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Öğe African Ecofeminist Environmentalism in Imbolo Mbue’s How Beautiful We Were(Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2023) Bay, HaticeImbolo Mbue’s How Beautiful We Were (2021), hereafter referred to as HBWW, is an ecologically conscious narrative which notably contributes to ecocriticism, ecofeminism, and ecoactivism. Some scholars argue that ecocriticism has primarily focused on Western writers, thinkers, and activists and has overlooked African natural environments, communities, (female) lives, and black female activists. Through a Black ecofeminist lens, HBWW is shown to diversify ecocriticism and ecofeminist studies as it highlights the active concern and engagement of Africans, particularly African women, with nature throughout history. Mbue raises awareness about various forms of environmental destruction and struggles, while showcasing the promise, uniqueness, and complexity of an Africa-centered ecocriticism. Moreover, African ecofeminist environmental thinking necessitates bringing African communitarian philosophy and ubuntu into the discourse (Chemhuru, 3). In contrast to patriarchal, hierarchical, individualistic and elitist structures in western society, Mbue’s African ecofeminism focuses on the communal and interconnected aspects of the human and non-human realms. Through Munamato Chemhuru’s theorization of African Communitarian Philosophy and ubuntu, African women and men perceive themselves as human manifestations of natural beings guided by nature. They are not the passive victims or bystanders of environmental degradation; instead, nature becomes a catalyst for their regeneration, activism, and empowerment. Furthermore, Mbue’s novel establishes a connection between African ecofeminist perspective and the quest for socio-ecological equity. Although the ecological struggle is a communal endeavor, it is Thula as its leader, fighting on behalf of others. Finally, Mbue’s African ecofeminist environmentalism, critically examines and reevaluates the rhetoric of environmental justice, mobilization, and ecoactivism.Öğe Exploring Posturbanism in Annalee Newitz's The Terraformers(Bucharest Review, 2024) Bay, HaticeAbstract: Annalee Newitz’s The Terraformers (2023) explores the endeavors of the Environmental Rescue Team (ERT), which consists of diverse humans, uplifted animals, engineered organisms, bots, drones, and AI, and how they strive to construct a sustainable planet, Sask-E, and cities amid Verdance – a Capitalocenic corporate power that shapes the dynamics between humans, nature, and life. Drawing on the concept of the Capitalocene and Donna Haraway’s theories of the Chthulucene, sympoiesis, making kin, and staying with the trouble, this article discusses the significance of multispecies actors and intelligences in urban-making, while also emphasizing the necessity of acknowledging the complexities and uncertainties of this process. Further inspired by the insights of recent urban scholarship, such as smart and AI urbanisms, the article discusses the essential role of technology, engineering, AI, and machine in building democratic cities. By examining the efforts and collaborations between these multifaceted characters, the novel challenges market-driven anthropocentric notions of urbanism and envisions a future where multispecies communities use technology and great care to build equitable and viable posturban landscapes.Öğe “FBI, ICE, Police & Pollution: A Spy in the Struggle”(Peter Lang, 2024) Bay, HaticeA Spy in the Struggle (henceforth A Spy) (2020a) is about Yolanda Vance, a success-driven, Harvard Law graduate Black young woman, who ends up working for the FBI’s spying in on her own people. She is sent undercover to infiltrate a low-income Black and Brown Bay Area, eco-racial justice organization, Red, Black, and Green (RBG). RBG is a youth-led political organization that fights white supremacy in the forms of corporate entity, greenwashers, mainstream environmentalists, police violence and climate emergency. The FBI, through Yolanda, wants to keep angry Black folks under control. Using David N. Pellow’s concept of Critical Environmental Justice (CEJ), A Spy, thus, addresses recognition of ecological violence and racist assault against Latinx and African American living spaces, bodies, and how Latinx and African American communities seek to find ways to abolish the systems that enable the conditions in which such violence is sanctioned and perpetuated. This chapter reveals that it is high time to show the intersectionality of issues such as police violence, racism, sexism, health crises, state surveillance, poverty, COVID19, ICE, Black Lives Matter (BLM) and climate crisis along with expanding the discourse of environmental racism.Öğe Indigenerdity and STEM in Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley(POPMEC RESEARCH BLOG THE US REPRESENTATION IN POPULAR MEDIA AND CULTURE, 2023) Bay, HaticeNative Americans also have their own nerds who contribute to and challenge mainstream geek and STEM culture. The purpose of this essay is to explore how Indigenous authors, like Angeline Boulley, contribute to the decolonization of the STEM fields. In her novel Firekeeper’s Daughter (2021), Boulley presents a young, female Ojibwe character who disrupts the White male-dominated culture of science and challenges gender-stereotyped portrayals of young women in STEM. By drawing from her ancestral traditions and her knowledge of nerd culture, the protagonist defies expectations. This essay examines Boulley’s efforts to decolonize the STEM fields, critique the prevailing culture of science (which is predominantly male and White), and challenge gender-stereotyped images of young female STEM characters. Ultimately, it shows that Firekeeper’s Daughter diversifies the concept of STEM by reshaping the self-perception of Indigenous people and challenging external perceptions of them.Öğe “Instead of Pumping Iron, She was Pumping Bullets into her Husband”: The Portrayal of a Female Perpetrator in Nanette Burstein’s Killer Sally”([Inter]sections, 2023) Bay, HaticeIn the media, the law, and the public opinion, women who resort to violence within abusive relationships are often depicted as either victims or monsters. Nanette Burstein’s threepart docuseries, Killer Sally (2022), reexamines this binary which focuses on Sally McNeil, a former professional bodybuilder who murdered her husband, also a professional bodybuilder, in Southern California in 1995. Drawing from research and analyses found in Belinda Morrissey’s When Women Kill and The Routledge International Handbook of Perpetrator Studies, this article argues that Burstein questions the discursive, performative, and one-sided dimensions of media and legal portrayals of female perpetrators. By placing both the perpetrator and the victim within complex socio-psychological and posthuman frameworks, Burstein broadens the discourse on battered women who kill by granting the perpetrator agency and voice.