L Nelson
Biographic Data
| ID | 22455 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L Nelson |
| GIVEN NAMES | L |
| FAMILY NAME | Nelson |
| SIGNATURE | NELSON L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oregon |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2848-6551 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 417 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1939 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Interpreting Title IX: A feminist legal geography of sexual assault prevention on U.S. college campuses
Visual cultures of CRISPR: Intermedial Figuration in Science Communication
This article traces the visual culture of human genetic engineering over the past decade, focusing on the CRISPR genome editing technology. We argue that the representations surrounding CRISPR exemplify, and to an extent define, this visual culture. We examine the history of CRISPR, particularly its human applications from 2012 to 2022, through a periodization that includes the CRISPR craze, gene therapy initiatives, the He Jiankui controversy an…
Between aggrieved whiteness and class precarity: A feminist politics of interpretation
A key challenge faced by antiracist, feminist scholars engaging white working-class subjects is how to conceptualize and name class-related vulnerabilities while remaining critical of broader narratives of white victimhood/aggrieved whiteness that undergird contemporary forms of white supremacy. In this article, we draw on our respective research experiences studying white working-class communities in the US South to consider how to make conceptu…
Geographies of global lifestyle migration: Towards an anticolonial approach
This article brings the critiques of anticolonial theorists into conversation with the burgeoning literature on Global North-to-South lifestyle migration – including scholarship employing related terminologies such as residential tourism and amenity migration. Our review synthesizes strengths in this multi-disciplinary literature while also drawing attention to most scholars’ limited engagement with the ways colonial relations of power constitute…
Refugee resettlement, place, and the politics of Islamophobia
Contested meanings of place have emerged in the wake of refugee resettlement in Missoula, Montana. Drawing on qualitative research, this paper explores the ways the intimate and local politics of refugee resettlement in Montana is intertwined with broader geopolitical discourses that conflate refugees, national security, and Islam. As Missoula became a new resettlement destination in August 2016, some residents responded with protest that framed …
Latino Immigrants and Rural Gentrification: Race, “Illegality,” and Precarious Labor Regimes in the United States
This article examines the emergence of immigrant-based precarious labor regimes in U.S. rural areas undergoing gentrification. Drawing on field-based research in rural Georgia and Colorado, we explore how Latino and Latina immigrant workers were recruited to places that had been largely off the map of Latino immigrant settlement prior to the late 1990s to work in service and construction employment stimulated by gentrification. We trace evolving …
Promoting Transparency in Social Science Research
Social scientists should adopt higher transparency standards to improve the quality and credibility of research.
Linked migration and labor market flexibility in the rural amenity destinations in the United States
Malthus, gender and the demarcation of ‘dangerous’ bodies in 1996 US welfare reform
This article argues that populationism as a gendered narrative provides a crucial rhetorical architecture for welfare reform debates in the USA during the 1990s. Populationism, which Joni Seager defines as ‘the dogma and the rhetoric of population alarmism and population control,’ subtly legitimized efforts to control and marginalize poor women's bodies in the context of welfare reform. The populationism underlying welfare reform hinges on a deep…
Rural gentrification and linked migration in the United States
The global rural: Gentrification and linked migration in the rural USA
This article explores the possibility that US rural amenity destinations are affected by ‘linked migration’ streams similar to ones connecting the fate of high-wage professionals and low-wage immigrants in global cities. To date, the possibility of such a linkage has not been considered in the vast literature on migration and social transformation in rural America, a literature that has treated the arrival of these two groups (high-wage professio…
Linking baby boomer and Hispanic migration streams into rural America – a multi‐scaled approach
Dramatic transformations in the nature of urban economies across the globe have led to the arrival of linked migration streams into destination ‘global cities’. This paper extends these theorisations of linked migration streams into the rural context by examining the overlap between baby boomer and Hispanic migration streams into non‐metropolitan counties and across spatial scales. We argue that boomers arriving in non‐metropolitan destinations a…
Latino immigrants and the renegotiation of place and belonging in small town America
