2016 Fiscal Year Research-status Report
Immigrant Media in Relation to Environmental Issues in the U.S. Southwest
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16K21087
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| Research Institution | Nagoya University |
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Principal Investigator |
TOOHEY David 名古屋大学, 教養教育院, 特任准教授 (70750165)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2016-04-01 – 2018-03-31
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| Keywords | environment / immigration / United States / culture / economics / ecology |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
I presented two conference papers. The first paper, using archival research, explored how ideas of land grants as they were disseminated through media. The second paper explored how immigrants interact with the U.S.-Mexico border environment. Archival research helped improve my concept of Mexican-American environmentalism to: include ecological practices before environmentalism, and; place it into mainstream discourses, especially discourses of Twentieth Century modernism and discourses of environmental appreciation vs. agriculture and resources. I have found archival materials about discourses from outside the Mexican-American community that affect Mexican-American environmentalism including: movies about land-grants and poetry and art about the U.S.-Southwest.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
2: Research has progressed on the whole more than it was originally planned.
Reason
I have developed two drafts of article-length manuscripts about: 1.) Mexican-American environmentalism and media; and 2.) environmental and social implications of land grants. Travelling to archives in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Washington, D.C., and Berkeley, California enabled me to understand gaps and discontinuities in data and find information on how these gaps in data can be explained by other events which are less frequently mentioned. I have been able to refine my conceptual framework for understanding Mexican-American environmentalism to include a broader academic discussion of environmentalism and show its differences and compatibility with mainstream environmentalism. This has helped to make a broader concept that explains historical and geographical continuance and variation.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
I plan to develop book chapter/journal article length manuscripts on contemporary Mexican-American environmentalism, especially focused in California that also involves recent immigrant groups from Mexico and Central America. This will explore more how environmentalism has persisted in urban centres. (The first year of this research focused mostly on Mexican-American environmentalism in rural areas.)
I will use readings on Mexican-American identity and environmentalism to improve concepts for data collection in archives and relevant sites in Southern California and elsewhere. On these research trips, I will collect rare and/or original data which I will use to find and support connections between Mexican-American environmentalism and Mexican-American identity.
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Research Products
(2 results)
