Christian Anderson, Ben Gardner, Jin-Kyu Jung, Santiago Lopez, and Adam Romero present research at the 2016 meeting of the American Association of Geographers in San Francisco
Five IAS faculty members presented at the 2016 meeting of the American Association of Geographers in San Francisco, March 29 – April 2. Christian Anderson presented a paper on 鈥減erformative infrastructure as an urban social force鈥 as part of a session called 鈥渙utside the wage: spaces, politics, possibilities.鈥 Ben Gardner presented on the role of conservation organizations as knowledge producers. His paper, 鈥渟topping the Serengeti road鈥 was part of a series of panels honoring the geographer Michael Watt鈥檚 contribution to Geography. Santiago Lopez and Jin-Kyu Jung presented their co-authored paper, 鈥渓inking climate science, geographic information science and qualitative research: understanding climate change impacts on local adaptation in the Tropical Ecuadorian Andes鈥 as part of a session on 鈥渃limate change and indigenous peoples.鈥 Adam Romero co-organized and spoke on the panel 鈥渃hemical geographies: science, politics and materiality.鈥 The session was 鈥渕eant to start a critical conversation on the social dynamics and politics inherent in chemicals.鈥