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St. Louis Anthropocene: displacement & replacement

JJP
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A brief essay about St. Louis' notorious eminent domain history--

--along with 2 recent St. Louis Post-Dispatch articles about "urban renewal" projects that are scheduled to reoccupy the Mill Flats area, which hosted the most notorious episode of displacement of African-American communities: the Chouteau Greenway project (will it serve or displace low-income St. Louisans?); and SLU's Mill Creek Flats high-rise project, which certainly will, and whose name seems to me an especially tone-deaf if gutsy move...

https://humanities.wustl.edu/features/Margaret-Garb-St-Louis-Eminent-Domain

https://www.stltoday.com/business/local/steelcote-developer-plans-more-apartments-brewery-space-in-million-midtown/article_811eaf96-76e1-5c20-a870-1e79abd3f06e.html

https://www.stltoday.com/business/local/chouteau-greenway-project-aims-to-knit-st-louis-neighborhoods-together/article_55fea4e6-6829-5c80-9168-313305b4e3bb.html

Historicizing Inland Empire

Here, diachronic and synchronic timelines allow us to unlayer the interwedged leaves of time that often inform anthropological analysis.

Historicizing Inland Empire

Here, diachronic and synchronic timelines allow us to unlayer the interwedged leaves of time that often inform anthropological analysis.

Historicizing Inland Empire

Here, diachronic and synchronic timelines allow us to unlayer the interwedged leaves of time that often inform anthropological analysis.

Data/Inland Empire

Types of data, and how we situate and maintain them, is a critical aspect of considering what a multi-modal or open access anthropology will look like.

Core Categories Inland Empire

In this sketch, I decided to take a  theoretical approach, mapping out what theoretical core categories might be integral to this kind of research.

McGrath Undergrad Course Module

This sketch, pulled from a future where I have published research on aesthetics and masculinity in California's Inland Empire, engages criss-crossing academic discourse on ruination, late industria