The Department of Anthropology at UCI is pleased to be holding our 12th annual graduate student conference, Anthropology in Transit, on February 7-8, 2020. Our conference, Stories-so-far: Spatial Knowledges and Imaginaries, explores ideas of circulatory space, spatial margins and centers, placemaking, and practices of spatial justice and resistance.
Tom Boellstorff is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. A Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, he is the author of many articles and the books The Gay Archipelago (Princeton University Press, 2005); A Coincidence of Desires (Duke University Press, 2007); and Coming of Age in Second Life (Princeton University Press, new edition 2015).
ABSTRACT:What conditions have enabled human and social service providers to imagine the demise of state-provided services? How did this imagination influence a coalition’s decision to sue the state for impairment of contract during the Illinois budget impasse? Throughout the state and across bureaucratic divisions, Illinois social service providers formed a temporary coalition, Pay Now Illinois, that communicated solely through emails and conference calls.
ABSTRACT:This essay investigates the self-governing media platforms as sites of resistance to the mainstream architectural design system in China during the early years of the quasi-capitalist marketization. In this research, architectural production is approached as a mediated cultural phenomenon in domestic and global power dynamics rather than the mere construction of physical buildings in a local setting.
ABSTRACT:This paper examines and challenges dominant spatial imaginaries defining hackerspaces in US cities. Emerging in the US in the early 2000s, hackerspaces are shared technology workshops and art spaces facilitating open access to twenty-first-century tools like 3D printers and laser cutters within eclectic social spaces. Many hackerspaces also employ experimental, horizontal structures of interior governance verging on anarchism and becoming hubs for local subcultures.
ABSTRACT:Our work aims to help conceptualize the liminal space of virtual space and online interactionsboth mediated by computers and with computers themselves. Grounded in decolonial, regenerative, radical feminist science technology studies (STS), and Indigenous theories, we take the stance that we must consider our relationality to the digital and digitally facilitated places and spaces in much the same way that Indigenous thought calls for us to enact worldwide reciprocal, respectful place based relationships.
The Department of Anthropology at UCI is pleased to be holding our 12th annual graduate student conference, Anthropology in Transit, on February 7-8, 2020. Our conference, Stories-so-far: Spatial Knowledges and Imaginaries, explores ideas of circulatory space, spatial margins and centers, placemaking, and practices of spatial justice and resistance.
The Department of Anthropology at UCI is pleased to be holding our 12th annual graduate student conference, Anthropology in Transit, on February 7-8, 2020. Our conference, Stories-so-far: Spatial Knowledges and Imaginaries, explores ideas of circulatory space, spatial margins and centers, placemaking, and practices of spatial justice and resistance.
The Department of Anthropology at UCI is pleased to be holding our 12th annual graduate student conference, Anthropology in Transit, on February 7-8, 2020. Our conference, Stories-so-far: Spatial Knowledges and Imaginaries, explores ideas of circulatory space, spatial margins and centers, placemaking, and practices of spatial justice and resistance.
