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The Public Meeting: Embodied Dissent in Urban Spaces

6/30/2018

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by Christina Jackson, PhD
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Stockton University


In my work on San Francisco, I study public discourses and relationships between residents and institutional stakeholders. The redevelopment agency, real estate companies, corporations and the Navy all have a stake in the timely cleaning up of the environmentally toxic Hunters Point shipyard, redevelopment and the accompanying process of gentrification. Within public discourses around protest lie power struggles among neighborhood residents about how bodies negotiate dynamics in meetings over the future of their life in the neighborhood. I use public meetings to analyze the body as the central signifier of institutionalized social relations within a field of power (Adelman and Ruggi 2016:909[i], Foucault 1975[ii]).


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Synkinesis: Movement, Communication and Mood Disorder

6/15/2018

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by Faye Linda Wachs, PhD
Professor of Sociology
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona



In 2009 I woke up with Bell’s Palsy.  After googling the symptoms…  What flashed across my screen in emergency red capital letters were the words:  YOU ARE HAVING A STROKE.  GO DIRECTLY TO AN EMERGENCY ROOM...I sat frozen for a moment, but I didn’t think I was having a stroke.  I knew the signs, and I didn’t have any cognitive impact… I thought, or did I… I ran to the book shelf and grabbed Foucault and my advanced statistics book from graduate school.  I could read (and basically understand) Foucault, I could read (and basically understand) multiple regression equations.  I was reasonably convinced I was not having a stroke.


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