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