Jenna M Loyd
Biographic Data
| ID | 1127300 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jenna M Loyd |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jenna M |
| FAMILY NAME | Loyd |
| SIGNATURE | LOYD J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0851-735X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 393 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Whither Chat-GPT: Generative AI and Teaching Introduction to Human Geography in Higher Education
This paper reflects on how we, as instructors of Introduction to Human Geography, navigated the widespread usage of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) models in the classroom. We discuss how GAI first appeared in our classroom, how we connect GAI to course content in lecture periods, and present reflections on navigating GAI in course writing assignments. Our conclusion advocates for a holistic framework which addresses GAI usage to not pol…
Legal geographies of health
How laws collectively shape health outcomes and health inequities—legal determinants of health—is a growing topic of interdisciplinary study. I draw out geographers’ contributions to this field by bringing together health geographies and legal geographies. I trace the contours of an emergent legal geographies of health subfield across three areas of inquiry: the bordering of public health, legal geographies of reproduction, and legal-political ec…
Geopolitics of Disability and the Ablenationalism of Refuge
Although it has rarely been addressed as such, the regulation of disability within migration governance is a geopolitical issue. This article examines how refugee resettlement intersects with ablenationalism, an ideology that treats disability as exceptional, thereby shoring up the exclusionary terms of citizenship. Drawing on findings from our multi-sited study (2016–2019) of the resettlement of Iraqis to the US, we show how the fantasy of the ‘…
The problem of the future in the spacetime of resettlement: Iraqi refugees in the U.S
How do the lost futures of forced displacement converge with the impasse of being resettled to a "post-future" society such as the U.S.? Based on interviews conducted between 2016 and 2019 with resettlement agents, service providers and Iraqis resettled in the U.S., we argue that the condemnation of "expectations" (that is, realistic hope) coupled with the demand for refugees' gratitude means that Iraqis resettled to the U.S. are asked to sustain…
Trauma as Displacement: Observations from Refugee Resettlement
Trauma does not have a single definition. Within Western paradigms, across humanities and social sciences, it has largely been characterized through temporal and spatial dislocation. Critical studies of trauma, however, suggest that such framings of rupture, catastrophe, and mass displacement can obscure longer term and structural forms of violence, such as colonialism and gender-based violence. This article explores the displacement, emplacement…
A Design Challenge for Transforming Justice
Transforming Justice is a collaborative project that aims to challenge the dominant narratives of policing and segregation in Milwaukee through community workshops, visual arts and storytelling, and experimental mapping. This Practices and Curations contribution describes one of the project’s collaborations, a design challenge, that aimed to create and imagine new ways of visualizing (in)justice and place in Milwaukee. Engaging feminist principle…
Boats, Borders, and Bases: Race, the Cold War, and the Rise of Migration Detention in the United States
Prison Abolitionist Perspectives on No Borders
The Caribbean Roots of U.S. Migration Policy: How deterrence, detention, and deportation of Caribbean migrants and refugees in the ‘70s and ‘80s laid the groundwork for the militarization of the U.S.-…
Boats, Borders, and Bases: Race, the Cold War, and the Rise of Migration Detention in the United States
The United States currently maintains the world’s largest migration and deportation system. Yet there has been no systematic account of its construction. Boats, Borders, and Bases traces the rise of detention through Cold War efforts to deter Haitian and Cuban migrants from arriving in the United States by boat. Caribbean migration and deterrence efforts are related to much-better-known policies that have shaped the U.S.-Mexico boundary. This acc…
For the Children? Protecting Innocence in a Carceral State
Book Review| June 01 2018 For the Children? Protecting Innocence in a Carceral State For the Children? Protecting Innocence in a Carceral State. By Erica R. Meiners. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016; pp. 255, $94.50 cloth, $27.00 paper, $27.00 ebook. Jenna M. Loyd Jenna M. Loyd University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking (2018) 5 (2): 118–121. …
A geopolitics of trauma: Refugee administration and protracted uncertainty in Turkey
