Papers by Jocelyn Boryczka
Politics & Gender, 2018
“Lock her up! Lock her up! Lock her up!” This battle cry erupted at one Donald Trump rally after ... more “Lock her up! Lock her up! Lock her up!” This battle cry erupted at one Donald Trump rally after another throughout the 2016 presidential campaign. Trump even threatened to jail Hillary Rodham Clinton (HRC) if he won the election. “Crooked Hillary” emerged as Trump's disparaging nickname for his Democratic opponent. Taking a further moralistic step, Trump equated HRC with pure evil, calling her the “devil” at an August 2016 campaign rally in Pennsylvania.
Journal of Political & Military Sociology, 1997
Capturing the nuanced attitudes toward LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) people and righ... more Capturing the nuanced attitudes toward LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) people and rights in Africa involves examining them from within and outside the African context. Constructions of the entire African continent as holding negative attitudes toward LGBT peoples and denying them any rights remain quite commonplace across the Global North. However, closer analysis of specific nation-states and regions complicates our understanding of LGBT people and rights in Africa. Advances in the global study of LGBT attitudes through tools such as the Global LGBTI Inclusion Index and the Global Acceptance Index survey African peoples’ beliefs about LGBT communities. These measures locate African attitudes about LGBT peoples within a comparative context to decenter assumptions and many inaccurate, often colonialist, constructions. Attitudinal measures also expose the gap between legislation securing formal rights and the beliefs driving peoples’ everyday practices. These measures further specify how African governments can, often in response to Western political and economic forces, leverage homophobia on a national level to serve their interests despite a misalignment with the population’s attitudes toward LGBT peoples. Nongovernmental organizations and advocates raise awareness about LGBT rights and issues to impact socialization processes that shape these attitudes to generate political, social, and economic change. A rights-based approach and research on attitudes emerging from the African context represent shifts critical to better understanding how LGBT peoples and rights can be more effectively advanced across the continent.
New Political Science, 2020
New Political Science: A Journal of Politics and Culture stands with communities around the globe... more New Political Science: A Journal of Politics and Culture stands with communities around the globe united around the simple yet powerful words: Black Lives Matter. The recent demonstrations in respo...
Project Background Fairfield University's Center for Faith and Public Life's Strangers as Neighbo... more Project Background Fairfield University's Center for Faith and Public Life's Strangers as Neighbors on Long Island project, funded by the Hagedorn Foundation and the Jesuit Conference, is helping to shape a new model for bringing people together on contentious issues such as immigration reform within a faith-based framework. This project was conducted with the full support of the Bishop of Rockville Centre on behalf of the Diocese of Rockville Centre. This current project is a follow-up to Fairfield University's Strangers as Neighbors: Religious Language and the Response to Immigrants pilot project funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, conducted from August 2008 to July 2009. The project aimed for faith communities to agree on common language for speaking about migration, drawing upon some of the shared sensibilities of religious language-words like "neighbor," "brother," "sister," "pilgrim," and similar concepts that have more nuanced and welcoming connotation than "migrant" or "newcomer".
This project hypothesized that a faith-based perspective emphasizing humanism and the search for ... more This project hypothesized that a faith-based perspective emphasizing humanism and the search for the common good allows for a more inclusive discursive environment, which could shift the dialogue away from the usual polarized atmosphere more commonly found in such a highly charged political discourse as immigration. Drawing on a cluster analysis and term frequency index from two focus groups held at two Catholic parishes on Long Island, New York (NY), this paper looks at common frames surrounding the topic of immigration and argues that, when framed in terms of religion and local experience, a more positive and empathetic discussion of immigration emerges. Alternatively, when participants discussed immigration in terms of a government or institutional frame, a qualitatively more negative dialogue develops. This paper also identifies the tensions that arise for parishioners when priests introduce political issues directly into religious services. This finding indicates broader concer...
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Feminist interpretations of Alexis de Tocquevi... more Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Feminist interpretations of Alexis de Tocqueville / edited by Jill Locke and Eileen Hunt Botting. p. cm.(Re-reading the canon) Summary: ''Explores the relationship of the life and work of Alexis de Tocqueville (18051859) to modern ...
