Meg Stalcup
Biographic Data
| ID | 103756 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Meg Stalcup |
| GIVEN NAMES | Meg |
| FAMILY NAME | Stalcup |
| SIGNATURE | STALCUP M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ottawa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1675-1453 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A Heterotopology of Urban Margins: Publicness in the Space of the City
Urban marginality is generally considered through the lens of exclusion. Policing and public policies, underpinned by private NIMBY (not-in-my-backyard) attitudes and actions, aim to remove marginalized individuals from urban spaces. Yet they remain and are visible. As such, individuals across the urban margins share in publicness, which is the connection between strangers unique to cities borne from their visibility to one another. We suggest th…
Careful Practices: Ethics and the Anethical in Canadian Addiction Trajectories
A drug overdose epidemic in North America has sped the expansion of harm reduction services. Drawing on fieldwork in Ottawa, Ontario, we examine forms of care among people offering and accessing these resources. Notably, our interlocutors do not always characterize harm reduction as caring for oneself. Thus, we differentiate between the ethics of care through which one enters desired subject positions, and anethical careful practices. Harm reduct…
Zika
Anthropology of security and security in anthropology: Cases of counterterrorism in the United States
In this article we propose a mode of analysis that allows us to consider security as a form distinct from insecurity, in order to capture the heterogeneity of security objects, logics and forms of action. We first develop a genealogy for the anthropology of security, demarcating four main approaches: violence and state terror; military, militarization, and militarism; para-state securitization; and what we submit as 'security assemblages.' Securi…
Cops, cameras, and the policing of ethics
In this article, we explore how cameras are used in policing in the United States. We outline the trajectory of key new media technologies, arguing that cameras and social media together generate the ambient surveillance through which graphic violence is now routinely captured and circulated. Drawing on the work of Michel Foucault, we identify and examine intersections between video footage and police subjectivity in case studies of recruit train…
The Aesthetic Politics of Unfinished Media: New Media Activism in Brazil
This article analyzes the role of key visual technologies in contemporary media activism in Brazil. Drawing on a range of media formats and sources, it examines how the aesthetic politics of activists in protests that took place in 2013 opened the way for wider sociopolitical change. The forms and practices of the media activists, it is argued, aimed explicitly at producing transformative politics. New media technologies were remediated as a kind…
Four. Policing Uncertainty: On Suspicious Activity Reporting - Meg Stalcup
Several of the men who would become the 9/11 hijackers were stopped for minor traffic violations. In government inquiries and in the press, these brushes with the law were missed opportunities. But for many police officers in the United States, they were moments of professional revelation, and also personally fraught. Officers replayed the incidents of contact, which lay bare the uncertainty of every encounter. In the Suspicious Activity Reportin…
Spiritual biologicals
Mothers and Children: Designing research toward integrated care for both
In this paper we examine pragmatic corollaries to the design and implementation of Millennium Development Goals (MDG) 4 and 5. The first corollary we analyze is how the timeframe imposed on the MDGs affects choices about how to implement health care interventions to meet those goals, which we look at specifically in terms of the trade-off between strengthening a health care system or increasing mass campaigns. The second corollary is that, in the…
Global Health and the Demands of the Day
We have two goals in this paper: first, to provide a diagnosis of global health and underline some of its blockages; second, to offer an alternative interpretation of what the demands for those in global health may be. The assumption that health is a "good" that requires no further explanation, and that per se it can serve as an actual modus operandi, lays the foundations of the problem. Related blockages ensue and are described using HIV prevent…
Anthropology of security and security in anthropology: Cases of counterterrorism in the United States
In this article we propose a mode of analysis that allows us to consider security as a form distinct from insecurity, in order to capture the heterogeneity of security objects, logics and forms of action. We first develop a genealogy for the anthropology of security, demarcating four main approaches: violence and state terror; military, militarization, and militarism; para-state securitization; and what we submit as 'security assemblages.' Securi…
Cops, cameras, and the policing of ethics
In this article, we explore how cameras are used in policing in the United States. We outline the trajectory of key new media technologies, arguing that cameras and social media together generate the ambient surveillance through which graphic violence is now routinely captured and circulated. Drawing on the work of Michel Foucault, we identify and examine intersections between video footage and police subjectivity in case studies of recruit train…
The Aesthetic Politics of Unfinished Media: New Media Activism in Brazil
