142 research outputs found
Boats, borders, and bases: race, the cold war, and the rise of migration detention in the United States/ Jenna M. Loyd and Alison Mountz.
No full textIncludes bibliographical references and index."Discussions on U.S. border enforcement have traditionally focused on the highly charged U.S.-Mexico boundary, inadvertently obscuring U.S.-Caribbean relations and the concerning asylum and detention policies unfolding there. Boats, Borders, and Bases offers the missing, racialized histories of the U.S. detention system and its relationship to the interception and detention of Haitian and Cuban migrants. It argues that the U.S. response to Cold War Caribbean migrations actually established the legal and institutional basis for contemporary migration and detention, and border-deterrent practices in the United States. This book promises to make a significant contribution to a truer understanding of the history and geography of the U.S. detention system overall."--Provided by publisher.Race and the cold war geopolitics of migration control -- Building the world's largest detention system -- Expanding the world's largest detention system.1 online resource
Managing migration: scaling sovereignty on islands
No full textIsland and maritime spaces between regions have become central places of recurrent crises over human migration and re-articulations of state sovereignty. Islands, the very sites where land meets water, are among the contested sites of struggle over entry and exclusion. In this paper, the Mediterranean is our main area of geographical inquiry. We explore the connections between crises of sovereignty, migration and islands, seeking to enhance connections between scholarship on migration and sovereignty. We argue that migration management and its geographical articulation on islands involve persistent reconfigurations of sovereignty, particularly evident during times of crisis over human migration. Such crises and re-articulations of sovereignty are creative uses of geography that repeatedly lead to a failure to protect human rights. To develop this argument, we bring feminist theorists of state sovereignty into conversation with political geographers. We move across scales of governance and political mobilization to show how a reconfiguration of sovereignty through regional and national management regimes leads to complex legal geographies and sovereign entanglements that migrants and advocates must navigate to claim rights
When Kami Met Kuma Feminist Popular Geopolitical Perspectives on Japanese Nationhood and Settler Colonization of the Ainu in Persona 4 Golden
No full textWhen the player-protagonist1 ambushes an enemy and enters a battle with an advantage, that is moving first, in the Japanese Role-Playing Video Game (JRPG), Persona 4 Golden (P4G), an upbeat tune titled: Reach Out To The Truth parachutes one into the scene (Epigraph 1) (Meguro 2008). As the situation in the battle develops, the rap in the background sets out to inform the player-protagonist on the importance of their battles as a part of a “greater cause” through telling one that “the stake is high” while also, creating an environment of urgency by telling one to “not waste” their “time” on frivolous ventures. These rap lyrics also intends to convey the moral values that a player-protagonist should hold in order to succeed in their “greater cause” – an unyielding sharpness in temperament that chops away falsehoods to reveal the “naked truth”. Thus, the song posits that it is the rendering of a truth that is supposedly opaque which allows the player-protagonist to succeed in the “greater cause” of the game’s world. Along this vein, the player-protagonist is reminded repeatedly during the many trials and tribulations that they encounter in the game of the primacy of Truth that will deliver “justice to them all” – a collective if you will. If, as the song suggests, the stakes of P4G is framed as ‘justice’ to a ‘collective’ through finding and articulating Truth – what is the Truth, who is the ‘collective’, and what does ‘justice’ entail (the third of these questions I will not be addressing directly in this thesis) become the key initial questions to understand
The M&G Drive
No full textabstract: The M&G Drive is a proposed venture project lead by Barrett seniors, Elijah Smith and Jenna Fitzgerald. This project aims to educate Arizona State University (ASU) students on the issues of food insecurity around the Phoenix valley and facilitate their involvement in helping alleviate this pressing social matter. Scientific research has shown significant inverse relationships between food insecurity and the following: mental and physical health, social skills, and academic achievement. As the largest public university in the nation, Arizona State holds a self-ascribed responsibility for the health of its communities. In order to address this issue on behalf of Arizona State and from the standpoint of college students, this proposed venture will encourage the ASU student population to reallocate their unused M&G Dollars (ASU’s on-campus currency) to go toward this cause. Rather than being absorbed back by the university system, unused M&G Dollars can instead be used to purchase non-perishables that will then be donated to the local Phoenix community in order to help fight against food insecurity
