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Relational Poverty Research by RPN Members

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The politics of SNAP: Stimulus, Stigma, and Supermarket Redlining

February 23

Jerry Shannon, University of Georgia The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as food stamps) has long been touted for...

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Practicing solidarity: Mexican Hometown Associations in New York City

February 22

Araby Smyth, University of Kentucky, Department of Geography I am interested in how people cope with and resist neoliberal governance and...

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Red Line Service

February 17

Rhoda Rosen & Billy McGuinness, School of the Art Institute Faced with the appalling statistics issued by the Chicago Coalition for the...

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‘Pobre Pobreza (Poor Poverty)’: Destabilizing Poverty Knowledges and Representations through Participatory Visual Methods in Colombia

February 17

Amy Ritterbusch, Universidad de los Andes Poor poverty: Multiple Perspectives’ is a participatory visual methods project mobilized in five...

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“My Hamburg” – “My Rio de Janeiro“ Ordinary Homeless Cities?” Geographies of Homelessness in the context of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) and Hamburg (Germany)

January 23

Katharina Schmidt, Working Group Critical Geographies of Global Inequalities, Institute for Geography, University of Hamburg, Germany The photo...

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The Sustainable Development Apparatus: Towards a postcolonial cookstove ethnography

January 18

Isaac Rivera, University of Colorado, Department of Geography and Environmental Science The need to transition towards renewable energy and...

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The Cultural Politics of Representation, Global Development and Developmental Disabilities in the United States: Digital Mapping as a Cultural Studies Methodology

January 14

Ronnie Thibault, M.A., Cultural Studies University of Washington Bothell This research draws from representational theory to explore how...

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Rural Women and the Uneven Process of Inclusion

September 17

Tara Cookson, University of Cambridge, Department of Geography Conditional cash transfers (CCTs) have become the world’s most popular tools for...

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A Contínua Luta: Research on politics against the State as a killing system

August 19

 Antonádia Borges, University of Brasilia, Department of Anthropology Privilege in countries like Brazil and South Africa (where I do research)...

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