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disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory Volume 17 Roots & Routes Article 1 4-2008 Editor's Introduction and Acknowledgments Andrew Moreman University of Kentucky DOI: https://doi.org/10.13023/disclosure.17.01 Follow this and additional works at: https://uknowledge.uky.edu/disclosure  Part of the Arts and Humanities Commons, and the Social and Behavioral Sciences Commons This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 License. Recommended Citation Moreman, Andrew (2008) "Editor's Introduction and Acknowledgments," disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory: Vol. 17 , Article 1. DOI: https://doi.org/10.13023/disclosure.17.01 Available at: https://uknowledge.uky.edu/disclosure/vol17/iss1/1 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory. Questions about the journal can be sent to disclosurejournal@gmail.com roots & routes editorial collective no.17 roots & routes Carmen Arranz Patrick Bigger Michelle Dumais Karen Kinslow James Looney Rebbecca Pittenger Miranda Rira Gregory Ruppert Erin V allicelli issue editor John Andrew Moreman copyediting and layout John Andrew Moreman funding University of Kentucky Executive Vice President for Research, Graduate School, College of Arts and Sciences, Student Government Association, and Committee on Social Theory printing Meridian Communications Lexington, KY dis Closure Editor 1613 Patterson Office Tower University of Kentucky Lexington, KY 40506-0027 dc-editor@lsv .uky .edu h ttp:/ /web.as.uky.edu/ socialtheory / whatisdisclosure.htm @ 2008 by disCLosure and the Committee on Social Theory ISSN 1055-6133 editorial board Benjamin Agger, Sociology, University of Texas, Arlington James Boon, Anthropology, Princeton University Matthew Edney, Geography, University of South Maine Nancy Fraser, Political Science, New School for Social Research Cynthia Freeland, Philosophy, University of Houston Sander Gilman, German/Philosophy, University of Chicago Derek Gregory, Geography, University of British Columbia Peter-Uwe Hohcndahl, German, Cornell University Anton Kaes, German, UC Berkeley Douglas Kellner, Philosophy of Education, UCLA Dominick LaCapra, History, Cornell University Maggie McFadden, Women's Studies, Appalachian State University Michael Palmer, Poet, San Francisco Marjorie Perloff, Comparative Literature, Stanford University Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Anthropology, UC Berkeley Barney Warf, Geography, Florida State University Samuel Weber, German, Northwestern University James A. Winders, History, Appalachian State University Irving Zeitlin, Sociology, University of Toronto Artists may retain copyright over contributions. No part of this work may be reproduced or reprinted without written consent of both the disCLosu re editorial collective and the author or artist. contents Eva Roa White Raffaele Furno Miranda Rira Mary Lynn Broe Oliver Belcher Julianne Hazlewood Christina Gerken John Woodward Contributors dis Closure a journal of social theory no. 17 roots & routes editor's introduction Back to Galicia "Historical Forgetfulness" in Post-Unification Italy: Black African Migration in Politics and Performance. Spring of Kosovo Bodies without Borders The Ability to Look Red Routes Neo-Liberalism and Family Values in 1990s Immigration Reform Discourse Linear and Nonlinear Identities: Problematic Identity, History, and the European Union Book Reviews 2 5 6 13 40 41 42 44 45 72 90 Contributors Carme~ Arranz i~ from Spain, where she completed her undergraduate degree m Translation and Interpretation at the University of Valladolid (2002). S~e got her M.A._ in Hispanic Studies at the University of Kentucky in 2004'. Right .now, she. is pursuing her Ph.D. in the area of 20th Century Spanish Perunsular Literature, focusing on narratives written by Spanish women during the time period 1900-1914 that confront modernity. Oli:Ver ~ekher is.~ graduate student in the Department of Geography at The Un1vers1ty of British Columbia. His research interests include Post-Cold War US Military Planning, Urban Warfare, Execu tive Power, Govemmentality, Cultural Studies Patrick Bigger is a graduate student in the Department of Geography at The University of Kentucky. Benjamin L. Blandford is a Ph.D. student in geography at the University of Kentucky. His areas of interest center around cultural and urban geographies, especially in the context of landscape, race, and migration. Ben also engages 1n research at the Kentucky Transportation Center that facilitates constructive public involvement within the processes of urban land use and transportation p lanning. Mary Lynn Broe is Caroline Werner Gannett Professor of Humanities at the Rochester Institute of Technology, Mary Lynn Broe directs The Gannett Project (http:/ /www.rit.edu/-cwg/) at RIT. She is at work on her sixth book, a. me~oir, Sweeping Up the Heart, and on a first chapbook of poems. She trams Irish setters in agility and is Vice President of Rochester's Grace Urban Ministries. Michelle Dumais: originally from Boston, M.A., received a B.A. in Hispanic Languages and Literatures from Boston University and an M.A. in Spanish from. Middlebill)_' College's C. V. Starr School in Madrid, Spain. After teaching ~t the rmddle school level for two years, she is currently a doctoral student m the Department of Hispanic Studies at the University of Kentucky .. Her curre~t r~search is focused on examining narrative representations of tourism m popular Spanish novels from the 1960s and 70s. R~fael~ Furno is a Ph.D. candidate in Performance Studies at Northwestern University. He will complete his doctorate in 2008 with a dissertation titled 2 disClosure 17 'Lifing Multiculturalism. Performing the Life of Black Migrants to Italy. ' His interests include experimental theater, globalization and migration studies. He is also a theater director, working both in Italy and in the US. Christina Gerken is an instructor in the Department of Ethnic Studies at Bowling Green State University where she teaches courses on immigration, social movements, and women of color. Her research focuses on contemporary discourses of race, ethnicity, gender, and migration. Julianne Hazlewood is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Geography. She has collaborated on ethnobotanical gardens and research projects with