Qualitative Research in Geography Specialty Group - Sponsored Sessions

Annual Meeting of the AAG; Denver, CO; April 5-9, 2005

Please note: some sessions are concurrent

 

 

Paper Session:

 

1501 Visual Narratives in the Production of Geography 1 is scheduled on Tuesday, 4/5/05, from 2:00 PM - 3:40 PM

 

Organizer(s):

K. Maria D. Lane - Dept. of Geography, UT-Austin

 

Chair(s):

Derek H. Alderman - East Carolina University

 

Presenters(s):

 

2:00 PM   Prof. Daniel Reff

 Abstract Title: Narratives of Otherness and the Jesuit-Orchestrated "Tour" of Europe by Japanese Samurai (1584-85)

 

2:20 PM   K. Maria D. Lane - Dept. of Geography, UT-Austin

 Abstract Title: Areographical Narratives: Images and Imaginations of the Planet Mars, 1867-1916

 

2:40 PM   Carol Prorok - Slippery Rock University

 Abstract Title: A Critical Reading of Early 20th Century Images Used in Geography Education

 

3:00 PM   Michael Inshan Mohammed - Rutgers University

 Abstract Title: Mapping Neo-Colonial Cartographies

 

Discussant(s):

Denis E. Cosgrove - University of California

 

 

Paper Session:

 

1601 Visual Narratives in the Production of Geography 2 is scheduled on Tuesday, 4/5/05, from 4:00 PM - 5:40 PM

 

Organizer(s):

K. Maria D. Lane - Dept. of Geography, UT-Austin

 

Chair(s):

K. Maria D. Lane - Dept. of Geography, UT-Austin

 

Presenters(s):

 

4:00 PM   Kendra McSweeney - The Ohio State University

 Abstract Title: Portrait, Landscape, Mirror: Historical Photographs in Ethnographic Research

 

4:20 PM   Amy Propen

 Abstract Title: Meaning-Making and the Map: A Social Semiotic Approach to Analyzing Cartographic Representation

 

4:40 PM   Harvey K. Flad - Vassar College

 Abstract Title: The Virtual Fieldtrip: A Guide to Reading the Past and Present City

 

5:00 PM   Mr. Glenn W Gentry - SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY

 Abstract Title: Sparking Geographic Images: Exploring the Role of Matchbooks/boxes as Visual Narratives

 

Discussant(s):

Prof. Paul C. Adams - University of Texas at Austin

 

Panel Session:

 

1648 Critics Meet Author - Cindi Katz is scheduled on Tuesday, 4/5/05, from 4:00 PM - 5:40 PM

 

Organizer(s):

Stuart C. Aitken - San Diego State University

Chair(s):

Stuart C. Aitken - San Diego State University

4:00 PM  Introduction: Stuart C. Aitken - San Diego State University

Panelist(s):

Dr. Tracey Skelton - Loughborough University

Mike Kesby

Susan Ruddick - University of Toronto

Elizabeth A Gagen - University Of Hull

Sarah Radcliffe - CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY

Discussant(s):

Cindi Katz - CUNY Graduate Center

 

 

Panel Session:

 

1637 The Neoliberal City is scheduled on Tuesday, 4/5/05, from 4:00 PM - 5:40 PM

 

Organizer(s):

Jason Hackworth - University of Toronto

Chair(s):

Jason Hackworth - University of Toronto

Panelist(s):

Jason Hackworth - University of Toronto

Andrew E.G. Jonas - University of Hull

Eugene McCann - Simon Fraser University

Kathe Newman - Rutgers University

Scott Salmon - New School University

 

 

Paper Session:

 

2136 Boundaries-in-the-making (Part 1): Critical perspectives on national borders is scheduled on Wednesday, 4/6/05, from 8:00 AM - 9:40 AM

 

Organizer(s):

Emma Spenner Norman - University of British Columbia

Bonnie Kaserman - University Of British Columbia

 

Chair(s):

Bonnie Kaserman - University Of British Columbia

 

Presenters(s):

 

8:00 AM   James Derrick Sidaway - National University Of Singapore

 Abstract Title: World City frontiers: Singapore’s hinterland and the contested socio-political geographies of Bintan, Indonesia.

