Ecologists study the interactions and relationships between organisms and their environment.Geodesists measure and monitor the Earth’s size and shape, geodynamic phenomena (e.g., tides and polar motion), and gravity field to determine the exact coordinates of any point on Earth and how that point will move over time.Environmental geologists help prevent contamination of soil and groundwater by determining geologically safe locations for new landfills, coal ash disposal sites, and nuclear power plants.Environmental soil scientists study the upper few meters of the Earth’s crust in terms of its physical and chemical properties distribution, genesis and morphology and biological components.Environmental chemists monitor what is in the air, water, and soil to study how chemicals enter the environment, what affects they have, and how human activity affects the environment.Paleoclimatologists study the Earth’s past climate.Forecasting meteorologists predict the weather approximately 7-10 days in advance and convey this information to the general public. Meteorologists study the movement and energy distributions of the atmosphere, particularly with respect to their effect on weather.Hydrometeorologists study the transfer of water and energy between the land surface and lower atmosphere with particular emphasis on natural hazards (such as floods, droughts, tropical cyclones and desertification) and mitigating their effects.Climate modelers use mathematical techniques to simulate the interaction of physical forces on climate and climate change.Climatologists study the earth’s climate, scientifically defined as weather conditions averaged over a period of time.Atmospheric physicists study the effect of terrestrial, atmospheric, and space-based forces on the behavior of the atmosphere.Atmospheric chemists investigate the chemical processes occurring in the atmosphere, such as the relationship between CFCs and ozone.Feminist Geography Unbound is grounded in a feminist geography that has long forced the discipline to grapple with the production of difference, the unequal politics of knowledge production, and gender’s constitutive role in shaping social life. The book also champions feminist geography as practice, through interviews with feminist scholars and interludes in which feminist collectives speak to their experience inhabiting and transforming academic spaces. They work through bodies as terrains of struggle that make claims to space and enact political change, and they ask how these politics prefigure the futures that we fear or desire. The original essays in this collection center three themes to unbind and enable different feminist futures: discomfort as a site where differences generate both productive and immobilizing frictions, gendered and racialized bodies as sites of political struggle, and the embodied work of building the future.ĭrawing on diverse theoretical backgrounds and a range of field sites, contributors consider how race, gender, citizenship, and class often determine who feels comfort and who is tasked with producing it. A field-defining collection of new voices on gender, feminism, and geography.įeminist Geography Unbound is a call to action-to expand imaginations and to read and travel more widely and carefully through terrains that have been cast as niche, including Indigenous and decolonial feminisms, Black geographies, and trans geographies.
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