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Prelude To Molecularization: The Double Gradient Model Of Sulo Toivonen And Lauri Saxén
No full textThe present molecular investigations of Organizer phenomena show a remarkable connection to the earlier classical embryological studies that used transplantation as a method for making mechanistic models of induction. One of the most prominent of these connections is the dual gradient model for anterior-posterior and dorsal-ventral polarity. This paper will discuss some of the history of how transplantation experiments provided data that could be interpreted in terms of two gradients of biologically active materials. It will highlight how the attempts to discover the elusive Induktionsstoffen gave rise to the double gradient model of Sulo Toivonen and Lauri Saxén in the 1950s and 1960s. This paper will also document how this research into the identity of these molecules gave rise to the developmental genetics that eventually would find the molecules responsible for primary embryonic induction
Left out in the Cold: Care, Neglect, and Homelessness in Anchorage, Alaska
Get PDFIn the Summers of 2022 and 2023, Anchorage, Alaska closed all low-barrier emergency homeless shelters, forcing approximately 250 people to camp, unsheltered, throughout the city. The city’s actions spawned a crisis as people were left without food, water, or medical services, yet also sparked massive volunteer mobilization of mutual aid. This ethnographic study is based on three months of fieldwork grounded in participant observation at 3rd & Ingra, a large homeless encampment on the edge of downtown Anchorage. I studied three groups of people–policymakers, nonprofit employees, and volunteers–in order to understand how each of these groups conceptualizes homelessness and justifies their approach to addressing it.
My thesis explores the entanglement of care and power under neoliberalism; using Anchorage as a case study, I detail the state’s withdrawal from providing social services, and the corresponding responses enacted by nonprofit organizations and volunteers. This project draws attention to the role that biopower plays in state action, and how it serves to individualize and medicalize homelessness. I also discuss how care provided by volunteers helps people survive neglect, and challenges neoliberal rationalities. By investigating care, power, and their entanglement within homelessness management, I illustrate the limits and possibilities of collective survival practices under neoliberalism
La chanson française d’après-guerre : la mythologie d’une culture populaire et la masculinisation d’une tradition
No full textBlack Women and Communism: Exploring race, gender, and class-consciousness through the lives of Ella Baker, Lorraine Hansberry, and Claudia Jones
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A Loving Compilation Of Ecopoems: An Anthology Of My Favorites From The Ecopoetry And Climate Crisis Course Syllabus And Beyond
Get PDFThis anthology draws from a series of poems that I read as a college junior in a humanities-focused environmental studies class at Swarthmore College, as well as ecopoems that I have read in my own free time. It is meant to honor each of these poems that touched me in a unique way, which I will discuss in my commentary. For some, I was drawn to the poem’s overall message, or strong sensory language, or the identity of the poet that seeped through. I love poetry as a medium of expression, even though I sometimes struggle to find my poetic voice. Throughout this anthology, there is no one cohesive theme, except for the genre of ecopoetry, of course. Nevertheless, I hope you will enjoy these musings, and come away with a new sense of appreciation, curiosity, and wonder for these poems. Thank you for reading