Posts tagged critical geography

Documenting the Undocumented

By Prerna on May 29, 2009
Documenting the Undocumented

Web Map 2.0 – Lets get going We have internal maps of organizers and representatives (Thank You NYSYLC) but I want to give immigrant youth the opportunity to map themselves. Students are certainly expected but if you are a (student) immigrant youth blogger and/or organizer, make sure... [+]

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29May

Web 2.0 Mapping - LGBT Indians

By Prerna on May 20, 2009
Web 2.0 Mapping – LGBT Indians

Trikone is out with its latest Desi LGBT mapping project. What does that mean? If you identify as a ‘desi’ (generally denoting of Indian subcontinent descent but the term is loaded with political implications), and are LGBT, then you should put yourself down on the... [+]

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20May

American Association of Geographers...

By Prerna on September 22, 2008
American Association of Geographers – Call for Papers

After these god-awful, life-stopping exams, I have to get down to several pending journal articles. One of them is for an Australian-based journal called Still. There are several AAG Call for Papers that seem to go with the topic and other half-completed works, so I... [+]

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22Sep

Foucault on Geography and Population

By Prerna on August 31, 2008
Foucault on Geography and Population

“One might wonder, as a conceit or a hypothesis, whether geographical knowledge doesn’t carry within itself the circle of the frontier, whether this be a national, departmental or cantonal frontier; and hence, whether one shouldn’t add to the figures of internment you have indicated–that of... [+]

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31Aug

The Politics of Waiting - Asylum

By Prerna on March 4, 2008
The Politics of Waiting – Asylum

There’s a really good discussion on asylum circulating one of my academic listserves. Not many know that I study critical geography and subaltern studies, and there is some space in those fields to speak about immigration. The perspectives and philosophy is unlike what one would... [+]

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04Mar