papers and stuff

.In our historical context, a fascist state or fascist movement plays a different role than in the time of Hitler or Mussolini. Locations of known fascist groups can be interrogated as point patterns and aggregated to territorial areas so as to expose...

The emergence of the Tea parties with their racially coded appeals and calls for national renewal, the anti-immigrant movement, the growth of patriot militias all underscore fascistic tendencies within the American polity, but without a comprehensive...

My language skills are not very sharp...after about three months I can still only say a couple of words. Reading and writting are impossable at this point. I need to write my name however, and learning the characters has been a two-week project. At last...

An analysis of hate crime and hate groups in the US, must consider spatial properties and how they relate to the research question at hand. Hate crime and hate groups both display patterns of spatial unevenness at multiple scales and with differing patterns...

A city is an event, a social product that persists. As a site where continuous politics is preformed, the national Mall becomes a ritual space for the enactment of American Civil religion. The Mall is separated from the mundane civic life of the District...

While I might be sojourning in Wuhan, I am a lifelong resident of the Washington area. The personal histories of residents of the District of Columbia often intersect with the larger histories of locality and nation, mine included. My family has made...

KFC and Mickey D`s are all over the place in the parts of Wuhan I travel in. I go there to get coffee since it is cheap and drip style. A Walmart just opened down the road a bit, sometime I need to stop by and check it out. Mikey Dee`s sign near my house...

I made these maps from the DoJ data at http://www2.fbi.gov/ucr/hc2009/incidents.html There is distictive pattern to the events, but at the state level of aggregation and taking into account the voluntary nature of the data, these maps are suggestive only....

Actionable intelligence: Prince William County and a spatial visualization of the 111th Congress and Virginia Congressional Delegation Summary In the general elections of 2008 Virginia voted democratic for the first time since 1964 with Obama carrying...

Understanding the transformations underway in China as well as those occurring back home in the US requires some understanding of neoliberalism and neoliberalization. Spending a week in Seattle and then returning to Wuhan, traveling back and forth from...