This article compares the politics of place and belonging within two non-metropolitan communities—Woodburn, Oregon, and Leadville, Colorado—that have witnessed a significant increase in Latino immigration during the last fifteen to twenty years. Today both communities are approximately 50 per cent Latino, a demographic change that has reworked understandings of place identity and social belonging in each. Through a comparison of the two towns we …
Racialized landscapes: Whiteness and the struggle over farmworker housing in Woodburn, Oregon
Through an analysis of political resistance to the construction of subsidized farmworker housing in Woodburn, Oregon between 1991 and 1996, this article explores the defense of normative whiteness in relation to a largely undocumented Mexican immigrant population residing in the community. It is argued that for many (mostly white) city leaders and residents, the construction of urban farmworker housing represented a racialized and spatial transgr…
Farmworker Housing and Spaces of Belonging in Woodburn, Oregon
This article traces the history of efforts to build subsidized farmworker housing in Woodburn, Oregon, during the early 1990s. Although the northern Willamette Valley has been dependent on Mexican and Mexican American farmworkers since the 1940s, until the 1980s most of those workers had been migratory and lived in labor camps. Political economic transformations shifted these dynamics, causing an increasing number of farmworkers to settle permane…
Geographies of State Power, Protest, and Women's Political Identity Formation in Michoacán, Mexico
Women's narratives of protest in three indigenous communities of Michoacán, Mexico, after the massive electoral protest of 1988–1989 indicate that the jurisdictional positioning of these communities created paths and spaces of protest that shaped the formation of gendered political identities and, over time, the politicization of ethnicity in the region. The women of Cherán played a dominant and consistent role in opposition electoral mobilizatio…
Topographies of citizenship: Purhépechan Mexican women claiming political subjectivities
A variety of politics are waged through recourse to the language of 'citizenship' and 'democracy': from George W. Bush's selling of free trade for the Americas by invoking freedom and democracy, to the calls for citizenship and equality by popular movements throughout Latin America and other regions. This article links these paradoxical and transnational constructions of 'citizenship' to the daily economic and political struggles of indigenous wo…
Decentering the Movement: Collective Action, Place, and the 'Sedimentation' of Radical Political Discourses
The alternative political discourses and identities associated with social movements in Latin America are frequently examined at the height of mobilization and visibility of these same movements. In response to growing concern about the limits of such analyses, I propose thinking about the 'sedimentation' of social-movement discourses in place. 'Sedimentation' refers to the complex processes through which discourses (including 'identities', polit…
Bodies (and Spaces) do Matter: The limits of performativity
This article explores the insights and limitations within geography of Judith Butler's concept of 'performativity'. As a processual, non-foundational approach to identity, many feminist and post-structuralist geographers have incorporated performativity into their work on the intersections between gender, sexuality, ethnicity, space and place. Yet few have explicitly undertaken a close and critical reading of Butler's theory. The author argues th…
System of Ethics
System of Ethics Get access Nelson L.System of Ethics. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1956. Pp. xxiii, 285. Barna Horvath Barna Horvath Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Journal of Comparative Law, Volume 6, Issue 1, Winter 1957, Pages 136–138, https://doi.org/10.2307/837905 Published: 01 January 1957
Distribution and Extent of Unemployment among Farm Laborers in the United States
Journal Article Distribution and Extent of Unemployment among Farm Laborers in the United States Get access Lowry Nelson Lowry Nelson University of Minnesota Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 18, Issue 2, December 1939, Pages 180–187, https://doi.org/10.2307/2570770 Published: 01 December 1939
Bodies (and Spaces) do Matter: The limits of performativity
This article explores the insights and limitations within geography of Judith Butler's concept of 'performativity'. As a processual, non-foundational approach to identity, many feminist and post-structuralist geographers have incorporated performativity into their work on the intersections between gender, sexuality, ethnicity, space and place. Yet few have explicitly undertaken a close and critical reading of Butler's theory. The author argues th…
Latino immigrants and the renegotiation of place and belonging in small town America
This article compares the politics of place and belonging within two non-metropolitan communities—Woodburn, Oregon, and Leadville, Colorado—that have witnessed a significant increase in Latino immigration during the last fifteen to twenty years. Today both communities are approximately 50 per cent Latino, a demographic change that has reworked understandings of place identity and social belonging in each. Through a comparison of the two towns we …
