Located in the San Francisco Bay Area, Port Chicago came to international attention on July
17, 1944 when two ammunition ships exploded, killing 320 military personnel. Two-thirds of …

… Javier Arbona Javier Arbona is a doctoral candidate in geography at UC Berkeley, where
he studies the transformations of military landscapes and the functions of memory in military …

… Javier Arbona … Javier Arbona is an Assistant Professor with appointments in the
departments of American Studies and Design, and an affiliate of the graduate groups in …

The Fab Tree Hab concept resolutely accumulates the inscribed nuances that influenced
the American Rustic period. Stemming form the insurgent writings of Thoreau, Emerson, …

In the late months of 2009, researchers at the Mayo Clinic in Minneapolis validated some
horrifying claims by twentyafour slaughterhouse workers from two states. The workers reported …

This article proposes a reclamation of the Vieques bombing range as a spearhead project in
the transformation of this Caribbean Island from a US weapons storage and combat training …

The donning of camouflage gear by military forces is uniformly understood to be an attempt
to dissolve into a background matrix in order to deceive an enemy in combat, or in a combat …

This essay excavates a little-known uprising of black sailors in Vallejo, California, a World
War II boomtown where, in late December 1942, African American Navy personnel rose up to …

… Javier Arbona tracks how Roche's notion of nature as ‘a partly human artifice’ which is
both alien and personalised play out in his various projects, capitulating between attempts at …

The portrait of Los Angeles in Health Rights reveals that myriad struggles over the meaning
and imagination of the city in the 60s and 70s revolved around reclaiming health …