In the past few months, there has been a seeming up-tick in mocking other disciplines or sub-fields of our disciplines (or even Geography, as a whole), and even suggestions to cut entire programs. One of the more obnoxious and recent being, of course, the piece,...
I was recently treated to a very protracted Multi-Directional Leadership talk by Dr. James Anthony of the University of Washington. His assertion was that "anyone can be a leader" - you are not necessarily born a leader, you become one. I eyed him a bit...
I took a course put together for GO-MAP ambassadors at the University of Washington this past quarter. One of our assignments was to write a Mentor Memo to help other grad students through the trials and tribulations of graduate school. I'll admit, i stumbled blindly...
Our department had a Climate and Diversity Retreat today. A few things on what that is, first: As neoliberal restructuring continues to erode the academy, and particularly, as the academy (in the U.S.) continues to whiten at extraordinary rates through the erasure of loan and grant programs...
It's very easy to get caught up in our respective areas of darkness - the weight of neoliberal restructuring of capital flows, the constraints and functions of the nation-state, the difficulties and presuppositions of development programs, the utter devastation of economic pressures on ecological fragility,...