Abstract Gallery
‘As it really is’: Representation, obscurity and visual cultures of creative space in Toronto
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Authors: Loren March*, University of Toronto
Topics: Cultural Geography, Qualitative Methods
Keywords: vernacular photography; visual culture; Creative City; spatial production; placemaking
Session Type: Paper
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Agent-Based Model of Shigellosis in the Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Community in New York City
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Authors: Erez Hatna*, New York University, Sharon Greene , New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene , Vasudha Reddy, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene , Beth Nivin, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene , Alyssa Masor, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
Topics: Geography and Urban Health, Spatial Analysis & Modeling
Keywords: Agent-based model, simulation, Shigellosis
Session Type: Paper
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Allocating flood evacuation shelters in Austin, Texas: a multi-criteria approach
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Authors: Mayowa Lasode*, Department of Geography, Texas State University
Topics: Environment, Geographic Information Science and Systems, Hazards, Risks, and Disasters
Keywords: flood evacuation shelters, location-allocation model, vulnerability, suitability analysis, GIS
Session Type: Poster
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Deep Learning-Based Spatial Information Prediction
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Authors: Wonho Jo*,
Topics: Geographic Information Science and Systems
Keywords: Convolutional Neural Network, LSTM, Time series, Spatial data
Session Type: Paper
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Embryo ecologies and the (re)production of healthy bodies
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Authors: Juliane Collard*, University of British Columbia
Topics: Medical and Health Geography
Keywords: life itself; health; biomedicine; embryos; biological reproduction
Session Type: Paper
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Incorporating ethno-cultural diversity in local civil society in superdiverse urban neighbourhoods. The case of Borgerhout in Antwerp.
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Authors: Stijn Oosterlynck*, University of Antwerp, Thomas Swerts, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam
Topics: Urban Geography, Migration, Political Geography
Keywords: superdiversity; cities; civil society; participation
Session Type: Paper
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Kaleidoscopic Indebtedness: Examining the Geographies of American Municipal Borrowing
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Authors: Mark Davidson*, Clark University
Topics: Urban Geography, Political Geography, Economic Geography
Keywords: urban, debt, urban politics, entrepreneurialism, borrowing
Session Type: Paper
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Measuring Food Insecurity Across Diverse College Student Populations at Northern Illinois University
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Authors: Courtney Gallaher*, Northern Illinois University, Kristen Borre, Northern Illinois University
Topics: Cultural Geography, Ethnicity and Race, Medical and Health Geography
Keywords: food insecurity, universities, colleges, food systems
Session Type: Paper
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Why does matter, matter? Implications of new materialist approaches to ‘things’ in planning theory (and practice).
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Authors: Dena Farsad*, Faculty of Environmental Studies
Topics: Coupled Human and Natural Systems, Urban and Regional Planning, Soils
Keywords: planning, theory, new materialism, social constructivism, soils
Session Type: Paper
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You never know the impacts of tourism until it is gone: A case study from the Pacific Coast of Nicaragua
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Authors: Matthew Taylor*, University Of Denver
Topics: Cultural and Political Ecology, Latin America
Keywords: tourism, Nicaragua
Session Type: Paper
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"Alternative" cocoa for coca: g-local transformation to organic and fair trade. The cases of Chazuta and Pucacaca, San Martín, Peru.
