Amy Mcdowell
Biographic Data
| ID | 85483 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amy Mcdowell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amy |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcdowell |
| SIGNATURE | MCDOWELL A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Mississippi |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9339-1033 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 90 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Kantala comes to the clinic: Tuberculosis, distributed emotions, and states of exhaustion
Omkarlal’s window: A response to six comments
Clinical Suspicion: The Affective Politics of Institutional Growth in a Rajasthani Clinic
By tracing the growth and expansion of a clinic in a small Dalit and Adivasi community in rural Rajasthan, this paper describes the felt incongruences of developmental progress. It engages critical social science literatures about development’s linear narrative form and its potential for technological depoliticisation, to show that even as institutions grow, politics persist around what a developed health system should do. It tracks suspicion as …
Infectious disease as epistemic challenge
Breathless: Tuberculosis, Inequality, and Care in Rural India
Each year in India more than two million people fall sick with tuberculosis (TB), an infectious, airborne, and potentially deadly lung disease. The country accounts for almost 30 percent of all TB cases worldwide and well above a third of global deaths from it. Because TB's prevalence also indicates unfulfilled development promises, its control is an important issue of national concern, wrapped up in questions of postcolonial governance. Drawing …
The Tables Are Turning: The Evangelical Defense of Anti-LGBTQ+ Religious Liberty
This article extends research on how dominant groups use the rhetoric of marginality to defend and reinforce their control of the public sphere. We conducted interviews with evangelical churchgoers in Mississippi to understand the evangelical support for religious accommodations that privilege conservative Christian beliefs about sex, gender, and marriage. We found that rather than cite scripture about homosexuality or Godly marriage, churchgoers…
Dr. Zahir’s dilemma: Money and morals in India’s private medical networks
White Women Who Lead: God, Girlfriends, and Diversity Projects in a National Evangelical Ministry
A robust body of literature has used feminist analysis to study white evangelical women in the United States, but few of these studies have addressed the reproduction of racial inequality. Beginning with the assumption that women-led evangelical ministries are racialized organizations, the authors examine the relationship between racial and gender ideologies and the messages of white evangelical women leaders at the IF:Gathering, a popular annual…
Gay on God's Campus: Mobilizing for LGBT Equality at Christian Colleges and Universities
Dr. Ram's triage
Triage is a process of categorizing potential health and guiding care. It is based on the idea that all bodies are equal while potential vitality is not. I examine the triage processes used by Indian physicians as they collaborated with global health researchers to identify patients for a free, cutting-edge tuberculosis test. As I argue, triage forms and reforms social difference within global health despite its aspirations of standardization and…
Jesus Would Turn the Tables Over: Five Dimensions of Authenticity Applied to Countercultural Christianity
This paper draws on extant literature to identify five dimensions that are deployed by a wide range of social groups to claim and achieve authenticity in variety of social settings: being honest or real, forgoing external rewards or compensation, coming from or living in the right place or time, embodying or participating in something, and consuming correctly. We then demonstrate the utility of these five dimensions of authenticity in action by a…
Enemies, Allies, and the Struggle for Self-definition in “Muslim Punk” Rock
Research shows that both entertainment and news media coverage of Islam and Muslims generate anti-Muslim attitudes in the wider U.S. public. In this article, I explore how this media trend shaped Taqwacore punks’ struggle to define what it means to be American, Muslim, and punk rock on their own terms. Upon their first U.S. tour, Taqwacore started getting the attention of both independent and mainstream media outlets. Taqwacores initially welcome…
Christian But Not Religious: Being Church as Christian Hardcore Punk
Studies show that Christian youth in the United States are dropping out of church because they are disillusioned with organized religion, not because they have lost faith in God. Scholars propose that these youth are approaching spirituality in individualistic ways and finding God on their own instead of in buildings designated as church. This research on Christian Hardcore punk rock problematizes the idea that the youth who leave conventional ch…
This is for the Brown Kids: Racialization and the Formation of “Muslim” Punk Rock
Recent research shows that non-Muslims "read" Muslim and non-Muslim Others through an Islamophobic lens, whether the victims of Islamophobia are practitioners of Islam or not. Yet how Muslims and non-Muslims band together against anti-Muslim racism in nonreligious ways and venues is less understood. The author draws on a wide range of qualitative data to show how "Taqwacore" punks ( taqwa means "God consciousness" in Arabic and core comes from ha…
Aggressive And Loving Men: Gender Hegemony in Christian Hardcore Punk
