Jessica Johnson
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3586245 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Jessica Johnson |
| PRENOMES | Jessica |
| SOBRENOME | Johnson |
| ASSINATURA | JOHNSON J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Washington |
| ORCID | 0009-0001-8518-6806 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 27 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 69 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2010 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
The Jim Crow Army Must Have a Scapegoat”
The story of Lieutenant Leon Gilbert—a Black United States Army officer court-martialed during the Korean War—challenged the United States’ self-declared postwar mission to free oppressed peoples across the world, while continuing to subjugate African Americans at home. Although many critics judged Gilbert’s refusal to return to battle as an act of cowardice, others viewed him as a victim, and even a hero. The Gilbert case revealed that although …
Black America and Hollywood’s Korean War
Representing neither the glory of World War II, nor the anguish of the Vietnam War, the Korean War continues to occupy an obscure place in American history and culture. Similarly, those who fought in this conflict – including African Americans – have been overshadowed by the combatants who served before and after. Yet the Korean War was enormously significant, not least because it was the first conflict fought by a racially integrated American fi…
Blurring the Lines Between “Good” and “Bad” Religion
NEUROMATIC: OR, A PARTICULAR HISTORY OF RELIGION AND THE BRAINBy John Lardas Modern. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. Pp. xv + 426. Paper $32.50. “In the MRI I experienced the invisible tendrils of discourse...a particularly powerful construction of the social. For in the MRI I became aware of my paranoia, mindful of how theories of information, feedback, and self-organization...frame the social as comprised of discrete individuals in …
Writing
This article discusses ethnographic writing on religion as a social process and encourages the adoption of reflexivity to be ethically and analytically sound, so that anthropologists are attuned to the politics of fieldwork and representation at work. It also examines the relationships cultivated between the author and reader on the page and the collaborative practice of ethnographic fieldwork. To do so, the article examines how the subject posit…
Leveraging Randomized Controlled Trial Design
Treatment as usual has historically been used as control arms for randomized controlled trials (RCTs), but utilizing wellness interventions as active comparison conditions can advance the evidence base of such interventions while increasing access to health promotion content. We use the results from the CONNECT 2 RCT's wellness intervention control arm as a case example of active comparison conditions that can control for dosage or attentional ef…
Assessing 5-Year Outcomes of an Academic Pediatrics–Community Partnership Focused on Rural Child Health
Our evaluation demonstrated the partnership's value to community and trainees and yielded suggestions for increasing the program's impact. We believe that key elements of this evaluation could be used in other academic-community partnership programs
Bodily Encounters
Does a universal non‐contributory social pension make sense for rural China
China’s pension reform during the past three decades has allowed a majority of China’s population to be covered by a pension scheme. Of particular note has been the New Rural Pension Scheme (NRPS), a voluntary programme introduced starting in 2009. One goal of our analysis is to assess that pension scheme, using a variety of sources of information including data drawn from recent (2013 and 2015) nationwide China Health and Retirement Longitudinal…
Malawi
In 2002, John McCracken co-edited a Journal of Southern African Studies special issue on Malawi.1 This year marks the 20th anniversary of the conference in Zomba from which that issue, and its acco
Autoethnography as a Poetics of Worlding and a Politics of Becoming
This article analyzes the anthropologist Kathleen Stewart's Ordinary Affects and the poet Claudia Rankine's Citizen: An American Lyric as autoethnographies of affective encounter in which the authors stylistically fracture their positionalities such that the embodied evidence of experience becomes visceral political potential. In Ordinary Affects, Stewart uses autoethnography to conjure the intensities of affect that manifest in everyday moments …
Affective radicalization and white masculinity
On October 26 2018, Caesar Sayoc Jr. was charged with sending pipe bombs to perceived enemies of President Trump, including Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, CNN, and George Soros. The following day
Our babies[’] count[er story]
The non-profit organization Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep (NILMDTS) hosts annual remembrance walks that gather bereaved families to honor babies who have died. Grounded in narrative theory and research on family communication rituals, the present study focused on understanding how the NILMDTS Remembrance Walk counternarrates the experience of baby loss vis-à-vis the master narrative that silences it. Our narrative ethnography included participating …
In Search of Gender Justice
