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2018

Bard College

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The Politics Of Distinction And Exchange In Displacement: How Aesthetics Become Ethical, Joy Huda Al-Nemri Jan 2018

The Politics Of Distinction And Exchange In Displacement: How Aesthetics Become Ethical, Joy Huda Al-Nemri

Senior Projects Spring 2018

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

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Knowing Water: Science And The Politics Of Knowledge Production Along The Saw Kill, Carlo Diego Raimondo Jan 2018

Knowing Water: Science And The Politics Of Knowledge Production Along The Saw Kill, Carlo Diego Raimondo

Senior Projects Spring 2018

Beginning with globally oriented ideological constructions of water as resource, this project explores the materiality of water and how it comes to understood within our current geological era. Specifically exploring the politics of scientific knowledge production, I follow the methodological processes of the Bard Water Lab as they monitor water quality of a local stream, exploring how different apparatuses of observation are utilized in order to make a stream a legible and knowable object.

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Place Accumulation: Kingston/Ulster, Callan F. Fish Jan 2018

Place Accumulation: Kingston/Ulster, Callan F. Fish

Senior Projects Spring 2018

Since February 2018, I’ve been listening and recording around Kingston and the town of Ulster; synthesizing interviews, bird song, passing cars, protests, conflict, unique perspectives and oral histories, meetings, optimisms, water, as part of a project called, Place Accumulation: Kingston/Ulster. Using the Dynamic Listening Instrument, an interactive sound sculpture which uses a venn-diagram of electromagnetic fields to allow sounds to be handled as a tactile entity and bended dynamically, sounds are arranged and dispersed back into different locations and events in Kingston. Using a sounding bucket, people in Kingston can listen in, re-arrange, explore, and play with sounds from their …

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“A Healthy Gorilla Makes A Healthy You”: Preventing And Predict-I-Ng The Next Pandemic Disease, Mark Anthony Williams Jr. Jan 2018

“A Healthy Gorilla Makes A Healthy You”: Preventing And Predict-I-Ng The Next Pandemic Disease, Mark Anthony Williams Jr.

Senior Projects Spring 2018

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

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Contested Identity And Making Sense Of Atrocity: Understanding The Rohingya Crisis In Myanmar, Christopher Andrew Long Jan 2018

Contested Identity And Making Sense Of Atrocity: Understanding The Rohingya Crisis In Myanmar, Christopher Andrew Long

Senior Projects Spring 2018

Myanmar’s recent transition towards democracy has caused western leaders to become increasingly optimistic about the future of human rights within the country. However, since emerging on the international stage in 2012, the Rohingya crisis has drastically upset such expectations, leaving the international community in complete shock over the issue. Attempting to shed light on this human rights tragedy, international media coverage has produced an overly simplified depiction of the Rohingya crisis. In addition, very little academic literature exists seeking to explain the root causes of the issue. By utilizing interviews conducted at the University of Mandalay this paper attempts to …

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Fashioning Seoul: Everyday Practices Of Dress In The Korean Wave, Emma Weiss Holyst Jan 2018

Fashioning Seoul: Everyday Practices Of Dress In The Korean Wave, Emma Weiss Holyst

Senior Projects Spring 2018

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

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(Un)Packing The Natural: Exploring Tactics Of Empowerment For Girls Through Outdoor Education, Avalon Blue Qian Jan 2018

(Un)Packing The Natural: Exploring Tactics Of Empowerment For Girls Through Outdoor Education, Avalon Blue Qian

Senior Projects Spring 2018

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

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Drowning In Plenty: Bulk, Waste And Countercultural Revival In The Anthropocene, Olivia Shuang Horwitz Jan 2018

Drowning In Plenty: Bulk, Waste And Countercultural Revival In The Anthropocene, Olivia Shuang Horwitz

Senior Projects Spring 2018

This senior project examines the potential for the bulk food section in American food stores to reduce both food and packaging waste. I chose to analyze the American supermarket because of its immense influence it has on consumer purchases and its role in society as a place of resource to acquire foodstuffs therefore becoming a necessity for the twenty-first century consumer. The type of bulk my research examines as one solution to these problems is not the bulk buys from big box stores like Costco or Wal-Mart, which retain prepackaged marketing, but rather from the aisles in supermarkets and grocery …

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“Brother Can You Spare A Friend?”: Documents, Masculinities, And Histories In A Masonic Lodge, Hayden Franklyn William Hard Jan 2018

“Brother Can You Spare A Friend?”: Documents, Masculinities, And Histories In A Masonic Lodge, Hayden Franklyn William Hard

Senior Projects Spring 2018

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

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“For Us, By Us”: Professionalization And Witnessing In New Orleans, Virginia Claire Sperka Jan 2018

“For Us, By Us”: Professionalization And Witnessing In New Orleans, Virginia Claire Sperka

Senior Projects Spring 2018

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

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Musical Infrastructures And Techniques Of Survival In Dakar, Simon Charles Debevoise Jan 2018

Musical Infrastructures And Techniques Of Survival In Dakar, Simon Charles Debevoise

Senior Projects Spring 2018

Senior Project jointly submitted to the Division of Social Studies and the Division of Arts of Bard College.

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Türkisch Und Deutsch: Shifting Understandings Of The German, The Citizen, And The Foreign, Isabelle Arden Mudge Jan 2018

Türkisch Und Deutsch: Shifting Understandings Of The German, The Citizen, And The Foreign, Isabelle Arden Mudge

Senior Projects Spring 2018

This paper follows the history, role, and perception of Turkish-Germans as Germany developed into an immigrant country but remained with a narrow concept of Germanness. I explain how the country did not historically consider itself a nation of immigration, apparent in its citizenship requirements, lack of coherent immigrant policy, and pushback against foreigners. Germany still has difficulty seeing those with different backgrounds as German; an intricate system of exclusion has developed over the years, changing and evolving but remaining in place.

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Sorting Crabs: An Analysis Of Tourism, Economy, Labor And State Division At Zhoushan Fish Market, Xi Bao Jan 2018

Sorting Crabs: An Analysis Of Tourism, Economy, Labor And State Division At Zhoushan Fish Market, Xi Bao

Senior Projects Spring 2018

This project focuses on three main topics and their “changes” in recent years. Chapter I focuses on the first topic, the relationship between the State of China and the State of Zhoushan, as well as the tension on fishing, tourism, and economic growth between these two states. Chapter II focuses on labor and class division at the Zhoushan fish market. Chapter III focuses on tourism and economy at ZhouShan. Fieldwork was conducted in two seasons: the first during the summer of 2017 at the Zhoushan fish market, and the second during the winter of 2017 at the Minsu in …

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The Village Of Hope: Community Reformation In Post-Katrina New Orleans, Milan Miller Jan 2018

The Village Of Hope: Community Reformation In Post-Katrina New Orleans, Milan Miller

Senior Projects Spring 2018

As an interdisciplinary senior project, this anthropology and film thesis investigates the social- cultural impact of community reformation post-disaster and the role of Musicians’ Village, a neighborhood formed after the storm, in post-Katrina New Orleans. I believe that the story of New Orleans cannot be told without the traditional Black cultural preservers at the center of its narrative, therefore I examine how the formation of Musicians’ Village in post-Katrina New Orleans contributes to our understanding of the post-disaster recovery of New Orleans and the role of its cultural preservation. To do proper research about Musicians’ Village, I found it both …

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