As a researcher and a designer my methods combine participant-observation, spatial analysis, archival research,  photography, and  collaging. ​ Like many before me, I enlist the visual for its affective potency which gives it the potential to unsettle our complacency with spectacular and everyday forms of oppression and violence waged against populations racialized, classed, gendered and sexed as “other.”  However, this work does not merely attend to technologies of dominance and their effects and affects, but also to the quotidian ways people refuse conscription and exceed limits. I detail my method and ethics of collaging in "Wading in the Thick: A Sovereign Encounter Through Collage” forthcoming in an edited volume, Sovereignty Unhinged (edited by Deborah A. Thomas and Joseph Masco, Duke University Press). For an earlier discussions on my method of collage see Abstraction, Witnessing, and Repair or Pree Issue 2: Pressure