Geography News and Events
- Rumsey to Give Brownbag Talk on Thursday at 3:30
- Department of Geography Picnic: May 2nd at Vilas Park
- Congratulations! — Geography Student Awards
- Friday Geography Brownbag with Hallie Eakin: 12 – 1
- UW-Madison Geography AAG Party: April 17th
- 2008 Geography Student Symposium
- Leif Brottem Awarded Pre-Doctoral Fellowship from the West Africa Research Association
- Zach Johnson Wins CaGIS-ACSM Map Competition
- Geography Student Commons Opens
- Geography Undergraduates Awarded College of Letters
and Science Undergraduate Scholarships
Graduate Student Research
Po-Yi Hung — Improvised Place-Making for Globalization: Spatiality and Landscape in Northwest Yunnan, China
Po-Yi
Hung : Spatiality is the critical medium for disclosing the relational
processes underpinning the superficial juxtaposition of different elements,
and landscape is the essential avenue for understanding the historical
sedimentation of contingent place-making. The nexus of place-making, spatiality
and landscape makes me propose three research questions for the dissertation
project: 1) In the context of globalization, how is place-making mediated
through relational spatiality and materialized in historicized landscapes?
2) What are the implications of redefinitions of a place as (re)articulations
for state and international projects about development and conservation?
3) How has the contingent place-making translated into and been reshaped
by people’s everyday practices?