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...
Relational Poverty Research by RPN Members
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The Deliciousness of Agency: Trout Farming in Guatemala
February 23Sunni Wissmer - University of Washington, Engineers Without Borders Engineers Without Borders University of Washington Student Chapter is a part...
Progress Reports: Geographies of Development I, II, III
October 22Richard Ballard - Gauteng City-Region Observatory, University of the Witwatersrand and University of Johannesburg This series of...
“A Mass Conspiracy to Feed People”: World-Class Waste and the Struggle for Space in the Global City
August 14David Boarder Giles, University of Canterbury, Department of Anthropology This ethnographic research explores the cultural and political...
Questioning our Questions
July 23Koji Pingry, University of Washington, Department of Geography In our American society it is incredibly hard for us to break out of the comforts we...
Fighting with Family and Seeking Transformation through Care
July 8Emma Slager, University of Washington, Department of Geography Earlier this year, I attended a family wedding that took me into the company of...
The (Visual) Art of Contact
June 20Sarah Elwood and Vicky Lawson, University of Washington, Department of Geography A few weeks ago, Seattle’s Real Change organized this...
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...
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...