the Chachi people of the Esmeraldas province of Northwest coastal Ecuador since 1997, and she is working currently with Afro-Ecuadorian and Awa people as well. She is interested in figurative roots and routes of Indigenous peoples' cultural landscapes and wrote this poem when stumbling over the red Ficus roots while following Chachi children on their routes through the Choc6 rainforest landscapes. Karen S. Kinslow is M.A. student in the department of Geography. She is interested in the calculus of human experience(s), and she enjoys collaborating with others in creation to challenge the destruction in the world caused, in part, by the inscribing and re-inscribing of borders and boundaries (mental, social, material). It is after all, she reminds herself, the edge that is resistant and not the thing itself. James Looney holds a Master's degree in sociology from Syracuse University and is currently a Ph.D. student in the Department of Geography at the Universi ty of Kentucky. James is a cultural geographer interested in the experiential and emotional landscapes of agriculture, tourism, migration, and labor. He will be co-editor of next year's issue of disClosure. John Andrew Moreman is a Ph.D. student in the Department of English at the University of Kentucky. His research interest is in early American literature, regionalism, and counter-synthesis modes of understanding the development of early American notions of identity. He is from Texas. Senayon S. Olaoluwa is currently undertaking doctoral research in the School of Literature and Language Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Soule of his papers and reviews roots & routes 3 have been published in international journals, including The AnaChronisT, African Affairs, Nebula and Kritikos. Rebbecca Pittenger is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Hispanic Studies at the University of Kentucky. Her current research focuses on literary and visual representations of urban space, non-places and consumer society in post-dictatorial Argentina, Chile and Uruguay. She is interested particularly in how spaces of transit and communication have shaped civil engagement in these countries. Miranda Rira is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Hispanic Studies at t~e University of .Kentucky. Her current research focuses on literary and visual .repres.entations .of urb~n space, non-pJaces and consumer society in ~ost-d1ctatonal Argentina, Chile and Uruguay. She is interested particularly m how spaces of transit and communication have shaped civil engagement in these countries. Gregory Ruppert received his M.A. in British Literature from the University of Kentucky in 2007. Eri_n Vallicelli is a doctoral student in the University of Kentucky Ph1lo.sophy. De~artment. She has previously graduated from the University of .W1sco~sm M~lwaukee and Drake University. In addition to social theory, Erm studies ethical theory and cognitive science. Lian~ !uttle Vasseur is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Kentucky and a V1s1ting Researcher with the Cuban Research Institute at Florida International University. Her dissertation research addresses ways U.S. immigration policy is implemented and challenged along South Florida's coastal border. Eva Roa White is an Assistant Professor of British Literature at Indiana University Kokomo. She was born in Galicia, Spain and raised in Switzerland. This is an excerpt from a larger work, Back to Galicia: The Immigrants' Daughter, which is still in progress. John Woodward is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Humanities at Florida State U~iversity, where he is cu~ently polishing his dissertation on European C~ema and European Identity. He has previously published on European ~inema ~d the expanding borders of Europe, and has a deep and abiding interest m the European project, transnationalism and cosmopolitanism. 4 disClosure 17 editor's introduction If a better time existed for a discussion of migration, displacement, and human mobility, I do not know how it would be defined. As I type, American presidential hopefuls are traversing the desert southwest espousing plans to "secure" the national border, citizens in the heartland of the United States are fretting over the presence and implication of "illegals", untold thousands of Iraqis in Jordan, Iran, and the surrounding Middle East wait out the ongoing conflict in their home, and thousands of innocents are fleeing the chaotic violence of a burgeoning civil war in Kenya. Clearly, the movement of humans around the world demands as attention as lives and the quality of lives both near and far are at stake as a consequence of human migration, mobility, and displacement in an ever-increasingly globalized and developing world. This issue of disClosure, I believe, is an important contribution to that conversation, but with its publication, it is important to remind ourselves of the luxury and the responsibility of thinking, writing, and debating the myriad and complex causes and consequences of migration, displacement, and mobility. acknowledgments Foremost, thanks go to Virginia Blum, the outgoing Director of the Committee on Social Theory. Her tireless efforts and support from 2002 to 2008 made disclosure what it is today. Thanks also go to Andy Doolen and John Erickson, faculty advisors for this and previous issues of disClosure, for their generosity with their time and willing mentorship. The faculty members who co-taught Social Theory 600 in the Spring of 2007 deserve special recognition, too: Francie Chassen-Lopez, Ellen Furlough, Tom Janoski, and Doug Slaymaker. The hard work that made this issue of disClosure possible was performed admirably and ably by the editorial collective of issue no. 17 and to them goes the glory. Without the experience and insight of Sean Dummitt and Brandon Absher, editors of disCosure 15 and 16, respectively, this issue would not be in your hands right now. They were of immeasurable help in the long production process of dis Closure 17. And finally, thanks to all of the contributors to roots & routes. It your hard work, concern, curiosity, keen intellectual insight, and contribution to the ongoing discussion of migration, mobility, and displacement that made this issue possible. -----JOHN ANDREW MOREMAN roots & routes 5 

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