Graduate Program in Geography, University of Missouri

Human Geography

Research in Human Geography at MU emphasizes the intersection of cultural identity, economic security, and place. Ethnographic examination of local communities in the context of global forces is central to these studies, whether undertaken in the Middle East, the Midwest, or western Canada (and beyond). Many of these issues cross over to the theme of Nature/Society relationships.

Place identity and territoriality

S.C. Larsen (2008). Place making in rural protest: An analysis of a grassroots social movement in Anahim Lake, British Columbia. Journal of Rural Studies 24(2): 172-181.

S.C. Larsen (2006). The future’s past: Politics of time and territory among Dakelh First Nations of British Columbia. Geografiska Annaler 88B (3): 311-321.

S.C. Larsen (2004). Place identity in a resource-dependent area of northern British Columbia. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 94(4): 944-960.

Political Representations of Place

Jason Dittmer and SC Larsen (2007). Captain Canuck, audience response, and the project of Canadian nationalism . Social and Cultural Geography 8(5): 737-755.

J.J. Hobbs (2005) The Geographic Dimensions of Al-Qa’ida Rhetoric. Geographical Review 95(3):301-327.

SC Larsen and Timothy J. Brock (2005). Great Basin imagery in newspaper coverage of Yucca Mountain. Geographical Review 95(4): 517-536.

Rice, G and Urban, M.A. (2006) Where is River City, USA? Measuring community attachment to the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers. Journal of Cultural Geography 24:1-35.

Rural poverty and migration

Foulkes, M. and Schafft, K. (2009) The impact of migration on poverty concentrations in the United States, 1995-2000. Rural Sociology.

Foulkes, M. and Newbold, K.B. (2008) Poverty catchments: migration, residential mobility, and population turnover in impoverished rural Illinois communities. Rural Sociology 73: 440-462.

Foulkes M, Newbold K B. (2005) Geographic mobility and residential instability in impoverished rural Illinois places. Environment and Planning A 37: 845 – 860

Foulkes, M.W. and Newbold, K. B. (2000) Migration propensities, patterns, and the role of human capital: Comparing Mexican, Cuban, and Puerto Rican Interstate Migration, 1985-90. The Professional Geographer 52: 133-145

Nomadic peoples and environmental issues

J.J. Hobbs and With F. Tsunemi. (2007) Bedouin Tourist Stations as a Response to Drought in Egypt’s Eastern Desert. Human Ecology 35 (2).

Hobbs, J. (2005) Guidelines for the Involvement of Pastoral Nomads in Conservation and Development Efforts. In Dawn Chatty, ed. Nomadic Societies in the Middle East and North Africa: Entering the 21st Century. Leiden: E.J. Brill, pp. 785-201

Hobbs, J. (2001) Exploration and Discovery With the Bedouin of Egypt. Geographical Review 91:1-10.

Hobbs, J. (1995) Mount Sinai. Austin: University of Texas Press.