On Finding One’s Voice (and the Voices of Others)

I am pleased to announce that the American Association of Geographers (AAG) is launching the Geography Speakers Bureau. The Bureau is part of the Geography is REAL initiative and builds upon the AAG’s long-time commitment to public outreach, informed and timely communication, and lending geographic research and education to addressing pressing issues and debates.

Open to all AAG members, the Speakers Bureau will serve as an online clearinghouse of scholars, teachers and other professionals willing to share their expertise with not only geography programs and departments but also wider academic, scientific, policy, and public audiences. In the coming weeks, AAG will begin collecting speaker profiles through a web portal and then publicizing the Bureau on the Association’s web site, social media, and other communication channels.

The purpose of this column is to outline the rationale ad organization of the Speakers Bureau and encourage geographers to participate as well as address the resonance and efficacy of their voices as education and advocacy tools. While the Bureau creates a setting for increased speaking, it is also an opportunity for geographers to engage in greater listening and dialogue—both within the discipline and with a broad array of public groups.

Why Establish a Speakers Bureau

A culture of public speaking has long existed within geography. For many years, the AAG-GTU Visiting Geographical Scientist Program has been responsible for bringing many of the discipline’s most prominent speakers to colleges and universities across the USA. A number of geographers are experienced in speaking outside the discipline and within their respective local communities on a range of social and environmental issues.

Through the new Speakers Bureau, the AAG seeks to formalize and enhance what members are no doubt already doing well in the area of speaking while also encouraging others to find and cultivate their own public voices. The intent is for the Bureau to expand the number and reach of speaking opportunities for geographers, broaden the choice of speakers available to geography departments, highlight geographic perspectives on themes of particular public importance, and give our discipline a large institutional and social stage for promoting an understanding of what geographers do and contribute.

Intended Audiences of Speakers Bureau

The Bureau’s participant list will be a helpful reference for academic departments, scholarly institutes, and other university programs in locating visiting speakers for colloquia, seminars, conferences, teach-ins, town-gown partnerships, and other educational outreach. Moving beyond academe, other potential users of the Speakers Bureau may include libraries, museums, non-profits, foundations, community organizations, policy institutes, government agencies, private industry, and activist initiatives. Journalists and media outlets will find the Speakers Bureau useful for locating specialists for interviews for newspaper or magazine stories, radio/television/podcast appearances, and the growing number of online blogs and other journalistic and documentary projects.

Initial Themes of Speakers Bureau

The Speakers Bureau will work to represent the intellectual and social diversity of our discipline, being open to geographers from different sub-fields, stages of career, and institutional/professional settings. A passion and skill for effective public speaking and engagement comes from all quarters of the discipline. Initially, the Bureau will highlight three major themes that reflect the intellectual richness and saliency of the field and the foci of ongoing AAG policy work. These themes are:

  • Climate and Environmental Change
  • Power of Mapping and Geographic Information
  • Social and Spatial Justice

The identification of special themes within the Speakers Bureau will be a fluid process that adapts to evolving trends in the discipline and changing pubic needs and interests. The Bureau’s themes will no doubt grow and shift in the future. These initially chosen themes currently represent highly charged areas of debate and likely points of intervention for geographers. Within these turbulent political times, we have seen significant legal/policy and social challenges to civil and human rights, climate science, and the GIS profession.

The Power of Speaking

The Speakers Bureau prompts us to consider important questions, namely what role can the human voice play in advancing geography and what strategies should we pursue in ensuring that we speak as clearly, powerfully, and responsibly as we can with communities? Speaking publicly about one’s work and our discipline is not merely a transmission of information but the creation of a place of learning that can either open up or close off certain lines of understanding. As Anja Kanngieser reminds us, voices have social and political consequences in how they affect our capacities to speak and listen to one another.

Many of us focus intently, and rightly so, on communicating through the written word and visually through photographs, graphics, and maps. Yet, there is also power in vocalizing knowledge and relaying one’s disciplinary and personal point of view, especially when one’s speaking can move and inspire decision-makers. Inspiring audiences can be tough work. How we present to colleagues at professional conferences does not necessarily translate well outside of those meetings. Even for the most experienced colleague, there is always room for assessing and refining pubic speaking skills.

