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‘Salmon Die, We Die’: Run4Salmon as an Indigenous-Centered Salmon Protection Movement
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Authors: Marc Dadigan*, University of California - Davis
Topics: Indigenous Peoples, Environmental Justice, Resources
Keywords: Indigenous Epistemologies, Colonialism, History, Salmon
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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‘Scientism’ or Seed Sovereignty?: Unraveling the diversity of resistance to GMOs in Guatemala
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Authors: Carrie Seay-Fleming*, University of Colorado - Boulder
Topics: Cultural and Political Ecology, Agricultural Geography, Food Systems
Keywords: Agrarian studies, GMOs, food sovereignty, social movements, Guatemala
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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‘Speaking’ With Other Animals through Intuitive Interspecies Communication: Towards Cognitive and Interspecies Justice
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Authors: M.J. Barrett*, University of Saskatchewan, Viktoria Hinz*, School of Environment and Sustainability, Vanessa Wijngaarden*, University of Johannesburg
Topics: Animal Geographies, Gender, Cultural Geography
Keywords: multispecies methods, animal communication, cognitive justice, human-nature dualism, worldview
Session Type: Virtual Lightning Paper
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‘The ice can be conquered’: The Polar Gas pipeline and the production of cryo-natures
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Authors: James Wilt*,
Topics: Polar Regions, Historical Geography, Energy
Keywords: Arctic oil and gas, Canadian Arctic, scientific production of knowledge, capitalist natures
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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‘Up until the moment that I'm here at the table, I'm dealing with a lot of barriers’: Experiences of accessing food among adults with mobility disabilities in Toronto, Canada.
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Authors: Ron Buliung, University of Toronto Mississauga, Naomi Schwartz*, Ms., Kathi Wilson, University of Toronto Mississauga
Topics: Disabilities, Food Systems, Transportation Geography
Keywords: Food access, mobility disability, food insecurity, accessibility, mobile methods
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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‘Violent trajectories’: A space-time analysis of organised violence in Nigeria, 1999-2018
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Authors: Nick Dorward*, Univeristy of Bristol, Levi Wolf , University of Bristol
Topics: Political Geography, Spatial Analysis & Modeling, Africa
Keywords: organised violence, contentious politics, sequence analysis, Nigeria, modifiable areal unit problem
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‘We Are Workers, Not Inmates!’ Mozambican Workers’ Decolonial Politics in East Germany
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Authors: Lea Nienhoff*, University Basel
Topics: Immigration/Transnationalism, Historical Geography
Keywords: Coloniality, Global Socialism, Politics of Space, East Germany
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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‘Young, Educated, and Talented’: Downtown Detroit’s Rebranding Strategy and the Eviction of Seniors from Affordable Housing
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Authors: Evan Villenueve, University of Michigan, Lisa Berglund*, University of California - Los Angeles, Tam Perry, Wayne State University, Julie Mah, University of Toronto, Claudia Sanford, Senior Housing Preservation-Detroit, Pam Schaeffer, Wayne State University
Topics: Urban and Regional Planning, Urban Geography
Keywords: Gentrification, Detroit, Seniors, Displacement, Eviction
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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“A Pledge of Allegiance to the South:” Commemorating the Enslaved at Two Historic House Museums in Kansas City, Missouri
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Authors: Amy Potter*, Georgia Southern University
Topics: Cultural Geography, Tourism Geography, Ethnicity and Race
Keywords: Heritage Tourism, South, Slavery, Enslaved, Memory
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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“A Tale of Two Croatias”: How Club Football (Soccer) Teams Produce Radical Regional Divides in Croatia’s National Identity
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Authors: Dustin Tsai*, University of California, Davis (Geography Graduate Group)
Topics: Recreational and Sport Geography, East Europe, Political Geography
Keywords: soccer, football, regionalism, nationalism, Croatia
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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“Alone on the range? How ranchers of the New American West are maintaining and rebuilding community connections.”
