Virtual Geography Convention 2014: The Non-Geographic Side of the AAG Convention

Welcome to the Virtual Geography Convention 2014!  If you wish to submit to the virtual geography convention please contact catholicgauze [at] gmail [dot] com.

While serious discussions and geographical topics are discussed at the Association of American Geographers conference continue, the dark side of academia has a presence that continues to stain academic geography.

Twitter only gets a small percentage of the non-geographic, non-mainstream political discussion going on but it is a good sample of the sad state of certain subfields of geography. 

Critical geographies of religion opening with @DavidKSeitz's insightful discussion of the political in a Queer Church #AAG2014
— GeoRichardScriven (@CorkGeog) April 8, 2014

Soil science played a role in land consolidation?! How else have disciplines reinforced racism by taking methods as neutral? #AAG2014
— CuttsLab (@EnviroSocSci) April 8, 2014

Soil surveys dipossed black landowners through explicit racism, valuing some form of ag over others, erasing black landowners #AAG2014
— CuttsLab (@EnviroSocSci) April 8, 2014

Great paper from Jessica Barnes looking at the entrepreneurial neo-liberal discourses and self presentation on Etsy #AAG2014
— Susan Luckman (@SusanLuckman) April 8, 2014

Jess Loomis on food trucks - neoliberal registers of passionate creative entrepreneurs a facade for multiskilled but low paid labor #AAG2014
— Chris Gibson (@profcgibson) April 8, 2014

@CarlaGeog/Carla Barrett: reports on GLBTQ challenging heteronormative discourses of domestic labour and ideal notions of the home #AAG2014
— Chris Gibson (@profcgibson) April 8, 2014

USAID a vehicle for American neoliberal imperialism #jameyessex #AAG2014
— Isabel Cane (@IssyCane) April 8, 2014

Compare these to the geography of the late Dr. Harm de Blij or what you learned in school or National Geographic.