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Unpublished Works
(permanently under transformation)
2012 The Body and Memory: On Pain
The body and memory: on pain explores physical pain from a personal perspective, integrating memories of an accident with neomaterialist understandings of the body and current theories addressing physical pain.
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2011 From genealogy to biography: a feminist perspective on the hospital
This work seeks to understand how power is deployed in a clinical institution. Taking advantage of a circumstantial and privileged standpoint – being in a hospital – I relied on autobiography to create partial and transitory knowledge on the experience of the hospital from a personal perspective, without attempting to represent other patients and without claiming any totalitarian truths. A first-person narrative was interweaved with an exploration of Foucault’s works on power to look at the mechanisms under which human beings are turned into subjects in a hospital. Pieces of my own medical reports referenced Foucault’s texts on medical discourse, allowing the reader to find new and unintended meanings.
2011 Lefebvre’s the production of space: a unitary approach to the city. This essay examines Lefebvre’s work to see how his conceptualization of space may shed light on new studies of the urban. It relies on some texts by the Situationist International while looking at Jean-Luc Godard’s 1967 film 2 or 3 things I know about her (2 ou 3 choses que je sais d’elle) to situate Lefebvre’s theory within the surrounding critique of architecture and urban planning.
2011 Marx and the production of urban space
This work develops a framework that will allow me to study the production of urban space from a materialist perspective – looks at space as the locus of production, relying on Capital I and III, Grundrisse, as well as the works of David Harvey and Neil Smith on Marx.
2009 New tolled urban highways and spatial segregation in Santiago, Chile
This research examines the political economy of the Chilean public-private partnership program and the impact of new urban highways on the urban territory, focusing on how public policy reinforces difference and separation in Santiago. It incorporates interviews with geographers, city government officials, and residents affected by the new infrastructure.
Presented at the congress of the Latin American Studies Association: Rethinking Inequalities (Rio de Janeiro, 2009)
2008 Changes in community structure and commercial displacement in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
This paper came out of my first incursion in the sociology department (while studying at the IMA MFA program at Hunter College). It explores gentrification and commercial displacement in Grand Street in East Williamsburg through the use of semi-structured interviews with residents, storeowners, and community organizations. This paper has informed some of my video work:
Watching time go by my bedroom window, Broadway, and Havemeyer.