Becca Journey 10/24

“Disintegrating/Reimagining the Agora: Staging Civic Visions in Greenpoint’s McCarren Park Pool.”

Becca Journey
(Anthropology)


This MA paper draft excerpt draws on archival and ethnographic research to trace the
protean social history of a once-derelict Brooklyn municipal swimming pool. Attending 
in particular to the pool’s recent reconfiguration as a performance space and public venue, 
this paper asks how an anthropology of the pleasures of looking at broken things may 
inform a concept of late liberal civic care.

Discussant:
Xueting Liu
(Anthropology)

WEDNESDAY, October 24th
4:30 – 6:00 PM
Haskell Hall, Room 101


**For a copy of the paper, please e-mail Christien Tompkins at cptompkins@uchicago.edu or Andrea Ford at alillyf@uchicago.edu

Persons with disabilities who believe they may need assistance, please contact Christien Tompkins at cptompkins@uchicago.edu or Andrea Ford at alillyf@uchicago.edu

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