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Health Geographies of the Overlooked: Race, Data, and Disability

Anonymous — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 19:27:48 +0000

Health Geographies of the Overlooked: Race, Data, and Disability Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 10/29/2024 - 13:27

Dr. Aída Guhlincozzi
Assistant Professor of Geography
University of Missouri

Abstract:

This presentation covers the recent work in health geography focused on vulnerable populations by Dr. Aída Guhlincozzi and colleagues. Specifically, this will cover the ongoing movement of the field in a direction of better encapsulating the needs of communities and populations previously overlooked and underserved by U.S. healthcare systems. This talk includes recently published results on Latina women’s healthcare access, discussions of race and ethnicity in the Latine community, and critical disability geography work regarding Autism and healthcare access. A key intervention recommended includes a brief discussion of the value of community geographic theoretical frameworks and methods.

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Before You Are Here, and other critical cartographic interventions

Anonymous — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 17:19:17 +0000

Before You Are Here, and other critical cartographic interventions Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 10/21/2024 - 11:19

Dr. Clancy Wilcott
Assistant Professor
University of California, Berkeley

Abstract:

This talk discusses a series of critical cartographic interventions undertaken in collaboration between local Indigenous, activist and community groups, and studio.geo?, a cartographic research and teaching studio based at UC Berkeley. It centers on Before You Are Here, one of a series of ongoing collaborative research projects making maps with the Sogorea Te’ Land Trust (STLT) an Indigenous, Urban, Women-Led organization seeking to rematriate the land in East Bay, California. This series of works reimagines cartography, a historically colonial tool of territorialization, for telling stories of Indigeneity, sovereignty and multiplicity in Sogorea Te’s view of the Ohlone Bay Area. Together, we asked: what would it mean to decolonise at the level of the fundamentals of cartography itself and produce a map that depicts a cosmography, rather than a cartography, a living world rather than abstracted data, a map that wrenches open notions of universality and standardization to represent the landscape of the Bay as a series of seasonal space-times through which communities of people live and move, a space uncomputable rather than a fixed fact: an “Indigenous depth of place” (Pierce and Louis, 2007)?

Speaker Bio:

Clancy Wilmott (PhD) is Assistant Professor of Critical Cartography, Geovisualization and Design in the Department of Geography and the Berkeley Center for New Media at the University of California, Berkeley. Her work focuses on intricacies of power inherent in spatial representations, including mapping, cartography and GIS from an anti-colonial perspective.

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Geography's Social Media Reel Competition

Anonymous — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 15:42:51 +0000

Geography's Social Media Reel Competition Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 10/15/2024 - 09:42

In preparation for November's Geography Awareness Month, the Department of Geography is hosting its first ever Social Media Reel Competition!

Reels with the most likes will win a $100 gift card.

To Enter:

Record a 90 second or less reel/video about CU Geography.
Make sure to use portrait mode.
Upload your video (MP4 or equivalent) using this link.
Feel free to share your reel on your Instagram, or Twitter/X, use #GeographyBuffs.
Ask your friends to like and share your reel on CU Geography's social media platforms.

Submit by Thursday, November 21st, 2024.

Reels will be uploaded to CU Geography social media platforms on Friday, November 22nd. Likes will be counted and winners announced on Monday, December 2nd.

Suggested themes for your reel:

What’s your CU Geography story?
What’s your favorite memory of CU Geography?
What makes CU Geography the best?
Why are you a CU Geography major or minor?
Why are you pursuing a CU Geography certificate?

All entries will be shared on CU Geography's social media platforms.

CU Geography Social Media Platforms:

Instagram: @cu.geography (reel with the most likes wins $100)

Twitter/X: @cugeography (reel with the most likes wins $100)

Facebook: CU ��«��Ƶ Geography

Remember to have your friends like and share, likes will be counted and winners announced on November 8th.

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Indigenous geographies, law, and the Piikani Water rights case

Anonymous — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 17:16:43 +0000

Indigenous geographies, law, and the Piikani Water rights case Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 10/14/2024 - 11:16

Dr. Michael Fabris
Blackfoot Scholar
Assistant Professor
University of British Columbia

Abstract:

In this presentation, I analyze the Piikani Nation’s attempts to halt the construction of the Oldman River Dam, as this struggle highlights the challenges Indigenous communities can face in attempting to assert our own forms of jurisdiction within the confines of Canadian law. Completed in 1991, the Dam faced multiple forms of opposition by Piikani members, including lawsuits, interventions within the Federal Environmental Review Process, and an attempt by community activists to divert the river around an existing irrigation weir. For this presentation, I focus on the Piikani water rights case, wherein the Piikani Nation attempted to creatively draw from the US Winters Doctrine as a means to establish a legal claim to the Oldman River rooted in treaty rights.

This presentation draws from my current research on Piikani/Blackfoot water relationships, which seeks to answer: how are Indigenous forms of jurisdiction enacted within and beyond reserve boundaries? And how do they articulate with Canadian legal systems, such as the reserve and band council systems? To answer these questions, I draw from both critical political economy and Indigenous legal scholarship, as I argue that in struggles against the capitalist reterritorialization of Indigenous places, it is through the assertions of competing legal jurisdictions that these struggles tend to find their most profound expression. Here, I draw from, and extend, the Marxian concept of articulation, suggesting this concept might be a generative reframing ‘legal pluralism’ frameworks that are often used by scholars to examine how Indigenous legal orders interact with settler law.

