Jennifer Tucker
Biographic Data
| ID | 3595059 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer Tucker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer |
| FAMILY NAME | Tucker |
| SIGNATURE | TUCKER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of New Mexico |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0014-4958 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The racial projects of outlaw capital: From Paraguay to the heart of empire
The economic impacts of Covid-19 hospitalizations, intensive care unit admissions, and deaths related to overweight and obesity
During the COVID-19 pandemic, it quickly became clear that people living with overweight and obesity (OAO) have a higher risk for more severe health outcomes. The objective of this study is to investigate how the health and economic impacts of COVID-19 are exacerbated by OAO. We estimated economic impacts of COVID-19 associated with OAO for eight countries using a cost-of-illness approach from a limited societal perspective. Direct medical costs …
Barriers to Inclusive Recycling in Asunción, Paraguay: A Just Transition
How can cities upgrade urban waste infrastructures while also supporting the livelihoods of the poor? While development experts now agree that informal recyclers should be included in urban waste systems, many cities struggle to implement inclusive reforms. With a case study of informal recycling in Asunción, Paraguay, which compares dumpsite and street recyclers, this article addresses a gap in the literature by focusing on the policies, politic…
“Gundamentalism”
“They talk about gun rights. What about Chris's right to live?” —Richard Martinez, after his son Chris was killed in the 2014 Santa Barbara spree shootings “Your dead kids don't trump my Constitutional rights.” —Joe “the Plumber” Wurzlebacher, responding to Richard Martinez Firearms and ballistics are at the center of public debate in the United States today. They are technologies that are associated both with danger (in the form of gun violence)…
Marielle’s seeds: Contesting the emotional life of corruption talk in Bolsonaro’s Brazil
In this paper, we argue the emotional life of corruption narratives underwrite the rise of the extreme Right in Brazil. Further, we argue that the talk of corruption is pervasive, polysemic, contested, racialized and emotional. It is deeply entwined with social struggles over the form, content and ends of political life. Drawing on this perspective, we analyze discourses of corruption in the wake of a seismic corruption scandal, Operation Lava Ja…
Outside the Wage: Seeing Politics and Possibilities with Critical Comparisons
Emerging debates on the contemporary reconfigurations of work question previous understandings of the relationships among and between waged, unwaged, and reproductive labour, situated processes of value formation and/or enclosure, and the constitution and limits of contemporary capitalism. Taking Cindi Katz's notion of countertopographies and Gillian Hart's notion of relational comparison as inspirations, this Symposium draws attention to new and…
Ambivalent: Photography and Visibility in African History
In this roundtable, five historians come together to review the collected essays in Ambivalent: Photography and Visibility in African History. Jennifer Tucker provides an overview of the content of the book and its significance in terms of scholarship on photography and African history. Matthew Fox-Amato studies how powerful photographs can be as evidence when combined with other kinds of sources such as oral narratives. Referring to the essays o…
Discourses of Vision in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Seeing, Thinking, Writing by Jonathan Potter
Reviewed by: Discourses of Vision in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Seeing, Thinking, Writing by Jonathan Potter Jennifer Tucker (bio) Discourses of Vision in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Seeing, Thinking, Writing By Jonathan Potter. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. Pp. 269. Discourses of Vision in Nineteenth-Century Britain explores the coupling of technology and imagination in nineteenth-century Britain, a period in which, as one journalist w…
Visual Histories of Sex
Increased access to visual archives and the proliferation of digitized images related to sexuality have led a growing number of scholars in recent years to place images and visual practices at the center of critical historical inquiries of sexual desire, subjectivity, and embodiment. At the same time, new critical histories of sexual science serve both to expand the temporal and geographical frames for investigating the historical relationships o…
The Relationship between Trauma Exposure and Psychiatric Hospitalization for Suicide Ideation or Suicide Attempt among Patients Admitted to a Military Treatment Setting
