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INTER-FACE: Series in Critical Security 6

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Analysis at the intersection of culture, political economy, and the negotiation of identities. Thursday, August 10, 2006. Series in Critical Security 6. Without coursework, I'm much better at responding to current events. Michael Chertoff, the U.S. homeland security secretary, told reporters earlier, "We believe that these arrests [in England] have significantly disrupted the threat,. We cannot be sure that the threat has been entirely eliminated or the plot completely thwarted." NY Times. A combination ...

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INTER-FACE: Race and Nation in Mexico - Orientalism South of the Border

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Analysis at the intersection of culture, political economy, and the negotiation of identities. Monday, May 21, 2007. Race and Nation in Mexico - Orientalism South of the Border. T]o the humble, dispossessed masses, [the revolution] promised social justice to all Mexicans; it promised national control of the country’s resources and economy. Chinese domination of local business in much of the north, notably Sonora, became a national embarrassment. (Hu-DeHart). Unlike the US campaigns, the Mexican ligas wer...

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INTER-FACE: Deconstructing La Chinesca: Part 1

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Analysis at the intersection of culture, political economy, and the negotiation of identities. Friday, August 10, 2007. Deconstructing La Chinesca: Part 1. Some how I forgot to snap a photo of the place. I'll put some photos up for the next post. Posted by chinotronic at 11:31 AM. Berkeley, California, United States. View my complete profile. Jook-Sing in the Motherland. The Reign of Terror. The Hill's Congress Blog. Para Justice y Libertad. Rebel Without A Clause. Oaxaca Sigue En La Lucha.

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INTER-FACE: Deconstructing La Chinesca: Part 2

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Analysis at the intersection of culture, political economy, and the negotiation of identities. Saturday, August 11, 2007. Deconstructing La Chinesca: Part 2. In addition to the pagoda, there are other signs of amity between Chinese and Mexicans. This primary school on the edge of La Chinesca portrays a Chinese child greeting a Mexican child. Posted by chinotronic at 11:44 PM. Estolano in San Diego. I'm planning a field trip to Mexicali in a couple weeks and would appreciate any contacts that you've made.

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INTER-FACE: Series in Critical Security 7

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Analysis at the intersection of culture, political economy, and the negotiation of identities. Wednesday, August 16, 2006. Series in Critical Security 7. My use of relational in this instance is meant to describe the connections between different elements in security discourse. So, for instance, in order to claim that Saddam's supposed capacity to deploy WMDs was a threat, US vulnerability to such a capacity had to be demonstrated - thus, the relational structure. This other use of. Have you seen this ca...

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INTER-FACE: Series in Critical Security 3

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Analysis at the intersection of culture, political economy, and the negotiation of identities. Friday, August 04, 2006. Series in Critical Security 3. Border Lessons: From the Sonoran Plains to the Syrian Dunes (& back). This story of American imperialism and border making begins with what Haas calls epistemic communities, or,. Knowledge-based groups of experts and specialists who share a common belief about cause and effect relationships in the world as well as political values. When a nation engages in...

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INTER-FACE: Series in Critical Security 2

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Analysis at the intersection of culture, political economy, and the negotiation of identities. Wednesday, August 02, 2006. Series in Critical Security 2. Recently finished Cynthia Enloe's Ethnic Soldiers: State Security in Divided Societies. In regards to this explanation of (nation-) state security policy, Samuel Huntington (pictured below) in 1957 wrote in The Soldier and the State. As well as internationally (reference Huntington's Clash of Civilizations. Recognizing that Enloe wrote Ethnic Soldiers.

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INTER-FACE: Meta-Post and Interlude

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Analysis at the intersection of culture, political economy, and the negotiation of identities. Tuesday, August 15, 2006. This is NOT the end of the Series in Critical Security; we've got a long way to go still! However, I want to quickly thank the readers and commenters of the last few posts. Thank you for engaging with my thought process - you all have helped me to make the most out of my summer readings. I hope they continue to inspire more comments, questions, corrections, challenges, etc. The History...

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INTER-FACE: Series in Critical Security 4

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Analysis at the intersection of culture, political economy, and the negotiation of identities. Friday, August 04, 2006. Series in Critical Security 4. The previous post, SCS 3. What inspired the paper, which lead to the previous post, was a video I found on Google Video. The video shows a slideshow set to a Kid Rock song, which at the end turns suddenly violent and switches to video clips of destruction, violence, and combat. The author of the video is a BORTAC. Here you'll find a series of links to an o...