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Control of Cultural and Bodily Reproduction: The Denial of Autonomy in the United States, Peru and Globally
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This project seeks to look at the ways the state and hegemonic devices of power control cultural and bodily reproduction. It asks the question of how this control inhibits people\u27s reproductive autonomy, cultural identity, language, and generational knowledge transmission. I offer specific examples of how this control has functioned in the US, with immigrants, Indigenous, Black people and other marginalized groups. My grandmother is from Lima, Peru and because of that connection, and the inspiration of this piece, I wanted to use the 1990s-2000s Sterilization in Peru as a case study of hegemonic control happening more globally. This incorporates the way governments co-opt movement autonomy, in this case co-opting progressive feminist rhetoric. I use the examples above to consider how the fight for reproductive autonomy in US should be framed, avoiding binary view of access to abortion that positions abortion as a choice, but looking to a longstanding intersectional Reproductive Justice Movement created by and centering Black feminists and other feminists of color. I will end using an abolition feminist framework and “Uses of the Erotic” as one possible image of a liberatory future where we can decolonize our bodies and resist the forms of control I frame at the beginning of my analysis
#Landback: Northern Cheyenne to Reclaim Sovereignty
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As new movements emerge and become evermore relevant across Indian Country, I believe that it is important to address and document these movements and their themes in academic scholarship. Namely, the #Landback, Indigenous Data Sovereignty, and Indigenous Data Governance movements are significant. Proof of this significance lies within their purposes and the very fact that there is a lack of conversation regarding this discourse in the scholarly world. Therefore, the purpose of this essay is to increase this discourse by exploring and discussing Indigenous activism, land reclamation, resurgence, sovereignty, and #Landback in the context of the So’taa’eo/Tsetsêhesêstâhase/Tsitsistas (Northern Cheyenne) Nation. I believe that through these movements the Northern Cheyenne people and other Indigenous nations have the opportunity to resurge, (re)enforce, and reclaim their sovereignty, on levels that concern the health and well-being of these nations – including that of humans, plants, and animal relatives. Lastly, on a more personal note, this essay was created in my interest to bring light to the persistence and resistance work that my people and nation continuously and consistently practice – that ultimately enables them to reject the broken promises of the coal and mining industry
Desert Locust Invasions and Farmers’ Adaptation
No full textThis study measures behavioral changes of Ethiopian farmers after experiencing desert locust invasions in 2014. I use an air-mass dispersion model to predict wind patterns that could transport locust swarms and combine the wind trajectories with a panel household survey data to identify affected households. Exploiting the spatial and timing variation of locust invasions, I find that a marginal exposure to locust swarms during the harvesting season causes farmers to delay planting by 4 days and expand their crop portfolio by 0.115 staple/subsistence crops
A Call for Change: Minnesota Environmental Justice Heroes in Action, Volume 2
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This second volume of “A Call for Change: Minnesota Environmental Justice Heroes in Action” is a collection of the stories and efforts of environmental justice activists at the forefront of the Minnesota environmental justice movement. It is a compilation of interviews, conducted by students at Macalester College in 2023, to understand the layers of environmental injustice in Minnesota and bring attention to the resilience and determination of activists and communities. See volume one at https://mlpp.pressbooks.pub/environmentaljustice/https://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/books/1006/thumbnail.jp
Addressing the complexity of mental health care for youth experiencing houselessness
Get PDFChildren and youth experiencing houselessness have a unique set of mental health needs due to the traumatic experience of houselessness during childhood and the other adverse childhood experiences that often coincide with houselessness (van der Kolk, 2003; Wong et al., 2016). They face immense barriers in access to mental health care due to logistical factors as a result of their housing status and socio-structural factors (Krippel et al., 2020; Gallardo et al., 2020; Bradley et al., 2018). However, existing studies reveal a lack of evidence-based interventions for children and youth experiencing houselessness and a lack of insight from mental health providers for this population (Bassuk et al., 2015). Mental health providers having the best understanding of the needs of children and youth experiencing homelessness and the absence of their voices highlights the practice-research gap between providers and researchers. The qualitative research conducted in this project, in the form of interviews with two mental health care workers, demonstrates the importance of fulfilling basic needs and considering broader social context, specifically systemic racism, as the most significant factor in mental health concerns. The primary findings challenge researchers to take a macro level approach regarding how systemic racism plays a role in houselessness and to evaluate the role and impact of research
