Critical Encounters: Alison Kanosky, “Security State Building and Community Destabilization”

Critical Encounters Conversations in American Studies Series presents Alison Kanosky, PhD candidate, American Studies, Yale University.
Alison’s dissertation uses ethnographic, historical and spatial analysis to examine a Midwestern American community with a closed military installation and a newly constructed but vacant prison. She explores how these institutions affect the community and focuses on how residents understand and respond to state power.