Posts by geogadmin

A recent opinion piece by Kirk Goldsberry (PhD 2007), visiting scholar at Harvard University, gained a good deal of attention because it advocated for a return of a geography department to that august institution. Sensors & Systems (S&S) special correspondent Matteo Luccio spoke with Goldsberry about his background, about the need to reveal spatial patterns, and about the importance of geography: S&S: Why did you decide to...

Peter Alagona, UCSB Associated Professor of History and Affiliated Faculty member of the Department of Geography, has recently had a book published by the University of California Press on the 40th anniversary of the landmark U.S. Endangered Species Act. As Dr. Alagona puts it, After the Grizzly: Endangered Species and the Politics of Place in California “seeks to explain why Americans have often fought so bitterly about the...

The following article by Asya Pereltsvaig is from GeoCurrents (which “explores current events through a geographical lens. It is a geography blog dedicated to the peoples, places, and languages shaping the world“). It was posted on December 5, 2013 and titled “Islamic Fatwas, Grammatical Gender, and Translation—Or Beware of Those Sexualized Vegetables!”: A recent report in India Today mentions a fatwa...