 

8:20 AM   Juliet Fall - UBC

 Abstract Title: Confusing the nature of boundaries and the boundaries of nature

 

8:40 AM   Stuart Elden - University Of Durham

 Abstract Title: A History of the Concept of Territorial Integrity

 

9:00 AM   Emma Spenner Norman - University of British Columbia

 Abstract Title: Nature-Culture at the Border: Reifying nationalism through transboundary environmentalism

 

9:20 AM   Anneliese Vance - University at Buffalo

 Abstract Title: Borderlands: The dynamics of scale along the Canada – US Border

 

 

Paper Session:

 

2236 Boundaries-in-the-making (Part 2): Critical perspectives on national borders is scheduled on Wednesday, 4/6/05, from 10:00 AM - 11:40 AM

 

Organizer(s):

Emma Spenner Norman - University of British Columbia

Bonnie Kaserman - University Of British Columbia

 

Chair(s):

Bonnie Kaserman - University Of British Columbia

 

Presenters(s):

 

10:00 AM   Jody Decker - Wilfrid Laurier

 Abstract Title: When the Border Doesn't Matter

 

10:20 AM   Glen Elder - University Of Vermont

 Abstract Title: Warning, Construction ahead: Changing meaning on the US/Canadian border

 

10:40 AM   Ms. Joanna Long - UBC

 Abstract Title: Border Anxiety in Palestine-Israel

 

11:00 AM   Reece Jones - University Of Wisconsin - Madison

 Abstract Title: Sacred Cows and Thumping Drums: Claiming Territory in Pre-Partition Bengal

 

11:20 AM   Alexander C. Diener - Pepperdine University

 Abstract Title: Competing Trajectories of Nationalization in a ‘Nomadic Society’: Mongols, Kazakhs, and Formation of a Mongolian Territorial Identity

 

 

Panel Session:

 

2517 Writing Proposals and Finding Funding for Qualitative Research in Geography is scheduled on Wednesday, 4/6/05, from 3:00 PM - 4:40 PM

 

Organizer(s):

Meghan Cope - SUNY-Buffalo

Fernando J. Bosco - San Diego State University

Chair(s):

Fernando J. Bosco - San Diego State University

3:00 PM  Introduction: Meghan Cope - SUNY-Buffalo

 

Panelist(s):

Daniel Trudeau - University of Colorado

Ms. Sara Kindon

Rachel Pain - UNIVERSITY OF DURHAM

David Butz - BROCK UNIVERSITY

Thomas J. Baerwald - National Science Foundation

 

 

Panel Session:

 

2506 Scale: A People's Geography? is scheduled on Wednesday, 4/6/05, from 3:00 PM - 4:40 PM

 

Organizer(s):

Mr. Hearn Yuit Chua - Syracuse University

Mr. Glenn W Gentry - SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY

Chair(s):

Mr. Hearn Yuit Chua - Syracuse University

Panelist(s):

Mr. Hearn Yuit Chua - Syracuse University

Mr. Glenn W Gentry - SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY

Byron A. Miller - University of Calgary

John Paul Jones, III - University of Arizona

Virginie Mamadouh - University of Amsterdam

Mr. Bradley Wilson - RUTGERS UNIVERSITY

Mary Brook - University Of Texas at Austin

Hilda Kurtz - University of Georgia

 

 

QRSG Business Meeting: All are welcome!! Wednesday, 8:00 - 9:00 pm. Check the final program for the room.

 

 

Paper Session:

 

3102 Activism and Expertise: Modes of Engagement in the Politics of Urban Development is scheduled on Thursday, 4/7/05, from 8:00 AM - 9:40 AM

 

Organizer(s):

Robert W. Lake - Rutgers University

Kathe Newman - Rutgers University

Chair(s):

Kathe Newman - Rutgers University

 

8:00 AM   Eugene McCann - Simon Fraser University

 Abstract Title: The City in the World: Geographical Imaginations, Global Flows of Knowledge, and Urban Policy.

