Socialist and Critical Geography Specialty Group Sponsored Events at the AAG
Please join us for an exciting series of lectures, sessions, and walking
tours at the AAG's annual meeting in San Francisco. Below we have
included an overview of our sponsored sessions, followed by the details
for our special and San Francisco-related events. We hope to see you
there!
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*Ruth Wilson Gilmore delivers the 1st Annual James Blaut Memorial Lecture,
"Abandonment: Katrina, Prison, and the Politics of Infrastructure"
Wednesday, 7:00-8:00pm
*SCGSG-sponsored San Francisco sessions and field trips:
TUESDAY:
Field Trip: Consuming San Francisco: From Union Square to Yerba Buena Center
9am-12noon
Session: 1418. Environmental Justice in the Bay Area, 2-3:40pm
WEDNESDAY:
Field Trip: Downtown San Francisco: Seat of Urban Power walking tour,
9am-12noon
Film: We Aren't Blocking Traffic, We Are Traffic! (Critical Mass),
3:00-4:30pm
Blaut Memorial Lecture: Ruth Wilson Gilmore, 7:00-8:00pm
THURSDAY:
SCGSG Business Meeting (with free noshes), 11:50-12:50pm
Session: 3525/3625. Revanchist San Francisco? Parts I and II
3:00-4:40pm, 5:00-6:40pm
FRIDAY:
Session: 4333. The Greening of the San Francisco Bay Area, 12:00-1:40pm
Session: 4425. Labor and Work in California, 2:00-3:40pm
Session: 4525. Labor and Community Organizing in the Bay Area, 4:00-5:40pm
Party: Begins 7pm at The North Star (1560 Powell, between Green and
Vallejo)
*Complete listing of SCGSG-sponsored sessions:
TUESDAY:
1318 Food, Agriculture and Social Justice: A Grassroots Perspective,
12:00-1:40pm
1418 Environmental Justice in the Bay Area, 2-3:40pm
1445 The Western City as a Research Object in Current Times, 2:00-3:40pm
1518 Geography/Bees: A conversation on methodologies, representations, and
popular education with the Beehive Design Collective, 4:00-5:40pm
1545 The Suburban Solution - Three Decades Later, 4:00-5:40pm
WEDNESDAY:
2170 Geographies of Marx's Grundrisse, 8:00-9:40am
2270 The First Amendment: Critical Geographies, 10:00-11:40am
2429 Negotiating The Political Landscape of Activist Research I,
1:00-2:40pm
2454 Imperialism and the geopolitics of North-South, 1:00-2:40pm
2529 Negotiating the Political Landscape of Activist Research II,
3:00-4:40pm
2547 Post-Socialism V: "From Inequality to Difference: Exploring
connections in changing spaces of post-socialism", 3:00-4:40pm
2714 1st Annual James Blaut Award and Memorial Lecture, 7:00-8:00pm
THURSDAY:
3116 The Power of Political Ecology: Developing dialogues between Foucault
and Gramsci, 8:00-9:40am
3127 Author Meets Critics: David Wilson's Cities and Race, 8:00-9:40am
3208 Race and Space: A Conversation Across Disciplinary Boundaries,
10:00-11:40am
3265 Mesoamerica Resiste: A new graphics campaign by the Beehive Design
Collective, 10:00-11:40am
3411 The Urban After Katrina: Place, Community, Connections, and Memory,
1:00-2:40pm
3446 Working Nature I: Labels, Rents, and Fetishes, 1:00-2:40pm
3525 Revanchist San Francisco? Part I, 3:00-4:40pm
3537 Geographies of young people and theory (iv) : Intersectionality,
3:00-4:40pm
3546 Working Nature II: Labels, Rents and Fetishes, 3:00-4:40pm
3625 Revanchist San Francisco? Part II, 5:00-6:40pm
3637 Geographies of Young People and Theory (v): Critical Theory,
5:00-6:40pm
3646 Working Nature III: A Roundtable Discussion
FRIDAY:
4109 Political Geographies of Health I: Gender, Sexuality and the
Production of Health Inequalities, 8:00-9:40am
4129 The Power of Political Ecology: Developing dialogues between Foucault
and Gramsci I, 8:00-9:40am
4209 Political Geographies of Health II: Power, Place, and the Production
of Health Inequalities, 10:00-11:40am
4229 The Power of Political Ecology: Developing dialogues between Foucault
and Gramsci II, 10:00-11:40am
4240 Geographies of Race and Food II: Bodies and Spaces, 10:00-11:40am
4309 Political Geographies of Health III: The State and Politics of Bodily
Knowledge, 12:00-1:40pm
4329 Radical Pedagogy in Geography I, 12:00-1:40pm
4349 The Politics of Climate Change Research I: States of Knowledge and
Politics, 12:00-1:40pm
4429 Radical Pedagogy in Geography II: Teaching Against Capitalism with