Making the Geographic Voice Resonate

There are a number of online resources available to assist academic speakers. General advice on speaking is often prescriptive, but it is important to know that one presentation style does not fit all speakers. You should actively develop a style that fits your strengths and temperament. Being an effective speaker is not about being a perfect speaker. One’s speaking voice does not necessarily have to sound the same as one’s writing voice.

Ultimately, what is important is finding a presentation style that allows you to make a basic, human connection with the audience. Making eye contact with the audience is highly important, whether you are reading your presentation or talking from PowerPoint slides. Effective speaking is not about overwhelming the audience with your intellect but it is also not about lowering the rigor of your ideas; audiences yearn for understandable communication that challenges them to think. Many presentation coaches suggest that speakers avoid all jargon, but the use of specialist language is appropriate in some situations. Always define unfamiliar terms for audiences.

For me, effective speaking is about telling a story. Storytelling is not simply about entertaining audience members but leaving them with information and a perspective not quickly forgotten. Memorable presentations evoke strong mental pictures, curiosity, and feelings from the audience. Storytelling contextualizes, and sometimes even personalizes an issue and then applies distilled ideas, research findings, and experiences to interpret that issue. This interpretation should resonate with meaning to the audience, even if audience members hold views different from the speaker.

Think about how you as a speaker can tell the story of your work to demonstrate why it matters, for whom it matters, and how it will continue to matter in future discussions and debates. Do not forget to tell your story, how you came to do the work and become a geographer, why the field and topic is your passion, and what your positionality or identity is relative to the issue at hand. A detached reporting of facts, figures, and methods can be dry and uninspiring, even if it has the feel of being scientifically objective.

For some of us, it is important to use our speaking voice to challenge dominant policy positions or public opinions, especially when they fly in the face of overwhelming scientific evidence or notions of social equality. Some geography speakers are effective in making sure that the voices of traditionally ignored social actors and groups have a prominent place in their public remarks. I especially admire my colleagues who are able to navigate the difficult terrain of speaking in solidarity with these marginalized communities versus speaking for them.

Creating a Dialogue, Not Just a Monologue

The AAG Speakers Bureau is an opportunity to think about and realize the importance of vocalizing and demonstrating a geographic perspective, but it also prompts us to consider the value of listening as a disciplinary practice. Geographers are encouraged to speak in ways that offer opportunities to engage in a dialogue rather simply a monologue with their audiences. Speakers should design presentations to leave sufficient time for public feedback and questions and take an active hand in finding and hearing from a wide range of voices in attendance. Creating this dialogue is not just about being polite; rather, it is critical for creating shared understanding between the scholar and the public.

Listening is not a passive process but actively involved in the construction of meaning. Being a good speaker is also about being a good listener. When a speaker is an active listener, s/he also shares the power and authority to speak with others. As geographic researchers argue, publicly engaged science is more than one-way relationship of experts simply handing down “certified” insight and research findings. Rather, by creating spaces of dialogue that blur the expert-lay divide, speakers can co-produce knowledge with public groups. At the very least, effective speaking and listening can be moments where the professional learns how people in the world outside of universities, research labs, and workplaces view and interpret science as well as how they create, use, and justify their own knowledge and expertise.

The Speakers Bureau also prompts us to consider the “politics of voice,” how different voices within our discipline are valued differently and oftentimes given less authority within our society based on race, ethnicity, gender, nationality, sexual orientation, and other lines of identity. I hope the Speakers Bureau can help guide geography departments and other academic and public initiatives to increase the diversity of voices invited to give talks and to ensure that geographers from historically under-represented groups have an opportunity to speak on behalf of the discipline and their own work and experiences. In these instances, speaking might generate opportunities to mentor students, staff and faculty, address inequality inside and outside the Academy, and talk frankly about the diversity and inclusion plan of a university and department.

Please consider participating in the new AAG Speakers Bureau. If you have a public speaking experiences you would like to share, particularly something that works in making the voices of geographers resonate, then let me know through email (dalderma [at] utk [dot] edu) or on Twitter using #PresidentAAG.

