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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
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“Beyond the map”: from the travelling favela to the digital favela
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Authors: Camila Maria Moraes*, Rio de Janeiro University
Topics: Tourism Geography
Keywords: favela, tourism, technology
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“Bringing to Scale": The scaling-up concept in the agricultural value chain literature
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Authors: Thomas Bassett*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Topics: Cultural and Political Ecology, Africa, Development
Keywords: scale, agricultural value chain, Africa, cashews, development
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“Bringing up Uptown?” Conceptualizing the role of place in the development of Pittsburgh’s Uptown EcoInnovation District
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Authors: Sarah SanGiovanni*, Clark University
Topics: Urban Geography, Urban and Regional Planning
Keywords: Transitions; MLP; Policy mobilities; Place; Governance
Session Type: Paper
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“But who are you thinking of giving these cameras to?”: Reflections on Photovoice for Research Household Water Insecurity in Urban Brazil
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Authors: Flavia Bonolo Dantas*, Texas A&M University, Wendy Jepson, Texas A&M University, Jader Santos, Universidade Federal do Ceará
Topics: Water Resources and Hydrology, Human-Environment Geography, Latin America
Keywords: household water insecurity, Brazil, urban, photovoice, research methods.
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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
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“Crowdfunding our way out of crisis”: where ‘platform capitalism’ meets post-crisis austerity governance in U.K. councils
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Authors: Joseph Daniels*, University of British Columbia
Topics: Economic Geography, Urban Geography
Keywords: platform capitalism, fiscal geographies, austerity, governance, politics
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“Deformed citizens”: The impact of policies promoting homeownership on low-income households
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Authors: Danielle Kerrigan*, McGill University
Topics: Urban Geography, Urban and Regional Planning, Political Geography
Keywords: housing, urban political economy, housing tenure, urban policy
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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
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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
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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
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“Downscaling” social survey data: advances in small-area estimation models for climate change and hazards decision making
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Authors: Peter Howe*, Utah State University
Topics: Hazards, Risks, and Disasters, Global Change, Spatial Analysis & Modeling
Keywords: public perceptions, hazards, climate change, spatial analysis, decision support
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“Duty to Serve” and the Redemption of Chattel: GSEs, Manufactured housing and the lessons of the little subprime crisis
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Authors: Mark Kear*, University of Arizona - Geography & Development
Topics: Economic Geography
Keywords: Debt, Finance, Securitization, Manufactured Housing
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“Express Transitioning” as Special Case of the Demographic Transition: New Insights into the Central Process of Global Population Development
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Authors: Bernhard Koeppen*, Universitaet Koblenz-Landau, Marc Luy, Vienna Institute of Demography of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
Topics: Population Geography, Cultural Geography
Keywords: Population Geography, Demographic Transition
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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
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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
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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
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“Fragmentation vs assembly”: property rights in the creative transformation of suburban villages in China
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Authors: Xuan Liu*,
Topics: Urban Geography, Land Use, China
Keywords: post-productivist, creative transformation, property rights, China
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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
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“From the side”: Researching migration detention in a time of crisis
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Authors: Leah Montange*, University of Toronto
Topics: Qualitative Methods, Migration, Human Rights
Keywords: migration detention; methods; carceral space; research ethics; relationality