This article analyzes the role of key visual technologies in contemporary media activism in Brazil. Drawing on a range of media formats and sources, it examines how the aesthetic politics of activists in protests that took place in 2013 opened the way for wider sociopolitical change. The forms and practices of the media activists, it is argued, aimed explicitly at producing transformative politics. New media technologies were remediated as a kind…
A Heterotopology of Urban Margins: Publicness in the Space of the City
Urban marginality is generally considered through the lens of exclusion. Policing and public policies, underpinned by private NIMBY (not-in-my-backyard) attitudes and actions, aim to remove marginalized individuals from urban spaces. Yet they remain and are visible. As such, individuals across the urban margins share in publicness, which is the connection between strangers unique to cities borne from their visibility to one another. We suggest th…
Careful Practices: Ethics and the Anethical in Canadian Addiction Trajectories
A drug overdose epidemic in North America has sped the expansion of harm reduction services. Drawing on fieldwork in Ottawa, Ontario, we examine forms of care among people offering and accessing these resources. Notably, our interlocutors do not always characterize harm reduction as caring for oneself. Thus, we differentiate between the ethics of care through which one enters desired subject positions, and anethical careful practices. Harm reduct…
Global Health and the Demands of the Day
We have two goals in this paper: first, to provide a diagnosis of global health and underline some of its blockages; second, to offer an alternative interpretation of what the demands for those in global health may be. The assumption that health is a "good" that requires no further explanation, and that per se it can serve as an actual modus operandi, lays the foundations of the problem. Related blockages ensue and are described using HIV prevent…
Mothers and Children: Designing research toward integrated care for both
In this paper we examine pragmatic corollaries to the design and implementation of Millennium Development Goals (MDG) 4 and 5. The first corollary we analyze is how the timeframe imposed on the MDGs affects choices about how to implement health care interventions to meet those goals, which we look at specifically in terms of the trade-off between strengthening a health care system or increasing mass campaigns. The second corollary is that, in the…
Spiritual biologicals
Four. Policing Uncertainty: On Suspicious Activity Reporting - Meg Stalcup
Several of the men who would become the 9/11 hijackers were stopped for minor traffic violations. In government inquiries and in the press, these brushes with the law were missed opportunities. But for many police officers in the United States, they were moments of professional revelation, and also personally fraught. Officers replayed the incidents of contact, which lay bare the uncertainty of every encounter. In the Suspicious Activity Reportin…
Cops, cameras, and the policing of ethics
In this article, we explore how cameras are used in policing in the United States. We outline the trajectory of key new media technologies, arguing that cameras and social media together generate the ambient surveillance through which graphic violence is now routinely captured and circulated. Drawing on the work of Michel Foucault, we identify and examine intersections between video footage and police subjectivity in case studies of recruit train…
The Aesthetic Politics of Unfinished Media: New Media Activism in Brazil
This article analyzes the role of key visual technologies in contemporary media activism in Brazil. Drawing on a range of media formats and sources, it examines how the aesthetic politics of activists in protests that took place in 2013 opened the way for wider sociopolitical change. The forms and practices of the media activists, it is argued, aimed explicitly at producing transformative politics. New media technologies were remediated as a kind…
Anthropology of security and security in anthropology: Cases of counterterrorism in the United States
In this article we propose a mode of analysis that allows us to consider security as a form distinct from insecurity, in order to capture the heterogeneity of security objects, logics and forms of action. We first develop a genealogy for the anthropology of security, demarcating four main approaches: violence and state terror; military, militarization, and militarism; para-state securitization; and what we submit as 'security assemblages.' Securi…
Zika
Careful Practices: Ethics and the Anethical in Canadian Addiction Trajectories
A drug overdose epidemic in North America has sped the expansion of harm reduction services. Drawing on fieldwork in Ottawa, Ontario, we examine forms of care among people offering and accessing these resources. Notably, our interlocutors do not always characterize harm reduction as caring for oneself. Thus, we differentiate between the ethics of care through which one enters desired subject positions, and anethical careful practices. Harm reduct…
A Heterotopology of Urban Margins: Publicness in the Space of the City
Urban marginality is generally considered through the lens of exclusion. Policing and public policies, underpinned by private NIMBY (not-in-my-backyard) attitudes and actions, aim to remove marginalized individuals from urban spaces. Yet they remain and are visible. As such, individuals across the urban margins share in publicness, which is the connection between strangers unique to cities borne from their visibility to one another. We suggest th…
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