She was a ("suspected") sex worker. The original photo includes a hand-written note, dating it 11 October 1874 and naming her as "de Beyren (La Comtesse)." It was a self-promotional portrait she had taken before it ended up as File 329 in the "
Why contemplate spatiality, wider visual cutlure, the anthropology of photography, transnational migration, and imperial border-making? Considering lineage of governmental thinking on "vagrants," sex workers, political dissidents (like anti-rent strikers), and "migrants." Best not to collapse these into mere "threats to order," as
Might sound nice at first, on the surface. You might describe it as: "An Indian state is celebrating as a beloved nearly-extinct unique subspecies of lion, the Asiatic/Persian/Indian lion, a charming charismatic creature, has been brought back from the brink. India, with the power of science,
In December 1928, Benito Mussolini broke ground—quite literally—on a massive development project targeting the “death inducing swamps” of the Pontine Marshes, the substantial wetland region on Rome’s southern edges, which were to be remade into “New Town” settlements whose residents would model ideal standards of productivity. Having
Woah. Look at this post I was drafting literally this morning before you sent this, about the nationalist appropriation of rhetoric of "native vs. invasive" species in Hungarian land management: Appropriate case study: (1) The tree was non-native and its introduction was facilitated by Austro-Hungarian imperial
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Originally, I'd attached these tags about British imperial forestry to a post about United States treatment of forests, Indigenous peoples, and land administration from 1900-ish to 1935-ish, during a transition period when clear-cutting logging was threatening profit so the US turned to a German-/British-
(Originally posted elsewhere on 6 May 2020.) What, exactly, kills people on the banks of the Mississippi River? I think about St. James Parish in 2020 during pandemic, and the nearly-$10-billion chemical facility currently being installed over a mass slave burial ground and multiple nineteenth century sugarcane plantation
Introduction Describing the mass incarceration of over 800 women in Puerto Rico during the latter six months of 1918 under policies of the so-called America Plan, Red Cross director Gavin Payne “excitedly”[i] claimed that “the confinement of so many women at one time was unparalleled elsewhere … in the
Work acquaintance, ostensibly as a joke about me and my interests, asked if I had any educational reading recommendations about “Santa’s sleigh” So, to pass the time, thought we’d have a dialogue about the history of urban vehicularization, pedestrian encounters with vehicles, and control of space and mobility,
<3 Thank you! Considering Baudelaire, there was more material in the same chapter (which I did not include in the excerpts) on his era's literary depictions of Montmarte/women and its influence in 1890s representations of class boundaries/sexuality, which I've attached below under the
To singe the pudu’s dark fur .. vengeance of the earth, vengeance of solitary waters. Where did the continent’s largest tree go? What violence is hidden beneath the pasture of the “idyllic” farm? There is a tree 3,649 years old. An alerce. This particular alerce is Gran Abuelo