{"652706":{"#nid":"652706","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Dissertation Presentation: Garrett Bunyak","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EHSOC Ph.D. student Garrett Bunyak will present\u0026nbsp;his dissertation titled\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EInvasions: \u0026#39;Othering\u0026#39; and the Social Control of Migrants, Cats, and Kudzu in Atlanta, GA.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003EAll are welcome to join!\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDate:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;Friday, November 12, 2021\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETime:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;11:00 am\u0026nbsp;EST\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELocation:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;Virtual,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bluejeans.com\/422613532\/0140\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener noreferrer\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/bluejeans.com\/422613532\/0140\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECommittee Members:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EBill Winders (Chair)\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EMary G. McDonald (Co-chair)\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EAllen Hyde\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EJennifer Singh\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003ERobert Rosenberger\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EInvasion metaphors are today commonly used to describe immigrants, refugees, non-human animal and plant species, viruses, and even ideas.\u0026nbsp;Despite the varied and widespread use of invasion narratives within and between species, mainstream research has underrepresented potential connections and relationships between such narratives.\u0026nbsp;In order to better understand the role of invasion metaphors, this dissertation draws on fields such as Critical Animal Studies (CAS), Ecofeminism, and Chicana Feminism while focusing on three case studies exploring the application of invasion metaphors to immigrants, feral cats, and kudzu in Atlanta, GA and surrounding communities.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn the first case, I examine several competing narratives related to migration.\u0026nbsp;In the second case, I explore the ambivalent ways deployed to manage and control feral cats.\u0026nbsp;In the third case, I examine the history of the kudzu vine which covers millions of acres of land in the United States. I reveal the changing meanings U.S. scientific or \u0026ldquo;expert\u0026rdquo; claimsmakers have applied to this oft maligned vine.\u0026nbsp;I conclude the dissertation by putting the cases into conversation with one another.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe methods of analysis used in this dissertation are narrative and discourse analysis.\u0026nbsp;The data analyzed included a wide range of representations collected from sources including interviews, corporate media, independent media, social media, academic literature, and websites.\u0026nbsp;My analysis suggests invasion metaphors coarticulate to reproduce the inferiority and material exploitation of numerous \u0026ldquo;others\u0026rdquo; including migrants, nonhuman animals, plants, and all of \u0026ldquo;nature.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;Further, the dissertation highlights the interconnected roles the state, market, science, and technology play in the social control of people, animals, and \u0026ldquo;nature\u0026rdquo; more generally.\u0026nbsp;These findings not only shed additional light on such conditions, but perhaps more importantly help readers to imagine other possibilities.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Ph.D. student Garrett Bunyak will present\u00a0his dissertation titled \u0022Invasions: \u0027Othering\u0027 and the Social Control of Migrants, Cats, and Kudzu in Atlanta, GA.\u0022\u00a0All are welcome to join!"}],"uid":"35766","created_gmt":"2021-11-11 14:29:30","changed_gmt":"2021-11-11 14:31:25","author":"dminardi3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2021-11-12T11:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2021-11-12T12:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2021-11-12T12:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2021-11-12 16:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2021-11-12 17:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2021-11-12 17:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1288","name":"School of History and Sociology"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"177814","name":"Postdoc"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}