Suicide attempts and psychiatric hospitalization represent the final outcomes of a complex dynamical system of interacting factors that influence a particular individual's likelihood of engaging in suicidal behavior, as well as their ability to seek help prior to acting upon suicidal impulses. This study examined the association between different types of lifetime trauma exposure and the likelihood of psychiatric hospitalization following a suici…
Outlaw Capital: Accumulation by Transgression on the Paraguay–Brazil Border
Outlaw economies are a key, but under‐appreciated, feature of late capitalism. With an ethnography of what one journalist called “the largest illicit economy in the Western Hemisphere” on the Paraguay–Brazil border, this article contributes empirical findings about the production of space for extralegal economies. Contributing to debates about geographies of the illicit, I theorise outlaw capital , a form of capital that negotiates profits and di…
Uncertainty and the Governance of Street Vending: A Critical Comparison Across the North/South Divide
Through a critical comparison of the spatial management of street vending in Ciudad del Este, Paraguay and New York City, USA, we show how uncertainty enables the management of vending and urban space. By uncertainty, we mean a condition characterized by legal complexity and negotiable enforcement of laws and regulations. Putting New York and Ciudad del Este in dialogue, we demonstrate that these negotiated legalities are not limited to Southern …
One Night in 2012 , directed by Angela Mason. Co-produced by Rogan Productions and the BBC. 2016, 98 minutes. Contact: Https://twitter.com/RoganProduction. Webpage: https://www.asnconvention.com/one-n…
Display of Arms: A Roundtable Discussion about the Public Exhibition of Firearms and Their History
example, all have important arms collections that continue to add contemporary firearms.Firearms, too, are often embedded in military or social history exhibitions devoted to a particular historical period, such as at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.Today, national, regional, and local museums often feature interactive displays or living history exhibits with character actors.Firearms displays sometimes are interpreted as pa…
Affect and the dialectics of uncertainty: Governing a Paraguayan frontier town
This article discusses the affective politics enabling urban development in Ciudad del Este, Paraguay, a young frontier boomtown where the volume of the extralegal transborder trade once exceeded the GDP of the entire nation. Against stereotypes of the city as lawless, I demonstrate how governing practices work through affect and emotion. I argue that local strategies of governing have temporal and spatial dimensions that produce an affective fie…
City-stories: Narrative as diagnostic and strategic resource in Ciudad del Este, Paraguay
Too often, planning theory misidentifies how planning and governance practice actually works in troublesome zones understood as unplanned or ungoverned. To counter this tendency, I use ethnographic research in one of the most active border economies in the hemisphere, where noncompliance with trade and use-of-space laws is widespread. In contrast to the commonly held assessment that Ciudad del Este, Paraguay is lawless and unplanned, I show how p…
The Sympathetic Medium: Feminine Channeling, The Occult, and Communication Technologies, 1859–1919 (review)
Reviewed by: The Sympathetic Medium: Feminine Channeling, The Occult, and Communication Technologies, 1859–1919 Jennifer Tucker (bio) The Sympathetic Medium: Feminine Channeling, The Occult, and Communication Technologies, 1859–1919. By Jill Galvan. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2010. Pp. 224. $45. The possibilities for remote communication opened up by new transcribing technologies (electric telegraph, photography, film, and typewriter…
Eye on the Street
Some of the most powerful historical images of streets and the people traversing them have been served up by photographers. Public urban spaces are not merely subject matter for photography, however, since photographers themselves are actively engaged in navigating city streets fraught with politics and social meaning. This essay reflects on a few of these urban practices and spaces of photography and identifies some enduring themes through this …
Medicine’s Moving Pictures: Medicine, Health, and Bodies in American Film and Television (review)
Reviewed by: Medicine’s Moving Pictures: Medicine, Health, and Bodies in American Film and Television Jennifer Tucker Leslie J. Reagan, Nancy Tomes, and Paula A. Treichler, eds. Medicine’s Moving Pictures: Medicine, Health, and Bodies in American Film and Television. Rochester Studies in Medical History. Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2007. ix + 343 pp. Ill. $85.00 (ISBN-10: 1-58046-234-0; ISBN-13: 978-1-58046-234-1). This book o…
