{"id":33439,"date":"2025-10-20T09:18:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T13:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/?post_type=cu_people&#038;p=33439"},"modified":"2025-10-20T09:19:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T13:19:20","slug":"ash-de-visser","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/people\/ash-de-visser\/","title":{"rendered":"Ash De Visser"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ash De Visser is a PhD candidate in Law and Legal Studies at Carleton University. Originally from a small horse farm in British Columbia, Ash earned a BA from the University of Edinburgh and an MA from Simon Fraser University. With a background in political science and&nbsp;terrorism studies, Ash shifted toward legal anthropology after moving to Mexico in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her doctoral research is an ethnographic study of gambling rings in coastal Mexico as sites of legal ambiguity and subaltern publics, examining how law is negotiated, performed, and contested in everyday life. She focuses on small-town settings where state authority meets local practice and is also interested in gentrification, neoliberal reform, deportation, and <em>vaquero<\/em>&nbsp;culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"research-interests\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Research Interests<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Ethnography; Legal Pluralism; Gambling;\u00a0 Subaltern Publics; Everyday Law; Selective Policing and State Authority; Mexico; Deportation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"teaching-interests\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Teaching Interests<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Political Philosophy; Legal Anthropology; Ethnography; Mexican Studies. Current TA Position is Canadian Law, State, and Constitution. Volunteers in Nayarit to increase access to education and teach literacy.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"supervisor\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Supervisor<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Hollis Moore<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"publications\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Publications<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2021<\/strong>\u00a0\u2018Appealing to Women\u2019s Obligations to Join the Caliphate: Content Analysis of IS\u2019 English Language Magazine Dabiq\u2019 in <em>Journal of Military and Security Studies, <\/em>20(4), 104-148.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"selected-presentations\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Selected Presentations<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p> De Visser, A. (2025, May). <em>Navigating Post-Deportation: Ethnographic Insights into Reintegration, Language, and Identity in Small-Town Mexico<\/em>\u00a0at Carleton University\u2019s Graduate Legal Studies Student Association (GLSA) 18th Annual Conference Sociolegal Inquiries in Our Global Unknown in Ottawa, Ontario.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":304,"featured_media":33440,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Ash","cu_people_last_name":"De Visser","cu_people_initials":"AD","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[16],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-33439","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-phd-student"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"PhD Candidate (Legal Studies)","cu_people_degree":"BA Politics, University of Edinburgh (2017), MA Political Science, Simon Fraser University (2021)","cu_building":"","cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"She\/Her","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"ashdevisser@cmail.carleton.ca","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/33439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/33439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33441,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/33439\/revisions\/33441"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=33439"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=33439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}