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The Literary Remnants of Torture: An Examination of the United States Censorship Regime
Get PDF[Redacted] was a very radical hater. He completely changed the detention policies in GTMO in all aspects. [Redacted]. In his book Guantánamo Diary, Mohamedou Ould Slahi recounts his fourteen years of imprisonment at the Guantánamo Bay detention facility. Unfortunately, the United States government heavily redacted Slahi’s narrative, justifying it as a protection of identity and national security. However, in the restored version of Slahi’s book, some of the redactions raise concerns about the capricious nature of the United States’ censorship regime. The redacted quote from above names General Miller as an authoritative figure within Guantánamo who used his power to violate the inherent rights of detainees. Slahi recalls, “I personally don’t know what he told them, but as someone on the receiving end of his orders, I definitely felt the pain” (59). The purposeful removal of Miller’s name could be a protection of identity, but it also protects him from being held accountable as an abuser. The redactions present in this quote appear to be an attempt to hide the corruption taking place within Guantánamo, raising questions about what the government seeks to accomplish through censorship. This research study aims to gain an understanding of the United States’ censorship regime through an analysis of the federal government’s secrecy privileges, including the state secrets privilege and the exemptions outlined within the Freedom of Information Act. Through a comparison of these privileges against the redactions within Guantánamo Diary, this project challenges the government’s use of censorship as an attempt to avoid accountability for the abuses at Guantánamo Bay.https://orb.binghamton.edu/research_days_posters_2021/1078/thumbnail.jp
Healthcare Inequity Among Undocumented Immigrants
Get PDFAccess to healthcare should be seen as a right for every person regardless of legal status. An efficient healthcare system relies on frequent check-ins instead of delayed interventions, which can prove costly both physically and financially for the patient. This presentation investigates alternative medicine being replaced by preventive, primary healthcare and its impacts among the undocumented immigrant population in the United States. For a demographic that does not have any access to programs like Medicaid, Medicare, and Obamacare, undoumented immigrants have had to find more accessible and financially feasible methods of care. This presentation argues that while these alternative sources of medicine provide a basic level of medical care, they are insufficient and cannot act as a substitute for universal federal healthcare programs that encompass the entire American population. Some undocumented immigrants may rely on underground pharmacies for prescription drugs while others travel to Mexico for medical and/or dental care because a lower standard of care is a better option than no care at all. Primary sources consist of government websites describing state healthcare initiatives for undocumented immigrants, and an interview about the role community organizations play in closing gaps of healthcare inequity. Secondary sources include journal articles analyzing immigrant and refugee health assigning terms like “violence of uncertainty” that can be a direct cause of posttraumatic stress disorder from being held in detention centers. This presentation asserts a relationship between increasing diversity among healthcare providers and the narrowing of gaps in quality of care for undocumented immigrants. The multitude of linguistic and cultural barriers reduce the quality of care of undocumented immigrants. As undocumented immigrants and DACA recipients gain opportunities to go to medical school, more barriers get eliminated. This research presentation analyzes how to improve the standard of life of the undocumented population through healthcare access.https://orb.binghamton.edu/research_days_posters_2021/1087/thumbnail.jp
Premises and Problems: Essays on World Literature and Cinema
Get PDFWorld literature, many have stressed, is a systematic category. Both literary scholars and social scientists have argued that the prestige of the major literary languages is key to establishing the shape of the overall system. In order to critically interrogate world literature and cinema, Premises and Problems approaches this system from the perspective of languages and film traditions that do not hold a hegemonic position. This perspective raises new questions about the nature of literary hegemony and the structure of world literature: How is hegemony established? What are the costs of losing it? What does hegemony mask? How is it masked? The contributors focus predominantly on literatures outside the small circle of prestigious modern European languages and on films and film criticism produced outside the best-known centers. The inclusion of this unfamiliar material calls attention to some areas of obscurity that make key features of the system indistinct, or that make it difficult to trace relationships between texts that hold different levels of prestige, such as those of the Global North and the Global South. The book argues that the study of world literature and cinema will profit from a sustained and informed engagement with the body of work produced by historical social scientists committed to the perspective of the world-system.https://orb.binghamton.edu/books/1000/thumbnail.jp
Dataset for Faunal Analyses of Biry House Food Remains, Castroville, TX
