CERN North America
CERN North America meets the second Friday of each month, usually 1pm to 3pm (Eastern time), by Zoom. Generally the group focuses on either discussion of a reading or discussion of a research project that one of the group is working on.
2024
Discussions in 2024 focused on members' research including:
Abby Templer Rodrigues' work on the creative economy in western Massachusetts (using participatory action research) and putting a diverse economies framing in conversation with intersectionality.
Emily Melvin's work on the blue economy in the Bahamas, and especially how the blue economy has emerged as the dominant strategy for re-development and recovery in the aftermath of Hurricane Dorian.
2023
Along with the readings below, in 2023 there was also discussion of members' work including:
Eric Sarmiento's ongoing research on histories of urban planning and counter-planning in 1920s Texas and Oklahoma
Discussion by Ana Heras, Marcelo Vieta, and Christian Anderson on the themes and ideas that emerged from the 2023 LIVIANA session on Prefiguring Emergent Collaborations Across Geographical Divides.
2023 Readings
Robin D. G. Kelley in conversation with Jack Amariglio and Lucas Wilson. 2018. Rethinking Marxism. Click here.
Pavithra Vasudevan, Margaret Marietta Ramirez, Yolanda González Mendoza and Michelle Daigle. 2022. ‘Storytelling Earth and Body.’ Annals of the American Association of Geographers. Click here.
Katherine McKittrick. 2015. Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human As Praxis. Chapter 2. ‘Unparalleled Catastrophe for Our Species? Or, To Give Humanness a Different Future: Conversations.’ Duke University Press. Click here.
2022 Readings
Clyde Woods. 2017. Development Drowned and Reborn: The Blues and Bourbon Restorations in Post-Katrina New Orleans. Edited by Laura Pulido and Jordan T. Camp. University of Georgia Press. Click here.
Ashante Reese. 2018. ‘“We will not perish; we're going to keep flourishing”: Race, Food Access, and Geographies of Self-Reliance.’ Antipode, 50:2 (407-424). Click here.
Carolin Hagelskamp, Celina Su, Karla Valverde Viesca, and Tarson Nuñez. 2022. ‘Organizing a transnational solidarity for social change through participatory practices: The case of People-Powered-Global Hub for Participatory Democracy.’ American Journal of Community Psychology, 69 (294-305). Click here.
Penn Loh and Boone Shear. 2022. ‘Fight and build: Solidarity economy as ontological politics,’ in Sustainability Science. 17 (1207-1221). Click here.