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Cole’s from Newcastle (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Franklin, A. (2012, April). Cole’s from Newcastle. Paper presented at The 2012 National Confernce of the National Popular Culture & American Culture Association, Boston, US

In this paper the complex interweaving of beauty, class, power and powerlessness that is Cheryl Cole will be explored. Cole - UK TV’s The X-Factor judge, ex-WAG of Chelsea and England footballer Ashley Cole, celebrated Geordie, sometime singer, fullt... Read More about Cole’s from Newcastle.

Plastic fantastic? Self-objectification and the Bratz doll (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Franklin, A. (2011, April). Plastic fantastic? Self-objectification and the Bratz doll. Paper presented at Construct - The Body in Flux, Southampton

This paper employ Heideggarian phenomenology to argue that the postmodern, post-industrial being’s relationship with their ‘bodily nature’ is fundamentally ‘unnatural’ in character and that the mediation responsible for this disruption begins in chil... Read More about Plastic fantastic? Self-objectification and the Bratz doll.

“There’s no b’ness like ho b’ness”: Considering the hip-hop ‘ho’ (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Franklin, A. (2011, March). “There’s no b’ness like ho b’ness”: Considering the hip-hop ‘ho’. Paper presented at 1st Global Conference: Urban Popcultures, Prague, Czech Republic

Fashion has long been used to differentiate between prostitutes and ‘respectable’ members of society. Whether through state enforced sumptuary laws or less formally imposed but equally codified visual markers, the identity category of ‘prostitute’ ha... Read More about “There’s no b’ness like ho b’ness”: Considering the hip-hop ‘ho’.

Plastic bodies: Beings-not-of-the-world (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Franklin, A. (2010, November). Plastic bodies: Beings-not-of-the-world. Paper presented at II International Conference: The Texts of the Body - Generating Bodies: Discursive Sexed Productions, Barcelona, Spain

Employing a Heideggerian phenomenology of Being, this paper will argue that toys such as Bratz dolls, Barbie, and Disney Princesses contribute to an environment that fosters an ‘unnatural’ relationship between pre-adults and their ‘bodily nature’; ar... Read More about Plastic bodies: Beings-not-of-the-world.

Be-Bratz.com: Beings-not-of-the-world (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Franklin, A. (2010, July). Be-Bratz.com: Beings-not-of-the-world. Paper presented at Theorising the Popular, Liverpool, UK

This paper will explore the impact of a gendered ‘thing’ – the Bratz doll - on the postmodern, post-industrial individual’s relationship with their ‘bodily nature’. It will argue, employing a Heideggerian phenomenology of Being, that this relationshi... Read More about Be-Bratz.com: Beings-not-of-the-world.

First space: On 'being' a researcher (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Franklin, A. (2009, April). First space: On 'being' a researcher. Paper presented at Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth, ASA09: Anthropological and archaeological imaginations: past, present and future, Bristol

All anthropological and archaeological knowledges or ‘facts’ are mediated by at least one researcher before their dissemination to an audience, and the impact of this mediation on the resultant texts must be understood if the potentially solipsistic... Read More about First space: On 'being' a researcher.