Javier Arbona Homar, PhD

Category: American Studies

  • The waterfront is not a fixed boundary

    The waterfront is not a fixed boundary

    I spoke with Brian Krans of the Vallejo Sun to discuss police brutality and protest history of the Vallejo waterfront – a preview of forthcoming chapter written with Prof. Julie Sze. Visit the Vallejo Sun (transcript included) or check it out on Apple podcasts  

  • The Explosivity of Kelp

    Uncovering kelp’s hidden past as an ingredient in explosives may have the answer to preserving its future survival under climate change. The Explosivity of Kelp, at Society & Space open site (part of a forum on everyday militarisms born from our UC Davis – U Sydney collaboratory)

  • “Landscapes of (Racial) Explosivity: San Francisco’s Parrot Block and the 1866 Nitroglycerine Explosion”

     

  • Trial by the Bay

    Recently published: “Trial by the Bay: Treasure Island and Segregation in the Navy’s Lake” (2017). Urban Reinventions: San Francisco’s Treasure Island. Lynne Horiuchi and Tanu Sankalia, eds. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press: 125-139. Find: ON WORLDCAT / ORDER FROM PRESS More writings and works here

  • Explosive Cultures: Bombscapes and the Order of Law

    I’m happy to mention I’ll be one of a cohort of 2018 DHI Faculty Fellows… Here’s a quick blurb of the project: “Explosive Cultures: Bombscapes and the Order of Law” Javier Arbona investigates the ordo: the shared spatial, imaginative, and cultural ties between the order of the explosive and the order of the law. Specifically,…