Objectivity, Collective Sight, and Scientific Personae
Objectivity, Collective Sight, and Scientific Personae Jennifer Tucker (bio) Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison's new book, Objectivity, is an original and important landmark study that contributes to broader understanding of the emergent history of objectivity, the epistemic values of scientific visualization, and the links connecting both. Objectivity is based on a close examination of numerous scientific and medical atlases published in Europe …
The Historian, the Picture, and the Archive
One of the persistent features of historical writing about the sciences in the last twenty years has been the concern of a number of historians who insist on the need for a new awareness of the role of visual images and image making. The author believes that, rather than reducing the analysis of visual culture to a single set of principles, the point of the academic study of scientific images is the recognition of their heterogeneity, the differe…
The Long Sexual Revolution: English Women, Sex, and Contraception, 1800-1975 (review)
Reviewed by: The Long Sexual Revolution: English Women, Sex, and Contraception, 1800-1975 Jennifer Tucker Hera Cook . The Long Sexual Revolution: English Women, Sex, and Contraception, 1800-1975. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. xiv + 412 pp. Ill. $55.00, £35.00 (0-19-92539-4). This book is a fresh, important reexamination of contraception use in England, and of the impact of oral contraception in changing twentieth-century sexual behavior …
Sustained Attention and Visual Processing Speed in Children and Adolescents With Bipolar Disorder and Other Psychiatric Disorders
Tucker on Drayton
Reviewed by: Nature’s Government: Science, Imperial Britain, and the “Improvement” of the World Jennifer Tucker Richard Drayton, Nature’s Government: Science, Imperial Britain, and the “Improvement” of the World (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000) “It is only now, a generation after Decolonization, that we are beginning to put back together the histories of Britain and its empire.” So begins Nature’s Government: Science, Imperial …
Voyages of Discovery on Oceans of Air: "Scientific Observation and the Image of Science in an Age of "Balloonacy
Affect and the dialectics of uncertainty: Governing a Paraguayan frontier town
This article discusses the affective politics enabling urban development in Ciudad del Este, Paraguay, a young frontier boomtown where the volume of the extralegal transborder trade once exceeded the GDP of the entire nation. Against stereotypes of the city as lawless, I demonstrate how governing practices work through affect and emotion. I argue that local strategies of governing have temporal and spatial dimensions that produce an affective fie…
Uncertainty and the Governance of Street Vending: A Critical Comparison Across the North/South Divide
Through a critical comparison of the spatial management of street vending in Ciudad del Este, Paraguay and New York City, USA, we show how uncertainty enables the management of vending and urban space. By uncertainty, we mean a condition characterized by legal complexity and negotiable enforcement of laws and regulations. Putting New York and Ciudad del Este in dialogue, we demonstrate that these negotiated legalities are not limited to Southern …
The Historian, the Picture, and the Archive
One of the persistent features of historical writing about the sciences in the last twenty years has been the concern of a number of historians who insist on the need for a new awareness of the role of visual images and image making. The author believes that, rather than reducing the analysis of visual culture to a single set of principles, the point of the academic study of scientific images is the recognition of their heterogeneity, the differe…
Outlaw Capital: Accumulation by Transgression on the Paraguay–Brazil Border
Outlaw economies are a key, but under‐appreciated, feature of late capitalism. With an ethnography of what one journalist called “the largest illicit economy in the Western Hemisphere” on the Paraguay–Brazil border, this article contributes empirical findings about the production of space for extralegal economies. Contributing to debates about geographies of the illicit, I theorise outlaw capital , a form of capital that negotiates profits and di…
Voyages of Discovery on Oceans of Air: "Scientific Observation and the Image of Science in an Age of "Balloonacy
City-stories: Narrative as diagnostic and strategic resource in Ciudad del Este, Paraguay
