online reporting platforms for students to disclose sexual violence; and how they model practice…
Bystander intervention, feminist hashtag activism, and the anti-carceral politics of care
The bystander is increasingly being touted as a key agent of change for addressing racialised and gendered violence and street harassment. This essay analyses practices of bystander intervention in Black and indigenous feminist activism against racialised and gendered street harassment that are explicitly anti-carceral and transformative in their approach to achieving justice. I argue that the social media tactics of a transformative justice-info…
Girlhood and the Politics of Place
Examining context-specific conditions in which girls live, learn, work, play, and organize deepens the understanding of place-making practices of girls and young women worldwide. Focusing on place across health, literary and historical studies, art history, communications, media studies, sociology, and education allows for investigations of how girlhood is positioned in relation to interdisciplinary and transnational research methodologies, media…
Filmic witness to the 1964 Kitty Genovese murder
This essay examines a body of films that represent and re-enact the infamous 1964 Catherine Genovese rape and murder, helping to define the crime as a problem of bystander non-intervention exacerbated by urban living conditions and the ‘high rise anxieties’ of apartment dwellers. The moving image culture around the Genovese case tells a story about male violence against women in the city through the perspective of urban apartment dwellers, who ar…
Safetytipsforladies
safetytipsforladies: A hashtag about how tired women are of being told to do stupid, ineffective, unrealistic things to avoid being raped. (Hilary Bowman-Smart 2013a)Hilary Bowman-Smart started #s
Gender and the Political
Recent years have seen increasing interest in new feminist histories of second wave US feminism. Amanda Third's Gender and the Political offers a different kind of history of the second wave, one t
Doing feminism
Doing feminism in the network
We analyse how memes construct networks of feminist critique and response, mobilising the derisive laughter that energises current feminisms. Using the 2012 case of the 'Binders Full of Women' meme, we argue that feminist memes create online spaces of consciousness raising and community building. The timeliness, humorous affect and media techné of meme propagators become significant infrastructures for feminist critique, what we term 'doing femin…
Rape Culture and the Feminist Politics of Social Media
Young feminists use social media in order to respond to rape culture and to hold accountable the purveyors of its practices and ways of thinking when mainstream news media, police and school authorities do not. This article analyzes how social networks identified with young feminists take shape via social media responses to sexual violence, and how those networks are organized around the conceptual framework of rape culture. Drawing on the concep…
The Re-description of Girls in Crisis
Girlhood Studies scholars respond to an overwhelming portrayal of girls as either bad or needing rescue in, for example, mainstream films on mean girls, popular psychology texts on primarily light-skinned middle class girls’ plummeting self-esteem, and media panics about teen girl sexting. According to Sharon Mazzarella and Norma Pecora, “In response to public anxiety and cultural fascination,” in “academic studies of girls...the emphasis has shi…
Prismatic Media, Transnational Circuits
Prismatic Media, Transnational Circuits: Feminism in a Globalized Present opens with a central orienting question: “How might experimental media respond to the urgent demand for a complex and emanc
Second Wounds
The U.S. victims' rights movement has transformed the way that violent crime is understood and represented in the United States. It has expanded the concept of victimhood to include family members and others close to direct victims, and it has argued that these secondary victims may be further traumatized through their encounters with insensitive journalists and the cold, impersonal nature of the criminal justice system. This concept of extended …
An Urban Physiognomy of the 1964 Kitty Genovese Murder
This article analyzes how news photographs and textual accounts of the 1964 Kitty Genovese murder and its 38 witnesses formulated the problem of crime in the city as one of failed witnessing in urban conditions. It analyzes the press images of Austin Street in Kew Gardens and a police portrait of the victim as facialized surfaces that journalists and editors used to interpret the failure of witnesses who were said to have watched or heard Winston…
Trauma Training and the Reparative Work of Journalism
This article examines discourses of trauma and affective labor in the emergence of trauma training in US journalism. In a body of training texts and films used in US journalism schools, crime and disaster journalism are being refigured as affective encounters between reporters and victims; in the process, training builds a language of trauma that describes and models the news making process as potentially reparative: as an epistemological meeting…
Victims’ Rights and the Struggle over Crime in the Media
