Politics Capstones 2019

UNDERPOL, Volume IV (2019) is a collection of senior capstones written by Politics students who collaborated to produce this journal under the advisement of Senior Thesis Advisor Deva Woodly.

Table of Contents

• 10 The Limits of Progressive Prosecution by Cory Anderson

• 24 The Syrian and Palestinian Refugee Crisis in Lebanon: How the Refugee Crisis has Lead to Tensions over Employment, Territory, Identity, and Individual Agency within by Julia Arce

• 38 Justice for All? The role of the Innocence Project and the Criminal Cases Review Commission in filling the gaps within the criminal justice system by Emily Contreras

• 50 Dismantling the Whorerarchy by Cameron Cory

• 68 Commodity Fetishism, Gendered Embodiment and The Unnatural Mother: Towards an Ethical Reproductive Relation by Mia Halsey

• 82 Revolution and its Limits: Problems in the January 25th Revolution and Social Movement Theory by Saleem Creighton Koshy

• 100 Space Force by Nicholas Lumalcuri

• 112 Environmental Justice and Changing Administrations in the United States by Christina Marshall

• 132 Police Accountability: How Police Get Away With Brutality Without Liability by Michelle Mason

• 150 The Shepherd and the Sheep: On AI and Policy by Alice Sueko Mueller

• 168 Neoliberal Recuperation of Identity Movements: from the Stonewall Riots to Neoliberal Fragments of Queer Life by Alex Sirgenson

• 186 Reproductive Regimes: Construction, Maintenance, and Resistance by Jasmine Short