From Wunderkammern to Kinect: The Creation of 'Shadow Worlds'
No full textThis paper focuses on two projects, Still Life No. 1 and Shadow Worlds | Writers' Rooms [Brontë Parsonage], to reveal the creative approaches the authors take to site, technology, and the self in their production of shadow worlds as sites of wonder. Informed by the uncanny (re-animation and the double) and an interest in the limen (thresholds in the real and virtual realms), the projects explore white light and infrared digital 3D scanning technologies as tools for capture and transformation. The authors will discuss how they suture the past with the present and ways that light slips secretly between us, revealing other realms
Review of \u3cem\u3eBoats, Borders, and Bases: Race, the Cold War, and the Rise of Migrant Detention in the United States\u3c/em\u3e
No full textReview of Boats, Borders, and Bases: Race, the Cold War, and the Rise of Migrant Detention in the United States. By Jenna M. Loyd and Alison Mountz. Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2018. 320 pp., $29.95, paperback, ISBN 978-0-520-28796-
Grassroots and Community Activism Within Milwaukee's Black Community: A Response to Central City Renewal and Revitalization Efforts in the Walnut Street Area, 1960s to 1980s
No full textMany researchers and scholars have explored the Black urban experience and have often chosen to focus on the systemic and institutionalized forms of racism that affect different aspects of Black lives. Descriptions of central city lives as told by Black central city residents are starkly similar to the descriptions of Black residents of industrialized cities throughout the United States. Fragments of the Black urban experience are contained in discussions of the effects of urban renewal efforts, including “redevelopment” and “revitalization,” beginning most heavily in the 1940s. Looking back at urban renewal designs and strategies from the 1940s through the 1980s is crucial to beginning to understand the entirety of the Black urban experience. Much of the literature on urban renewal focuses on the ramifications of legislative programs and the factors that influenced decision making at multiple levels, primarily the individual, the community, the larger city, and within public and private spheres. These pieces, however, do not tell the entire story, and tend to leave out the influence that grassroots and community groups within central city Black neighborhoods had over the revitalization of their immediate environments. While some scholarship does engage with Black agency, it, again, tends to focus on what is happening to local Black populations, not on what is being done by Black community members. This thesis focuses on a particular Black community and how their actions created change and, thus, contributes to the evolving discussion of the Black urban experience. It is important to investigate Black grassroots and community groups in order to come to a fuller understanding of a crucial piece of the Black urban experience and to challenge a still predominant viewpoint that the Black urban population was largely idle in terms of taking action to influence their surroundings. In addition to exploring this marginalized history, this thesis seeks to add to the narrative of Milwaukee’s Black population, whose voice has repeatedly and intentionally been overpowered, and to expose a small portion of the structural and institutional racism and disadvantage those in power have historically exposed this country’s Black population to. In order to accomplish these objectives, this thesis will examine the creation of Milwaukee’s Bronzeville, the subsequent destruction of this community that accompanied urban renewal efforts, and the response of Black residents to this destruction. This thesis will focus on the Walnut Area Improvement Council, Inc., whose primary goal was to save the integrity of a particular Black neighborhood through the preservation of housing and the integration of residents into decision-making roles. To fully understand how Milwaukee fits into the narrative of urban renewal experiences in the United States, preeminent scholars such as Gilbert Osofsky, James R. Grossman, Arnold R. Hirsch, Thomas J. Sugrue, David M.P. Freund, Katherine McKittrick, and Mindy Thompson Fullilove will be referenced as they have laid the groundwork for how certain decisions came to be racialized to harm Black central city residents and the effects that urban renewal efforts had on existing Black communities. In addition, scholars that have studied the City of Milwaukee, such as John Gurda, Joe William Trotter, Jr., Patrick Jones, and Paul Geib, will be utilized to piece together pieces of the Black urban experience that, to an extent, have already been explored. Archival materials from governmental entities and the Walnut Area Improvement Council, Inc. will be utilized to showcase first-hand accounts of events and to emphasize the narratives of this particular Black community. These existing documents and pieces of scholarship help to uncover one community’s response to central city revitalization efforts in the post-industrial city of Milwaukee. They are pieced