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Jul. 15th, 2013 08:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogIt's kind of absurdly hot up here today. The window A/C unit is going to go back in for Danae's visit this weekend.
Speaking of said sexy-brained kitty, she pointed out some grad programs that I might have entirely missed, or at least taken longer to come upon, that look deeply intriguing to me. I'd read a paper a while back by a woman whose academic specialty was Marxist geography. I found the concept fascinating, but geography never came to mind in my program search. I thought of it as a rather quantitative, hard-science kind of field.
Than Danae showed me a couple of programs like this. https://www.maxwell.syr.edu/geo/Culture,_Justice_and_Urban_Space
"...feminist, cultural, and Marxist geographies...", "...geographies of memory in postindustrial cities..."
There's so much more to geography than where things are. Since I'll be at Parkside working on a GIS certificate anyway, I'm going to look for more social geography type courses that might give me a better background in this kind of approach. I really see a lot of overlap, at least in interests (I don't know enough about methodologies yet) between urban anthropology and these kinds of qualitative urban geographies. I'm writing a few professors at programs like this. I really hope I hear back; I'd like to talk to them about whether I'd be a good fit coming at this from a participant observation, anthropology kind of perspective.
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In other news, I biked home from Uptown this morning. I was going to get on the red line, then bike from Linden, but I was too late getting going and they don't let bikes on the CTA cars between 7 and 9. So I figured, "what the hell," and started peddling.
It was only 7 more miles added to the usual 40 mile Evanston - Kenosha trip, but that last seven miles was grueling, I was coming up on a wall in Winthrop Harbor. If it had been any further, I would have had to stop and rest. I think I got dehydrated too; the temperature and sun were really bad. Next time, I know better; more breaks and more drinks, even if I have to stop and buy them.
Speaking of said sexy-brained kitty, she pointed out some grad programs that I might have entirely missed, or at least taken longer to come upon, that look deeply intriguing to me. I'd read a paper a while back by a woman whose academic specialty was Marxist geography. I found the concept fascinating, but geography never came to mind in my program search. I thought of it as a rather quantitative, hard-science kind of field.
Than Danae showed me a couple of programs like this. https://www.maxwell.syr.edu/geo/Culture,_Justice_and_Urban_Space
"...feminist, cultural, and Marxist geographies...", "...geographies of memory in postindustrial cities..."
There's so much more to geography than where things are. Since I'll be at Parkside working on a GIS certificate anyway, I'm going to look for more social geography type courses that might give me a better background in this kind of approach. I really see a lot of overlap, at least in interests (I don't know enough about methodologies yet) between urban anthropology and these kinds of qualitative urban geographies. I'm writing a few professors at programs like this. I really hope I hear back; I'd like to talk to them about whether I'd be a good fit coming at this from a participant observation, anthropology kind of perspective.
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In other news, I biked home from Uptown this morning. I was going to get on the red line, then bike from Linden, but I was too late getting going and they don't let bikes on the CTA cars between 7 and 9. So I figured, "what the hell," and started peddling.
It was only 7 more miles added to the usual 40 mile Evanston - Kenosha trip, but that last seven miles was grueling, I was coming up on a wall in Winthrop Harbor. If it had been any further, I would have had to stop and rest. I think I got dehydrated too; the temperature and sun were really bad. Next time, I know better; more breaks and more drinks, even if I have to stop and buy them.