— Derek Alderman @MLKStreet
Professor Geography, University of Tennessee
President, American Association of Geographers

DOI:10.14433/2017.0015

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Trevor Paglen Named 2017 MacArthur Fellow

Geographer and artist Trevor Paglen has been named a MacArthur Fellow for 2017 for his work revealing the secret world of U.S. military operations and corporate power through a mixture of artistic photography, cartographic analysis, and boots-on-the-ground geography. He uses public records and field work to bring public attention to the secrecy surrounding government surveillance, warfare, and social control. For his projects he has photographed locations of covert government actions such as Area 51, the “Salt Pit” prison in Afghanistan, and the skies in search of drones, military aircraft, and espionage satellites.

Paglen’s spectrum of work includes both written publications, as well as artistic pieces serving as an excellent example of the emerging field of geohumanities. Through written works, such as Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagon’s Secret World or Torture Taxi – On the Trail of the CIA’s Rendition Flights, Paglen maps onto paper those areas in which the government has tried to keep hidden, asking his readers to think about the societal implications of secrecy in a democratic state. In more recent work, The Last Pictures speculates on satellites orbiting earth as artifacts of 20th and 21st century civilization. Paglen’s artwork is wrapped up in his written projects and contains photographs of secret sites, military aircraft, and satellites. His pieces have been featured in locations ranging from the galleries of New York City to the Fukushima Exclusion Zone in Japan to a gold disk launched into outer space.

Currently residing in Berlin, Germany, Paglen holds a B.A. in Religious Studies from U.C. Berkeley, an MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago, and a Ph.D. in Geography from U.C. Berkeley (class of 2008). His work has been highlighted in CityLabThe New York TimesThe New YorkerVice MagazineArtforum, and The Colbert Report. Paglen also received a 2014 Electronic Frontier Foundation Pioneer Award which recognizes individuals who are extending freedom and innovation in the realm of information technology.

A part of the MacArthur Foundation, the prestigious MacArthur Fellows Program annually awards fellowships of $625,000 over a period of five years to individuals to pursue scholarly and artistic endeavors. According to the MacArthur Foundation website, “the purpose of the MacArthur Fellows Program is to enable recipients to exercise their own creative instincts for the benefit of human society.” The Foundation and rotating Fellows Program Committee have chosen 24 individuals in the class of 2017 to receive MacArthur Fellowships. Recipients of the MacArthur Fellowship must be residents or citizens of the United States and cannot be holding elected office or be in an advanced government position.

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AAG Statement on the US Withdrawal from UNESCO

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New Books: October 2017

Every month the AAG compiles a list of newly-published books in geography and related areas. Some are selected for review in the AAG Review of Books.

Publishers are welcome to send new volumes to the Editor-in-Chief (Kent Mathewson, Editor-in-Chief, AAG Review of BooksDepartment of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803).

Anyone interested in reviewing these or other titles should also contact the Editor-in-Chief.

October 2017

American’s West: A History, 1890-1950by David M. Wrobel (Cambridge University Press 2017)

Bike Lanes Are White Lanes: Bicycle Advocacy and Urban Planningby Melody L. Hoffmann (University of Nebraska Press 2016)

Black Dragon River: A Journey Down The Amur River Between Russia and Chinaby Dominic Ziegler (Penguin Books 2016)

The Borders of “Europe”: Autonomy of Migration, Tactics of Bordering by Nicholas De Genova (Duke University Press 2017)

Cities For Profit: The Real Estate Turn in Asia’s Urban Politics by Gavin Shatkin (Cornell University Press 2017)

Defiant Earth: The Fate of Humans in the Anthropocene by Clive Hamilton (Polity Books 2017)

Delicious Geography: From Place to Plateby Gary Fuller and T.M. Reddekopp (Rowman and Littlefield 2017)

Dialogues on Power and Space by Carl Schmitt (Polity Books 2015)

Diplomatic Material: Affect, Assemblage, and Foreign Policyby Jason Dittmer (Duke University Press 2017)

Environmental Humanities: Voices from the Anthropocene by Serpil Oppermann and Serenella Iovino (eds.) (Rowman and Littlefield 2017)

Haunted Landscapes: Super-Nature and the Environment by Ruth Heholt and Niamh Downing (eds.) (Rowman and Littlefield 2016)

Historical Geographies of Anarchism: Early Critical Geographers and Present-Day Scientific Challenges by Federico Ferretti, Gerónimo Barrera de la Torre, Anthony Ince, Francisco Toro (eds.) (Routledge 2018)

