The gloriously brilliant and delightful Victoria Lawson and Sarah Elwood have launched the Relational Poverty Network! And they are already working toward the first public meeting. The Relational Poverty Network welcomes abstracts for paper sessions during our public meeting taking place October 9-11, 2014 in Seattle,...
I've been thinking a lot about death, lately. Not in a morbid way. Katie Gillespie and i have been talking about this for a long time. Her work centers on the life course of bovines and their eventual (and almost always inevitable) death within an...
I accompanied Katie on another research field site last week. It's been a year since our last shared excursion. This time was different. I'm not sure why. Maybe i've learned more tools for compartmentalizing. Maybe it's been the year without conversations to prepare me for the visit....
My colleague, Katie Gillespie and i have posted a CFP for the AAG Annual Meeting in Tampa, 2014: Economies of Death: Economic logics of killable life and grievable death Organizers: Patricia Lopez (Geography, University of Washington) Kathryn Gillespie (Geography, University of Washington) How and why are certain lives and bodies...
I found an interview with Judith Butler hanging around in an open tab on my computer this morning. I have no idea whose blog i plucked it out of two days ago, so apologies for not properly thanking him or her. The interview, Willing the...