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PUBLIC MARKS with tags ethnicity & space

21 November 2006

Travel Photos - The Great Mirror

by jlesage
"a large and sprawling collection of photographs of cultural or humanized landscapes. The images are arranged geographically and are narratively sequenced and captioned to reflect the interests of a geographer."

Geography courses with websites Valparaiso University

by jlesage
Geography courses, both present and past, with exercises, links, bibliography. Also see Urban Studies and American Indian Studies. Understanding place as cultural should inform both fiction and non-fiction film.

19 November 2006

Code Z: Black Visual Culture Now

by jlesage
many categories, including fine art, design, fashion, film, architecture, publishing, digital media, public policy; attractively designed site, starting Aug. 06

18 November 2006

Journal E: Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America

by jlesage
one of the most important exhibitions of our time, also raising questions about the ethics of exhibiting violence in our media culture today

16 November 2006

13 November 2006

Anthro.Net Research Engine: Anthropology and Archaeology

by jlesage & 2 others
large portal, includes cultural geography, ethnic studies, visual arts, postmodern anthropology

Difference, Diversity and Nomadic Subjectivity

by jlesage
Braidotti is a theorist combining the insights of Donna Haraway with postcolonial theory; this earlier (1998) essay still has relevance today. Useful in teaching.

Vectors Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular

by jlesage
"multiple contours of daily life in an unevenly digital era... how technology shapes, transforms, reconfigures, and/or impedes social relations...including issues of globalization, mobility, power, and access"

11 November 2006

BibliOdyssey's bookmarks on del.icio.us

by jlesage
collects links to archives of historical collections of images from around the world and across history

06 November 2006

Photoethnography.com - Photoethnographers

by jlesage
bibliography with many links to historically important photographers

Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society

by jlesage
very large bibliography on Critical Whiteness Studies, broken down into various categories; not interactive and does not lead to full text essays; worth going to the library to follow up on

The geopolitics of knowledge and the colonial difference

by jlesage
by Walter Mignolo; "'modernity' is not a strictly European but a planetary phenomenon to which the "excluded barbarians" have contributed, although their contribution has not been acknowledged."

02 November 2006

"Cyberfeminism with a difference" by Rosi Braidotti

by jlesage
an important essay building on the work of Donna Haraway, emphasizing the kinds of empoverishment that come with globalization, and the possibilities for new forms of collective identity in cyberspace, while eschewing utopianism.

Place: Cultural, Disability, Ethnic, Media, Postcolonial, Race Studies

by jlesage
huge multi-page database of links on space and place in cultural geography as applicable to interdisciplinary studies

01 November 2006

Project Premises : Sed : A Trail of Thirst

by jlesage
hypertext and visual arts project on southwest US and politics of the border; extensive essay with incorporated artistic material; new vision of documentary media, visual ethnography

24 October 2006

one small project

by jlesage
learning from those who "claim leftover spaces in cities and live in unauthorized dwellings made of scavenged, leftover materials"; solicits contributions

22 October 2006

21 October 2006

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by jlesage
artist and teacher's web site; under "digital storytelling" are wonderful quicktime movies, often from South America or in Latino USA, with subtitles; an exemplar of documentaries on the Internet

18 October 2006

Movement by Grigorio Agamben

by jlesage
author traces concept of movement from Aristotle and asks us to "rethink the concept of movement and its relation to biopolitics."

Professor Stephen Graham - Writing & Publication

by jlesage
left urban geographer, with many online writings, often with an international focus

17 October 2006

TRANSFORMATIONS

by jlesage
"different modes of life embodied within local domains, yet globally interconnected at the same time"

multilingual web journal

by jlesage
check out sections to left on main page, and also writings listed under "correspondence"

Mute

by jlesage
online magazine exploring "culture after the net"

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