In this paper we map out what we are calling a “geopolitics of trauma” by examining the role of trauma in transnational refugee regimes and the individualisation of geopolitical relations through mental health diagnosis and service provision. Focusing on one site of entry into the international regime of refugee administration, we present findings from fieldwork that we conducted in August, 2015 in Turkey with NGO s and IGO s involved in the prot…
Where do Black lives matter? Race, stigma, and place in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
This article analyzes how the spatial metaphor of 53206, a zip code within the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, connects with crises in the legitimacy of policing and politicians' claims to care about Black lives. It examines how, in the context of deepening racialized poverty, ongoing mobilizations against police violence, and increasing rates of violent crime, liberal and conservative rhetoric about 53206 largely obscures the roles that decades of…
Social Justice
Social justice concerns social, political, and economic institutions and the social and environmental processes that produce and reproduce group oppression and domination and the inequitable distributions of goods and oppressive spaces. Movements for social justice have sought to reshape relations of production and distribution, broaden spaces and procedures for democratic decision‐making, and challenge dominant cultural norms and knowledge hiera…
The militarization of islands and migration: Tracing human mobility through US bases in the Caribbean and the Pacific
Transnational productions of remoteness: Building onshore and offshore carceral regimes across borders
This article examines transnational framings of domestic carceral landscapes to better understand the relationship between offshore and onshore enforcement and detention regimes. US detention on mainland territory and interception and detention in the Caribbean serves as a case study. While the US domestic carceral regime is a subject of intense political debate, research, and activism, it is not often analyzed in relation to the development and …
Managing migration, scaling sovereignty on islands
Island and maritime spaces between regions have become central places of recurrent crises over human migration and re-articulations of state sovereignty. Islands, the very sites where land meets water, are among the contested sites of struggle over entry and exclusion. In this paper, the Mediterranean is our main area of geographical inquiry. We explore the connections between crises of sovereignty, migration and islands, seeking to enhance conne…
Beyond Walls and Cages: Prisons, Borders, and Global Crisis
The crisis of borders and prisons can be seen starkly in statistics. In 2011 some 1,500 migrants died trying to enter Europe, and the United States deported nearly 400,000 and imprisoned some 2.3 million people more than at any other time in history. International borders are increasingly militarized places embedded within domestic policing and imprisonment and entwined with expanding prison-industrial complexes. Beyond Walls and Cages offers sch…
The fire next time: Rodney King, Trayvon Martin and law-and-order urbanism
Rodney King's beating by Los Angeles Police Department officers, and their subsequent acquittal by an all White jury sparked the first “multicultural riot” in Los Angeles in 1992. Twenty years since the time of the uprising, the vigilante murder of teenager Trayvon Martin in a gated community in Florida brought thousands across the country into the streets to protest the disposability of Black male life. Since writing this essay, Rodney King has …
Conceptualizing detention: Mobility, containment, bordering, and exclusion
Detention is a pressing empirical, conceptual, and political issue. Detained populations, detention facilities, and industries have expanded globally. Detention is also a fundamentally geographical topic, yet largely overlooked by geographers. We argue that detention be conceptualized as a series of geographical processes. Operating through these processes are contradictory sets of temporal and spatial logics that structure the seemingly paradoxi…
Geographies of Peace and Antiviolence
Geography's ties with war-making, territorial and imperial conquest are well known. Geography has also made contributions to the study of peace. In recent years, geographers have been engaged in a rich debate over the relations between studies of war and peace and the conceptual and methodological frameworks for approaching studies of violence. This paper reviews the vibrant recent literature on geographies of peace, which features two striking p…
Peace is Our Only Shelter”: Questioning Domesticities of Militarization and White Privilege
This paper traces how Los Angeles peace activists tried to make visible the grave domestic effects of Cold War militarization. Women Strike for Peace went beyond a focus on the productive relations between the state, military and industry captured by the term "military–industrial complex" to analyze how reproductive spaces were part of this complex. In opposing war, they challenged what I am calling militarized domesticities: how war-making shape…