Öğe "Listening Differently, Crossing Boundaries: Thanhhà L?i’s Listen, Slowly"(Palgrave, Macmillan, 2024) Bay, HaticeThanhhà Lai’s Listen, Slowly (2015) is about Mai, a twelve-year-old Vietnamese-American girl who is born and raised in California. She undergoes a transformative change after she embarks on a journey to Vietnam with her grandmother. This chapter examines how Mai’s encounter with her own Vietnamese heritage disrupts her previous self-centered American sense of self and paves the way for a new ethical Vietnamese-American identity through the act of listening. Drawing on Emmanuel Levinas’s ethical philosophy and Lisbeth Lipari’s ideas on listening, this analysis shows how Mai’s experiences of pain, trauma, and disconcerting responsibility in Vietnam help her become an ethical listening self. By tracing the arduous interpersonal and intercultural communication processes Mai undergoes, this chapter explores the important role of listening plays in communication and how it enables meaningful relationships across cultures and borders.Öğe Re-placing Indigenous Land and Children Within the Anthropocene Carole Lindstrom’s We Are Water Protectors(Routledge, 2024) Bay, HaticeIn the Anthropocene age, fundamental changes are required to how children in general, as members of the future generation, learn about, interact with, and perceive nature, land, and other species and understand how Indigenous people, in particular places, are entangled with anthropogenic change in different ways. This chapter discusses the relevance of Carole Lindstrom’s children’s picturebook, We Are Water Protectors (2020), in providing powerful entry points to teach and inform children about the complicated and messy interrelationships among children, land, and the whole natural system; environmental injustice issues; and the potential agency of (Indigenous) children in this ongoing age of climate change and environmental degradation.Öğe The Ocean as a Queer Black Utopian Space: Rivers Solomon’s The Deep(Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2023) Bay, HaticeThe Deep (2019), written by Rivers Solomon (with Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, and Jonathan Snipes), a non-binary black writer, explores the concept of the ocean as a black utopian space. This fantasy tale delves into the world of the wajinru, an underwater mermaid society known as the chorus of the deep. The wajinru are descendants of pregnant women thrown overboard during the transatlantic journey to the Americas and the Caribbean. Within the underwater narrative, the story delves into themes of generational trauma, environmental degradation, cultural memory, communal obligation, and the complexities of bodies, genders, memories, emotions, and relationships, with a focus on the protagonist Yetu. By employing the theoretical framework of black utopia studies, this analysis highlights that Solomon’s construction of the oceanic black utopian society resists being categorized within any hegemonic framework. Solomon not only presents alternative social structures but also explores alternative dimensions of existence. The novel brings forth a perspectival sea change, emphasizing the interconnectedness of existence within a broader ecological context. Moreover, Solomon examines the idea of a gender-fluid and expanding black utopian society. The Deep incorporates body and genital diversity, and the wajinru exhibit a self-critical and improvisational nature. In this black utopian society, collective formation and kinship are continuously evolving and under construction. In conclusion, the ocean in The Deep transcends being a site solely associated with painful memories, rupture, and discontinuity. Instead, it becomes a moldable, resilient space that embraces the fragmented experiences of those whose lives were never meant to be considered livable. The novel gives rise to a black utopian society that rejects solid ground and instead embraces more ecological, fragile, and queer visions of life, history, existence, and freedom.Öğe "Urban rhythmanalysis in Mahsa Mohebali’s In Case of Emergency"(H-ermes. Journal of Communication, 2023) Bay, HaticeIn this essay, the focus is on Mahsa Mohebali’s novel In Case of Emergency, which provides a powerful portrayal of the lives of women and the youth in Tehran, under a regime that represses its citizens. Through the lens of Henri Lefebvre’s rhythmanalysis, this essay examines how Mohebali portrays the unpredictable, deviant, and playful nature of city spaces. The protagonist, Shadi, disrupts the controlled, surveilled, and oppressed city by producing her own arrhythmic patterns. Mohebali’s depiction of Tehran as a character itself highlights its polyrhythmic nature, which encompasses eurhythmic, isorhythmic, and arrhythmic spaces all at once. This portrayal challenges the authority’s grip over the lives and experiences of its citizens, and reveals a more nuanced and complex city. Despite the regime’s attempts to suppress individuality and restrict citizens’ lives, the novel presents a world where the unpredictable and deviant still exist, albeit in the hidden corners of the city. In portraying a trembling and earthquake-hit Tehran as another protagonist, Mohebali succeeds in offering a glimpse of a more multifaceted Tehran that is crisscrossed by and composed of a multitude of rhythms.Öğe Working Black Women and the Performance of Racial Uplift in the Netflix Series Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker(Lexington Books, 2023) Bay, HaticeThis article examines the four-part Netflix series Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker and the ways in which it brings Black working women out of obscurity and positions them as pivotal economic agents in U.S. history. By analyzing how the series intertwines Madam Walker’s life with broader themes and significant events in American history, including segregation, colorism, hairism, male supremacy, and poverty, this article aims to demonstrate how Madam Walker dispels myths surrounding working women and allows for a redefinition of concepts like work and race, work and class, and work and gender from a positive perspective. Ultimately, the argument presented is that the series diversifies, democratizes, and presents a pluralistic view of the experiences of working women in early twentieth century USA by giving prominence and voice to Black female workers and their remarkable achievements.
