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David J . Nemeth
The University of Toledo, Geography and Planning, Faculty Member
- Cultural Geography, Anarchism & Postmodern Theory, Extreme (Human) Geography, Futurism, Human-Robot Interaction, Nature's self-organizing principles in physical space, and 16 moreterrestrial astrology, Romani/Gypsy people, Environment and natural resources conservation, Robotics and AI, History of Geographic Thought, Placemaking and Campus Planning, Sir Richard Francis Burton, Philosophy and Sociology of Human/animal Relations, Feng Shui, Pungsu, Geomancy, Prester John, History of Geographical Thought, astral projection as tourism , Jack London, and fieldwork in ethnogeographyedit
- David J. "Jim" Nemeth is a scholar and teacher known for his work in the field of cultural geography. His research ha... moreDavid J. "Jim" Nemeth is a scholar and teacher known for his work in the field of cultural geography. His research has focused on topics such as landscape, place, and environmental perception. In particular, his book “The Architecture of Ideology: Neo-Confucian Imprinting on Cheju Island, Korea” (University of California Press, 1987) sheds light on how Neo-Confucian state ideology influenced the development of Cheju Island during the Yi dynasty. Through this work, Nemeth explores the intersection of philosophy, built environment, and the shaping of human habitation. His contributions have enriched our understanding of how cultural beliefs and practices leave lasting imprints on the physical world.edit
Abstract: In 1796, in France, an erstwhile cavalry officer turned philosopher named Destutt de Tracy (1784-1836) coined the word idéologie, meaning “the science of ideas.” A concise and accurate definition for ideology... more
Abstract: In 1796, in France, an erstwhile cavalry officer turned philosopher named Destutt de Tracy (1784-1836) coined the word idéologie, meaning “the science of ideas.” A concise and accurate definition for ideology today is “a powerful system of ideas.” Ideologies and their impacts, both salient and subtle, manifest everywhere, at all scales. Powerful ideas are invariably political ideologies. This is because all ideology, whatever its provenance or manifestation, is involved to varying degrees in the political organization of social and spatial relationships involving authority.
Large-scale spatial expressions of ideology are likely to occur when an ideology becomes invested with authority. Authority is a legal or rightful power to command and act. Authority invests in ideology as a tool to justify its inalienable right to exercise power. Justification resides in doctrines and theories that claim confidence in their certainty of knowledge; as for example, in these famous words “We hold these truths to be self-evident, …” written by Thomas Jefferson, founder of an ideology called Jeffersonian Liberalism.
Ideology on close examination is just rhetoric making truth claims. Thus, ideology and critical thinking--as critique--have a close, but adversarial, relationship. Critical thinking from the time of Socrates has been a “critique of domination” by an authority. Critical thinkers are able to advance arguments that successfully undermine ideological knowledge claims that authority makes in order to justify its right to rule. Ideologies proliferate in many guises but are often (but not always) identifiable as words that
have the suffix – "ism".
(PDF) Ideology. Also available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/319630131_Ideology [accessed Feb 23 2020].
North Korea, Russia, Juche, Socialism, Capitalism, The Kohinoor Scientism, Populism, Trumpism, Neoliberalism, misogynism, X-ism, Antifa, Alexandra Elba
Large-scale spatial expressions of ideology are likely to occur when an ideology becomes invested with authority. Authority is a legal or rightful power to command and act. Authority invests in ideology as a tool to justify its inalienable right to exercise power. Justification resides in doctrines and theories that claim confidence in their certainty of knowledge; as for example, in these famous words “We hold these truths to be self-evident, …” written by Thomas Jefferson, founder of an ideology called Jeffersonian Liberalism.
Ideology on close examination is just rhetoric making truth claims. Thus, ideology and critical thinking--as critique--have a close, but adversarial, relationship. Critical thinking from the time of Socrates has been a “critique of domination” by an authority. Critical thinkers are able to advance arguments that successfully undermine ideological knowledge claims that authority makes in order to justify its right to rule. Ideologies proliferate in many guises but are often (but not always) identifiable as words that
have the suffix – "ism".
(PDF) Ideology. Also available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/319630131_Ideology [accessed Feb 23 2020].
North Korea, Russia, Juche, Socialism, Capitalism, The Kohinoor Scientism, Populism, Trumpism, Neoliberalism, misogynism, X-ism, Antifa, Alexandra Elba
Research Interests: Architecture and ideology, Political Ideology, Vladimir Putin, Ubuntu philosophy, Ubuntu , Applied Ubuntu; role of Ubuntu in business, Mario Bunge, and 15 moreJuche Ideology, Charlie Munger, Do Artifacts Have Politics?, Jeffersonian Liberalism, patrotism, monuments and memorials, Incel, Crypto-anarchism, Hubricity, geomancy/feng-shui/p'ungsu , authoritarian utopianism, self-organization and swarming, Charles Sanders "Santiago" Peirce, Kim Jungil-ism, Maoism, Putinism; ... Trumpism, nationalism and nationalities, and Thomas Matthew Crooks
Winstanley-Chesters convincingly demonstrates to me that developmental narratives and narratology of North Korea have been an under-researched field of analysis and study that he has successfully begun to remedy with the publication of... more
Winstanley-Chesters convincingly demonstrates to me that developmental narratives and narratology of North Korea have been an under-researched field of analysis and study that he has successfully begun to remedy with the publication of this book. For example, chapter 4 describes a fundamental nation-building charismatic narrative by North Korean founder Kim Il Sung, subsequently perpetuated and entrenched as popular ideology by his son General Kim Jong Il, called Songun Politics (“military first”). This narrative empowers the military in North Korea with the primary responsibilities for building the natural landscape of a lived utopia and for protecting that landscape's charismatic and political integrity.
Research Interests: Political Geography and Geopolitics, Cultural Landscapes, Political Ideology, North Korea (politics and society), Social Construction of Nature, and 8 moreJack London, Langdon Winner, Juche, Kimilsungism, Extreme (Human) Geography, architecture of ideology, Jeju (Cheju) Island Studies, and Do Artifacts Have Politics?
"Callum Cant is a PhD student attending University of West London, and a gifted wordsmith. He writes concisely, sardonically, and with admirable clarity about how and why toxic class warfare and on-the-job worker dehumanization by bosses... more
"Callum Cant is a PhD student attending University of West London, and a gifted wordsmith. He writes concisely, sardonically, and with admirable clarity about how and why toxic class warfare and on-the-job worker dehumanization by bosses continue to persist into the early decades of the 21st century, enabled by the “new” algorithmic-managed industrial platform economy. His book relates how, in mid-September of 2016, he contrived a plan whereby he could work while a student to earn a living wage and, meanwhile, advance his personal education goals (in particular those pertaining to the successfully pursuit of original substance for his dissertation research).
Callum’s book relates intimately and precisely how he became a bicycle food-delivery courier in the employ of corporate Deliveroo, in Brighton, England. At the time of his hire, Deliveroo was a budding “platform company” aspiring to become a “unicorn” (a fantastically profitable beast-of-a-platform) in a highly competitive and rapidly evolving economic supply niche driven by high consumer demand.
Deliveroo’s proselytizing to entice entry-level bicycle couriers offered to provide its specialized precarious workforce (comprised in large part of poor, struggling, mostly male, college students) freedom and dignity in exchange for their paycheck. The courier work promised newbies that they could be “independent contractors” in this new platform economy. However, technically and legally, they would not be Deliveroo “employees.” And therein lies the rub."
Keywords: gig economy; anarcho-syndicalism; organized labor movements; food-delivery services; 'heroic workerism''; boss-managed platform economy; The Precriate ...
Callum’s book relates intimately and precisely how he became a bicycle food-delivery courier in the employ of corporate Deliveroo, in Brighton, England. At the time of his hire, Deliveroo was a budding “platform company” aspiring to become a “unicorn” (a fantastically profitable beast-of-a-platform) in a highly competitive and rapidly evolving economic supply niche driven by high consumer demand.
Deliveroo’s proselytizing to entice entry-level bicycle couriers offered to provide its specialized precarious workforce (comprised in large part of poor, struggling, mostly male, college students) freedom and dignity in exchange for their paycheck. The courier work promised newbies that they could be “independent contractors” in this new platform economy. However, technically and legally, they would not be Deliveroo “employees.” And therein lies the rub."
Keywords: gig economy; anarcho-syndicalism; organized labor movements; food-delivery services; 'heroic workerism''; boss-managed platform economy; The Precriate ...
