Civic Engagement

Latest News

UW Department of Geography and the Washington State Input-Output Model (October 9, 2020)
Geography of Health & Healthcare Student Lexi Nims Testifies in the Washington State Legislature! (April 24, 2019)
Graduate Student Awarded Henry M. Jackson Leadership Fellowship (August 14, 2017)
GIS Workshops Partner with Community Activists (May 24, 2017)
Five Geographers Win Mary Gates Research Scholarships (May 1, 2017)

Related Research

Ybarra, M.and L. McKinley. (2017) "Hunger Strikes: A Call to End Immigrant Detention." Tacoma, WA: Northwest Detention Center Resistance (NWDCR). Debuted July 23, 2017 at Northwest Film Forum. Available for viewing at: www.hungerstrikershandbook.org
Accepted and forthcoming, with Daniel Bessner, “Nazism, Neoliberalism and the Trumpist Challenge to Democracy,” Environment and Planning A.
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Matthew Sparke, 2016, "Situated Cyborg Knowledge In Not So Borderless Online Global Education:Mapping the Geosocial Landscape of a MOOC," Geopolitics http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2016.1204601
Sparke, Matthew, 2016, Book review of Warwick Murray and John Overton, Geographies of Globalization, 2nd edition, New York: Routledge, 2015, Economic Geography, 92/1, 2016, pp. 112-114.
Katharyne Mitchell and Chris Lizotte. 2016. Governing through Failure: Philanthropy, Neoliberalism, and Education Reform in Seattle. In Brady, M. and Lippert, R. eds., Governing Practices: Neoliberalism and the Ethnographic Imaginary. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Mitchell, K. and Elwood, S. 2015. Intergenerational Mapping and the Cultural Politics of Memory. In Hakli, J. and Kallio, K. eds., The Beginning of Politics: Youthful Political Agency in Everyday Life. Routledge/Taylor&Francis, 33-52. [Reprint]
Mitchell, K. and Elwood, S. 2015. Countermapping for Social Justice. In Kallio, K. and Mills, S. eds., Politics, Citizenship and Rights, Vol. 7 of Skelton, T. (ed.) Geographies of Children and Young People. Springer: Berlin, 207-223.
Sparke, Matthew, 2015, "On the promises and problems of online education" UWTV
Mitchell, K. and Lizotte, C. 2014. The Grassroots and the Gift: Moral Authority, American Philanthropy, and Activism in Education. Foucault Studies 18, 66-89.