What might gender justice look like in matrilineal Malawi? Ideas about gender and human rights have exerted considerable influence over African policy makers and civil society organisations in recent years, and Malawi is no exception. There, concerted efforts at civic education have made the concepts of human and women's rights widely accessible to the rural poor, albeit in modified form. In this book, Jessica Johnson listens to the voices of ord…
Cultural Politics
The entry begins with an overview of cultural politics as a site of social struggle that emphasizes identity, marginalization, and empowerment, offering examples of the activist projects and academic debates that this configuration of its meaning and practice has yielded. The discussion addresses how anthropologists have analyzed cultural politics in relation to the concept of hegemony, the dynamics of globalization and the transnational economy,…
The Self-Radicalization of White Men
This article examines how paranoia is affectively networked through digital technologies, political performances, and social media to radicalize white men. Using actor-network theory and affect theory, this paper analyzes how acts of domestic terrorism perpetrated by white men are triggered beyond rationales of self-interest through the circulation of paranoia as affective value. Specifically, this piece investigates connections between the onlin…
A visual narrative analysis of children’s baby loss remembrance drawings
Children experiencing the death of baby brother or sister have reported individual, familial, and communicative challenges. Siblings also have indicated that the loss of a baby in their family enriched their lives despite their pain. The present study extends this work by focusing not only on siblings but also other children enmeshed in the family system. Additionally, we heed the call for the use of arts-based methods in family communication by …
Biblical Porn
Between 1996 and 2014, Mark Driscoll's Mars Hill Church multiplied from its base in Seattle into fifteen facilities spread across five states with 13,000 attendees. When it closed, the church was beset by scandal, with former attendees testifying to spiritual abuse, emotional manipulation, and financial exploitation. In Biblical Porn Jessica Johnson examines how Mars Hill's congregants became entangled in processes of religious conviction. Johnso…
Feminine futures
A vibrant recent literature documents the challenges of achieving social adulthood in the context of economic decline and high youth unemployment in Africa and beyond. Those who have already made this transition, however, tend to reside in the margins of these texts, casting disapproving shadows. This article seeks to redress the balance by focusing on the significant efforts of social adults to shape young girls' transitions to adult womanhood. …
After the mines
By the early 1970s, Malawi was the most significant supplier of mine labour to South Africa. Since then, for a variety of reasons, mine migrancy has dwindled. Nevertheless, migration to South Africa today looms large in the popular imagination, and is pursued by substantial numbers of Malawians, particularly men. By comparison with earlier migrants, however, their trajectories are less certain, their strategies more piecemeal. This paper will foc…
Under Conviction
While situating my ethnographic fieldwork at Mars Hill Church of Seattle from 2006–2008, this paper examines how processes of corporatization and militarization were structurally embedded through the circulation of fear, shame, and paranoia in the virtual, visual, and visceral networking of Pastor Mark Driscoll's posture in voice. Specifically, this paper examines teaching on biblical masculinity in tandem with Mars Hill's promotion of a militari…
Matriliny
Matriliny is a way of reckoning kinship descent and belonging through the female line. This entry discusses some of the forms matrilineal kinship may take in practice before considering how anthropologists have understood matriliny since the mid-twentieth century. It looks in turn at three dominant (mis)understandings of matriliny, namely: (1) that matriliny is simply another way of structuring male authority and thus of no meaningful consequence…
Landscape Imagery, Politics, and Identity in a Divided Germany, 1968-1989
Catherine Wilkins’s monograph draws on a chronologically wide-ranging base of sources to weave a complex narrative of the late Cold War. She grounds her analysis in the premise that both West and East Germans, and Germans across time, shared a common interest in and identification with the image of the untamed Northern landscape. Such tropes marked the landscape painting of artists of the German Romantic school of the early nineteenth century. By…
Women’s Rights and Sovereignty/Autonomy
In recent years in both the United States and Latin America, indigenous peoples have taken increasing control over local justice, creating indigenous courts and asserting more autonomy in the administration of justice in their tribes, regions, or communities. New justice spaces, such as the Chickasaw District Courts in Oklahoma and the Zapatista Good Governance Councils in Chiapas, work to resolve conflict based largely on indigenous ‘customs and…
HIV/Aids and the security sector in Africa
Throughout history, communicable diseases have weakened the capacity of state institutions to perform core security functions, which compelled many African countries to initiate policies aimed at addressing the impact of HIV/AIDS on the armed forces, police and prisons. These policies address: 1) the role of peacekeepers in the spread or control of HIV; 2) Public health versus human rights dilemma; 3) The gender dimensions of HIV in the armed for…
Confronting Female Genital Mutilation