Research Interests: Urban And Regional Planning, Biomechatronics, Applied Economics, Quantum entanglement, Binary Particle Swarm Optimization, and 15 moreEconomic Development, Labor Economics, Gender Studies, Labor Markets and Labor Unions, Human Resources, Organizational Change and Organizatinal Networks, Cloud computing, String theory and Brain function model, Anarcho-syndicalism, debt slavery, Disentanglement, Blissful Devolution, Joe Versus the Volcano, AI robots, Hubricity, degrowth and enlightened underdevelopment, Human hive intelligence, algorithms in the workplace, brain cloud, and Uber Proposition 22
Are comic books and graphic textbooks justifiable, viable, and timely modes for promoting student learning about complex emerging economic concepts? My answer is “Yes”— with some qualifications. Pop culture for better and for worse is now... more
Are comic books and graphic textbooks justifiable, viable, and timely modes for promoting student learning about complex emerging economic concepts? My answer is “Yes”— with some qualifications. Pop culture for better and for worse is now making unprecedented and innovative hard media educational inroads into global and domestic business school education learning centers and libraries. Producing comics for student use in classrooms from grade school to college has been a growing trend over the past decade, and the relatively unexplored market for a comic book mode of business-related learning materials both inside and beyond the American classroom is now generating diverse examples in need of some objective assessment and critique. For example, the recently introduced “Atlas Black” comic book character has fast become familiar to many media-savvy management school teachers and students in the United States. The example comic book reviewed here titled Clusters and Your Economy: An Illustrated Introduction is available in hard copy and comprises 28 colorful pages. Its highly illustrated content according to the publishing consortium (spearheaded by the University of Southern Denmark) represents the accrued wisdom of a pool of “experienced international cluster managers” (whose names and diverse affiliations are introduced on the inside back cover). This compact learning resource self-identifies as a “comic book” that “provides a quick overview of clusters, their history, and how they work, and offers useful tips for helping them grow and thrive in your community.” The economics of cluster development is indeed serious business these days, and comic books as an educational mode need not be humorous to be timely, justified, and viable. The comic book educational medium in the United States has at least since World War II proved itself highly effective for informal humanities (history, literature, biography) education. For example, members of my own generation of middle-class baby boomers invariably endorse the efficacy of having read the ubiquitous Classics Illustrated comics for both casual erudition and pleasure. All comics, whatever their purpose, have in common a thematic cover enclosing a linear storytelling mode that comprises sequential illustrated panels. Each panel includes brief descriptive prose, written narrative, and dialogue contained in word balloons. A coordinated production team of authors, illustrators, and designers—according to their budgets—can publish a product for an inclusive and diverse comic book market with insatiable demand that ranges from puerile and crass (e.g., Depression-era “Tijuana bibles”) to sophisticated and academic (e.g., The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation). I find Clusters and Your Economy to be a high-end comic book production, informative, clearly written, and with some very engaging and aesthetic panels (see, e.g., page 15). In Clusters and Your Economy, authors Cortright and Langkilde deploy the comic book mode to enthusiastically proselytize for the systematic economic development of business clusters at local, regional, national, and global scales. “Cluster development” is also called “cluster initiative” and “economic clustering” by its many advocates. These advocates are the early adopters of the economic cluster concept represented by academics, industrial leaders, consultants, government agencies, and lay economic growth boosters around the world. Readers of this comic will learn the names and contributions of a “pantheon of heroes” of cluster development, including Alfred Marshall and Michael Porter, as well as the history of the movement and how to create, nurture, and support clustering and “spread the word” of the movement in the name of economic growth and prosperity. All considered, Clusters and Your Economy comic book is highly informative and enthusiastic, and thus a potentially successful mode for advancing student learning on the topic. It seems that the cluster concept can indeed be communicated and promoted in a most casual and simple way to serve its principle purpose; that is, to organize economic collaborations between diverse public and private actors to promote rapid economic growth through clustering. At present there are several thousand cluster initiatives active throughout the world and their numbers continue to grow. Current economic trends and their 550521 EDQXXX10.1177/0891242414550521Economic Development QuarterlyBook Reviews research-article2014
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Metal recycling is a sustainable urban industry supplied by scrap metal formally collected from primary metal producers, manufacturers, and informal collectors of discarded recyclable materials. Increased worldwide demand for metal and... more
Metal recycling is a sustainable urban industry supplied by scrap metal formally collected from primary metal producers, manufacturers, and informal collectors of discarded recyclable materials. Increased worldwide demand for metal and the limited primary metal production capabilities of developing nations, particularly China, has raised the price of scrap metal and elevated scrap metal as the United States’ leading sustainable export, annually generating billions of dollars in revenue. This study theoretically situates formal scrap suppliers and scrap wholesalers (i.e. scrap yards) as elements of industrial symbiosis (Chertow MR, Annu Rev Energy Environ 25:313–337, 2000) and informal scrappers as urban mining agents (Brunner J Ind Ecol 15:339-341, 2011) whose behaviors strongly resemble that of social foragers (Giraldeau LA, Caraco T, Social foraging theory. Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2000). Using Detroit as a case study, empirical analyses, informed by field-based observations and interviews, were conducted to support each theoretical framework. Specific analysis topics included the impact of metal prices on green job creation in the metal recycling industry, the locational determinants of scrap yards, the possible role of unemployment on the informal scrapper population, the destructive impact of criminal informal metal collectors, and a geo-visualization of optimal locations to informally extract scrap metal in Detroit. The successful analyses demonstrated in this chapter support the applied theoretical frameworks as a valuable platform to study the metal recycling industry and also produced new empirical and ethnographic insights on scrap metal supply chains, which deserve more intensive research as a vehicle for urban sustainability.
Research Interests: Underground Economies, Pakistan, Informal Economy, Jack London, Scrap Metal Recycling, and 15 moreScience fiction, Ursula K. le Guin, Fantasy, Watts Towers, Urban Poverty and Sustainable Livelihoods, Urban Mining, Enlightened Underdevelopment, itinerant tinplating, kitchen equipment repair, Peripatetic peoples, Gypsies (Romanies), Rusty Marx , Tatooine Jawas, junkyard fantasies, hubricities, Space Gypsies, and Gypsies in space and place
"Extreme Geography." 1997. California Geographer. 37:10-31. http://scholarworks.csun.edu/handle/10211.2/2690 URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10211.2/2690 A recent editorial in the Annals of the Association of American Geographers (Dixon... more
"Extreme Geography." 1997. California Geographer. 37:10-31. http://scholarworks.csun.edu/handle/10211.2/2690 URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10211.2/2690
A recent editorial in the Annals of the Association of American Geographers (Dixon and Jones, 1996) presented an entertaining deconstructive reading of scientific geography. This innovative essay, titled "For a Supercalifragilistkexpialidodous Scientific Geography" demonstrates how a popular deconstructive method adapted from the humanities might be deployed to facilitate the "self-redemption" of scientific geography from its constraining positivist closure, perhaps paving the way for its alignment with the open-ended and pluralistic world-view of an emerging critical poststructuralism.
Stylistic and methodological attributes of a postmodern attitude permeate the editorial: its postmodern style is a refreshing departure from the usual flat, denotative prose of scientific reporting; the blatant refusal of the authors to marshal validity and reference authority in support of their arguments is a portent of bold, new directions for the discipline's flagship journal; finally, the topic is thought-provoking and timely, motivated in part by the authors' concern about "the absence of a considered debate over the challenges and relative merits of poststructuralism" (Dixon and Jones, 1996,767). The timing of this debate cannot be separated from events and conditions that characterize the postmodern-as-epoch (Dear and Wassmansdorf, 1993). Perhaps that time has already passed: at least one observer suggests that the impact of information technology and time-space convergence on human communication seems to render Dixon and Jones' "considered debate" less relevant in the postmodern epoch (Nemeth, 1997).
Postmodern skepticism thrives on information surfeits. Ambiguous truths are bred wholesale by the speed in the span of cyberspace. This new flexibility in the accumulation of information now feeds a frenzy of popular skepticism about absolute truths that is much deeper and darker than the methodological skepticism in positivist science that continues to invest heavily in their credibilities.
Keyword: quantum thinking;
California Geographer ~ URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10211.2/2690
A recent editorial in the Annals of the Association of American Geographers (Dixon and Jones, 1996) presented an entertaining deconstructive reading of scientific geography. This innovative essay, titled "For a Supercalifragilistkexpialidodous Scientific Geography" demonstrates how a popular deconstructive method adapted from the humanities might be deployed to facilitate the "self-redemption" of scientific geography from its constraining positivist closure, perhaps paving the way for its alignment with the open-ended and pluralistic world-view of an emerging critical poststructuralism.
Stylistic and methodological attributes of a postmodern attitude permeate the editorial: its postmodern style is a refreshing departure from the usual flat, denotative prose of scientific reporting; the blatant refusal of the authors to marshal validity and reference authority in support of their arguments is a portent of bold, new directions for the discipline's flagship journal; finally, the topic is thought-provoking and timely, motivated in part by the authors' concern about "the absence of a considered debate over the challenges and relative merits of poststructuralism" (Dixon and Jones, 1996,767). The timing of this debate cannot be separated from events and conditions that characterize the postmodern-as-epoch (Dear and Wassmansdorf, 1993). Perhaps that time has already passed: at least one observer suggests that the impact of information technology and time-space convergence on human communication seems to render Dixon and Jones' "considered debate" less relevant in the postmodern epoch (Nemeth, 1997).
Postmodern skepticism thrives on information surfeits. Ambiguous truths are bred wholesale by the speed in the span of cyberspace. This new flexibility in the accumulation of information now feeds a frenzy of popular skepticism about absolute truths that is much deeper and darker than the methodological skepticism in positivist science that continues to invest heavily in their credibilities.
Keyword: quantum thinking;
California Geographer ~ URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10211.2/2690
Research Interests: Speculative Realism, Biomechatronics, Digital Storytelling and Psychogeography, Jack London, Evolution of Eusociality, and 15 moreFeng Shui, Consciousness-Related Quantum Entanglement, Lafcadio Hearn, Enlightened Underdevelopment, terrestrial astrology, Speculative Fabulation, Blissful Devolution, Hubricity, factory farms for humankind, synchronicity and Jung, The Ghost in the Machine in the Garden, The Jacket~The Star Rover, astral projection as tourism geography, a post-Modern quantum curriculum for American higher education, and Captain Sir Richard Frances Burton and The Kohinoor
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This book is the second book in a trilogy in experimental auto-ethnographies. The first book in the trilogy is Jeju Island Rambling: Self-exile in Peace Corps, 1973-1974, published in 2014. The third book in the trilogy is tentatively titled Silver Bullets and is currently in progress.
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This book is the second book in a trilogy in experimental auto-ethnographies. The first book in the trilogy is Jeju Island Rambling: Self-exile in Peace Corps, 1973-1974, published in 2014. The third book in the trilogy is tentatively titled Silver Bullets and is currently in progress.
Research Interests: Cultural Geography, Identity (Culture), Autoethnography, Charles Sanders Peirce, Astral Projection, and 15 moreKorea, Jack London, 1950s / Fifties Culture, Enlightened Underdevelopment, high school car clubs (1950s), quantum indeterminacy, Blissful Devolution, self-hypnosis, Prester John and the Gypsies, street rod and hot rod, 'barn finds' , Joe Leno Car Garage-related, hotrods & streetrods, Menas Kafatos, and Alexandra Albakhan
"Social status among members of the American Rom Gypsy community seems closely related to one's family reputation. I observed this during my several years of close contact with Thomas Nicholas and his extended family, then based near Los... more
"Social status among members of the American Rom Gypsy community seems closely related to one's family reputation. I observed this during my several years of close contact with Thomas Nicholas and his extended family, then based near Los Angeles. Thomas and his family will tell rather than write about significant things in their lives, so oral history becomes by default the vehicle for building family reputation and social status. The Rom of his generation brag a lot, and endeavor to continually append their own good deeds to the end of their family history. In general, Rom family history is a slippery body of legend and gossip. Facts and numbers have been forgotten or omitted or invented. The oral histories are nevertheless important because they are, through their telling and retelling, the property of the Gypsy community at large. If my friends seem preoccupied with telling stories about themselves, it is perhaps because good reputation in the Gypsy community is still important to them when arranging mutually acceptable and economically significant marital exchanges with other families. Beyond this motivation, they all like to tell, or to listen to, a good story."
