The California Geographer Vol. 57 (2018)
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Journal of California Geographical Society2024-03-29T11:44:19ZDirect Experience in the American West
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Direct Experience in the American West
Perdue, Nicholas
Derrick, Matthew; Sherriff, Rosemary
When news broke that a group of armed militants had seized the headquarters of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge on January 2, 2016, many people around the country grasped for context in order to understand what was happening and why. What they may have found is that the refuge and its surrounding areas of Harney County are spaces in which issues of federal lands, ecosystem conservation, rural economics, libertarian politics, indigenous rights, and human-animal relationships converge in a unique, but not entirely isolated, way in the broader geographic region of the American West. But understanding these convergences at particular sites in more than superficial ways, especially for people not from the rural intermountain west, requires time spent sitting high in the desert mountains or driving down endless dirt roads. It requires listening to locals as they share a sense of place and a careful study of the plants and animals that encode
2018-01-01T00:00:00ZField Notes from South Korea: Local Development in the Land of Securitized Peace
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Field Notes from South Korea: Local Development in the Land of Securitized Peace
Martin, Bridget
Derrick, Matthew; Sherriff, Rosemary
South Korean landscapes are profoundly shaped by the country's unending war with North Korea. Although the leaders of North and South Korea recently agreed to negotiate an end to the Korean War in the coming months, Korea's peace is tenuous and securitized, undergirded by massive military complexes on both sides of the border. From the anti-tank berms that cut through rice paddies in the northern border area to the United States military's Chinook helicopters that whiz back and forth delivering supplies to a remote missile-defense base in the south, it seems that no part of South Korea is free of reminders that the conflict between north and south is still unresolved.
2018-01-01T00:00:00ZBook Review: Trespassers?: Asian Americans and the Battle for Suburbia
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Book Review: Trespassers?: Asian Americans and the Battle for Suburbia
Benson, Heather
Derrick, Matthew; Sherriff, Rosemary
The United States -- land of immigrants, historically considered a multicultural melting pot -- has recently become the setting of an outbreak of xenophobia. All manner of peoples standing outside of the mainstream encounter 'exclusionary geographies' that can be mapped, interpreted, and critiqued, with sensitivity shown to both structuring forces from without and felt forces from within. These people may be excluded because of who they are, how they look, what they do and think, and are therefore deemed 'out of place' or even 'trespassers' in a range of mainstream spaces (Gregory, Johnston, Pratt, Watts, and Whatmore 2009). Trespassers?: Asian Americans and the Battle for Suburbia is organized around landscapes that tell a story about Asian Americans' struggles to make their homes in Silicon Valley.
2018-01-01T00:00:00ZField Notes from Kyrgyzstan: Bishkek's New Religious Landscapes
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Field Notes from Kyrgyzstan: Bishkek's New Religious Landscapes
Derrick, Matthew
Derrick, Matthew; Sherriff, Rosemary
I arrived last September in Bishkek, the capital city of Kyrgyzstan, to begin a yearlong sabbatical researching new religious landscapes in this enclave of Central Eurasia. As geographers are wont, I spent those first weeks afoot, familiarizing myself with the city's contours, its boulevards, squares, side streets, and alleyways, along the way gawking at the monumental Mahmud Kashgari (see Figure 1) and other 'mega-mosques,' as I've taken to call the behemoth temples that have been cropping up in Bishkek and other post-Soviet Muslim capitals. Kyrgyzstan, like Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan, gained its independence upon the dissolution of the USSR in late 1991, and most of its citizens claim at least nominal adherence to Islam.
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