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Material Politics Of The Bicycle, Joshua David Rotbert
Material Politics Of The Bicycle, Joshua David Rotbert
Senior Projects Spring 2017
Beginning with a focus on the material and semiotic dimensions of the bicycle, as well as the proprietary linguistic and epistemological conventions that surround the bicycle mechanic, this project explores how such concepts intersect with notions of class, identity, resistance, and belonging within the ethnographic context of a contemporary urban bicycle repair shop.
Pursuing The Good Life: American Narratives Of Travel And A Search For Refuge, Brian A. Hoey
Pursuing The Good Life: American Narratives Of Travel And A Search For Refuge, Brian A. Hoey
Brian A. Hoey, Ph.D.
September 11th 2001 helped create a sense of ever-present risk for many Americans. At the same time, highly publicized abuses of corporate power and financial meltdowns in former Wall Street gems like Enron and WorldCom together with more recent economic trouble in the U.S. housing market heighten uncertainties. Although these events have hastened personal experience of insecurity across all socioeconomic levels, even in the dotcom glory days many middle-class families rightly sensed a threatening undercurrent of change. Although unsettling, global economic restructuring begun in the 1970s fueled stratospheric growth in the 90s as corporations embraced “flexibility.” On an individual level, …