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Authors: Hailee Nolte*,
Topics: Human-Environment Geography, Rural Geography
Keywords: Ranchers, Rural, Rangeland, Workings Landscapes, Community, Collaboration, Public Lands
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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“As if my right of privacy and self-determination was somehow in bad taste”: A Discourse Analysis of Queer Syrian Refugee Activist Danny Ramadan
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Authors: Suad Jabr*, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Topics: Migration, Sexuality, Middle East
Keywords: queer refugees, authenticity, deservingness, vulnerability, Middle East
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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“But I have to get married!” An intersectional analysis of ethnic minority Hmong women-headed households and their livelihoods in Northern Thailand
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Authors: Jennifer Langill*, McGill University, Sarah Turner, McGill University
Topics: Women, Asia, Cultural Geography
Keywords: Hmong, gendered livelihoods, women-headed households, lived experience, Thailand
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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“By bike she lives”, an ironic short-film on women’s practice to walk fast
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Authors: Alice Salimbeni*, Università degli Studi di Cagliari
Topics: Urban Geography, Women, Field Methods
Keywords: visual approach, feminist geography, non representational theories
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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“Cover Cropping is a Gateway Drug.” Toward a network knowledge model for agricultural transformation.
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Authors: Mrill Ingram*, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems
Topics: Agricultural Geography, Environment, Cultural and Political Ecology
Keywords: Agriculture, Midwest, Land Transformation, Networks, Nonhuman, Cover Crops
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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“Don’t Drill That!”: Portable Scanning as a Tool for (Minimally) Destructive Dendrochronological Sampling of Wooden Cultural Heritage
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Authors: Brita Lorentzen*, Cornell University, Sturt Manning, Cornell University
Topics: Physical Geography, Field Methods, Mountain Environments
Keywords: dendrochronology, Cyprus, cultural heritage, wood, Byzantine
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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“Esta carretera nos atraviesa”: Indigenous girls’ body-territory mapping in the emergence of Chinese capital in the Bolivian Amazon.
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Authors: Nohely Guzman-Narvaez*, University of Texas At Austin
Topics: Women, Qualitative Methods, Latin America
Keywords: Body-Territory, Chinese capital, Latin America, Bolivian Amazon, Infrastructure
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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“Flood Safe Home”: a web-based interactive decision-making tool for optimal freeboard recommendations to enhance flood resilience
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Authors: Jiyoung Lee*, Louisiana State University, Shifat Mithila, Louisiana State University, Rubayet Mostafiz, Louisiana State University, Yongcheol Lee, Louisiana State University, Carol Friedland, Louisiana State University, Ehab Gnan, Louisiana State University, Robert Rohli, Louisiana State University, Monica Farris, University of New Orleans, Arash Taghinezhad, Louisiana State University, Pamela Jenkins, University of New Orleans, Hoang Tao, University of New Orleans
Topics: Hazards, Risks, and Disasters, Hazards and Vulnerability
Keywords: Flood; Freeboard; Decision-making; Louisiana
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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“Freeways Without Futures”: Urban Highway Removal and Scalar Restructuring in the United States and Spain
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Authors: John Stehlin*, University of North Carolina - Greensboro
Topics: Urban Geography, Economic Geography, Transportation Geography
Keywords: infrastructure, automobility, spatial fix, creative destruction, scale
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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“Fugitive Dust:” nuclear waste in multi-dimensional motion
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Authors: Mariya Shcheglovitova*, Utah State University
Topics: Cultural and Political Ecology, Natural Resources, Qualitative Methods
Keywords: desert, biopolotics, uranium, Utah, waste
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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“Geography of silence” in geographic education - a case of the Roma culture in Polish school textbooks
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Authors: Agnieszka Swietek*, Pedagogical University of Krakow
Topics: Geography Education, Ethnic Geography
Keywords: geographical education, geography of silence, Roma culture
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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“Handmaiden to history”? A conversation on geography in a digital history center
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Authors: Angela Cunningham*, Centre for Contemporary and Digital History, Universite du Luxembourg, Mariella De Crouy Chanel, Centre for Contemporary and Digital History, Universite du Luxembourg, Helena Jaskov, Centre for Contemporary and Digital History, Universite du Luxembourg, Sean Takats, Centre for Contemporary and Digital History, Universite du Luxembourg, Lorella Viola, Centre for Contemporary and Digital History, Universite du Luxembourg
Topics: Historical Geography, Quantitative Methods, Qualitative Methods
Keywords: digital history, historical geography, interdisciplinary, mixed methods, pedagogy