Peter McLaren, 2:00-3:40pm
4431 Behind Enemy Lines: Critical ethnographies of capital, the Right, and
other anti-progressive institutions , 2:00-3:40pm
4449 The Politics of Climate Change Research II - Representation and
Modeling, 2:00-3:40pm
4465 Plebes and Antipodes 1: Challenging metro-radicalism And capitalism,
2:00-3:40pm
4529 Anarchism and Geography: Praxis and Pedagogy, 4:00-5:40pm
4549 The Politics of Climate Change Research III - Scientists,
Decision-makers, the Media & the Public, 4:00-5:40pm
4565 Plebes and Antipodes 2: Challenging metro-radicalism And capitalism,
4:00-5:40pm
SATURDAY:
5124 New Organizing Geographies in Services, 8:00-9:40am
5155 Ending the silence I: non-tenure-track faculty in geography,
8:00-9:40am
5232 (Post?)Development, States and Subjectivities: Interrogating social
organization of economic practice II, 10:00-11:40am
5233 Quays to the City: Critical Analyses of Urban Waterfront
Transformations I, 10:00-11:40am
5255 Ending the silence II: non-tenure-track faculty in geography,
10:00-11:40am
5433 Quays to the City: Critical Analyses of Urban Waterfront
Transformations II, 2:00-3:40pm
5533 Quays to the City: Critical Analyses of Urban Waterfront
Transformations III, 4:00-5:40pm
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JAMES BLAUT AWARD AND LECTURE
We are honored to present the 1st Annual James Blaut Award to Ruth Wilson
Gilmore, who will lecture on "Abandonment: Katrina, Prisons, and the
Politics of Infrastructure," Wednesday at 7pm. Dr. Gilmore is Associate
Professor of Geography and American Studies and Ethnicity at the
University of Southern California, and Chair of the ASE Department. Her
book, Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in
Globalizing California, was recently published by University of California
Press as part of the American Crossroads series. She is widely recognized
as a scholar-activist who meshes cutting-edge research and a constant
engagement and collaboration with grassroots groups, particularly those
working towards prison abolition.
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**TUESDAY***
Field Trip: Consuming San Francisco: From Union Square to Yerba Buena Center
Tuesday, April 16th, 9-12
Organizer: Richard Walker, Department of Geography, University of
California, Berkeley. (510) 642-3901, 3370(FAX), [log in to unmask]
Leader: Richard Walker, University of California, Berkeley; (510)
642-3901; [log in to unmask]
Capacity: 20
Transportation: Walking
Itinerary:
The Hilton: conferences & tourist industry
St Francis Hotel: Age of the luxury hotels
Union Square: heart of the shopping district
Levi’s & Nike: flagship stores
Macy’s & passing of local department stores
Stockton St: branding & chains
Market & Stockton: Selling SF & Age of Gap
Market St.: Old Emporium and new SF Center
Market St @ Sixth: the Great White Way
Sixth St.: Skid Row & SROs
Yerba Buena: battle of urban renewal
Moscone Center: conference city
SF MOMA: culture & civic competition
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Environmental Justice in the Bay Area
Tuesday, 2-3:40pm
A significant movement in the region, EJ is nonetheless fraught with
difficulties of class and race divides, raising funds and forcing change
on reluctant industry and government.
Sponsors: Socialist & Critical Geographers Group, Ethics, Justice & xxx
Group; Urban Geography Specialty Group
Organizers: Richard Walker
Chair: Richard Walker
Panelists (15 minutes apiece + questions):
Carl Anthony, founder of Urban Habitat and Ford Foundation
Roger Kim, Asian-Pacific Islander Environmental Network (APEN)
Carla Perez, Communities for a Better Environment (CBE)
Laura Pulido, University of Southern California
***WEDNESDAY***
Field Trip
Title: Downtown San Francisco: Seat of Urban Power
Wed. April 17th, 9-12
Organizer: Richard Walker
Leader: Gray Brechin, author of Imperial San Francisco, University of
California, Berkeley
Capacity: 20
Transportation: Walking
Itinerary:
Newspaper corner @ 3d & Market
Financial district @ Montgomery & Market
Palace Hotel @ Market & New Montgomery
Bankers SF @ Montgomery/Sansome & California
Old Mining Exchange @ Bush & Kearney
Mercantile headquarters @ California St.