Colored Property: State Policy and White Racial Politics in Suburban America by David M. P. Freund
David M. P. Freund , Colored Property: State Policy and White Racial Politics in Suburban America . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2007 . ISBN 0-226-26275-8 (cloth) I finished reading David M. P. Freund's Colored Property the very day the Treasury Department bailed out and took control of state-backed mortgage financers, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Among other things, this book provides a rich institutional history of such federal interv…
A Microscopic Insurgent”: Militarization, Health, and Critical Geographies of Violence
Wars do not maim with bullets and bombs alone but cause economic and environmental destruction that leave enduring bodily harms. Preparations for war-making also cause negative health effects, from toxic waste to the redirection of social wealth from investment in social needs. The commonsense juxtaposition of exceptional war to normal peace makes it difficult to recognize processes of militarization, the violent continuities between war and peac…
War is Not Healthy for Children and other Living Things
In opposition to the Vietnam war, the US-based group Another Mother for Peace (AMP) coined the compellingly simple slogan, 'War is not healthy for children and other living things'. I analyze the changing ways in which these women connected health and war. They transformed the imagined geography of where war is not healthy from the fields of Vietnam to include their own backyards. In this way they reworked Cold War strictures of motherhood and ch…
Conceptualizing detention: Mobility, containment, bordering, and exclusion
Detention is a pressing empirical, conceptual, and political issue. Detained populations, detention facilities, and industries have expanded globally. Detention is also a fundamentally geographical topic, yet largely overlooked by geographers. We argue that detention be conceptualized as a series of geographical processes. Operating through these processes are contradictory sets of temporal and spatial logics that structure the seemingly paradoxi…
A geopolitics of trauma: Refugee administration and protracted uncertainty in Turkey
In this paper we map out what we are calling a “geopolitics of trauma” by examining the role of trauma in transnational refugee regimes and the individualisation of geopolitical relations through mental health diagnosis and service provision. Focusing on one site of entry into the international regime of refugee administration, we present findings from fieldwork that we conducted in August, 2015 in Turkey with NGO s and IGO s involved in the prot…
Managing migration, scaling sovereignty on islands
Island and maritime spaces between regions have become central places of recurrent crises over human migration and re-articulations of state sovereignty. Islands, the very sites where land meets water, are among the contested sites of struggle over entry and exclusion. In this paper, the Mediterranean is our main area of geographical inquiry. We explore the connections between crises of sovereignty, migration and islands, seeking to enhance conne…
Geographies of Peace and Antiviolence
Geography's ties with war-making, territorial and imperial conquest are well known. Geography has also made contributions to the study of peace. In recent years, geographers have been engaged in a rich debate over the relations between studies of war and peace and the conceptual and methodological frameworks for approaching studies of violence. This paper reviews the vibrant recent literature on geographies of peace, which features two striking p…
Where do Black lives matter? Race, stigma, and place in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
This article analyzes how the spatial metaphor of 53206, a zip code within the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, connects with crises in the legitimacy of policing and politicians' claims to care about Black lives. It examines how, in the context of deepening racialized poverty, ongoing mobilizations against police violence, and increasing rates of violent crime, liberal and conservative rhetoric about 53206 largely obscures the roles that decades of…
A Microscopic Insurgent”: Militarization, Health, and Critical Geographies of Violence
Wars do not maim with bullets and bombs alone but cause economic and environmental destruction that leave enduring bodily harms. Preparations for war-making also cause negative health effects, from toxic waste to the redirection of social wealth from investment in social needs. The commonsense juxtaposition of exceptional war to normal peace makes it difficult to recognize processes of militarization, the violent continuities between war and peac…
