This holiday season i happened into a conversation with two men - one with a PhD (i think?) in sustainable design and another working at Microsoft. We were chatting about graduate school, people we knew in graduate school, etc. What struck me was that while...
This morning, a dear friend posted this rather moving website of artist, Claire Felicie. [caption id="attachment_469" align="alignnone" width="150" caption="Emiel Before During and After © 2011 · Claire Felicie Photography"][/caption] The first set of photos are triptychs of men before they leave for Afghanistan, during their time there,...
Over the past 15+ years, academics and researchers have written extensively about the rolling back of the state (Atkinson, 1999; Colás, 2005; Essex, 2008; Jessop, 2002; Kelsey, 1993; Koffman & Raghuram, 2009; Kiely, 2005; Peck, 2002; Sothern, 2005; Sparke, 2005). But most (all?) of these...
This will probably be the last of the crafting and baking posts for a very long time as we "do" Christmas tomorrow, and then it's down to the real business of writing a dissertation, publishing articles, getting a job / post-doc, getting into the field...
I've been ridiculously busy the past few days, trying to get the last of the packages together. I'm starting to expand my gift-giving to people in England, Canada, Texas, and Montana. I'm not that gift-giving-ish; however, it occurs to me that most people take time...