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A temple in Cambodia: Phnom Chiso

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Cambodia is best known for Angkor Wat, the vast temple built in the first half of the 12th century by King Suryavarman II to honor the Hindu goddess Vishnu (and, more than incidentally, himself too.) Angkor Wat, though, is by no means the only temple dating back to the days of the Angkor empire....

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It takes a village, and more: A development project for young women in Guatemala

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Young women in a tree nursery in Guatemala, part of a development project run by Community Cloud Fund Conservation

Guest post by Dr. Dawn Bowen, Professor of Geography at the University of Mary Washington. Young women in a tree nursery in Guatemala, part of a development project run by Community Cloud Forest Conservation In January, I traveled to Guatemala to interview young Maya women who had received scholarships so continue their secondary education. ...

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Geographies of Protest and Occupation Part Two: Richmond, Virginia

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Geographies of Protest and Occupation Part Two: Richmond, Virginia

Part One: The Arab Spring in Bahrain is posted separately. Part Two: The American Fall in Richmond Coming to America In October 2011, explicitly drawing on the methods of Arab Spring protests, the Occupy Wall Street movement began. As in Bahrain (see Part One of this blog), a continuous presence in a public place of...

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Geographies of Protest and Occupation: From Manama, Bahrain to Richmond, Virginia

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Geographies of Protest and Occupation: From Manama, Bahrain to Richmond, Virginia

(Part Two: Richmond, Virginia is posted separately.) Part One: Bahrain 2011 has been a year of occupations. From Cairo to Columbus, citizens have appropriated public spaces as sites of protest. They have set up encampments and insist that they will maintain a continuous presence until their demands have been met (as in Cairo) or...

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Motorcycle rivers: traffic in Ho Chi Minh City

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Ho Chi Minh City (still referred to by many here by its old name, Saigon) is one of my favorite places to visit. It’s a lively, bustling place (by day and night), it is inexpensive, the food is great, and many of the people I have met there have been friendly and hospitable. Vietnam...

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