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Affects Of Elimination: Foundations Of Collectivity, Oskar Coltrane Dye-Furstenberg Jan 2019

Affects Of Elimination: Foundations Of Collectivity, Oskar Coltrane Dye-Furstenberg

Senior Projects Spring 2019

This paper examines specific indigenous social movements in the United States. Two examples are considered: the occupation of the decommissioned Fort-Lawton, Seattle military base in 1970 and the contemporary movement for missing and murdered indigenous women (MMIW). Both are examples of resistance to assimilation and ‘elimination’ in the form of collective action by indigenous persons. The paper explores the relation between coming together as a group and responding to the experience of violence, injury, or suffering. This dynamic between collective formation and shared affective experience constructs the foundation upon which these movements imagine and work to enact a social and …


Dispatches From The Nest: Falconry And Pest Management In Semiotic Worlds, Finn Domingo West Jan 2019

Dispatches From The Nest: Falconry And Pest Management In Semiotic Worlds, Finn Domingo West

Senior Projects Spring 2019

How did a line of ink become a line of crows? Read the project to find out.


Ward Manor: Care For The Elderly And Digital Memory, Anne Tilghman Comer Jan 2019

Ward Manor: Care For The Elderly And Digital Memory, Anne Tilghman Comer

Senior Projects Spring 2019

The Bard College campus dormitory known as Ward Manor has a rich and fascinating history. Using ethnographic research and multimodal methodology, this study has revealed a heretofore unknown story of the residents who lived out their lives in a collective residential community and are buried in the Ward Manor Cemetery. The story of this facility is explored as part of a more significant social and philanthropic endeavor within the United States in the early twentieth century. No longer forgotten, this critical aspect of Bard College is brought to life through this research.


Look Out, Not Up: Union Survival In The Wake Of Janus Vs. Afscme, Cooper T. Slack Jan 2019

Look Out, Not Up: Union Survival In The Wake Of Janus Vs. Afscme, Cooper T. Slack

Senior Projects Spring 2019

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.


Vibrations, Memory, And Identity: The Embodiment Of Tambú And The Afro-Curacaoan Identity In Curacao, Jazondré Kaniela Renee Gibbs Jan 2019

Vibrations, Memory, And Identity: The Embodiment Of Tambú And The Afro-Curacaoan Identity In Curacao, Jazondré Kaniela Renee Gibbs

Senior Projects Spring 2019

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.


Reproducing Culture Through Terroir: Following Raclette Du Valais From The Alps To The Consumer, Sophia Rose Jan 2019

Reproducing Culture Through Terroir: Following Raclette Du Valais From The Alps To The Consumer, Sophia Rose

Senior Projects Spring 2019

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.


It’S Garfield’S World, We Just Live In It: An Exploration Of Garfield The Cat As Icon, Money Maker, And Beast, Iris B. Engel Jan 2019

It’S Garfield’S World, We Just Live In It: An Exploration Of Garfield The Cat As Icon, Money Maker, And Beast, Iris B. Engel

Senior Projects Fall 2019

No newspaper comic character enjoys a larger international audience than Garfield. While newspaper comics have been infiltrating the homes of readers in the United States since the 1880s, Garfield has made more of an impact than any other. Brought into existence by Jim Davis in Muncie, Indiana in 1978, Garfield has now gone world-wide. Breaking Guinness world records for most syndicated newspaper comic strip, Garfield has made over 800 million dollars in comic sales alone, making it the largest grossing newspaper comic strip to date. Recognized globally, Garfield is an international icon. Despite these laudations, there has never been an …


An Eventful Contextualization Of The Maple Avenue Parsonage & Germantown's Former African American Neighborhood, Ethan P. Dickerman Jan 2019

An Eventful Contextualization Of The Maple Avenue Parsonage & Germantown's Former African American Neighborhood, Ethan P. Dickerman

Senior Projects Fall 2019

An Eventful Contextualization of the Maple Avenue Parsonage & Germantown’s Former African American Neighborhood is a three-tiered study of the Maple Avenue community, which existed from around 1840 until 1911. Chapters one through three look at the Mid-Hudson Valley’s historic demography, the genealogies of Maple Avenue’s families, and then the recent archaeological discovery at the Maple Avenue Parsonage of several West African ritual emplacements. Chapter four calls upon the theoretical perspectives of the historical sociologist, William H. Sewell and the historical archaeologist, Douglas J. Bolender, to refute the archaeologist Christopher N. Matthews’s claim that the end of slavery in New …


Sustainable Paths, Cailin Flores Drew-Morin Jan 2019

Sustainable Paths, Cailin Flores Drew-Morin

Senior Projects Spring 2019

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.