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Tues 3.10.09| Place Matters

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Experimental Geography: The Exhibition

Bullard & Wright, eds., Race, Place, and Environmental Justice After Hurricane Katrina Westview, 2009

Of what significance is place to politics, to cultural consciousness, to who gets what? In Experimental Geography, Nato Thompson contends that spaces around us shape who we are. He describes initiatives at the intersection of art and geography. And Debra Lyn Bassett points to the overlooked significance of place -- and particularly rural locations -- in the making of disaster relief and other policies.

Mon 6.23.08| Space Race?

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Mike Moore, Twilight War: The Folly of U.S. Space Dominance The Independent Institute, 2008

The Independent Institute

Space is a place that could be weaponized, that the US could dominate militarily. Is this wise from a national security perspective? What do the missile defense systems developed since Reagan's Star Wars program mean for the militarization of space? And if an arms race in space commences, do we get a new cold war, this time with China? Mike Moore's new book is Twilight War.

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