Rachel St. John
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691141541
- eISBN:
- 9781400838639
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691141541.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, American History: early to 18th Century
This chapter looks at the decade of war that included both the Mexican Revolution and the United States' participation in the First World War, describing how war transformed the border from a site of ...
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This chapter looks at the decade of war that included both the Mexican Revolution and the United States' participation in the First World War, describing how war transformed the border from a site of interaction and cooperation to one of conflict and division—a transformation that was reflected spatially in transborder battles and the erection of border fences. During the war years, U.S. and Mexican officials began to replace the landscape of binational cooperation and conditional controls that had been developed with the countries' customs, immigration, and law enforcement needs in mind with stricter regulations on who and what could cross the border and armed men and physical barriers to enforce them. These measures, along with years of violence and bloodshed, took their toll on the social and economic ties that had bound border communities together.Less
This chapter looks at the decade of war that included both the Mexican Revolution and the United States' participation in the First World War, describing how war transformed the border from a site of interaction and cooperation to one of conflict and division—a transformation that was reflected spatially in transborder battles and the erection of border fences. During the war years, U.S. and Mexican officials began to replace the landscape of binational cooperation and conditional controls that had been developed with the countries' customs, immigration, and law enforcement needs in mind with stricter regulations on who and what could cross the border and armed men and physical barriers to enforce them. These measures, along with years of violence and bloodshed, took their toll on the social and economic ties that had bound border communities together.
Rochelle B. Renken
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520235922
- eISBN:
- 9780520929432
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520235922.003.0048
- Subject:
- Biology, Animal Biology
Researchers with the Missouri Department of Conservation, the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, the U.S. Forest Service, and cooperating universities (University of Missouri-Columbia, ...
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Researchers with the Missouri Department of Conservation, the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, the U.S. Forest Service, and cooperating universities (University of Missouri-Columbia, University of Missouri-St. Louis, Michigan Technological University, and University of Tennessee-Chattanooga) are conducting a bold experiment to examine the long-term, large-scale impacts of forest management practices on the biotic and abiotic components of the oak-hickory forests of southern Missouri. The Missouri Ozark Forest Ecosystem Project (MOFEP) aims to conduct a controlled experiment to document the effects of typical forest management practices on the numbers and types of forest plants and animals, including amphibians. Drift fence arrays are chosen as the MOFEP technique for trapping amphibians. In this experiment, the impact of the forest management practices of clearcutting (technically called even-aged management) and select tree cutting (called uneven-aged management) is examined. MOFEP is unique both in its duration and its scale — data will be collected for the next 100+ years and on the landscape scale of 1,000-acre forests.Less
Researchers with the Missouri Department of Conservation, the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, the U.S. Forest Service, and cooperating universities (University of Missouri-Columbia, University of Missouri-St. Louis, Michigan Technological University, and University of Tennessee-Chattanooga) are conducting a bold experiment to examine the long-term, large-scale impacts of forest management practices on the biotic and abiotic components of the oak-hickory forests of southern Missouri. The Missouri Ozark Forest Ecosystem Project (MOFEP) aims to conduct a controlled experiment to document the effects of typical forest management practices on the numbers and types of forest plants and animals, including amphibians. Drift fence arrays are chosen as the MOFEP technique for trapping amphibians. In this experiment, the impact of the forest management practices of clearcutting (technically called even-aged management) and select tree cutting (called uneven-aged management) is examined. MOFEP is unique both in its duration and its scale — data will be collected for the next 100+ years and on the landscape scale of 1,000-acre forests.
Ananda Rose
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199890934
- eISBN:
- 9780199949793
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199890934.003.0007
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This chapter discusses the history and vision of the U.S.–Mexico barrier wall, in particular the Secure Fence Act of 2006, which allowed for 700 additional miles of fencing to be constructed along ...
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This chapter discusses the history and vision of the U.S.–Mexico barrier wall, in particular the Secure Fence Act of 2006, which allowed for 700 additional miles of fencing to be constructed along the border, much of it in Arizona, including the “virtual wall.” It addresses the nature of borders, as chaotic and historically contested spaces, and the logic of building walls along international borders as a means of attempting to control these erratic convergence zones. It also lays out an array of opinions concerning the U.S.–Mexico barrier wall itself, the costs and benefits of such a wall, and the difficulties of construction and maintenance.Less
This chapter discusses the history and vision of the U.S.–Mexico barrier wall, in particular the Secure Fence Act of 2006, which allowed for 700 additional miles of fencing to be constructed along the border, much of it in Arizona, including the “virtual wall.” It addresses the nature of borders, as chaotic and historically contested spaces, and the logic of building walls along international borders as a means of attempting to control these erratic convergence zones. It also lays out an array of opinions concerning the U.S.–Mexico barrier wall itself, the costs and benefits of such a wall, and the difficulties of construction and maintenance.
