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• Indigenous Geographies in the Yucatan: Learning From the Responsibility- Based Maya Environmental Ethos

  This book is part of a broader attempt to decolonize colonial histories and understandings about Indigenous peoples and their relationships with their territories, and argues that the land ethos of "being part of the land," specifically among the Mayan community of Xuilub (Yucatan), Mexico, is guided by the cultural precept of 'responsibility-based' thinking. The work uniquely adds much needed insights into 'responsibility-based' thinking for land-use practices, and develops a theoretical framework for assessing historical impacts on Indigenous cultures and livelihoods. In six chapters, the text bridges Western and Indigenous Knowledge (IK) approaches to achieve deeper understanding of IKs, focusing on more Indigenous-centered methods, with the goal of expanding the disciplinary perspectives of postcolonial scholarship and Indigenous geographies.
• Civilian Internment in Canada: Histories and Legacies Chapter: An Unprecedented Dichotomy: Impacts and Consequences of Serbian Internment in Canada during the Great War

  Civilian Internment in Canada initiates a conversation about not only internment, but also about the laws and procedures - past and present - which allow the state to disregard the basic civil liberties of some of its most vulnerable citizens. This volume offers a unique blend of personal memoirs of survivors and their descendants, alongside the work of community activists, public historians, and scholars, all of whom raise questions about how and why in Canada basic civil liberties have been (and, in some cases, continue to be) denied to certain groups in times of perceived national crises. The book received the Manitoba Historical Society’s Margaret McWilliams Award for the best scholarly book in 2020.
• My 15 Minute City - StoryMaps about Downtown Kitchener

  My 15 Minute City is a multimedia project with oral narratives, videos and maps specifically about walking to discover the virtues of downtown Kitchener as a 15 minute city. It presents a multimedia, digital, multi-dimensional, and multidisciplinary representation of the place, and the experience of people in that place. This project is a collection of StoryMaps that provide a multimedia virtual experience of walking around My 15 Minute City in downtown Kitchener (DTK), Ontario. I define My 15 Minute City as the area encompassed by a 15 minute walking radius (1,000 metres) around the intersection of King and Queen Streets. The area is shown on the map by the purple circle and includes the downtown core and its surrounding neighbourhoods. The collection is organized into two parts, stories about downtown Kitchener as-a-whole, and stories about specific places and events in the downtown. The project is an outcome of my living, learning, teaching, and doing research in DTK for 30 years.
• Anthropocene Geopolitics

  We now find ourselves in a new geological age: the Anthropocene. The climate is changing and species are disappearing at a rate not seen since Earth’s major extinctions. The rapid, large-scale changes caused by fossil-fuel powered globalization increasingly threaten societies in new, unforeseen ways.
• The Death of Asylum: Hidden Geographies of the Enforcement Archipelago

  Alison Mountz traces the global chain of remote detention centers used by states of the Global North to confine migrants fleeing violence and poverty, using cruel measures that, if unchecked, will lead to the death of asylum as an ethical ideal. The Death of Asylum won the 2020 Globe Award from the Association of American Geographers for advancing public understandings of geography.
• Drought Challenges: Policy Options for Developing Countries

  This book provides an understanding of the occurrence and impacts of droughts for developing countries and vulnerable sub-groups, such as women and pastoralists. A multi-sectoral perspective of the human dimensions of drought in developing countries is presented, featuring the latest research by scholars from drought-affected countries in Africa and Asia. The impacts of droughts on livelihoods are a key factor in development in many dryland and agriculturally-dependent nations. This is a co-edited volume with contributions primarily from emerging scholars in Africa and South Asia, which represent the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (Mapedza/South Africa), the Secretariat for the Convention to Combat Desertification (Tsegai/Eritrea) and the German Development Institute (Bruentrup/Germany).
• A National Project: Canada’s Syrian Refugee Resettlement Experience.

  Syrian Refugee Resettlement in Canada: A National Project is a detailed examination of the experiences of refugees and receiving communities during Canada's Operation Syrian Refugee from 2015 to 2016.