Politicizing motorcycles: Racialized capital of technology, techno-Orientalism and Japanese temporality

Television and Orientalism

Orientalism, proposed by Edward Said (1995), refers to the network of interlocking discourses about the “orient” constructed in western civilization. The orients, in western conceptions, are stereotypically inflated others drastically different from the collective imagination of the civilized West. Said’s argument was initially focused more on Europe and Islamic Culture, but has been applied to...

Book Review: China and Orientalism

What's in the "old boys" network? Accessing social capital in gendered and racialized networks

Network processes have long been implicated in the reproduction of labor market inequality, but it remains unclear whether white male networks provide more social capital resources than female and minority networks. Analysis of nationally representative survey data reveals that people in white male networks receive twice as many job leads as people in female/minority networks. White male networ...

Openness, technology capital, and development

In this paper, we extend the growth model to include firm-specific technology capital and use it to assess the gains from opening to foreign direct investment. A firm’s technology capital is its unique know-how from investing in research and development, brands, and organization capital. Technology capital is distinguished from other forms of capital in that a firm can use it simultaneously in ...

Racialized Perceptions and Child Neglect.

a Formerly, Office of the Senior Vice President for System Administration, University of Minnesota, United States b Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, United States c Minnesota State Senate, United States d Division of Biomedical Informatics, University of California, San Diego, United States e Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota, United S...