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Cultivating capital: Urban agriculture, eco-gentrification, and resistance in the Sustainable City

May 18

Nathan McClintock, Portland State University, Toulan School of Urban Studies and Planning This mixed-methods project examines urban agriculture's...

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Managing Human Riskiness in the Times of Finance: On the Social Foundations of Financial Accumulation

May 14

Luis Flores -- University of Michigan -- Department of Sociology This historical project seeks to synthesize debates of U.S. financialization and...

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Philadelphia Field Project: Toward a use-value geography of poverty

May 9

Lakshman Yapa - Pennsylvania State University - Department of Geography The project is to build an interdisciplinary research initiative on urban...

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Resilience of the Residuals in the Post-Welfare Inner City

May 9

Geoffrey DeVerteuil - Cardiff University - School of Planning and Geography The focal point for this book is on the ‘how’ of resilience, the...

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Migration Economies: Central American transit, sociality, and exploitation on the journey through Mexico

May 9

Mario Bruzzone - University of Wisconsin-Madison - Department of Geography My scholarship interprets the economic role of transit migrants...

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Varieties of labor-market “inclusion”

May 9

Jamie Peck - University of British Columbia - Department of Geography  I am working on the institutional and social segmentation of low-wage...

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Working Lives: Millennial Women & Work

May 9

Nancy Worth - McMaster University - School of Geography and Earth Sciences This project examines work and the impact of work on social life with a...

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Transforming the Politics of Place: GIS, Knowledge Production, and Community-Based Organizations in Urban Governance, 2003-2010

April 25

Sarah Elwood - University of Washington - National Science Foundation CAREER Grant Funded as Assistant Professor National Science Foundation...

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Changing Times, Changing Families in Rural Washington

December 15

Jennifer Sherman, Department of Sociology, Washington State University This project is an extension of previous work, which focused on a remote...

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