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“Gender, Colonialism and Austerity in Puerto Rico’s Public Education System”
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Authors: Karrieann Soto Vega*, Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies
Topics: Gender, Immigration/Transnationalism, Social Geography
Keywords: Debt, Gender, Colonialism, Race, Puerto Rico, Education, Feminist Geography
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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
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“He also likes pancakes”: Navigating analogue/digital spaces with families searching for disappeared persons in Mexico
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Authors: ARELY CRUZ SANTIAGO*, University of Durham
Topics: Latin America, Qualitative Research
Keywords: Mexico, disappearance, citizen-led technologies, participatory
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“Hijacking the community face:” contested narratives of drought vulnerability and adaptation in California’s San Joaquin Valley
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Authors: Christina Greene*, University of Arizona
Topics: Cultural and Political Ecology, Hazards and Vulnerability
Keywords: drought, vulnerability, California,
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“Housing Opportunities” for Whom? Examining the Uneven Outcomes of “Housing Opportunities Toronto: Affordable Housing Action Plan 2010-2020"
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Authors: Sophie O'Manique*,
Topics: Urban Geography, Gender
Keywords: Toronto, housing, affordable housing, social reproduction
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“How is this even legal?”: Sacrifice and abandonment in Quintero Bay
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Authors: Leonardo Valenzuela Perez*,
Topics: Human Rights, Latin America, Social Theory
Keywords: Sacrifice, Abandonment, Endurance, Toxicity, Copper,
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“How ya gonna keep ‘em down on the farm, after they’ve seen Paree?” World War I military service and rural Americans’ postwar mobility
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Authors: Angela Cunningham*, University of Colorado
Topics: Population Geography, Historical Geography, Rural Geography
Keywords: historical GIS, military geography, mobility,North Dakota, population geography, veterans, World War I
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“Islamophobia without Muslims”1: Qualitative analysis of the Hungarian media’s depiction of Muslims
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Authors: Julia Palik*, Peace Research Institute Oslo
Topics: Political Geography
Keywords: migrant politics
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“It’s about establishing a beachhead”: Community land trusts and the fight for control over social reproduction in New York City
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Authors: Hillary Caldwell*, CUNY - Graduate Center
Topics: Urban Geography
Keywords: Community Land Trusts, Social Reproduction, Affect, Knowledge Production, Praxis
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“It’s an incentive, not a payment”: The process and effects of incorporating alternative values into national Guatemalan PES programs
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Authors: Niki VonHedemann*, University of Arizona
Topics: Human-Environment Geography
Keywords: payments for ecosystem services, Guatemala, Latin America, conservation and development
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“It’s Not About Race, It’s About Safety”: The Production of Racialized Nightlife Space in Kansas City, Missouri
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Authors: Erin Royals*, Rutgers University
Topics: Ethnicity and Race, Urban Geography, Urban and Regional Planning
Keywords: Kansas City, business improvement district, community improvement district, black geography, landscape studies, urban and regional planning
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“Knox Community Well Be” - a community radio approach to community wellbeing and health justice
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Authors: Heather Davis*, University of Tennessee
Topics: Cultural Geography, Communication, Political Geography
Keywords: creative, critical, health, health disparities, community, well-being, activism, social justice, media, radio, Scotland
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“Land rich, cash poor”: Extractivist ideology and structural vulnerability at the intersection of farming and shale gas production
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Authors: Gretchen Sneegas*, University of Georgia
Topics: Agricultural Geography, Energy, Rural Geography
Keywords: agriculture, Q methodology, shale gas development, energy, governmentality
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“Lead the district into the light”: The Politics of Solar Infrastructure in India
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Authors: Heather Bedi*, Dickinson College
Topics: Human-Environment Geography, Energy, Asia
Keywords: Solar energy, political ecology, infrastructure, land conflicts
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“Lines” as spatial planning tools: how is the state rescaled for a better environmental regulation in China?
