Mark Kear

The manufactured housing mosaic: an intersectional approach to measuring social vulnerability This article presents a novel method for identifying and analysing the diverse pathways through which housing type is linked to social vulnerability. We use manufactured housing (MH) to challenge e...

Arizona's official Heat Awareness week has five themes and today is Awareness. Residents of manufactured homes are disproportionately vulnerable to extreme heat. @mtfkear.bsky.social uncovers complexity within MH communities and discusses their resilience to heat and hazards. tinyurl.com/kear-mh

Thanks, Beki

Thank you, Beki!

Thank you, Beki!

Thank you, Eric!

As of today I am tenured. Happy and relieved. I have convinced myself that there is a wide wide gap between the hype and reality of the powers and security that this new status confers, especially in the US/Arizona today. Tell me I'm wrong...how can I best use my new powers for good?

Graduate students in paleoclimatology! Want to spend 2 weeks this summer in the gorgeous eastern Sierra of California at paleoCAMP (Paleoclimate Training in Climate Archives, Models, and Proxies) 2025? Apply before January 10th! paleoclimate.camp

NEW PAPER: The 2022 fossil fuel price jumps caused an oil and gas profit explosion. We show the US reaped the largest profit increase (USD 275bn) of any country. Big Oil claims this benefits the American people. In fact, 51% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A 🧵

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Thriving Youth in a Digital Environment (TYDE), University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America | Research at University of Virginia Apply for Postdoctoral Research Associate, Thriving Youth in a Digital Environment (TYDE), University of Virginia job with University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America...

I am recruiting a post-doc to work with me at UVA on a project about youth (18-25) financial cultures, literacies, and well-being in the digital environment.

Please share widely!

Deadline is rolling.

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Extreme heat fits this everyday disaster framing well, too.

Home thermal security, energy equity and the social production of heat in manufactured housing This article contributes to theoretical understandings of the relationships among extreme heat vulnerability, energy equity and home thermal security …

Excited to share my recent article, “Home thermal security, energy equity and the social production of heat in manufactured housing,” with coauthors Margaret Wilder,
Karina Martinez-Molina, Laura McCann and Dugan Meyer in Energy Research & Social Science. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Economy and Society Special Issue Competition.

£5,000 of workshop/event funding available.

Application deadline: 12th January 2024.

We would particularly welcome proposals that address topics which are of particular importance for the journal.

See our website for further details.

College of Environmental Science and Forestry Job Posting: Assistant Professor- Environmental Justic... College of Environmental Science and Forestry Job Posting: Assistant Professor- Environmental Justice

Job Alert! Assistant Professor in Environmental Justice
@ SUNY-ESF. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions! esf.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdetails.jsp?JOBID=168927

Setting up our tent at Tucson Meet Yourself, a huge festival in Tucson! We are presenting the findings of our research on Tucson’s UNESCO designation and getting community members’ feedback on it!

Looking forward to sharing a new paper with awesome colleagues just accepted at Energy Research and Social Science: "Home Thermal Security, Energy Equity & the Social Production of Heat in Manufactured Housing"...Will get it on SocArXiv as soon as this asynchronous online course is ready for launch!

Looks so awesome. Adding to adding @carlyschuster.bsky.social / Forecasts to my syllabus.

AAG2024 CFP: "Examining Flood Injustice from Exposure to Recovery"

Co-organized with @socialpixel.bsky.social and Aaron Flores. We'd love to meet more people working on Flood Injustice - please share/circulate. Nov 3 abstract deadline.

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I use auto-replies. I get them. Can we all just be a little more okay with not getting a reply for a few hours or days? Half the auto replies I get are followed a few minutes later by a non-auto reply anyway. Sorry, this is really just me whinging about the post reply-all chirping of my inbox.

Assistant Professor–Indigenous/Latinx Geospatial Analysis, Representation, GIS–Department of Geo... University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

The application deadline has been extended for this Assistant Prof. position in my department! We are a dynamic group of human geographers and earth system scientists and have a strong bench of assoc. profs to mentor early career faculty.

🧐🧐 journal bluesky est arrivé (yes that is a reference to a 1980s wine campaign)

Like if all the people you knew in a big city moved to the same small town at the same time and never told anyone they were leaving. Strange. But glad so many are here now. 😊

Come work with me on geographies of monetary policy! I'm recruiting a PhD student to work on SSHRC-funded project ‘Engine of inequality? Central Banks, Economic Crisis, and Uneven Development’. Feel free to reach out with questions. Details are here: www.queensu.ca/geographyand...

The Price is Wrong What if our understanding of capitalism and climate is back to front? What if the problem is not that transitioning to renewables is too expensive, but that saving the planet is not sufficiently profi...

Just found out that Brett Christopher's new book has a release date and it looks good as hell. Brett's keen to get it to movement folks, so lmk if you/ your org wants to be added to a list for some kind of low-cost access, or to organize a meeting once its out www.versobooks.com/products/306...

These temperatures are shocking and inhumane. //www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/01/texas-prison-extreme-heat-diary?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

I'm on the job market! Trained in human geography & gender studies. Research in food systems, development, race, place; philosophies of space & the subject; critical phenomenology; queer/trans & feminist geogs & more! See: sites.google.com/view/edenkin.... Please send any relevant postdocs or jobs!

ESRI😂

Manuel Aalbers is looking for a PhD candidate to work on a Horizon Europe project. The successful candidate would work on the Financial and Fiscal Influences on Housing Inequality in Europe. Link to job posting below.

Just added a few invites to the list and shared the link to the form with the SGDE grad listserv. Looking forward to welcoming more UArizona geog grads!

Post-doctoral researcher (30-month contract) on my ERC funded Data Stories project at Maynooth University examining housing & planning data and telling data stories working with stakeholders and artists. Closing date 25th Sept. Details: universityvacancies.com/maynooth-uni...