‘"Buzz Off!": The Killer Bee Movie as Modern Belief Narrative.’

Looks at the sub-genre of the killer bee movies but through the lens of legend studies - specifically looking at these films as belief narratives

Enacting the multiple spaces and times of portuguese migration to France in YouTube humor: chronotopic analysis of Ro et Cut’s Vamos a Portugal

We examine the production and contested reception of a YouTube comedic performance by France-based comedic duo, Ro et Cut, involving Portuguese migrants in France. Specifically, we analyze Vamos a Portugal, a video which depicts one Portuguese migrant family’s preparation for their annual summer return trip from France to the Portuguese “homeland.” We use Bakhtin’s notion of chronotope, i.e., discursive formulations of space, time, and person mobilizable in interaction, to analyze how performers and commenters construct spatiotemporally situated images of Portuguese migrants, while simultaneously positioning themselves spatio-temporally in relation to these images. In particular, we compare how France-based Lusodescendant and nonmigrant Portuguese commenters construct and react to the video. Many Lusodescendant commenters embrace the video as evoking a nostalgic personal, familial, and Portuguese past, from the perspective of an urban French present. However, nonmigrant Portuguese viewers in Portugal reject the video as evoking an outmoded and illegitimate version of Portuguese culture, from the perspective of a contemporary Portuguese present. Our comparison of the chronotopes through which differently positioned commenters interpret the video illuminates the contested politics surrounding performances of Portuguese migrant and national culture in the diaspora in France versus in Portugal.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Investigating Women\u27s Sexual Agency and Alcohol Use in the Sexual Consent Process

Among college students, sexual engagement and alcohol consumption are considered common behaviors, with many students reporting drinking prior to sexual experiences. Given the prevalence of sexual assault on campuses and connection between nonconsensual sex and drinking, colleges have adopted policies and programs with the intention of reducing risky drinking behaviors and sexual practices. The majority of these policies stipulate that students cannot give sexual consent under the influence of alcohol, but students find these policies unrealistic. Further, these policies fail to consider the larger context of traditional heteronormative gender scripts that influence sexual behavior, setting narrow expectations, especially for women’s sexuality. This study integrates sexual agency into the study of sexual consent and alcohol consumption as a way of recognizing gender inequality and providing an alternative to risk-focused approaches that perpetuate the policing of female sexuality. This study explored the relationship among sexual agency, attitudes about the ability to give consent, and drinking prior to sex on the extent to which college women’s alcohol-involved sexual experiences felt consensual. The findings highlight the importance of sexual agency as a predictor of women’s feelings that their sex felt consensual and explains the interaction between attitudes and drinking and its influence on these feelings. The results built upon previous research about the impact of relationship status on consent and the influence of drinking prior to sex on consent. Strengths and limitations of the study are outlined as well as areas for future research. Implications for college campus policy, education and outreach, and clinical practice in the areas of sexual consent and drinking prior to sex are discussed

What do we stand for?

I am exploring constructed realities and dismantling binaries and dualities. Much of this work is investigated through, but not limited to, language, gender, sexuality, race, and performativity

Arctic Soil Governs Whether Climate Change Drives Global Losses or Gains in Soil Carbon

Key uncertainties in terrestrial carbon cycle projections revolve around the timing, direction, and magnitude of the carbon cycle feedback to climate change. This is especially true in carbon-rich Arctic ecosystems, where permafrost soils contain roughly one third of the world's soil carbon stocks, which are likely vulnerable to loss. Using an ensemble of soil biogeochemical models that reflect recent changes in the conceptual understanding of factors responsible for soil carbon persistence, we quantify potential soil carbon responses under two representative climate change scenarios. Our results illustrate that models disagree on the sign and magnitude of global soil changes through 2100, with disagreements primarily driven by divergent responses of Arctic systems. These results largely reflect different assumptions about the nature of soil carbon persistence and vulnerabilities, underscoring the challenges associated with setting allowable greenhouse gas emission targets that will limit global warming to 1.5°C

A Bottom-Up Approach to International Lawmaking: The Tale of Three Trade Finance Instruments

International law often makes storytellers of onlookers. The stories that gain scholarly and popular traction are of a common genre, focusing on international law from the top down. They typically center on a state\u27s treaty-based commitments or on an intergovernmental institution born from a treaty. They open with diplomats at majestic negotiating tables, secluded in remote yet pristine locations, wrangling politely over the text of a treaty. The climaxes are photo-opportunity events-a treaty-signing ceremony or the founding of a new institution. The denouement is the trickle-down, the inevitably imperfect business of translating international law into domestic or transnational practice. This traditional, top-down international lawmaking story tells of state actors making international law and imposing it on others who may have been quite removed, geographically and politically, from the entire lawmaking process