Sara Smith
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Love. Intimacy. Geopolitics. Political geographer at UNC-Chapel Hill. Author of Intimate Geopolitics and Political Geography: a Critical Introduction. She/her.
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I am awkward about self-promotion. But assign my books 😇 & reach out if you’d like me to visit your class! ❤️🔥 I have written a political geography intro (
@WileyGeoAnthro
), an intimate geopolitics ethnography (
@RutgersUPress
), & co-edited a feminist geog book 😊 (
@WVUPRESS
)
Fighting awkward feelings to say I wrote a book. I worked hard to start from thinkers & theories that inspire me & my students. So I begin from edges & ideas that aren’t necessarily thought of as central to political geography. Discount code is SSH20 😄
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Reviewing a paper and I am BEGGING you just BEGGING if you are going to talk about settler colonialism and Indigenous dispossession to READ and then CITE Native scholars how is this not obvious I am in pain trying to understand the logic here 😭😭😭
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Fighting awkward feelings to say I wrote a book. I worked hard to start from thinkers & theories that inspire me & my students. So I begin from edges & ideas that aren’t necessarily thought of as central to political geography. Discount code is SSH20 😄
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Folks!! I have been meaning and meaning to share this event put on by the lovely Making Abolition in Geography folks!!! November 4th, in RALEIGH!! ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
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This does not make me feel safe!!!! Bring back the students I LOVE the students we protect!! ♥️😭
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What political work does comfort do? When is discomfort politically productive? Who does the work of enduring discomfort? We take up these questions that feel too salient to our times in “Political geographies of discomfort feminism”
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Universities sell “global” experience but are in a shambles when students assert global solidarities or acknowledge the historical and ongoing global inequalities that are manifest in the establishment and maintenance of the university itself.
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I’m so glad to see Pallavi Gupta’s really careful, ethnographically and theoretically rigorous article out in the Annals: “Geographies of Waiting: Politics, Methods, and Praxis—A Case Study of Indian Railway Stations”
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Rumors are true, I’ve been promoted to full professor, to my surprise & thanks to the love & support of so many & sheer luck. I feel humbled & grateful & well aware how many MUCH smarter & harder working scholars don’t get this far because of structural racism & other barriers.
Yay for
@GeogSara
being promoted to Full Professor! If there's anything I've learned in the 19 yrs since we sat together in grad school orientation, it's that if you're in a desert with nothing but a tiny pony (metaphorically speaking), it's good to have a Sara leading the way.
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If I could write like my kid I would quit my day job 💃🥺😅 her opening lines are so startling to me. Especially, “there’s all sorts of ways to live…”
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I feel so moved by the last days spent with my daughter at the UNC encampment, a space of love & care where she felt so safe & happy she didn’t want to leave. She’s making personalized thank you cards for organizers, if you are wondering what these “dangerous” activists are like.
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🚨Y’all I’m teaching a new class: ❤️🔥Global Environmental Justice❤️🔥
HELP!! Pls recommend readings!!!
A couple ideas I have are beginning from anthropocene debates & unsettling global by starting from here/the university/stolen land & plantation questions in a Lisa Lowe kinda way
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Adding my voice to the chorus asking for a reckoning at UNC-CH with a letter I sent to admin this morning.
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Academic writing in solidarity!
@Ranjana_rahul
& a lovely group of scholars started a conversation on North/South academic gatekeeping. We made a mutual aid spreadsheet for folks based in/from South Asia. Click to contribute or seek editing assistance!
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Lovely folks, WE ARE HIRING! ❤️🔥I am thrilled that our department is participating in the much needed UNC-Chapel Hill Native & Indigenous Studies cluster hire & have been waiting for this ad to come out. I’m on the committee & am happy to chat. More below!