Marie-Helene Mottin-Sylla and Joelle Palmieri, translated by Mamsait Jagne, Ottawa, Pambazuka Press (IDRC), 2011, xiii +121 pp. Mottin-Sylla and Palmieri's thesis is that “putting youth and gender
Biblical Porn
Between 1996 and 2014, Mark Driscoll's Mars Hill Church multiplied from its base in Seattle into fifteen facilities spread across five states with 13,000 attendees. When it closed, the church was beset by scandal, with former attendees testifying to spiritual abuse, emotional manipulation, and financial exploitation. In Biblical Porn Jessica Johnson examines how Mars Hill's congregants became entangled in processes of religious conviction. Johnso…
The Self-Radicalization of White Men
This article examines how paranoia is affectively networked through digital technologies, political performances, and social media to radicalize white men. Using actor-network theory and affect theory, this paper analyzes how acts of domestic terrorism perpetrated by white men are triggered beyond rationales of self-interest through the circulation of paranoia as affective value. Specifically, this piece investigates connections between the onlin…
Feminine futures
A vibrant recent literature documents the challenges of achieving social adulthood in the context of economic decline and high youth unemployment in Africa and beyond. Those who have already made this transition, however, tend to reside in the margins of these texts, casting disapproving shadows. This article seeks to redress the balance by focusing on the significant efforts of social adults to shape young girls' transitions to adult womanhood. …
Life With Hiv
Anti-retroviral therapies have radically transformed the HIV epidemic in rural southern Malawi and this article explores the ways in which women are learning to live with the virus in a matrilineal setting. Through discussion of the experiences of HIV-positive women, I argue that stigma can only be understood through an appreciation of the pre-existing, and often complicated, social relations into which new information about a person is folded. T…
The Citizen-Soldier
Based on two years of research on the same-sex marriage debate in Seattle, Washington, this article examines the cultural politics of Mars Hill Church, a prominent conservative evangelical church that is training men to become "citizen-soldiers." Mars Hill serves as an institutional resource and home to young pastors disenchanted with attempts to influence electoral politics; instead, these pastors are shifting their attention to affecting local …
Does a universal non‐contributory social pension make sense for rural China
China’s pension reform during the past three decades has allowed a majority of China’s population to be covered by a pension scheme. Of particular note has been the New Rural Pension Scheme (NRPS), a voluntary programme introduced starting in 2009. One goal of our analysis is to assess that pension scheme, using a variety of sources of information including data drawn from recent (2013 and 2015) nationwide China Health and Retirement Longitudinal…
Our babies[’] count[er story]
The non-profit organization Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep (NILMDTS) hosts annual remembrance walks that gather bereaved families to honor babies who have died. Grounded in narrative theory and research on family communication rituals, the present study focused on understanding how the NILMDTS Remembrance Walk counternarrates the experience of baby loss vis-à-vis the master narrative that silences it. Our narrative ethnography included participating …
After the mines
By the early 1970s, Malawi was the most significant supplier of mine labour to South Africa. Since then, for a variety of reasons, mine migrancy has dwindled. Nevertheless, migration to South Africa today looms large in the popular imagination, and is pursued by substantial numbers of Malawians, particularly men. By comparison with earlier migrants, however, their trajectories are less certain, their strategies more piecemeal. This paper will foc…
Matriliny
Matriliny is a way of reckoning kinship descent and belonging through the female line. This entry discusses some of the forms matrilineal kinship may take in practice before considering how anthropologists have understood matriliny since the mid-twentieth century. It looks in turn at three dominant (mis)understandings of matriliny, namely: (1) that matriliny is simply another way of structuring male authority and thus of no meaningful consequence…
Malawi
In 2002, John McCracken co-edited a Journal of Southern African Studies special issue on Malawi.1 This year marks the 20th anniversary of the conference in Zomba from which that issue, and its acco
Autoethnography as a Poetics of Worlding and a Politics of Becoming
This article analyzes the anthropologist Kathleen Stewart's Ordinary Affects and the poet Claudia Rankine's Citizen: An American Lyric as autoethnographies of affective encounter in which the authors stylistically fracture their positionalities such that the embodied evidence of experience becomes visceral political potential. In Ordinary Affects, Stewart uses autoethnography to conjure the intensities of affect that manifest in everyday moments …
Affective radicalization and white masculinity
On October 26 2018, Caesar Sayoc Jr. was charged with sending pipe bombs to perceived enemies of President Trump, including Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, CNN, and George Soros. The following day
HIV/Aids and the security sector in Africa
