Kate Derickson
@katederickson
assoc prof of geog, enviro & society and director of urban studies at the u of minn, editor, society & space
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03-12-2008 19:13:27
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Florida is charging formerly incarcerated people $50 a day even if they’re no longer in prison. The “pay to stay” fee is based on the length of the original sentence, so even when they're released they must keep paying for a prison bed they’re not using. abcactionnews.com/news/local-new…
On its homepage, the The New York Times website currently has four (4) prominently-displayed pieces about American college protests and zero (0) pieces about the nearly 300 bodies (some with their hands and feet bound) found in a mass grave at a hospital in southern Gaza.
Please join us for a lecture by Marisol LeBrón, 'Puerto Rican Feminists Confront the State,' for this year's Jan Cohn lecture in American Studies at Trinity. The lecture will take place in Rittenberg lounge tomorrow, Tues. 4/23 beginning at 4.15pm. Hope to see you there!
Issue 1 of 2024 on 'Desirable Futures' is out, and mostly Open Access! As the editors' Intro states, the issue 'offers a window into capacious desires & futurities, showing how to rethink relations of labor, land & life for just & desirable futures.' journals.sagepub.com/toc/epda/42/1
Happy to speak to anyone thinking about applying for these great fellowships with focus on infrastructure corridors or real estate work and would like to do so through the The Urban Institute + myself