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Gun Ownership as a Form of Freedom?

The crowded chronology of the occurrence of  public mass-shootings illustrates the previously unthinkable increased crowding of shootings in public spaces over the the past ten years in ways that...

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On the Global Migration of Guns

We’ve been often collectively urged to fear Syrian immigrants for posing terrorist threats within our national frontiers.  We re-map the scope of the global refugee crisis in hopes to indicate its...

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Trumpism, Tampons, and the Nation

There’s some danger in remembering the chief upshot of Donald Trump’s verbal attacks on Megyn Kelly Trump’s  withdrawal from a GOP Presidential debate.  For to do so forgets the aggressivity of his...

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Offshore Spaces: How Globalism Spawns Off-Shore Sites

If one is used to mapping the spaces of state sovereignty, numerous questions are raised by the mapping of the offshore–and of the effects of its relatively recent global expansion over the past ten to...

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Sleeping Roads, Ancient Highways, and Paper Towns

The recent remapping of "ancient roads" in Vermont raises questions of the sufficient thickness of a cartographical description of roads which were once widely used. Which unmapped paths, preserved in...

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The Consequences of Over-Crowding our Country with Factory Farms

Questions of scale, distribution, and crowding are increasingly central to mapping and data visualizations.  The increasingly troubling geographical crowding of factory farms in the country constitute...

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Looking for the Local in the Age of Unilever

Vermont's long-lived appreciation of dairy no doubt helped promote the home-grown qualities of what once passed as artisanal ice cream in America--but has the social mission trumpeted by the famed...

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Fenced In/Forced Out: On the Uncertain Fate of the Refugees Kept Outside of...

The coils of razor-wire lain by a rag-tag group of workforce workers atop the thirteen-and-a-half meter high fences to define Hungary’s southern border formed a barrier against those who have fled the...

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The Less Visible Paths of Economic Giving

At the same time as Pope Francis elegantly entreats all to view the world less through the distortions of economic markets–and without forgetting those who are all too often overlooked–we rightly...

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The New Xenophobia

One of the scarier consequences of the Paris Terror Attacks are the waves of renewed xenophobia that have swept Europe’s already seething right wing, and somewhat surprisingly travelled across the...

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Gun Ownership as a Form of Freedom?

The frequency with which mass shootings have occurred over the past thirty years punctuate time in America: while only a small part of gun violence in America, such shootings have been described as...

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On the Growing Global Migration of Guns

Although we’ve been often enjoined in frequent months to fear Syrian immigrants as posing potential threats to our national safety, rather than with sympathy.  But the specter of terrorist threats that...

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Trumpism, Tampons, and the Nation

Can one individuate a clear topography of the appeal of Donald Trump’s rhetoric?  If so, what would it look like, and reveal about this year’s self-made candidate?  The unfortunate equation of...

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Negotiating Offshore Spaces: How Globalism Spawns Our Offshore Sites

“Offshore” space is rarely drawn on a map, for the term reflects remove from sovereign financial oversight of a land-based territory–hence their tax-exempt or -reduced status–rather than possessing...

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The Material Surplus of the US-Mexico Border Fence

The metal fences along the border between Mexico and the United States serve as far more than a discouraging barrier alone, but carve out a brutal space between both countries emptied of human...

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Fenced In/Forced Out: On the Uncertain Fate of the Refugees Kept Outside of...

  The coils of razor-wire lain by a rag-tag group of workforce workers atop the thirteen-and-a-half meter high fences seek to define Hungary’s southern border by mapping a visible barrier against...

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The Less Visible Paths of Economic Giving

At the same time as Pope Francis elegantly entreats all to view the world less through the distortions of economic markets–and without forgetting those who are all too often overlooked–we rightly...

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The New Xenophobia

One of the scarier consequences of the Paris Terror Attacks are the waves of renewed xenophobia that have swept Europe’s already seething right wing, and somewhat surprisingly travelled across the...

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Gun Ownership as a Form of Freedom?

The frequency with which mass shootings have occurred over the past thirty years punctuate time in America: while only a small part of gun violence in America, such shootings have been described as...

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On the Growing Global Migration of Guns

Although we’ve been entreated to fear Syrian immigrants as posing potential threats to national safety, rather than with sympathy, as if they held sleeper cells of terrorists more than people in need....

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