Throughout history, communicable diseases have weakened the capacity of state institutions to perform core security functions, which compelled many African countries to initiate policies aimed at addressing the impact of HIV/AIDS on the armed forces, police and prisons. These policies address: 1) the role of peacekeepers in the spread or control of HIV; 2) Public health versus human rights dilemma; 3) The gender dimensions of HIV in the armed for…
The Citizen-Soldier
Based on two years of research on the same-sex marriage debate in Seattle, Washington, this article examines the cultural politics of Mars Hill Church, a prominent conservative evangelical church that is training men to become "citizen-soldiers." Mars Hill serves as an institutional resource and home to young pastors disenchanted with attempts to influence electoral politics; instead, these pastors are shifting their attention to affecting local …
Confronting Female Genital Mutilation
Marie-Helene Mottin-Sylla and Joelle Palmieri, translated by Mamsait Jagne, Ottawa, Pambazuka Press (IDRC), 2011, xiii +121 pp. Mottin-Sylla and Palmieri's thesis is that “putting youth and gender
Life With Hiv
Anti-retroviral therapies have radically transformed the HIV epidemic in rural southern Malawi and this article explores the ways in which women are learning to live with the virus in a matrilineal setting. Through discussion of the experiences of HIV-positive women, I argue that stigma can only be understood through an appreciation of the pre-existing, and often complicated, social relations into which new information about a person is folded. T…
Women’s Rights and Sovereignty/Autonomy
In recent years in both the United States and Latin America, indigenous peoples have taken increasing control over local justice, creating indigenous courts and asserting more autonomy in the administration of justice in their tribes, regions, or communities. New justice spaces, such as the Chickasaw District Courts in Oklahoma and the Zapatista Good Governance Councils in Chiapas, work to resolve conflict based largely on indigenous ‘customs and…
HIV/Aids and the security sector in Africa
Throughout history, communicable diseases have weakened the capacity of state institutions to perform core security functions, which compelled many African countries to initiate policies aimed at addressing the impact of HIV/AIDS on the armed forces, police and prisons. These policies address: 1) the role of peacekeepers in the spread or control of HIV; 2) Public health versus human rights dilemma; 3) The gender dimensions of HIV in the armed for…
Landscape Imagery, Politics, and Identity in a Divided Germany, 1968-1989
Catherine Wilkins’s monograph draws on a chronologically wide-ranging base of sources to weave a complex narrative of the late Cold War. She grounds her analysis in the premise that both West and East Germans, and Germans across time, shared a common interest in and identification with the image of the untamed Northern landscape. Such tropes marked the landscape painting of artists of the German Romantic school of the early nineteenth century. By…
Matriliny
Matriliny is a way of reckoning kinship descent and belonging through the female line. This entry discusses some of the forms matrilineal kinship may take in practice before considering how anthropologists have understood matriliny since the mid-twentieth century. It looks in turn at three dominant (mis)understandings of matriliny, namely: (1) that matriliny is simply another way of structuring male authority and thus of no meaningful consequence…
After the mines
By the early 1970s, Malawi was the most significant supplier of mine labour to South Africa. Since then, for a variety of reasons, mine migrancy has dwindled. Nevertheless, migration to South Africa today looms large in the popular imagination, and is pursued by substantial numbers of Malawians, particularly men. By comparison with earlier migrants, however, their trajectories are less certain, their strategies more piecemeal. This paper will foc…
Under Conviction
While situating my ethnographic fieldwork at Mars Hill Church of Seattle from 2006–2008, this paper examines how processes of corporatization and militarization were structurally embedded through the circulation of fear, shame, and paranoia in the virtual, visual, and visceral networking of Pastor Mark Driscoll's posture in voice. Specifically, this paper examines teaching on biblical masculinity in tandem with Mars Hill's promotion of a militari…
In Search of Gender Justice
What might gender justice look like in matrilineal Malawi? Ideas about gender and human rights have exerted considerable influence over African policy makers and civil society organisations in recent years, and Malawi is no exception. There, concerted efforts at civic education have made the concepts of human and women's rights widely accessible to the rural poor, albeit in modified form. In this book, Jessica Johnson listens to the voices of ord…
Cultural Politics
The entry begins with an overview of cultural politics as a site of social struggle that emphasizes identity, marginalization, and empowerment, offering examples of the activist projects and academic debates that this configuration of its meaning and practice has yielded. The discussion addresses how anthropologists have analyzed cultural politics in relation to the concept of hegemony, the dynamics of globalization and the transnational economy,…
The Self-Radicalization of White Men