Research Interests: Cultural Historical Geography, Extreme (Human) Geography, itinerant tinplating, Gypsy justice (kris), Gypsy-American arranged marriages circa 1970, and 5 moreGypsy (Romani, Roma, Peripatetic ... Studies), autoethnogeographic fieldwork, Romani-Americans, Gypsies in the city, and Gypsy-American territorial behavior
Where California's Route 166 takes leave of the busy coastal lowlands above Santa Maria, it immediately entwines the Cuyama River rising to its source in the east, beyond the Sierra Madres. It becomes a strikingly desolate drive that... more
Where California's Route 166 takes leave of the busy coastal lowlands above Santa Maria, it immediately entwines the Cuyama River rising to its source in the east, beyond the Sierra Madres. It becomes a strikingly desolate drive that eventually penetrates the mountains and arrives at the dry Isolation and soda lakes of the Carrizo Plain. The town of Taft lies ahead, just beyond Grocer Grade, at the toe of the Temblor Range. Here, on the threshold of the fertile San Joaquin Valley, urban civilization resumes and petroleum is king. Between Santa Maria and Taft there Is little to attract the scattered remnants of America's once ubiquitous floating industriaI populations, which include Gypsy itinerants, but the little there is yet sufficient to interest Thomas Nicholas, a Rom Gypsy wipe-tinner. "Ame hano saros le boIi ka le bakarni, hotaliya, hospitalya. .... I tin mixing bowls for bakeries, hotels, hospitals" Thomas responded in Romani and in English when asked to describe his occupation ... .
Note: this article aims to promotes and exemplifies a rationale for producing a dictionary of occupational titles for the use of scholars and academics involved in Gypsy [Romani] Studies.
Note: this article aims to promotes and exemplifies a rationale for producing a dictionary of occupational titles for the use of scholars and academics involved in Gypsy [Romani] Studies.
Research Interests: Cultural Geography, Material Culture Studies, Ethnographic Fieldwork (Anthropology), Romani Studies, Ethnogeography, and 15 moreGypsy Studies, Participant Observation, Ethnography Research methodology, Applied Geography, Taskscape, Service Nomads, Carrizo Plain, Gypsies-Americans, wipe-tinning, itinerant tin plating, floating industrial populations , Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society , coppersmith, nomadic artisans, and GR&T ethnic identities
Geography graduate students intent on achieving tenure-track positions in academia might also consider diverse teaching opportunities, both full-time and part-time, beyond their expectations and even those outside their comfort zones.... more
Geography graduate students intent on achieving tenure-track positions in academia might also consider diverse teaching opportunities, both full-time and part-time, beyond their expectations and even those outside their comfort zones. Biographies in geographic teaching reveal that not a few geography teachers willingly or reluctantly have joined the contingent workforce at one time or another, and yet have succeeded to achieve satisfying and ever-prosperous lifetime careers. Geographers do what they have to do in order to survive: they learn from their experiences, and their lessons learned help them to become better teachers.
This paper is a memorate of my own unexpected part-time geography teaching experience during1986 in a California Youth Authority (CYA) facility. My students were all wards of the State of California, incarcerated at the secured rural educational facility I introduce here as “Verdanta School.” I adopt a “memorate” style of self-narrative as appropriate to capturing the unusual essence of a semester-long paranormal experience. I have reduced that experience to “Ten Lessons Learned,” all of which later contributed to my career success in academia, and to my satisfaction with life.
This paper is a memorate of my own unexpected part-time geography teaching experience during1986 in a California Youth Authority (CYA) facility. My students were all wards of the State of California, incarcerated at the secured rural educational facility I introduce here as “Verdanta School.” I adopt a “memorate” style of self-narrative as appropriate to capturing the unusual essence of a semester-long paranormal experience. I have reduced that experience to “Ten Lessons Learned,” all of which later contributed to my career success in academia, and to my satisfaction with life.
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ABSTRACT Let me sketch out here my vision of the cloistered cornucopia of AD 2100: Management of Planet Earth is entirely rationalized. Nature still nurtures. Artificial intelligence is history. The Machine has met its Master. The rich... more
ABSTRACT Let me sketch out here my vision of the cloistered cornucopia of AD 2100: Management of Planet Earth is entirely rationalized. Nature still nurtures. Artificial intelligence is history. The Machine has met its Master. The rich are enraptured. The poor are happy. The ducks of demography are all in a row. Never more is heard the discouraging word. Welcome to my sanguine vision of our future totalitarian utopia.
Research Interests: Geography, Social behavior in animals, Quantum entanglement, Utopia, Companion Animals, and 13 moreI Ching, Sketch, Hugh Everett III, Westworld, geopsychology, totalitarian utopia, Springer Ebooks, Hubricity, degrowth and enlightened underdevelopment, sentience and sapience, Human hive intelligence, futurist lit and cinema, and cryptoanarchism/Bitcoin/J. D. Vance
"What might be the outcome of bending the traditional rules of cartography in favor of chance? Our answer is "something Dada." What does chance have to do with cartography and Dada? Taking the last first, Dada is a recent expression of... more
"What might be the outcome of bending the traditional rules of cartography in favor of chance? Our answer is "something Dada." What does chance have to do with cartography and Dada? Taking the last first, Dada is a recent expression of the ancient absurdist spirit of relativism which, as an antidote to rationalism, is as old as Alley Oop and Protagoras. As a protest movement against the excesses of a rational society, Dada mushroomed briefly in the immediate aftermath of the First World War. It arose among French and German intellectuals out of their sheer moral exhaustion and nausea over that War. By 1916 the absurdity of the systematic slaughter of men and mules and its ties to the Age of Reason were becoming appallingly apparent: masses of patriotic soldiers were being mechanically marched off by the War Administrators to die meaningless deaths in miserable battlefront trenches. The story of the birth of Dada in the chaos of wartime tells us that one day in 1916 some of these soldiers, fully knowing they would all be gassed, maimed and slaughtered, suddenly and spontaneously burst out into a cacophonic bleating--like sheep—instead of singing their patriotic marching songs. This absurd spontaneous gesture by the walking dead in protest of the dehumanizing Death Machine was the birth of the Dada movement, which was always more about protest than about art. Thus, when viewed against the logic of the trenches, the insanity of Dada--the sweeping antilogic of its protest-spectacularly demonstrated some subversive potential in its dysrational critique."
see also > https://www.utoledo.edu/al/geography/pdfs/absurdistcartography.pdf
see also > https://www.utoledo.edu/al/geography/pdfs/absurdistcartography.pdf
Research Interests: Anarchism, Dadaism, Cultural geography in relation to creative arts practice, literature, etc, Effective Altruism, 3D city models gis, and 15 moreKyiv, Extreme (Human) Geography, Blissful Devolution, No More War Movement, Hubricity, absurdist cartography, War (what is it good for?), Pacificism, Peace Corps and Ukraine, Postmodernism as attitude, totalitarian utopianism, quantum steampunk, stamp art, Knight at the Crossroads Vasnetsov, and michel pablo
DOI: 10.1515/9780824864323-006
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In general, the legal rights of women in Asia are ignored. The paper provides anecdotal evidence of “young, beautiful” women in several Asian countries who have been the targets of acid attacks by angry men and women over personal issues.... more
In general, the legal rights of women in Asia are ignored. The paper provides anecdotal evidence of “young, beautiful” women in several Asian countries who have been the targets of acid attacks by angry men and women over personal issues. Battery acid is the weapon of choice. The acid attacks intentionally transform these women from “beautiful” to “ugly.” Most of the victims are alone and poor, and youth and beauty may be their only assets. The courts of law, however, blame the victims’ beauty and wile for initiating the circumstances that result in their suffering. The attackers generally go free. The story of Miss Som Rasmey of Cambodia is introduced as one example. The discussion digresses from the brutal particulars of the acid attacks to a naive question: “Why is there so much battery acid around, anyway?” This question leads to the conclusion that the attack on Miss Som Rasmey is collateral damage linked to the global conspiracy of economic growth (globalization). Economic gro...
Research Interests: Gender Studies, Sociology of Violence, Terrorism, Domestic Violence, South Asian Studies, and 15 moreCambodia, Gender and Development, Cultures of Rage and Revenge, Patriarchal Society, Gang Violence, Walt Rostow, Mayhem, Patriarchal Capitalism, Deus ex machina, Critique of Progress and Development, Critiques of Capitalism, acid tossing , acid mayhem , Stages of Economic Growth, and The Ghost in the Machine in the Garden/quantum entanglement
INCEL culture and related domestic terrorism events poster project/K. Panozzo; Ishfaq Rahman/David J. Nemeth This INCEL poster "mapping" project began as a casual, collaborative, thought experiment involving quantum entanglement... more
INCEL culture and related domestic terrorism events poster project/K. Panozzo; Ishfaq Rahman/David J. Nemeth
This INCEL poster "mapping" project began as a casual, collaborative, thought experiment involving quantum entanglement theory, and eusociality, toward an exploration of their plausible research/teaching/community service social science applications. Our goal aims to help propagate 'Extreme Human Geography' as vital component part of a timely, robust spatially integrated social science (SISS).
DJN notes, as a sidebar, that: "I may have thought a lot, and occasionally shared my enthusiastic opinions, during the collaborative critical discussion stages of this INCEL poster project, but it was mainly Kim Panozzo and her SISS graduate student colleagues who contributed the "heavier lifting" that brought this gonzo project to fruition. Kim, in particular, deployed her remarkably gifted design and execution talents -- effectively and tirelessly -- during the experiment, culminating in the final poster project that we presented during the ELDAAG meeting/conference convened on October 19, 2019.
This INCEL poster "mapping" project began as a casual, collaborative, thought experiment involving quantum entanglement theory, and eusociality, toward an exploration of their plausible research/teaching/community service social science applications. Our goal aims to help propagate 'Extreme Human Geography' as vital component part of a timely, robust spatially integrated social science (SISS).
DJN notes, as a sidebar, that: "I may have thought a lot, and occasionally shared my enthusiastic opinions, during the collaborative critical discussion stages of this INCEL poster project, but it was mainly Kim Panozzo and her SISS graduate student colleagues who contributed the "heavier lifting" that brought this gonzo project to fruition. Kim, in particular, deployed her remarkably gifted design and execution talents -- effectively and tirelessly -- during the experiment, culminating in the final poster project that we presented during the ELDAAG meeting/conference convened on October 19, 2019.
Research Interests: Uncanny Valley, Ursula K. Le Guin, Consciousness-Related Quantum Entanglement, Eusociality, Swarm Intelligence and Human Behavior, and 15 moreExtreme (Human) Geography, Berkeley School genius, Globehead! a journal of extreme geography, Incel, Nature's self-organizing principles in physical space, fieldwork in ethnogeography, mapping Incel, Hubricity, degrowth and enlightened underdevelopment, pathological togetherness, hive mentality in humans, "Wild Bill" Bunge defenestration, tres genco, Kohberger: Night Stalker, and Thomas Matthew Crooks
The research applies a geographic perspective to the interface of biotic, atmospheric and socio-economic factors. Wind as a factor in biotic distributions helps explain the existence and quality of life on many isolated islands. In the... more
The research applies a geographic perspective to the interface of biotic, atmospheric and socio-economic factors. Wind as a factor in biotic distributions helps explain the existence and quality of life on many isolated islands. In the late summer of 1988, there were reports of African desert Locust (Schistocerca gregaria) invasion of the Windward Islands. The event was historically unprecedented, and agricultural experts in the eastern Caribbean were alarmed. A tentative hypothesis was that Hurricane Joan provided the transport mechanism. An alternative hypothesis is suggested here. The discussion helps explain why transatlantic African Desert Locust migrations are so unusual. Analysis is based on primary and secondary data sources that include synoptic weather maps, formal and informal scientific reports, written correspondence with agricultural experts in the impact area, and newspaper coverage of the invasion.
