Capturing Toxicity: Archiving Palestinian Social Worlds
In my examinations of the use of new media tools and technologies in and on Palestine, I have come to see the significance of social media in capturing the devastating consequences of militarization and occupation. As a transnational feminist scholar, I am particularly invested in how such sites reveal the complex ways in which gender intersects with the settler-colonial project of erasure.
Across Scales and Systems
Across Scales and Systems
Restricted Research Space | Jessica Slattery |
Restricted essay.
Smart Homes in Pop Culture
News:
- This NYT article describes how smart home technologies are sometimes used as tools for domestic abuse
Podcasts:
[Sharon Traweek] In/visible El Segundo: Mapping Erasures of Toxic Subjectivity
El Segundo at the edge of the Santa Monica Bay. I was raised there, 9 blocks south of LAX (second busiest in the US), two blocks east of a sewage treatment plant (one of the world’s largest), and three blocks north of the Chevron Oil refinery (processing oil from Alaska, Ecuador, and the Middle East for the LA region’s planes and cars). Factories 1.5 miles to the east became the core of the US aerospace industry. Urban historians call El Segundo an industrial suburb. Constrained by industrial infrastructure, there is little room for the small town to expand.
Jennifer Renick | Research Program
This essay describes Jennifer Renick’s Research Program. My research program focuses on two main areas, both broadly situated within community studies. The first area is the factors that influence climate and culture within educational spaces. I am interested in understanding how schools and other educational spaces can be welcoming communities for all participants, by adopting practices that foster a sense of belonging and mattering.