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Authors: Jiang Xu*, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Calvin King Lam Chung, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Topics: Asia, China, Planning Geography
Keywords: Eco-state, China, Environmental Regulation, Spatial Planning
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“Look, there are video games in our area.” Territorial anchoring and local activism in the French video game industry
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Authors: Hovig TER MINASSIAN*, University of Tours (FRANCE)
Topics: Recreational and Sport Geography, Economic Geography, Europe
Keywords: Videogames, cultural and creative industries, globalization, professional careers, France
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“Manman, poukisa y’ap rele m blan?” [Mama, why are they calling me a white?]: race, research, and mothering in cross-cultural contexts
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Authors: Marylynn Steckley*, Carleton University
Topics: Field Methods, Gender, Development
Keywords: development geography; mothering; race; class; gender and academia
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“ME, hungry? I’m not starving! Others are worse off than me.” Constructing the Concept of Food Security on College Campuses
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Authors: Kristen Borre*, , Courtney Gallaher, Northern Illinois University
Topics: Qualitative Research, Cultural Geography, Ethnicity and Race
Keywords: food security, food experience and dietary histories, college students, qualitative methods
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“Meso-level” infrastructures and uneven development: bicycle sharing systems and “already-splintered” urbanism
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Authors: John Stehlin*, University of Manchester, Will Payne, University of California, Berkeley
Topics: Urban Geography, Urban and Regional Planning, Economic Geography
Keywords: infrastructure, mobility, planning, scale, uneven development, racialization, platform capitalism
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“Mutts” and “magic bees”: Breeding healthier honey bees as a socio-ecological fix?
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Authors: Eleanor Andrews*, Cornell Development Sociology
Topics: Cultural and Political Ecology
Keywords: honey bees, agriculture, breeding, socio-ecological fix
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“My home is my Castle” – Trust and distrust in housing development in cities
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Authors: Ulrike Gerhard*, Heidelberg University
Topics: Urban Geography, Social Geography
Keywords: Urban georgraphy, home, housing development, trust, distrust, inequalities
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“Narco-Degradation” in Central America’s Protected Areas
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Authors: Jennifer Devine*, Texas State University - San Marcos, David Wrathall, Assistant Professor, Oregon State University
Topics: Latin America, Global Change, Environment
Keywords: cocaine, drug trafficking, degradation, protected areas, conservation, Central America
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“Neither Right Nor Left”? Situating the French State and Nation in Macron’s Paris
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Authors: Mathias Le Bossé*, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
Topics: Cultural Geography, Political Geography, Europe
Keywords: France, National Identity, Ideology, Political Hermeneutics and Communication
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“Not stadiums but real investment where people live”: Theorizing mobilities as organized abandonment in Milwaukee
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Authors: Yui Hashimoto*, Dartmouth College
Topics: Ethnicity and Race, Economic Geography, Urban Geography
Keywords: racial capitalism, organized abandonment, segregation,
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“One More Way To Sell New Orleans”: Airbnb and the Commodification of Authenticity Through Local Emotional Labor
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Authors: Ian Spangler*, UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY
Topics: Cultural Geography
Keywords: Airbnb, short-term rentals, New Orleans, emotional labor, feminist political economy, authenticity
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“One-size does not fit all:” Geographic Difference in Environmental Remediation Outreach
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Authors: Brittany Kiessling*,
Topics: Environment, Qualitative Research, Hazards, Risks, and Disasters
Keywords: Environmental remediation, Superfund, Brownfields, Government agency, environmental policy
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“Our souls are still in Syria”: Displaced Syrian families’ experiences of place and well-being
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Authors: Kearney Coupland*, Wilfrid Laurier University, Bree Akesson*,
Topics: Migration, Human Rights, Middle East
Keywords: place attachment, placemaking, mobility, Syrian refugees, family
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“Owning the space that I’m in”: how diverse women do bicycling
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Authors: Stephanie Sersli*, Simon Fraser University, Meghan Winters, Simon Fraser University
Topics: Women, Urban Geography, Transportation Geography
Keywords: bicycle, mobility, intersectional
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“Provinzstädte” – central places in rural Germany
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Authors: Silke Weidner*, , Antje Matern, BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg
Topics: Urban and Regional Planning, Europe, Qualitative Methods
Keywords: Provinzstadt, life-world characteristic, central places, rural areas
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“Rural-Complex”: A Development Mode of the Countryside in Mengnuo Town，China
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Authors: Jiao Yu*, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan)
Topics: Rural Geography, China, Tourism Geography
Keywords: The Frontier Minority Areas, Rural complexes, Value Co-creation, Meng Nuo
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