This paper seeks to explain how crime victims have become increasingly visible in the criminal justice system and in media portrayals of crime by looking to the U.S. victims’ rights movement and its strategic mobilization of a particular construction of “crime victim” into the public sphere. Through analysis of the movement’s documentation of its media strategies and new forms of victim-oriented journalistic practice, the paper demonstrates how t…
Risky Assignments
This article analyzes the post-feminist, neo-liberal construction of “risk” and “security” in a recent set of post-9/11 training manuals for non-embedded journalists who prepare to work in what security texts call “hostile environments.” It investigates the ways these training documents translate ideas about risk and reporting, through the language of choice, into sexed and gendered prescriptive cues about securing professional comportment in the…
Witnessing
Rape Culture and the Feminist Politics of Social Media
Young feminists use social media in order to respond to rape culture and to hold accountable the purveyors of its practices and ways of thinking when mainstream news media, police and school authorities do not. This article analyzes how social networks identified with young feminists take shape via social media responses to sexual violence, and how those networks are organized around the conceptual framework of rape culture. Drawing on the concep…
Safetytipsforladies
safetytipsforladies: A hashtag about how tired women are of being told to do stupid, ineffective, unrealistic things to avoid being raped. (Hilary Bowman-Smart 2013a)Hilary Bowman-Smart started #s
Doing feminism in the network
We analyse how memes construct networks of feminist critique and response, mobilising the derisive laughter that energises current feminisms. Using the 2012 case of the 'Binders Full of Women' meme, we argue that feminist memes create online spaces of consciousness raising and community building. The timeliness, humorous affect and media techné of meme propagators become significant infrastructures for feminist critique, what we term 'doing femin…
Bystander intervention, feminist hashtag activism, and the anti-carceral politics of care
The bystander is increasingly being touted as a key agent of change for addressing racialised and gendered violence and street harassment. This essay analyses practices of bystander intervention in Black and indigenous feminist activism against racialised and gendered street harassment that are explicitly anti-carceral and transformative in their approach to achieving justice. I argue that the social media tactics of a transformative justice-info…
Witnessing
MeToo and Student Activism against Sexual Violence
This article examines the movement organizing and media activist work university students do to address sexual violence, the problem of faculty/student relationships, and the failures of some institutional response. It notes, in particular, how students make sexual violence public through the use of open letters; how they create anonymous and informal online reporting platforms for students to disclose sexual violence; and how they model practice…
Doing feminism
Risky Assignments
This article analyzes the post-feminist, neo-liberal construction of “risk” and “security” in a recent set of post-9/11 training manuals for non-embedded journalists who prepare to work in what security texts call “hostile environments.” It investigates the ways these training documents translate ideas about risk and reporting, through the language of choice, into sexed and gendered prescriptive cues about securing professional comportment in the…
The Re-description of Girls in Crisis
Girlhood Studies scholars respond to an overwhelming portrayal of girls as either bad or needing rescue in, for example, mainstream films on mean girls, popular psychology texts on primarily light-skinned middle class girls’ plummeting self-esteem, and media panics about teen girl sexting. According to Sharon Mazzarella and Norma Pecora, “In response to public anxiety and cultural fascination,” in “academic studies of girls...the emphasis has shi…
Gender and the Political
Recent years have seen increasing interest in new feminist histories of second wave US feminism. Amanda Third's Gender and the Political offers a different kind of history of the second wave, one t
Prismatic Media, Transnational Circuits
Prismatic Media, Transnational Circuits: Feminism in a Globalized Present opens with a central orienting question: “How might experimental media respond to the urgent demand for a complex and emanc
An Urban Physiognomy of the 1964 Kitty Genovese Murder
This article analyzes how news photographs and textual accounts of the 1964 Kitty Genovese murder and its 38 witnesses formulated the problem of crime in the city as one of failed witnessing in urban conditions. It analyzes the press images of Austin Street in Kew Gardens and a police portrait of the victim as facialized surfaces that journalists and editors used to interpret the failure of witnesses who were said to have watched or heard Winston…
Witnessing
Victims’ Rights and the Struggle over Crime in the Media
