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Culture, Power and History Workshop
Mon, 12/04/2023 - 3:56pm
This talk provides an in-depth exploration of the lives of refugees and migrants, based on in-depth ethnographic research conducted in Malaysia, which is home to an estimated 8 million foreigners (and over half a million displaced/forced migrants). The focus is on how migrant, displaced and undocumented groups and communities play vital roles economically yet continue to face significant structural and institutional challenges in host…
"Myths of the Pendatang: Politics of Refugees and Temporariness in the Global South"
Mon, 12/04/2023 - 3:39pm
This presentation synthesizes the findings from two separate but related research efforts examining the tactics employed by the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) in the 20th century to inculcate settlers in the United States with pyrophobic values. By examining USFS fire suppression rhetoric from 1905-present, as well as carrying out a systematic analysis of Smokey Bear campaign materials, these combined research efforts reveal how settler colonial…
“Little Science, Lots of Advertising: How the U.S. Forest Service Suppressed Cultural Burning”
Tue, 03/22/2016 - 8:48am
We will be showing the documentary "Food Chains" this Friday evening (March 25th) at 6pm in MLC 214. This is part of our film series on Latin American Sustainable Agriculture that is hosted by the Georgia Workshop on Culture, Power, and History and sponsored by the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Institute. Please join us in watching this film and participating in the discussion with the panel that will follow. Also, please…
Food Chains Documentary
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