Update 2020 FYI: Kenya, Ethiopia, Somalia, Thunburgers (featuring locust protein)
Update 2020 FYI: Kenya, Ethiopia, Somalia, Thunburgers (featuring locust protein)
Research Interests: Zooarchaeology, Hurricanes, Exotic Species, Magical Realism, Island Biogeography, and 15 moreWindward Islands, Island Biota and Diffusion of Plants and Animals, Desert Locust, Locust control, Schistocerca gregaria,, small island studies, windborne diffusion, locust plagues, desert biome, mobility and survival in desert environments, envionmental determinism, plant and animal biogeography, Thunburgers (featuring locust protein) , locusts, Pakistan, India, and monarch butterfly migration mechanisms
"Leicester Hemingway’s dream of an artificial island paradise came in 1961, just after he successful published his biography My Brother, Ernest Hemingway. The publication earned him significant financial rewards. While perhaps not yet a... more
"Leicester Hemingway’s dream of an artificial island paradise came in 1961, just after he successful published his biography My Brother, Ernest Hemingway. The publication earned him significant financial rewards. While perhaps not yet a tycoon, “Duke” Hemingway energetically invested his new wealth in a dream: a sovereign micro-nation called “New Atlantis,” which he built on a raft in the Caribbean. He claimed that its purpose was to serve as marine research headquarters. A hurricane supposedly swept it away a few years after it was built. There is also a rumor that Duke built two islands in succession. The first was crude -- tethered to the seabed with a Ford engine block! Apparently, this "island" was unoccupied. Absent of any caretakers, Duke's first artificial Atlantis was dismantled without ceremony by indigenous fisherfolk. Duke's second attempt, circa 1964, was built, then christened with a new name. It was more successful, as a colony of eight “citizens” came to occupy it. Thence came the hurricane ... ".
Related news: Dateline 1 17/2020 ~ "Japan may invest in Indonesia islands near South China Sea" ~
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/us-japan-may-invest-in-indonesia-islands-near-south-china-sea/ar-BBZ2Rdb?ocid=spartandhp
Some plausible titles for elaborating the "artificial island" phrase and concept: "Coronavirus and the Wuhan Plague;" "Sartre's 'No Escape' Manifests;" "Hell is Other People: Dissolving the Problem;" "Blissful Devolution;" "Hubricity;" ...
Related news: Dateline 1 17/2020 ~ "Japan may invest in Indonesia islands near South China Sea" ~
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/us-japan-may-invest-in-indonesia-islands-near-south-china-sea/ar-BBZ2Rdb?ocid=spartandhp
Some plausible titles for elaborating the "artificial island" phrase and concept: "Coronavirus and the Wuhan Plague;" "Sartre's 'No Escape' Manifests;" "Hell is Other People: Dissolving the Problem;" "Blissful Devolution;" "Hubricity;" ...
Research Interests: Island Studies, Utopian Studies, Hemingway, Built Environment, Offshore Structures, and 15 moreExistentialism, Seamounts, Small islands, Seasteading, Artificial Islands, Extreme Geography, Anthropogenic Climate Change and Catastrophic Global Warming, Floating Cities, Jeju (Cheju) Island Studies, floating islands and architectures, futurism adrift, old men and the sea, coronavirus escapes, The Quad alliance, and Ieodo legend South Korea
Early January, 2013, was a time when the Luck Wagon swung by again to pick me up. On that memorable occasion Jeju World Wide (newspaper) Managing Editor Todd Thacker published an essay I wrote about my initial arrival by airplane to Cheju... more
Early January, 2013, was a time when the Luck Wagon swung by again to pick me up. On that memorable occasion Jeju World Wide (newspaper) Managing Editor Todd Thacker published an essay I wrote about my initial arrival by airplane to Cheju (nowadays Jeju) Island, as a Peace Corps Volunteer in February of 1973.
Todd asked to see more short manuscripts from me mining the same nostalgic vein. His request and encouragement propelled me into a productive writing mood. Once I pried open that old crate of Peace Corps memories, so much direct and tangential material spewed forth there was no shutting the lid on it. For the entire year of 2013 I submitted an essay a week to total 52 essays.
Around June or July of 2013 I began to imagine that my online weekly essays might eventually be revised into chapters for a book project. At the end of 2013 Todd committed to republishing the 2013 essays, again weekly, during 2014. He also kindly consolidated the 52 digital essay files as edited and published for JWW readers to one digital file, and sent that file to me. It is this file I have since massaged into a this open access book manuscript, titled Jeju Island Rambling: Self-exile in Peace Corps, 1973-1974.
Todd asked to see more short manuscripts from me mining the same nostalgic vein. His request and encouragement propelled me into a productive writing mood. Once I pried open that old crate of Peace Corps memories, so much direct and tangential material spewed forth there was no shutting the lid on it. For the entire year of 2013 I submitted an essay a week to total 52 essays.
Around June or July of 2013 I began to imagine that my online weekly essays might eventually be revised into chapters for a book project. At the end of 2013 Todd committed to republishing the 2013 essays, again weekly, during 2014. He also kindly consolidated the 52 digital essay files as edited and published for JWW readers to one digital file, and sent that file to me. It is this file I have since massaged into a this open access book manuscript, titled Jeju Island Rambling: Self-exile in Peace Corps, 1973-1974.
Research Interests: Cultural Geography, Island Studies, Korean Studies, Autoethnography, Humanistic Geography, and 15 moreSpirituality & Mysticism, Magical Realism, Existential Anthropology, Sacred mountains, Escapism, Jack London, Sacred Space, Peace Corps, Small islands, Gypsy Studies, Enlightened Underdevelopment, Jeju Island Studies, Blissful Devolution, spirit of exploration, and astral projection as tourism
Inspired by the following I-Ching narrative, my body of work related to feng shui (p'ungsu; terrestrial astrology; Chinese geomancy ... ) is perhaps most clearly articulated in this 1991 article; a book chapter in an anthology focusing on... more
Inspired by the following I-Ching narrative, my body of work related to feng shui (p'ungsu; terrestrial astrology; Chinese geomancy ... ) is perhaps most clearly articulated in this 1991 article; a book chapter in an anthology focusing on sacred spaces and places edited by James Swan):
"When in early antiquity [Fu Hsi] ruled the world, he
looked upward and contemplated the images in the
heavens: he looked downward and contemplated the
markings of birds and beasts and their adaptations to
the regions. He proceeded directly from himself and
indirectly from objects. Thus he invented the eight trigrams
in order to enter into connections with the virtues of the
light of the gods and to regulate the conditions of all beings."
The I Ching or Book of Changes (Richard Wilhelm translation from Chinese into German, and Rendered into English by Cary F. Baynes, With a Foreword by C.G. Jung). Third Edition. 1968.
"When in early antiquity [Fu Hsi] ruled the world, he
looked upward and contemplated the images in the
heavens: he looked downward and contemplated the
markings of birds and beasts and their adaptations to
the regions. He proceeded directly from himself and
indirectly from objects. Thus he invented the eight trigrams
in order to enter into connections with the virtues of the
light of the gods and to regulate the conditions of all beings."
The I Ching or Book of Changes (Richard Wilhelm translation from Chinese into German, and Rendered into English by Cary F. Baynes, With a Foreword by C.G. Jung). Third Edition. 1968.
Research Interests: Cultural Geography, Space and Place, Korean Studies, East Asian Studies, Architecture and ideology, and 15 moreEnvironmental Planning, Neo-Confucian Philosophy, Geomancy, Feng Shui, Math of Magic Squares and base integers., Tarot Studies, Enlightened Underdevelopment, topomancy, quantum thinking, Jeju Island psychogeography rambling, Charles Santiago Sanders Peirce, astral projection as tourism geography, terrestrial astrology geomancy, Carl Jung and synchronicity, and quantum thinking and hive intelligence
Exotic feng-shui practices are an increasingly popular form of applied geography in Anglo-America today. Hardly scientific, feng-shui is, however, systematic, complex, and profound in the context of its own cosmology and symbolism. In... more
Exotic feng-shui practices are an increasingly popular form of applied geography in Anglo-America today. Hardly scientific, feng-shui is, however, systematic, complex, and profound in the context of its own cosmology and symbolism. In this article, I muse on the provenance of “Berkeley School” genius at the UC Berkeley site in relation to its “power of place,” using a simplified feng-shui model. My examples introduce and elaborate on the propitious synchronicities found at the site perhaps responsible for
the lowering of three prestigious “Berkeley Schools” of creative endeavor
following WWI: Carl Sauer’s Berkeley School of Cultural Geography; Alfred Kroeber’s Berkeley School of Cultural Anthropology; and John Haley’s Berkeley School of American Scene Landscape Painting. I muse over some auspicious peculiarities in the common ground at the UC Berkeley site from which these three landscape schools emerge. A general feng-shui cosmological model describes how creative arrays of primal natural forces might converge at the campus site, creating a cosmic force field that generates and shapes the successful thoughts, visions, and creative output of
certain of the site’s inhabitants. The founding fathers of these three Berkeley
Schools, although unbeknownst to them, are perhaps beneficiaries of UC Berkeley’s excellent feng-shui site. The model provides a provocative alter-native understanding of forces responsible for the longevity and continuing vitality of the “Berkeley School” tradition of cultural geography.
the lowering of three prestigious “Berkeley Schools” of creative endeavor
following WWI: Carl Sauer’s Berkeley School of Cultural Geography; Alfred Kroeber’s Berkeley School of Cultural Anthropology; and John Haley’s Berkeley School of American Scene Landscape Painting. I muse over some auspicious peculiarities in the common ground at the UC Berkeley site from which these three landscape schools emerge. A general feng-shui cosmological model describes how creative arrays of primal natural forces might converge at the campus site, creating a cosmic force field that generates and shapes the successful thoughts, visions, and creative output of
certain of the site’s inhabitants. The founding fathers of these three Berkeley
Schools, although unbeknownst to them, are perhaps beneficiaries of UC Berkeley’s excellent feng-shui site. The model provides a provocative alter-native understanding of forces responsible for the longevity and continuing vitality of the “Berkeley School” tradition of cultural geography.
