Emily Brooks

Biographic Data

ID4678959
NAMEEmily Brooks
GIVEN NAMESEmily
FAMILY NAMEBrooks
SIGNATUREBROOKS E
AFFILIATIONSCity University of New York
ORCID0000-0001-5735-369X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS15
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1933
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX2

  • Zine Ecologies: Creative Environmentalisms and Literary Activisms

    Open AccessLaura Smith, Catherine Cartwright et al.ARTICLEGeoHumanities2024References: 16

    Writers, artists, activists, and others are finding creative ways to engage with, and disrupt and unsettle, commentaries on the climate emergency. In this article, we argue that the do-it-yourself ethic and aesthetic of zines (small-circulation, self-published magazines) and zine-making offers a creative and empowering approach to environmental storytelling, and that zines do different kinds of "work" around positioning, narrating, and responding…

  • Gotham's War within a War: Policing and the Birth of Law-and-Order Liberalism in World War II-Era New York City

    Emily Brooks, Emily M BrooksBOOKGotham's War Within a War2023

    A surprising history unfolded in New Deal– and World War II–era New York City under Mayor Fiorello La Guardia. Throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, members of the NYPD had worked to enforce partisan political power rather than focus on crime. That changed when La Guardia took office in 1934 and shifted the city's priorities toward liberal reform. La Guardia's approach to low-level policing anticipated later trends in law …

  • Coercive patriotism: Gender, militarism, and auxiliary police in New York City during World War II

    Emily Brooks, Emily M BrooksARTICLELabor History2023References: 27

    This article explores the formation and operation of an auxiliary police agency, the City Patrol Corps, created by Mayor Fiorello La Guardia in New York City during World War II. It mines the organization’s internal documents to argue that during the war New York City leaders coerced civilian men to serve in the auxiliary police force, which, in turn, exerted a coercive power over residents of the city. Both of these dynamics comprised part of a …

  • "Don't Be a Knucklehead": Moralizing Disability in New Jersey's Pandemic Response and Rhetoric

    Open AccessEmily Brooks, Emily M BrooksARTICLEDisability Studies Quarterly2021

    Policy failures impacted, sickened, and killed disabled New Jerseyans from the beginning of New Jersey's reign as an epicenter in the COVID-19 pandemic. Through a qualitative content analysis of Governor Phil Murphy's coronavirus press briefings, I argue that New Jersey's public health messaging relies on ableist and eugenicist conceptions of intelligence through both an insistence on individual "smartness" to combat the pandemic and a shaming of…

  • Rumor, Vicious Innuendo, and False Reports”: Policing Black Soldiers in Wartime Staten Island

    Open AccessEmily Brooks, Emily M BrooksARTICLEJournal of Urban History2021Cited by: 3

    On Staten Island in the spring of 1945, a small group of white politicians, business owners, and residents began complaining about a “crime wave” that they attributed to black soldiers stationed at the Fox Hills Army facility. Most of these complaints stemmed from vague references to rumors of crimes rather than actual incidents. Black journalists and members of the NAACP refuted these accusations and argued that the real issue was discrimination…

  • Tracing Extremes across Iconic Desert Landscapes: Socio-Ecological and Cultural Responses to Climate Change, Water Scarcity, and Wildflower Superblooms

    Open AccessDaniel E Winkler, Emily Brooks et al.ARTICLEHuman Ecology2020References: 85

  • Number Narratives: Abundance, Scarcity, and Sustainability in a California Water World

    Emily Brooks, Emily M BrooksARTICLEScience as Culture2016Cited by: 12References: 15

    Within California’s envirotechnical system, there is a normative practice of thinking water problems through “number narratives”: numerical stories about how water works in a particular place and time. These number narratives reveal moments where numbers become not only assertions of transparency, trust, or objectivity, but also literary and social technologies that simplify and make sense of relations between people, places, things, and practice…

  • Marijuana in La Guardia’s New York City: The Mayor’s Committee and Federal Policy, 1938–1945

    Open AccessEmily Brooks, Emily M BrooksARTICLEJournal of Policy History2016References: 2

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  • Reflections on American Anthropology: A Conference at UC Irvine

    Open AccessChima Michael Anyadike‐dane, Chima Michael Anyadike‐Danes et al.ARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist2012References: 2

    I want to start with the work of Brian Dettmer, a U.S. contemporary artist, as a provocation to think about editwork.He is perhaps best known for his creative appropriation of old books: he seals them and then carefully carves page by page, using a mixture of surgical tools

  • Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research: Catteshill and Another Usher Serjeanty in the Purcel Family

    Open AccessE St John Brooks, Emily BrooksARTICLEHistorical Research1933

    Journal Article BULLETIN OF THE INSTITUTE OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH: CATTESHILL AND ANOTHER USHER SERJEANTY IN THE PURCEL FAMILY Get access E. St. John Brooks E. St. John Brooks Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, Volume 10, Issue 30, February 1933, Pages 161–168, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2281.1933.tb01917.x Published: 12 October 2007