by Sara Nelson, University of Minnesota According to critical accounts of the recent Rio+20 summit, the results of the convention were predictable: failure to reach binding agreements; a lack of...
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Rio+20, climate change, and critical scholarship: Beyond the critique of ‘green neoliberalism’?
Rio+20 and the People’s Summit: Dialogic or Disconnected Spaces?
by David Meek, University of Georgia Critical educational scholars have extensively explored the diversity of ways in which people learn within social movements (Welton 1993; Spencer 1995; Walter...
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Thoughts on transition: Public education, social justice, and geography
by Rachel Brahinsky, UC Berkeley This was originally presented at the commencement ceremony for the Department of Geography, University of California, Berkeley in May 2012. Many thanks to Rachel for...
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Occupy Homes MN: The anti-foreclosure movement builds solidarity among debtors
by Sara Nelson, University of Minnesota At 4 am on Monday 25 May, officers of the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Department raided the home of the Cruz family in south Minneapolis, busting through the...
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Sewers and Sewerage Workers in India
by Lalit Batra, University of Minnesota In her much-publicized address to the joint session of the parliament the President of India, Pratibha Patil, recently declared her government’s intention to...
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Aishwarya Rai and critical geographies of fat/bigness/corpulence
by Andy Davies, University of Liverpool The British press last month took a perverse delight in pointing out a perceived ‘backlash’ in India against the Bollywood film star Aishwarya Rai and her...
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Critical geographies of meat?
by Sean Gillon, University of Wisconsin - Madison Several years ago, I signed up for a meat industry newsletter for research purposes. I became accustomed to unsettling meatingplace.com news about...
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Life and time(s) in the neoliberal university: Tell me about it (seriously, do)
by Christian Anderson, City University of New York Last semester I spent one night a week sleeping on the floor in a small, windowless student office at my university. I had an adjunct teaching load...
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Transforming space, creating place
by David Meek, University of Georgia On 17 April 1996 a massacre occurred in the southeastern corner of the Brazilian Amazon. 21 members of the Brazilian Landless Workers’ Movement (Movimento dos...
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Leaning into the blues epistemology
by Rachel Brahinsky, UC Berkeley There was a terrific session at the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers this year that looked at the life and work of Clyde Adrian Woods, a...
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