Research Interests: Sociology, Chinese Philosophy, Amerindian Studies, Cultural Historical Geography, Vision, and 15 moreCommon Ground, Transcendental Empiricism, Cultural Landscape, Sacred Space, Environmental Determinism, Genius, History of Geographical Thought, Carl O' Sauer, The Morphology of Landscape, Theories of Peace and Conflict Studies, Force Field Analysis, University of California at Berkeley, James Joyce Ulysses, Alfred Kroeber, and architecture of ideology
Abstract "I began to regard the city as a human hive ... " ~ William 'Wild Bill' Bunge (The Gazette, Montreal, Saturday, August 12, 1972) “Hubricity” is a timely, convenient neologism, and may be useful for a guided in-classroom... more
Abstract
"I began to regard the city as a human hive ... " ~ William 'Wild Bill' Bunge (The Gazette, Montreal, Saturday, August 12, 1972)
“Hubricity” is a timely, convenient neologism, and may be useful for a guided in-classroom discussion that aims to explore the nature (Nature?) of Modern cities. Hubricity is a compound term comprised of the two English-language words “hubris” and “city.” This paper argues that the Modern hubri-city is a “built environment” designed, constructed and inhabited by a super-diversity of “swarming” human animals, and who count on their collective “hive” mentality/productivity to enable them to successfully compete, survive and evolve into the future (in a Darwinian sense) as individual human organisms.
The Modern hubricity “progresses”/“develops”/”advances” (risking catastrophic collateral socioeconomic and environmental damage) by spatially integrating itself at myriad geographical scales within a chaotic and complicated ideological context of global capitalism, dogmatism, authoritarianism, scientism, and technophilia. To do so, Modern hubris-citizens choose to alienate themselves from Nature, This results in their hubris.
Keywords: Hubricity, ideology, the human swarm, architecture, city, built environment, hive as habitat, human as organism, honeybees, murder hornets, Walt W. Rostow, “Klattu barada nikto,” Nature’s principles of self-organization in physical space, enlightened underdevelopment, Sam Bankman-Fried, absurdity of 'creative destruction' as a business model,
"I began to regard the city as a human hive ... " ~ William 'Wild Bill' Bunge (The Gazette, Montreal, Saturday, August 12, 1972)
“Hubricity” is a timely, convenient neologism, and may be useful for a guided in-classroom discussion that aims to explore the nature (Nature?) of Modern cities. Hubricity is a compound term comprised of the two English-language words “hubris” and “city.” This paper argues that the Modern hubri-city is a “built environment” designed, constructed and inhabited by a super-diversity of “swarming” human animals, and who count on their collective “hive” mentality/productivity to enable them to successfully compete, survive and evolve into the future (in a Darwinian sense) as individual human organisms.
The Modern hubricity “progresses”/“develops”/”advances” (risking catastrophic collateral socioeconomic and environmental damage) by spatially integrating itself at myriad geographical scales within a chaotic and complicated ideological context of global capitalism, dogmatism, authoritarianism, scientism, and technophilia. To do so, Modern hubris-citizens choose to alienate themselves from Nature, This results in their hubris.
Keywords: Hubricity, ideology, the human swarm, architecture, city, built environment, hive as habitat, human as organism, honeybees, murder hornets, Walt W. Rostow, “Klattu barada nikto,” Nature’s principles of self-organization in physical space, enlightened underdevelopment, Sam Bankman-Fried, absurdity of 'creative destruction' as a business model,
Research Interests: Swarm Intelligence, Panpsychism, Honeybees, Flash Mob, Urban Swarm, Urban Intervention, Consciousness-Related Quantum Entanglement, and 15 moreEusociality, Mechatronics & Biomechatronics, Enlightened Underdevelopment, Reading Kafka's "The Metamorphosis" , Blissful Devolution, cities as human hives, , swarming sychronicity , factory farms for humankind, pullulation, The Ghost in the Machine in the Garden, "multispecies ethnography", post-human eusocial utopianism, hubristic decadence, Charlie Munger and Greta Thunberg, and jeremiad ex machina
While wild pigs in the early Holocene (begins 8000 BCE) were nimble, fierce combatants for agrarian humans, pigs-as-pork in the present Anthropocene (begins 1700 AD) have been reduced by humans to unhealthy indolents, awaiting slaughter... more
While wild pigs in the early Holocene (begins 8000 BCE) were nimble, fierce combatants for agrarian humans, pigs-as-pork in the present Anthropocene (begins 1700 AD) have been reduced by humans to unhealthy indolents, awaiting slaughter in industrial factory farms. This article argues 1) by first drawing on personal observations of Sus scrofus on Cheju (Jeju) Island in South Korea, and 2) by deploying models of a) East Asian Neo-Confucian cosmology and b) the Western experience of changing pig-human relations in agro-ecosystems ranging from the Neolithic to the present Anthropocene, that pigs were perceived, valued and even respected “as-pigs” throughout the historic Holocene (begins 6000 BPE) and thus long prior to the Anthropocene. In contrast, pigs have been perceived exclusively “as-pork” beginning with the onset of the Anthropocene. Pigs perceived and managed “as-pigs” in relational space-time of pre-Anthropocene agro-ecosystems abruptly became pigs perceived and managed “as-pork” in the era of absolute-space-time that coincided with the onset of Anthropocene agro-ecosystems. No living space has been allocated for pigs-as-pork in cost-efficient Industrial Age mass pork-producing factory farms. The welfare state of pigs-as-pork awaiting slaughter in factory farm is stressful and unhealthy according to harsh critiques by animal welfare activists. However, a new era of postmodern, post-industrial relative space may offer pigs-as-pork in the future lives worth living. Perhaps Sus scrofus in this new era will again be valued “as-pigs?”
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/ecology-conservation-and-management-of-wild-pigs-and-peccaries/space-time-and-pig/17E1464F6816D56B39BDB097F91A563C
related and highly recommended > https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-07/meet-the-mega-rich-families-controlling-the-us-food-system/103874576
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/ecology-conservation-and-management-of-wild-pigs-and-peccaries/space-time-and-pig/17E1464F6816D56B39BDB097F91A563C
related and highly recommended > https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-07/meet-the-mega-rich-families-controlling-the-us-food-system/103874576
Research Interests: Cultural Geography, Mathematics, Korean Studies, Animal Rights/Liberation, Ecological biogeography, and 15 moreAnimal Rights, Animal domestication, Postmodernism and Consumption, Anthropocene, Animal Sentience, Feng Shui, Human Animal Relations, Cambridge University, Factory Farms, Absolute Space, Sus Scrofa, Relative Space, Industrial Revolution and Its Impact on Agriculture, Jeju Island, and vegan diet
A slightly revised and updated conference presentation from 2011 that elaborates on "Extreme [Human] Geography" and its abysmal opportunities both as adventurous mental and physical exploration.
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The original article was published as: "Gypsy Taskmasters, Gentile Slaves." In Matt T. Salo (ed.). The American Kalderas: Gypsies and the New World., pp. 29-41. Hackettstown, NY: Gypsy Lore Society, 1981. ~ This version is republished... more
The original article was published as: "Gypsy Taskmasters, Gentile Slaves." In Matt T. Salo (ed.). The American Kalderas: Gypsies and the New World., pp. 29-41. Hackettstown, NY: Gypsy Lore Society, 1981.
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This version is republished as Chapter Five in: The Gypsy-American: An Ethnogeographic Study. 2002. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press.
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Abstract: "This chapter features Gypsy taskmasters, and certain non-Gypsies in
subservient roles, whom I will refer to as “Gentiles” due to their marked social distance from the Gypsies. I will lump the subservient Gentiles together in this discussion as “slaves” not only for effect, but because the English Gypsy scholar Thomas Acton reports (1974:75) such people are actually called “slaves” when they are sought out and employed as blacktoppers [tarmacers?] by Irish Travelers. Paraphrasing Acton, Irish Travelers recruit their slaves from skid row flophouses. Examples of Travelers’ slaves include an ex-sailor with a speech defect, and a mental defective. Acton supposes such people are very grateful to sleep in the back of a van and usually incapable of learning the blacktopping business and becoming competitors. Travelers pay their slaves wages and tolerate their eccentricities. To summarize, Travelers’ slaves are characterized as vagrant types, misfits in Gentile society, having no social group of their own."
Subsequent note (4/1/2020): My personal insight from reading the works of nearly all social science academics claiming field work experience among ethnic minority Gypsies and Travelers in the USA (and likely everywhere) is that they allowed -- in fact invited -- their labor to be exploited by GR&T peoples in exchange for their purchase of close social and spatial proximity to -- including intimacy with -- their "objects of study." An entire book could be written … .
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This version is republished as Chapter Five in: The Gypsy-American: An Ethnogeographic Study. 2002. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press.
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Abstract: "This chapter features Gypsy taskmasters, and certain non-Gypsies in
subservient roles, whom I will refer to as “Gentiles” due to their marked social distance from the Gypsies. I will lump the subservient Gentiles together in this discussion as “slaves” not only for effect, but because the English Gypsy scholar Thomas Acton reports (1974:75) such people are actually called “slaves” when they are sought out and employed as blacktoppers [tarmacers?] by Irish Travelers. Paraphrasing Acton, Irish Travelers recruit their slaves from skid row flophouses. Examples of Travelers’ slaves include an ex-sailor with a speech defect, and a mental defective. Acton supposes such people are very grateful to sleep in the back of a van and usually incapable of learning the blacktopping business and becoming competitors. Travelers pay their slaves wages and tolerate their eccentricities. To summarize, Travelers’ slaves are characterized as vagrant types, misfits in Gentile society, having no social group of their own."
Subsequent note (4/1/2020): My personal insight from reading the works of nearly all social science academics claiming field work experience among ethnic minority Gypsies and Travelers in the USA (and likely everywhere) is that they allowed -- in fact invited -- their labor to be exploited by GR&T peoples in exchange for their purchase of close social and spatial proximity to -- including intimacy with -- their "objects of study." An entire book could be written … .
