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Mapping Staten Island: A Field Study Guide, Nerve Macaspac
Mapping Staten Island: A Field Study Guide, Nerve Macaspac
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This is a guide for the field study and urban lab as partial requirements for GEG 260 Urban Geography at CUNY College of Staten Island. The field study introduces students to spatial ethnography and offers an opportunity to observe, experience and examine a range of spatial urban phenomena that they have learned in the classroom within actually-existing urban environments. Designed as a collaborative activity, students will work in teams in exploring and examining the built environment on-site and then produce multimedia deliverables to capture their reflections throughout the field study using creative and experimental methods. The collaborative and experimental design …
Unstitching The Borders: Color, Class And Consumption In Queens, New York, Cassandra R. Barnes
Unstitching The Borders: Color, Class And Consumption In Queens, New York, Cassandra R. Barnes
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
The following thesis is a comparative multipart examination into the ways in which globalization, translocality, and gentrification influence communities and their inhabitants through the lens of fashion. Political and social forces drive processes of consumption. In the Corona and Jackson Heights sections of Queens, New York, several waves of migration and immigration have given rise to an extremely diverse yet socially complex area. Historically, four major shopping districts: Roosevelt Avenue, 74th Street, 82nd Street, and Junction Boulevard developed in the two towns and reflected much of the demography within. Currently these districts are physically accessible to anyone able …
Affective Afterlives: An Ethnography Of Activism Between Movements, Manissa Maharawal
Affective Afterlives: An Ethnography Of Activism Between Movements, Manissa Maharawal
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
This ethnographic project starts at the end of Occupy Wall Street in New York City and ends at the beginning of Black Lives Matter in Oakland, CA. In between these two movements it looks at a variety of political projects that focused on issues of housing and anti-gentrification in New York City and San Francisco. Throughout I favor a view of social movements that understands the messy trajectories of activism. This methodological privileging of what activists are doing, and the places and spaces in which they ground their work seeks to de-center bounded social movements in the study of politics …