Too often, planning theory misidentifies how planning and governance practice actually works in troublesome zones understood as unplanned or ungoverned. To counter this tendency, I use ethnographic research in one of the most active border economies in the hemisphere, where noncompliance with trade and use-of-space laws is widespread. In contrast to the commonly held assessment that Ciudad del Este, Paraguay is lawless and unplanned, I show how p…
Outside the Wage: Seeing Politics and Possibilities with Critical Comparisons
Emerging debates on the contemporary reconfigurations of work question previous understandings of the relationships among and between waged, unwaged, and reproductive labour, situated processes of value formation and/or enclosure, and the constitution and limits of contemporary capitalism. Taking Cindi Katz's notion of countertopographies and Gillian Hart's notion of relational comparison as inspirations, this Symposium draws attention to new and…
Objectivity, Collective Sight, and Scientific Personae
Objectivity, Collective Sight, and Scientific Personae Jennifer Tucker (bio) Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison's new book, Objectivity, is an original and important landmark study that contributes to broader understanding of the emergent history of objectivity, the epistemic values of scientific visualization, and the links connecting both. Objectivity is based on a close examination of numerous scientific and medical atlases published in Europe …
Visual Histories of Sex
Increased access to visual archives and the proliferation of digitized images related to sexuality have led a growing number of scholars in recent years to place images and visual practices at the center of critical historical inquiries of sexual desire, subjectivity, and embodiment. At the same time, new critical histories of sexual science serve both to expand the temporal and geographical frames for investigating the historical relationships o…
Display of Arms: A Roundtable Discussion about the Public Exhibition of Firearms and Their History
example, all have important arms collections that continue to add contemporary firearms.Firearms, too, are often embedded in military or social history exhibitions devoted to a particular historical period, such as at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.Today, national, regional, and local museums often feature interactive displays or living history exhibits with character actors.Firearms displays sometimes are interpreted as pa…
Eye on the Street
Some of the most powerful historical images of streets and the people traversing them have been served up by photographers. Public urban spaces are not merely subject matter for photography, however, since photographers themselves are actively engaged in navigating city streets fraught with politics and social meaning. This essay reflects on a few of these urban practices and spaces of photography and identifies some enduring themes through this …
Voyages of Discovery on Oceans of Air: "Scientific Observation and the Image of Science in an Age of "Balloonacy
Tucker on Drayton
Reviewed by: Nature’s Government: Science, Imperial Britain, and the “Improvement” of the World Jennifer Tucker Richard Drayton, Nature’s Government: Science, Imperial Britain, and the “Improvement” of the World (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000) “It is only now, a generation after Decolonization, that we are beginning to put back together the histories of Britain and its empire.” So begins Nature’s Government: Science, Imperial …
Sustained Attention and Visual Processing Speed in Children and Adolescents With Bipolar Disorder and Other Psychiatric Disorders
The Long Sexual Revolution: English Women, Sex, and Contraception, 1800-1975 (review)
Reviewed by: The Long Sexual Revolution: English Women, Sex, and Contraception, 1800-1975 Jennifer Tucker Hera Cook . The Long Sexual Revolution: English Women, Sex, and Contraception, 1800-1975. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. xiv + 412 pp. Ill. $55.00, £35.00 (0-19-92539-4). This book is a fresh, important reexamination of contraception use in England, and of the impact of oral contraception in changing twentieth-century sexual behavior …
The Historian, the Picture, and the Archive
One of the persistent features of historical writing about the sciences in the last twenty years has been the concern of a number of historians who insist on the need for a new awareness of the role of visual images and image making. The author believes that, rather than reducing the analysis of visual culture to a single set of principles, the point of the academic study of scientific images is the recognition of their heterogeneity, the differe…
Objectivity, Collective Sight, and Scientific Personae
