Stuart Aitken

... Other films were used in the class as vehicles for class discussion of dif-ferent aspects of identity: with Boys Don't Cry (1999), Priscilla Queen of the Desert (1994), and Paris is Burning (1992) we focused on sexual identity; with My Own Private Idaho (1992) we extended our ...

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Crianças e adolescentes estão cada vez mais sendo colocados em posições insustentáveis com relação ao seu direito de representação civil e seu acesso aos espaços públicos da cidade. Para solucionar tal impasse, eles geralmente tentam resolver os problemas por conta própria. Neste artigo, destaco o movimento dos Izbrisanina Eslovênia e a Revolución de los Pingüinos no Chile, por meio de ideias desenvolvidas por filósofos geopolíticos e teóricos que estudam o espaço, em combinação com meu próprio trabalho acerca da formação política de jovens, para sugerir formas de re-imaginar a criança, o espaço urbano e a política

Page 1. 378-Perceptual and behavioural theory in practice Stuart C. Aitken and Gerard Rushton Department of Geography, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 92182, USA Department of Geography, University of lowa, Cedar Rapids, lowa, USA ...

This article looks at the community participation of recent Latina immigrant mothers and their children in a neighborhood advocacy group near the US–Mexico border. It documents the work that women and children do as they struggle to become involved in their new community and improve their quality of life – despite legal, social, economic and cultural obstacles. Local context, family and ethnic networks, gendered patterns of women's experiences as immigrants and children participation in ‘adult’ decision-making are hugely important in understanding their community engagement. The article reflects on the advocacy work that women and children perform through a neighborhood group to argue for a difference-centered perspective on citizenship that is inspired by feminist thinking. Such a perspective makes sense in light of the ironic tensions within neo-liberal policies that, on the one hand, burden people with more responsibilities while, on the other hand, legislating against their freedom to pursue those responsibilities.

ABSTRACT Only recently did geographic concern turn to why and how, and when and where political identities are reproduced but, as yet, our understanding of the political relations between families and communities remains understudied. This lack of attention is attributable, in part, to the complexities of families and communities but, this aside, all societies regulate reproduction and there are always claims for legitimization of particular views of family values and community relations. With this paper, I argue that highlighting the social construction of scale suggests ways that the social imaginary of a domestic myth is spatially embedded within a nurturing local community. I outline some recent feminist discussion of local childcare cultures and critique of 'the public sphere' prior to raising scale as a way to open up static versions of justice and difference. Arguments in the paper that relate to the social construction of scale are illustrated by examples from a study of the impact of a new child and a residential move on mothers in San Diego. I argue that although the birth of a child highlights important questions that relate to responsibility, self-identity and notions of family, community and society, it is from within a politically structured notion of scale that many of the constraints and contexts of childcare arise. This paper focuses specifically on negotiating childcare as a basis of resistance through day-to-day contestations at multiple scales.

... Geographies: Culture Wars, Personal Clashes and Joining Debate 325 Gill Valentine and Stuart Aitken Exercises 337 Glossary 338 Index 343 Page 10. List of Contributors Stuart Aitken is Professor of Geography in the Department of Geography at San Diego State University. ...

With this essay, we set the stage for a discussion about young people and borders that is local in its context and global in its implications. Young people's bounded, bordered and embodied contexts are framed by issues of exclusion and inclusion where identity and development are negotiated, acquiesced, moved and migrated. We offer insight into the literal and metaphorically bordered

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Aitken talks about the broad theoretical implications of community mapping as it relates to larger development issues and marginalized populations. He brings together examples of research from children in Mexico and ethnic villagers in China to suggest a problematic dialectic between development initiatives and neoliberal policies that pursue economic vitality and sustainability.

