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In this interview with Sunil Yapa, author of Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist (2016), we... more In this interview with Sunil Yapa, author of Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist (2016), we discuss wide ranging topics including the reasons for writing a novel about the 1999 World Trade Organization (WTO) protests in Seattle, Washington, the influence of Yapa's geography background on the development of the novel, the types of research used to delve into the emotional currents running throughout the days of protest, and the impacts of colonialism on the author's imagination. The subject of the novel is timely in its focus on love, politics, and protest. While the novel centers on the events at the 1999 WTO protests, it offers an interesting and poignant contrast to the current rhetoric in American politics that taps into fear as a means to elicit protest from the rightwing base. Yapa's work in Your Heart endeavors to understand why the 1999 WTO protestors in Seattle stood in solidarity with people and places well beyond the US to envision a more just future, proclaiming that another world is possible.
Beijing’s hutong neighborhoods have undergone drastic urban landscape and demographic changes ove... more Beijing’s hutong neighborhoods have undergone drastic urban landscape and demographic changes over the past decade. The processes of commodification and modernization have prompted dramatic dislocations of everyday practice in the public, private and hybrid (interstitial) spaces within these neighborhoods. My research looks at the ways in which socialization and care practices (i.e. child care or elder care) are being squeezed out of these more communal-oriented interstitial spaces during Beijing’s most recent socio-spatial restructuring. As such, the marginalized poor bear a greater burden as they try to adjust to the disappearance of these communal spaces of caring and community.
This case study is based on informal interviews and participant observation to investigate, differentiate, and highlight the implications of everyday practices resulting from the spatial consolidation and dislocation of care networks from the interstitial spaces within Beijing’s hutong neighborhoods.
Note: The list of references at the end of the article is for the entire book - not just Chapter 7 (as a chapter by chapter list of references was not printed/available).
In this interview with Sunil Yapa, author of Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist (2016), we... more In this interview with Sunil Yapa, author of Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist (2016), we discuss wide ranging topics including the reasons for writing a novel about the 1999 World Trade Organization (WTO) protests in Seattle, Washington, the influence of Yapa's geography background on the development of the novel, the types of research used to delve into the emotional currents running throughout the days of protest, and the impacts of colonialism on the author's imagination. The subject of the novel is timely in its focus on love, politics, and protest. While the novel centers on the events at the 1999 WTO protests, it offers an interesting and poignant contrast to the current rhetoric in American politics that taps into fear as a means to elicit protest from the rightwing base. Yapa's work in Your Heart endeavors to understand why the 1999 WTO protestors in Seattle stood in solidarity with people and places well beyond the US to envision a more just future, proclaiming that another world is possible.
Beijing’s hutong neighborhoods have undergone drastic urban landscape and demographic changes ove... more Beijing’s hutong neighborhoods have undergone drastic urban landscape and demographic changes over the past decade. The processes of commodification and modernization have prompted dramatic dislocations of everyday practice in the public, private and hybrid (interstitial) spaces within these neighborhoods. My research looks at the ways in which socialization and care practices (i.e. child care or elder care) are being squeezed out of these more communal-oriented interstitial spaces during Beijing’s most recent socio-spatial restructuring. As such, the marginalized poor bear a greater burden as they try to adjust to the disappearance of these communal spaces of caring and community.
This case study is based on informal interviews and participant observation to investigate, differentiate, and highlight the implications of everyday practices resulting from the spatial consolidation and dislocation of care networks from the interstitial spaces within Beijing’s hutong neighborhoods.
Note: The list of references at the end of the article is for the entire book - not just Chapter 7 (as a chapter by chapter list of references was not printed/available).
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impacts of colonialism on the author's imagination. The subject of the novel is timely in its focus on love, politics, and protest. While the novel centers on the events at the 1999 WTO protests, it offers an interesting and poignant contrast to the current rhetoric in American politics that taps into fear as a means to elicit protest from the rightwing base. Yapa's work in Your Heart endeavors to understand why the 1999 WTO protestors in Seattle stood in solidarity with people and places well beyond the US to envision a more just future, proclaiming that another world is possible.
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This case study is based on informal interviews and participant observation to investigate, differentiate, and highlight the implications of everyday practices resulting from the spatial consolidation and dislocation of care networks from the interstitial spaces within Beijing’s hutong neighborhoods.
Note: The list of references at the end of the article is for the entire book - not just Chapter 7 (as a chapter by chapter list of references was not printed/available).
impacts of colonialism on the author's imagination. The subject of the novel is timely in its focus on love, politics, and protest. While the novel centers on the events at the 1999 WTO protests, it offers an interesting and poignant contrast to the current rhetoric in American politics that taps into fear as a means to elicit protest from the rightwing base. Yapa's work in Your Heart endeavors to understand why the 1999 WTO protestors in Seattle stood in solidarity with people and places well beyond the US to envision a more just future, proclaiming that another world is possible.
This case study is based on informal interviews and participant observation to investigate, differentiate, and highlight the implications of everyday practices resulting from the spatial consolidation and dislocation of care networks from the interstitial spaces within Beijing’s hutong neighborhoods.
Note: The list of references at the end of the article is for the entire book - not just Chapter 7 (as a chapter by chapter list of references was not printed/available).