Incarceration affects the lives of millions through exploitative and discriminatory practices in various forms of carceral control, and its “collateral damage” extends to families and communities. The goal of this collaboration is to identify what the University of Minnesota, as a major and influential academic institution, can do to address the crisis.
Soo Hyun Jackelen, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, CLA, TC
Soyi Kim, Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature, CLA, TC
Travis Workman, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, CLA, TC
Hiromi Mizuno, History, CLA, TC
New research specifies how climate change is predicted to disproportionately affect the Duluth-Superior community, but not for the same reasons many others will be affected. Work by Dr. Jesse Keenan from Harvard predicts that the Duluth/Superior area will be one of the most felicitous locations for people displaced by the negative effects of climate change, owing in part to its cooler climate, abundant fresh water, existing infrastructure, including a strong education system, and well-educated population.
At their core, debates over urban agriculture are about who has the right to control land, for what purposes, and who has the power to decide. While often framed as a new phenomenon, urban agriculture has long been used to inscribe and contest social hierarchies on the physical landscape.
My dissertation shows that the U.S. systematically employed its World War II Japanese American concentration camps to alienate indigenous peoples from their lands and convert them into exploitable labor. I draw on history, anthropology, literary studies, and archaeology to interrogate the power dynamics that exclude certain voices while privileging others—preventing us from understanding these histories as interrelated.
Financial trading is a serious practice. In an increasingly unstable and weakening emerging market, it is seriously a risky practice.
Peasant dispossession and ‘withdrawal of the state’ are seen as key features defining neoliberal forms of governance in the South. My ethnographic research disrupts this conventional picture by exploring DHA’s (Defense Housing Authority) expansion into the rural hinterlands, making it the largest commercial and residential housing enclave in Lahore, managed by the military. How do we understand military-led urban development?
My first book project, Shards, deals with the specific historical weight, traumatic hauntings and political implications of fragmentation in writings from the Caribbean, Maghreb, and Sub-Saharan Africa. (Post) colonial domination is spectacular: it dazes and dazzles through its theatrical displays and routine exhibitions of power.
This study investigates the conceptualization and historical practice of solidarity primarily through the lens of African American, Chicana/o/x, and Puerto Rican sites of struggle in the twentieth century. Important to this investigation are the ways regional differences and geo-historical contexts facilitated articulations of Black-Brown/Afro-Latinx diasporic solidarities and how these articulations led to counter hegemonic activities and theories of revolution across local, national, and transnational boundaries.
How are people’s private lives influenced by doing paid social-justice work? How do private interests influence organizational efforts to advance equity? This project is a multiparadigmatic examination of “organized prosociality” (work intended to benefit others), especially of the roles played by private interests therein. My past research has identified micro-level mechanisms linking employees’ private interests and prosocial work, drawing upon original, longitudinal ethnographic engagements across two distinct work settings—grantmaking and international aid.