Final reflections on the series, what is geography?
The graduate students I have the honor and privilege to work with all contributed an essay to the series What is geography? Over the past...
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What is Geography? by Kat
This is a bit of an esoteric start, but: when I think of geography, I think of Heidegger. Specifically, I think of his 1954 essay...
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Nov 214 min read
What is geography, by Griffin
Geography is a term and a field that covers a lot of ground and as such is a social science that is not universally defined and its...
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Nov 113 min read
What is geography? by Sydney R.
To me, geography is the study of human-environment relationships over various physical, theoretical, locational, and temporal scales....
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Oct 295 min read
What is geography to me, by Sara
I am new to the structured, academic world of geography. I have been, up until very recently, far removed from the collegiate world in...
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Oct 184 min read
What geography means to me, by Sydney A.
Even as I enter the second year of my master’s degree in geography, I shy away from the prospect of commenting on my field or its meaning...
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Oct 181 min read
What is geography? A series from geography graduate students
Unlike some other disciplines, geography has a bit of an identity crisis. Whenever I tell someone that I am in a geography department,...
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Jul 84 min read
Seeing Like a State Book Review by Sara (and introduction)
I am delighted for Sara O'Donnell to join the lab this fall. Sara hails from Wyoming where she grew up and went to undergrad. She has a...
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Jan 281 min read
Our new book is out!
Diana, Ryan, and I published our latest book, A Climate Agenda for System Change: from Theory to Social Transformation. The book outlines...
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Jan 285 min read
Thinking critically about critical thinking
Ten years ago, I watched an amazing film. I loved the film then and see it in a different light now. This film showcases cancel culture...
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Oct 24, 20236 min read
On Political Ecology by Ailin
In September of 2019, I facilitated a class about the ecological footprint with 12 Peruvian high school students as part of my...
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Sep 12, 20234 min read
Brendan's New Book!
Lab alum Brendan O'Brien graduated from NAU in Geography a couple years ago. His thesis focused on housing in the west but took a unique...
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Aug 31, 20234 min read
Sand Talk Book Review by Sydney A (and introduction)
I am lucky enough to have a wonderful new student in my lab this year. Sydney A (we have two Sydneys now!) comes to NAU from South...
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Aug 7, 20232 min read
Congratulations Reilly!
Since coming to NAU I have served on the steering committee for the Sustainable Communities (SUS) Graduate Program. Over the years, I...
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May 28, 20235 min read
Cars or people?
While living in Austria, Vienna last fall a friend from Flagstaff sent me a link to an article in the Flagstaff local paper. The headline...
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May 28, 20232 min read
Congratulations Anna and Ailin!
Graduation always proves bittersweet. On the one hand, graduation affords an opportunity to celebrate accomplishments and congratulate...
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Mar 10, 20232 min read
Sydney's review of Jon Erickson's Progress Illusion
The Progress Illusion: Reclaiming our Future from the Fairytale of Economics, by Jon D. Erickson (2022, Island Press), provides an...
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Feb 23, 20231 min read
What to expect
This blog provides a space for my students and I to say a little something about what we are reading, writing, and thinking about. You...
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