This paper seeks to explain how crime victims have become increasingly visible in the criminal justice system and in media portrayals of crime by looking to the U.S. victims’ rights movement and its strategic mobilization of a particular construction of “crime victim” into the public sphere. Through analysis of the movement’s documentation of its media strategies and new forms of victim-oriented journalistic practice, the paper demonstrates how t…
Risky Assignments
This article analyzes the post-feminist, neo-liberal construction of “risk” and “security” in a recent set of post-9/11 training manuals for non-embedded journalists who prepare to work in what security texts call “hostile environments.” It investigates the ways these training documents translate ideas about risk and reporting, through the language of choice, into sexed and gendered prescriptive cues about securing professional comportment in the…
Trauma Training and the Reparative Work of Journalism
This article examines discourses of trauma and affective labor in the emergence of trauma training in US journalism. In a body of training texts and films used in US journalism schools, crime and disaster journalism are being refigured as affective encounters between reporters and victims; in the process, training builds a language of trauma that describes and models the news making process as potentially reparative: as an epistemological meeting…
Second Wounds
The U.S. victims' rights movement has transformed the way that violent crime is understood and represented in the United States. It has expanded the concept of victimhood to include family members and others close to direct victims, and it has argued that these secondary victims may be further traumatized through their encounters with insensitive journalists and the cold, impersonal nature of the criminal justice system. This concept of extended …
An Urban Physiognomy of the 1964 Kitty Genovese Murder
This article analyzes how news photographs and textual accounts of the 1964 Kitty Genovese murder and its 38 witnesses formulated the problem of crime in the city as one of failed witnessing in urban conditions. It analyzes the press images of Austin Street in Kew Gardens and a police portrait of the victim as facialized surfaces that journalists and editors used to interpret the failure of witnesses who were said to have watched or heard Winston…
Rape Culture and the Feminist Politics of Social Media
Young feminists use social media in order to respond to rape culture and to hold accountable the purveyors of its practices and ways of thinking when mainstream news media, police and school authorities do not. This article analyzes how social networks identified with young feminists take shape via social media responses to sexual violence, and how those networks are organized around the conceptual framework of rape culture. Drawing on the concep…
The Re-description of Girls in Crisis
Girlhood Studies scholars respond to an overwhelming portrayal of girls as either bad or needing rescue in, for example, mainstream films on mean girls, popular psychology texts on primarily light-skinned middle class girls’ plummeting self-esteem, and media panics about teen girl sexting. According to Sharon Mazzarella and Norma Pecora, “In response to public anxiety and cultural fascination,” in “academic studies of girls...the emphasis has shi…
Prismatic Media, Transnational Circuits
Prismatic Media, Transnational Circuits: Feminism in a Globalized Present opens with a central orienting question: “How might experimental media respond to the urgent demand for a complex and emanc
Safetytipsforladies
safetytipsforladies: A hashtag about how tired women are of being told to do stupid, ineffective, unrealistic things to avoid being raped. (Hilary Bowman-Smart 2013a)Hilary Bowman-Smart started #s
Gender and the Political
Recent years have seen increasing interest in new feminist histories of second wave US feminism. Amanda Third's Gender and the Political offers a different kind of history of the second wave, one t
Doing feminism
Doing feminism in the network
We analyse how memes construct networks of feminist critique and response, mobilising the derisive laughter that energises current feminisms. Using the 2012 case of the 'Binders Full of Women' meme, we argue that feminist memes create online spaces of consciousness raising and community building. The timeliness, humorous affect and media techné of meme propagators become significant infrastructures for feminist critique, what we term 'doing femin…
Girlhood and the Politics of Place
Examining context-specific conditions in which girls live, learn, work, play, and organize deepens the understanding of place-making practices of girls and young women worldwide. Focusing on place across health, literary and historical studies, art history, communications, media studies, sociology, and education allows for investigations of how girlhood is positioned in relation to interdisciplinary and transnational research methodologies, media…
Filmic witness to the 1964 Kitty Genovese murder
This essay examines a body of films that represent and re-enact the infamous 1964 Catherine Genovese rape and murder, helping to define the crime as a problem of bystander non-intervention exacerbated by urban living conditions and the ‘high rise anxieties’ of apartment dwellers. The moving image culture around the Genovese case tells a story about male violence against women in the city through the perspective of urban apartment dwellers, who ar…