 

8:20 AM   Gretchen Susi - Dept. of Environmental Psychology - City University of New York Graduate Center

 Abstract Title: Not an either/or: the housing projects and the think tanks

 

8:40 AM   James C. Fraser - University Of North Carolina

 Abstract Title: Trespass the Performance: Authoring Democratic Spaces for Citizenship in the City

 

9:00 AM   Steve Herbert - University of Washington

 Abstract Title: The Trapdoor of Community

 

9:20 AM   Robert W. Lake - Rutgers University

 Abstract Title: Neighborhood Planning and the Neoliberalization of Urban Protest

 

Paper Session:

 

3410 Qualitative Research & GIS - Session 1 is scheduled on Thursday, 4/7/05, from 1:00 PM - 2:40 PM

 

Organizer(s):

LaDona G. Knigge - University @ Buffalo (SUNY)

Mei-Po Kwan - Ohio State University

 

Chair(s):

LaDona G. Knigge - University @ Buffalo (SUNY)

 

Presenters(s):

 

1:00 PM   Mark Monmonier - Maxwell School of Syracuse University

 Abstract Title: Purging Pejorative Toponyms from the National Topographic Landscape

 

1:20 PM   David Biggs - University of California, Riverside

 Abstract Title: War, Wetlands and Historical GIS: Integrating Spatial and Historical Analyses of Land Use Change in the Mekong Delta, Viet Nam

 

1:40 PM   Scott Bell - University of Saskatchewan

 Abstract Title: Sketch Maps and Qualitative GIS

 

2:00 PM   Kevin Ramsey - University Of Washington

 Abstract Title: A Research Strategy for Informing Participatory GIS Design, Development, and Implementation

 

2:20 PM   Matthew W. Wilson - University of Washington

 Abstract Title: Theorizing ‘community’ in PGIS research: A critical perspective for system development

 

 

Paper Session:

 

3510 Qualitative Research & GIS: Session 2 is scheduled on Thursday, 4/7/05, from 3:00 PM - 4:40 PM

 

Organizer(s):

LaDona G. Knigge - University @ Buffalo (SUNY)

Mei-Po Kwan - Ohio State University

 

Chair(s):

LaDona G. Knigge - University @ Buffalo (SUNY)

 

Presenters(s):

 

3:00 PM   Jill S. Heaton - University of Nevada, Reno

 Abstract Title: Quantitative mapping of qualitative information for decision support.

 

3:20 PM   Lin Wu - California State University

 Abstract Title: A Modeling Approach to Post-Fire Forest Composition and Spatial Pattern Study

 

3:40 PM   Matt Eggleton - SUNY Buffalo

 Abstract Title: Use of GIS to Study and Track the Quality of Underutilization in Conover, NC

 

4:00 PM   Trevor M. Harris - West Virginia University

 Abstract Title: The Higuchi approach to viewing landscapes through GIS

 

 

Panel Session:

 

3425 Doing Ethnography I: Negotiating Relationships is scheduled on Thursday, 4/7/05, from 1:00 PM - 2:40 PM

 

Organizer(s):

Rebecca Sheehan - Louisiana State University

Helen Regis - Louisiana State University

Chair(s):

Rebecca Sheehan - Louisiana State University

 

Presenters(s):

1:00 PM  Introduction: Rebecca Sheehan - Louisiana State University

Panelist(s):

Hester Parr

John Western - Syracuse University

Jonathan D. Lepofsky - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Heather Merrill - Dickinson College

Heidi J. Nast - DePaul University

 

 

Panel Session:

 

3525 Doing Ethnography II: Recovering from "Stumbles" is scheduled on Thursday, 4/7/05, from 3:00 PM - 4:40 PM

 

Organizer(s):

Rebecca Sheehan - Louisiana State University

Helen Regis - Louisiana State University

Chair(s):

Helen Regis - Louisiana State University

Panelist(s):

Tim Cresswell - University of Wales, Aberystwyth

Paul Thomas Kingsbury - Miami University

Marcia England - University Of Kentucky

Miles Richardson - Louisiana State University

Rebecca Sheehan - Louisiana State University

 

 

Panel Session:

 

3625 Doing Ethnography III: Leaving the Field is scheduled on Thursday, 4/7/05, from 5:00 PM - 6:40 PM

 