Robert Brenneman
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199753840
- eISBN:
- 9780199918836
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199753840.003.0000
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
Why would a pistol-packing, tattoo-bearing “homie” trade in his gun for a Bible and the buttoned-down lifestyle of an evangelical hermano? Why is evangelical religion attractive to gang members? This ...
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Why would a pistol-packing, tattoo-bearing “homie” trade in his gun for a Bible and the buttoned-down lifestyle of an evangelical hermano? Why is evangelical religion attractive to gang members? This chapter introduces the main questions of the book through the story of JJ, a converted Guatemalan ex-gang member and leader of a cell of the White Fence gang. One of JJ’s tattoos reads, “Why should I fall in love with life, when I’m already married to death?”Less
Why would a pistol-packing, tattoo-bearing “homie” trade in his gun for a Bible and the buttoned-down lifestyle of an evangelical hermano? Why is evangelical religion attractive to gang members? This chapter introduces the main questions of the book through the story of JJ, a converted Guatemalan ex-gang member and leader of a cell of the White Fence gang. One of JJ’s tattoos reads, “Why should I fall in love with life, when I’m already married to death?”
David W. P. Elliott
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780195383348
- eISBN:
- 9780199979172
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195383348.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
This chapter looks at the impact of “fence breaking” defiance of party and government attempts to enforce central planning in the economy on preparing the ground for post–Cold War “new thinking.”
This chapter looks at the impact of “fence breaking” defiance of party and government attempts to enforce central planning in the economy on preparing the ground for post–Cold War “new thinking.”
Jules Barbey D’aurevilly
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780816696895
- eISBN:
- 9781452952369
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816696895.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, European Literature
Another elaborately framed tale, this one is about an adulterous couple obsessed with fencing, with each other, and with murder. There is a love triangle, consisting of an aristocratic husband, his ...
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Another elaborately framed tale, this one is about an adulterous couple obsessed with fencing, with each other, and with murder. There is a love triangle, consisting of an aristocratic husband, his reserved dignified wife, and a young girl who is the daughter of a fencing master in the nearby town. In the story the girl disguises herself as a servant of her lover, and the two plot the murder of the wife. The wife, a duchess, knows what is going on, but, following her profound adherence to aristocratic convention, would rather die than reveal it, for the sake of family honor. The frame involves the narrator struggling to accept the ethical implications of his tale; as such, this is Barbey’s most Jamesian work. The story is about twenty-one thousand words in length.Less
Another elaborately framed tale, this one is about an adulterous couple obsessed with fencing, with each other, and with murder. There is a love triangle, consisting of an aristocratic husband, his reserved dignified wife, and a young girl who is the daughter of a fencing master in the nearby town. In the story the girl disguises herself as a servant of her lover, and the two plot the murder of the wife. The wife, a duchess, knows what is going on, but, following her profound adherence to aristocratic convention, would rather die than reveal it, for the sake of family honor. The frame involves the narrator struggling to accept the ethical implications of his tale; as such, this is Barbey’s most Jamesian work. The story is about twenty-one thousand words in length.
M. A. Aldrich
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9789622097773
- eISBN:
- 9789882207585
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789622097773.003.0039
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
This chapter tours the Western Chinese City. It begins by walking south of the Zheng Yang Gate towards the commercial and entertainment district of Old Peking called the Great Bamboo Fence. The House ...
