Figments of the future: the irony of shelter and security on the Seattle streetscape
April 14Nick Gottschall, University of Washington, Jackson School of International Studies I You can see the gentrification of Seattle’s...
Housing Melbourne Project
March 31Andrea Sharam, Swinburne University of Technology, Institute for Social Research This multi-faceted project responds to the serious decline in...
The making of good migrant workers and the low-wage nation
March 31Carolyn Pinedo Turnovsky, University of Washington, American Ethnic Studies and Law Societies and Justice Program How can we more fully understand...
The New One-Night House: Losing and Gaining Propertied Citizenship After the Foreclosure Crisis
March 31Maggie Wilson, University of Washington, Department of Geography “There is a belief around the world that if you can build a house between sunset...
(In)Visible Boundaries: Uneven Housing Development and the Spatialization of Class in Nanjing, China
March 19Sarah Tynen, University of Colorado - Boulder, Department of Geography Since 1978, free-market economic reforms in China decentralized state power...
Engaging the Public in Poverty Knowledge Research
March 17Kidan Araya, University of Washington, Department of Geography In a recent New York Times op-ed by Nicolas Kristof named “Professors, We Need...
Syllabus: Graduate Seminar in Relational Poverty
March 14Co-Curated by: Austin Crane, Kidan Araya, Emma Slager, Key MacFarlane, Jen Porter, Meredith Krueger, Maggie Wilson, Michael Chabride, Yanning Wei,...
Local Poverty and Local Knowledge in Remote Locations of the Pacific Northwest
March 13Martha Henderson – The Evergreen State College The Olympia Peninsula and eastern Oregon have experienced increasing poverty since the Great...
iPads in the Laundromat
March 2Nick Gottschall, University of Washington, Department of International Studies There’s a laundromat on Bellevue Avenue, near my Capitol Hill...