Call for Papers Deadline: 1 April 2010
Guest Editors: Dr. Gregory Seigworth, Millersville University, USA, e-mail: gregory.seigworth@millersville.edu.
Dr. Michael E. Gardiner, University of Western Ontario, Canada, e-mail: megardin@uwo.ca.
Space and Culture invites papers for a special issue on Henri Lefebvre and the ‘next world order’.
In this first decade of the 21st Century our world has grown remarkably disordered. [...]
Craig Campbell at the f01k10r3 & public culture program is about to open an Intermedia Ethnographies Laboratory (building will be finished this time next year) at the Américo Paredes Center for Cultural Studies (University of Texas, Austin). His show, Ethnographic Terminalia is showing in Pittsburgh. Campbell’s work takes visual anthropology out of the museum and out of [...]
Datamasher maps US state-level statistics from the US census and other sources. An example is their map of fast-food restaurants versus obesity rates (above). Sometimes these are revealing, sometimes not, and sometimes their statistical reliability may not be good due to sample sizes. Makes a nice map, however.
Rhizalabs’ FluTracker also does a global mapping of [...]
Two-year Postdoctoral or Research Associate based at the City Region Studies Centre
The University of Alberta Faculty of Extension’s City-Region Studies Centre, Edmonton Alberta Canada, in association with the Intermedia Research Studio and the Space and Culture Research Group welcomes applications from both Canadian and international applicants for a one to two year postdoctorate or research [...]
Hidden Landscapes by Chris Thompson
Geographical Methodology as Spatialization and Topology (Part of “Theorizing Place: Interdisciplinary Trajectories” A Panel Discussion at the Canadian Association of Geographers Meeting, Carleton University, May 27, 2009):
This presentation focuses on the virtuality of place, an object of study which resists specification in material or topographic terms. In effect, place exceeds [...]