Tag Archives: geopolitics

Communities of Possibilities

By yvonnegrapher | Published: October 1, 2009
This was first published on RaceWire. The concept of community is an ever-shifting one. It first becomes applied to movements for social change after World War II, when a dissatisfied social worker Saul Alinksy shifted his efforts into organizing urban communities, based on geographic proximity. He was the first recognizable community organizer that developed a model beyond [...]
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The Chinese Self and Tibetan Other

By yvonnegrapher | Published: April 4, 2008
I have been trying to understand Tibet. Specifically, the Tibetan struggle for self-determination. There’s the national question within China and the story China tells herself. Then, there’s the world stage and the narratives spun by the media, woven according to the ideological bias of its audience. I will write more about the story [...]
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Human Geography: A New Journal

By yvonnegrapher | Published: February 21, 2008
Human Geography: A New Journal Published by the Institute for Human Geography Inc, a non-profit charitable foundation incorporated in the State of Massachusetts, US. Mass ID number 000971232 Address: P.O. Box 307, Bolton, Massachusetts, 01740-0307 US Email Address: insthugeog at gmail.com Call for submissions and donations We are starting a new journal in Human Geography broadly [...]
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