The global rural: Gentrification and linked migration in the rural USA
This article explores the possibility that US rural amenity destinations are affected by ‘linked migration’ streams similar to ones connecting the fate of high-wage professionals and low-wage immigrants in global cities. To date, the possibility of such a linkage has not been considered in the vast literature on migration and social transformation in rural America, a literature that has treated the arrival of these two groups (high-wage professio…
Rural gentrification and linked migration in the United States
Racialized landscapes: Whiteness and the struggle over farmworker housing in Woodburn, Oregon
Through an analysis of political resistance to the construction of subsidized farmworker housing in Woodburn, Oregon between 1991 and 1996, this article explores the defense of normative whiteness in relation to a largely undocumented Mexican immigrant population residing in the community. It is argued that for many (mostly white) city leaders and residents, the construction of urban farmworker housing represented a racialized and spatial transgr…
Linked migration and labor market flexibility in the rural amenity destinations in the United States
Decentering the Movement: Collective Action, Place, and the 'Sedimentation' of Radical Political Discourses
The alternative political discourses and identities associated with social movements in Latin America are frequently examined at the height of mobilization and visibility of these same movements. In response to growing concern about the limits of such analyses, I propose thinking about the 'sedimentation' of social-movement discourses in place. 'Sedimentation' refers to the complex processes through which discourses (including 'identities', polit…
Refugee resettlement, place, and the politics of Islamophobia
Contested meanings of place have emerged in the wake of refugee resettlement in Missoula, Montana. Drawing on qualitative research, this paper explores the ways the intimate and local politics of refugee resettlement in Montana is intertwined with broader geopolitical discourses that conflate refugees, national security, and Islam. As Missoula became a new resettlement destination in August 2016, some residents responded with protest that framed …
Latino Immigrants and Rural Gentrification: Race, “Illegality,” and Precarious Labor Regimes in the United States
This article examines the emergence of immigrant-based precarious labor regimes in U.S. rural areas undergoing gentrification. Drawing on field-based research in rural Georgia and Colorado, we explore how Latino and Latina immigrant workers were recruited to places that had been largely off the map of Latino immigrant settlement prior to the late 1990s to work in service and construction employment stimulated by gentrification. We trace evolving …
Farmworker Housing and Spaces of Belonging in Woodburn, Oregon
This article traces the history of efforts to build subsidized farmworker housing in Woodburn, Oregon, during the early 1990s. Although the northern Willamette Valley has been dependent on Mexican and Mexican American farmworkers since the 1940s, until the 1980s most of those workers had been migratory and lived in labor camps. Political economic transformations shifted these dynamics, causing an increasing number of farmworkers to settle permane…
Geographies of State Power, Protest, and Women's Political Identity Formation in Michoacán, Mexico
Women's narratives of protest in three indigenous communities of Michoacán, Mexico, after the massive electoral protest of 1988–1989 indicate that the jurisdictional positioning of these communities created paths and spaces of protest that shaped the formation of gendered political identities and, over time, the politicization of ethnicity in the region. The women of Cherán played a dominant and consistent role in opposition electoral mobilizatio…
Linking baby boomer and Hispanic migration streams into rural America – a multi‐scaled approach
Dramatic transformations in the nature of urban economies across the globe have led to the arrival of linked migration streams into destination ‘global cities’. This paper extends these theorisations of linked migration streams into the rural context by examining the overlap between baby boomer and Hispanic migration streams into non‐metropolitan counties and across spatial scales. We argue that boomers arriving in non‐metropolitan destinations a…
Geographies of global lifestyle migration: Towards an anticolonial approach
This article brings the critiques of anticolonial theorists into conversation with the burgeoning literature on Global North-to-South lifestyle migration – including scholarship employing related terminologies such as residential tourism and amenity migration. Our review synthesizes strengths in this multi-disciplinary literature while also drawing attention to most scholars’ limited engagement with the ways colonial relations of power constitute…
Malthus, gender and the demarcation of ‘dangerous’ bodies in 1996 US welfare reform