In the Ruins of the Cold War Bunker: Affect, Materiality and Meaning Making by Luke Bennett (ed.) (Rowman and Littlefield 2017)

J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye: A Cultural History by Josef Benson (ed.) (Rowman and Littlefield 2018)

Landscapes of Liminality: Between Space and Placeby Dara Downey, Ian Kinane, and Elizabeth Parker (eds.) (Rowman and Littlefield 2016)

The Language of Plants: Science, Philosophy, Literatureby Monica Gagliano, John C. Ryan, and Patrícia Vieira (eds.) (University of Minnesota Press 2017)

Life in the Age of Drone Warfare by Lisa Parks and Caren Kaplan (eds.) (Duke University Press Books 2017)

Limits of The Known by David Roberts (W. W. Norton & Company 2016)

Oil, 2nd Edition by Gavin Bridge and Philippe Le Billon (Polity Books 2017)

The Red Atlas: How The Soviet Union Secretly Mapped the World by John Davies and Alexander J. Kent (University Of Chicago Press 2017)

Scaling Identities: Nationalism and Territoriality by Guntram H. Herb and David H. Kaplan (eds.) (Rowman and Littlefield 2017)

Sugar by Ben Richardson (Polity Books 2015)

Terrestrial Lessons: The Conquest of the World as Globeby Sumathi Ramaswamy (University Of Chicago Press 2017)

Theorising Literary Islands: The Island Trope in Contemporary Robinsonade Narrativesby Ian Kinane (Rowman and Littlefield 2016)

Transnationalism and the Jews: Culture, History and Prophecy by Jacob Egholm Feldt (Rowman and Littlefield 2016)

What’s in a Name?: Talking about Urban Peripheries by Richard Harris and Charlotte Vorms (eds.) (University of Toronto Press 2017)

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2018 AAG Annual Meeting Presidential Plenary Announced

The AAG announces the 2018 annual presidential plenary session from its current president, Derek Alderman, as well as a panel of esteemed scholars. The presidential plenary is currently slated to take place during the 2018 AAG annual meeting on Tuesday, April 10, 2018 in the Grand Ballroom at the Sheraton Hotel from 6:30 -8:30 p.m.

Alderman will present When the Big Easy Isn’t So Easy: Learning from New Orleans’ Geographies of Struggle. Beyond merely providing hotels, restaurants, and bars, the hosting cities of AAG meetings offer important moments to delve into the scientific value of these locations and to learn about the historical and contemporary forces and tensions that shape their communities and spaces. Doing so not only advances our intellectual understanding of place but also has the potential to create a more responsible and empathetic visitor and academic conference citizen—someone who can appreciate, analyze, and be affected by the people and places that exist beyond tourism brochures found in hotel lobbies.

When the Big Easy Isn’t So Easy creates a space to explore the role of struggle in the making, unmaking, and remaking of New Orleans. The city’s development has long been a power-laden process in which multiple identities, histories, and social interests converge, mix, but also clash. A wide range of racial, ethnic, class, and environmental struggles have shaped New Orleans in complex ways, making it a site of vulnerability, inequality, and displacement and at the same time a place of resourcefulness, creative surviving and living, and social justice activism.

Panelists, all of whom are civically engaged scholars and gifted geographic storytellers, will highlight not only the (Post) Katrina experience but also the deeper historical and geographic roots of struggle in New Orleans. They will take the audience to evocative spaces and moments, using the opening session to open broader discussions of issues such as black lives and geographies, disaster response and recovery, food justice, water-society relations, the politics of public memory, and urban political economy. Panelists will reflect on the larger academic-political lessons from New Orleans, offer ideas for (re)imagining the future of this city and others, and demonstrate how geographers can learn from and with the host cities for our AAG meetings.

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In addition to President Alderman, panelists will include:

Laura Pulido, University of Oregon. Noted black geographies scholar and editor of recently released edited book on New Orleans.

Craig Colten, LSU. One of the perennial experts on NOLA and Louisiana history of human-environment/water-society relations.

Richard Campanella, Tulane University. Author of AAG’s ongoing features on NOLA and widely published local expert.

