Geography Phd students Andrea Lara-Garcia, Jasmine Martin, and Jimena Perez have been chosen to be a part of Social Science Matrix Research Teams, groups of scholars who gather regularly to explore or develop a novel question or emerging field in the social sciences. Andrea Lara-Garcia is part of the Legal Geography Research Team, which aims to critically interrogate the spatial dimensions of law in order to contribute to efforts aimed at creating more just, equitable, and inclusive spaces for all. Jasmine Martin and Jimena Perez, will work together on the Tox-Ecologies Collective Research Team, which aims to trace epistemological and theoretical interventions across critical disability studies, Indigenous STS, and racial geographies, as well as find new language and analytic methods to think through our ecological entanglements—beyond a mathematics of damage and a framework that still holds out hope for an uncontaminated future.
August 23, 2024