Bio:

Michael Fabris (he/they) is a Blackfoot scholar and Assistant Professor in the UBC Department of Geography. His current research focuses on Piikani challenges to the construction of the Oldman River Dam, Piikani water rights, and articulations between Indigenous and settler forms of law.

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Hayes Hart-Thompson received a PACES Tier 2 Grant

Anonymous — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 19:49:30 +0000

Hayes Hart-Thompson received a PACES Tier 2 Grant Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 10/07/2024 - 13:49

Hayes Hart-Thompson received the CU ��«��Ƶ Office for Public and Community-Engaged Scholarship (PACES) Tier 2 Grant, for their proposal titled, Geo-Justice: Human-Centered Design for K-12 Geography Design-a-thon.

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Sara Fleming received a PACES Tier 2 Grant

Anonymous — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 19:44:43 +0000

Sara Fleming received a PACES Tier 2 Grant Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 10/07/2024 - 13:44

Sara Fleming received the CU ��«��Ƶ Office for Public and Community-Engaged Scholarship (PACES) Tier 2 Grant. The proposal is titled, Colorado Mobile Home Park Preservation & Community Ownership Website.

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Kate Carlson has been awarded the Minnesota GIS/LIS Consortium’s Emerging Professional Award for 2024

Anonymous — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 13:34:19 +0000

Kate Carlson has been awarded the Minnesota GIS/LIS Consortium’s Emerging Professional Award for 2024 Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 10/04/2024 - 07:34

Kate Carlson has been awarded the Minnesota GIS/LIS Consortium’s Emerging Professional Award in 2024, for accomplishments while at the State of Minnesota (MNIT DNR). The award is given by her peers in the Minnesota geospatial community. The Emerging Professional Award is meant to recognize individuals who have demonstrated extraordinary application(s) of GIS and/or made a significant contribution to the GIS community at an early stage in their career. Kate is the Southern Region GIS Support Specialist for the state, doing analysis, training and problem solving for the MNIT/DNR. She will receive the aware at this years GIS/LIS conference ceremony on Friday 4 Oct in Minnesota.

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In Memorium, Jack D. Ives

Anonymous — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 18:41:15 +0000

In Memorium, Jack D. Ives Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 10/02/2024 - 12:41

Jack D. Ives passed away on September 15, 2024. He was a Canadian montologist, an honorary adjunct research professor of geography and environmental studies at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, an author, and a prominent advocate of mountain issues at the global level. From 1967 to 1979 Ives served as director of the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, ��«��Ƶ, and Professor of Geography from 1967 to 1989. While at ��«��Ƶ, Ives founded and edited two peer-reviewed quarterly journals. Arctic and Alpine Research first appeared in 1969. In 1980 Ives, along with Roger Barry, Misha Plam, and Walther Manshard, founded the International Mountain Society (IMS).

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John O'Loughlin awarded NSF grant for the study on the relationship between climate change and support for violence in Kenya

Anonymous — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 19:11:35 +0000

John O'Loughlin awarded NSF grant for the study on the relationship between climate change and support for violence in Kenya Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 09/18/2024 - 13:11

Professors John O’Loughlin (Professor of Geography and Fellow, Institute of Behavioral Science), Terry McCabe (Fellow, Institute of Behavioral Science and Emeritus Professor of Anthropology) and Andrew Linke (Associate Professor of Geography at University of Utah and former PhD student in Geography) have been awarded $804,990 from the National Science Foundation programs in Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences (HEGS) and Cultural Anthropology for a study on the relationship between climate change and support for violence in Kenya.

Using a geographically-stratified representative sample of 3000 rural Kenyan households in 11 counties (map) for a 5 wave panel survey, guided by in-depth interviews and focus groups of key informants, the project will examine how households adapt to environmental stressors caused by weather changes? Adaptions include the sources of incomes and household contributions, intentions to move, actual migration, increased sharing of scarce resources and political mobilization including protests and violence. The effects of seasonal changes in the weather on attitudes and behavior regarding cooperation or conflict with members of the same group/locale and with other ethnic groups will be examined by looking at the changing roles of formal institutions (national and local governmental), as well as informal institutions (traditional customs and the role of elders). Especially focusing on the levels of food insecurity that vary greatly between livelihoods and counties, the project will also map the level of both governmental and non-governmental aid reaching the communities.

The topic of the effects of climate change in the Global South continues to gain both public and academic interest as its consequences become more evident. Among the expected effects on human livelihoods are growing food insecurity, deteriorating health conditions, increases in migration, and pressures on scarce household resources. Less evident are outcomes that might lead to changes in traditional livelihood practices, including arrangements for sharing of resources; such outcomes could lead to more reliance on cooperative customs. This project on climate change effects will focus on the differential impacts across societal groups and across different ecological and livelihood zones since rural livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa are highly vulnerable to climate and environmental change.

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John O'Loughlin: Growing number of war-weary Ukrainians would reluctantly give up territory to save lives, suggests recent survey

Anonymous — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 18:25:31 +0000

John O'Loughlin: Growing number of war-weary Ukrainians would reluctantly give up territory to save lives, suggests recent survey Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 09/18/2024 - 12:25

See full article linked here.

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