UH GEO Professor Mary Mostafanezhad and Ph.D. alum Henryk Szadziewski have published a new article in the Transaction of the Institute of British Geographers titled, "A case for popular geoeconomics: Angelina Jolie, China, and the semiotic limits of the archive." Access the article here: https://rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/tran.12647
Actual questions on #Venezuela's #referendum regarding territorial dispute with #Guyana are...eyebrow-raising. Public is asked to weigh in on legal technicalities, while being told "right" answer, but with disclaimers.
Gems include "Do you support the 1966 Geneva Agreement as the only valid legal instrument..." and "Do you agree to oppose, by all legal means, Guyana's [use of sea resources] illegally and in violation of international law?"
Just ahead of #Venezuela referendum on whether to "incorporate" disputed #GuayanaEsequiba / #Essequibo area (currently governed by #Guyana) as one of its states, #WorldCourt (#ICJ) orders country not to seize any land there ahead of future ruling.
Court took a pass on Guyana's request to order the #referendum cancelled, but did order both countries to avoid actions that "aggravate or extend" the dispute.
UH GEO MA student Tara Sutton is featured in the University of Hawaiʻi News for her involvement in the Red Hill Information Hub. Access the story, "Red Hill water data hub personal for graduate student," here: https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2023/11/22/red-hill-data-sutton/.
Mathias Albert, Dina Brode-Roger, Lisbeth Iversen (eds.), Svalbard Imaginaries: The Making of an Arctic Archipelago - Palgrave Macmillan, November 2023
Hardback and e-book at present; paperback due in December 2024
A series of U.S. federal legislation under the Biden administration has spawned a manufacturing boom at a scale not seen in decades. Unfortunately, the country is repeating the same socio-economic, land use, and transportation policy mistakes that have lead to many of the ills we’re seeking to remedy. Are we missing an opportunity to build back better? @geography@DialoguesHG#UrbanPlanning#economics cc: @yfreemark
Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky, Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State - Stanford University Press, February 2024 https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=33134