Samuel Ritholtz
Biographic Data
| ID | 941866 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Samuel Ritholtz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Samuel |
| FAMILY NAME | Ritholtz |
| SIGNATURE | RITHOLTZ S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6301-0076 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 59 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Rejoinder to Elin Berg’s Review of: Queer Conflict Research New Approaches to the Study of Political Violence
Transformative aesthetics after war: Grief, repair, and feminist resistance to political violence in the works of Lucila Quieto and Doris Salcedo
Art can transform narratives of trauma by centring the experiences of victims and survivors in public consciousness. It is with this reparative potential that art serves as a source of resistance in women’s lives during and after war. This article examines the work of two Latin American artists, Lucila Quieto of Argentina and Doris Salcedo of Colombia, in order to develop a theory of transformative aesthetics that identifies how creative expressi…
Brutality on display: Media coverage and the spectacle of anti-LGBTQ violence in the Colombian Civil War
During the Colombian Civil War, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people were targeted by armed actors for reasons related to ideology and strategy. Even with the generalised violence in Colombia during this time, there was significant public interest in this specific form of violence, as evidenced by its tabloid coverage. The nation's main tabloid -El Espacio -covered this violence against LGBTQ people in graphic detail. Twenty year…
Under Construction: Toward a Theory and Praxis of Queer Peacebuilding
This article explores what queer as a concept brings to peacebuilding, presenting a guiding framework and introduction for a special issue on queer peacebuilding. It offers an initial approach to the topic, which means to center queer and trans perspectives of peace and bring queer epistemologies to bear on how peace is constituted so as to rearticulate the concept both in theory and praxis. In doing so, it addresses an unexamined gap in peacebui…
Is queer-and-trans youth homelessness a form of displacement? A queer epistemological review of refugee studies’ theoretical borders
The phenomenon of queer-and-trans internal migration from homophobic to "safe" areas in the United States remains under-studied in the literature of refugee and forced migration studies. Rejected from their communities and facing discrimination, queer-and-trans youth leave home and may not find another – can their experience of homelessness be considered forced migration? In this paper, I employ critical and normative theory to explore the logics…
Sanctuary after Asylum: Addressing a Gap in the Political Theory of Refuge
This research note argues that political theorists of refuge ought to consider the experiences of refugees after they have received asylum in the Global North. Currently, much of the literature concerning the duties of states toward refugees implicitly adopts a blanket approach, rather than considering how varied identities may affect the remedies available to displaced people. Given the prevalence of racism, xenophobia, and homophobia in the Glo…
The Ontology of Cruelty in Civil War: The Analytical Utility of Characterizing Violence in Conflict Studies
This article explores the ontology of cruelty in civil war. I argue that taking cruelty as the unit of analysis provides new insights into the dynamics of civil war. A focus on cruelty reveals both the physical and the ontological impacts of violence on civilian populations that cannot currently be identified in the existing literature. Cruelty as an analytical concept bridges debates surrounding the instrumental use of violence and its impacts d…
Show time: The Logic and Power of Violent Display
In this book, Lee Ann Fujii explores what she calls the ‘logic of violence on display’. She defines the concept as ‘a collective effort to stage violence for people to see, notice, and take in’ (p. 2). To solve the puzzle of violence on display and to explain why people engage in it, Fujii focuses on its staging, or ‘the meaning-making power of embodied action’ (p. 8). Fujii argues that ‘such displays can do “things” that undisplayed violence can…
Queer kinship and the rights of refugee families
Over the past decade, the refugee protection regime has supposedly become more inclusive of queer and trans* people. Much literature has focused on the expansion of refugee status determination and the inclusion of LGBTQ asylum seekers. However, there are many areas of refugee policy that remain dependent on cisheteronormative assumptions and therefore exclude the queer and trans* forcibly displaced. This paper considers the concept of ‘the famil…
A Queer Approach to Understanding LGBT Vulnerability during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, advocates have argued for the inclusion of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans (LGBT) people in humanitarian response efforts. Yet the application of this differential focus has been mixed among international policy guidelines and national programs. This research note details a queer theoretical approach to humanitarian crises that considers the intersectional factors that produce specific vulnerabilities within LG…
A Queer Approach to Understanding LGBT Vulnerability during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, advocates have argued for the inclusion of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans (LGBT) people in humanitarian response efforts. Yet the application of this differential focus has been mixed among international policy guidelines and national programs. This research note details a queer theoretical approach to humanitarian crises that considers the intersectional factors that produce specific vulnerabilities within LG…
Is queer-and-trans youth homelessness a form of displacement? A queer epistemological review of refugee studies’ theoretical borders
The phenomenon of queer-and-trans internal migration from homophobic to "safe" areas in the United States remains under-studied in the literature of refugee and forced migration studies. Rejected from their communities and facing discrimination, queer-and-trans youth leave home and may not find another – can their experience of homelessness be considered forced migration? In this paper, I employ critical and normative theory to explore the logics…
The Ontology of Cruelty in Civil War: The Analytical Utility of Characterizing Violence in Conflict Studies
This article explores the ontology of cruelty in civil war. I argue that taking cruelty as the unit of analysis provides new insights into the dynamics of civil war. A focus on cruelty reveals both the physical and the ontological impacts of violence on civilian populations that cannot currently be identified in the existing literature. Cruelty as an analytical concept bridges debates surrounding the instrumental use of violence and its impacts d…
Brutality on display: Media coverage and the spectacle of anti-LGBTQ violence in the Colombian Civil War
During the Colombian Civil War, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people were targeted by armed actors for reasons related to ideology and strategy. Even with the generalised violence in Colombia during this time, there was significant public interest in this specific form of violence, as evidenced by its tabloid coverage. The nation's main tabloid -El Espacio -covered this violence against LGBTQ people in graphic detail. Twenty year…