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This chapter tours the Western Chinese City. It begins by walking south of the Zheng Yang Gate towards the commercial and entertainment district of Old Peking called the Great Bamboo Fence. The House of the Six Obligations, located near the intersection of Big Bamboo Street and Grain and Rice Street, started its existence as a shop set up in 1530 by six merchants from Shan Xi province. Around the Vegetable Market are a number of historic sites. There is a Chinese Muslim legend that shows how Chinese culture absorbed Islam. The Peking Museum of Traditional Architecture is housed in the Hall of Jupiter, which was first constructed in 1532 and renovated in 1754. By ascending the marble terrace, one may first past through the Hall of Propriety and enter into a vast enclosed courtyard similar to those in the Forbidden City. To the north is the Hall of Jupiter, now housing exhibits on traditional Chinese construction techniques.Less
This chapter tours the Western Chinese City. It begins by walking south of the Zheng Yang Gate towards the commercial and entertainment district of Old Peking called the Great Bamboo Fence. The House of the Six Obligations, located near the intersection of Big Bamboo Street and Grain and Rice Street, started its existence as a shop set up in 1530 by six merchants from Shan Xi province. Around the Vegetable Market are a number of historic sites. There is a Chinese Muslim legend that shows how Chinese culture absorbed Islam. The Peking Museum of Traditional Architecture is housed in the Hall of Jupiter, which was first constructed in 1532 and renovated in 1754. By ascending the marble terrace, one may first past through the Hall of Propriety and enter into a vast enclosed courtyard similar to those in the Forbidden City. To the north is the Hall of Jupiter, now housing exhibits on traditional Chinese construction techniques.
John A. Stempien and John Linstrom (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- January 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781501740237
- eISBN:
- 9781501740275
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501740237.003.0013
- Subject:
- History, Environmental History
Types of gardens and landscaping, with the eye of the botanist and artist in mind, are suggested in this chapter: growing what one wants, lawn care, groundcover, walks, fences, the backyard, and ...
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Types of gardens and landscaping, with the eye of the botanist and artist in mind, are suggested in this chapter: growing what one wants, lawn care, groundcover, walks, fences, the backyard, and giving "children an opportunity to make a garden."Less
Types of gardens and landscaping, with the eye of the botanist and artist in mind, are suggested in this chapter: growing what one wants, lawn care, groundcover, walks, fences, the backyard, and giving "children an opportunity to make a garden."
Jennifer Nevile
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748635849
- eISBN:
- 9780748671120
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748635849.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, Social History
Renaissance courtly dancing, the art The relationships between of fencing, and military drill, have recently been much commented upon. This paper explores one particular type of mock combat - the ...
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Renaissance courtly dancing, the art The relationships between of fencing, and military drill, have recently been much commented upon. This paper explores one particular type of mock combat - the Barriers - where the spectacle moved increasingly close to choreography, but without ever quite becoming a dance itself. After a brief outline of the evolution of the Barriers, the paper concentrates on a number of late sixteenth and early seventeenth century treatises which - rather than the actual combat - all stressed the importance of the passeggio and riverenza, that is the balletic aspects of the spectacle; and placed great emphasis on grace, deportment, foot placement, and on the need to keep exactly to the tempo set by accompanying music.Less
Renaissance courtly dancing, the art The relationships between of fencing, and military drill, have recently been much commented upon. This paper explores one particular type of mock combat - the Barriers - where the spectacle moved increasingly close to choreography, but without ever quite becoming a dance itself. After a brief outline of the evolution of the Barriers, the paper concentrates on a number of late sixteenth and early seventeenth century treatises which - rather than the actual combat - all stressed the importance of the passeggio and riverenza, that is the balletic aspects of the spectacle; and placed great emphasis on grace, deportment, foot placement, and on the need to keep exactly to the tempo set by accompanying music.
Melissa L. Caldwell
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520262843
- eISBN:
- 9780520947870
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520262843.003.0007
- Subject:
- Anthropology, European Cultural Anthropology
This chapter discusses the recent developments in the dacha lifestyle and provides thoughts on the impact of these changes, not just for Russia's ongoing social transformation, but also for an ...
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This chapter discusses the recent developments in the dacha lifestyle and provides thoughts on the impact of these changes, not just for Russia's ongoing social transformation, but also for an emerging field of post-postsocialist ethnography. Dacha stories—whether they are about fences, bridges, litter, or uninvited relatives—are far more significant than simple narratives of ruptured friendships. Instead, these stories have consistently provided the grist for powerful commentaries about the nature of Russian life and the issues that have preoccupied Russians, and perhaps their counterparts elsewhere, across several centuries. Dachas and nature determine a host of persistent and unequivocally mundane issues in today's Russia: economics, urbanization, housing, family dynamics, the centrality of political life, and even the reach of the state. The dacha occupies a space that is both intrinsic to and generative of Russians' everyday worlds.Less
This chapter discusses the recent developments in the dacha lifestyle and provides thoughts on the impact of these changes, not just for Russia's ongoing social transformation, but also for an emerging field of post-postsocialist ethnography. Dacha stories—whether they are about fences, bridges, litter, or uninvited relatives—are far more significant than simple narratives of ruptured friendships. Instead, these stories have consistently provided the grist for powerful commentaries about the nature of Russian life and the issues that have preoccupied Russians, and perhaps their counterparts elsewhere, across several centuries. Dachas and nature determine a host of persistent and unequivocally mundane issues in today's Russia: economics, urbanization, housing, family dynamics, the centrality of political life, and even the reach of the state. The dacha occupies a space that is both intrinsic to and generative of Russians' everyday worlds.