Bystander intervention, feminist hashtag activism, and the anti-carceral politics of care
The bystander is increasingly being touted as a key agent of change for addressing racialised and gendered violence and street harassment. This essay analyses practices of bystander intervention in Black and indigenous feminist activism against racialised and gendered street harassment that are explicitly anti-carceral and transformative in their approach to achieving justice. I argue that the social media tactics of a transformative justice-info…
MeToo and Student Activism against Sexual Violence
This article examines the movement organizing and media activist work university students do to address sexual violence, the problem of faculty/student relationships, and the failures of some institutional response. It notes, in particular, how students make sexual violence public through the use of open letters; how they create anonymous and informal online reporting platforms for students to disclose sexual violence; and how they model practice…
Transmitting Insulin
In this article, we examine how insulin pens and pumps – two major devices for delivering insulin, the anabolic hormone used to treat Type 1 diabetes – are designed to conceal and fashion insulin delivery around their appearance as key communication technologies. Insulin pens and insulin pumps transform the aesthetics of insulin delivery away from the medicalized appearance of syringes toward that of beautiful technological artifacts. They both h…
The Eavesdropper and Onlooker as Proximate Agents of Social Change
The eavesdropper and the onlooker have become models of activist potential. Their proximity to enactments of racist and gendered social violence, and their abilities to witness, record and disseminate records of this violence via smartphones and social media networks, define some of the conditions for social change around the situations in which bystanders are located online. Drawing from John Peters’ analysis of eavesdropping as the transformati…
Media witnessing and the feminist labors of making survivors believable
This article examines the work survivors of sexual violence and abuse do to assert their credibility and the labor, in turn, that feminist journalists and activists do to help make victims and survivors believable. Drawing on a video clip made by the survivor that appears in Big Mouth and examples of survivor-based media witnessing in Canada, I analyze how survivors, anti-violence advocates, and feminist reporters build networks of media witnessi…
Rape Culture
Background: Since 2012, the feminist term rape culture has been broadly used in Canada and the U.S. to explain the cultural and structural supports that reproduce sexual violence, yet in recent years it has come under attack by anti-feminists. Analysis: This article examines opinion columns written by women published between 2012 and 2019 that target feminist frameworks on sexual violence, the terminology of rape culture, and campus feminism. Con…
Enacting the Politics of Care With Chronic and Crip Technologies
Drawing from feminist and queer technoscience studies, this panel examines the constitutive entanglements of bodies, technologies and systems in Type 1 diabetic continuous glucose monitoring and the intimate feeling of their numbers and data visualization; in the selfie politics of mastectomies on Instagram and the platform vernaculars people use to make the grief of breast cancer’s gendered loss representable; in the ways Bay Area Deaf AIDS acti…
“Shitty Graphs”
Diabetes is a self-quantified chronic disease, where measuring blood sugars is the very grounds for understanding and surviving the condition. This article analyzes how people with type 1 diabetes who use continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) share their CGM data visualizations on social media platforms and develop data intimacies with other diabetics around the visual vernaculars of CGM graphs: the “flat line” ideal and the “shitty graph.” CGM grap…
Health Creator
“Health creator” is now a common term across academic work (e.g., Avella, 2024) and public parlance (e.g., Moore, 2020), also featuring in the title of one of the traditional panels at AoIR2024. However, as a label, it directs our attention away from matters of ill health (e.g., suffering, diagnosis, loss), overlooking the work of those who share their lived experience of illness and missing the multiple implications this work has for creators, a…
The Continuous Glucose Monitor as Boundary Object
This talk examines how diabetic use of self-tracking continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) and diabetic data sensibilities that come from CGM use have been increasingly generalized to non-diabetic users and uses of CGM devices since 2021, when CGMs were approved in some international jurisdictions for use without requisite medical necessity. Communities of non-diabetic practice use the CGM to measure their glucose like diabetic users do, but in fram…
Sociology (21 obras) · Political science (18 obras) · Law (14 obras) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (12 obras) · Law (11 obras) · Gender Studies (10 obras) · Media studies (10 obras) · Politics (10 obras) · Psychology (10 obras) · Criminology (8 obras)