Jack Norton
Biographic Data
| ID | 3620183 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jack Norton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jack |
| FAMILY NAME | Norton |
| SIGNATURE | NORTON J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Emeritus Professor of Native American Studies, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
That Makes Them an Easy Target: Criminalisation and Racialisation in a Central Appalachian County
The geography of incarceration in the USA has shifted over the past 20 years. While the USA remains atop the world in per capita incarceration rates and numbers of people inside, the locus of this system has been moving downscale over the past two decades. Local jail incarceration rates have been rising in rural counties and declining in many big cities; there are now more people overall incarcerated in rural jails than in urban jails. We explore…
To destroy in whole or in part”: Remembering Our Past to Secure Our Future
This essay proposes that the history of California includes the intended destruction and decimation of native cultures, including their forced removal, illegal land acquisition, slavery, separation of families, and outright murder enacted by the private citizenry and governmental agencies during European contact can be defined as genocide as outlined by the United Nations Geneva Convention, 1948. The lasting legacy of contact on aboriginal lifewa…
Social Reproduction
Social reproduction is a geographically and historically differentiated process encompassing the production of a stratified labor force and the cultural forms and practices that create and maintain its differences while making them common sense. It involves both the sensuous labor of everyday life and the structured practices that unfold in dialectical relation to production. These material social practices take place across geographic and tempor…
Little Siberia, star of the North
This chapter theorizes what I call “cartographies of affect” as an alternative way of remembering prison spaces and doing politics. First, I analyze a situation in which prison geography becomes historical through the process of remembrance when former women political prisoners from Córdoba (Argentina) created an artistic reconfiguration of space, when the prison from which they successfully escaped in the early 1970s closed in 2004 and later ope…
If the Truth Be Told: Revising California History as a Moral Objective
It has been argued that the United States did not receive California from Mexico by "right of conquest" or by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo because the majority of California was not under the control of the Mexican government. In eastern portions of Southern and Central California, few or no Spanish occupants were present. Northward from Santa Rosa to what would become the Oregon border, no Mexican governmental institutions were to be seen. Th…
Traversing the Bridges of Our Lives
A S WE APPROACHED THE Natural Bridge, I was touched but also apprehensive of the moment. At last, we would see this natural rock formation that had become associated with the historical accounts of a brutal massacre of one hundred and fifty-three Wintun Indian men, women, and children. Where was the precise spot? I wondered. Would the anguished screams of the victims still echo between the tall fir trees and the delicate white trillium flowers th…
Social Reproduction
Social reproduction is a geographically and historically differentiated process encompassing the production of a stratified labor force and the cultural forms and practices that create and maintain its differences while making them common sense. It involves both the sensuous labor of everyday life and the structured practices that unfold in dialectical relation to production. These material social practices take place across geographic and tempor…
If the Truth Be Told: Revising California History as a Moral Objective
It has been argued that the United States did not receive California from Mexico by "right of conquest" or by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo because the majority of California was not under the control of the Mexican government. In eastern portions of Southern and Central California, few or no Spanish occupants were present. Northward from Santa Rosa to what would become the Oregon border, no Mexican governmental institutions were to be seen. Th…
Traversing the Bridges of Our Lives
A S WE APPROACHED THE Natural Bridge, I was touched but also apprehensive of the moment. At last, we would see this natural rock formation that had become associated with the historical accounts of a brutal massacre of one hundred and fifty-three Wintun Indian men, women, and children. Where was the precise spot? I wondered. Would the anguished screams of the victims still echo between the tall fir trees and the delicate white trillium flowers th…
If the Truth Be Told: Revising California History as a Moral Objective
It has been argued that the United States did not receive California from Mexico by "right of conquest" or by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo because the majority of California was not under the control of the Mexican government. In eastern portions of Southern and Central California, few or no Spanish occupants were present. Northward from Santa Rosa to what would become the Oregon border, no Mexican governmental institutions were to be seen. Th…
Little Siberia, star of the North
This chapter theorizes what I call “cartographies of affect” as an alternative way of remembering prison spaces and doing politics. First, I analyze a situation in which prison geography becomes historical through the process of remembrance when former women political prisoners from Córdoba (Argentina) created an artistic reconfiguration of space, when the prison from which they successfully escaped in the early 1970s closed in 2004 and later ope…
Social Reproduction
Social reproduction is a geographically and historically differentiated process encompassing the production of a stratified labor force and the cultural forms and practices that create and maintain its differences while making them common sense. It involves both the sensuous labor of everyday life and the structured practices that unfold in dialectical relation to production. These material social practices take place across geographic and tempor…
To destroy in whole or in part”: Remembering Our Past to Secure Our Future
This essay proposes that the history of California includes the intended destruction and decimation of native cultures, including their forced removal, illegal land acquisition, slavery, separation of families, and outright murder enacted by the private citizenry and governmental agencies during European contact can be defined as genocide as outlined by the United Nations Geneva Convention, 1948. The lasting legacy of contact on aboriginal lifewa…
That Makes Them an Easy Target: Criminalisation and Racialisation in a Central Appalachian County
The geography of incarceration in the USA has shifted over the past 20 years. While the USA remains atop the world in per capita incarceration rates and numbers of people inside, the locus of this system has been moving downscale over the past two decades. Local jail incarceration rates have been rising in rural counties and declining in many big cities; there are now more people overall incarcerated in rural jails than in urban jails. We explore…
Geography (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · American Environmental and Regional History (2 works) · Archaeology and Natural History (2 works) · Ethnology (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works)