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🚨 Please help!! 🚨 I am chatting with folks working on their book manuscripts and want a list of book fellowships at my fingertips to help out so they can focus on the writing!!the ones I know of are:
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The cover to my book is public! Can't express how grateful I am to Chemat Dorjey, who generously provided the artwork "Mountains are the true ancestor." Follow him: . Grateful to Jasper Chang
@RutgersUPress
who made it possible to work w/ Ladakhi artist.❤️
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🚨geography (& friends) emergency!! Please help me & [redacted]. What are your favorite ethnographies or archival work in which the author’s own family history or community ties shapes that work?? E.g., a classic is
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Get your pen, write this down ❤️🔥 we have a wonderful series of events as part of the Landback Abolition Project! We are working to think Black & Indigenous Geographies together through readings & events & we are starting strong. I can’t wait to learn from these stellar scholars.
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ALSO don’t cite in that corny way where it’s the one guy everyone has heard of and also you didn’t actually read it. ok thanks in advance 😭😭😭 we all EVERY one of us NEED to try harder on some aspect of our citation politics me included but come on
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🚨HELP! If you follow me you know one of my joys in life is my extremely bright, serious, generous, insightful PhD students. This year, 2 are on the market! I need you to 1. Hire them or 2. tell me things they should apply for! They are Pallavi Gupta & Lara Lookabaugh! ❤️🔥 see ⬇️
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UNC Faculty and Staff: Surely our students are why we are here. Bring back our students! Overturn the suspensions! Please join us and sign! Link below!
♥️♥️♥️
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I love political geography so much that...I wrote a book about it! It was a complete delight to read more widely in the discipline and find it to be full of vibrant & critical scholarship. Coming April 2020 thanks to the love and patience of my friends and family. ❤️🔥
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My kid started a petition at her school for kids to be allowed to garden there and today the principal came in and said…ok kids let’s go garden then 😭😭😭 now it’s an optional activity every Tuesday and Wednesday for her class and she’s so happy 😭🌿🌱🍃🌱🌿🥺❤️🔥
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❤️Abolition geographers!!❤️🔥 Pls join us at AAG to talk global struggles for abolition. We are an ad hoc coalition of geographers interested in the role of police, military, & surveillance on campuses, in our discipline, our departments, in our conferences, & our complicity.
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One thing I LOVE about me (🙄) is that when I start prepping a lecture on political geography I completely forget I wrote a BOOK about it and just start flailing around from scratch like it’s a brand new topic.🙃😫😇😭
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The latest in my collaboration w Andrew Curley on temporal geographies: we ask, where are Native people in the plantationocene? What do we see & not see if we take up this framework? Grateful to the
@theAAG
Annals!
Unruly River and Plantation Logics
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Y’all we are in proofs ☺️❤️🔥
When it actually is out I’ll include all the articles in a thread! we are waiting on a couple more to get through proofs
@mgergan
@GeogPavi
@pallavi_geog
@lara_lookabaugh
@CarSer24
@Cait_McMillan
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Am I your reviewer number 2??? Maybe!!!! But listen this could be like 3 papers I’ve reviewed this year so I’m going to need you all to stay home reading until you figure this out
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Help!! Running a dissertation & thesis writing workshop! Y’all had such great advice last week re: comprehensive exams! What is your favorite advice for writing up? ✨✨
I’ll start with things I tell folks, but 1st is: your relationship to writing CAN change!! ❤️🔥
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Making homemade ice cream on this Saturday morning to mark the best thing that ever happened to me in my life. I love her so much I can’t even stand it. 🥰🥰🥰
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❤️🔥 MARK YOUR CALENDARS ❤️🔥
Andrew Curley has a book coming out & all the smart people are already talking abt it 🔥
Author meets Critics: Carbon Sovereignty Coal, Development,& Energy Transition in the Navajo Nation
3/24 | 8:30 AM | Capitol Ballroom 7, Hyatt Regency, 4th Floor
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This was a good mail day!! 🔥🔥🔥it has arrived! Get yours 😊
@banugokariksel
@neubertc
@mikey_does_geog
@WVUPRESS
@DerekKrissoff
@eponandre
@JenFluri
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Folks! Since fall
@daniellepurifoy
& I have been working to launch a UNC Landback Abolition Project. Join us! Our classes are doing research for justice in service to those in relation to UNC near & far. We are soliciting community-driven questions:
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This is truly heartbreaking and terrifying and every time I see one of these stories I can’t help but think about how it seems impossible for one of these events *not* to happen at, for example, a college campus.
