geography

stuartelden, 8 months ago

Jared D. Margulies, The Cactus Hunters: Desire and Extinction in the Illicit Succulent Trade - University of Minnesota Press, November 2023
https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/the-cactus-hunters

@geography

kris_inwood, 8 months ago

“Power to the People!” Just published in Social Science History, Keston K. Perry & Zophia Edwards argue that the Black Power Movement rather than political elites forced the state in Trinidad and Tobago to adopt more interventionist industrial policies & a redistributive development agenda 1970-1984.
https://doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2023.15
@socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @anthropology @geography @economics @demography #BlackPower #TrinidadTobago #redistribution #development #DevelopmentalState

simulatedchollas, 8 months ago

Mass deportation and the intensity of policing in the United States' 100-mile border zone: Complicating the “border”/“interior” enforcement binary https://doi.org/10.1111/lapo.12232 #border #borders #immigration #migration #policy #deportations #usa #police #policestate #policing #racism #health #racism #education #poverty #geography #law #humangeography @geography

geo_uhm, 8 months ago

Looking for a graduate program in Geography and Environment? GEO at UH Mānoa is a top program with faculty expertise in climate change, political ecology, and sustainability with an Asia-Pacific focus: https://geography.manoa.hawaii.edu/graduate/.

#Geography @geography

stuartelden, 8 months ago

Gabrielle Hecht, Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures - Duke University Press, November 2023
https://www.dukeupress.edu/residual-governance
The Introduction is open access here -
https://www.dukeupress.edu/Assets/PubMaterials/978-1-4780-2494-1_601.pdf

@geography @anthropology @politicaltheory

stuartelden, 8 months ago

Marcelo Hoffman, Foucault in Brazil: Dictatorship, Resistance, and Solidarity - University of Pittsburgh Press, February 2024
https://upittpress.org/books/9780822948063/

@geography @politicaltheory @intellectualhistory

simonpeth, 8 months ago

Are you working on "Geographical perspectives on climate and environmental #mobilities"?
Here is an interesting call for presentations (CfP) for a session at the International Geographical Congress 2024 in Dublin next year (24-30 August) with @hasterly
@univienna
@geography
@migrationresearch
@climatemobilities
#climatechange #migration #MECC #ecmnNetwork #sustainability

https://igc2024dublin.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Session-booklet-10.10.23.pdf#%5B%7B%22num%22%3A366%2C%22gen%22%3A0%7D%2C%7B%22name%22%3A%22XYZ%22%7D%2C69%2C298%2C0%5D

ICalzada, 8 months ago

Comparing 5 #DisruptiveTechnologies

#Blockchain
#DAOs
#DataCooperatives
#Metaverse
#ChatGPT

for e #Diasporas Enablers overcoming #data #privacy/extractivism issues or Inhibitors exacerbating them #Web3 #decentralization #identity #datasovereignty

https://sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016328723001623

7/n

@digitalhumanities @economics @politicalscience @politicaltheory @geography

geo_uhm, 8 months ago

UH GEO professor Camilo Mora and his daughter will talk about their Carbon Neutral Challenge project at the Mālama Mānoa general membership meeting tomorrow, Oct. 11, 6PM at the Honolulu Japanese Seventh Day Adventist Church. Daniel Dinell, President of Trees for Honolulu's Future, will also speak at the event.

#Geography @geography

geo_uhm, 8 months ago

UH GEO affiliate faculty member Laurel Mei-Singh is giving a talk on campus this Thursday, Oct. 12 from 12:00 - 1:15pm HST in KUY 410. The title of Dr. Mei-Singh's talk is, "The political economy of environmental racism in Waiʻanae."

#Geography @geography

cdb_77, 8 months ago French

"Defund #Frontex. #Borders kill every day."

#graffiti #streetart spotted in #Marseille

Ping @abolishfrontex @laboescapes @RadicalGraffiti @geography

stuartelden, 8 months ago

Richard Saull, Capital, Race and Space, two volumes - Brill, 2023; paperbacks with Haymarket in summer 2024

https://brill.com/display/title/64025

https://brill.com/display/title/64141

@geography @politicaltheory @intellectualhistory

Cover of Volume 2 with photo of Capitol protest

kris_inwood, 8 months ago

New method to assess historical child mortality based on linking complete count census data reveals a significant negative relationship between wealth & child mortality 1850-80 everywhere in US, from Dave Hacker, Martin Dribe & Jonas Helgertz. Open access in Social Science History
https://doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2023.12
@demography @geography @sociology @healthecon @socialscience @politicalscience @econhist @economics @epiverse #history #histodons #children #mortality #census #demography #demographiehistorique

geo_uhm, 8 months ago

Join us at the UH Department of Geography and Environment! We are hiring for an assistant professor in geographic information science. The application review beings on October 15th, https://www.schooljobs.com/careers/hawaiiedu/jobs/4190951/assistant-professor-geographic-information-science-pending-position-number.

#Geography #GIS @geography

cneff, 8 months ago French

I have uploaded my oral presentation ““Capelo mon amour” - Fajã Grande, #Flores, #Capelo, #Faial 1999 – 2023. 24 anos de investigação ecológica e geográfica nos #Açores” in #Kitopen.
Slides are in English, the oral presentation was held in English (80%), French (10%) and Portuguese #geography #ecology, #FajãGrande #Azores #fieldecology #geobotany #primarysuccession #Capelinhos #volcano #primarysuccession #vegetationdynamic
@geography
https://publikationen.bibliothek.kit.edu/1000162719