Building Places to Thrive In: Toward More Just Geography Graduate Departments
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Date: 3/26/2023
Time: 8:30 AM - 9:50 AM
Room: Governors Square 15, Sheraton, Concourse Level
Type: Panel,
Theme: Toward More Just Geographies
Curated Track: AAG Careers and Professional Development
Sponsor Group(s):
AAG JEDI Committee, Black Geographies Specialty Group, Graduate Student Affinity Group
Organizer(s):
Meghan Cope University of Vermont
Debarchana Ghosh University of Connecticut
Mia White New School
Chair(s):
Debarchana Ghosh University of Connecticut
Mia White New School
Description:
While recent assessments have identified deficiencies in recruiting graduate students of color to US Geography programs (Jordan, Shortridge, and Darden, 2022a and 2022b; Solem, 2022), our attention is also drawn to the ongoing whiteness of the discipline and its graduate programs (Bruno & Faiver-Serna, 2021; Faria et al., 2019; Pulido, 2002). Compounding this, the discipline also continues to reproduce patriarchal, cis-gendered, heteronormative, ableist, and classist practices that construct and maintain exclusionary department cultures (Marín-Spiotta, et al. 2020) and reinforce mutually conditioning injustices (Cisneros & Guhlincozzi, 2022; Guhlincozzi & Cisneros, 2021; Kinkaid, 2019; Kinkaid & Fritzsche, 2022).
How can Geography Departments – especially their graduate programs -- move rapidly and thoughtfully toward diversity, equity, inclusion, and intersectional justice? What would a just geography department look like? What can we learn from cognate disciplines? What role can ‘accomplices’ (Jones, 2021) play in disrupting exclusionary, discriminatory, and exploitative practices and moving toward genuine transformative change?
This panel will engage geographers at a variety of career stages and positions to reflect on these questions and identify positive actions toward building welcoming cultures and intersectional justice in graduate-level Geography.
References:
Bruno, Tianna & Faiver-Serna, Cristina (2022) More Reflections on a White Discipline, The Professional Geographer, 74:1, 156-161. https://doi.org/10.1080/00330124.2021.1915822
Cisneros, Julia & Guhlincozzi, Aída (2022) Grappling with barriers in geosciences from the lens of two Latina geoscientists, Journal of Geoscience Education, DOI: 10.1080/10899995.2022.2128594
Faria, Caroline; Falola, Bisola; Henderson, Jane & Torres, Rebecca Maria (2019) A Long Way to Go: Collective Paths to Racial Justice in Geography, The Professional Geographer, 71:2, 364-376. https://doi.org/10.1080/00330124.2018.1547977
Guhlincozzi, Aída, & Cisneros, Julia (2021). A framework for addressing the lack of diversity in the Geosciences through evaluating the current structure of institutional efforts. GeoJournal, 87(S2), 171–183. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10708-021-10418-1
Jones, J. C. (2021). We need accomplices, not allies in the fight for an equitable geoscience. AGU Advances, 2(3), e2021AV000482. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021AV000482
Jordan, Demetrice R.; Shortridge, Ashton & Darden, Joe T. (2022a) Exploring Persistent Racial and Ethnic Representation Disparity in U.S. Geography Doctoral Programs: The Disciplinary Underrepresentation Gap, The Professional Geographer, 74:2, 193-220. https://doi.org/10.1080/00330124.2021.1986671
Jordan, Demetrice R.; Shortridge, Ashton & Darden, Joe T. (2022b) The Advancing Geography Through Diversity Program: A Framework to Address the Persistent Underrepresentation of Domestic Racial and Ethnic Minorities in U.S. Geography Doctoral Programs, The Professional Geographer, 74:3, 391-402. https://doi.org/10.1080/00330124.2021.2004900
Kinkaid, Eden (2019) At the limits of critical geography: Creative interventions into the exclusionary spaces of U.S. geography, Gender, Place & Culture, 26:12, 1784-1811 https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2019.1639633
Kinkaid, Eden & Fritzsche, Lauren (2022): The Stories We Tell: Challenging Exclusionary Histories of Geography in U.S. Graduate Curriculum, Annals of the American Association of Geographers https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2022.2072805
Marín-Spiotta, E., Barnes, R. T., Berhe, A. A., Hastings, M. G., Mattheis, A., Schneider, B., & Williams, B. M. (2020). Hostile climates are barriers to diversifying the geosciences. Advances in Geosciences, 53, 117–127. https://doi.org/10.5194/adgeo-53-117-2020
Pulido (2002) Reflections on a White Discipline, The Professional Geographer, 54:1, 42-49, https://doi.org/10.1111/0033-0124.00313
Solem, Michael (2022) Geography Achievement and Future Geographers, The Professional Geographer, https://doi.org/10.1080/00330124.2022.2081227
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Non-Presenting Participants
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| Panelist | Jovan Scott Lewis |
| Panelist | Aída Guhlincozzi University of Missouri |
| Panelist | Wan Yu Binghamton University |
| Panelist | John Frazier Binghamton University |
| Discussant | Eden Kincaid University of Arizona |
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Building Places to Thrive In: Toward More Just Geography Graduate Departments
Description
Type: Panel,
Date: 3/26/2023
Time: 8:30 AM - 9:50 AM
Room: Governors Square 15, Sheraton, Concourse Level
Contact the Primary Organizer
Meghan Cope University of Vermont
mcope@uvm.edu
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