23 Sep All is love
Today was one of those days that i was reminded that we are only what we make of ourselves in this world...
22 Sep NSF and the struggle for academia
In the last Congressional session, Geography and Spatial Sciences DDRI faced major cuts. Viewed as un-scientific, geographers faced a backlash to their social science foundations. In response, the AAG stepped in to point to GIS as our contribution to science. It created a flurry in Geography,...
27 Aug ICCG #3
After weeks of struggling with the reason for placing blame in the cholera outbreak in Haiti, i finally landed on an argument that makes sense to me, and, hopefully, makes sense to others, as well. This was never about the "blame game", rather, was deeply...
08 Aug ICCG part 2
I've been working on my paper pretty much non-stop for a week now and i'm beginning to realize that i'm completely overwhelmed by all of the possibilities of directions i can take: 1. there is of course the sheer irony of the fact that Haiti has...
07 Aug ICCG Paper – Geographies of Blame: Cholera in Haiti
I have a paper talk to give in just 9 days. I'm nervous. It's only the second time i've written an abstract first and a paper later. The paper, itself, is having some difficulty fleshing out theoretically - not because there isn't a wealth of...