Trauma as Displacement: Observations from Refugee Resettlement
Trauma does not have a single definition. Within Western paradigms, across humanities and social sciences, it has largely been characterized through temporal and spatial dislocation. Critical studies of trauma, however, suggest that such framings of rupture, catastrophe, and mass displacement can obscure longer term and structural forms of violence, such as colonialism and gender-based violence. This article explores the displacement, emplacement…
The problem of the future in the spacetime of resettlement: Iraqi refugees in the U.S
How do the lost futures of forced displacement converge with the impasse of being resettled to a "post-future" society such as the U.S.? Based on interviews conducted between 2016 and 2019 with resettlement agents, service providers and Iraqis resettled in the U.S., we argue that the condemnation of "expectations" (that is, realistic hope) coupled with the demand for refugees' gratitude means that Iraqis resettled to the U.S. are asked to sustain…
War is Not Healthy for Children and other Living Things
In opposition to the Vietnam war, the US-based group Another Mother for Peace (AMP) coined the compellingly simple slogan, 'War is not healthy for children and other living things'. I analyze the changing ways in which these women connected health and war. They transformed the imagined geography of where war is not healthy from the fields of Vietnam to include their own backyards. In this way they reworked Cold War strictures of motherhood and ch…
The militarization of islands and migration: Tracing human mobility through US bases in the Caribbean and the Pacific
Geopolitics of Disability and the Ablenationalism of Refuge
Although it has rarely been addressed as such, the regulation of disability within migration governance is a geopolitical issue. This article examines how refugee resettlement intersects with ablenationalism, an ideology that treats disability as exceptional, thereby shoring up the exclusionary terms of citizenship. Drawing on findings from our multi-sited study (2016–2019) of the resettlement of Iraqis to the US, we show how the fantasy of the ‘…
The fire next time: Rodney King, Trayvon Martin and law-and-order urbanism
Rodney King's beating by Los Angeles Police Department officers, and their subsequent acquittal by an all White jury sparked the first “multicultural riot” in Los Angeles in 1992. Twenty years since the time of the uprising, the vigilante murder of teenager Trayvon Martin in a gated community in Florida brought thousands across the country into the streets to protest the disposability of Black male life. Since writing this essay, Rodney King has …
Peace is Our Only Shelter”: Questioning Domesticities of Militarization and White Privilege
This paper traces how Los Angeles peace activists tried to make visible the grave domestic effects of Cold War militarization. Women Strike for Peace went beyond a focus on the productive relations between the state, military and industry captured by the term "military–industrial complex" to analyze how reproductive spaces were part of this complex. In opposing war, they challenged what I am calling militarized domesticities: how war-making shape…
Katrina: A Racist Disaster
A Design Challenge for Transforming Justice
Transforming Justice is a collaborative project that aims to challenge the dominant narratives of policing and segregation in Milwaukee through community workshops, visual arts and storytelling, and experimental mapping. This Practices and Curations contribution describes one of the project’s collaborations, a design challenge, that aimed to create and imagine new ways of visualizing (in)justice and place in Milwaukee. Engaging feminist principle…
Katrina: A Racist Disaster
A Microscopic Insurgent”: Militarization, Health, and Critical Geographies of Violence
Wars do not maim with bullets and bombs alone but cause economic and environmental destruction that leave enduring bodily harms. Preparations for war-making also cause negative health effects, from toxic waste to the redirection of social wealth from investment in social needs. The commonsense juxtaposition of exceptional war to normal peace makes it difficult to recognize processes of militarization, the violent continuities between war and peac…
War is Not Healthy for Children and other Living Things
In opposition to the Vietnam war, the US-based group Another Mother for Peace (AMP) coined the compellingly simple slogan, 'War is not healthy for children and other living things'. I analyze the changing ways in which these women connected health and war. They transformed the imagined geography of where war is not healthy from the fields of Vietnam to include their own backyards. In this way they reworked Cold War strictures of motherhood and ch…
Colored Property: State Policy and White Racial Politics in Suburban America by David M. P. Freund