This research uses Christian Hardcore punk to show how evangelical Christian men respond to changes in gender relations that threaten hegemonic masculinity through a music subculture. Drawing on interviews and participant observations of live music shows, I find that Christian Hardcore ministry involves a hybrid mix of aggressive and loving performances of manhood. Christian Hardcore punk men fortify the idea that men and women are essentially op…
Mohit's Pharmakon: Symptom, Rotational Bodies, and Pharmaceuticals in Rural Rajasthan
This article reexamines medical anthropology theories of symptom, illness, and disease to consider unregulated medical care in India. It builds on clinical observations, an inventory of the pharmaceuticals used by men who call themselves "Bengali doctors," and their patients to understand medical care in a context that privileges symptom not disease. It draws on Derrida's use of pharmakon to outline the complexities of care and embodiment and hel…
Belief, Anthropology of
Making the global equivalent: Markets, relations and pharmaceuticals in the anthropology of global health in Africa
Warriors and Terrorists: Antagonism as Strategy in Christian Hardcore and Muslim "Taqwacore" Punk Rock
Contemporary Christian Music
The duality of spectacle and secrecy: A case study of fraternalism in the 1920s US Ku Klux Klan
White supremacist groups operate as secret societies but want to extend their racist vision to the public. This article examines the duality of secrecy and publicity in such organizations through a case study of the massive Ku Klux Klan in the United States in the 1920s. We show how characteristics of fraternalism - exclusivity, secrecy and firm boundaries - conflicted with the Klan's agenda to spread a message of racism, anti-Semitism, and anti-…
Superstars and Misfits: Two Pop-trends in the Gender Culture of Contemporary Evangelicalism
This paper examines gender in two forms of mediated contemporary Protestant evangelicalism in the United States: a male-dominated punk network, called Misfits United, and a women’s group studying Beth Moore’s Bible study, It’s Tough Being a Woman (ITBAW). While the appearance and performance styles of these two groups are drastically different, both support gender hierarchies in similar ways. Misfits United and Moore’s ITBAW present the gender of…
Social Movement Audiences 1
Audiences are important to social movements, but the relationships between social movements and their audiences are not well understood. This article uses scholarship from performance studies, especially ideas of audiences as constructed, meaningful, and influenced/influential, to explore two issues. First, how do social movements define their audiences? Second, how are social movement actions toward their audiences shaped by these definitions? A…
Social Movement Audiences 1
Audiences are important to social movements, but the relationships between social movements and their audiences are not well understood. This article uses scholarship from performance studies, especially ideas of audiences as constructed, meaningful, and influenced/influential, to explore two issues. First, how do social movements define their audiences? Second, how are social movement actions toward their audiences shaped by these definitions? A…
Aggressive And Loving Men: Gender Hegemony in Christian Hardcore Punk
This research uses Christian Hardcore punk to show how evangelical Christian men respond to changes in gender relations that threaten hegemonic masculinity through a music subculture. Drawing on interviews and participant observations of live music shows, I find that Christian Hardcore ministry involves a hybrid mix of aggressive and loving performances of manhood. Christian Hardcore punk men fortify the idea that men and women are essentially op…
Warriors and Terrorists: Antagonism as Strategy in Christian Hardcore and Muslim "Taqwacore" Punk Rock
This is for the Brown Kids: Racialization and the Formation of “Muslim” Punk Rock
Recent research shows that non-Muslims "read" Muslim and non-Muslim Others through an Islamophobic lens, whether the victims of Islamophobia are practitioners of Islam or not. Yet how Muslims and non-Muslims band together against anti-Muslim racism in nonreligious ways and venues is less understood. The author draws on a wide range of qualitative data to show how "Taqwacore" punks ( taqwa means "God consciousness" in Arabic and core comes from ha…
The duality of spectacle and secrecy: A case study of fraternalism in the 1920s US Ku Klux Klan
White supremacist groups operate as secret societies but want to extend their racist vision to the public. This article examines the duality of secrecy and publicity in such organizations through a case study of the massive Ku Klux Klan in the United States in the 1920s. We show how characteristics of fraternalism - exclusivity, secrecy and firm boundaries - conflicted with the Klan's agenda to spread a message of racism, anti-Semitism, and anti-…
Superstars and Misfits: Two Pop-trends in the Gender Culture of Contemporary Evangelicalism
This paper examines gender in two forms of mediated contemporary Protestant evangelicalism in the United States: a male-dominated punk network, called Misfits United, and a women’s group studying Beth Moore’s Bible study, It’s Tough Being a Woman (ITBAW). While the appearance and performance styles of these two groups are drastically different, both support gender hierarchies in similar ways. Misfits United and Moore’s ITBAW present the gender of…
Mohit's Pharmakon: Symptom, Rotational Bodies, and Pharmaceuticals in Rural Rajasthan
This article reexamines medical anthropology theories of symptom, illness, and disease to consider unregulated medical care in India. It builds on clinical observations, an inventory of the pharmaceuticals used by men who call themselves "Bengali doctors," and their patients to understand medical care in a context that privileges symptom not disease. It draws on Derrida's use of pharmakon to outline the complexities of care and embodiment and hel…
