Archive: 2010
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Fall 2010 Editor's Note
This fall gnovis put out a call for its first academic year themed issue, Difference. Managing Editor Akoto Ofori-Atta and myself felt strongly that our final publication as gnovis Editors should be one that focused specifically on issues of power, marginalization and difference areas that are of great personal significance to us as black women. Aware that there were many graduate students already speaking to these issues in their work, we were excited in September to see what a targeted call for papers would produce. Our authors did not disappoint!
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Just Look At It: The Cultural Logic of Contemporary Action Heroine Cinema
Introduction
In the late 1970s, Hollywood cinema entered the blockbuster era. Since then, action movies have been the major productions representing blockbusters. They served as a strategic move to wrestle off the competition from television and other home entertainment. Ensured by the speedy development of computer-supported filmmaking technology, the blockbuster movie still maintains its dominance in today’s market.
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Krump or Die: Krumping and Racist Ideologies in the Production and Reception of Rize
Abstract: This paper examines the narrative strategies of David LaChapelle’s 2005 documentary film Rize, and the representations of blackness therein. LaChapelle’s film characterizes his subjects, th
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From Cultural Document to Lexical Niche: The Cultural Continuity of The Ugly American
Abstract: Using The Ugly American as a cultural document this essay attempts to explain how and why the title of this particular novel has outlived the success of its content. Drawing upon a variety
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Video Games, Hip-Hop and the "Ironies of Capitalism"
Abstract: This paper explores the landscape of hip-hop in connection to video games, a multilayered site, affected by several interconnected factors such as the closing of potential avenues of econom
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Summer 2010 Editor's Note
Our Summer 2010 special issue marks a noteworthy juncture for gnovis, both in the diversification of our journal and in the engagement of the CCT community. This themed issue features papers from the students of Professor JP Singh’s Fall 2009 Global Governance and Deliberation class, making this our first issue solely dedicated to a CCT course.
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A Spiritual Exigency Behind Global Governance and Deliberation in the 21st Century
Abstract: Time and money is annually invested in organizing international forums and presidential summits. In an increasingly globalizing world, national delegates and representatives of multi-natio
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Rhetorical Reframing: Reflexive Discourse in Environmental Deliberations
Negotiating responsibility and action in human rights is one of the most prominent and contentious subjects in global governance literature. No issue exemplifies these challenges better than the international environmental deliberations and the crisis posed by climate change. The resounding problematic here is one of agency and inequity; while wealthier nations are the greatest contributors to climate change, the least wealthy tend to be those that are the greatest impacted by it.
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Taking it to the Next Level: The Internationalization of Domestic Norms and Intangible Cultural Heritage
International cooperation as we know it today is a modern phenomenon; only seventy years ago the world was embroiled in one of the most violent war in history. And yet, in less than a century, the world’s nations have come together to create regimes that address a myriad of pressing issues of global concern. What forces have precipitated such extreme change that the world’s nations are engaging in conversation about issues that would have seemed imaginary not long ago?
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Legitimacy and Accountability in Internet Governance: Civil Society Participation in the World Summit on the Information Society
Abstract: This paper analyzes models of participation for global Internet governance, using the World Summit for the Information Society (WSIS) as a case study. Given the bottom-up genesis of the Inte