David M. P. Freund , Colored Property: State Policy and White Racial Politics in Suburban America . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2007 . ISBN 0-226-26275-8 (cloth) I finished reading David M. P. Freund's Colored Property the very day the Treasury Department bailed out and took control of state-backed mortgage financers, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Among other things, this book provides a rich institutional history of such federal interv…
Peace is Our Only Shelter”: Questioning Domesticities of Militarization and White Privilege
This paper traces how Los Angeles peace activists tried to make visible the grave domestic effects of Cold War militarization. Women Strike for Peace went beyond a focus on the productive relations between the state, military and industry captured by the term "military–industrial complex" to analyze how reproductive spaces were part of this complex. In opposing war, they challenged what I am calling militarized domesticities: how war-making shape…
Beyond Walls and Cages: Prisons, Borders, and Global Crisis
The crisis of borders and prisons can be seen starkly in statistics. In 2011 some 1,500 migrants died trying to enter Europe, and the United States deported nearly 400,000 and imprisoned some 2.3 million people more than at any other time in history. International borders are increasingly militarized places embedded within domestic policing and imprisonment and entwined with expanding prison-industrial complexes. Beyond Walls and Cages offers sch…
The fire next time: Rodney King, Trayvon Martin and law-and-order urbanism
Rodney King's beating by Los Angeles Police Department officers, and their subsequent acquittal by an all White jury sparked the first “multicultural riot” in Los Angeles in 1992. Twenty years since the time of the uprising, the vigilante murder of teenager Trayvon Martin in a gated community in Florida brought thousands across the country into the streets to protest the disposability of Black male life. Since writing this essay, Rodney King has …
Conceptualizing detention: Mobility, containment, bordering, and exclusion
Detention is a pressing empirical, conceptual, and political issue. Detained populations, detention facilities, and industries have expanded globally. Detention is also a fundamentally geographical topic, yet largely overlooked by geographers. We argue that detention be conceptualized as a series of geographical processes. Operating through these processes are contradictory sets of temporal and spatial logics that structure the seemingly paradoxi…
Geographies of Peace and Antiviolence
Geography's ties with war-making, territorial and imperial conquest are well known. Geography has also made contributions to the study of peace. In recent years, geographers have been engaged in a rich debate over the relations between studies of war and peace and the conceptual and methodological frameworks for approaching studies of violence. This paper reviews the vibrant recent literature on geographies of peace, which features two striking p…
Transnational productions of remoteness: Building onshore and offshore carceral regimes across borders
This article examines transnational framings of domestic carceral landscapes to better understand the relationship between offshore and onshore enforcement and detention regimes. US detention on mainland territory and interception and detention in the Caribbean serves as a case study. While the US domestic carceral regime is a subject of intense political debate, research, and activism, it is not often analyzed in relation to the development and …
Managing migration, scaling sovereignty on islands
Island and maritime spaces between regions have become central places of recurrent crises over human migration and re-articulations of state sovereignty. Islands, the very sites where land meets water, are among the contested sites of struggle over entry and exclusion. In this paper, the Mediterranean is our main area of geographical inquiry. We explore the connections between crises of sovereignty, migration and islands, seeking to enhance conne…
The militarization of islands and migration: Tracing human mobility through US bases in the Caribbean and the Pacific
Social Justice
Social justice concerns social, political, and economic institutions and the social and environmental processes that produce and reproduce group oppression and domination and the inequitable distributions of goods and oppressive spaces. Movements for social justice have sought to reshape relations of production and distribution, broaden spaces and procedures for democratic decision‐making, and challenge dominant cultural norms and knowledge hiera…
Boats, Borders, and Bases: Race, the Cold War, and the Rise of Migration Detention in the United States
The United States currently maintains the world’s largest migration and deportation system. Yet there has been no systematic account of its construction. Boats, Borders, and Bases traces the rise of detention through Cold War efforts to deter Haitian and Cuban migrants from arriving in the United States by boat. Caribbean migration and deterrence efforts are related to much-better-known policies that have shaped the U.S.-Mexico boundary. This acc…