Christian But Not Religious: Being Church as Christian Hardcore Punk
Studies show that Christian youth in the United States are dropping out of church because they are disillusioned with organized religion, not because they have lost faith in God. Scholars propose that these youth are approaching spirituality in individualistic ways and finding God on their own instead of in buildings designated as church. This research on Christian Hardcore punk rock problematizes the idea that the youth who leave conventional ch…
Breathless: Tuberculosis, Inequality, and Care in Rural India
Each year in India more than two million people fall sick with tuberculosis (TB), an infectious, airborne, and potentially deadly lung disease. The country accounts for almost 30 percent of all TB cases worldwide and well above a third of global deaths from it. Because TB's prevalence also indicates unfulfilled development promises, its control is an important issue of national concern, wrapped up in questions of postcolonial governance. Drawing …
Jesus Would Turn the Tables Over: Five Dimensions of Authenticity Applied to Countercultural Christianity
This paper draws on extant literature to identify five dimensions that are deployed by a wide range of social groups to claim and achieve authenticity in variety of social settings: being honest or real, forgoing external rewards or compensation, coming from or living in the right place or time, embodying or participating in something, and consuming correctly. We then demonstrate the utility of these five dimensions of authenticity in action by a…
The Tables Are Turning: The Evangelical Defense of Anti-LGBTQ+ Religious Liberty
This article extends research on how dominant groups use the rhetoric of marginality to defend and reinforce their control of the public sphere. We conducted interviews with evangelical churchgoers in Mississippi to understand the evangelical support for religious accommodations that privilege conservative Christian beliefs about sex, gender, and marriage. We found that rather than cite scripture about homosexuality or Godly marriage, churchgoers…
Gay on God's Campus: Mobilizing for LGBT Equality at Christian Colleges and Universities
Dr. Ram's triage
Triage is a process of categorizing potential health and guiding care. It is based on the idea that all bodies are equal while potential vitality is not. I examine the triage processes used by Indian physicians as they collaborated with global health researchers to identify patients for a free, cutting-edge tuberculosis test. As I argue, triage forms and reforms social difference within global health despite its aspirations of standardization and…
Enemies, Allies, and the Struggle for Self-definition in “Muslim Punk” Rock
Research shows that both entertainment and news media coverage of Islam and Muslims generate anti-Muslim attitudes in the wider U.S. public. In this article, I explore how this media trend shaped Taqwacore punks’ struggle to define what it means to be American, Muslim, and punk rock on their own terms. Upon their first U.S. tour, Taqwacore started getting the attention of both independent and mainstream media outlets. Taqwacores initially welcome…
Superstars and Misfits: Two Pop-trends in the Gender Culture of Contemporary Evangelicalism
This paper examines gender in two forms of mediated contemporary Protestant evangelicalism in the United States: a male-dominated punk network, called Misfits United, and a women’s group studying Beth Moore’s Bible study, It’s Tough Being a Woman (ITBAW). While the appearance and performance styles of these two groups are drastically different, both support gender hierarchies in similar ways. Misfits United and Moore’s ITBAW present the gender of…
Social Movement Audiences 1
Audiences are important to social movements, but the relationships between social movements and their audiences are not well understood. This article uses scholarship from performance studies, especially ideas of audiences as constructed, meaningful, and influenced/influential, to explore two issues. First, how do social movements define their audiences? Second, how are social movement actions toward their audiences shaped by these definitions? A…
Contemporary Christian Music
The duality of spectacle and secrecy: A case study of fraternalism in the 1920s US Ku Klux Klan
White supremacist groups operate as secret societies but want to extend their racist vision to the public. This article examines the duality of secrecy and publicity in such organizations through a case study of the massive Ku Klux Klan in the United States in the 1920s. We show how characteristics of fraternalism - exclusivity, secrecy and firm boundaries - conflicted with the Klan's agenda to spread a message of racism, anti-Semitism, and anti-…
Warriors and Terrorists: Antagonism as Strategy in Christian Hardcore and Muslim "Taqwacore" Punk Rock
Belief, Anthropology of
Making the global equivalent: Markets, relations and pharmaceuticals in the anthropology of global health in Africa
This is for the Brown Kids: Racialization and the Formation of “Muslim” Punk Rock
Recent research shows that non-Muslims "read" Muslim and non-Muslim Others through an Islamophobic lens, whether the victims of Islamophobia are practitioners of Islam or not. Yet how Muslims and non-Muslims band together against anti-Muslim racism in nonreligious ways and venues is less understood. The author draws on a wide range of qualitative data to show how "Taqwacore" punks ( taqwa means "God consciousness" in Arabic and core comes from ha…
Aggressive And Loving Men: Gender Hegemony in Christian Hardcore Punk
