Annie Hill
The University of Texas at Austin, Rhetoric and Writing, Faculty Member
- Rhetoric, Sex Trafficking, Sex Work, Sexual Violence, Feminist Theory, Gender Studies, and 11 moreHuman Trafficking, Rhetorical Criticism, United Kingdom, Migration Studies, Critical Criminology, Critical Race Theory, Feminism and Social Justice, Feminism, European Union Politics, Brexit, and Race and Racismedit
https://ohiostatepress.org/books/titles/9780814215586.html https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/90596 "Trafficking Rhetoric" reframes controversies over labor, citizenship, and migration while challenging the continued... more
https://ohiostatepress.org/books/titles/9780814215586.html
https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/90596
"Trafficking Rhetoric" reframes controversies over labor, citizenship, and migration while challenging the continued traction of race-baiting and gender bias in determining who has the right to live, work, and belong in the nation.
https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/90596
"Trafficking Rhetoric" reframes controversies over labor, citizenship, and migration while challenging the continued traction of race-baiting and gender bias in determining who has the right to live, work, and belong in the nation.
Research Interests: Criminal Law, Rhetoric, Composition and Rhetoric, Feminist Theory, Political Theory, and 15 moreBritish History, Race and Racism, Legal History, Critical Race Theory, Human Trafficking, Critical Criminology, Rhetorical Criticism, Feminism, British Empire, Migration Studies, European Union Politics, Feminism and Social Justice, United Kingdom, Sex Trafficking, and Brexit
https://doi.org/10.14197/atr.201221171 The past decade has seen a dramatic increase in the sites for anti-trafficking education and the range of educators who shape how the public and institutions understand and respond to human... more
https://doi.org/10.14197/atr.201221171
The past decade has seen a dramatic increase in the sites for anti-trafficking education and the range of educators who shape how the public and institutions understand and respond to human trafficking.
The past decade has seen a dramatic increase in the sites for anti-trafficking education and the range of educators who shape how the public and institutions understand and respond to human trafficking.
Research Interests: Nursing, Education, Social Work, Virtual Reality (Computer Graphics), Postcolonial Studies, and 14 moreSocial Justice, Trauma Studies, Human Trafficking, Conspiracy Theories, International Migration, Trauma-Informed Care, Sex Work, Anti-Oppressive Social Work, Feminist Pedagogy (Women s Studies), Feminism and Social Justice, Labor Exploitation, Sex Trafficking, Radical Pedagogy, and COVID-19 PANDEMIC
https://feralfeminisms.com/issue1/issue-9-state-killing-queer-and-women-of-color-manifestas-against-u-s-violence-and-oppression/ This special issue releases an orchestra of furies that go by the name of "manifesta." The shapeshifting... more
https://feralfeminisms.com/issue1/issue-9-state-killing-queer-and-women-of-color-manifestas-against-u-s-violence-and-oppression/
This special issue releases an orchestra of furies that go by the name of "manifesta." The shapeshifting genre of the manifesta develops from a symphony of anguish into an articulated anger “focused with precision” on what threatens, diminishes, derails, and ends our lives (Lorde 280).
This special issue releases an orchestra of furies that go by the name of "manifesta." The shapeshifting genre of the manifesta develops from a symphony of anguish into an articulated anger “focused with precision” on what threatens, diminishes, derails, and ends our lives (Lorde 280).
Research Interests: Rhetoric, Women's Studies, Feminist Theory, Public Address, Queer Theory, and 11 morePerformance Art, Feminism, Women of Color Feminism, Third space (Humanities), Manifestos, Queer of Color Critique, Women and Gender Studies, Anti-Oppressive Practice, Audre Lorde, Feminist Zines, and Radical Humanities
https://doi.org/10.1080/07491409.2018.1544000 This forum engages entangled topics including white supremacy, immigration, citizenship, native sovereignty, gender and sexual politics, and racialized representations by bringing together... more
https://doi.org/10.1080/07491409.2018.1544000
This forum engages entangled topics including white supremacy, immigration, citizenship, native sovereignty, gender and sexual politics, and racialized representations by bringing together scholars working in queer migration studies (QMS) and critical trafficking studies (CTS).
This forum engages entangled topics including white supremacy, immigration, citizenship, native sovereignty, gender and sexual politics, and racialized representations by bringing together scholars working in queer migration studies (QMS) and critical trafficking studies (CTS).
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As COVID-19 ravages the United States, calls to police for COVID-related concerns are proliferating. This article asks what happens when a contagious and novel disease creates a context wherein neighbours recognise each other – by sight... more
As COVID-19 ravages the United States, calls to police for COVID-related concerns are proliferating. This article asks what happens when a contagious and novel disease creates a context wherein neighbours recognise each other – by sight and by sound – as strangers. Marking the twentieth anniversary of Strange Encounters, we revisit Sara Ahmed’s claim that recognition in embodied encounters produces strangers as figures who are internal to community formation, but who remain outside of an imagined community. This claim enables us to parse the relational dynamics in pandemic time that produce neighbours as strangers through both visual and sonic registers. Ahmed’s theory helps to identify how disease opens opportunities to fracture and retract familiarity in ways that intensify police power and often racialised feelings of ‘stranger danger,’ in effect reordering neighbourly relations.
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This chapter contextualizes the concept of necropolitics that Sara McKinnon applies to her study of U.S.-Mexico relations and questions its application in this case. By doing so, I clarify the objects under analysis – the U.S. imaginary... more
This chapter contextualizes the concept of necropolitics that Sara McKinnon applies to her study of U.S.-Mexico relations and questions its application in this case. By doing so, I clarify the objects under analysis – the U.S. imaginary and diplomatic interventions to secure dominance – and I show how theories of sovereignty can offer a rigorous critique of U.S. foreign policy rhetoric. I interpret the U.S. accusation that Mexico is a “failing state” as an articulation of sovereignty and a strategy of transnational governance to incapacitate Mexico and force it into a bilateral security agreement. My interpretation reframes U.S.-Mexico relations via a theory of sovereign neomortality, which draws on but does not fully align with the concepts of biopolitics and necropolitics. I contribute this critique because the misreading of context, how and where we are looking, risks applying concepts that fail to capture what we seek to comprehend.
Research Interests: Rhetoric, Violence, Race and Racism, Necropolitics, Nationalism And State Building, and 10 moreMichel Foucault, Rhetorical Theory, Transnational Feminism, Theories of Sovereignty, Film and Media Studies, Mexico, United States Foreign Policy, Biopower and Biopolitics, War on Drugs, and State Violence
This chapter interrogates the ideological foundations of New Labour’s articulation of the problem of prostitution and its coordinated strategy to eliminate street sex work. I argue that efforts to divert women from sex work are part of a... more
This chapter interrogates the ideological foundations of New Labour’s articulation of the problem of prostitution and its coordinated strategy to eliminate street sex work. I argue that efforts to divert women from sex work are part of a sympathetic shift in policy, premised on viewing prostitutes as victims of gender-based violence. Although the designation of “victim” suggests sympathy for sex workers, it mobilizes rehabilitative interventions to convert prostitutes into self-regulating, responsible citizens in line with neoliberal demands. Such interventions extend the law’s remit beyond sanctions for specific criminal acts to a wide range of medico-behaviorist exercises that turn the problem of prostitution into a personal one. This prescription demands that sex workers change even when their economic and social conditions remain the same. While the rehabilitative turn may be well-intentioned, its reliance on a crime-control framework privileges victimhood and punishes women who persist in prostitution.