Noel Vineyard @noelvineyard

“We’re going to tear up the Caldera so we can have an electric car”: Wrestling with prospective lithium mining in the Oregon desert Extraction of lithium, a key ingredient for renewable energy transitions, is a land- and water-intensive process. In this study, we use qualitative, p…

Excited to share a new article from our team about the complicated human experiences of future lithium projects in the McDermitt Caldera. Pushing beyond narratives of for-or-against, our work highlights the nuance and uncertainties experienced in this new lithium country! @alidacantor.bsky.social

13.01.2026 23:28 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1

I feel like I crossed an academic threshold today. I had to finally upgrade my Zotero storage volume today. Too many primary documents and journal articles… getting this dissertation done slowly but surely. #PhD #Zotero #Dissertation #imtired

13.11.2025 05:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Reno’s Neon Line: Interrogating an urban imaginary | Intellect The way urban spaces are imagined has significant implications for the way cities are developed and redeveloped. In 2017, Jacobs Entertainment announced the development of the ‘Neon Line District’ in the western portion of downtown Reno, Nevada. To develop this space, Jacobs purchased and demolished many of the neighbourhoods’ historic motels, which had become a stock of housing of last resort for the city. The purpose of this research is to interrogate that space between the discursive representations of the Neon Line neighbourhood and the material spaces constructed and deconstructed based on those imaginaries. Drawing on literatures on the production of urban space, urban semiotics and urban imaginaries, I developed a multi-method approach to compare the content of the texts of the urban landscape to the social texts produced about it. I found that parallel representations of the space were presented to the public, with representations of the neighbourhood as a site of urban decay being amplified and the new ‘Neon Line’ imaginary being presented as a solution. The developers use of Reno’s historic neon and art from Burning Man suggests the new arts district created has been so for the purposes of attracting tourists with representations of ‘Reno-ness’, while the construction of hostile architecture amidst the Neon Line highlights the reconfiguring of who and what gets to be the public in this neighbourhood meant to revitalize the city. This research highlights the potency of urban imaginaries in shaping the urban material through practices of urban revitalization and the ways that social space is constructed simultaneously through the material and the discursive.

I am excited to share that my article about Reno's Neon Line District is now published in the Journal of Urban Culture Studies. While not my main focus, studying the changes in Reno's urban landscape has been a fun side quest during my PhD. Check it out! #urbangeography #criticalgeography #Reno

06.06.2025 18:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If one sees Kraftwerk after a geography conference and they sing about space, does being there count as fieldwork?

29.03.2025 20:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Geography conferences are wild- I gave a paper yesterday about lithium mining and am now in a session about burning man to be followed by sessions on hip hop, techno, gender & transit and AI & GIS. An ever growing field that all just kind of works. I love it. @geographers.bsky.social

28.03.2025 13:31 — 👍 35 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

VANISHING SANDS: Losing Beaches to Mining Published in Geographical Review (Ahead of Print, 2024)

I'm a few weeks late, but my first book review was published in Geographical Review, reviewing VANISHING SANDS: Losing Beaches to Mining by Pilkey et al(2022). The book isn't very critical, but a solid intro to sand mining as an environmental and social challenge!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

31.12.2024 04:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Its been a long process but today my paper in Society & Natural Resources is finally published. Myself and @alidacantor.bsky.social dug into what it means for a group to be considered a 'stakeholder' when governments undertake community collaborations. #politicalecology #geography #UNR

02.01.2024 18:32 — 👍 17 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

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