Stephanie Skourtes
Biographic Data
| ID | 6696540 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephanie Skourtes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephanie |
| FAMILY NAME | Skourtes |
| SIGNATURE | SKOURTES S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7524-4814 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Disrupting the Invisibility of Working-Class Girls: Redemption, Value, and the Politics of Recognition
At a time when individualized narratives have replaced structural explanations like social class to account for inequality, girls who are on the urban fringe are not only made invisible but are under-valued as contributing members to a future, individually oriented society. This article offers a visual disruption in order to re-value the stigmatized, working-class girl by applying the concept of use-value to identify the girls' redemption narrati…
Invisible, undervalued and excluded: Practicing working-class girlhood in affective space
In contemporary culture of Empire and its ‘cult of the self’, to be a young person means to be recognized, and the display of the self is read as a display of value. However, working-class girls who are economically oppressed, marked by a history of racialization, colonization, and stigmatization are assigned no value, thus remaining unrecognized. In this article, I explore the affective economies circulating for female youth who are navigating b…
Invisible, undervalued and excluded: Practicing working-class girlhood in affective space
In contemporary culture of Empire and its ‘cult of the self’, to be a young person means to be recognized, and the display of the self is read as a display of value. However, working-class girls who are economically oppressed, marked by a history of racialization, colonization, and stigmatization are assigned no value, thus remaining unrecognized. In this article, I explore the affective economies circulating for female youth who are navigating b…
Disrupting the Invisibility of Working-Class Girls: Redemption, Value, and the Politics of Recognition
At a time when individualized narratives have replaced structural explanations like social class to account for inequality, girls who are on the urban fringe are not only made invisible but are under-valued as contributing members to a future, individually oriented society. This article offers a visual disruption in order to re-value the stigmatized, working-class girl by applying the concept of use-value to identify the girls' redemption narrati…
Invisible, undervalued and excluded: Practicing working-class girlhood in affective space
In contemporary culture of Empire and its ‘cult of the self’, to be a young person means to be recognized, and the display of the self is read as a display of value. However, working-class girls who are economically oppressed, marked by a history of racialization, colonization, and stigmatization are assigned no value, thus remaining unrecognized. In this article, I explore the affective economies circulating for female youth who are navigating b…
Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Class (philosophy (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works)