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“I Can’t Believe We Have Pipelines Full of Methane to Contend With”: A Critical Energy Justice Framing of Smithfield Renewables in North Carolina
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Authors: Stephanie Eccles*, Concordia University
Topics: Agricultural Geography, Human-Environment Geography, Animal Geographies
Keywords: Animal Geography, Environmental Justice, Critical Energy Justice, Climate Change, Sustainable Agriculture
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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“I didn’t want to let my people or myself down”: Women’s Testimony from Conflict-Affected Countries as an Activist Politics of Future-making at the UN
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Authors: Caitilin McMillan*, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Topics: Feminist Geographies, Social Geography, Women
Keywords: Testimony, Future, Women, United Nations, Activism
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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“I don’t have a bomb:” A Journey through Muslim Female Students’ Everyday Life in the United States
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Authors: Hanieh Haji Molana*, California State University, Sacramento, Sarah Beechboard, Kent State University
Topics: Feminist Geographies, Cultural Geography
Keywords: Muslim women, Islamic feminism, perception of hijab, religious identity, university campus
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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“I wouldn’t want to get on the bus”: Older Adult Public Transit Use during the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Authors: Léa Ravensbergen*, McMaster University , Bruce Newbold, McMaster University
Topics: Transportation Geography, Urban Geography, Planning Geography
Keywords: COVID-19, Older Adults, Public Transportation, Bus, Accessible Transportation Services
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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“I’m Muslim, what are you?”: Feminist reflections on identities and positionalities in interviews with Muslim American youth
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Authors: Anna Mansson McGinty*, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Topics: Qualitative Research, Religion and Belief Systems , United States
Keywords: feminist methodology, positionality, knowledge production, Muslim identities, intersectionality
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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“It seems like it’s never going to end”: The Experiences of Those Living in Damaged Dwellings following Hurricane Sandy
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Authors: Rachel Wolfe*, University of North Texas
Topics: Hazards, Risks, and Disasters, Hazards and Vulnerability
Keywords: recovery, Hurricane Sandy, displacement, damaged communities, resources
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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“It was real organic”: the past, present, and future of CHAZ/CHOP’s urban garden
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Authors: Keith Harris*, University of Washington, Shannon Tyman*, university of washington
Topics: Urban Geography, Political Geography
Keywords: Seattle, CHAZ, CHOP, BLM, garden, Deleuze, Guattari
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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“Let it be” - Prospects of market-based conservation in the US
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Authors: Ritwick Ghosh*, New York University, Stephanie Barral, INRAE
Topics: Economic Geography, Environment, Land Use
Keywords: Governance, Biodiversity, Net, Markets, Political Economy, Beetle, Financialization
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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“Making the Desert Bloom”: Unconventional water and reconfiguring agri-social relations in Israel
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Authors: Gretchen Sneegas*, Texas A&M University
Topics: Cultural and Political Ecology, Food Systems, Water Resources and Hydrology
Keywords: agriculture, water security, Israel, water reuse, political economy
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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“Market Value” and The Spatial Politics of Neighborhood Classifications: Toward Algorithmic Justice
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Authors: Alicia Sabatino*, UMBC, Dillon Mahmoudi, UMBC
Topics: Economic Geography, Urban Geography, Geographic Information Science and Systems
Keywords: Market Value Analysis, urban planning, algorithmic governance, capitalism, racial justice
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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“Me Against the World”: Revolutionary Abolition with Assata and Tupac Shakur
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Authors: Carlos Serrano*,
Topics: Black Geographies
Keywords: Black geographies, carcerality, temporality, activism, abolition
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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“Places of the Coronavirus” – Exploring Globalized Pandemic Narratives in a Class on Filmic Geography
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Authors: Elisabeth Sommerlad*, JGU Mainz, Institute of Geography, Julian Zschocke*, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Topics: Communication
Keywords: Film Geography, Filmmaking, Digital Learning, Coronavirus
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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“Reclaim Our Power!:” The Geographies of Utility Justice in Northern California
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Authors: Gabrielle Lichtenstein*, University of Georgia
Topics: Energy, Environmental Justice
Keywords: Utility Justice, electricity governance, energy geographies
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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“Saving the Day” in Troubled Times: Young Women’s Survival, Mobility, Hopes and Aspirations in Turkey
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Authors: Hilal Kara*, Queen's University