Objectivity, Collective Sight, and Scientific Personae Jennifer Tucker (bio) Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison's new book, Objectivity, is an original and important landmark study that contributes to broader understanding of the emergent history of objectivity, the epistemic values of scientific visualization, and the links connecting both. Objectivity is based on a close examination of numerous scientific and medical atlases published in Europe …
Medicine’s Moving Pictures: Medicine, Health, and Bodies in American Film and Television (review)
Reviewed by: Medicine’s Moving Pictures: Medicine, Health, and Bodies in American Film and Television Jennifer Tucker Leslie J. Reagan, Nancy Tomes, and Paula A. Treichler, eds. Medicine’s Moving Pictures: Medicine, Health, and Bodies in American Film and Television. Rochester Studies in Medical History. Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2007. ix + 343 pp. Ill. $85.00 (ISBN-10: 1-58046-234-0; ISBN-13: 978-1-58046-234-1). This book o…
The Sympathetic Medium: Feminine Channeling, The Occult, and Communication Technologies, 1859–1919 (review)
Reviewed by: The Sympathetic Medium: Feminine Channeling, The Occult, and Communication Technologies, 1859–1919 Jennifer Tucker (bio) The Sympathetic Medium: Feminine Channeling, The Occult, and Communication Technologies, 1859–1919. By Jill Galvan. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2010. Pp. 224. $45. The possibilities for remote communication opened up by new transcribing technologies (electric telegraph, photography, film, and typewriter…
Eye on the Street
Some of the most powerful historical images of streets and the people traversing them have been served up by photographers. Public urban spaces are not merely subject matter for photography, however, since photographers themselves are actively engaged in navigating city streets fraught with politics and social meaning. This essay reflects on a few of these urban practices and spaces of photography and identifies some enduring themes through this …
City-stories: Narrative as diagnostic and strategic resource in Ciudad del Este, Paraguay
Too often, planning theory misidentifies how planning and governance practice actually works in troublesome zones understood as unplanned or ungoverned. To counter this tendency, I use ethnographic research in one of the most active border economies in the hemisphere, where noncompliance with trade and use-of-space laws is widespread. In contrast to the commonly held assessment that Ciudad del Este, Paraguay is lawless and unplanned, I show how p…
Affect and the dialectics of uncertainty: Governing a Paraguayan frontier town
This article discusses the affective politics enabling urban development in Ciudad del Este, Paraguay, a young frontier boomtown where the volume of the extralegal transborder trade once exceeded the GDP of the entire nation. Against stereotypes of the city as lawless, I demonstrate how governing practices work through affect and emotion. I argue that local strategies of governing have temporal and spatial dimensions that produce an affective fie…
One Night in 2012 , directed by Angela Mason. Co-produced by Rogan Productions and the BBC. 2016, 98 minutes. Contact: Https://twitter.com/RoganProduction. Webpage: https://www.asnconvention.com/one-n…
Display of Arms: A Roundtable Discussion about the Public Exhibition of Firearms and Their History
example, all have important arms collections that continue to add contemporary firearms.Firearms, too, are often embedded in military or social history exhibitions devoted to a particular historical period, such as at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.Today, national, regional, and local museums often feature interactive displays or living history exhibits with character actors.Firearms displays sometimes are interpreted as pa…
Uncertainty and the Governance of Street Vending: A Critical Comparison Across the North/South Divide
Through a critical comparison of the spatial management of street vending in Ciudad del Este, Paraguay and New York City, USA, we show how uncertainty enables the management of vending and urban space. By uncertainty, we mean a condition characterized by legal complexity and negotiable enforcement of laws and regulations. Putting New York and Ciudad del Este in dialogue, we demonstrate that these negotiated legalities are not limited to Southern …
The Relationship between Trauma Exposure and Psychiatric Hospitalization for Suicide Ideation or Suicide Attempt among Patients Admitted to a Military Treatment Setting
Suicide attempts and psychiatric hospitalization represent the final outcomes of a complex dynamical system of interacting factors that influence a particular individual's likelihood of engaging in suicidal behavior, as well as their ability to seek help prior to acting upon suicidal impulses. This study examined the association between different types of lifetime trauma exposure and the likelihood of psychiatric hospitalization following a suici…
Outlaw Capital: Accumulation by Transgression on the Paraguay–Brazil Border