This article argues that populationism as a gendered narrative provides a crucial rhetorical architecture for welfare reform debates in the USA during the 1990s. Populationism, which Joni Seager defines as ‘the dogma and the rhetoric of population alarmism and population control,’ subtly legitimized efforts to control and marginalize poor women's bodies in the context of welfare reform. The populationism underlying welfare reform hinges on a deep…
Topographies of citizenship: Purhépechan Mexican women claiming political subjectivities
A variety of politics are waged through recourse to the language of 'citizenship' and 'democracy': from George W. Bush's selling of free trade for the Americas by invoking freedom and democracy, to the calls for citizenship and equality by popular movements throughout Latin America and other regions. This article links these paradoxical and transnational constructions of 'citizenship' to the daily economic and political struggles of indigenous wo…
Between aggrieved whiteness and class precarity: A feminist politics of interpretation
A key challenge faced by antiracist, feminist scholars engaging white working-class subjects is how to conceptualize and name class-related vulnerabilities while remaining critical of broader narratives of white victimhood/aggrieved whiteness that undergird contemporary forms of white supremacy. In this article, we draw on our respective research experiences studying white working-class communities in the US South to consider how to make conceptu…
Distribution and Extent of Unemployment among Farm Laborers in the United States
Journal Article Distribution and Extent of Unemployment among Farm Laborers in the United States Get access Lowry Nelson Lowry Nelson University of Minnesota Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 18, Issue 2, December 1939, Pages 180–187, https://doi.org/10.2307/2570770 Published: 01 December 1939
System of Ethics
System of Ethics Get access Nelson L.System of Ethics. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1956. Pp. xxiii, 285. Barna Horvath Barna Horvath Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Journal of Comparative Law, Volume 6, Issue 1, Winter 1957, Pages 136–138, https://doi.org/10.2307/837905 Published: 01 January 1957
Bodies (and Spaces) do Matter: The limits of performativity
This article explores the insights and limitations within geography of Judith Butler's concept of 'performativity'. As a processual, non-foundational approach to identity, many feminist and post-structuralist geographers have incorporated performativity into their work on the intersections between gender, sexuality, ethnicity, space and place. Yet few have explicitly undertaken a close and critical reading of Butler's theory. The author argues th…
Decentering the Movement: Collective Action, Place, and the 'Sedimentation' of Radical Political Discourses
The alternative political discourses and identities associated with social movements in Latin America are frequently examined at the height of mobilization and visibility of these same movements. In response to growing concern about the limits of such analyses, I propose thinking about the 'sedimentation' of social-movement discourses in place. 'Sedimentation' refers to the complex processes through which discourses (including 'identities', polit…
Topographies of citizenship: Purhépechan Mexican women claiming political subjectivities
A variety of politics are waged through recourse to the language of 'citizenship' and 'democracy': from George W. Bush's selling of free trade for the Americas by invoking freedom and democracy, to the calls for citizenship and equality by popular movements throughout Latin America and other regions. This article links these paradoxical and transnational constructions of 'citizenship' to the daily economic and political struggles of indigenous wo…
Geographies of State Power, Protest, and Women's Political Identity Formation in Michoacán, Mexico
Women's narratives of protest in three indigenous communities of Michoacán, Mexico, after the massive electoral protest of 1988–1989 indicate that the jurisdictional positioning of these communities created paths and spaces of protest that shaped the formation of gendered political identities and, over time, the politicization of ethnicity in the region. The women of Cherán played a dominant and consistent role in opposition electoral mobilizatio…
Farmworker Housing and Spaces of Belonging in Woodburn, Oregon
This article traces the history of efforts to build subsidized farmworker housing in Woodburn, Oregon, during the early 1990s. Although the northern Willamette Valley has been dependent on Mexican and Mexican American farmworkers since the 1940s, until the 1980s most of those workers had been migratory and lived in labor camps. Political economic transformations shifted these dynamics, causing an increasing number of farmworkers to settle permane…
Linking baby boomer and Hispanic migration streams into rural America – a multi‐scaled approach
Dramatic transformations in the nature of urban economies across the globe have led to the arrival of linked migration streams into destination ‘global cities’. This paper extends these theorisations of linked migration streams into the rural context by examining the overlap between baby boomer and Hispanic migration streams into non‐metropolitan counties and across spatial scales. We argue that boomers arriving in non‐metropolitan destinations a…