Ruth M. Mitchell and Henry M. Miller
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- January 2022
- ISBN:
- 9780813066837
- eISBN:
- 9780813067025
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813066837.003.0004
- Subject:
- Archaeology, Historical Archaeology
Finding archaeological sites of the enslaved and impoverished can be difficult due to their destitution and limited material possessions. This chapter compares two widely used methods of ...
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Finding archaeological sites of the enslaved and impoverished can be difficult due to their destitution and limited material possessions. This chapter compares two widely used methods of archaeological survey in the discovery and identification of domestic sites of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century enslaved African Americans at St. Mary’s City. The findings indicate that controlled surface collection is a more effective methodology than shovel test pit excavation for locating archaeological sites with low artifact densities. Using an area targeted for construction, our research concludes that the site was the home of enslaved laborers on the plantation of John Mackall and James Broom between ca. 1780 and 1840. Ceramics, glass, and architectural materials are analyzed and the insights they provide about enslaved life at St. Mary’s City are reported. An unusual palisade fence enclosure that surrounded the log quarters of the residents is also discussed.Less
Finding archaeological sites of the enslaved and impoverished can be difficult due to their destitution and limited material possessions. This chapter compares two widely used methods of archaeological survey in the discovery and identification of domestic sites of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century enslaved African Americans at St. Mary’s City. The findings indicate that controlled surface collection is a more effective methodology than shovel test pit excavation for locating archaeological sites with low artifact densities. Using an area targeted for construction, our research concludes that the site was the home of enslaved laborers on the plantation of John Mackall and James Broom between ca. 1780 and 1840. Ceramics, glass, and architectural materials are analyzed and the insights they provide about enslaved life at St. Mary’s City are reported. An unusual palisade fence enclosure that surrounded the log quarters of the residents is also discussed.
M.G.L. Mills and M.E.J. Mills
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- June 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780198712145
- eISBN:
- 9780191780639
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198712145.003.0013
- Subject:
- Biology, Animal Biology, Biodiversity / Conservation Biology
Habitat loss and fragmentation are the main threats to the cheetah. Current dogma on cheetah conservation maintains that most protected areas are not large enough to sustain viable populations ...
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Habitat loss and fragmentation are the main threats to the cheetah. Current dogma on cheetah conservation maintains that most protected areas are not large enough to sustain viable populations because the cheetah is wide ranging and especially vulnerable to interspecific competition. The emphasis has been on promoting coexistence with humans and in concentrating efforts outside protected areas. Here it is argued that the establishment and maintenance of large nature reserves should be the priority and that a triage approach should be applied to identifying suitable areas over a spectrum of landscapes for the conservation of ecological processes of which the cheetah is an integral part. Ecotourism and philanthropy are important aspects of conservation funding, and the divisive question of fencing needs to be addressed. Conserving cheetahs outside protected areas is most useful where this might facilitate the maintenance of corridors between functional ecosystems with all their species components.Less
Habitat loss and fragmentation are the main threats to the cheetah. Current dogma on cheetah conservation maintains that most protected areas are not large enough to sustain viable populations because the cheetah is wide ranging and especially vulnerable to interspecific competition. The emphasis has been on promoting coexistence with humans and in concentrating efforts outside protected areas. Here it is argued that the establishment and maintenance of large nature reserves should be the priority and that a triage approach should be applied to identifying suitable areas over a spectrum of landscapes for the conservation of ecological processes of which the cheetah is an integral part. Ecotourism and philanthropy are important aspects of conservation funding, and the divisive question of fencing needs to be addressed. Conserving cheetahs outside protected areas is most useful where this might facilitate the maintenance of corridors between functional ecosystems with all their species components.
