Regulation by ambiguity: The spatial politics of a Paraguayan frontier economy
August 19Jennifer Tucker, University of California at Berkeley, Department of City and Regional Planning Since the 1980s, extra-legal networks of custom...
Relational Poverty Research by RPN Members
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Emerging Gang Geographies
May 18Dirk Kinsey, Portland State University, Department of Geography This project examines changing patterns of youth and gang violence in the...
Cultivating capital: Urban agriculture, eco-gentrification, and resistance in the Sustainable City
May 18Nathan McClintock, Portland State University, Toulan School of Urban Studies and Planning This mixed-methods project examines urban agriculture's...
Narrating the lived experiences of migrant Jamaica teachers in the U.S.
May 14Karen Thomas-Brown - University of Michigan-Dearborn – Department of Education This research is a part of an active ongoing investigation into the...
Managing Human Riskiness in the Times of Finance: On the Social Foundations of Financial Accumulation
May 14Luis Flores -- University of Michigan -- Department of Sociology This historical project seeks to synthesize debates of U.S. financialization and...
Philadelphia Field Project: Toward a use-value geography of poverty
May 9Lakshman Yapa - Pennsylvania State University - Department of Geography The project is to build an interdisciplinary research initiative on urban...
Care Markets: The role of care agencies in the commodification of elderly care
May 9Karin Schwiter - University of Zurich – Department of Geography In Switzerland, the commercialization of home care has been accompanied by the...
Resilience of the Residuals in the Post-Welfare Inner City
May 9Geoffrey DeVerteuil - Cardiff University - School of Planning and Geography The focal point for this book is on the ‘how’ of resilience, the...
Migration Economies: Central American transit, sociality, and exploitation on the journey through Mexico
May 9Mario Bruzzone - University of Wisconsin-Madison - Department of Geography My scholarship interprets the economic role of transit migrants...