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Los Angeles AAG Annual Meeting Volume 47, Number 6 • June 2012 In This Issue Emerging Themes for the Los Angeles AAG Annual Meeting ach year, the AAG identifies a few featured provide a fresh and engaging skeletal structure to themes for its Annual Meeting. These are each of our large and richly-complex meetings. E often suggested by the meeting’s location Many potential themes are readily suggested by From the Meridian .................1 itself or by political and intellectual trends within Los Angeles itself. A focus on international cities President’s Column ................3 the discipline or in society at large. The AAG and urban geographies is a natural theme for the LA Washington Monitor ..............7 president and executive director generally develop meeting. Water is always a dominant consideration Op-Ed .......................................10, 11 these annual themes, in conversation with the AAG for Los Angeles. Others come immediately to mind: Profiles of Professional Council, the meeting’s Local Arrangements Com- The Pacific Rim and Asia. Borders. Migration and Geographers ..........................13 mittee, and the membership at large. In past years, immigration. Hollywood, film, and global cultures. Award Deadlines...................14 these themes have ranged across the full breadth of Transportation. And so many others. We invite you Grants & Competitions .......16 the discipline, and included topics such as Climate to help develop additional themes by suggesting Of Note .....................................16 Change, Geography and Human Rights, Space- new ideas for Los Angeles, and for coming years Specialty Group News ............16 time Integration in Geography and GIScience, and as well. New Members .......................19 Geography and the Humanities. Following is the initial set of themes we have Jobs in Geography ...................23 These multi-faceted themes are not intended developed for the AAG Los Angeles meeting, Necrology ................................28 to be the exclusive focus of an AAG meeting, but scheduled for April 9-13, 2013: Events Calendar ....................31 rather serve as a lens to help focus discussion and Continued on page 2 Obama Administration Releases Global Change Strategic Plan he Obama Administration has released a new ing technologies allow for a more comprehensive ten-year strategic plan for research related to approach that incorporates economic, social, and global change, identifying priorities intended environmental data, our understanding of processes of Tto help state and local governments, businesses, and global change will deepen and increase our capacity communities prepare for anticipated changes in the for planning, he said. global environment, including climate change, in the An important unifying theme of the Strategic Plan decades ahead. is clearly geographic – to conceptualize global change The Plan – released by the U.S. Global Change “at the spatial and temporal scales on which planning, Research Program (USGCRP) – was developed col- management, and policy decisions are made” (p.14) laboratively by more than 100 scientists working in as well as the varying scales at which change will be the Federal Government. It reflects extensive inputs acutely felt and where intervention will be needed. from stakeholders and the general public, as well as The Plan also places increased importance on human a detailed review by the National Research Council. dimensions of global change. The Plan will be implemented through the USGCRP The USGCRP has for more than 20 years coordi- and the thirteen Federal departments and agencies it nated Federal global change research. While that represents. research has largely monitored specific environmental “It is no longer enough to study the isolated changes by satellite and concentrated on developing physical, chemical, and biological factors affect- computer projections of climate change in the near ing global change,” said Tom Armstrong, Executive term, the new Strategic Plan will expand to incorporate Director of the USGCRP. As advanced comput- Continued on page 4 www.aag.org AAG Newsletter 1 June 2012 From the Meridian From the Meridian continued from page 1 AAG Newsletter Emerging Asias wage manufacturing and informal economies, of the Acknowledging Los Angeles’ and Califor- settlements, and urban politics accompany Association of American nia’s location on the Pacific Rim, and their the emergence of a powerful, consumption- Geographers increasing interconnections with Asia, Eric oriented urban middle class. How can we Sheppard’s 2013 presidential plenary session understand these changes? Are post-colonial will take up the question of “Emerging Asias.” cities simply following the trajectory of US and This title references three aspects of Asia European cities, or are distinctive urban forms Douglas Richardson, Publisher and Managing Editor today: Its rapid (re)emergence as a center of the emerging, requiring distinctive theorizations global economy; or interventions Jim Ketchum, Editor its enormous ‘from the south’? AAG Voice 202-234-1450 diversity as a What are the AAG Fax 202-234-2744 region (Asia be- implications for [email protected] ing a European ‘northern’ cities? www.aag.org geopolitical These questions construct des- are becoming USPS 987-380 ISSN 0275-3995 ignating the widely debated; land masses LA is an excel- The AAG Newsletter ISSN 0275- east of Europe, lent forum to 3995 is published monthly with July/ rather than a engage further August combined, by the Association homogeneous Richardson Sheppard with them. of American Geographers, 1710 16th region); and, Street NW, Washington, DC 20009- within the heterogeneous sub-regions of Asia, Climate Change, Variability, 3198. The cost of an annual subscrip- the expanding differences in the livelihood Adaptation and Justice tion is $25.00 The subscription price possibilities of those who have come to live This track of sessions will examine the is included in the annual dues of the prosperously and those who live precariously. latest research on global climate change and Association. Not available to non- This session is conceived as a provocation to variability, including geographies of projected members. Periodicals postage paid in US geographers: To be paying more attention climate change impacts, mitigation and/or Washington, DC. All news items and to Asia, and to its distinctive perspectives local adaptation strategies, and societal and letters, including job listings, should be and voices. Speakers will be invited from the human rights implications. The US govern- sent to the Editor at the address below US and Asia, with expertise in different sub- ment’s recent Strategic Plan for US Global or to [email protected]. regions. The AAG presidential panel session Change Research for the next decade will All Newsletter materials must arrive will anchor this thematic track in Los Angeles. also be discussed in terms of its potential at the Association office by the 1st of As a featured theme, of course, “Emerging opportunities for geographic research re- the month preceding the month of the Asias” should not be restricted to human geo- lated to global and climate change. Sessions publication. This includes job listings. graphic processes: Research examining Asian addressing activities and outcomes of the Material will be published on a space biophysical and nature-society processes also United Nations Conference of Sustainable available basis and at the discretion of is encouraged. Development (Rio+20) are also encouraged. the editorial staff. When your address changes, please Beyond the Los Angeles School: Geography, GIScience, and notify the Association office imme- Global Urbanization Health: Spatial Frontiers of diately. Six weeks notice is necessary In the 1990s, Los Angeles was advanced as Health Research and Practice to ensure uninterrupted delivery of the home for a new school of urban geography, Building on several recent AAG initia- AAG publications. To assist the AAG billed as replacing the Chicago School. The tives together with the National Institutes office in your address change, include LA School took up the important, unfinished of Health in this research area, this theme the address label with your change of task of expanding how we think about cities. will explore new research frontiers in health address. In the 21st century, the center of gravity of and social environments, and also address Postmaster: Send address changes urbanization has relocated decidedly into the progress generated by the AAG Initiative for to AAG Newsletter, 1710 16th Street global South. Asia and Africa, in particular, an NIH-wide Geospatial Infrastructure for NW, Washington, DC 20009-3198, or are experiencing unprecedented rates of urban Health Research. These AAG initiatives have [email protected]. change, shaped by, and shaping, global pro- generated an increased awareness by health cesses and policy agendas. The urbanization researchers as well as geographers of the core of poverty has been a central aspect of these role that geography and GIScience can play changes, as circular rural-urban migration, low Continued on page 5 2 AAG Newsletter www.aag.org President’s Column VolumeVolume 47, 47, Number 6 Valuing the History of our Discipline he history of our discipline is fas- of Eastern Germany after the Jews and in the discipline of geography during the cinating but receives too little at- other “undesirable” populations had been 1970s. It was the time of the so-called T tention. Departments
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