Outlaw economies are a key, but under‐appreciated, feature of late capitalism. With an ethnography of what one journalist called “the largest illicit economy in the Western Hemisphere” on the Paraguay–Brazil border, this article contributes empirical findings about the production of space for extralegal economies. Contributing to debates about geographies of the illicit, I theorise outlaw capital , a form of capital that negotiates profits and di…
Ambivalent: Photography and Visibility in African History
In this roundtable, five historians come together to review the collected essays in Ambivalent: Photography and Visibility in African History. Jennifer Tucker provides an overview of the content of the book and its significance in terms of scholarship on photography and African history. Matthew Fox-Amato studies how powerful photographs can be as evidence when combined with other kinds of sources such as oral narratives. Referring to the essays o…
Discourses of Vision in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Seeing, Thinking, Writing by Jonathan Potter
Reviewed by: Discourses of Vision in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Seeing, Thinking, Writing by Jonathan Potter Jennifer Tucker (bio) Discourses of Vision in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Seeing, Thinking, Writing By Jonathan Potter. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. Pp. 269. Discourses of Vision in Nineteenth-Century Britain explores the coupling of technology and imagination in nineteenth-century Britain, a period in which, as one journalist w…
Visual Histories of Sex
Increased access to visual archives and the proliferation of digitized images related to sexuality have led a growing number of scholars in recent years to place images and visual practices at the center of critical historical inquiries of sexual desire, subjectivity, and embodiment. At the same time, new critical histories of sexual science serve both to expand the temporal and geographical frames for investigating the historical relationships o…
“Gundamentalism”
“They talk about gun rights. What about Chris's right to live?” —Richard Martinez, after his son Chris was killed in the 2014 Santa Barbara spree shootings “Your dead kids don't trump my Constitutional rights.” —Joe “the Plumber” Wurzlebacher, responding to Richard Martinez Firearms and ballistics are at the center of public debate in the United States today. They are technologies that are associated both with danger (in the form of gun violence)…
Marielle’s seeds: Contesting the emotional life of corruption talk in Bolsonaro’s Brazil
In this paper, we argue the emotional life of corruption narratives underwrite the rise of the extreme Right in Brazil. Further, we argue that the talk of corruption is pervasive, polysemic, contested, racialized and emotional. It is deeply entwined with social struggles over the form, content and ends of political life. Drawing on this perspective, we analyze discourses of corruption in the wake of a seismic corruption scandal, Operation Lava Ja…
Outside the Wage: Seeing Politics and Possibilities with Critical Comparisons
Emerging debates on the contemporary reconfigurations of work question previous understandings of the relationships among and between waged, unwaged, and reproductive labour, situated processes of value formation and/or enclosure, and the constitution and limits of contemporary capitalism. Taking Cindi Katz's notion of countertopographies and Gillian Hart's notion of relational comparison as inspirations, this Symposium draws attention to new and…
Barriers to Inclusive Recycling in Asunción, Paraguay: A Just Transition
How can cities upgrade urban waste infrastructures while also supporting the livelihoods of the poor? While development experts now agree that informal recyclers should be included in urban waste systems, many cities struggle to implement inclusive reforms. With a case study of informal recycling in Asunción, Paraguay, which compares dumpsite and street recyclers, this article addresses a gap in the literature by focusing on the policies, politic…
The economic impacts of Covid-19 hospitalizations, intensive care unit admissions, and deaths related to overweight and obesity
During the COVID-19 pandemic, it quickly became clear that people living with overweight and obesity (OAO) have a higher risk for more severe health outcomes. The objective of this study is to investigate how the health and economic impacts of COVID-19 are exacerbated by OAO. We estimated economic impacts of COVID-19 associated with OAO for eight countries using a cost-of-illness approach from a limited societal perspective. Direct medical costs …
The racial projects of outlaw capital: From Paraguay to the heart of empire
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