Faculty Research Support Grant:
Heidi Amin-Hong, English
Between Refuge and Refuse: New Mediums/Methods for Theorizing Refuge(e) Environments
This workshop convenes scholars and contributors around a planned special issue on “Between Refuge and Refuse: New Mediums/Methods for Theorizing Refuge(e) Environments” for Amerasia Journal, co-edited by Heidi Amin-Hong, Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi (UCLA), and Emily Hue (UC Riverside). Bringing together critical refugee studies, Indigenous studies, media studies, and the environmental humanities, the workshop will culminate in a special issue that probes multiple resonances of refuge – humanitarian refuge for displaced refugees, wildlife refuge for endangered animals – as well as their entanglements
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