Category Archives: The Americas

‘Critical Geographies in Latin America’ – Journal of Latin American Geography 16(1)

Posted on April 11, 2017 by

The Journal of Latin American Geography has just released a new special issue on ‘Critical Geographies in Latin America,’ which is part of a very intentional turn in the editorial position of the journal (as detailed here in JLAG 15[1]). In … Continue reading →

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2017 Action Research Network of the Americas (ARNA) Conference

Posted on December 23, 2016 by

The 2017 Action Research of the Americas Conference is being convened in parallel with the first Global Assembly for Knowledge Democracy in Cartagena, Colombia, in June 2017. Proposals are due February 13, 2017.

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Mexican Transitions: Tlatelolco, stories of progress, and becoming adult in Mexico City

Posted on November 3, 2016 by

The program for the 2017 Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers meeting in New Orleans is now available online. I will present a paper I’m developing from out of my work in Mexico City (abstract below). Mexican Transitions: Tlatelolco, stories of … Continue reading →

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Wyoming Latina Youth Conference, October 14-15, 2016

Posted on October 14, 2016 by

I have been working for the past several weeks as part of a planning committee for the Wyoming Latina Youth Conference, which is happening this weekend in Laramie. This is the first year it is being hosted at the University … Continue reading →

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My review of Stuart Aitken’s “The Ethnopoetics of Space and Transformation”

Posted on September 9, 2016 by

My review of Stuart Aitken’s book The Ethnopoetics of Space and Transformation: Young People’s Engagement, Activism and Aesthetics has been published in Emotion, Space and Society, linked here. (Contact me for the full text if you do not have access.) … Continue reading →

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CFP/convocatoria – NAASN conference in Mexico City, April 2017

Posted on August 5, 2016 by

See below, the CFP for the 2017 North American Anarchist Studies Network (NAASN) conference, which will be held in Mexico for the first time next year, April 28-30, in the Biblioteca Social Reconstruir (BSR), in Mexico City. En español: La … Continue reading →

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‘Reading Reclus between Italy and South America,’ Frederico Ferretti in the Journal of Historical Geography

Posted on July 29, 2016 by

Frederico Ferretti’s recently published article in the Journal of Historical Geography is of interest as I read for my work on the materiality of archives. Ferretti’s focus on the international circulation of anarchist geographical knowledge will also complement Kristin Ross’ … Continue reading →

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