Posts tagged the Other

Foucault on Geography and Population

By Prerna on August 31, 2008
Foucault on Geography and Population

“One might wonder, as a conceit or a hypothesis, whether geographical knowledge doesn’t carry within itself the circle of the frontier, whether this be a national, departmental or cantonal frontier; and hence, whether one shouldn’t add to the figures of internment you have indicated–that of... [+]

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31Aug

The Invisibles that Made the Beijing...

By Prerna on August 19, 2008
The Invisibles that Made the Beijing Games – Dark Side of the Olympics

I mentioned earlier that the computer-generated 55-second video footage of giant fireworks on film at the Opening Ceremony of the Beijing Olympics was pure simulacrum–with no relation to ‘reality.’ It turns out that there was more “staging” than meets the eye at the 2008 Beijing... [+]

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19Aug

Who is more 'undesirable ?' The...

By Prerna on May 19, 2008
Who is more ‘undesirable ?’ The ‘illegal alien’ or homosexual ?

Over the weekend, I was reading some pro-migrant news at a Catholic site that I had stumbled on via Google News Alert service. And on the sidebar, the very site was spewing hatred about same-sex marriage in California. The churches and religious ‘right’ who first... [+]

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19May

Documenting the birth of illegal...

By Prerna on May 9, 2008
Documenting the birth of illegal immigration

Someone at BNF felt compelled to tell me that the birth of illegal immigration was the coming of Europeans to the Americas. The comment is theoretically accurate but misses the point of the argument. By the ‘birth of illegal immigration,’ I am referring to the... [+]

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09May

Marking The Anniversary of 'Illegal...

By Prerna on May 7, 2008
Marking The Anniversary of ‘Illegal Immigration’

May 6, 1882 is the date for the birth of ‘illegal immigration.’ Like most social concerns that are only deemed as a ‘problem’ when it benefits the state, the immigration of Chinese laborers to the United States, the so-called ‘yellow peril’ and ‘Asian invasion’ now... [+]

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07May

Alright, here is the Boston AAG...

By Prerna on November 19, 2007
Alright, here is the Boston AAG project

Don’t ask me anything about this till after the Law school applications are in, hopefully mid-December. This paper begins with an investigation of the lives of some undocumented students living in the United States who have been raised as Americans, but not seen as belonging to... [+]

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19Nov