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Authors: Anke Kaulard*, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Topics: Political Geography, Latin America, Cultural and Political Ecology
Keywords: coca, cocoa, value chain, productive transformation, ecology, state
Session Type: Paper
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"Forever Red": History, Theory, and Practice of Heritage Preservation in Mao Zedong’s Birthplace
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Authors: Zhe Dong*, University of Virginia - Charlottesville, VA
Topics: China
Keywords: Monument, memory, China, heritage preservation
Session Type: Paper
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"Geography must be Indian geography": geographies and cartographies of the Progressive Era American Subaltern
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Authors: Christina Dando*, University of Nebraska-Omaha
Topics: History of Geography, Historical Geography, Human Rights
Keywords: History of geography, history of cartography, historical geography, race
Session Type: Paper
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"It is gliding, like a bird": of aspirations and inspirations on the Hyderabad metro
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Authors: Sneha Annavarapu*,
Topics: Transportation Geography, Development, Qualitative Research
Keywords: transportation; transit; cultural geography; affect; South Asia
Session Type: Paper
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"That brief instant": desire before subject
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Authors: John-David Dewsbury*, UNSW Canberra
Topics: Social Theory, Cultural Geography, Sexuality
Keywords: Non-representational Theory, Subjectivity, Desire, literature, Gilles Deleuze
Session Type: Paper
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"Two Eyed Seeing": against, along, and beyond the archival grain
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Authors: Declan Cullen*,
Topics: Indigenous Peoples, Historical Geography, Cultural Geography
Keywords: Archives, Participatory Research, Methodology, Indigenous Knowledges
Session Type: Paper
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"We Wanted Employers, but We Got People Instead" Racialization of Ethnicity in the US Labor Market
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Authors: Carlos Becerra*, UC Davis Geography Graduate Group
Topics: Ethnicity and Race, Immigration/Transnationalism, Economic Geography
Keywords: Racialization, Labor Market, Occupational Status, Hispanic/Latino Studies, Ethnicity
Session Type: Paper
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#neverbigenough: Digital Populism, Authoritarian 'Swoldiers'
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Authors: Jason Luger*, University of California - Berkeley
Topics: Political Geography, Urban Geography, Cultural Geography
Keywords: urban geography, digital geography, political geography, populism, authoritarianism
Session Type: Paper
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(Dis)connected Colombo: Situating the Megapolis in post-war Sri Lanka
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Authors: Kanchana Ruwanpura*, University of Edinburgh, Benjamin Brown, Institute of Geography, University of Edinburgh, Loritta Chan, Institute of Geography, University of Edinburgh
Topics: Development, Asia, Environment
Keywords: Sri Lanka, infrastructure, connectivity, ecological stress, post-war development
Session Type: Paper
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(Im)mobilities of transnational aging care: separation, solidarity and conflict within Brazilian families
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Authors: Dora Sampaio*, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity
Topics: Migration, Immigration/Transnationalism
Keywords: Aging; transnational care; undocumented migrants; Brazilian families
Session Type: Paper
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(re) Assembling Home after Asylum: Exploring the intimate geographies of home re-making with refugees leaving Direct Provision in Cork, Ireland
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Authors: Rosie Howlett-Southgate*, University College CORK
Topics: Immigration/Transnationalism, Social Geography, Qualitative Methods
Keywords: Asylum, Direct Provision, Ireland, Home, Feminist Geography, Integration.
Session Type: Paper
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(Re)assessing the ethno in human geography: towards a technography of concrete
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Authors: Siddharth Menon*, Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Topics: Field Methods, Qualitative Methods, Cultural Geography
Keywords: ethnography, methodology, more-than-human, material, concrete, technology
Session Type: Paper
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(W)rites of Passage and Geographical Biographies: Female Peace Corps Volunteers in Latin America (1961-1970)
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Authors: Jorn Seemann*, Ball State University
Topics: History of Geography, Geographic Thought, Latin America
Keywords: Peace Corps, geographical biographies, geographical imagination, Latin America
Session Type: Paper
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‘A Million Skies, Whose Ground?’: ReDrawing the Floating Landscape of Rental Housing and Tracing the (non-)Normative Urban Crisis of Bangalore, India
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Authors: Chan Arun-Pina*, York University
Topics: Sexuality, Gender, Urban Geography
Keywords: rental housing, non-normative gender and sexuality, autoethnography, India
Session Type: Paper
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‘Back 2 Good:’ Assessing the language accessibility of DC public transit
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Authors: Leonor Morrow*, Georgetown University
Topics: Landscape, Human Rights, United States
Keywords: Linguistic landscape, public transit, metro, Washington DC
Session Type: Paper
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‘Blockade the scabs’: The mass picket in 1970s and 80s Britain
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Authors: Diarmaid Kelliher*, University of Glasgow
Topics: Historical Geography
Keywords: blockade, picket line, solidarity, trade unions, class
Session Type: Paper
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‘Co-producing’ Knowledge, Producing End-Users: The Production, Circulation, and Use of Climate Knowledge in Tanzania
