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Relational Poverty Research by RPN Members

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Joyful Academic Subjects

January 23

Karen Falconer Al-Hindi, Department of Geography and Women’s & Gender Studies, University of Nebraska at Omaha Pamela Moss, Department of...

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MLK Street (Re) Naming, Social Justice, and African American Freedom Struggle

December 15

Derek H. Alderman, Department of Geography, University of Tennessee While the study of streets named for Martin Luther King, Jr. has long...

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Digitize and Punish: Carceral Cities and the Production of Crime Data

November 30

Brian Jordan Jefferson, Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign While critical...

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Mapping Jim Crow From Below: The Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, Geospatial Intelligence, and Civil Rights

November 30

Joshua Inwood, Department of Geography and the Rock Ethics Institute, the Pennsylvania State University Co-PI: Derek Alderman, Department of...

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Planners and the Work of Renewal in Addis Ababa: Developmental State, Urbanizing Society

November 30

Jesse McClelland, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Geography, University of Washington My dissertation project focuses on the politics of renewal in...

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Navigation social death through intimate politics of reciprocity and family networks

November 30

Yolanda Valencia, University of Washington, Department of Geography My project looks at how undocumented immigrants produce dignifying lives and...

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Feeding the Crisis: Work, Gender and the Growing Food Safety Net in the U.S.

September 29

Maggie Dickinson, Assistant Professor, Guttman Community College, CUNY The food safety net has experienced unprecedented growth in the 21st...

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Middle Class Identities and Job Instability: explorations on class identifications of temporary state workers

September 11

Santiago García Martín, Social Sciences PhD. Candidate, Centro de Investigaciones Sociohistóricas, Instituto de Investigación en Humanidades y...

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Evaluating the Role of Landscape and Urban Planning in the Prevention and Mitigation of Domestic Violence

May 23

Jennifer Porter, University of Washington In this project, I explore how anti-violence organizing can be sustained inter-generationally through...

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