Katherine T Mccaffrey
Biographic Data
| ID | 95751 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katherine T Mccaffrey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katherine T |
| FAMILY NAME | Mccaffrey |
| SIGNATURE | MCCAFFREY K T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Montclair State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3796-8926 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Staying at Home
In the spring of 2020 the novel Coronavirus upended life in New Jersey, US, precipitating an unprecedented state lockdown of 9 million residents. The essay reflects on the author's experience of the lockdown and her relationship to a Syrian refugee woman resettled nearby. The author identifies their shared experiences staying at home and prioritizing the collective good in the midst of a pandemic
Getting to Education to Get to Health
In this essay, we tackle the challenge of adapting the dominant way we think about health in the United States-through an individualistic, technocratic, biomedical lens-to address social problems rooted in structural inequality. As scholar activists, the authors participated in a coalition effort to improve community health in a postindustrial New Jersey city. Adopting a social determinants of health perspective, we describe efforts to move disco…
On Strike
This is an autoethnographic account of the 1991 City University of New York (CUNY) strike movement. The authors were some of the key organizers of the strike. Student mobilizations were not narrowly framed to oppose tuition hikes but conceptualized as resistance against austerity measures and the expanding war economy. This article reflects on the intersection of political activism and anthropology through the lens of our experience in the strike…
Gender and Militarism
Rethinking the Digital Divide
The article examines smartphone use among Middle Eastern refugee families recently resettled in northern New Jersey as an opportunity to reconceptualize the language barrier during the early stages of refugee resettlement. Smartphone access and use among families reveal the interlinguistic conditions of life in resettlement, and ethnographic research demonstrates the way a tech-savvy population, conventionally considered "digitally unprepared," c…
Environmental remediation and its discontents
Since protest forced the US Navy off Vieques Island, Puerto Rico in 2003, the US military has embarked on one of the largest environmental remediation projects it has ever undertaken. This article explores the way a narrowly conceived, technocratic cleanup process is translated onto an island with a deep history of grassroots mobilization and antagonism towards federal authority. The Restoration Advisory Board (RAB) is a crucible for considering …
A Grammar of Perseverance
The murder of Mapepe
Perpetual War
Colonial Citizenship
Island of Shame
Fish, Wildlife, and Bombs
Additional informationNotes on contributorsKatherine T. McCaffreyKatherine T. McCaffrey teaches anthropology at Montclair State University. She is the author of Military Power and Popular Protest: The U.S. Navy in Vieques, Puerto Rico (Rutgers University Press, 2002)
Report from the Field
The U.S. Army proposes tripling the size of its Piñon Canyon maneuver site for live fire exercises. Piñon Canyon is rich in cultural, archaeological and paleontological resources. There is a lack of transparency about military objectives, skepticism about the Army's true rationale, and concern for the military's desire to continue to expand. The Piñon Canyon case tests the boundaries of civilian primacy over the military, and the strength of civi…
Anthropology Now
When States Kill
Social Struggle Against the U.S. Navy in Vieques, Puerto Rico
The grassroots struggle against the U.S. Navy in Vieques transcended highly divisive colonial politics to build unprecedented political solidarity in Puerto Rico. The success of the recent Vieques movement in shutting down a U.S. Navy live-fire training facility contrasts with the experience of an earlier grassroots struggle in the 1970s. Whereas cold-war politics impeded the earlier activists from forging the alliances and formulating the vision…
The School of the Americas
Social Struggle Against the U.S. Navy in Vieques, Puerto Rico
The grassroots struggle against the U.S. Navy in Vieques transcended highly divisive colonial politics to build unprecedented political solidarity in Puerto Rico. The success of the recent Vieques movement in shutting down a U.S. Navy live-fire training facility contrasts with the experience of an earlier grassroots struggle in the 1970s. Whereas cold-war politics impeded the earlier activists from forging the alliances and formulating the vision…
On Strike
This is an autoethnographic account of the 1991 City University of New York (CUNY) strike movement. The authors were some of the key organizers of the strike. Student mobilizations were not narrowly framed to oppose tuition hikes but conceptualized as resistance against austerity measures and the expanding war economy. This article reflects on the intersection of political activism and anthropology through the lens of our experience in the strike…
Rethinking the Digital Divide
