who's who in research visuAl Arts - Intellect

Zygmunt Bauman
University of Leeds, Emeritus
Professor of Sociology, School of
Sociology and Social Policy, Leeds,
LS2 9JT, United Kingdom
Keywords Simmel, progress,
freedom, security, fashion
Nancy Beardall
Lesley University, 5 Phillips Place,
Cambridge, MA 02138, United States
of America
Keywords relational development,
dance therapy, movement therapist
Myron M. Beasley
Keywords
Zygmunt Bauman is one of the most significant global social thinkers
of our age. His work, spanning nearly five decades, steadfastly refuses
to be constrained by arbitrary disciplinary boundaries within the arts,
humanities and social sciences. An extraordinarily productive scholar,
his writings continue to be relevant to his host subject of sociology, but
also to social and political theory, philosophy, ethics, art theory,
media/communications studies, cultural studies, and theology. His
unique contribution – the conceptual framework ‘liquid modernity’ –
has influenced international research within all of these disciplines. By
employing the metaphor of ‘liquidity’, Bauman’s later work has
captured the fluid and constantly shifting character of our equally
individualized and globalized lives and, over the course of a series of
related books and articles, has offered one of the most significant
interpretations of human societies in the twenty-first century.
› Perpetuum mobile, Critical Studies in Fashion & Beauty, 1.1, 55-63.
Nancy Beardall, Ph.D., B.C.-D.M.T., C.M.A., L.M.H.C., is the
Dance/Movement Therapy Coordinator at Lesley University,
Cambridge, MA. As a dance/movement therapist, Certified Movement
Analyst and educator, Nancy’s work has focused on dance, dance
therapy and social/emotional and relational development using the
expressive arts in the public schools. She has developed numerous
curricula and co-authored Making Connections: Building Community
and Gender Dialogue in Secondary Schools with Janet Surrey and
Stephen Bergman.
› Spirals dancing and the Spiral Integrated Learning Process: Promoting an
embodied knowing, Journal of Applied Arts & Health, 2.1, 7-23.
Myron M. Beasley is Assistant Professor of African American Studies
and American Cultural Studies at Bates College, Lewiston, Maine. He
is a critical ethnographer, curator and performance artist. He is the
2010/11 recipient of an Andy Warhol Arts Writers Grant and a Whiting
Foundation Fellowship for his work exploring gender performance
among street food vendors of Jacmel and contemporary Haitian artists.
Beasley is currently working on a book project on the topic of death
and performance art in the African diaspora. He has curated projects in
Haiti, Brazil and Morocco, and his writing appears in journals such as
Text and Performance Quarterly and Performance Research.