URAP

Desiree Fields, Geography

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: Off Campus

This project examines the intersection of technology, capital, and urbanization. In the period between the Great Recession and the coronavirus pandemic, the ideology of technology as an engine for economic growth and rational instrument for addressing urban problems profoundly influenced approaches to urban governance. Tech leaders also became social and...

Gillian Hart - Professor, Geography

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

I am working on a book that compares the rise of right-wing nationalisms and populist politics in South Africa, India and the U.S. since the end of the Cold War. Instead of seeing the three countries as separate cases or bounded units, the idea is to bring them into...

Clancy Wilmott - Professor, Geography

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

This project is the production of the Botanic Gardens Signage Database, part of a wider collaboration with the UC Botanic Gardens at Berkeley on the use of signage and interpretive materials within the Crops of the World garden (and the gardens more broadly) from decolonial frameworks...

Clancy Wilmott - Professor, Geography

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

This project uses Digital Humanities / GIS / Cultural Analytics methods to digitize a series of 10 performance art pieces by fluxus artist Chieko Shiomi, spanning a decade...

Clancy Wilmott - Professor, Geography

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

General Description The breaking apart of the American state is as old as the concept of the United States itself. This project seeks to document the scale of state secessionist movements through time using primary and secondary sources. The broader context of this project is a study of the co...