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Authors: Meaghan Daly*, University of New England, Mara Goldman, University of Colorado Boulder
Topics: Cultural and Political Ecology, Global Change, Development
Keywords: co-production, climate adaptation, subjectivities, identities, Tanzania
Session Type: Paper
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‘De Madrid . . . al locutorio’: The urban shop window in La bodaby Marina Seresesky (2012)
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Authors: Araceli Masterson-Algar*,
Topics: Cultural Geography, Urban Geography, Migration
Keywords: urban cultural studies, film
Session Type: Lightning Paper
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‘Football’s coming home’: National identity, immigration, soft power, and the changing face of the English national football team
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Authors: Michael Hawkins*, Kent State University
Topics: Political Geography, Ethnicity and Race
Keywords: Sport, England, National identity
Session Type: Paper
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‘Going out and seeing the world’ – aspirational temporalities in peri-urban China
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Authors: Samuel Berlin*,
Topics: China, Cultural Geography, Development
Keywords: China, urbanization, development, desire, aspiration, time, affect
Session Type: Paper
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‘Making ends meet’ by renting homes to strangers: Historicizing Airbnb & women’s supplemental income
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Authors: Kiley Goyette*, University of Toronto
Topics: Historical Geography, Women, Cultural and Political Ecology
Keywords: short-term rentals, platform capitalism, women's labor, labor history, gendered inequality, housing, household economic strategies
Session Type: Paper
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‘No Place to Call Home,’ or the Chicago Reentry Atlas: Participatory Mapping and Policy Change from Below
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Authors: Madeleine Hamlin*, Syracuse University
Topics: Applied Geography, Urban Geography, Urban and Regional Planning
Keywords: Chicago, housing, community geography, applied geography, carceral geography, prison, participatory mapping
Session Type: Paper
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‘Orientalizing the Orient’ - Mega-Cruise Tourism and Geopolitical Imaginaries
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Authors: Manuela Gutberlet*, German University of Technology in Oman
Topics: Tourism Geography, Political Geography
Keywords: geopolitical imaginaries, Otherness, tourist experiences, mixed methods, Sultanate of Oman
Session Type: Paper
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‘Rewriting’ and ‘Rerighting’ El Bronx in Bogotá: PAR-driven Narrative Excavation Against the Erasures of Urban Displacement
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Authors: Amy Ritterbusch*, UCLA, El Cilencio Que Quiere a Gritos Decir la Verdad, Escuela de Salud San Pedro Claver
Topics: Social Geography, Human Rights, Urban Geography
Keywords: Social justice-oriented PAR, urban displacement, creative economies, homelessness, radical dissemination
Session Type: Paper
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‘Scream if you want to go faster!’ – Materiality, Memory and Heritage at work in Scotland’s travelling fairgrounds.
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Authors: Elisabeth Lacsny*, University of Glasgow
Topics: Cultural Geography
Keywords: Culture, Material, Scotland, Memory, Heritage, Nostalgia
Session Type: Paper
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‘Seeing’ the smart safe city: Cartographies of infrastructural violence in India’s urban age
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Authors: Ayona Datta*, King's College London, Nabeela Ahmed, King's College London
Topics: Urban Geography, Gender, Women
Keywords: Smart city, gender, digital geography, infrastructure, Violence Against Women
Session Type: Paper
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“ Unsatisfied Water Quality Gambling”：A Case of Eco-compensation Mechanism Over A Interprovincial River in China
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Authors: Tianrong Pan*, Technical University of Munich, Bavarian School of Public Policy
Topics: China, Water Resources and Hydrology
Keywords: South China, Transboundary water resources, Eco-compensation mechanisms
Session Type: Paper
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“A little bit emotional, A little bit workable”: The Gendered Dimensions of Dam Politics and Protest
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Authors: Saachi Kuwayama*, University of Michigan
Topics: Gender, Cultural and Political Ecology
Keywords: Gender, Water, Resistance, Conflict
Session Type: Paper
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“Among these Ruggedy Mountains”: In Search of Bob Marshall’s Arctic Wilderness
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Authors: Tyra Olstad*, SUNY Oneonta
Topics: Landscape, Mountain Environments, Environment
Keywords: Wilderness, Arctic, National Park Service, Environmental literature
Session Type: Paper
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“An Epic Journey”; The importance of story for long-distance migratory species conservation
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Authors: Jenny Isaacs*, Rutgers University
Topics: Animal Geographies, Cultural and Political Ecology, Cultural Geography
Keywords: conservation, political ecology, animal geography, encounter, bird, environmental humanities
Session Type: Paper
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“And nobody was responsible for anything…”: Thinking of deflected responsibility in the Sewol Ferry Disaster in South Korea, 2014
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Authors: Sohyung Lim*, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Topics: Political Geography, Hazards, Risks, and Disasters, Medical and Health Geography
Keywords: State responsibility, state withdrawal, non-response, social disasters, geographies of risks, Sewol Ferry, South Korea
Session Type: Paper
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“Critical theories from the South” in the context of neoliberalization: how to (auto-)evaluate research output and performances?
