Special Focus
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Border (In)Security and the ‘Unknown Unknown’
Geoff Boyce critically reflects on the policies, processes, and impacts of escalating border securitization and militarization in the US-Mexico borderlands.
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Militarization, Conservation, and Commemoration on the Iron Curtain Trail
David Havlick explores tensions between commemoration, redemption, memory, and historical erasure in the Iron Curtain borderlands with a fascinating photo essay.
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Bowman Expedition 2.0
Why is the DOD funding research on indigenous peoples? Joe Bryan comments on the latest Bowman Expedition in Central America.
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Misunderstanding, militarized
Wainwright: “We are witnessing an unprecedented attempt by one state to collect data…reaching into the most intimate spaces of our lives and saturating our very means of communication”.
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Doing No Harm
Eric Sheppard weighs in on DOD funding in Geographic Research (repost from the AAG).
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Beyond Safeguards: A Critique of Carbon Markets for REDD+
SGD’s Tracey Osborne argues that market structures will undermine REDD+’s safeguards for marginalized groups.
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Including offsets from Latin America in California’s cap-and-trade plan is a bad idea
Kathy McAfee of San Francisco State University discusses the proposed REDD Offset Working Group recommendations for California
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