ABSTRACT The 72nd annual meeting of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers was held at the Town and Country Resort and Convention Center in San Diego, California, from September 30 to October 3, 2009. The event was hosted by the Department of Geography at San Diego State University. The meeting drew in participants from across the United States, Mexico, and Canada. The meeting included five concurrent sessions on Friday and Saturday as well as an opening evening session on Wednesday and a President’s Plenary on Friday evening. In total, 355 people attended the even, including 120 undergraduate students. All states in the APCG were represented, with individuals also traveling from as far away as Oaxaca, Mexico, and Joensuu, Finland. Attendees ranged from neophyte geographers in their teens to seasoned octogenarians. A number of universities sent large contingents, including Arizona State University, Cal State Long Beach, the University of Arizona, and UCLA. The conference was officially opened by SDSU Provost Nancy Marlin. Also giving remarks was Paul Wong, dean of SDSU’s College of Arts and Letters. The highlight of the Opening Session was an engaging—alternatively disturbing and hopeful—talk by celebrated author, scholar, and activist Mike Davis. His talk, “Welcome to the Anthropocene,” was given to a packed house. A reception on the top floor of the convention hotel followed the opening event. Thursday saw participants travel throughout San Diego County on a number of field trips: a walking tour of downtown San Diego, a visit to coastal estuaries and lagoons, an encounter with rare native flora at the Torrey Pines State Natural Reserve, and a San Diego Bay harbor cruise and visit to the Cabrillo National Monument in Point Loma. More than thirty meeting participants enjoyed the field trips. Also on Thursday afternoon, Vincent Del Casino organized a workshop on “Writing and Publishing Your First Peer Reviewed Paper.” The field-trip buses returned in time for participants to join over sixty of their colleagues for a Mexican Dinner in San Diego’s historic Old Town. Participants got to experience San Diego’s famous trolley system to and from the dinner. The paper sessions began at 8 am Friday. The two morning sessions were followed by a number of lunch meetings, including the Chair’s Lunch on Friday and the Women’s Network Lunch on Saturday. Fifteen chairs from around the region joined host Stuart Aitken to bemoan the plight of academia in the economic downturn. It was clear that California institutions were suffering badly. In total, there were 35 paper and panel sessions and 1 poster session; the latter was held in conjunction with the President’s Reception on Friday evening. In addition to the 126 paper presentations, 33 panelists spoke on a variety of topics, and 9 posters were presented on Friday evening. After the President’s Reception, the organizers held a special session honoring the late Dr. Larry Ford, who spent his productive career at SDSU. Two paper sessions were also organized to celebrate the life and work of Dr. Ford: friends, colleagues, and former students of Larry gathered to celebrate his accomplishments and his legacy. The sessions in the meeting explored a wide variety of important topics. On Friday, there were sessions on medical geography, GIS Education and Public Practice, Ice and Snow in the Andes and Himalayas, Geographies of Youth, and Modeling Nature. There were panels on Post-Border Futures, Meet-the-Editors, and Learning Research Methods through Peer-Teaching and Workshops. The President’s Plenary Session on Friday afternoon, titled “Neo-Geographies: Just Another Spin of the Globe,” involved JP Jones, Sarah Elwood, and Andre Skupin giving short presentations and indulging “talk back” from a panel of graduate students including Chris Lippitt, Grant Fraley, Sean Crotty, and Giorgio Curti. Saturday’s sessions also demonstrated the variegated practices of geography, with sessions ranging from Climate Landscape and Society, GIS, Food Geographies, and Religious Transnationalism to International Perspectives of Political Ecology and Hydrology. An organized panel session on Student Abroad Programs featured speakers from Mexico and the U.S. Saturday evening’s events ended with the annual banquet, hosted by APCG Vice President Dorothy Freidel (Sonoma State University). Thanks to a generous donation from William...

This paper is about intense emotions -- lust, desire, pain, longing, passion, anger, frustration - as they are expressed in the alternative rock music of Matt Johnson and contrived in our listening experiences. The "soundscapes" Johnson creates with the various musicians who comprise his band The The are at times ironic, at times contradictory and as often as not darkly

Page 1. Short Communications 125 Valentine, Gill (1993) (Hetero)sexing space: lesbian perceptions and experiences of everyday spaces, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 11, 395–413. Valentine, Gill (1996a) An equal place to work? ...

With this essay, I take to task the relations between young men, addiction and spaces of violence with a particular focus on combat zones. Geographic theories of affect help elaborate the complex relations between young men's emotions, their addictive propensities and how that benefits the governance unities that create war machines. Deleuze's notion of the fold complicates those benefits by suggesting why some young men no longer fit the so-called normalcy of life back home and why they desire, rather, a continuous return to spaces of violence. My arguments are focused by Sebastian Junger's War (2010) and Restrepo (2010), Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker (2009), which present, in different ways, the potency of combat. The work focuses on difference and identity and, by so doing, suggests ways that affect can have political valence.

... Geographies: Culture Wars, Personal Clashes and Joining Debate 325 Gill Valentine and Stuart Aitken Exercises 337 Glossary 338 Index 343 Page 10. List of Contributors Stuart Aitken is Professor of Geography in the Department of Geography at San Diego State University. ...