Topics: Economic Geography, Gender, Higher Education
Keywords: labour precarity, higher education, women's labour, precariousness, crisis
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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“Shenzhen Speed”: New Reform measures, High-tech Start-Ups, and Precarious Entrepreneurs
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Authors: YiJIAN LIU*, UNIVERSITY OF OSLO
Topics: China, Economic Geography
Keywords: Shenzhen; ethnography; high-tech startups
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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“Taking back a small bit of power”: the (un)making of ecological education
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Authors: Cheryl McGeachan*, University of Glasgow
Topics: Political Geography
Keywords: school gardens, education, world building, ecological justice
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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“The Big One”: Origins and Expressions of an Elusive Emergency
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Authors: Gregory Simon*, University of Colorado Denver
Topics: Cultural and Political Ecology, Hazards and Vulnerability
Keywords: Earthquake, Social Vulnerability, Hazard, Urban Planning
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“their predatory excursions greatly distressed the back settlers”: Maroonage, Belonging and the Jamaican Frontier
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Authors: Alex Moulton*, University of Tennessee
Topics: Ethnicity and Race, Cultural and Political Ecology, Historical Geography
Keywords: Black Geographies, fugitivity, plantation, resistance
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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“They Defiantly Walked Out”: Arizona Anti-Mexican American Studies Legislation and the Discourse of “Rude” Student Protest
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Authors: Gloria Howerton*, University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire
Topics: Political Geography
Keywords: education, civility, race, politics, resistance
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“They said they didn’t have one available” – Exploring Spanish-speaking healthcare access for Latina women in Chicago suburbs
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Authors: Aida Guhlincozzi*, University of Illinois
Topics: Health and Medical, Latinx Geographies , Geography and Urban Health
Keywords: access, Latinas, health care, health geography
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“They want to dress up everything to the tourists, but this real. This is raw”: Counter-storytelling in tourism
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Authors: Lauren Duffy , Clemson University, Katherine Dudley*, California State University, Long Beach
Topics: Tourism Geography, Qualitative Methods, Ethnicity and Race
Keywords: counterstories, tourism, critical race theory,
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“This is a Liberated Zone!” Refusing Settler Colonialism in Denver, Colorado and Beyond
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Authors: Isaac Rivera*, University of Washington
Topics: Indigenous Peoples, Political Geography, Geographic Information Science and Systems
Keywords: Digital Geographies, Racial Capitalism, Settler Colonial Studies, Social Movements
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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“This is going to be like being in a reality TV show isn’t it?” Life among displaced women negotiating the Calais border during the Covid-19 lockdown
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Authors: Maria Hagan*, University of Cambridge
Topics: Migration, Women, Gender
Keywords: Calais, migration, women, covid-19, domestic space
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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“Tres-Frac” Liability and the Legal Transformation of Geologic Shales into Natural Resources through the Texas Supreme Court Case Coastal v. Garza
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Authors: Trey Murphy*, University of North Carolina
Topics: Energy, Environment, Legal Geography
Keywords: Mineral Rights, Texas, Legal Geography, Property, Fracking
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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“We are made to believe that our food is not good”: Historicizing the African Green Revolution in Ghana
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Authors: Joeva Rock*, University of California, Berkeley
Topics: Agricultural Geography, Development, Africa
Keywords: African Green Revolution, Ghana, agricultural geography, development
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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“We are the living dead,” or; the precarious stabilization of liminal life in the presence of CKDu
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Authors: Nari Senanayake*, University of Kentucky
Topics: Health and Medical, Qualitative Methods, Cultural and Political Ecology
Keywords: Slow death, mystery kidney disease, liminality, dry zone Sri Lanka, health geography
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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“We Deserve Rent Control”: Radical care disruptions in rent control movements in Seattle, USA
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Authors: Samantha Thompson*, University of Washington
Topics: Urban Geography, Social Geography
Keywords: radical care, housing justice, rent control, housing movements, care geographies
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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“We made this land”: spatialized narratives of belonging and property from Kathputli Colony, Delhi
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Authors: Susmita Rishi*, Kansas State University
Topics: Urban and Regional Planning
Keywords: belonging, property, informality, global South, slums, Southern theory
Session Type: Virtual Paper
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