Jacqueline M. Martinez
Associate Professor of Communication, Arizona State University
5pm
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Lecture Description
"Interrogating Prejudice: Discursive Violence & Methdological Reflexivity in Crossing the Global/Local Divide"
Tuesday, March 28
5pm
5pm
Co-sponsored by the Center for Global
Studies & the Humanities
Prejudices have lives. They live in the hearts
and minds of people. Prejudices live within groups, communities and
cultures; they also, therefore, have histories. How prejudices come
to live, grow, sustain themselves, and sometimes die, is always
intricately interconnected with the specifics of a history, a time,
and a place. Understanding the lives of prejudices in their variety
of forms and as they live in the concrete realities experienced by
persons, groups and cultures is an important first step in the
effort to come to grips with the dehumanization and violence that
often follow when particular prejudices are maintained as an
embodied human relation to others and the world. What is required
to make this first step real in practice as much as theory? How can
interrogations of prejudice translate across the local context of
persons communicating in particular times and places and the larger
social, historical and global contexts in which those persons are
always situated? To what degrees and in what ways might
methodological reflexivity aid and/or hinder our capacity to
interrogate the lives of prejudices?
About the Speaker
Dr. Martinez (Ph.D, 1992, Southern Illinois
University) is Associate Professor of Communication at Arizona
State University where she teaches intercultural communication. Dr.
Martinez studies communication as it mediates the relationships
among personal experience, social practices, and cultural
histories. Her work is informed theoretically by U.S. American
phenomenology and communication theory (semiotics) as they have
developed in relation to European philosophy since the late 19th
century. In an applied sense, she studies embodiment—that which
enables the actualization of meaning in the immediate and concrete
experiences of persons located in particular times and places. Of
specific interest are issues related to racial, ethnic, class, and
sexual identifications with contexts of cultural domination. Here
book, Phenomenology of Chicana Experience and Identity (Rowman and
Littlefield, 2000), received the Distinguished Scholarship Award
from the International and Intercultural Division of the National
Communication Association. She is an affiliate faculty member of
the Asian Pacific American Studies Department and the Women and
Gender Studies Department at Arizona State University.