Scientists and Poets #Resist

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-41880-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 5, 96 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 204 g

Reihe: Personal/Public Scholarship

Scientists and Poets #Resist is a collection of creative nonfiction, personal narrative, and poetry. This volume is a conversation between poets and scientists and a dialogue between art and science. The authors are poets, scientists, and poet-scientists who use the seven words—"vulnerable," "entitlement," "diversity," "transgender," "fetus," "evidence-based" and "science-based"—banned by the Trump administration in official Health and Human Service documents in December 2017 in their contributions. The contributors use the seven words to discuss their work, reactions to their work, and the creative environment in which they work. The resulting collection is an act of resistance, a political commentary, a conversation between scientists and poets, and a dialogue of collective voices using banned words as a rallying cry—Scientists and Poets #Resist—a warning that censorship is an issue connecting us all, an issue requiring a collective aesthetic response. This book can be read for pleasure, is a great choice for book clubs, and can be used as a springboard for reflection and discussion in a range of courses in the social sciences, education, and creative writing.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Faulkner, Sandra L

England, Andrea

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Politische Soziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Soziologie und Psychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Science-Based Vulnerability

Part 1

1. It Begins with Our Words

Daniela Elza

2. Rescue the Words

Norma Wilson

3. Evidence-Based

Jane Piirto

4. Notes from Indiana: The Crossroads of America, 2018

Charnell Peters

5. Late Term

Jessica Smartt Gullion

6. Before Roe vs. Wade

Sarah Brown Weitzman

7. The Double Helix Is Not Two-Faced, It Is an Embrace

Elizabyth A. Hiscox

8. That Light Bill

Samantha Schaefer

Part 2

9. Kidnapping Children and Calves (of a Tender Age)

Lee Beavington

10. What Does Transgender Look Like?

Shalen Lowell

11. Woman with PCOS Lingers on the Possibilities of Science

Minadora Macheret

12. Half a Schroedinger

Karen L. Frank

13. Bubbles

Kris Harrington

14. The Ease and Difficulty of Hating and Loving One’s Self

Franklin K. R. Cline

15. Seven Thoughts about Butterflies

Ben Paulus

16. It Takes a Village

Michelle Bonczek Evory

17. The Capital of Failure

Scott M. Bade

Part 3

18. Field Notes & Marginalia

Sandy Feinstein and Bryan Shawn Wang

19. =

Terri Witek

20. America, My America

Sarah Brown Weitzman

21. Expressive Writing Paradigm: An Experiment in Righting

Jessica Moore

22. To Beat the Banned

Scott Wiggerman

23. Four Years

Jennifer K. Sweeney

24. While the Offering Stales in the Calm

Mark Kerstetter

25. Photosynthesis

Susan Cohen

Questions and Activities for Further Discussion

Notes on Contributors

Über Autor(innen)

Sandra L. Faulkner, Ph.D. (1999), The Pennsylvania State University, is Professor of Communication at Bowling State University. She has authored or co-authored over 70 books, articles, and chapters, including Poetic Inquiry: Craft, Method, and Practice (Routledge, 2019).

Andrea England, Ph.D., Western Michigan University, is Adjunct Professor of English at that university. Her work has appeared in Midwestern Gothic, Sonora Review, and elsewhere, including the chapbooks Other Geographies (Creative Justice Press, 2017) and Inventory of a Field (Finishing Line Press, 2014).