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Authors: Shadia Husseini De Araújo*, University of Brasília
Topics: Geographic Thought
Keywords: Theories from the South, internationalization, neoliberalization, geographic thought, Brazil
Session Type: Paper
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“Delhi as Experienced by an Unknown Indian; Nirad C. Chaudhuri”
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Authors: Ramesh Dhussa*, Drake University
Topics: Cultural Geography, Behavioral Geography, Cultural Ecology
Keywords: Literary geography, Delhi, Nirad Chaudhuri, Images
Session Type: Paper
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“Doing critical EJ: A community-based approach to examining exposure and assessing community health in the San Joaquin Valley, CA”
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Authors: Clare Cannon*, UC Davis/ University of the Free State, South Africa, Julia Wentzel, University of California, Davis
Topics: Environment, Cultural and Political Ecology, Environmental Science
Keywords: environmental justice, community based participatory action research, environmental health, mixed methodologies
Session Type: Paper
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“Don’t seek your history on our backs:” A Slave Auction Block’s location and the racial politics of practicing memory in a Southern town
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Authors: Stephen Hanna*, University of Mary Washington
Topics: Ethnicity and Race, Landscape, Historical Geography
Keywords: Race, commemorative practice, heritage landscapes
Session Type: Paper
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“Fighting for our dignity”: A people’s historical archive at the urban edges of Barcelona
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Authors: Nuria Benach*, Universitat de Barcelona
Topics: Urban Geography
Keywords: barcelona, people's archive, neighborhood activism
Session Type: Paper
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“Flesh”ing Out Racialized Toxicity: Black Feminist Materialism
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Authors: Pavithra Vasudevan*, University of Texas - Austin
Topics: Geographic Theory, Ethnicity and Race, Environment
Keywords: Black geographies, Racial capitalism, Environmental justice, Feminist geography, US South
Session Type: Paper
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“For a free Bavaria in Europe!” Mirror images of regionalism and spatial justice in contemporary Germany’s Bayernpartei
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Authors: Frank Meyer*, Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Judith Miggelbrink*, TU Dresden
Topics: Political Geography
Keywords: spatial justice, regionalism, separatism, autonomy
Session Type: Paper
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“Free Within Ourselves”: The Creation of Harlem’s Black Spatial Reality and Imaginary During the Harlem Renaissance
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Authors: Zaria El-Fil*,
Topics: Ethnicity and Race, Ethnic Geography, Urban Geography
Keywords: Black Geographies, New York, Cultural Geography, Urban Space
Session Type: Paper
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“Giving and Learning” through an English Tutoring Program for Refugees: Building Awareness, Empathy, and Better Global Citizenship in Undergraduate Geography Students
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Authors: Thomas Craig*, Mayville State University, Kelli Odden, Mayville State University, Dina Zavala-Petherbridge, Mayville State University
Topics: Geography Education, Higher Education
Keywords: Geography Education, Experiential Learning, Refugees, Tutoring
Session Type: Paper
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