Adrienne Monteith Petty
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199938520
- eISBN:
- 9780199367764
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199938520.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This chapter explores large landowners’ efforts to close the range, arguing that the swampy terrain of their area made the creation of enclosed pastures impractical. For a time, large landowners’ ...
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This chapter explores large landowners’ efforts to close the range, arguing that the swampy terrain of their area made the creation of enclosed pastures impractical. For a time, large landowners’ success in forestalling the closed range inadvertently helped the region’s embattled small farm owners, maintaining a crucial source of sustenance that helped them hold onto their land. On this issue, the interests of small farm owners and landless farmers were aligned with those of some large landowners, and, at least for a time, they were able to protect a customary right for two generations longer than farmers in other parts of the South. With most black men and many white men excluded from politics as a result of North Carolina’s disfranchising provisions, the support of large farm owners ironically allowed for the persistence of the open range well into the twentieth century.Less
This chapter explores large landowners’ efforts to close the range, arguing that the swampy terrain of their area made the creation of enclosed pastures impractical. For a time, large landowners’ success in forestalling the closed range inadvertently helped the region’s embattled small farm owners, maintaining a crucial source of sustenance that helped them hold onto their land. On this issue, the interests of small farm owners and landless farmers were aligned with those of some large landowners, and, at least for a time, they were able to protect a customary right for two generations longer than farmers in other parts of the South. With most black men and many white men excluded from politics as a result of North Carolina’s disfranchising provisions, the support of large farm owners ironically allowed for the persistence of the open range well into the twentieth century.
Elizabeth Mestheneos
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781861345981
- eISBN:
- 9781447302131
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781861345981.003.0002
- Subject:
- Sociology, Migration Studies (including Refugee Studies)
This chapter discusses the experiences taken from the project ‘Bridges and fences’, which serves as an example of making refugees researchers. It first provides a background to the study and looks at ...
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This chapter discusses the experiences taken from the project ‘Bridges and fences’, which serves as an example of making refugees researchers. It first provides a background to the study and looks at the Task Force study before presenting the sample interviewed and the study's findings. The last half of the study centres on the advantages and disadvantages of using refugees as the researchers in a study, along with the connection between policy and research.Less
This chapter discusses the experiences taken from the project ‘Bridges and fences’, which serves as an example of making refugees researchers. It first provides a background to the study and looks at the Task Force study before presenting the sample interviewed and the study's findings. The last half of the study centres on the advantages and disadvantages of using refugees as the researchers in a study, along with the connection between policy and research.
Nathan F. Sayre
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780226083117
- eISBN:
- 9780226083391
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226083391.003.0002
- Subject:
- Earth Sciences and Geography, Cultural and Historical Geography
Beginning in the 1890s, the US Biological Survey perfected methods to hunt, trap, and poison animals that threatened crops or livestock; after 1914, it executed campaigns that exterminated hundreds ...
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Beginning in the 1890s, the US Biological Survey perfected methods to hunt, trap, and poison animals that threatened crops or livestock; after 1914, it executed campaigns that exterminated hundreds of thousands of predators and hundreds of millions of small mammals across vast areas of rangelands. But their absence was little noted by range scientists who sought to see or imagine original, pre-cattle boom conditions. Meanwhile, Forest Service range science began with the Coyote-Proof Pasture Experiment, designed by Frederick Coville and conducted between 1907 and 1909. The experiment asked whether a herd of sheep would grow and produce wool more efficiently in a space where predators were absent and human herders (and their dogs) were therefore unnecessary. It was declared a success almost before any data had been collected, and the final interpretations were seriously flawed, but the experiment prompted the Forest Service to take over range research from the Bureau of Plant Industry and to elevate James Jardine, who conducted the experiment, to direct the agency’s national range administration. The near-absence of predators and the ubiquity of fences, along with exclusive land tenure, became unacknowledged assumptions or blind spots for range science.Less
Beginning in the 1890s, the US Biological Survey perfected methods to hunt, trap, and poison animals that threatened crops or livestock; after 1914, it executed campaigns that exterminated hundreds of thousands of predators and hundreds of millions of small mammals across vast areas of rangelands. But their absence was little noted by range scientists who sought to see or imagine original, pre-cattle boom conditions. Meanwhile, Forest Service range science began with the Coyote-Proof Pasture Experiment, designed by Frederick Coville and conducted between 1907 and 1909. The experiment asked whether a herd of sheep would grow and produce wool more efficiently in a space where predators were absent and human herders (and their dogs) were therefore unnecessary. It was declared a success almost before any data had been collected, and the final interpretations were seriously flawed, but the experiment prompted the Forest Service to take over range research from the Bureau of Plant Industry and to elevate James Jardine, who conducted the experiment, to direct the agency’s national range administration. The near-absence of predators and the ubiquity of fences, along with exclusive land tenure, became unacknowledged assumptions or blind spots for range science.
