A Long Way to Go: Collective Paths to Racial Justice in Geography     

Caroline Faria  Bisola Falola  Jane Henderson  Rebecca Maria Torres 《The Professional geographer》2019,71(2):364-376

Despite decades of recognition and worry about diversity, our discipline remains persistently white. That is, it is dominated by white bodies and it continues to conform to norms, practices, and ideologies of whiteness. This is a loss. At best, it limits the possibilities and impact of our work as geographers. At worst, it perpetuates harmful exclusions in our discipline: its working environments, its institutions, and its knowledge production. This remains deeply concerning for many geographers, and there has been important research, commentary, and institutional activity over the years. Yet, research shows us that little meaningful progress has been made. We know that mentoring is one vital part of the journey toward change. As such, we reflect here on our experience developing a research collective built on a transformative mentoring practice. We outline the key challenges, strategies, and tentative successes of the collective in supporting women of color undergraduate, graduate, and faculty geographers, arguing that such feminist formations are a vital part of the path to intellectual racial justice in our field. Key Words: diversity, feminist geography, higher education, mentoring, race.  相似文献   

Factors of poultry farming adoption in Oyo State,Nigeria: A study in agency- and infrastructure-based diffusion     

Dr. J. Afolabi Falola 《GeoJournal》1987,15(1):83-90

In this paper, use is made of the multiple regression technique in an attempt to provide explanation for the pattern of adoption of intensive poultry farming technique — an agency and infrastructure based innovation. This paper deals with two aspects of the diffusion. The first examines the factors of spatial pattern of adoption and the second, the adoption intensity. The paper then turns to consider the planning implications of these factors. In Oyo State, market factor expressed as the population size of towns, distance to agency location and from previous adopters largely account for the spatial variation in the time of adoption of ‘modern’ poultry farming technique. The intensity of adoption (poultry population) on the other hand is influenced by the number of adopters, distance to infrastructure, profitability considerations, literacy factor and the time of adoption.  相似文献