Contexts of Lived Realities in SB 1070 Arizona: A Response to Asenas and Johnson\u27s Economic Globalization and the\u27Given Situation\u27

Arizona matters to us. Arizona is what Jacqueline Jones Royster would call our home place. 1 We studied together at the University of Arizona during the passing of SB 1070, which legalized racially profiling Latin@s reasonably suspected of being undocumented, and HB 2281, which outlawed Mexican American Studies in Tucson Unified School District. Because of our research and Arizona ties, we are responding to the recent Present Tense article, Economic Globalization and the \u27Given Situation\u27: Jan Brewer\u27s Use of SB 1 070 as an Effective Rhetorical Response to the Politics of Immigration by Jennifer J. Asenas and Kevin A. Johnson. Our purpose is to problematize, complicate, and personalize the discussion presented by Asenas and Johnson. We feel that the article would have benefitted significantly from critical inquiry that engaged with the situation on the human level as well as taking into consideration the history of Arizona as the \u27given situation.\u27 As a demonstration of a methodology based on lived experiences, we also provide a counternarrative to further emphasize ethical considerations that were overlooked by Asenas and Johnson\u27s use of logocentric strategies to discuss the dehumanizing policy of 58 1070

Free Fields for Chiral 2D Dilaton Gravity

We give an explicit canonical transformation which transforms a generic chiral 2D dilaton gravity model into a free field theory.Comment: LaTeX file, 4 pages, to appear in Phys. Rev.

Free fields via canonical transformations of matter-coupled 2D dilaton gravity models

It is shown that the 1+1-dimensional matter-coupled Jackiw-Teitelboim model and the model with an exponential potential can be converted by means of appropriate canonical transformations into a bosonic string theory propagating on a flat target space with an indefinite signature. This makes it possible to consistently quantize these models in the functional Schroedinger representation thus generalizing recent results on CGHS theory.Comment: 15 pages, Late