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Politics of Hate in Southern California

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EthnoSketch: Competing Hegemonies

Ethnography, at its best, provides a powerful and efficient way to read historical conditions.

EthnoSketch: Peopling a Project

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EthnoSketch: Historicizing a Project

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EthnoSketch: Mapping Subject Positions

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harrison.leinweber

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The Problem of Securing Health

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What were the methods, tools and/or data used to produce the claims or arguments made in the article or report?

I could not find the answer to this prompt as there were not citations listed on the article.

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harrison.leinweber

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Lessons in the Rubble: The World Trade Center and the History of Disaster Investigations in the United States

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Who are the authors, where do they work, and what are their areas of expertise? How is the author professionally situated in respect to emergency response? Note any other publications/research foci that are of relevance to the DSTS Network.

Scott Knowles is the Head of the Department of History at Drexel University in Pennsylvania. He specializes in the history of technology, disaster, and public policy. He has a number of other publications that are relevant to the DSTS Network including a book, The Disaster Experts: Mastering Risk in Modern America, and co-authored "Critical Studies in Risk and Disaster, and a volume on the Fukushima disasters. He is not professionally situated among emergency responders; however, he does conduct research on the subject.

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College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity (CEHC) at the University at Albany

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How is the program regarded by the public? (news coverage, etc.)

This program is viewed as a novelty to the public, as it is the first college of its kind to offer a degree in homeland security and emergency preparedness. A number view it as a step in the right direction and an innovation. The program does not appear to have been around for long enough to yeild graduates, so those results are still unkown.

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Human Rights Watch: Report on the Health of Internally Displaced Persons in Colombia

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Describe how this report has traveled. Has it been used in news reports, cited by health officials, or used as the basis of other studies?

this report has spread to a number of academic institutions and their websites. This report seems to be relatively old, so I was unable to find any news reports that cited it. It appears that there are a number of other articles related to this topic; however, I was unable to find any direct connections between them and this report.

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The backdrop of Newark’s Environmental Justice and Cumulative Impacts ordinance

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What social processes are creating vulnerability? What is their history?

One process to consider is that alot of Newark Environmental and Public Health laws had not been changed since the 1950's, so that allowed for continuing of neglegence over the course of history in terms of environmental justice. Other social processes that might have played a part is race and class. Low-rise and dense housing for low-income and minority civilians have become major victims of careless industrialization.