I have finally fleshed out the research agenda: Citizenship has been at the fore of political struggles since before the Haitian Revolution in Saint Domingue, and later Haiti. Beginning with the tightening of colonial citizenship conferral on people of color in 1769, followed by the struggles...
I don't understand international law. I never have. But what has happened in Pakistan has been incredibly difficult to understand. I keep replacing actors - Bush for Osama, CAR for Pakistan, Navy Seals with mercenaries - over and over, i keep hoping to understand. It never...
Yesterday, Laura Pulido and Nik Heynen were on campus for a NOW Urbanism lecture at the University of Washington, of the John E Sawyer Seminar in the Study of Comparative Cultures, titled Social Justice, Inequality and Cities. I had the great pleasure of getting to speak...
I've groused, in the past, that departments should be more interactive and less cultishly territorial about disciplinary boundaries. But today, after interacting with someone from a sister discipline, I'm rethinking my Polly-Anna-esque view of the possibilities of the world. I suppose we're different disciplines for...
Meeting went well - now have 36 hours to write new proposal with new questions. Chapter 2: De-silencing and re-placing history 2.a. Citizenship as a project of exclusion: from Haitian Revolution to American occupation 2.b. Citizenship under imperial rule 2.c. Citizenship through vertical intervention (1949-present) Chapter 3: The Global Health...