Research Interests: Underground Economies, Ethnographic fieldwork, Superdiversity, Cemetery Studies, Informal economies, and 15 moreService Nomads, Quid Pro Quo, Gypsies and Travelers employing non-Gypsy human resources, apprenticship as fieldwork methodology, Coppersmith (Kalderash) man-servants/maid-servants, ethnography as impertinent curiosity , GR&T peoples and indentured servitude, dramaturgical ethnogeography and Romani Studies, Strategies and stratagems of successful fiedwork among ethnic Gypsies, Gypsy taskmasters, gentile slaves, "Nothing about us, without us", GR&T peoples controlling/exploiting non-GR&T human resources, Black Gypsiologists, IRB gatekeeping in the social sciences, and race and research in Romani Studies
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"Some data compiled from four recent campus student opinion surveys (University of Toledo 1990, 1991 a, 1991 b, 1991 c) indicate 1) that intergroup prejudice and harassment exist on campus in varying Intensities, the examples provided... more
"Some data compiled from four recent campus student opinion surveys (University of Toledo 1990, 1991 a, 1991 b, 1991 c) indicate 1) that intergroup prejudice and harassment exist on campus in varying Intensities, the examples provided were time- and place-specific; 2) that most a respondents were interested In learning more about cultural diversity; and 3) that most respondents found the existing campus architectural style attractive, but suggested adding more outdoor art works. In response, a recent campus planning group at the University of Toledo recommended
investing the campus built-environment with some new pedagogical devices in support of classroom instruction; devices perhaps capable of promoting the objectives of cultural diversity and thereby reducing intergroup tensions.
These comments address some of the reasons for our recommendation, including our concern that most members of the campus community are unaware that deliberate design of campus architecture can impact their lives, both
positively and negatively Our recommendation is proactive in celebrating cultural diversity and has relevance anywhere planners may be troubled by the results of the Modernist rational planning model they have Inherited, and are wrestling with new opportunities and responsibilities offered by the worldwide trend toward postmodern physical planning described in Moore-Mllroy (1991), Hemmens (1992), and elsewhere."
investing the campus built-environment with some new pedagogical devices in support of classroom instruction; devices perhaps capable of promoting the objectives of cultural diversity and thereby reducing intergroup tensions.
These comments address some of the reasons for our recommendation, including our concern that most members of the campus community are unaware that deliberate design of campus architecture can impact their lives, both
positively and negatively Our recommendation is proactive in celebrating cultural diversity and has relevance anywhere planners may be troubled by the results of the Modernist rational planning model they have Inherited, and are wrestling with new opportunities and responsibilities offered by the worldwide trend toward postmodern physical planning described in Moore-Mllroy (1991), Hemmens (1992), and elsewhere."
Research Interests: Ideology and Discourse Theory, Campus design (Architecture), Neo-Paganism, Social and cultural geography, Digital Storytelling and Psychogeography, and 9 moreLangdon Winner, Science fiction, Ursula K. le Guin, Fantasy, Critical Approaches to Modernity, geopsychology, University of Toledo, Architectures of Ideology, spatially integrated social science (SISS), consciousness and quantum entanglement, and Trump tower and Trumpism
"Hwach'uk, Paekchong, Yangsuch'ok ... These ethnonyms (and also some others: Such'ok Kwangdae, Chaein, and so on) refer to members of the little-known but significant (in terms of both numbers and economic impact) social minority that... more
"Hwach'uk, Paekchong, Yangsuch'ok ... These ethnonyms (and also some others: Such'ok Kwangdae, Chaein, and so on) refer to members of the little-known but significant (in terms of both numbers and economic impact) social minority that comprised distinctive "outcaste" communities throughout much of Korean social history. Distinctive Korean outcaste communities are no longer extant. Their stigma initially derived from a proclivity to pursue rude and peripatetic lifestyles at a time when the majonty Korean culture was becoming settled, agricultural, and Buddhist; it was then fixed by a rigid social system into an inherited occupational trait-complex that centered on butchering cattle."
In Levison, David and Paul Hockings (eds), 1993
Related: "Gypsy Studies in the Far East" (1980); "Service Nomads" (1986); "Patterns of Genesis Among Peripatetics: Notes from the Korean Archipelago" (1987)
In Levison, David and Paul Hockings (eds), 1993
Related: "Gypsy Studies in the Far East" (1980); "Service Nomads" (1986); "Patterns of Genesis Among Peripatetics: Notes from the Korean Archipelago" (1987)
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[This the most detailed copy of the poster available for free on the Internet, loaded up 5 2924] https://www.saklan.com/bill_bunge_poster.pdf Abstract: In November of 2017 a graduate student from Oklahoma State wrote our "Bunge... more
[This the most detailed copy of the poster available for free on the Internet, loaded up 5 2924]
https://www.saklan.com/bill_bunge_poster.pdf
Abstract:
In November of 2017 a graduate student from Oklahoma State wrote our "Bunge Project" team, led by David B. Kaplan, "I have been tasked with ascertaining the validity of a certain 'geographer's urban legend' and I was told through some investigation that you might be the person to ask. I am trying to figure out the real story of Dr. Bill Bunge, or more specifically, did he throw an unruly student from a window?"
William Bunge wrote in "Perspective on Theoretical Geography" (AAG Annals, March, 1979, p. 172) that there is "a constant attempt to discredit my work by discussion of my personality, which, contrary to my detractors, is innately cheerful and outgoing as evidenced by my popularity with most of my fares driving taxi cab. At best, discussion of personality arises in a context of ethics and at worst in a buzzing, poisonous gossip. For instance, a right-wing student upset about class warfare threw me through a small window in class and this turned around in conversation into the canard that I had thrown the student through a large window. Blame the victim!"
Bill Bunge (1979: 172) therefore asserted in this major academic journal that he did not throw an unruly student from a window. However, world renowned philosopher of science Mario Bunge (2016) has reported* that his relative, Bill Bunge, was not of sound mind and body at the time Bill made this assertion. This is allegedly so because Bill's health and sanity were permanently impaired during CIA-funded MK-Ultra's mind-control experiments conducted on Bill when he was under treatment at the Allan Memorial Institute of Mental Health at McGill University.
This poster is a work in progress. In addition to David B. Kaplan, our creative team is comprised of Kimberly Panozzo (principle author), Dr. Michael Chohaney and Dr. David J. Nemeth
*Professor Mario Bunge specifically wrote: "Finally, there was William Bunge, an American mathematical geographer who came to Montreal chased by Senator McCarthy’s hounds. At my university’s Allan Memorial Institute of Mental Health, William was an unwitting guinea pig in the infamous experiment, carried out by famous McGill professors funded by the CIA, designed to see whether it was possible to control minds by means of massive LSD doses. This brutal treatment left William handicapped for life, and he lived the rest of it on a mean pension in a distant and cold Quebec village."
~ In Between Two Worlds, by Mario Bunge
https://www.saklan.com/bill_bunge_poster.pdf
Abstract:
In November of 2017 a graduate student from Oklahoma State wrote our "Bunge Project" team, led by David B. Kaplan, "I have been tasked with ascertaining the validity of a certain 'geographer's urban legend' and I was told through some investigation that you might be the person to ask. I am trying to figure out the real story of Dr. Bill Bunge, or more specifically, did he throw an unruly student from a window?"
William Bunge wrote in "Perspective on Theoretical Geography" (AAG Annals, March, 1979, p. 172) that there is "a constant attempt to discredit my work by discussion of my personality, which, contrary to my detractors, is innately cheerful and outgoing as evidenced by my popularity with most of my fares driving taxi cab. At best, discussion of personality arises in a context of ethics and at worst in a buzzing, poisonous gossip. For instance, a right-wing student upset about class warfare threw me through a small window in class and this turned around in conversation into the canard that I had thrown the student through a large window. Blame the victim!"
Bill Bunge (1979: 172) therefore asserted in this major academic journal that he did not throw an unruly student from a window. However, world renowned philosopher of science Mario Bunge (2016) has reported* that his relative, Bill Bunge, was not of sound mind and body at the time Bill made this assertion. This is allegedly so because Bill's health and sanity were permanently impaired during CIA-funded MK-Ultra's mind-control experiments conducted on Bill when he was under treatment at the Allan Memorial Institute of Mental Health at McGill University.
This poster is a work in progress. In addition to David B. Kaplan, our creative team is comprised of Kimberly Panozzo (principle author), Dr. Michael Chohaney and Dr. David J. Nemeth
*Professor Mario Bunge specifically wrote: "Finally, there was William Bunge, an American mathematical geographer who came to Montreal chased by Senator McCarthy’s hounds. At my university’s Allan Memorial Institute of Mental Health, William was an unwitting guinea pig in the infamous experiment, carried out by famous McGill professors funded by the CIA, designed to see whether it was possible to control minds by means of massive LSD doses. This brutal treatment left William handicapped for life, and he lived the rest of it on a mean pension in a distant and cold Quebec village."
~ In Between Two Worlds, by Mario Bunge
Research Interests: Ideology, Dada, History of Geographic Thought, Nietzsche, Russia, and 15 moreExistentialism, Deconstruction and postmodernism, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, Mario Bunge, Consciousness-Related Quantum Entanglement, Mind Control (MKULTRA), The Manchurian Candidate, Extreme (Human) Geography, Detroit Expedition, McGill University Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, "Wild Bill" Bunge, J. D. Vance, defenesration as pedagogy in higher education, Akatiff and "Wild Bill" , and Marxist Geographers in the USA
Research Interests: Multiculturalism, Diversity, Built Environment, Architecture and ideology, Learning And Teaching In Higher Education, and 15 moreHigher Education Management, Ideology and Discourse Theory, Campus Planning and Design, Digital Storytelling and Psychogeography, Langdon Winner, HUMAN TERRITORY AND TERRITORIALITY, Location, Architecture and Public Spaces, Monuments and Memorials, Charlie Munger, geopsychology, Blissful Devolution, Hubricity, Minjung Misul critiques, and consciousness and quantum entanglement
The Geographical Journal 174,1 (March 2008):87-88. Reviews what may be the most popular book written by the famous academic geographer Dr. Harm de Blij (1935–2014), whose reader-friendly body of work (reminiscent of the once-popular... more
The Geographical Journal 174,1 (March 2008):87-88.
Reviews what may be the most popular book written by the famous academic geographer Dr. Harm de Blij (1935–2014), whose reader-friendly body of work (reminiscent of the once-popular historical/geographic works of Hendrik Willam van Loon) likewise won over the hearts and minds of students and teachers around the world, establishing his academic reputation as a public intellectual.
Talented and cosmopolitan, Dr. De Blij wrote many textbooks, and over many decades earned his wide, international reputation as a celebrated geographic educator. My review suggests for classroom discussion purposes that he was also something of a showman, alarmist and fear-monger.
This review offers those undergraduate geography students (especially those enrolled in higher education brick and mortar classrooms), and their teachers, a provocative opportunity to exercise their critical reading, thinking, discussion and writing skills. in a rare social science "laboratory" setting, as a "thought experiment" lab.
For an appropriate required textbook (or "lab manual"), I highly recommend How to Think, Read, and Write in the Twenty-first Century: Falsehood and Fantasy, by Bethany Kilcrease (2021).