Latino immigrants and the renegotiation of place and belonging in small town America
This article compares the politics of place and belonging within two non-metropolitan communities—Woodburn, Oregon, and Leadville, Colorado—that have witnessed a significant increase in Latino immigration during the last fifteen to twenty years. Today both communities are approximately 50 per cent Latino, a demographic change that has reworked understandings of place identity and social belonging in each. Through a comparison of the two towns we …
Racialized landscapes: Whiteness and the struggle over farmworker housing in Woodburn, Oregon
Through an analysis of political resistance to the construction of subsidized farmworker housing in Woodburn, Oregon between 1991 and 1996, this article explores the defense of normative whiteness in relation to a largely undocumented Mexican immigrant population residing in the community. It is argued that for many (mostly white) city leaders and residents, the construction of urban farmworker housing represented a racialized and spatial transgr…
Rural gentrification and linked migration in the United States
The global rural: Gentrification and linked migration in the rural USA
This article explores the possibility that US rural amenity destinations are affected by ‘linked migration’ streams similar to ones connecting the fate of high-wage professionals and low-wage immigrants in global cities. To date, the possibility of such a linkage has not been considered in the vast literature on migration and social transformation in rural America, a literature that has treated the arrival of these two groups (high-wage professio…
Malthus, gender and the demarcation of ‘dangerous’ bodies in 1996 US welfare reform
This article argues that populationism as a gendered narrative provides a crucial rhetorical architecture for welfare reform debates in the USA during the 1990s. Populationism, which Joni Seager defines as ‘the dogma and the rhetoric of population alarmism and population control,’ subtly legitimized efforts to control and marginalize poor women's bodies in the context of welfare reform. The populationism underlying welfare reform hinges on a deep…
Promoting Transparency in Social Science Research
Social scientists should adopt higher transparency standards to improve the quality and credibility of research.
Linked migration and labor market flexibility in the rural amenity destinations in the United States
Latino Immigrants and Rural Gentrification: Race, “Illegality,” and Precarious Labor Regimes in the United States
This article examines the emergence of immigrant-based precarious labor regimes in U.S. rural areas undergoing gentrification. Drawing on field-based research in rural Georgia and Colorado, we explore how Latino and Latina immigrant workers were recruited to places that had been largely off the map of Latino immigrant settlement prior to the late 1990s to work in service and construction employment stimulated by gentrification. We trace evolving …
Geographies of global lifestyle migration: Towards an anticolonial approach
This article brings the critiques of anticolonial theorists into conversation with the burgeoning literature on Global North-to-South lifestyle migration – including scholarship employing related terminologies such as residential tourism and amenity migration. Our review synthesizes strengths in this multi-disciplinary literature while also drawing attention to most scholars’ limited engagement with the ways colonial relations of power constitute…
Refugee resettlement, place, and the politics of Islamophobia
Contested meanings of place have emerged in the wake of refugee resettlement in Missoula, Montana. Drawing on qualitative research, this paper explores the ways the intimate and local politics of refugee resettlement in Montana is intertwined with broader geopolitical discourses that conflate refugees, national security, and Islam. As Missoula became a new resettlement destination in August 2016, some residents responded with protest that framed …
Between aggrieved whiteness and class precarity: A feminist politics of interpretation
A key challenge faced by antiracist, feminist scholars engaging white working-class subjects is how to conceptualize and name class-related vulnerabilities while remaining critical of broader narratives of white victimhood/aggrieved whiteness that undergird contemporary forms of white supremacy. In this article, we draw on our respective research experiences studying white working-class communities in the US South to consider how to make conceptu…
Interpreting Title IX: A feminist legal geography of sexual assault prevention on U.S. college campuses
Visual cultures of CRISPR: Intermedial Figuration in Science Communication
This article traces the visual culture of human genetic engineering over the past decade, focusing on the CRISPR genome editing technology. We argue that the representations surrounding CRISPR exemplify, and to an extent define, this visual culture. We examine the history of CRISPR, particularly its human applications from 2012 to 2022, through a periodization that includes the CRISPR craze, gene therapy initiatives, the He Jiankui controversy an…
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