Rebecca Forgash
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- January 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781501750403
- eISBN:
- 9781501750427
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501750403.003.0001
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Asian Cultural Anthropology
This chapter explores the intimate effects of the global U.S. military presence through the experiences of U.S. military men and Okinawan women involved in romantic and sexual relationships with one ...
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This chapter explores the intimate effects of the global U.S. military presence through the experiences of U.S. military men and Okinawan women involved in romantic and sexual relationships with one another. Since 1945, the U.S. military has maintained a large-scale presence in Okinawa when the deadliest battle of the Pacific War was fought there. It defines the term “fencelines,” which refers to the barbed wire fences that surround U.S. military installations and mark them off-limits to local people. While military fences literally block access to inside spaces and resources, fencelines also have potent symbolic meanings, signaling the unequal relations of power that have historically separated those on the inside from those on the outside. The chapter also talks about symbolic fencelines that run throughout Okinawan society, dividing local people and places along lines of gender, race, and class in ways that support militarization.Less
This chapter explores the intimate effects of the global U.S. military presence through the experiences of U.S. military men and Okinawan women involved in romantic and sexual relationships with one another. Since 1945, the U.S. military has maintained a large-scale presence in Okinawa when the deadliest battle of the Pacific War was fought there. It defines the term “fencelines,” which refers to the barbed wire fences that surround U.S. military installations and mark them off-limits to local people. While military fences literally block access to inside spaces and resources, fencelines also have potent symbolic meanings, signaling the unequal relations of power that have historically separated those on the inside from those on the outside. The chapter also talks about symbolic fencelines that run throughout Okinawan society, dividing local people and places along lines of gender, race, and class in ways that support militarization.
Thomas Nail
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780190618643
- eISBN:
- 9780190618681
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190618643.003.0008
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Theory, International Relations and Politics
This chapter is the first of four to deploy the previously developed border regimes as a theoretical framework for understanding the US-Mexico border kinopolitically. This chapter begins the analysis ...
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This chapter is the first of four to deploy the previously developed border regimes as a theoretical framework for understanding the US-Mexico border kinopolitically. This chapter begins the analysis with the border regime of the fence at the US-Mexico border. The US-Mexico fence functions centripetally to capture a flow of migrants from the south in a number of different ways. Today fences compose the vast majority of the largely rural and wild US-Mexico borderland. As the fence approaches the cities of San Diego, Nogales, and El Paso, a wall has been added to the border that changes its function, as we will see in the next section. In the case of the US-Mexico border we see the centripetal function of the fence in three distinct kinetic technologies: the offensive funnel effect, the defensive security fence, and the binding monument.Less
This chapter is the first of four to deploy the previously developed border regimes as a theoretical framework for understanding the US-Mexico border kinopolitically. This chapter begins the analysis with the border regime of the fence at the US-Mexico border. The US-Mexico fence functions centripetally to capture a flow of migrants from the south in a number of different ways. Today fences compose the vast majority of the largely rural and wild US-Mexico borderland. As the fence approaches the cities of San Diego, Nogales, and El Paso, a wall has been added to the border that changes its function, as we will see in the next section. In the case of the US-Mexico border we see the centripetal function of the fence in three distinct kinetic technologies: the offensive funnel effect, the defensive security fence, and the binding monument.
Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780262535021
- eISBN:
- 9780262345859
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262535021.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
This chapter discusses the deliberate replacement and overcrowding of vatema as forest-clearing agents and shields against ndedzi. It focuses on the use of fencing and forced resettlement of vatema ...
