Purpose: At the moment this archive was created to document the following topics in Azusa, CA and Azusa High School: environmental hazards; school district/city/regional/county/state/federal environemntal hazards law and policy; 210 freeway history and documentation; history of wild fires the San Gabriel Mountains and Angeles National Forest; social and environmental history of city and schools; water rights history of Azusa.
This archive is a sub-set of a larger archive and project of the San Gabriel Valley with Dr. Nadine Tanio focused on the above issues within the larger geographic area.
As the archive will grow over the next year of research, I expect this to happen quickly.
Mapping EiJ in Azusa challenges the conceptualizations of place, boundaries, intersectionality, flows and disjunctures. Azusa is a city, connected and cut-off in ways similar to other small regional municipalities. An archive of Azusa is linked to multiple other cities not only by shared boundaries, but also by transporation flows of people, goods, air, faultlines that extend far beyond the cities bounded space. Therefore the Azusa archive must be nested and linked to other forms of cultural, natural, social, and economic formations.
How does one build a city archive while also representing the complexity of city-status around issue of justice, environmental or otherwise?