Organizer(s):

Rebecca Sheehan - Louisiana State University

Helen Regis - Louisiana State University

Chair(s): Rebecca Sheehan - Louisiana State University

Panelist(s):

Helen Regis - Louisiana State University

Matt McCourt - University of Maine at Farmington

Philip Crang - Royal Holloway, University of London

Dydia DeLyser - Louisiana State University

Kathleen O'Reilly - University Of Illinois

 

Paper Session:

 

3543 Caribbean Critical Cultural Geographies: Tourists, Travellers and Refugees is scheduled on Thursday, 4/7/05, from 3:00 PM - 4:40 PM

 

Organizer(s):

Susan P. Mains - University of the West Indies-Mona

 

Chair(s):

Susan P. Mains - University of the West Indies-Mona

 

Presenters(s):

 

3:00 PM   Margaret Timothy-Burgess

 Abstract Title: Managing Heritage: Tourism, Community, and Identity in Lopinot, Trinidad

 

3:20 PM   Susan Stewart

 Abstract Title: Pirates of the Caribbean: Redeveloping a Cultural Heritage in Port Royal, Jamaica

 

3:40 PM   Stacie-Ann Berry

 Abstract Title: Promoting Community: Tourism and the Calabash Festival in Treasure Beach, Jamaica

 

4:00 PM   Tracey Elcock

 Abstract Title: Music and Cultural Identity: The Place of Rapso Music in Trinidad and Tobago

 

4:20 PM   Peter Kelly

 Abstract Title: (Re)Producing Haiti: Lefebvre, News and Images of Refugees in Jamaica

 

 

Paper Session:

 

4239 GENDER, SPACE AND TECHNOLOGY I: work emphasis is scheduled on Friday, 4/8/05, from 10:00 AM - 11:40 AM

 

Organizer(s):

Kate Boyer - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Kim England

 

Chair(s):

Kate Boyer - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

 

Presenters(s):

 

10:00 AM   Kate Boyer - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

 Abstract Title: 'Org-woman’: the social construction of gender in the IT workplace

 

10:09 AM   Kim England

 Abstract Title: 'Org-woman': the social construction of gender in the IT workplace

 

10:19 AM   Reena Patel

 Abstract Title: Gender and Mobility: Case Study of Call Centers in Mumbai, India

 

10:39 AM   Parvati Raghuram

 Abstract Title: Women in a hypermobile landscape : Indian migrants in the IT sector

 

10:59 AM   Anne Bonds - University Of Washington

 Abstract Title: Calling on Femininity? The gendering of call center workers and workplaces

 

11:19 AM   Saraswati Raju - Carlton University

 Abstract Title: Globalized Contexts, Local Predicaments: Urban Labour Market and Gendered Discourses in Urban India

 

Discussant(s):

Kim England

 

 

Paper Session:

 

4339 GENDER, SPACE AND TECHNOLOGY II: Internet & |Activism Emphasis is scheduled on Friday, 4/8/05, from 12:00 PM - 1:40 PM

 

Organizer(s):

Kate Boyer - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Kim England

 

Chair(s):

Kim England

 

Presenters(s):

 

12:00 PM   Maria Fannin - University of Washington

 Abstract Title: “Global” midwifery activism: from nation-state to virtual space

 

12:19 PM   Jennifer L. Fluri - Pennsylvania State University

 Abstract Title: "Our Website Was Revolutionary": Technology and Transnational Activism

 

12:39 PM   Valorie Crooks

 Abstract Title: "I go on the internet; I always, you know, check to see what's new": Women's use of cyberspace to understand fibromyalgia syndrome and negotiate doctor-patient interactions

 

12:59 PM   Ms. Tricia Seow

 Abstract Title: Cyborg: Identity in Cyberspace

 

1:19 PM   Donna D. Rubinoff - University of Colorado

 Abstract Title: Electronic memories developing voice: women producing and placing meaning with life histories on-line

 

Discussant(s):

Kate Boyer - Rensselaer Polytechnic Instititute

 

 

Paper Session:

 