The article examines smartphone use among Middle Eastern refugee families recently resettled in northern New Jersey as an opportunity to reconceptualize the language barrier during the early stages of refugee resettlement. Smartphone access and use among families reveal the interlinguistic conditions of life in resettlement, and ethnographic research demonstrates the way a tech-savvy population, conventionally considered "digitally unprepared," c…
Environmental remediation and its discontents
Since protest forced the US Navy off Vieques Island, Puerto Rico in 2003, the US military has embarked on one of the largest environmental remediation projects it has ever undertaken. This article explores the way a narrowly conceived, technocratic cleanup process is translated onto an island with a deep history of grassroots mobilization and antagonism towards federal authority. The Restoration Advisory Board (RAB) is a crucible for considering …
Staying at Home
In the spring of 2020 the novel Coronavirus upended life in New Jersey, US, precipitating an unprecedented state lockdown of 9 million residents. The essay reflects on the author's experience of the lockdown and her relationship to a Syrian refugee woman resettled nearby. The author identifies their shared experiences staying at home and prioritizing the collective good in the midst of a pandemic
The School of the Americas
Social Struggle Against the U.S. Navy in Vieques, Puerto Rico
The grassroots struggle against the U.S. Navy in Vieques transcended highly divisive colonial politics to build unprecedented political solidarity in Puerto Rico. The success of the recent Vieques movement in shutting down a U.S. Navy live-fire training facility contrasts with the experience of an earlier grassroots struggle in the 1970s. Whereas cold-war politics impeded the earlier activists from forging the alliances and formulating the vision…
When States Kill
Report from the Field
The U.S. Army proposes tripling the size of its Piñon Canyon maneuver site for live fire exercises. Piñon Canyon is rich in cultural, archaeological and paleontological resources. There is a lack of transparency about military objectives, skepticism about the Army's true rationale, and concern for the military's desire to continue to expand. The Piñon Canyon case tests the boundaries of civilian primacy over the military, and the strength of civi…
Anthropology Now
Fish, Wildlife, and Bombs
Additional informationNotes on contributorsKatherine T. McCaffreyKatherine T. McCaffrey teaches anthropology at Montclair State University. She is the author of Military Power and Popular Protest: The U.S. Navy in Vieques, Puerto Rico (Rutgers University Press, 2002)
Island of Shame
Colonial Citizenship
The murder of Mapepe
Perpetual War
Environmental remediation and its discontents
Since protest forced the US Navy off Vieques Island, Puerto Rico in 2003, the US military has embarked on one of the largest environmental remediation projects it has ever undertaken. This article explores the way a narrowly conceived, technocratic cleanup process is translated onto an island with a deep history of grassroots mobilization and antagonism towards federal authority. The Restoration Advisory Board (RAB) is a crucible for considering …
A Grammar of Perseverance
Gender and Militarism
Rethinking the Digital Divide
The article examines smartphone use among Middle Eastern refugee families recently resettled in northern New Jersey as an opportunity to reconceptualize the language barrier during the early stages of refugee resettlement. Smartphone access and use among families reveal the interlinguistic conditions of life in resettlement, and ethnographic research demonstrates the way a tech-savvy population, conventionally considered "digitally unprepared," c…
On Strike
This is an autoethnographic account of the 1991 City University of New York (CUNY) strike movement. The authors were some of the key organizers of the strike. Student mobilizations were not narrowly framed to oppose tuition hikes but conceptualized as resistance against austerity measures and the expanding war economy. This article reflects on the intersection of political activism and anthropology through the lens of our experience in the strike…
Staying at Home
In the spring of 2020 the novel Coronavirus upended life in New Jersey, US, precipitating an unprecedented state lockdown of 9 million residents. The essay reflects on the author's experience of the lockdown and her relationship to a Syrian refugee woman resettled nearby. The author identifies their shared experiences staying at home and prioritizing the collective good in the midst of a pandemic
Getting to Education to Get to Health
In this essay, we tackle the challenge of adapting the dominant way we think about health in the United States-through an individualistic, technocratic, biomedical lens-to address social problems rooted in structural inequality. As scholar activists, the authors participated in a coalition effort to improve community health in a postindustrial New Jersey city. Adopting a social determinants of health perspective, we describe efforts to move disco…
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