Reviews what may be the most popular book written by the famous academic geographer Dr. Harm de Blij (1935–2014), whose reader-friendly body of work (reminiscent of the once-popular historical/geographic works of Hendrik Willam van Loon) likewise won over the hearts and minds of students and teachers around the world, establishing his academic reputation as a public intellectual.
Talented and cosmopolitan, Dr. De Blij wrote many textbooks, and over many decades earned his wide, international reputation as a celebrated geographic educator. My review suggests for classroom discussion purposes that he was also something of a showman, alarmist and fear-monger.
This review offers those undergraduate geography students (especially those enrolled in higher education brick and mortar classrooms), and their teachers, a provocative opportunity to exercise their critical reading, thinking, discussion and writing skills. in a rare social science "laboratory" setting, as a "thought experiment" lab.
For an appropriate required textbook (or "lab manual"), I highly recommend How to Think, Read, and Write in the Twenty-first Century: Falsehood and Fantasy, by Bethany Kilcrease (2021).
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Traditional and productive subsistence agricultural practices centering on pig raising in outhouse (privy) basements were once widespread on Cheju Island, persisting there into the I980s despite a government prohibition enacted ostensibly... more
Traditional and productive subsistence agricultural practices centering on pig raising in outhouse (privy) basements were once widespread on Cheju Island, persisting there into the I980s despite a government prohibition enacted ostensibly to promote islander health but also to remove what some tourists found offensive in the Cheju cultural landscape. Eradication of the privy- pig trait complex on Cheju Island is now all but completed, though memories and artifacts remain.
Nemeth, D. J. (1989). A Study of the Interactions of Human, Pig, and the Human Pork Tapeworm. Anthrozoös, 3(1), 4–13.
[see also] https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/ecology-conservation-and-management-of-wild-pigs-and-peccaries/space-time-and-pig/17E1464F6816D56B39BDB097F91A563C
Nemeth, D. J. (1989). A Study of the Interactions of Human, Pig, and the Human Pork Tapeworm. Anthrozoös, 3(1), 4–13.
[see also] https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/ecology-conservation-and-management-of-wild-pigs-and-peccaries/space-time-and-pig/17E1464F6816D56B39BDB097F91A563C
Research Interests: Infectious disease epidemiology, Traditional and subsistence agriculture, Anthrozoology, Korean Studies, Disease ecology, and 14 moreWaste Management, Environmental Sustainability, Subsistence systems (Archaeology), Subsistance Strategies (Archaeology), Animal domestication, Meat, Pigs, the Flesh, Jeju Island, Enlightened Underdevelopment, Taenia solium, pigsty-privies , porcine caprophagia , pig toilets, Humilocene, and ecocultural identity
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Internet studies are rapidly approaching disciplinary status in academia . As ethnographers we find Internet cyber-culture(s) and social networking using advancing communication technologies to be provocative and relatively unexplored... more
Internet studies are rapidly approaching disciplinary status in academia . As ethnographers we find Internet cyber-culture(s) and social networking using advancing communication technologies to be provocative and relatively unexplored ethnographic topics. As Romani studies scholars we seek out research applications relevant to our specific interest in culture change among Gypsies (Romanies) and Travelers in the United States (GR&T peoples). As cyber-ethnographers using a ‘data dredging’ methodology we explore Internet cyber-subcultures comprised of youthful GR&T peoples. We describe GR& adaptive and creative uses of some interfacing new mass communications technologies; for example, photo cell phones, the Internet and personalized web logs. GR&T adolescents using these technologies construct self-ascribed identities and ascribe identities to others via their online Internet communications. They also reveal their values and material cultures. GR&T ‘self-narratives’ encountered in their photo-blog guest books comprise a distinctive written argot. From these online data sources we isolate and discuss specific themes, and a theoretical implication.
Research Interests: Internet research methods, Ideology, Romani Studies, Cultural Historical Geography, Ethnography of urban spaces, and 15 moreQuantum entanglement, Cyberethnography, Intertextuality and cross-cultural comparative studies, Issues of transnational cultural identity and cultural memory, Talismans and Amulets, Extreme (Human) Geography, Celestial Mechanics (novel), ethnography as impertinent curiosity , GR&T peoples and indentured servitude, human territory and territorial behavior, Gypsy-American urban ecology and residential behavior, Superdiversity among Gypsies (Romanies; Roma), Gypsy Taskmastes, Gentile Slaves, Ethnogeography in Cyberspace, and 'Gypsies' Roaders and 'Refs'
No doubt it is due to his relentless and uncompromising advocacy for Roma peoples over the past four decades that Dr. Hancock has become by now such a polarizing figure in Romani Studies. For example, the Gypsy Lore Society (founded... more
No doubt it is due to his relentless and uncompromising advocacy for Roma peoples over the past four decades that Dr. Hancock has become by now such a polarizing figure in Romani Studies. For example, the Gypsy Lore Society (founded 1888) is a prominent academic hub that links some of Dr. Hancock’s staunchest supporters with some of his most scathing critics. Some members claim him as a public intellectual. Others dismiss him as a temerarious pamphleteer. His omnipresence in the Romani Studies arena certainly keeps the conversation lively. Students in my "Geography of Gypsies (Romanies) and Travelers" classes reveal their admiration for Dr. Hancock and his textbook We Are the Romani People (2002) in this book chapter.
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Citation recommendations: This version appears as "Siegfried Genthe's Cheju Odyssey: A Precis of the Travel Account Written by the First European to Climb Korea's Mt. Halla." Co-authored by Nemeth, David J. and Ernst-G Niemann, as... more
Citation recommendations: This version appears as "Siegfried Genthe's Cheju Odyssey: A Precis of the Travel Account Written by the First European to Climb Korea's Mt. Halla." Co-authored by Nemeth, David J. and Ernst-G Niemann, as 'Rediscovering Hallasan: Jeju Island's Traditional Landscapes of Sincerity, Mysticism and Adventure.' (Part 2, Chapter 3). University of Toledo Carlson Library Digital Initiatives, Department of Geography and Planning. Creative Commons.
https://utdr.utoledo.edu/islandora/object/utoledo%3A1159/datastream/OBJ/view
An earlier published version is found in Journal of Asian Culture [a UCLA Asian Studies annual publication. (1982), 74-103.
A Korean-language version, more recently published by Professor Sangcheol Kwon, Department of Geography Education, Jeju National University (2019).
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/338396905_Rediscovering_Hallasan_Jeju_Island%27s_Traditional_Landscapes_of_Sincerity_Mysticism_and_Adventure_in_Korean-language_translation
https://utdr.utoledo.edu/islandora/object/utoledo%3A1159/datastream/OBJ/view
An earlier published version is found in Journal of Asian Culture [a UCLA Asian Studies annual publication. (1982), 74-103.
A Korean-language version, more recently published by Professor Sangcheol Kwon, Department of Geography Education, Jeju National University (2019).
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/338396905_Rediscovering_Hallasan_Jeju_Island%27s_Traditional_Landscapes_of_Sincerity_Mysticism_and_Adventure_in_Korean-language_translation
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"We explore the scenic and recreational potentials for "treating" urban streams with the addition of woody debris in order to contribute to aquatic habitat. We also indulge in semantic games and ask why the debris must be woody in... more
"We explore the scenic and recreational potentials for "treating" urban
streams with the addition of woody debris in order to contribute to aquatic
habitat. We also indulge in semantic games and ask why the debris must
be woody in order to contribute. This leads to a provocative discussion
about wooden pallets, shopping carts, and automobile tires. Perhaps de-
bris removal in urban waterways disrupts and diminishes aquatic habitat,
yet results in an aesthetic pleasure that helps make our ethical dissatasfac-
tion with polluted rivers and streams more palatable. If so, the social
construction of scenic urban waterways is just an aesthetic movement
driven by a political desire for utopia."
https://www.academia.edu/11632121/Elaboration_on_the_Nature_of_Woody_Debris_An_Ethical_Snag_in_the_Aesthetic_Justification_for_Organized_River_Cleanup
https://doi.org/10.1353/pcg.1999.0013
streams with the addition of woody debris in order to contribute to aquatic
habitat. We also indulge in semantic games and ask why the debris must
be woody in order to contribute. This leads to a provocative discussion
about wooden pallets, shopping carts, and automobile tires. Perhaps de-
bris removal in urban waterways disrupts and diminishes aquatic habitat,
yet results in an aesthetic pleasure that helps make our ethical dissatasfac-
tion with polluted rivers and streams more palatable. If so, the social
construction of scenic urban waterways is just an aesthetic movement
driven by a political desire for utopia."
https://www.academia.edu/11632121/Elaboration_on_the_Nature_of_Woody_Debris_An_Ethical_Snag_in_the_Aesthetic_Justification_for_Organized_River_Cleanup
https://doi.org/10.1353/pcg.1999.0013
Research Interests: Geography, Aesthetics, Conservation Ecology, Pleasure, Rivers, and 13 moreSustainable Water Resources Management, Aesthetics and Ethics, Aesthetics and Politics, Radical Environmentalism, Beauty, River Restoration, Morality, RECREATION, Coarse Woody Debris, Debris, Elaboration, Archaeology of Natural Places, and SNAG
https://www.academia.edu/79039289/Cheju_island_peasant_landscape_an_architecture_of_Neo_Confucian_ideology
[revised excerpt from Nemeth's PhD dissertation]
[revised excerpt from Nemeth's PhD dissertation]
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This is David J. Nemeth's 2020 book review of Peter Berta's 2019 Materializing Difference (University of Toronto, 2019) "“The majority of attendees at the First World Romani Congress (WRC), convened in England in 1971, adopted the... more
This is David J. Nemeth's 2020 book review of Peter Berta's 2019 Materializing Difference (University of Toronto, 2019)
"“The majority of attendees at the First World Romani Congress (WRC), convened in England in 1971, adopted the usage of the word “Roma” (rather than variants of “Gypsy”). This meeting was a watershed event in the evolution of international and scientific Romani studies. Nations and Nationalism will discover meaning and significance—as well as irony—in the fact that the foundational meeting of the WRC was funded both by the World Council of Churches, and the Government of India. Both sponsors shared the mistaken notion in 1971 that the term/concept “Roma” could gather millions of ethnically variegated and widely dispersed Romani people around the world under a single, empowering, umbrella of identity. It could not at that time. Nor can it now.”
"“The majority of attendees at the First World Romani Congress (WRC), convened in England in 1971, adopted the usage of the word “Roma” (rather than variants of “Gypsy”). This meeting was a watershed event in the evolution of international and scientific Romani studies. Nations and Nationalism will discover meaning and significance—as well as irony—in the fact that the foundational meeting of the WRC was funded both by the World Council of Churches, and the Government of India. Both sponsors shared the mistaken notion in 1971 that the term/concept “Roma” could gather millions of ethnically variegated and widely dispersed Romani people around the world under a single, empowering, umbrella of identity. It could not at that time. Nor can it now.”