Under Construction: Toward a Theory and Praxis of Queer Peacebuilding
This article explores what queer as a concept brings to peacebuilding, presenting a guiding framework and introduction for a special issue on queer peacebuilding. It offers an initial approach to the topic, which means to center queer and trans perspectives of peace and bring queer epistemologies to bear on how peace is constituted so as to rearticulate the concept both in theory and praxis. In doing so, it addresses an unexamined gap in peacebui…
Queer kinship and the rights of refugee families
Over the past decade, the refugee protection regime has supposedly become more inclusive of queer and trans* people. Much literature has focused on the expansion of refugee status determination and the inclusion of LGBTQ asylum seekers. However, there are many areas of refugee policy that remain dependent on cisheteronormative assumptions and therefore exclude the queer and trans* forcibly displaced. This paper considers the concept of ‘the famil…
Sanctuary after Asylum: Addressing a Gap in the Political Theory of Refuge
This research note argues that political theorists of refuge ought to consider the experiences of refugees after they have received asylum in the Global North. Currently, much of the literature concerning the duties of states toward refugees implicitly adopts a blanket approach, rather than considering how varied identities may affect the remedies available to displaced people. Given the prevalence of racism, xenophobia, and homophobia in the Glo…
Transformative aesthetics after war: Grief, repair, and feminist resistance to political violence in the works of Lucila Quieto and Doris Salcedo
Art can transform narratives of trauma by centring the experiences of victims and survivors in public consciousness. It is with this reparative potential that art serves as a source of resistance in women’s lives during and after war. This article examines the work of two Latin American artists, Lucila Quieto of Argentina and Doris Salcedo of Colombia, in order to develop a theory of transformative aesthetics that identifies how creative expressi…
A Queer Approach to Understanding LGBT Vulnerability during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, advocates have argued for the inclusion of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans (LGBT) people in humanitarian response efforts. Yet the application of this differential focus has been mixed among international policy guidelines and national programs. This research note details a queer theoretical approach to humanitarian crises that considers the intersectional factors that produce specific vulnerabilities within LG…
Queer kinship and the rights of refugee families
Over the past decade, the refugee protection regime has supposedly become more inclusive of queer and trans* people. Much literature has focused on the expansion of refugee status determination and the inclusion of LGBTQ asylum seekers. However, there are many areas of refugee policy that remain dependent on cisheteronormative assumptions and therefore exclude the queer and trans* forcibly displaced. This paper considers the concept of ‘the famil…
Is queer-and-trans youth homelessness a form of displacement? A queer epistemological review of refugee studies’ theoretical borders
The phenomenon of queer-and-trans internal migration from homophobic to "safe" areas in the United States remains under-studied in the literature of refugee and forced migration studies. Rejected from their communities and facing discrimination, queer-and-trans youth leave home and may not find another – can their experience of homelessness be considered forced migration? In this paper, I employ critical and normative theory to explore the logics…
Sanctuary after Asylum: Addressing a Gap in the Political Theory of Refuge
This research note argues that political theorists of refuge ought to consider the experiences of refugees after they have received asylum in the Global North. Currently, much of the literature concerning the duties of states toward refugees implicitly adopts a blanket approach, rather than considering how varied identities may affect the remedies available to displaced people. Given the prevalence of racism, xenophobia, and homophobia in the Glo…
The Ontology of Cruelty in Civil War: The Analytical Utility of Characterizing Violence in Conflict Studies
This article explores the ontology of cruelty in civil war. I argue that taking cruelty as the unit of analysis provides new insights into the dynamics of civil war. A focus on cruelty reveals both the physical and the ontological impacts of violence on civilian populations that cannot currently be identified in the existing literature. Cruelty as an analytical concept bridges debates surrounding the instrumental use of violence and its impacts d…
Show time: The Logic and Power of Violent Display
In this book, Lee Ann Fujii explores what she calls the ‘logic of violence on display’. She defines the concept as ‘a collective effort to stage violence for people to see, notice, and take in’ (p. 2). To solve the puzzle of violence on display and to explain why people engage in it, Fujii focuses on its staging, or ‘the meaning-making power of embodied action’ (p. 8). Fujii argues that ‘such displays can do “things” that undisplayed violence can…
Under Construction: Toward a Theory and Praxis of Queer Peacebuilding
This article explores what queer as a concept brings to peacebuilding, presenting a guiding framework and introduction for a special issue on queer peacebuilding. It offers an initial approach to the topic, which means to center queer and trans perspectives of peace and bring queer epistemologies to bear on how peace is constituted so as to rearticulate the concept both in theory and praxis. In doing so, it addresses an unexamined gap in peacebui…
Brutality on display: Media coverage and the spectacle of anti-LGBTQ violence in the Colombian Civil War
During the Colombian Civil War, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people were targeted by armed actors for reasons related to ideology and strategy. Even with the generalised violence in Colombia during this time, there was significant public interest in this specific form of violence, as evidenced by its tabloid coverage. The nation's main tabloid -El Espacio -covered this violence against LGBTQ people in graphic detail. Twenty year…
Transformative aesthetics after war: Grief, repair, and feminist resistance to political violence in the works of Lucila Quieto and Doris Salcedo
Art can transform narratives of trauma by centring the experiences of victims and survivors in public consciousness. It is with this reparative potential that art serves as a source of resistance in women’s lives during and after war. This article examines the work of two Latin American artists, Lucila Quieto of Argentina and Doris Salcedo of Colombia, in order to develop a theory of transformative aesthetics that identifies how creative expressi…
Rejoinder to Elin Berg’s Review of: Queer Conflict Research New Approaches to the Study of Political Violence
Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Criminology (7 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Gender, Security, and Conflict (6 works) · Queer (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (4 works)