Oil Company Corner @ Sansome & Market
Southern Pacific & transport companies @ foot of Market
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Critical Mass Film
(We aren't blocking traffic,) We Are Traffic!
A 50 minute documentary film about the San Francisco based bicycle
phenomenon "Critical Mass"
screening will be on Wednesday April 18th at 3pm-4:30pm
(Location: Taylor B, 6th Floor, bldg 3
AAG conference/San Francisco Hilton )
The films director, Ted White, will be in attendance as will Chris
Carlsson, one of the original founders of Critical Mass.
***THURSDAY***
Revanchist San Francisco? - I
Thursday, 3-4:40pm
San Francisco’s Left Coast politics has helped the city resist some of the
worst of urban redevelopment and retain some of its historic flavor, but
the forces of capital keep grinding away.
Sponsors: Socialist & Critical Geographers Group, Urban Geography
Specialty Group
Organizers: Jasper Rubin & Richard Walker
Chair: Jasper Rubin
Panelists (15 minutes apiece + questions):
Jasper Rubin, San Francisco Planning Department .
John King, Architectural critic, San Francisco Chronicle
Rachel Brahinsky, UC Berkeley
Peter Cohen, San Francisco Urban Geographer,
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Revanchist San Francisco? - II
Thursday, 5-6:40pm
San Francisco’s Left Coast politics has helped the city resist some of the
worst of urban redevelopment and retain some of its historic flavor, but
the forces of capital keep grinding away.
Sponsors: Socialist & Critical Geographers Group, Urban Geography
Specialty Group
Organizers: Jasper Rubin & Richard Walker
Chair: Richard Walker
Panelists (15 minutes apiece + questions):
Chris Carlsson, author of San Francisco: The Political Edge
Jason Henderson, San Francisco State University
Stacey Murphy, UC Berkeley
Gray Brechin, author of Imperial San Francisco
***FRIDAY***
The Greening of the San Francisco Bay Area
Friday, noon-12:40
The Bay Area is remarkable for the strength of its environmental activism
and the breadth of its greenbelt, forged from a deeply green political
culture and some remarkable people and organizations.
Sponsor: Socialist & Critical Geographers Group, Urban Geography
Specialty Group; Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group
Organizers: Richard Walker
Chair: Richard Walker
Panelists (15 minutes apiece + questions):
Richard Walker, UC Berkeley
Larry Orman, GreenInfo Network and former dir. Greenbelt Alliance
Caryl Hart, LandPaths and State Parks Advisory Council
Marty Bennett, Sonoma County Conservation Action
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Labor and Work in California
Friday, 2:00-3:40pm
Key issues facing working families and unions in California, including
Wal-Mart, the Central Valley, and port traffic.
Sponsors: Socialist & Critical Geographers Group; Economic Geography
Specialty Group
Organizers: Chris Niedt and Richard Walker
Chair: Chris Niedt
Panelists (15 minutes apiece + questions):
Peter Olney, Int’l Longshoremen and Warehousemen Union (ILWU)
Steven Pitts, UCB Center for Labor Research and Education
Katie Quan, UCB Center for Labor Research and Education
Ken Jacobs, UCB Center for Labor Research and Education
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Labor & Community Organizing in the Bay Area
Friday, 4:00-5:40pm
Forging the crucial and difficult links between unions and the wider
community, in local politics, programs and movements.
Sponsors: Socialist & Critical Geographers Group; Economic Geography
Specialty Group
Organizers: Chris Niedt & Richard Walker
Chair: Chris Niedt
Panelists (15 minutes apiece + questions):
Anand Singh, UNITE-HERE Local 2
Marty Bennett, dir. New Economy/Working Solutions
Amaha Kassa, East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy (EBASE)
Nari Rhee, UC Berkeley
Featured speakers:
Carl Anthony, founder of Urban Habitat (the biggest local environmental
justice organization), Ford Foundation EJ program officer, and visiting
scholar at UC Berkeley Spring 2007
Gray Brechin, author of Imperial San Francisco (UC Press, 2d edition
2006), one of the best-known commentators on SF history and an independent
scholar without institutional base
John King, architectural critic for the San Francisco Chronicle and best
known commentator on recent building in the city
Larry Orman, longtime executive director of the Greenbelt Alliance -- the
leading regional land conservation organization in the Bay Area -- and key
environmental activist and idea man for the movement for 30 years
Peter Olney, research director, ILWU and former director LAMAP -- one of
the most eloquent and thoughtful labor leaders in San Francisco
Martin Bennett, director of NEWS (New Economy/Working Solutions) and board
member, Sonoma County Conservation Action - a rare person who bridges the
labor and green movements
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