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Publication Practical Realities and Emotions in Field Research: The Experience of Novice Fieldworkers(Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 2006-01-01) Satterlund, Travis; Mallinson, ChristineAccounts of how seasoned researchers negotiate the relationship between emotions and fieldwork are becoming more prevalent in the qualitative literature but those by novices are rare. We describe the experiences of four sociology graduate students newly enrolled in a qualitative field methods course at a public research university. Using data from post hoc personal reflections, we analyze how fieldwork raises emotions that affect site selection and data analysis. We offer the suggestion to novice researchers and those who teach qualitative courses to anticipate emotional challenges in beginning field projects.Publication The Razing Tide of the Port of New Orleans: Power, Ideology, Economic Growth and the Destruction of Community(Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 2006-01-01) Azcona, Brian LloydThis study aims to contribute to a critical diagnosis of Hurricane Katrina s impact on two communities in the New Orleans area: the Lower Ninth Ward and St. Bernard through a systematic inquiry into the built environment and social inequality. A socio-historical investigation of the Port of New Orleans and its major 20th-century infrastructure projects, two ship canals called the Industrial Canal and Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet which transformed the built environment of the Lower Ninth Ward and St. Bernard, is presented. The historical analysis focuses on the political power and ideological discourses of the growth coalition that ruled the port through a nonelected board known as the Dock Board. The author argues that business elites affiliated with the board remade the built environment in their own interest without consideration of the local communities. The implications of this history for a critical understanding of Hurricane Katrina are explored.Publication Social Thought and Research, Volume 27 (2006): Book Review(Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 2006-01-01) Fee, Lee YokPublication Taking Women Seriously Makes us Smarter about the US War in Iraq(Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 2006-01-01) Enloe, CynthiaPublication Social Thought and Research, Volume 27 (2006): Front Matter(Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 2006-01-01)Publication Interview with Cynthia Enloe(Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 2006-01-01) Martinez, Jose; Koch, Shelley L.Publication Interview with Donald Worster(Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 2006-01-01) Kerr, Daniel StewartShortly after Hurricane Katrina revealed some startling vulnerabilities of U.S. empire and emphasized divisions of race and class in the nation, New Orleans native Brian Azcona sat down with a pioneer of environmental history to discuss what lessons the field might provide in the storm s wake. Donald Worster, who grew up in Kansas and today is the Hall Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Kansas, drew parallels between the Katrina disaster and a disaster closer to his home and personal experience, the Dust Bowl, his treatment of which has become the standard historical work on the 1930s ecological disaster. The strategic position of New Orleans in the U.S. empire demands the city and the levies that hold out the Mississippi River be rebuilt, just as the importance of Great Plains agriculture to the nation warranted that land-use ill-adapted to the dry plains environment as it was be sustained by massive federal subsidies. The logic behind that national empire persists, to be questioned further.Publication Social Thought and Research, Volume 27 (2006): Book Review(Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 2006-01-01) Laberge, YvesPublication Ambivalence at the Academies: Attitudes toward Women in the Military at the Federal Service Academies(Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 2006-01-01) Jansen, MonikaIn this paper I analyze comparative data on attitudes toward women at the Federal Service Academies relative to Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) students and active-duty officers using data from a 1998-1999 Triangle Institute for Security Studies survey. This paper serves as a pilot study for a more organizationally grounded analysis of masculine culture. I illustrate this approach by comparing patterns of gender related attitudes across a range of military institutions, while controlling for demographic and selection variables. I find that cadets at the academies are more ambivalent toward women than are senior officers or ROTC students, and that some of this effect can be attributed to socialization within the academy context. The relationship between culture, discrimination, and sexual harassment was evident at all of the academies. However, I also find that this relationship cannot be assumed by the existence of a masculine culture alone as patterns of gender attitudes vary across the services.