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Natasha Myers, plant feelings, and the internal language of science

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As much as I complain about Twitter (and as I finally, after years, get a better hang of the site I do it less), it brings me some wonderful stuff, particularly along academic and activist lines. The following came across my feed a week or so ago about teaching a course in STS.

Encountering Iris Marion Young’s critique of community

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A mailing list for a research network which I’m a member of recently passed around Iris Marion Young’s “The Ideal of Community and the Politics of Difference,” and I tagged it to read (kind of a thing for me, as one of my major questions revolves around what exactly community is). Having managed one blog post for the first time in years, I thought I might jump in and do another one, this time a good bit more theoretical and academic.

Tourist cairns and the materiality of symbolic ownership

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Calum Macleod just wrote a fascinating blog post about the phenomenon of tourists building rock cairns at the ‘Fairy Glen’ in northern Skye, and the actions of annoyed residents who went and disassembled them. I don’t have a huge amount to add to his thoughts – particularly as I try to get back into the swing of this blogging thing – but as Dr. Macleod highlights, the connections to the notion of ownership as currently contested in rural Scotland seem particularly relevant.

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Spatial Analysis of Crime in the Evaluation of Public Housing Redevelopment

Published in Crime Mapping: A Journal of Research and Practice, 2012

A methodological paper on applying spatial stats to community-focused research

Recommended citation: Bacon, Michael T., and James Fraser. “Spatial Analysis of Crime in the Evaluation of Public Housing Redevelopment.” Crime Mapping: A Journal of Research and Practice 4, no. 2 (2012): 69–85. http://michaeltbacon.github.io/files/Bacon and Fraser - 2012 - Spatial Analysis of Crime in the Evaluation of Pub.pdf

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teaching

Introduction to GIS

Undergraduate course, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Geography, 2005

This is a description of a teaching experience. You can use markdown like any other post.