This article examines how paranoia is affectively networked through digital technologies, political performances, and social media to radicalize white men. Using actor-network theory and affect theory, this paper analyzes how acts of domestic terrorism perpetrated by white men are triggered beyond rationales of self-interest through the circulation of paranoia as affective value. Specifically, this piece investigates connections between the onlin…
A visual narrative analysis of children’s baby loss remembrance drawings
Children experiencing the death of baby brother or sister have reported individual, familial, and communicative challenges. Siblings also have indicated that the loss of a baby in their family enriched their lives despite their pain. The present study extends this work by focusing not only on siblings but also other children enmeshed in the family system. Additionally, we heed the call for the use of arts-based methods in family communication by …
Biblical Porn
Between 1996 and 2014, Mark Driscoll's Mars Hill Church multiplied from its base in Seattle into fifteen facilities spread across five states with 13,000 attendees. When it closed, the church was beset by scandal, with former attendees testifying to spiritual abuse, emotional manipulation, and financial exploitation. In Biblical Porn Jessica Johnson examines how Mars Hill's congregants became entangled in processes of religious conviction. Johnso…
Feminine futures
A vibrant recent literature documents the challenges of achieving social adulthood in the context of economic decline and high youth unemployment in Africa and beyond. Those who have already made this transition, however, tend to reside in the margins of these texts, casting disapproving shadows. This article seeks to redress the balance by focusing on the significant efforts of social adults to shape young girls' transitions to adult womanhood. …
Affective radicalization and white masculinity
On October 26 2018, Caesar Sayoc Jr. was charged with sending pipe bombs to perceived enemies of President Trump, including Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, CNN, and George Soros. The following day
Our babies[’] count[er story]
The non-profit organization Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep (NILMDTS) hosts annual remembrance walks that gather bereaved families to honor babies who have died. Grounded in narrative theory and research on family communication rituals, the present study focused on understanding how the NILMDTS Remembrance Walk counternarrates the experience of baby loss vis-à-vis the master narrative that silences it. Our narrative ethnography included participating …
Bodily Encounters
Does a universal non‐contributory social pension make sense for rural China
China’s pension reform during the past three decades has allowed a majority of China’s population to be covered by a pension scheme. Of particular note has been the New Rural Pension Scheme (NRPS), a voluntary programme introduced starting in 2009. One goal of our analysis is to assess that pension scheme, using a variety of sources of information including data drawn from recent (2013 and 2015) nationwide China Health and Retirement Longitudinal…
Malawi
In 2002, John McCracken co-edited a Journal of Southern African Studies special issue on Malawi.1 This year marks the 20th anniversary of the conference in Zomba from which that issue, and its acco
Autoethnography as a Poetics of Worlding and a Politics of Becoming
This article analyzes the anthropologist Kathleen Stewart's Ordinary Affects and the poet Claudia Rankine's Citizen: An American Lyric as autoethnographies of affective encounter in which the authors stylistically fracture their positionalities such that the embodied evidence of experience becomes visceral political potential. In Ordinary Affects, Stewart uses autoethnography to conjure the intensities of affect that manifest in everyday moments …
Assessing 5-Year Outcomes of an Academic Pediatrics–Community Partnership Focused on Rural Child Health
Our evaluation demonstrated the partnership's value to community and trainees and yielded suggestions for increasing the program's impact. We believe that key elements of this evaluation could be used in other academic-community partnership programs
Writing
This article discusses ethnographic writing on religion as a social process and encourages the adoption of reflexivity to be ethically and analytically sound, so that anthropologists are attuned to the politics of fieldwork and representation at work. It also examines the relationships cultivated between the author and reader on the page and the collaborative practice of ethnographic fieldwork. To do so, the article examines how the subject posit…
Leveraging Randomized Controlled Trial Design
Treatment as usual has historically been used as control arms for randomized controlled trials (RCTs), but utilizing wellness interventions as active comparison conditions can advance the evidence base of such interventions while increasing access to health promotion content. We use the results from the CONNECT 2 RCT's wellness intervention control arm as a case example of active comparison conditions that can control for dosage or attentional ef…
Blurring the Lines Between “Good” and “Bad” Religion
NEUROMATIC: OR, A PARTICULAR HISTORY OF RELIGION AND THE BRAINBy John Lardas Modern. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. Pp. xv + 426. Paper $32.50. “In the MRI I experienced the invisible tendrils of discourse...a particularly powerful construction of the social. For in the MRI I became aware of my paranoia, mindful of how theories of information, feedback, and self-organization...frame the social as comprised of discrete individuals in …
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