Susan Currell
Biographic Data
| ID | 4515974 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan Currell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan |
| FAMILY NAME | Currell |
| SIGNATURE | CURRELL S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sussex |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
“This May Be the Most Dangerous Thing Donald Trump Believes”
The 2016 election of a self-declared eugenicist to the most powerful political role in the world signified a widespread and worrying forgetting of America's eugenic past. This essay shows how America's current president employs similar rhetorical and fictive devices to those employed by eugenicists and politicians in the 1920s and 1930s, strategies that he now uses to fuel his supremacist fantasies. By linking up Trump's lifelong belief in his ge…
Segregation's Science
There is a deft symmetry in Gregory Michael Dorr's Segregation's Science: while exposing the conceptual weakness (but social strength) of scientific racism in Virginia from its inception until 2002, when the state's governor apologized to victims of its eugenic policies, Dorr has created a detailed “family tree” of eugenics in Virginia starting with Thomas Jefferson as first father and tracing his scientific progeny to the end of the twentieth ce…
Breeding Better Babies in the Eugenic Garden City
Showing how ‘modernist cosmopolitanism’ coexisted with an anti-cosmopolitan municipal control this essay looks at the way utopian ideals about breeding better humans entered into new town and city planning in the early twentieth century. An experiment in eugenic garden city planning which took place in Strasbourg, France, in the 1920s provided a model for modern planning that was keenly observed by the international eugenics movement as well as c…
The March of Spare Time
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The March of Spare Time
Breeding Better Babies in the Eugenic Garden City
Showing how ‘modernist cosmopolitanism’ coexisted with an anti-cosmopolitan municipal control this essay looks at the way utopian ideals about breeding better humans entered into new town and city planning in the early twentieth century. An experiment in eugenic garden city planning which took place in Strasbourg, France, in the 1920s provided a model for modern planning that was keenly observed by the international eugenics movement as well as c…
Segregation's Science
There is a deft symmetry in Gregory Michael Dorr's Segregation's Science: while exposing the conceptual weakness (but social strength) of scientific racism in Virginia from its inception until 2002, when the state's governor apologized to victims of its eugenic policies, Dorr has created a detailed “family tree” of eugenics in Virginia starting with Thomas Jefferson as first father and tracing his scientific progeny to the end of the twentieth ce…
“This May Be the Most Dangerous Thing Donald Trump Believes”
The 2016 election of a self-declared eugenicist to the most powerful political role in the world signified a widespread and worrying forgetting of America's eugenic past. This essay shows how America's current president employs similar rhetorical and fictive devices to those employed by eugenicists and politicians in the 1920s and 1930s, strategies that he now uses to fuel his supremacist fantasies. By linking up Trump's lifelong belief in his ge…
Environmental ethics (3 works) · Eugenics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Law (2 works) · Medical History and Research (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)