together to expose a contradiction to the predominant view of the Black population while emphasizing how outside factors work together to negatively influence environments and populations deemed unfit or undesirable. Instead of perpetuating the acceptance of erasing certain components of the Black urban experience, this research project seeks to give space to discuss the activism among Black residents that took place in one urban setting while advocating for the inclusion of Black histories into the history of Milwaukee. It is the hope of this author that this research project will encourage future scholars to engage with the Black urban experience in a way that emphasizes the activism of the Black community and exposes racism within structural and institutional entities that subdue and omit the Black voice
Modification of nektonic fish distribution by piers and pile fields in an urban estuary
No full textLarge urban piers degrade habitat value for several estuarine benthic fish species by shading, but their effects on mobile nektonic species is less well understood due to sampling challenges. Dual Frequency Identification Sonar (DIDSON) allowed equal access to sampling in the water column of structured shaded and unshaded vs. open environments in both dark and light conditions by methods similar to video but without light. Sampling (n = 228, 5-minute transects) occurred under and around four large municipal piers of varying dimensions in the Hudson River estuary during day and night from summer and fall in 2007 - 2009. The distribution of small (5 - 25 cm in length) and large (25 – 850 cm) fishes were analyzed separately in recognition of functional guild differences. Small fishes occupied open water, shaded under-pier, and un-decked relict piling habitats, but were significantly more abundant during the day in open unshaded water than under adjacent piers or in piling habitats.. Small fish occurred under 3 of 4 piers of varying size and configuration at 10 - 20% of the median abundances of adjacent open water. However, while schools were rare under piers they could be very large, so that abundance greatly exceeded mean open water abundance variance so as to preclude confidence in differences among piers. The differences among habitats was not significant at night, and the difference among piers was also not significant at night. School membership for small fish appeared to mitigate adverse effects of shading and may influence scaling of their response to shading and could therefore influence pier design. Large (>25 cm) predatory fish were uncommon but responded similarly to habitat effects as did small fish. Habitats did not segregate fish by guild as small forage fish co-occurred in 65.8% of samples with large piscivores. Studies that provide species-specific and mechanistic interpretation of dynamic habitat use as well as further quantification of scaling effects could improve our understanding of how fishes respond to piers and other structures on urban shorelines.Peer reviewed
The Tale of Two Cities: a Feminist Critique of Economic Development & Neoliberal Multiculturalism in Milwaukee
No full textIn this dissertation, I examine how race articulates with economic development in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Drawing on two years of participant observation with the Milwaukee Fight for 15; participant observation of public meetings and days of action; semi-structured interviews with City officials, business leaders, non-profit professionals, and community organizers; and media and document analysis, I find that normative discourses of race underpin economic development in Milwaukee even as City officials and boosters give nominal recognition to racial inequality and purport to embrace diversity and colourblindness. First, I trace historical and contemporary trajectories of economic development and segregation to show how the elision of such histories allows City leaders and members fo the business community to pose inadequate solutions that fail to actually address entrenched segregation and racialized poverty. Then, I examine the Milwaukee Fight for 15 as a mobilization to counter the City’s redevelopment strategy, which is reliant on low-wage workers, and show how it was ultimately unsuccessful because of its inability to embed the everyday lives of fast food workers within a broader racial capitalist context in the city. Finally, I examine the City of Milwaukee’s creative class-based economic redevelopment strategy to understand how the circulation of the ‘tale of two cities’ discourse reproduces normative socio-spatial patterns of racialization even as it puts forth an agenda of diversity and colourblindness. Taken together, my dissertation sheds light on how racial capitalism operates and rearticulates through colourblind discourses of economic development in a local urban context with a specific racial politics. My dissertation illustrates how local discourses and strategies of development are contested terrain where movement building for social justice comes into conflict with urban restructuring in a neoliberal context.2020-08-2
“Peace is Our Only Shelter”: Questioning Domesticities of Militarization and White Privilege
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