Jonathan Robins (SS) has published “Coercion and Resistance in the Colonial Market: Cotton in Britain’s African Empire,” in Jonathan Curry-Machado (ed.), Global Histories, Imperial Commodities, Local Interactions (Palgrave MacMillan, 2013).
From Tech Today.
Digging for copper predates European settlers in the Keweenaw by 7,000 years
Susan Martin, retired professor from the Michigan Technological University Department of Social Science, has written a book about the use of copper by ancient people in the Lake Superior region.
She said the title of the book, “Wonderful Power,” was a term used by a 19th century Ojibwa man to describe copper.
Jo Urion, Keweenaw National Historical Park historian, said park officials work with tribal members whenever work is planned on properties that are eligible to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places, including archeological sites.
Jessica Koski, mining technical assistant for the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, said copper has traditionally been an important part of Ojibway/Anishinaabe people of the Keweenaw, and it still is.
Read more at the Mining Gazette, by Kurt Hauglie.
Professor Barry Solomon (SS) published a review of the book, “Crude Reality: Petroleum in World History” (Rowman & Littlefield, 2012) in e-International Relations, on July 18.
From Tech Today.
The article, “Policy Dialogue and Engagement between Non-Governmental Organizations and Government: A Survey of Processes and Instruments of Canadian Policy Workers,” written by Bryan Evans (Ryerson University) and Adam Wellstead was recently published in the Central European Journal of Public Policy. 7:1. 60-86.
From Tech Today.
Emma S. Norman (SS) recently published an article, “Who’s counting? Spatial politics, ecocolonisation and the politics of calculation in Boundary Bay,” in Area and has been made freely available for a year as part of a Virtual Issue on New geographical frontiers, the theme of this year’s conference (www.rgs.org/AC2013). You can see the Virtual Issue at: www.rgs.org/FrontiersVI.
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Michael Howlett and Adam Wellstead (SS) have written “Policy Work in Multi-Level States: Institutional Autonomy and Task Allocation among Canadian Policy Analysts” in the Canadian Journal of Political Science, Volume 45, Issue 04, December 2012, pp 757-780.
Richelle Winkler, MTU asst. prof. of sociology and demography, and her colleague Ken Johnson at the University of New Hampshire and other colleagues at Univ. of Wisconsin – Madison recently released a new interactive website that graphically displays net migration patterns for counties in the US from the 1950s-2010. Her work and the website were recently profiled in USA Today (12 Apr.) in an article “Age, kids and jobs affect where Americans live“. The website is available to everyone to explore at www.netmigration.wisc.edu.
Emma S. Norman (SS) published the following article, “ Who’s counting? Spatial politics, ecocolonisation and the politics of calculation in Boundary Bay,” Royal Geographical Society.
From Tech Today.
Professor Barry D. Solomon (SS) and Assistant Professor Emma S. Norman (SS) contributed to the Oxford Bibliographies in Geography project, which provides overviews of the key literature in the field. Solomon served on the editorial board of the project and wrote the entry, Energy Resources and Use. Norman wrote the entry for Water.
The full project is accessible through: Oxford Bibliographies in Geography.
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