Michael Crutcher, Jr, Independent Scholar. Long-time expert on NOLA and author of book on Treme neighborhood.

Catarina Passidomo, University of Mississippi. Emerging scholar in southern studies, food geography/justice, and wrote dissertation on post-Katrina NOLA.

Rebecca Sheehan, Oklahoma State University. Has worked extensively as of late on the controversial removal of Confederate monuments from NOLA.

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AAG Hurricane Relief Fund

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The AAG has established its Hurricane Relief Fund to help coordinate support for those in affected Geography Departments in Florida, Puerto Rico, and Texas from the devastation of Hurricanes Maria, Harvey, and Irma.

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A Glance at New Orleans’ Contemporary Hispanic and Latino Communities

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Newsletter – October 2017

PRESIDENT’S COLUMN

On Finding One’s Voice (and the Voices of Others)

By Derek Alderman

Derek AldermanI am pleased to announce that the American Association of Geographers (AAG) is launching the Geography Speakers Bureau. The Bureau is part of the Geography is REAL initiative and builds upon the AAG’s long-time commitment to public outreach, informed and timely communication, and lending geographic research and education to addressing pressing issues and debates. The purpose of this column is to outline the rationale ad organization of the Speakers Bureau and encourage geographers to participate as well as address the resonance and efficacy of their voices as education and advocacy tools. While the Bureau creates a setting for increased speaking, it is also an opportunity for geographers to engage in greater listening and dialogue—both within the discipline and with a broad array of public groups.

Continue Reading.

Read past columns from the current AAG President on our President’s Column page.


ANNUAL MEETING

A Glance at New Orleans’ Contemporary Hispanic and Latino Communities

The geographic situation of New Orleans allowed the city to develop lasting ties to the Hispanic and Latino cultures south of the U.S. border. Post-Hurricane Katrina has led to both the revival of these historic connections as well as the development of new communities as migrants initially came in response to rebuilding efforts. Geographer James Chaney of Middle Tennessee State University provides a look at the modern ethnoscape in the changing urban landscape of New Orleans

Read the full story.

New Orleans: Place Portraits

Though New Orleans is renowned for being below sea level, did you know that the city spent much of its early years above sea level? The early years of New Orleans was also the start to developing New Orleans’ multiethnic identity. The Creolization of culture in New Orleans is present today in its people and its architecture styles. In this month’s Place Portraits New Orleans’ unofficial “geographer laureate,” Richard Campanella of Tulane’s School of Architecture, explores the Creole heritage and physical landscape of the Crescent City in an effort to prepare AAG members for the 2018 Annual Meeting in New Orleans.

Read Campanella’s pieces below:

“Focus on New Orleans and the Gulf Coast” is an ongoing series curated by the Local Arrangements Committee to provide insight on and understanding of the geographies of New Orleans, Louisiana, and the greater Gulf Coast region.

AAG Announces 2018 Annual Meeting Themes

Each year, the AAG Council and Executive Director identify theme areas of geography for the annual meeting in order to provide a fresh take on some of the more pressing and timely issues facing the discipline. While any topic is accepted for presentation at the Annual Meeting, the themes are used to establish a way to focus the breadth and variety of geographic scholarship the Annual Meeting has to offer. This years themes are: Black GeographiesHazards, Geography, and GIScience; and Public Engagement.

Find out more about each theme.

New Features of the Abstract and Session System

The AAG has recently updated several of its online platforms related to the Annual Meeting. Perhaps the most exciting update of all is the new and improved abstract and session submission console. Beyond its appearance, the new system has several new features that we hope will a) simplify the submission process and b) help attendees make the most of their experience in New Orleans.

Learn more about these new features.

CAMP AAG Coming to AAG 2018 New Orleans

The AAG is pleased to announce that it is continuing full-time, professionally managed and staffed onsite childcare services for the 2018 Annual Meeting in New Orleans. CAMP AAG will offer age-appropriate activities for children ranging from 6 months to 12 years of age (separated into age-appropriate groups) including curriculum-enriched, hands-on, creative activities, arts & crafts projects, active games, and more.

See more information about CAMP AAG.


POLICY UPDATE

AAG Writes Letter Pushing for DACA Permanency 

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The AAG sent a letter to Congress urging them to quickly enact legislation that would make the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program permanent. Twenty-two other institutions or universities signed the AAG’s statement in support.