For the Children? Protecting Innocence in a Carceral State
Book Review| June 01 2018 For the Children? Protecting Innocence in a Carceral State For the Children? Protecting Innocence in a Carceral State. By Erica R. Meiners. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016; pp. 255, $94.50 cloth, $27.00 paper, $27.00 ebook. Jenna M. Loyd Jenna M. Loyd University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking (2018) 5 (2): 118–121. …
A geopolitics of trauma: Refugee administration and protracted uncertainty in Turkey
In this paper we map out what we are calling a “geopolitics of trauma” by examining the role of trauma in transnational refugee regimes and the individualisation of geopolitical relations through mental health diagnosis and service provision. Focusing on one site of entry into the international regime of refugee administration, we present findings from fieldwork that we conducted in August, 2015 in Turkey with NGO s and IGO s involved in the prot…
Where do Black lives matter? Race, stigma, and place in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
This article analyzes how the spatial metaphor of 53206, a zip code within the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, connects with crises in the legitimacy of policing and politicians' claims to care about Black lives. It examines how, in the context of deepening racialized poverty, ongoing mobilizations against police violence, and increasing rates of violent crime, liberal and conservative rhetoric about 53206 largely obscures the roles that decades of…
Boats, Borders, and Bases: Race, the Cold War, and the Rise of Migration Detention in the United States
Prison Abolitionist Perspectives on No Borders
The Caribbean Roots of U.S. Migration Policy: How deterrence, detention, and deportation of Caribbean migrants and refugees in the ‘70s and ‘80s laid the groundwork for the militarization of the U.S.-…
A Design Challenge for Transforming Justice
Transforming Justice is a collaborative project that aims to challenge the dominant narratives of policing and segregation in Milwaukee through community workshops, visual arts and storytelling, and experimental mapping. This Practices and Curations contribution describes one of the project’s collaborations, a design challenge, that aimed to create and imagine new ways of visualizing (in)justice and place in Milwaukee. Engaging feminist principle…
The problem of the future in the spacetime of resettlement: Iraqi refugees in the U.S
How do the lost futures of forced displacement converge with the impasse of being resettled to a "post-future" society such as the U.S.? Based on interviews conducted between 2016 and 2019 with resettlement agents, service providers and Iraqis resettled in the U.S., we argue that the condemnation of "expectations" (that is, realistic hope) coupled with the demand for refugees' gratitude means that Iraqis resettled to the U.S. are asked to sustain…
Trauma as Displacement: Observations from Refugee Resettlement
Trauma does not have a single definition. Within Western paradigms, across humanities and social sciences, it has largely been characterized through temporal and spatial dislocation. Critical studies of trauma, however, suggest that such framings of rupture, catastrophe, and mass displacement can obscure longer term and structural forms of violence, such as colonialism and gender-based violence. This article explores the displacement, emplacement…
Geopolitics of Disability and the Ablenationalism of Refuge
Although it has rarely been addressed as such, the regulation of disability within migration governance is a geopolitical issue. This article examines how refugee resettlement intersects with ablenationalism, an ideology that treats disability as exceptional, thereby shoring up the exclusionary terms of citizenship. Drawing on findings from our multi-sited study (2016–2019) of the resettlement of Iraqis to the US, we show how the fantasy of the ‘…
Whither Chat-GPT: Generative AI and Teaching Introduction to Human Geography in Higher Education
This paper reflects on how we, as instructors of Introduction to Human Geography, navigated the widespread usage of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) models in the classroom. We discuss how GAI first appeared in our classroom, how we connect GAI to course content in lecture periods, and present reflections on navigating GAI in course writing assignments. Our conclusion advocates for a holistic framework which addresses GAI usage to not pol…
Political science (23 works) · Sociology (20 works) · Law (19 works) · Politics (15 works) · Criminology (11 works) · Law (11 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (8 works) · Political economy (8 works) · Refugee (8 works) · Geography (6 works)