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Dr. Alex A. Moulton Assistant Professor Geography and Environmental Science Hunter College, CUNY Black, Race, and Ethnic Studies Abstract: Within Afro-Jamaica religions, 鈥渟cience鈥 is used as
In the geographic tradition of Clyde Woods, this panel underscores the knowledge holders of Colorado, making visible the everyday ways in which our speakers transform places, landscapes, and futures into spaces of life affirming possibility. This panel will discuss Native ways of knowing Colorado, accountable relations with Native nations and peoples; immigrant dignity and practices of relational liberation; disability justice and the transformation of the built environment to affirm all life. The seeds for a liberatory world are already here.
Over the last decade, a growing number of North Indian cities have been declared 鈥渨aterless,鈥 referring to the temporary stoppage of piped water delivery for days or weeks on end...
Somewhere deep in the Dzongu valley, in the shadow of Mt. Kanchendzonga, lies a secret pathway to Mayal Kyong 鈥 a hidden paradise of abundance, home to seven immortal couples revered as ancestors by the Lepchas (Mutanchi Rongkup Rumkup)...
What do Tibetan mountains say about the recent climate change that is driven by and intensifies complex changes and disruptions to multiple relationships on the Tibetan Plateau? How do the mountains communicate their emotions, thoughts, pains, and resolutions? How can we listen, observe, know, and understand the mountains鈥 perspectives?
Human Biometeorology and Urban Climate research have significantly advanced our understanding of urban heat, particularly through models, satellite data and physical measurements of urban fabric, geometry, and surface characteristics...
The Prison Agriculture Lab (PAL) and the Toxic Prisons Mapping Project (TPMP), two abolitionist collectives, work to advance the practice of abolition in daily life through scholar-activist projects focused, respectively, on food and environmental injustices in prisons...
Why Be a Star When You Could Make a Constellation?鈥 traces solidarities of radical placemaking across Black, Indigenous, Asian and Latine communities in Tacoma and beyond. I intervene in movement histories to decenter traditional hubs of radical action (New York, the Bay Area) and predominantly male charismatic leaders...
What would happen to our geographic analyses if we wholeheartedly approached Latinx women and non-binary people as significant, multifaceted spatial thinkers and actors who form Latinx feminist geographies?
The Colorado Geographies event will feature a panel of community leaders, elders, and activists living, working, who express the everyday ways of enacting life affirming geographies in the here and now.