New Political Science, Oct 2, 2017
Culture celebrates the 50th Anniversary of the Caucus for a New Political Science (CNPS), establi... more Culture celebrates the 50th Anniversary of the Caucus for a New Political Science (CNPS), established in 1967 to "make the study of politics relevant to the struggle for a better world. " Specifically, Caucus founders stood in opposition to the failure of the American Political Science Association (APSA) and its membership to speak collectively to the pressing political issues of the time, including the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights movement, and many other mobilizations of marginalized groups. A broader critique of the discipline of political science and its claims of value neutrality reflecting behavioralism's dominance in 1967 drove the Caucus' formation, and remains at the center of its mission in 2017. New Political Science is the official journal of CNPS, an independent non-profit organization. CNPS is affiliated with the APSA through the New Political Science section of the APSA. The journal, Caucus, and Section all work together to provide a space for scholar-activism and methodological pluralism. The Caucus is organized around the position that a commitment to social justice, a sustainable democratic society, and human rights are central to the study of politics. This position remains as relevant to studying politics in 2017 as it was in 1967. The question of "what is new" spotlights the challenges inherent to the category or signifier of "new" central to the Caucus and the journal's aim to provide ideologically progressive and methodologically diverse approaches to redefining the purposes, categories, and politics of political science. The "newness factor" percolates throughout political science, as scholars debate matters such as whether or not "globalization" is a contemporary phenomenon, "intersectionality" represents a centuries old methodology and epistemology or a systematic framework developed over the past thirty years, and what is "new" about "new social movements. " Donald Trump's election as United States (US) president in November 2016 has reignited debates about whether or not and to what degree his election, rhetoric, presidency, and reliance on Twitter represent anything "new" on the American political scene. "New" then infers relevance in terms of determining what political science as a discipline can tell us about power, structures, contexts, and membership in political communities in the twenty-first century. Similar questions have dogged the New Political Science section and the journal as members over the years have debated changing "new" to another term. The Section took its name as a reference to the "New Left" and its affiliation with the vision of that political mobilization in the late 1960s. Such naming reflected, at the time, an association of the Section with white
New Political Science
The Call for Papers for this Special Issue of New Political Science "Beyond Citizenship and the N... more The Call for Papers for this Special Issue of New Political Science "Beyond Citizenship and the Nation-State" was written in what now seems an utterly different time: Fall 2019. This Special Issue acts as a bookend to "Intersectionality for the Global Age," the December 2015 Special Issue co-edited by Jocelyn M. Boryczka and Jennifer Leigh Disney. "Intersectionality in the Twenty-first Century," Boryczka and Disney wrote in their Introduction to that issue, "seems to provide an analytic method and epistemological perspective that resonates with our attempts, as scholars and everyday people, to understand the rapidly changing and increasingly complex contemporary world." 1 That Special Issue reflected their focus as co-editors from 2014-2017 on bringing intersectional scholarship from across the globe more centrally into the journal's scope. Building a stronger international presence for the
Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy, 2016
“One is not born, but rather becomes, woman,” Simone de Beauvoir asserts in The Second Sex. This ... more “One is not born, but rather becomes, woman,” Simone de Beauvoir asserts in The Second Sex. This claim captures how sex, the biological differentiation of male from female based on reproductive capacity, relates to gender, the socially constructed meanings of masculine and feminine identity assigned to men and women. Society or culture, not nature or biology, then creates the norms, rules, and laws for people's behavior, which grants them more freedom in determining their destiny. Establishing what gender means conceptually and interrogating its relationship to sex alters the terrain of twentieth-century political thought. Initially, it provided another set of analytic tools for engaging two critical questions: what is a woman, and why have women generally been oppressed across cultures throughout history? Feminist political theory emerges as a field of study during the 1960s and 1970s by responding to these questions in ways that liberate women from the traditional sex roles of mother and wife used to secure their subordination to men and deny them access to public life.Keywords:care ethics;difference;essentialism;gender;identity politics;sexcare ethics;difference;essentialism;gender;identity politics;sex
... Maya Anguissola, Sofonisba Anscombe, Elizabeth Anthony, Susan B. Antifeminism Antigone Aoko, ... more ... Maya Anguissola, Sofonisba Anscombe, Elizabeth Anthony, Susan B. Antifeminism Antigone Aoko, Gaudencia Apartheid Aquino, Corazon Arango ... Food Riots Foot-Binding Forner, Raquel Fossey, Dian France Frankenthaler, Helen Franklin, Aretha Franklin, Rosalind Free Love ...
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Feminist interpretations of Alexis de Tocquevi... more Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Feminist interpretations of Alexis de Tocqueville / edited by Jill Locke and Eileen Hunt Botting. p. cm.(Re-reading the canon) Summary: ''Explores the relationship of the life and work of Alexis de Tocqueville (18051859) to modern ...
Perspectives on Politics, 2014
New Political Science, 2016
New Political Science, 2017
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