Posts tagged geography
BANI AMOR on Tourism and the Colonial Project /234

Bani discusses the fetishization of land and lifeways and how tourism facilitates ongoing cycles of domination creating unstable economies, and rendering local communities vulnerable to exploitation and abuse. Bani urges us to ask questions that aren’t really encouraged in the travel space including: how can we have a connection to place that isn’t based on escapism and domination?

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TEJU ADISA-FARRAR on Remapping Our World /177

Teju discusses how gentrification originates through the calculated and supremacist devaluation of place, its environmental impacts, and urbanization and urban futures in response to climate and economic migration and changes.

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MARY ELLEN HANNIBAL on the Spine of the Continent /18

Today we explore an epic conservation project that encompasses the North American Rockies, and the infinite relationships between the species that inhabit them. Mary Ellen Hannibal is a writer and editor focusing on science and culture. Her book, The Spine of the Continent, is about a social, geographical, and scientific effort to save nature.

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