{"id":6955,"date":"2014-08-12T10:43:40","date_gmt":"2014-08-12T14:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carleton.ca\/fist\/?page_id=6955"},"modified":"2025-10-20T09:44:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T13:44:56","slug":"fall-lectures","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/fall-lectures\/","title":{"rendered":"Feminist Futures 2016: Fall Lectures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Feminist Futures Lecture Series:  Fall 2016<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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When sex tourism goes \u2018graphic\u2019<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

 <\/strong>By Marie-Eve Carrier-Moisan<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

September 27, 2016 1:00-2:30p.m., Room 2017 Dunton Tower<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Illustration by D\u00e9bora Santos<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this talk, I reflect on the process of adapting my ethnographic research on sex tourism in Brazil into graphic novel form. Informed by feminist and ethnographic engagements with visual research and methodologies, I discuss the potential and limitations of this medium for knowledge production, and the kind of ethical-political conundrums it generates. I also explore some of the affinities between ethnography and the graphic novel medium, and reflect on the capacity of graphic novels to generate multiple meanings, address complex and difficult subject matter, offer unique insights into the shifting and situated experiences of the protagonists, and render the experiences of the protagonists relatable and comprehensible. Graphic novels are in many ways unique in how they combine text\/image to create meaningful stories \u2013 but the genre nonetheless poses challenges for processes of knowledge production and representation. Images may evoke, provoke and open our imagination; but, similar to words and text, they can reduce and dilute meanings as well. Finally, I also engage with the \u2018affective capacity\u2019 of graphic novels, namely, their capacity to generate, mediate and organize particular affects \u2013 an aspect that becomes particularly salient in the context of my work, given that sex tourism is already mediated by visual affective politics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gringo Gulch: Sex, tourism, and social mobility in Costa Rica<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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By Megan Rivers-Moore<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

October 18, 2016 1:00-2:30p.m., Room 2017 Dunton Tower<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gringo Gulch <\/span><\/i>considers the meanings that are made from participation in the sex industry, exploring how the purchase and sale of sex in San Jos\u00e9, Costa Rica allows certain kinds of social and economic mobility for those involved. Focusing on the experiences of sex tourists, sex workers, and state employees, the book considers how the geopolitics of transnational tourism are played out in the embodied labour of sex workers and how the specific configurations of the sex industry in San Jos\u00e9 are tied to a variety of local, national, and global processes that reflect and produce particular intersections of gender, race, sexuality, and class. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Angry Young Nerds: Geek Culture and Toxic Masculinity<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

By Benjamin Woo, School of Journalism and Communication<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

November 29, 2016 1:00-2:30p.m., Room 2017 Dunton Tower<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If geek culture has often been imagined as a place indifferent or unfriendly to women, then it has looked downright hostile in recent years. From online harassment campaigns targeting prominent women in geek cultural industries to mass shootings explicitly framed in misogynistic \u201cmen\u2019s rights\u201d discourses, a certain segment of nerds and geeks have embraced a particularly toxic form of masculinity. However, it wasn\u2019t so long ago that nerds and geeks promised something different, an alternative to hegemonic masculinity. Even today, more progressive conceptions of geek identity organized around enthusiasm, sharing, and radical openness compete with reactionary ones, though it is by no means clear who is winning. How did we get from \u201csensitive new age geeks\u201d to \u201cangry young nerds\u201d?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this talk, I explore some cultural logics that feed into both sides of this struggle for the soul of geek culture. Drawing on a subcultural ethnography of one Canadian city\u2019s geek culture scene, including several extensive, life course interviews with participants, I conceptualize geek culture as a set of cultural practices. These are \u201cfocal practices,\u201d defined by a particular set of internal goods, communities, institutions, and a distinctive ethos, or conception of the good, and they occupy a very important place in many participants\u2019 everyday lives. On the one hand, these practices generate cultural spaces that function, in Erik Olin Wright\u2019s terms, as \u201creal utopias,\u201d such as in accounts of fandom as a progressive participatory culture. On the other hand, many of the same values and logics can be twisted by ressentiment into reactionary and even violent forms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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