Spartan Daily, February 27, 2014

Volume 142, Issue 14https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/1474/thumbnail.jp

Spartan Daily, February 27, 2014

Volume 142, Issue 14https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/1474/thumbnail.jp

Racialising assemblages and affective events: A feminist new materialism and posthuman study of Muslim schoolgirls in London

Recent years have seen rising trends in terrorism, hate crime and Islamophobia in the UK. Enforced Prevent and counter-terrorism strategies have re-located all Muslims as threatening and having potentiality to radicalisation. This PhD thesis is concerned with how a Muslim schoolgirl feels, lives and experiences everyday life in this era. I follow fifteen Muslim schoolgirls across time and space by mapping relational materialities between things that matter for them in their ordinary everyday practices and experiences. This thesis takes up the feminist new materialist and post- humanist call for anticipating potentialities of the virtual, material and affective to find a different capacity for the analysis of events, practices, assemblages, feelings, and the backgrounds of everyday experiences against which relations unfold in their myriad potentials. I argue that the affective atmospheres around Muslims provide the conditions for the emergence of racialising encounters. Multi-sensory methods of walking intra-view, creating photo-diary and face-to- face interview were developed to explore relations between bodies, spaces, times, virtual and actual. Stories, places, objects, thoughts and feelings that emerge as data and in-between relational materialities were mapped and read diffractively through one another. Thinking through relationality, materiality and affect enabled this thesis to actualise the plurality of Muslim schoolgirls' relations-in-the-world and their subjectivity as part of the becoming-assemblages with human and more-than- human bodies. This thesis mapped and challenged some of the racialised, gendered and hegemonic views of Muslim schoolgirls as risky, threatening and with a potential to radicalisation. Mattering with what those Muslim schoolgirls mattered with, their fear of racial harassment in the course of their everyday lives, of what to say, do and wear, their desire to live in safe houses and blossom in safe schools, all showed that safeguarding educational policies need to shift their focus towards threats of racial harassment, of living in overcrowded housing and being silenced rather than seeking to prevent the threat of radicalisation

The Cowl - v.77 - n.20 - Apr 11, 2013

The Cowl - student newspaper of Providence College. Vol 77 - No. 20 - April 11, 2013. 28 pages

The Cowl - v.77 - n.18 - Mar 21, 2013

The Cowl - student newspaper of Providence College. Vol 77 - No. 18 - March 21, 2013. 28 pages

Monsters as metaphor : understanding our worst fears

Monsters have haunted humankind since the beginning of our history, reflecting the fears and values of the society which they originate. From cave paintings to the latest horror blockbuster, monsters exist most clearly in stories. Storytelling is a tool to process our fears, and monsters give us a way to represent and examine these fears. This thesis will examine five fears and how they have manifested in monster tales throughout history, providing context for each. These fears are as follows: fear of nature, fear of the sacred (religion), fear of science, fear of others and fear of ourselves. An accompanying screenplay will follow each section to demonstrate how monsters draw upon these fears and how stories allow audiences to work through them.Thesis (B.?)Honors Colleg

Northeast Community Survey 2008: Final Report

East Anchorage is currently the only site in Alaska under the nationwide Weed and Seed initiative, which is intended to “weed out” criminals who undermine quality of life for community residents in high-crime neighborhoods and to “seed in” positive practices, programs and institutions that contribute to a better quality of life for neighborhoods. The East Anchorage Weed and Seed site, located in a racially and ethnically diverse neighborhood in the northeast part of Anchorage, had an estimated population in 2005 of more than 37,000 people living in about 14,000 households. On behalf of East Anchorage Weed and Seed, the Justice Center conducted a community survey designed to evaluate Northeast community residents’ level of satisfaction with their neighborhood as a place to live, specifically with regards to residents' feelings about neighborhood safety, neighborhood crime levels, criminal victimization, police activity in the neighborhood, and the availability of social services. This report presents results of the survey, to which a total of 209 respondents in the Northeast community responded, and compares its results to those of an identical mailed community survey conducted in the same area in 2002.Executive Summary / Introduction / Method / The Study Sample / Perceptions of Public Safety / Perceived Problems in the Northeast Community / Criminal Victimization / Neighborhood Satisfaction / Evaluation/Perception of Local Police Activity / Resident Participation in the Northeast Community / Conclusion / Endnotes / Appendix A: Survey Instrumen

City Love

Simon Vinnicombe, ‘City Love’, (UK: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013), ISBN 9781472528810