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These articles read together presented a challenging but interesting experience for me. Agnew provides a detailed historical analysis that frames scholars’ efforts at defining and conceptualizing space and place. The...

Given my interest in food geographies, the vignette I was most drawn to was in Winner’s paper: that of the mechanized tomato harvester. Though the intention of the UC researchers...

Natalie Vaughan-Wynn April 5, 2021 This week’s readings expanded my imagination concerning what can even be considered a technical object. First, through Feenberg’s discussion of labor in a capitalist system...

Maybe it is because the end of the academic year is upon us, but Zhao’s paper brought up big-picture questions for me. He argues that geographers must continue to push...

Lea’s paper this week did for me what Agnew’s place and space paper did: it provided a review of some theoretical frameworks and foundational concepts in geography. (Lea, 2020) Then,...

These papers together came at a serendipitous time for me: I had just finished rereading Jung and Anderson’s 2017 article in which they created a geovisualization of access to grocery...

The papers this week certainly draw us into questions of epistemology, questioning how we know what we know and how we, as researchers, grapple with truth and uncertainty. Kwan’s mention...