No full textIn 2013, Van Dyke excavated a historic residence located at 309th Paris Street in Castroville, Texas. Beginning in 1844, the house was occupied by the families that had immigrated from the Alsace region of France. Preliminary analyses of the faunal recovered from a lime slaking pit suggested that over the course of the home’s residence, family members incorporate wild taxa into their diet in addition to their traditional Alsatian foodstuffs. Expanded analyses of the faunal remains from additional features provide additional evidence that the diet of the residents slowly transitioned away from a strict Alsatian diet and eventually included native fishes, birds, and deer. Other domesticated food items such as chicken, however, remained consistently used through the occupation. The evidence from these analyses demonstrated how families adapted to local conditions while also maintaining traditions linked to their Alsatian Heritage
Human-robot collaboration: a multilevel and integrated leadership framework
No full textIn an era of rapid advances in artificial intelligence, the deployment of robots in organizations is accelerating. Further, robotic capabilities are expanding to serve a broader range of leadership behaviors related to task accomplishment and relationship support. Despite the increasing use of robots in various roles across different industries, research on human-robot collaboration in the workplace is lagging behind. As such, the current research aims to provide a state-of-the-science review and directions for future work in this underdeveloped area. Drawing on current leadership paradigms, we review human-robot collaboration studies from four academic disciplines with a history of publishing such work (i.e., management, economics, psychology, engineering) and propose that the research trajectory of human-robot collaboration parallels the evolution of leadership research paradigms (i.e., leader centric, relational view, and follower centric). Given that leadership is an inherently multilevel phenomenon, we apply a levels-of-analysis framework to integrate and synthesize human-robot collaboration studies from cross-disciplinary research areas. Based on our findings, we offer suggestions for future research in terms of conceptualization, theory building and testing, practical implications, and ethical considerations
Torus Knot (3, 5) Australian Red Coolibah Burl Cap
No full textA 3,5 torus knot carved from that same piece of Australian Red Coolibah Burl Cap. It is 6.5 in diameter and 3 thick.https://orb.binghamton.edu/mathematical_sculptures/1605/thumbnail.jp
Housing Insecurity in Binghamton
Get PDFHousing is vital to the protection of individual human life and liberty, yet so many Americans find themselves housing insecure. This study examines housing insecurity in Binghamton, New York, its causes, and potential solutions through the use of interviews and participant observations. Despite the surplus of available housing and low demand, so many Binghamton residents find themselves struggling to afford their rent due to the presence of university students in the city and the profit incentives of landlords. Public housing solutions are the most effective at eliminating these particular issues under the conditions present in Binghamton’s circumstances, suggesting that the federal and local governments should focus housing policy more on providing housing directly to citizens in need rather than fostering private development
Behind the Steel Bars of History: The Post-Civil Rights Era Radical Prison Movement
Get PDFThe resistance and political action taken by the incarcerated in prisons like Attica Correctional Facility during the post-civil rights era (1968 -1972) faced an unprecedented state-led, counterinsurgent force. The socio-historical context of this suppression is a time of crisis for the U.S. as it struggled to maintain capitalist hegemony in the face of anti-systemic movements from the New Left. The post-civil rights era was a moment in US history that saw the strongest and most radical challenge to racial capitalism to date in the form of a social movement led by prisoners, yet the historical legacy of radical prison organizing continues to be suppressed because the state treated the politics and tactics the incarcerated mobilized behind as a threat to the massive securitization strategy and neoliberal capitalist reconfiguration of the 1970s. I first compare the popular retelling of the civil rights movement as compared to the radical prison movement (in media, education, and collective memory) and then analyze the Attica Manifesto and Soledad Brother by George Jackson to understand the contents of radical prison politics and its subsequent suppression. Coming to understand the potential of the incarcerated as a source of a powerful anti-capitalist politic requires us to dispel the idea that history is a form of truth-telling. History is a form of state-mediated collective memory, rather than a “truth,” that justifies the state’s agenda of securitization in the interest of protecting capital
Power, Policy, Profit: The Spanish Language in the United States
Get PDFOver the past several decades, the Spanish language has been considered secondary to English, specifically in the United States. However, this paper argues that Spanish is one of the primary languages in the country because it is the second most spoken language, despite efforts to maintain a monolingual nation. Due to the impact of capitalism, if one’s first language is not English, they are separated and viewed as inferior in society. After providing background on the history of Spanish in the United States, this paper explores the impact of power, Americanization, education and cheap work on the Spanish language with data from various articles and the United States Census. Spanish continues to be a primary language in the United States, even with capitalism constantly attempting to exploit the language and those who speak it