Job Announcement: TT Assistant Professor of human geography; please feel free to contact me with any questions.

Description

The Department of Geography in the College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of human geography beginning September 2019. We seek a scholar who shows exceptional promise as an intellectual leader in the field of political ecology emphasizing quantitative or mixed methods with a focus on natural resources. A strong candidate will have disciplinary overlap in the areas of urban geography, political geography, or both, and regional expertise in Sub-Saharan Africa or Asia. However, applicants with expertise in any sub-discipline of human geography are invited to apply. This position will provide the opportunity to interact with colleagues in the department’s well-established climatology and physical geography programs, new hires in GIS and big data, and connections to units on campus including the Environmental Humanities Working Group, Area Studies Programs, the Water Science and Policy Graduate Program, the Delaware Environmental Institute, and the Disaster Research Center. The Geography Department at the University of Delaware is a nationally and internationally recognized department that offers undergraduate degrees in Geography, Environmental Science and Environmental Studies, and Meteorology, MA and MS degrees in Geography, Ph.D. degrees in Geography and Climatology, and a graduate-level certificate program in Geographic Information Science. Our research and teaching interact extensively with programs across campus and beyond. Questions regarding this position (but not applications) may be addressed to the committee chair Dana Veron, dveron@udel.edu. Review of applications will begin on October 5, 2018, and will continue until the position is filled. Further information about our department and programs may be found at www.udel.edu/Geography.https://apply.interfolio.com/53142

Recognized by the Chronicle of Higher Education as one of America’s best universities to work for in 2012, the University of Delaware is located midway between Philadelphia and Baltimore with access to regional transit and is a Sea Grant, Space Grant, and Land Grant institution and a member of the UCGIS.

QUALIFICATIONS

The successful candidate will be expected to develop an ambitious research program with a high level of publication and external support, enhance human geography course offerings and mentor students in our degree programs, and offer service to the department, college, university, profession, and community. A Ph.D. in Geography or related discipline is required at the time of appointment.

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS

To be considered for this position, applicants should submit: 1) a letter of application addressing their qualifications for the position, 2) a curriculum vitae, 3) statements of research and teaching interests, 4) a diversity statement, 5) up to three publications as examples of the candidate’s scholarship, and 6) contact information for three references.

Call for Papers for a Special Issue on Tourism, Digital Technologies and Inequality with Tourism Geographies:

Tourism is undergoing major changes in the advent of social media networks and other forms of digital technology. This has affected a number of tourism related processes including marketing, destination making, travel experiences and visitor feedback but also various tourism subsectors, like hospitality, transportation and tour operators. An already substantial and growing body of research has investigated these developments, both regarding tourism processes (Munar 2011, Tham et. al. 2013, Mkono & Tribe, 2017) and industry subsectors (Leung et al. 2013, Germann Molz 2012, Gretzel & Fesenmaier 2009, Hvass & Munar, 2012). However, largely overlooked are the effects of these changes on questions concerning inequality. Therefore, the aim of this SI is to chart this relatively unexplored territory concerning the influence of technologically enhanced travel and tourism on development and inequality.

Please see the full CfP and contact information here
www.tgjournal.com/digital-inequalities.html

Abstracts proposals of 400-600 words containing (1) full author/s details (affiliation + email address), (2) five-six keywords and (3) around six guiding theoretical references are required on 10 October 2019
Please also submit a short biographical note (incl. academic background and publications)

We look forward to your proposals.

Best wishes

Fabian Frenzel, Thomas Frisch and Julia Giddy

CFP: Post-Socialist Political Ecologies

AG Annual Meeting, April 3-7, 2019, Washington, DC

Organizers:

Jesse Swann-Quinn, Syracuse University

Jessica Graybill, Colgate University

Specialty Group Sponsors: Eurasian; Cultural and Political Ecology; Political Geography

Political ecologists traditionally investigate manifold, widespread patterns of political economy, governance, subjectivity, and social justice as they occur in diverse, multi-scalar environments. However, disparate political ecological inquiries are related by shared efforts “to expose the forces at work in ecological struggle” (Robbins, 2004, p. 13), shaping politics in every world region. Yet, surprisingly, few political ecologists pay attention to one vast region that exhibits the forces of diverse ecologies, capitalist (re)expansion, de/re-centralized governance, diverse cultural milieus, and tumultuous political identifications: the ‘second’ and ‘developing’ world of the former Soviet Union across Eurasia. Political Ecologists have seemingly neglected the rich, varied tapestry of socio-material forces producing Eurasia’s geographies (notable exceptions include Agyeman & Ogneva-Himmelberger, 2009; Davidov, 2013; Fleming, 2014; Graybill, 2007; Wooden, 2017).

Such oversight has produced a critical lacuna in our knowledge of global political ecology (Peet, Robbins, & Watts, 2011) but also reveals fruitful avenues for investigation. This session aims to begin developing the foundation for critically investigating Post-Socialist Political Ecologies. What questions, empirics, and theoretical re-considerations are necessary for addressing political ecology in/of the post-socialist context? This session seeks empirically grounded case studies, theoretical considerations, and methodological interventions. The organizers welcome contributions from multiple perspectives and aim to produce an edited volume from vetted presentations. Possible topics include but are not limited to:

Resource extraction and fossil fuels
Capital expansion and FDI
Environmental governance and subjectivities
Arctic environments and climate change
Regional environmental geopolitics
Biodiversity and conservation
Toxic and radioactive environments
Forest resources
Water governance
Land and property reform
Land use/land cover analyses
Rural and agrarian livelihoods
Political activism
Applied policy frameworks

Interested participants should submit abstracts (under 250 words) to Jesse Swann-Quinn <jquinn@syr.edu> and Jessica Graybill <jkgraybill@colgate.edu> by October 15, 2018 for full consideration.

References

Agyeman, J., & Ogneva-Himmelberger, Y. (Eds.). (2009). Environmental justice and sustainability in the former Soviet Union. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Davidov, V. (2013). Soviet and post-Soviet inequalities through the lens of political ecology: a foundation for further inquiry. Journal of Globalization Studies, 4(1).

Fleming, J. (2014). Political Ecology and the Geography of Science: Lesosady, Lysenkoism, and Soviet Science in Kyrgyzstan’s Walnut–Fruit Forest. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 104(6), 1183–1198.

Graybill, J. K. (2007). Continuity and change: (re)constructing environmental geographies in late Soviet and post-Soviet Russia. Area, 39(1), 6–19.

Peet, R., Robbins, P., & Watts, M. (2011). Global Nature. In R. Peet, P. Robbins, & M. Watts (Eds.), Global Political Ecology (pp. 1–47). New York: Routledge.

Robbins, P. (2004). Political ecology: a critical introduction. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub.

Wooden, A. (2017). Images of Harm, Imagining Justice: Gold Mining Contestation in Kyrgyzstan. In K. Jalbert, A. Willow, D. Casagrande, & S. Paladino (Eds.), ExtrACTION: Impacts, Engagements, and Alternative Futures (1 edition). Routledge.