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Research Interests: Sociology, Geography, Cultural Geography, Autoethnography, Sense of Place, and 15 moreMetafiction, Memoir and Autobiography, Sociology of prison life, Punishment and Prisons, Geography Teacher Education, Prison, Geographer, Boolean Satisfiability, Gang Activity in Prison, Prison Geography, prisoner mental maps, adjunct teaching in higher education, casualization of the professoriate, gangbangers as students, and mental maps by prisoners
Co-authored by Carlo Gianferro.
Published as a “Proceedings” on CD by the East Lakes Division of the American Association of Geographers Conference organizers, ©2009
Published as a “Proceedings” on CD by the East Lakes Division of the American Association of Geographers Conference organizers, ©2009
Research Interests: Gypsy Anthropology, Romani Studies, Central European Studies, Intergroup Conflict, Consumption and Material Culture, and 12 moreUnderground economy, Fabulation, Conspicuous Consumption, Prestige, Scapegoat Theory, Gypsy Studies, Social Status and Prestige, Prestige goods economy, Antigypsyism, Gypsy mansions, European Post-Socialist-era Roma occupations and industries, and Roma vernacular domestic architecture
When 10,000-year-old pig bones were found a few years ago in a village in Turkey, a New York Times interview with archaeologist Richard Redding reported that this discovery "strongly suggests that the pig was the earliest animal that... more
When 10,000-year-old pig bones were found a few years ago in a village in Turkey, a New York Times interview with archaeologist Richard Redding reported that this discovery "strongly suggests that the pig was the earliest animal that people domesticated for food." ... . In this book chapter I ask: What is the "truthfulness" of the assertion that reduces the essence of pig life In the past to that of providing "humans with nutrition"? This paper challenges the validity and authenticity of this assertion by revealing the extent to which current archaeological conversation on the topic of pigs in prehistory presupposes and exaggerates their importance as pork. It also explores how the uncritical acceptance of this exclusive anthropocentric story of pigs-as-pork in prehistory limits the archaeological discussion about the richness and intrinsic value of pig life.
Research Interests: Companion Animals, Habitat, Ethnogeography, Social Construction of Nature, Neo-Confucianism, and 11 moreFolklore, Material Culture, Popular Culture, Cultural Landscape Studies, Terrestrial Biodiversity, pigsty-privies , pigsty privy tomb funerary objects, China, Korea, Jeju Island, pigs-as-pork narrative, Extreme Human Geography, California new animal welfare law, space, time, and pig; , and ecocentrism and ecocritical theory;
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In early January, 2013 the Jeju World Wide Managing Editor Todd Thacker published an essay I wrote about my experience arriving by primitive passenger airplane to Cheju (Jeju) Island, as a Peace Corps Volunteer in February of 1973. Todd... more
In early January, 2013 the Jeju World Wide Managing Editor Todd Thacker published an essay I wrote about my experience arriving by primitive passenger airplane to Cheju (Jeju) Island, as a Peace Corps Volunteer in February of 1973. Todd then asked to see more short manuscripts from me mining the same nostalgic vein. His request and encouragement propelled me into a productive writing mood. Once I pried open that old crate of Peace Corps memories, so much direct and tangential material spewed forth there was no shutting the lid on it. For the entire year of 2013 I submitted an essay a week to total 52 essays. Around June or July of 2013 I began to imagine that my online weekly essays might eventually be revised into chapters for a book project. At the end of 2013 Todd committed to republishing the 2013 essays, again weekly, during 2014. He also kindly consolidated the 52 digital essay files as edited and published for JWW readers to one digital file, and sent that file to me. I have ...
Research Interests: Cultural Geography, Island Studies, Korean Studies, Autoethnography, Humanistic Geography, and 15 moreSpirituality & Mysticism, Magical Realism, Memoir and Autobiography, Existential Anthropology, Exile Literature, Sacred mountains, Ethnographic & autoethnographic research, Sacred Space, Peace Corps, Small islands, Enlightened Underdevelopment, Jeju Island Studies, Blissful Devolution, spirit of exploration, and Alexandra Elbakyan
A case study in counterfactual thinking. Humboldt, of course, never botanized in North Africa (though he aspired to do so early in his adventurous, scientific career). Published by ACTAS (Junio/June 18-22, 2001), Arcata/Oaxaca .... more
A case study in counterfactual thinking. Humboldt, of course, never botanized in North Africa (though he aspired to do so early in his adventurous, scientific career). Published by ACTAS (Junio/June 18-22, 2001), Arcata/Oaxaca .
Counterfactually speaking, “I am delighted to own a first edition of Humboldt's 'The African Desert Locust, A mystery Solved (1805). In this book, Humboldt describes his perilous journey up the Nile with the scientific retinue trailing behind Napoleon's conquering army. Chapter Three relates his close brush with death in a boating accident, where he loses his left arm to a crocodile. The accident occurs in the confusion created by a chance encounter with high winds carrying a dense swarm of locusts. Humboldt is the sole survivor from his boat. He wanders the riverbank in a semi-conscious delirium for days, seriously injured and without food, before being rescued by a search party. During his recuperation in a military hospital, he contemplates his brush with death and the forces of nature that had suddenly converged to create his mishap. His scientific curiosity then focuses on locusts. He first examines his collected specimens. Then, when he recovers his strength and mobility, he sets out into the desert to solve the mystery of desert locust origins.” (from page 133).
Counterfactually speaking, “I am delighted to own a first edition of Humboldt's 'The African Desert Locust, A mystery Solved (1805). In this book, Humboldt describes his perilous journey up the Nile with the scientific retinue trailing behind Napoleon's conquering army. Chapter Three relates his close brush with death in a boating accident, where he loses his left arm to a crocodile. The accident occurs in the confusion created by a chance encounter with high winds carrying a dense swarm of locusts. Humboldt is the sole survivor from his boat. He wanders the riverbank in a semi-conscious delirium for days, seriously injured and without food, before being rescued by a search party. During his recuperation in a military hospital, he contemplates his brush with death and the forces of nature that had suddenly converged to create his mishap. His scientific curiosity then focuses on locusts. He first examines his collected specimens. Then, when he recovers his strength and mobility, he sets out into the desert to solve the mystery of desert locust origins.” (from page 133).
Research Interests: Human Geography, Cultural Historical Geography, Speculative Fiction, North Africa, Counterfactual Thinking, and 13 moreHistory of Vitalism, Extreme (Human) Geography, Globehead! a journal of extreme geography, Speculative Fabulation, North African desert locusts, metaphysics, mysticism and natural science, "vital force" and chi (qi), Schiller versus Humboldt, Professor Barney Warf, postmodernism, critical relativism, and applied geography, storytelling in academic geography, diverging paths in early 19th century history of geographic thought, and Goethe, Humboldt and Schiller
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This is a limited circulation report I wrote in 1975 in support of citizen-organized grassroots opposition to a Padre Juan Canyon Class 1 Sanitary Landfill proposed by Ventura County, California. The "Draft Environmental Impact Report for... more
This is a limited circulation report I wrote in 1975 in support of citizen-organized grassroots opposition to a Padre Juan Canyon Class 1 Sanitary Landfill proposed by Ventura County, California. The "Draft Environmental Impact Report for Ventura Area Sanitary Landfill" prepared in support of the project in 1973 was a stinker, and recommended the Padre Juan Canyon site as "the cheapest way to go" even though the Canyon was within the Coastal Zone and overlooked the beautiful Pitas Point ["Whistles" to watermen] residential beach homes and public campsite. The Environmental Protection Agency based in Washington, D.C. wanted this site very badly, and was miffed to have been outfoxed by a ragtag group of local citizens. This report was instrumental in the citizen victory. The two cartoons are original art work by Robert Joseph Murar.
Research Interests: Environmental Education, Coastal Management, Coastal Geography, Municipal Solid Waste Management, Environmental Management, and 7 moreEnvironmental Politics, Environmental Sustainability, Solid Waste Management, Environmental Activism, Citizen participation, Activismo, and Democracy and Citizenship Education
In Korean. ISBN: 978-89-6291-843-4 93980
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"Hubricity" is a timely, convenient neologism, and may be useful for a guided in-classroom discussion that aims to explore the nature (Nature?) of Modern cities. Hubricity is a compound term comprised of the two English-language words... more
"Hubricity" is a timely, convenient neologism, and may be useful for a guided in-classroom discussion that aims to explore the nature (Nature?) of Modern cities. Hubricity is a compound term comprised of the two English-language words "hubris" and "city." This paper argues that the Modern hubri-city is a "built environment" designed, constructed and inhabited by a super-diversity of "swarming" human animals, and who count on their collective "hive" mentality/productivity to enable them to successfully compete, survive and evolve into the future (in a Darwinian sense) as individual human organisms. The Modern hubricity "progresses"/"develops"/"advances" (risking catastrophic collateral socioeconomic and environmental damage) by spatially integrating itself at myriad geographical scales within a chaotic and complicated ideological context of global capitalism, dogmatism, authoritarianism, scientism, and technophilia. To do so, Modern hubris-citizens choose to alienate themselves from Nature, This results in their hubris.
Research Interests: Future Studies, Swarm Intelligence, Franz Kafka, Livable cities, Architecture and ideology, and 11 moreSmart Cities, Anthropology of Space, Urban Sociology, Cultural Geography, Urban Studies and Planning, The Matrix Trilogy, Architecture and the Built Environment, Architecture and Urban Design, Futuristic Architecture, Hive Mind, Critiques of Capitalism, Blame Rostow, and quantum thinking
Anyone visiting the hundreds of villages in Cheju Province today might wonder what if anything is “natural” about them. This because the structures in the contemporary built environment appear so new, and the inhabitants seem so... more
Anyone visiting the hundreds of villages in Cheju Province today might wonder what if anything is “natural” about them. This because the structures in the contemporary built environment appear so new, and the inhabitants seem so cosmopolitan. As recently as fifty years ago, on Cheju Island and throughout much of South Korea, the term “natural village” had a different and tangible meaning. At that time a natural village retained some of the unmistakable Neo-Confucian stamp of its pre-modern organic unity. There were still traces of the Neo-Confucian past everywhere in the salient surroundings; in the sights, smells and sounds. Experiencing these tangibles of local identity, seeped in Neo-Confucian symbolism, was then still possible. A visitor could still sense the power and spirit of the Neo-Confucian planning model that long ago constructed and shaped the rural hamlets. No more. Now that the natural villages are extinct, that experience is gone and irretrievable.
