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Lack of Discourse

Carly.Rospert
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In ‘The Safe Side of the Fence,’ workers of Mallinckrodt Chemical Works plant and nearby Dow Chemical Works share their experience of a lack of discourse around safety and an inability to speak to others (like spouses) of what their jobs were like. This lack of discourse directly impacted their and their surviving family members’ ability seek compensation for health damages occurred as a result of their work, often because lack of communication and information created a void of data that made it difficult to reconstruct estimated exposure levels in order to provide compensation. The lack of discourse and information kept workers in the dark about the risks of their jobs and denied them a choice in taking those risks.

RabachK Theorizing Place and Covid 19

kaitlynrabach
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In our group we had Dr. Jessica Sewell come speak to us a little while ago about her book Women and the Everyday City and we landed on the topic of “imaginaries of space” for a long time. And the visual politics of space- so how do we notice things? What do we notice? What seems out of place or in place. Thinking about how imaginaries make certain presences completely invisible (thinking here about gendered labor, black labor, and more). And how powerful imaginaries are, how they intersect with our construction of language. But also how resistance can work with these imaginaries.. thinking about women’s sort of take over of dept stores during the suffrage movement as an extension of their private space, a space for organizing. This is long winded way of trying to think through COVID-19 national models in the context of national imaginaries. What has been puzzling me is so many Americans’ response to the Swedish model of governing in Covid and how imaginaries of Sweden have been warped in such a way that there is a complete erasure of how xenophobic policies have gained traction in Sweden in recent years.