5139 Geopolitics, Globalization and the Representation of Place is scheduled on Saturday, 4/9/05, from 8:00 AM - 9:40 AM

 

Organizer(s):

Prof. Paul C. Adams - University of Texas at Austin

 

Chair(s):

Prof. Paul C. Adams - University of Texas at Austin

 

Presenters(s):

 

8:00 AM   Bruce D'Arcus - Miami University Of Ohio

 Abstract Title: Elián González and the Geopolitics of Home

 

8:20 AM   Reecia Orzeck - Syracuse University

 Abstract Title: Jenin Brought Home: The Politics of Representation and Reception

 

8:40 AM   Virginie Mamadouh - University of Amsterdam

 Abstract Title: The 2004 presidential election: European media and the geopolitics of a global event

 

9:00 AM   Jason Dittmer - Georgia Southern University

 Abstract Title: Captain America's Empire: Reflections on Identity, Popular Culture, and Post-9/11 Geopolitics

 

9:20 AM   Prof. Paul C. Adams - University of Texas at Austin

 Abstract Title: French Visions of Europe and the United States: Imagining a "Euro-Puissance"

 

 

Paper Session:

 

5239 Sound and the Constitution of Spatiality is scheduled on Saturday, 4/9/05, from 10:00 AM - 11:40 AM

 

Organizer(s):

David Butz - BROCK UNIVERSITY

Samah Sabra

 

Chair(s):

David Butz - BROCK UNIVERSITY

 

Presenters(s):

 

10:00 AM   Samah Sabra

 Abstract Title: Mediating Tensions Between Nation and Nation State: Evocations of Diasporic Senses of Space and Identity in the Music of the Fugees

 

10:20 AM   Ms. Deborah J. Thompson - University Of Kentucky

 Abstract Title: The Place of Music in the Production of Appalachian Space

 

10:40 AM   Megan Wyman - Univ. of California-Davis

 Abstract Title: Animals use of sound and the configuration of space: An example of vocalizations and spatial relationships within North American bison in the context of reproduction.

 

11:00 AM   Toby Butler

 Abstract Title: A WALK OF ART: SOUNDSCAPES, LANDSCAPE AND CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY

 

 

Panel Session:

 

5439 Participatory Geographies: Intersections of Theory and Practice is scheduled on Saturday, 4/9/05, from 2:00 PM - 3:40 PM

 

Organizer(s):

Caitlin Cahill - City University of New York-The Graduate Center

Rachel Pain - UNIVERSITY OF DURHAM

Chair(s):

Caitlin Cahill - City University of New York-The Graduate Center

2:00 PM  Introduction: Caitlin Cahill - City University of New York-The Graduate Center

2:10 PM  Introduction: Rachel Pain - UNIVERSITY OF DURHAM

Panelist(s):

Geraldine J. Pratt - University Of British Columbia

Ms. Sara Kindon

Robert Kitchin - National University Of Ireland

Mike Kesby

Myrna Breitbart - Hampshire College

Prof. FAHRIYE SANCAR - UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO-DENVER

 

 

Paper Session:

 

5425 The City, the State, and the Politics of Difference is scheduled on Saturday, 4/9/05, from 2:00 PM - 3:40 PM

 

Organizer(s):

Annemarie Bodaar - The Ohio State University

Eugene McCann - Simon Fraser University

 

Chair(s):

Annemarie Bodaar - The Ohio State University

 

Presenters(s):

 

2:00 PM   Anthony Falit-Baiamonte - University of Washington

 Abstract Title: Undoing Racism in Seattle: The State-Community Relationship in a Neo-Liberal Metropolis

 

2:20 PM   David Wilson - University Of Illinois

 Abstract Title: Neoliberalism and Multiculturalism: the Chicago Case

 

2:40 PM   Rini Sumartojo - Simon Fraser University

 Abstract Title: State representations and multiculturalism: Indo-Canadian "youth violence" in Vancouver

 

3:00 PM   Annemarie Bodaar - The Ohio State University

 Abstract Title: “Is Multiculturalism dying? Negotiating state policies of integration in multi-ethnic cities in the Netherlands”

 

Discussant(s):

Justus L. Uitermark - UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM