Race Ethnicity and Place (REP) VIII Conference
The Race, Ethnicity and Place Conference fosters dialogue on a range of issues related to the racial and ethnic transformation of places. It encourages interdisciplinary perspectives, philosophical and methodological diversity, and professional and student perspectives on such issues. The conference is committed to providing high quality programs and remaining open to broad participation by theoreticians, practitioners, and students.…
The World of the City
Those of us alive today are witnessing one of the most profound events in all of human history — and it is an event, which is fundamentally geographic in nature. The transformation we are experiencing is the concentration of the majority of the world’s population into urban areas. Although much has been made of the United…
Online art exhibition to accompany ‘GeoHumanities’ journal
The AAG’s newest journal, GeoHumanities, launched in 2015, is not only an exciting new forum for interdisciplinary scholarship at the intersection of geography and the humanities. It also provides the space for publishing more creative work which crosses over between the academy and practice. The “Practices and Curations” section of each issue features a range…
Race Ethnicity and Place VIII Conference Scheduled for 2016
The Race Ethnicity and Place (REP) VIII Conference will be held Sept. 21 - 23, 2016, at Kent State University. The program committee welcomes paper, poster and panel presentations on any theme related to race, ethnicity and place. Perspectives are welcomed from a variety of disciplines and from professionals and students involved in race/ethnicity studies. For specific…
Mona Domosh’s Past President’s Address on Genealogies of Race, Gender, and Place
In her Past President’s address at the 2016 AAG Annual Meeting, Mona Domosh will explore the interconnected historical geographies of race, gender, and place. She will consider how race and racisms have been entangled with spatial imaginaries and place-based materialities throughout much of American history and geography, and how these entanglements continue to shape raced…
Justice and Place
In this forum and with this audience I doubt that it will be at all controversial to state that justice and place are intimately connected. After all, geographers are typically quite aware of such relationships. Or at least one hopes that they are typically quite aware of this. The dynamics between geography and justice is…