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These are the students admin told police to throw around & arrest & hurt and I will never forgive them. They want to stop people from getting hurt in Gaza, that’s their only goal. To end violence. Maybe everyone be so expansive in their love for others as these young people ♥️
I feel so moved by the last days spent with my daughter at the UNC encampment, a space of love & care where she felt so safe & happy she didn’t want to leave. She’s making personalized thank you cards for organizers, if you are wondering what these “dangerous” activists are like.
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Proofs submitted!!! ❤️🔥 Feminist Geography Unbound: Discomfort, Bodies, and Prefigured Futures coming in early 2021!
@banugokariksel
@neubertc
@mikey_does_geog
🎊🎊🎊
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🚨Friends, I am really glad to share this article out today (!) by Pallavi Gupta: "Broomscapes: racial capitalism, waste, and caste in Indian Railway Stations," part of the
@ERSjournal
special issue: "Racialization through the Indian Context"
@geographyunc
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I was TRULY startled a couple weeks back to be notified I received the James Fisher Prize from the Association of Nepal and Himalayan Studies and today I got this lovely card and check too. Absolutely undeserved but I am really grateful! ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
@anhs_himalaya
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❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥 can’t believe this is out! I’ll do a thread soon 😭
@SocietyandSpace
Desirable futures: Time as possibility, practice, politics - Mabel Denzin Gergan, Pallavi Gupta, Lara Lookabaugh, Caitilin McMillan, Carlos Serrano, Sara Smith, Pavithra Vasudevan
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Very grateful for this engagement with my political geography book! As it came out in pandemic & is a different kind of book I sometimes feel it went into a void. Thank you!! 🙏“What’s the purpose of teaching political geography?”
@Pol_Geog_Jl
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If you are criticizing student tactics when military tactics are enacting massacres!! Get to the front of the line and stop the war then!! 💔💔💔 I can’t stand the images from Rafah.
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Getting off zoom after work and finding out my kid was quiet because she was making her own animal worlds from scratch😭🥰❤️❤️❤️
🐓🐄 🐕 🐖 🐐 ❤️❤️❤️
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Taking money from DEI to fund police. Too mad to make a joke about how morally wrong this is. 💔
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It’s a beautiful day to have class outside and stand up for justice ♥️🇵🇸 come out!
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Just so happy to see the story of our FLOCK zine in the world! Thnks to
@ACMEJournal
,
@jgieseking
❤️don’t have words to say how much this messy project taught me 😭 w/
@jgieseking
@GeogPavi
@banugokariksel
@neubertc
@mike_hawkins_
@lara_lookabaugh
@scholarwright
@MelEiriniPadley
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Peer reviewing a paper I meant to write ten years ago and even have a folder about 😂. Good on you, anonymous scholar(s), I guess I can cross that off my to do list. 🥳 Also you are doing a better job than I would have so thanks! 😊🙏😆💁♀️
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Y’all please join me in congratulating the wonderful Dr. Lara Lookabaugh ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥.
@lara_lookabaugh
defended her careful & insightful dissertation, “Curating the Past, Weaving the Future: Decolonial Feminist Politics of Time and Memory,” this morning!
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Thresholds of territory, time, and intimacy - Sara Smith, 2023
❤️🔥I’ll share properly when the whole forum is out! ❤️🔥
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Please congratulate PhD CANDIDATE Carlos Serrano
@CarSer24
for passing comps!! Carlos's dissertation is titled "Empire's Paradise: Miami & the Reproduction of US Empire." so grateful to his stellar committee:
@banugokariksel
,
@daniellepurifoy
,
@merleaux_april
& Sharon Holland 🔥
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Toward “Total Freedom”: Black Ecologies of Land, Labor, Livelihoods in the Mississippi Delta
@cfresssh
how is your
@theAAG
article out and I don’t hear about it immediately!!
@brainilliams
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Campus safe and beautiful a few days ago: eating bagels, drinking coffee, talking about books and how to stop an unjust war. ♥️♥️♥️ This is the peaceful world the students created and want for everyone: access to food, water, education, love. Please don’t believe the lies.