Adding Classical Novae Contribution to the Isotopic Scaling model
Get PDFThe Isotopic Scaling model(West & Heger, 2013) provides a complete average isotopic decomposition for our Milky Way as a function of metallicity and it requires an initial Solar Abundance Decomposition as a starting point. The previous Solar Abundance decomposition work is not perfect(West & Heger, 2013), since Classical Novae abundances are ignored. My research intends to improve the current solar abundance decomposition by adding Classical Novae Abundance contribution, then to update the Isotopic Scaling model
Tools For Refining the Baryonic Tully-Fisher Relation
Get PDFThis paper discusses the development of tools for galactic photometry using wise, and for reduction and analysis of 21cm galaxy spectra. These Python-based tools can then be applied to selected data in order to refine the Baryonic Tully-Fisher Relation. This relation, between baryonic mass and rotational velocity of a galaxy, proves useful for extragalactic research, particularly in calculating redshift-independent distances. While these tools could be further improved, they provide a robust process for calculation of particular galaxy characteristics
Homer\u27s Dream Guy: An Exploration of Masculinity and Honor in the Odyssey
Get PDFThe Odyssey is a story exploring what it means to be a good man–and what happens to those who aren\u27t. In this paper, I argue that ideal masculinity in the Odyssey is defined by restraint, self-control, and one\u27s leadership and guardianship abilities. Most men in the Odyssey fall short of this ideal, and often suffer as a result. Only Nestor, king of Pylos, is able to meet this standard and act as a role model for Telemachus. By examining the usage of certain Greek words and phrases in the text, I explore the relationship between recklessness, lack of leadership, and subsequent suffering. I conclude that while manhood and masculinity were important in Homeric society, excessively masculine behavior is shown to be far more destructive than a lack of masculinity
Interpretations of Intent: Sovereignty, the Second Amendment, and US Gun Culture
Get PDFIn this paper, I engage foundational theorists such as Jean Bodin, Thomas Hobbes, and John Locke to examine the philosophies of sovereignty that underpin the US Constitution and the creation of the Second Amendment. I find that the US Founders\u27 reaction to these foundational theories of sovereignty allowed for a breakdown in the system of sovereignty in the country, and made way for the implementation of the Rule of Law. The Rule of Law, in turn, created the conditions of possibility for the psyche of radical individualism that now permeates the US. This radical individualism allowed for the reinterpretation of the Second Amendment as demonstrated in cases such as DC vs Heller, and in turn upholds models of liability that prevent gun violence from being addressed as a systemic issue. Utilizing traditional and contemporary theorists, I wade through all of this discourse in order to propose a normative shift toward a more connection based model of political engagement and gun policy in the United States
Mixed Speak: Towards a Re-Poetics of Race and Self
Get PDFThis paper tells the stories of mixed-race Japanese people. I engage in a re-poetics, positing storytelling as an essential tool into complicating our understandings of race and self. I examine the relationship between language and race, exploring how subjects existing within a space of mixedness navigate identity-formation and racial belonging. Operating under a socio-constructivist lens, I begin with a brief re-telling of the history of race in Japan, re-framing mythologies of race throughout literature, legislation, and into national and colonial projects. While popular discourse alleges Japan was and is a country of racial homogeneity, I argue that this falsifies colonial legacies and denies contemporary realities. I contextualize racial formation in Japan as a convergence of pre-existing language surrounding blood and purity with a racialist Western worldview. The second half of this paper transitions towards instances of identity formation. Through a brief linguistic case study, I illustrate the way televisual media reproduces Japaneseness discourse, and the way racialized hāfu people must negotiate their identities within its discursive rules, speaking to the embodied tensions of mixedness. Using a combination of interview and autoethnographic material, I center our voices to produce a comprehensive (though not omniscient) view of lived experiences within, through, and between racial lines. Finally, I explore the implications of undoing racial language and consider racial futurities