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📢🚨👉 AAG Unruly Natures 2026!!
Thursday 3/19, 7:30-10pm @ Standard Deviant Brewing
Birzeit University affirms that education will remain an act of anti-colonial resistance, and that the University will continue to be a space for knowledge and freedom, despite all attempts at repression and aggression.
www.birzeit.edu/en/news/stat...
My students loved that chapter at the end of geography of US empire I just finished last semester!
Every single professor or instructor of record or TA in higher education needs to start handing out way more 0s when students bullshit their way through an assignment. The "you get 50% for turning something in" asinine standard enables fascism. Do it for Mel, & for all our sake
Save the Date for the People's Special Meeting -- Oct 17 12PM EDT
Join us for the People's Special Meeting to discuss what BDS and solidarity should look like in the AAG!
What is the history of member-driven change in the AAG? (hint: there have indeed been previous member votes in AAG, and some were even on "troubling world events"!). The graphic shows the AAG newsletter heading and describes following posts as "a look into the AAG archives"
What is the history of member-driven change in the AAG?
Our archival research has shown that member-driven political activity has been common in AAG's history, including struggles around the Equal Rights Amendment; the US funding of contras in Nicaragua; and nuclear proliferation and war.
How have geographers, geography departments, and geographic thought been affected by Israel?
I’ll be moderating!
Looking for a post-2020 feminist (broadly defined) text I can call on specifically in a teaching statement!!
For so long I structured my feminist pedagogy as welcoming killjoy into the classroom. But now I'm faced with responding to student evals that are the exact opposite, accusing me of being the killjoy, "biased" and too focused on on "identity politics"
Re-appearing to ask a niche question: in 2015 Sara Ahmed wrote "Against Students," in which the "complaining" or "censorious" student was mostly left-wing/feminist. But now the largest % of student complaints are "against woke" -- any reading recs on that? thenewinquiry.com/against-stud...
5th ISA Forum of Sociology is right around the corner - If you are in Rabat, join us and follow our activities during the Forum through this link:
drive.proton.me/urls/S4H3ZHN...
Ft @geogboycott.bsky.social buttons 👀
Clover was both the high water mark for faculty solidarity and also acted--rightfully--that what he did was the bare minimum. Sometimes things got contentious, but never ever uncomradely. Those of us who end up in the TT can only hope to emulate his model.
I still have to admit I don't always get the literary but it's been beautiful to read his poems the past day. And he didn't really care what methods people used, as long as they were committed for real, and he knew how to get you to commit for real in a supportive way.
I took his semi-annual Reading Marx class with a bunch of English grad students & then just me over in the corner, an itinerant geographer in a program that was often so quant & uncritical. I already knew him as a supporter of student activism but not as a teacher, and he was a really good teacher.
The other week I found myself telling my students Capital Vol 1 starts at the end but ends at the beginning, and using sweaters/"the sweaterizer" machine as my commodity metaphor. That's all Jclo. He lives on in many ways big & small but, I'll hold this small one with particular fondness.
Can’t stop won’t stop
If you’re a paid up AAG member and haven’t signed, DM me for the petition!
I remember when they first opened they just had random old chairs like clearly scavenged from people’s houses. Their new chairs are nice but I appreciated the way the old ones completed the auntie house aesthetic
Had a heartening time at #AAG2025 especially organizing with @geogboycott.bsky.social — an antidote to despair in these times! Worth it to come home to 40+ ungraded midterms…
@geographers.bsky.social join us tomorrow (Tue) 8:30 am for Decolonial Methodologies from Palestine to the Americas. 3 incredible Palestinian political ecologists in convo with decolonial and Indigenous geographers of North & South America. Hybrid! Check the app for location & Zoom. #AAG2025
@geogboycott.bsky.social
I’m en route to Detroit for #AAG2025 and we have our first two pieces in our new ongoing series on Mapping Palestine up at @jadaliyya.bsky.social ! @geographers.bsky.social www.jadaliyya.com/Details/46572
Mark your calendars for the 2025 Unruly Natures Party
@geographers.bsky.social!
In addition to the seven "Dismantling the Palestine Exception" sessions we've organized at the AAG, we have also collected a list of related plenaries, panels, and paper sessions on Palestinian geographies. These are now available at geog4pal.org/aag/related-...
Really exciting to have helped with this. We have a long way to go still and need all hands on deck! If you are a geographer please sign; if you are coming to AAG in Detroit sign up for our pre conference happening March 23!
Israel is continuing an offensive on the West Bank city of Jenin that analysts say is meant to appease the settler movement as it pushes the government to exert more control over the occupied territory in preparation for annexation.
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/01/jenin-is-only-the-beginning-israel…
That was in 2013. But my research and volunteering has been in Jenin many times since then but not in the camp as much, more in the villages. Hoping to be back this summer, was last there 2021-2022