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This chapter discusses the deliberate replacement and overcrowding of vatema as forest-clearing agents and shields against ndedzi. It focuses on the use of fencing and forced resettlement of vatema as methods of “tsetse control.” The argument is that vatema and their zvipfuyo were deployed as methods of pest control and to act as an outer ring of early warning systems to protect vachana's cattle ranches. The chapter reflects on the meaning of a humanity experienced and lived under conditions of animalization, wherein vatema are dumped at the unhealthy margins, to live not just like but with other mhuka as vachana helped themselves to their healthy lands on the watershed.Less
This chapter discusses the deliberate replacement and overcrowding of vatema as forest-clearing agents and shields against ndedzi. It focuses on the use of fencing and forced resettlement of vatema as methods of “tsetse control.” The argument is that vatema and their zvipfuyo were deployed as methods of pest control and to act as an outer ring of early warning systems to protect vachana's cattle ranches. The chapter reflects on the meaning of a humanity experienced and lived under conditions of animalization, wherein vatema are dumped at the unhealthy margins, to live not just like but with other mhuka as vachana helped themselves to their healthy lands on the watershed.
Paulina Ochoa Espejo
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- July 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780190074197
- eISBN:
- 9780190074234
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190074197.003.0012
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics, Political Theory
This chapter asks what is wrong with fortified borders. Several scholars have argued that states do not use fortified borders to stop illegal crossings; instead, they use them to divert those flows ...
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This chapter asks what is wrong with fortified borders. Several scholars have argued that states do not use fortified borders to stop illegal crossings; instead, they use them to divert those flows to more dangerous illegal crossing spots. This chapter analyzes this trend, by using the example of the U.S.-Mexico border and subjecting it to a proportionality test. It questions whether flow diversion is a legitimate goal, whether less intrusive alternatives are available, and whether the policy imposes high burdens on rights bearers. The chapter claims that to the extent that the strategy works by harming some people in order to send a threatening message to others, the practice is unjustified. When states rely on harms to send a message, they purposely seek to harm would-be crossers—and this chapter argues that such harm is not proportional to the goods achieved in fortifying the border against civilian crossers.Less
This chapter asks what is wrong with fortified borders. Several scholars have argued that states do not use fortified borders to stop illegal crossings; instead, they use them to divert those flows to more dangerous illegal crossing spots. This chapter analyzes this trend, by using the example of the U.S.-Mexico border and subjecting it to a proportionality test. It questions whether flow diversion is a legitimate goal, whether less intrusive alternatives are available, and whether the policy imposes high burdens on rights bearers. The chapter claims that to the extent that the strategy works by harming some people in order to send a threatening message to others, the practice is unjustified. When states rely on harms to send a message, they purposely seek to harm would-be crossers—and this chapter argues that such harm is not proportional to the goods achieved in fortifying the border against civilian crossers.
Tony Jason Stafford and R. F. Dietrich
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780813044989
- eISBN:
- 9780813046747
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813044989.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
Shaw is not concerned with the personal issue of prostitution for Kitty Warren but seeks to treat the pervasive presence of hypocrisy in all of society and to expose society’s habit of pretending one ...
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Shaw is not concerned with the personal issue of prostitution for Kitty Warren but seeks to treat the pervasive presence of hypocrisy in all of society and to expose society’s habit of pretending one thing in order to hide something else; the garden becomes a primary instrument in helping him achieve this purpose. Three of the four acts are located in a garden, or eventually involve the garden, and even the fourth one gives us a reminder of the garden from which Vivi has escaped. The garden functions in the play as a superficially, and ironically, pleasant place, under a cloudless sky, for social intercourse, which really means maintaining a respectable surface on everything, and, even though it is surrounded by an entrapping fence, it allows a view of freedom beyond. Vivie, repulsed by society’s rules, as presented in the gardens, is the only one who can grasp for this freedom and flees from this garden to the city where, she hopes, honesty, hard work, and ability have a better chance to succeed.Less
Shaw is not concerned with the personal issue of prostitution for Kitty Warren but seeks to treat the pervasive presence of hypocrisy in all of society and to expose society’s habit of pretending one thing in order to hide something else; the garden becomes a primary instrument in helping him achieve this purpose. Three of the four acts are located in a garden, or eventually involve the garden, and even the fourth one gives us a reminder of the garden from which Vivi has escaped. The garden functions in the play as a superficially, and ironically, pleasant place, under a cloudless sky, for social intercourse, which really means maintaining a respectable surface on everything, and, even though it is surrounded by an entrapping fence, it allows a view of freedom beyond. Vivie, repulsed by society’s rules, as presented in the gardens, is the only one who can grasp for this freedom and flees from this garden to the city where, she hopes, honesty, hard work, and ability have a better chance to succeed.
