Historians Cameron Blevins and Annelise Heinz use digital mapping technology to uncover a hidden geography of lesbian life in the 1970s and 1980s, tracing patterns of connection among lesbian women in urban areas, small towns, and rural America.
Today, there's a broad understanding that American cities are operating in unsustainable ways. How does this untenable model persist? As author Rahim Kurwa explains, it has to do with offloading crises to cities' peripheries.
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Author Luis F. Alvarez Leon argues that asserting the power of place to reframe digital capitalism in geographic terms is a way to reclaim the digital as part of our social world.
In "Building the Black City," Joe William Trotter, Jr., traces the growth of Black cities and political power from the preindustrial era to the present.
While rising insurance rates in New Orleans reflect the challenges of engineering away from danger, we are drawn to something more powerful than a hurricane: a fierce cultural persistence for breaking bread in the ruins.
Environmental injustice has become much more visible in recent years, thankfully, and people are looking for ways to incorporate environmental justice frameworks more explicitly into their research and teaching.