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My kid said she’s making a magazine called…
IRRATIONAL Geographic 😆🤣😂and this is the first page
NO NOTES
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Privileged foreign tourists in the global south demanding the very most & trying to pay the least 🙄. The whole global economy is set up in your favor & you don’t deserve to pay local prices!!! You aren’t part of this community & cause too much trouble to get a discount! Thanks!
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Whatever you are doing, please stop. Go read Dr. Pavithra Vasudevan's devastating, insightful, and richly researched article, on Badin, NC, "An Intimate Inventory of Race and Waste." I have been eagerly awaiting its publication.
@geographyunc
@BlackGeogs
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🚨 Geography emergency pls help!!
@lara_lookabaugh
and I feel like there have to be geographers writing about the archive as a place or as a space. But we cannot find it! Is this you? Have you read something like this? Help!!!
Thanks!! 😊 💕
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Started reading this on my phone & stopped so I can print it out and take notes 😭 it’s so good
I wrote a thing. It turned into a manifesto about university intervention, ethics, & community-driven work. “My point here is that these examples of abuses related to access and knowledge production aren’t a perversion of the academic enterprise; they are a central imperative.”
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Y’all please congratulate everyone’s favorite geographer, Dr. Andrew Curley, who not only just published a book but also just received U of Arizona’s Early Career Scholar Award.🏆
@wahgraphy
we all have learned so much from you even tho or perhaps because you’re also goofy ❤️🔥🤗
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Student activists have profoundly shaped our university spaces and we are in their debt. I’m so grateful Omololu Babatunde, who labored to take the name of a KKK leader off our building, which we now call Hurston. Please support her new plans as an artist:
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Ok 😘
When students see you on screen this fall, they need to see someone professorial, someone who has created a classroom space that feels organized and free of distractions.
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🚨Help meeee!!🆘 You helped so much w my last geography emergency. Pls share favorite recent qualitative methods pieces for my grad/ugrad syllabus!! I didn’t teach this since 2017 & I am ⚡️excited ✨to teach it again! ❤️🔥 don’t be shy to promote yourself!
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Doing a university-mandated training on harassment and diversity issues at UNC and honestly the dissonance is physically painful 😖 I can barely take it
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Delighted, humbled, but mostly terrified to be interviewed by the wonderful Bhoomika Joshi for the
@NewBooksNetwork
podcast, about Intimate Geopolitics: Love, territory, and the future on India’s Northern Threshold. Thanks to
@mgergan
for introducing us!
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Given all that has happened in 2022/last year/since my birth…I cannot believe I am lucky enough to be in proofs w/ some of my favorites❤️🔥. This article was honestly so hard & I learned so much & I’m really grateful for these people!! I’ll share more when it’s out.
@neubertc
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First day of class nothing but vibes (NERVES!!!) and looking like a duck 🦆 ❤️😆 good luck to us all, stay safe out there 😭😷❤️
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Regret to announce that my daughter has learned she can google me and that’s what she’s been doing instead of her social studies assignment 😅 please help she’s laughing uncontrollably
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For my grad research design class I ask grads to pick researcher role models who inspire them ethically, politically, intellectually. My idea is to help students not only be successful researchers & get funding but also align their ethical values & LOVE reading these so much ❤️🔥
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Working on this special issue w beautiful people & in this journal meant more than I can say. I realized how much I thrive in community & the potential of prefiguring futures by trying to enact joy & love in our work. I’m so grateful. Read EVERY article! We wrote it for you. ❤️🔥❤️🔥
Issue 1 of 2024 on "Desirable Futures" is out, and mostly Open Access! As the editors' Intro states, the issue "offers a window into capacious desires & futurities, showing how to rethink relations of labor, land & life for just & desirable futures."
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Chapel Hill has 1 of the “best” school districts in NC, & the THIRD biggest opportunity gap in the country. What role does racial capitalism & the university play in this structuring of unequal futures? Read
@CarSer24
’s new Antipode article to learn more!
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Y’all I have said this before but when you don’t set up your public google scholar page & make it public I can’t find everything you ever wrote which is what I’m trying to do! Help a nerd out over here I wanna read & cite you!! It takes 2 minutes!
