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I was asked to help estimate the demographics of the listener supported radio station WPFW located in NW Washington DC. The station provided an excel table of recent data on donors by zip codes. The station also provided the service area boundaries and...

It never ceases to amaze me what people are doing with maps and cartography. I loved this blog.... Mediated Cityscapes 03: DIY Cartography [Theory] [Eric Fischer / Locals and Tourists #45 (GTWA #133): Los Angeles and Pasadena / 2010] A month ago in Minneapolis,...

Reading the news about the "debt deal" in particular the CNN report about the impact on higher education angered me. While wars and defense spending will continue unchecked, graduate students like me take the hit. We are often displaced workers, people...

Watching the debt ceiling crisis unfold via CNN and and CNBC, the NYT and other media available here in China, has been illuminating. It appears to me there is not much difference between the one party state here and there, the exception being that here...

A friend`s parents invited me out today to see the botanical gardens near East Lake. After visiting the gardens, we went out to lunch at one of those traditional roadhouses. I enjoy those places, a couple of specialty dishes in a down-home atmosphere,...

I am pooped out right now, so I will not be writing much-just got back from a red songs competition that LIESMARS ( The geoinfomatics department at Wuhan University) was competing in against the other schools and departments. Everyone went to great effort...

One of my favorite sites is China Smack, there I can read in English the stories circulating around the Chinese language internet. I can relate to many of the posts that deal with eveyday life here and the tensions of a social formation rapidly undergoing...

Yesterday I was supposed to go on a weekend trip to the country. That did not happen because of flash flooding here in Wuhan, which made travel from my house to the train station impossible. Instead of having a weekend get away I am stuck here in the...

As a place/event, the United States continues to be shaped by the contradiction between a civic and universal construction of nationality and a blood and soil ethnic construction. In the United States, the racial binary structures social life; the struggle...

As a state form classical fascism ended in a Berlin Bunker in 1945 but as an ideological movement it continues on. There are continuities as well as discontinuities between periods as socially produced space/time is sedimented, never completely disappearing...