In this section, you can access to the latest technical information related to the FUTURE project topic.

Site Fight! Toward the Abolition of Immigrant Detention on Tacoma's Tar Pits (and Everywhere Else)

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/anti.12606?af=R Abstract

September 15, 2013, marked the 50th anniversary of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, USA. The bombing remains one of the most infamous events in the history of white supremacist violence in the United States. While conventional accounts of the event and its aftermath often consider the legal restructuring of the US state following the passage of subsequent Civil Rights legislation, little has been written about the transnational significance of Birmingham in shaping the character of US power abroad. This article argues that memorialisation and cultural architecture of Birmingham represent a significant crucible forging a particular style of liberal empire. Tracing a cultural genealogy of Birmingham through the writings of former Secretary of State and National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice and famed scholar"?activist Angela Davis, I demonstrate how Birmingham, as a site of historic black struggle, has been remembered alongside the place"?making of empire.

» Author: 2> <p>This paper theorises the spatialisation of White supremacy through the siting and expansion of a US immigrant detention centre, the Northwest Detention Center (NWDC). This case reveals the spatial relationship between the detention centre's

» Source: Wiley

« Go to Technological Watch



AIMPLAS Instituto Tecnológico del Plástico

C/ Gustave Eiffel, 4
(València Parc Tecnològic) - 46980
PATERNA (Valencia) - SPAIN

PHONE

(+34) 96 136 60 40

EMAIL

Project Management department - Sustainability and Industrial Recovery
life-future-project@aimplas.es