Congratulations to our students on successfully defending their sociology senior theses! You all rock! @mo_bair, Ashley Behnke, @WilliamBotchway, @ariannamc18, Rebecca Moody, @JoolveraJose, and Yasemin Tekgurler @DavidsonCollege @Davidson_SOC
This was friggin amazing. @ariannamc18 and yasemin were everything. https://t.co/tFHMEPXZAi
Amazing to think that @ariannamc18 has probably spoken to every person in the room watching her thesis defense about it, and not in a here's my elevator version, but rather, convos around relationships in and around institutions. #congrats #sociologythesisdefense
Hey folks. I'm researching the impact of mugshots and would love to hear all experiences with them. If you have a second, please fill out this survey. Shouldn't take longer than a few minutes and your anonymity will remain in your control. https://t.co/BlEUboJSKw
Maps are not facts. They are also not objective. Rather, maps are a way of telling a story. Historically, maps have been used as a way to tell fictional stories of land ownership and the need for intervention of allegedly “weak”, “underdeveloped”, or “undemocratic” states. With this history in mind,
Maps reinforce ideas about ownership – both over the ideas and the land represented. When settlers were first colonizing the United States, they used cartography and the authority of a written document to justify displacing indigenous people from their lands. When we create maps about others who have less power as a
Oftentimes, when academics create maps, we extract information from the communities we attempt to “explain” without ever actually ameliorating the conditions we are allegedly working to fight. As a research process, this is unjust and extractive, especially when we are given large grants to do this work. The more that
Ultimately, when you’re pitching for that next social justice mapping project, think to yourself: whose interest is this map serving? Am I just doing a project because I want to do something “good”, but really normalizing the processes of extraction (see last blog post) and surveillance? Scholars Evelyn Nakano Glenn
