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Observations on Darwin and geography. Michael A Summerfield
Environment and Planning A

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Environmental History - President's Address Nancy Langston 2009
www.environmentalhistory.net
Environmental History (EH) is the leading journal in the world for scholars, scientists, and practitioners who are interested in human interactions with the natural world over time. Includes articles, discussion forum, image gallery, essays, bibliography, and special online resources for teaching with EH.
The Nature of Circulation: The Urban Political Ecology of Chicago's Michigan Avenue Bridge, 1909-1930
Urban Geography
The idea that the urban environment is socially produced and contested is a central concern of urban political ecology. Drawing from the theme of circulation, it is argued that Chicago's Michigan Avenue Bridge is a socio-physical manifestation of capitalist urban nature that had important repercussions for the city's landscape, particularly the development of North Michigan Avenue. As fixed capital, the bridge functioned as a metabolic vehicle that facilitated and enhanced the circulation of capital within the rapidly expanding metropolis. Chicago's Michigan Avenue Bridge is an example of how power geometries shape social, political, and urban environments.
- Content Type Journal Article
- Category Article
- DOI 10.2747/0272-3638.31.3.348
- Authors
  - Jason Cooke, University of Toronto
  - Robert Lewis, University of Toronto
Outdoors versus indoors? Angling ponds, climbing walls and changing expectations of environmental leisure
Area
This paper compares two types of purpose-built recreational space [ndash] indoor climbing walls and outdoor fishing ponds [ndash] using participant observation and interviews with climbers and anglers in England. We show how these notionally 'indoor' and 'outdoor' spaces have strong similarities in terms of how they are used and perceived. We draw on literature about consumption and technology to demonstrate changing expectations and social norms about using each space. We also compare walls and ponds with supermarkets to highlight how this consumerist interpretation is used in a moral ordering of leisure behaviour. We therefore take a very different approach from research that emphasises sensation, risk and embodiment in outdoor leisure and adventure tourism. Instead, we show how such spaces reflect modernist domestication and control, problematising the indoor/outdoor dualism and emphasising the multiple experiences of environmental leisure.
Paper trails: The Outdoor Recreation Resource Review Commission and the rationalization of recreational resources
ScienceDirect Publication: Geoforum
Publication year: 2010
Source: Geoforum, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 22 January 2010
Brent A., Olson

This article examines the history of the Outdoor Recreation Resource Review Commission (ORRRC) in the United States between 1955 and 1963 and efforts to make recreational resources legible for federal governance. By drawing on insights from Critical Resource Geography, I highlight the ways that the ORRRC systematically accounted for and categorized recreational resources, creating a “patchwork landscape” that zoned outdoor recreational resources and promoted efficient use and rational resource conservation. I argue that these efforts required a negotiation between abstraction and an awareness of the situated nature of recreational landscapes.
Immigrant "Illegality" as Neoliberal Governmentality in Leadville, Colorado
Antipode
In this paper, I frame immigrant "illegality" as a local-scale technique of neoliberal governmentality. Drawing on recent work of anthropologists, I present illegality as a racialized, spatialized social condition which operates as governmentality by marginalizing and criminalizing immigrants, loosening the US border and forcing it into local spaces, and impacting immigrants' everyday lives and mobility. The paper then draws on a case study of Leadville, Colorado, to illustrate the utility of this framework. In Leadville, we see how through illegality neoliberalism seeps through scales. Illegality disciplines immigrant labor in service of the neoliberal order, turns all residents into surveillers of immigrants' subordinate sociospatial position, and masks contradictions within neoliberalism that arise particularly at the local scale. I argue that conceptualizing illegality as a governmentality technique provides a powerful tool for understanding changing state spatiality, especially ways in which neoliberalism is diffused and embedded into local economic, political, and social processes.
Academic geography as terra incognita: lessons from the 'expedition debate' and another border to cross
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
Amenity migration, exurbia, and emerging rural landscapes: global natural amenity as place and as process
GeoJournal
Amenity migration, exurbia, and emerging rural landscapes: global natural amenity as place and as process
- Content Type Journal Article
- DOI 10.1007/s10708-009-9335-0
- Authors
  - Kirsten Valentine Cadieux, University of Minnesota Department of Geography 267 19th Avenue South Minneapolis MN 55455 USA
  - Patrick T. Hurley, Ursinus College Environmental Studies Program P.O. Box 1000 Collegeville PA 19426 USA
Geography in interdisciplinarity: Towards a third conversation
ScienceDirect Publication: Geoforum
Publication year: 2009
Source: Geoforum, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 29 December 2009
Gregory L., Simon , Jessica K., Graybill

The ‘era of interdisciplinarity’ heralds collaborative inquiry as effective for addressing complex issues at the nexus of disciplinary interests. Geographers have long argued that they are particularly well-suited to contribute to interdisciplinary endeavors because of the breadth and depth that the discipline enfolds. However, within the literature about geography and interdisciplinarity, we find only two rather limiting conversations. The first conversation is concerned with the role(s) and position of geography within academia and focuses on what geographers can do to distinguish themselves while also improving their interactions with scholars from other disciplines. The second conversation largely revolves around how best...
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