Research by Sarah Scarlett (SS) and Dan Trepal, a PhD student in Industrial Heritage and Archeology, was featured in the Detroit Free Press. The article describes how the Keweenaw Time Traveler can be used to understand how Copper Country towns have changed over time.
Industrial Heritage and Archeology PhD graduate John Arnold and Don Lafreniere (SS/GLRC) published the article: “Creating a Longitudinal, Data-driven 3D Model of Change Over Time in a Postindustrial Landscape Using GIS and CityEngine,” in the Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development.
Don Lafreniere (SS/GLRC) recently published the “Routledge Companion to Spatial History (Routledge, UK, 2018, 636 pp.), which he co-edited with Ian Gregory (Lancaster University, UK) and Don Debats (Flinders University, Australia).
Lafreniere also co-authored three chapters of the 28-chapter volume: “Introduction” (chapter 1), “Following Workers of the Industrial City across a Decade: Residential, Occupational, and Workplace Mobilities” (chapter 14), and “‘A city of the white race occupies its place’: Kanaka Row, Chinatown, and the Indian Quarter in Victorian Victoria” (chapter 15).
Angie Carter recently published the co-written article, “Public Action for Public Science: Re-imagining the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture” in Capitalism Nature Socialism Vol. 0, Iss. 0, 2018 in a special ecofeminism edition. The article analyzes community based efforts to rebuild the Center after its defunding by the State legislature.
Professor Emeritus Barry D. Solomon (SS) recently published the “Handbook on the Geographies of Energy” (Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, 2017, 576 pp.), which he co-edited with Kirby Calvert (University of Guelph, Canada).
Solomon also co-authored three chapters of the 37-chapter volume: Introduction (chapter 1), Geographical Dimensions of Wind Power (chapter 10), and Geography of Geothermal Energy Technologies (chapter 12).
Chelsea Schelly’s latest book, Dwelling in Resistance: Living with Alternative Technologies in America (Rutgers University Press, 2017), was the feature of a podcast with Dr. Michael O. Johnston on the New Books Network website. Click here to learn more and to listen to the podcast.
Michigan Technological University students and the Upper Peninsula Solar Technical Assistance Team (UPSTART) presented the results of the community solar feasibility study to Village of L’Anse community members on Dec. 13. The project seeks to determine whether L’Anse residents are interested in community solar and how to best design a program that would be affordable and accessible.
The full report is posted online at http://www.mtu.edu/social-sciences/research/reports/
To read more:
http://www.upmatters.com/news/local-news/lanse-area-solar-feasibility-study-to-be-released/875451960
Melissa Baird’s new book, “Critical Theory and the Anthropology of Heritage Landscapes” was published by University Press of Florida.
This book explores the sociopolitical contexts of heritage landscapes and the many issues that emerge when different interest groups attempt to gain control over them. Based on career-spanning case studies undertaken by the author, this book looks at sites with deep indigenous histories. Melissa Baird pays special attention to Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park and the Burrup Peninsula along the Pilbara Coast in Australia, the Altai Mountains of northwestern Mongolia, and Prince William Sound in Alaska. For many communities, landscapes such as these have long been associated with cultural identity and memories of important and difficult events, as well as with political struggles related to nation-state boundaries, sovereignty, and knowledge claims.
Retrieved from http://upf.com/book.asp?id=9780813056562
For more information or to order the book, visit the UPF website.
Adam Wellstead published “Plus ça Change, Plus C’est La Meˆme Chose?,” a review of Paul Sabatier’s ‘‘An Advocacy Coalition Framework of Policy Change and the Role of Policy-oriented Learning Therein’’ in Policy Sciences.