🤓😩😭
x10 for junior scholars
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❤️🔥 This book is RIVETING ❤️🔥 w heartbreaking, insightful storytelling & analysis. Join us @
#AAG2023
for: Living with Oil & Coal in a wonderful author-meets-critics session on
@DollyKikon
’s book, organized by
@mgergan
: Sun 3/26, 8:30AM Capitol Ballroom 5, Hyatt Regency, 4th fl
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It’s just like every day there are 15 ok minutes in a row and then you know something horrible is about to happen. 😫 and then it does. Feeling for every international student who is worried right now. We will do our best for you. 💔
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Grateful for a second evening in this place with these people ♥️🇵🇸
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Now these are COLLEAGUES ♥️
.
@UNC
faculty plan to deliver a petition to UNC admin to demand amnesty for students who were suspended after last week’s pro-Palestinian protests. Faculty say several students have been banned from campus for up to two years. Over 750 people have signed the petition.
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Y’all, I tried a new trick this semester & am so happy w it I wanna share: a collaborative notes document for students to create along as part of participation. I set up a sign up & template the first day of class & it runs itself. I LOVE how it turned out ❤️🔥 highly recommend! ❤️🔥
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Fellow faculty, there’s nothing preventing you from checking in with your students now to see what they need from you this week. ❤️ Follow the leadership shown by our students.
Leaders of UNC Undergraduate Student Government and the Graduate and Professional Student Government Call for a Pause to Instruction
Joint statement with
@unc_execbranch
1/9
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Yes!!! ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥 We are beyond fortunate!!
🎉 Congratulations to Danielle Purifoy, assistant professor of geography, for being named a 2024 American Association of Geographers Fellow.
@daniellepurifoy
@geographyunc
@theAAG
📸 by Anna Carson DeWitt
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How charming are the folks at UK geography?!?! I think this is the first time I’ve gotten a post-talk care package 🥰😊
@jgieseking
@McCutcheonPR
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Obsessed with this book, it’s so generative for…everything 😭❤️🔥
🔃🔃🔃
if you have cited it in geographic work please share your piece!! I’d love to read it! My kid likes it too, we have been reading to each other, hers is animals on a boat eating stale biscuits tho.
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My husband explaining geography to my daughter, “so Europe is like the butt of Asia.” 😆🗺
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UC Berkeley is beyond lucky 🥺❤️🔥 absolute dream colleague not just brilliant but also generous, hilarious, sun, shares her french toast, just the best! ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥 I am so inspired and blessed lately getting to know just some of the best scholars 🥰
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🚨 Y’all I am going to read a bunch of Eve Tuck this week and would love to know your favorites!! ❤️🔥 please tell me! I’m reading this one rn. 🙏🙏🙏
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Y’all HELP!! ❤️🚨
I woke up this morning really in the mood to…write a book 🤡
What are the book fellowships? I know NHC & Radcliffe, what others? I never applied for a book fellowship in my long life 📚 🤓
Please reply & circulate let’s make a list! 🙏
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Jenny Tone-Pah-Hote was a joy & a gift. I can’t believe she is gone. Jenny shows up to your baby shower with hand-beaded shoes. I’ve never known a more infectious laugh. She’s the kindest most radiant person I ever met. A devastating loss I am struggling to understand.
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Stole an hour to read about letters for a desirable futures project & did not anticipate the simultaneous heartbreak & repair 💔 grateful to these authors & highly recommend. 😭❤️🔥 thanks fo
@jgieseking
@getrael
@DebanujDasgupt1
& JP Catungal for bringing this work to geography.
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Something cool about me is I wrote a whole book about political geography yet every August I stare blankly at my first year seminar syllabus on political geography like who KNOWS what this is about!! How to organize the class! Wish there was a book for this!!! 💃🪩🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🪩💃
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Don’t worry about us, for we have tied our giant spider to the ground. ✨
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EVERYONE CONGRATULATE CHRIS NEUBERT!!!! 😊🥳☺️ He just defended his dissertation, "Queering Modern Agriculture: Enduring Crises and Optimistic Futures in Rural America,” but also I will miss him!! Even though he already left us for the senate budget committee 🥳🥳🥳
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