Read the letter.


ASSOCIATION NEWS

AAG Welcomes Three Fall Interns!

Three interns have begun their work at the AAG headquarters in D.C. for the 2017 Fall semester.

Tolu Ajayi will be interning at the AAG while finishing the last semester of the B.S. in Geographical Sciences at University of Maryland, College Park.

Shane Colgan recently completed his B.S. in Geographical Sciences at University of Maryland, College Park. He will be interning at the AAG this Fall with plans to start his masters in GIS at University of Maryland, College Park this Spring.

Charles Christonikos is interning at AAG while also currently a senior at The George Washington University, pursuing a B.A. in Geography with minors in GIS and Criminal Justice.


MEMBER NEWS

October 2017 Profiles of Geographers

Geographers like Lisa Brownell, the Program Manager of the Ohio Historic Preservation Tax Credit at the Ohio Development Services Agency, and Marcello Graziano, an Assistant Professor in Department of Geography at Central Michigan University, think job outlook for geographers is good! Read about their journeys in the geographic discipline, the types of geographic skills they use every day on the job, and their advice to future geographers in this month’s Profiles of Professional Geographers spotlight.

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Maya Peoples Making History Conference

AAG Vice President, Sheryl Luzzadder-Beach, recently presented at the Maya Peoples Making History conference held at The Mexican Cultural Institute in Washington, D.C. Her research, which focuses on the use of LiDAR for reconstructing the environmental history of the Maya people in Belize, was one of four presentations held during the event.

Read more about the event.


RESOURCES & OPPORTUNITIES

Students – October 15th Deadline for Two Student Awards

October 15th is the deadline for applications to two annual awards presented by the AAG and supported by the Marble Fund for Geographic Sciences. The Marble-Boyle Undergraduate Achievement Awards aim to recognize excellence in academic performance by undergraduate students from the U.S. and Canada who are putting forth a strong effort to bridge geographic science and computer science. The biennial William L. Garrison Award for Best Dissertation in Computational Geography supports innovative research into the computational aspects of geographic science. Formal presentation of the awards will be made at the annual AAG awards luncheon.

See all upcoming award deadlines.

Nominations Sought for the Harold M. Rose Award

The Harold M. Rose Award for Anti-Racism Research and Practice honors Dr. Rose, the first Black president of the AAG. Dr. Rose devoted his career to expanding the discipline of geography into anti-racist scholarship, an area that had been virtually ignored, by conducting research on the black Ghetto, blacks and Cubans in Miami, and the quality of life in black communities during the 1960s and 1970s. This award honors geographers who have a demonstrated record of the type of research and active contributions to society that have marked Harold Rose’s career. The nomination deadline is October 15th.

More information about the nomination process available.

Community College Travel Grants – Deadline to Apply November 1st

Students currently enrolled at a US community college, junior college, city college, or similar two-year educational institution are eligible to apply for a Community College Travel Grant to attend the 2018 AAG Annual Meeting. These travel funds are generously provided by Darrel Hess and Robert and Bobbé Christopherson and consists of meeting registration, one year membership in the AAG, and a travel expense subsidy of $500 to be used to defray the costs of attending the AAG Annual Meeting. The deadline to apply is November 1, 2017.

Full details about the application process.


PUBLICATIONS

November Issue of The Professional Geographer now available!

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The November 2017 (Volume 69, Issue 4) issue of The Professional Geographer is now available online! This issue features two themed sections – the 2016 AAG Nystrom Paper Competition participant papers and a focus on gender and the histories of geography as a discipline – in addition to a regular selection of manuscripts.

See the Table of Contents.

Just Published! The November 2017 Issue of the ‘Annals of the AAG’  

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Volume 107, Issue 6 (November 2017) of the Annals of the American Association of Geographers is now available! All articles are available to members with your AAG membership. This month, articles span the breadth of topics from oil pipeline activism to extreme precipitation frequency to young people and everyday foods.

Full article listing available.


ADDENDA

The Economist cites article printed in the Annals of the American Association of Geographers authored by Qiang et al. on the growth in exposure to flood hazards faced by U.S. residents.

Read The Economist article on Hurricane Irma.


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