Joking about garlic: Indigenous legacy and the etymology of 'Chicago'
(Originally posted elsewhere in December 2023.)
Response to joke/shitpost circulating in social circle.
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Chicago: onion and garlic place.
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'Insubordinate' women, urban anxiety, and the advent of police photography in Parisian archives, 1870s (and geographical approaches to analyzing 'legibility' municipal archives)
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 "
Contemplating legibility and the epistemological convergence of sanitation and policing in municipal archives?
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
Greenwashing the cheetah project: Contextualizing the nationalist rhetoric and laundered image of a 'resurrected' cat in Modi's India
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,
Unruly mangroves and the (un)making of imperial borders in Bengal, Aotearoa, and Brazil, 1825-1945
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