This research uses Christian Hardcore punk to show how evangelical Christian men respond to changes in gender relations that threaten hegemonic masculinity through a music subculture. Drawing on interviews and participant observations of live music shows, I find that Christian Hardcore ministry involves a hybrid mix of aggressive and loving performances of manhood. Christian Hardcore punk men fortify the idea that men and women are essentially op…
Mohit's Pharmakon: Symptom, Rotational Bodies, and Pharmaceuticals in Rural Rajasthan
This article reexamines medical anthropology theories of symptom, illness, and disease to consider unregulated medical care in India. It builds on clinical observations, an inventory of the pharmaceuticals used by men who call themselves "Bengali doctors," and their patients to understand medical care in a context that privileges symptom not disease. It draws on Derrida's use of pharmakon to outline the complexities of care and embodiment and hel…
Enemies, Allies, and the Struggle for Self-definition in “Muslim Punk” Rock
Research shows that both entertainment and news media coverage of Islam and Muslims generate anti-Muslim attitudes in the wider U.S. public. In this article, I explore how this media trend shaped Taqwacore punks’ struggle to define what it means to be American, Muslim, and punk rock on their own terms. Upon their first U.S. tour, Taqwacore started getting the attention of both independent and mainstream media outlets. Taqwacores initially welcome…
Christian But Not Religious: Being Church as Christian Hardcore Punk
Studies show that Christian youth in the United States are dropping out of church because they are disillusioned with organized religion, not because they have lost faith in God. Scholars propose that these youth are approaching spirituality in individualistic ways and finding God on their own instead of in buildings designated as church. This research on Christian Hardcore punk rock problematizes the idea that the youth who leave conventional ch…
Gay on God's Campus: Mobilizing for LGBT Equality at Christian Colleges and Universities
Dr. Ram's triage
Triage is a process of categorizing potential health and guiding care. It is based on the idea that all bodies are equal while potential vitality is not. I examine the triage processes used by Indian physicians as they collaborated with global health researchers to identify patients for a free, cutting-edge tuberculosis test. As I argue, triage forms and reforms social difference within global health despite its aspirations of standardization and…
Jesus Would Turn the Tables Over: Five Dimensions of Authenticity Applied to Countercultural Christianity
This paper draws on extant literature to identify five dimensions that are deployed by a wide range of social groups to claim and achieve authenticity in variety of social settings: being honest or real, forgoing external rewards or compensation, coming from or living in the right place or time, embodying or participating in something, and consuming correctly. We then demonstrate the utility of these five dimensions of authenticity in action by a…
White Women Who Lead: God, Girlfriends, and Diversity Projects in a National Evangelical Ministry
A robust body of literature has used feminist analysis to study white evangelical women in the United States, but few of these studies have addressed the reproduction of racial inequality. Beginning with the assumption that women-led evangelical ministries are racialized organizations, the authors examine the relationship between racial and gender ideologies and the messages of white evangelical women leaders at the IF:Gathering, a popular annual…
Dr. Zahir’s dilemma: Money and morals in India’s private medical networks
The Tables Are Turning: The Evangelical Defense of Anti-LGBTQ+ Religious Liberty
This article extends research on how dominant groups use the rhetoric of marginality to defend and reinforce their control of the public sphere. We conducted interviews with evangelical churchgoers in Mississippi to understand the evangelical support for religious accommodations that privilege conservative Christian beliefs about sex, gender, and marriage. We found that rather than cite scripture about homosexuality or Godly marriage, churchgoers…
Breathless: Tuberculosis, Inequality, and Care in Rural India
Each year in India more than two million people fall sick with tuberculosis (TB), an infectious, airborne, and potentially deadly lung disease. The country accounts for almost 30 percent of all TB cases worldwide and well above a third of global deaths from it. Because TB's prevalence also indicates unfulfilled development promises, its control is an important issue of national concern, wrapped up in questions of postcolonial governance. Drawing …
Infectious disease as epistemic challenge
Kantala comes to the clinic: Tuberculosis, distributed emotions, and states of exhaustion
Omkarlal’s window: A response to six comments
Clinical Suspicion: The Affective Politics of Institutional Growth in a Rajasthani Clinic
By tracing the growth and expansion of a clinic in a small Dalit and Adivasi community in rural Rajasthan, this paper describes the felt incongruences of developmental progress. It engages critical social science literatures about development’s linear narrative form and its potential for technological depoliticisation, to show that even as institutions grow, politics persist around what a developed health system should do. It tracks suspicion as …
Sociology (16 works) · Political science (12 works) · Law (9 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Art (7 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · History (5 works) · Media studies (5 works)