Colloquia
- Abstract: In this talk, I examine the interaction of multinational resource extraction, intergroup violence related to resource entitlements, and migrations to mitigate El Ni帽o-caused droughts and frosts on people in the west-central highlands
- When the EU signed an agreement with Turkey last Spring to 鈥渆nd the irregular migration鈥 from Syria using containment and return measures, it was framed as a radical departure from normal border control practices. But in fact,
- Alpine ecosystems throughout the world have been heavily impacted by human activities, especially during the past 20 to 30 years with the exponential growth of mountaineering, trekking, and adventure tourism to remote mountain regions. The most
- My research has been particularly focused on how spatial processes and relations of social movement practices are manifested across a variety of scales; how the particularities of specific places influence the character and emergence of various
- Abstract: The global agriculture sector is responsible for up to 25% of the world鈥檚 anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions though direct emissions from agricultural practices and indirect emissions from converting
- Abstract: The Mongolian Rangelands and Resilience (MOR2) project was developed collaboratively by physical, ecological and social scientists, pastoralists, conservation practitioners and government decision-makers. We aimed to 1) increase
- The Cultural Unity and Engagement Center, Latin American Studies Center, Center to Advance Research & Teaching in the Social Sciences, the International Student and Scholar Programs, Department of
- Abstract: Diverse actors in the American West extract profits and surplus value from fire-prone areas at the urban periphery while inserting considerable social risks and costs back onto the landscape. To better excavate and highlight these
- Abstract: This project examines local responses to challenge US militarization and colonization in Gu氓han (Guam). I argue that efforts to 鈥減rotect and defend鈥 Gu氓han鈥檚 sacred sites focus on issues of ancestral land, language, sovereignty, and
- Presentations by the undergraduate recipients of the vonDreden Stacey Fellowships"The Hydrology of Betasso, a closer look at an intermittent tributary to 麻豆影院 Creek" presented by Kristina Cowell"Queering Spaces: Being Gay