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	<description>by Donald N. Rallis, Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia</description>
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		<title>Learning from Haiti: Development through Home-Grown Capacity Building and Group Organizing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 19:07:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donald Rallis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this guest blog, Dr. Dawn Bowen, Professor of Geography at the University of Mary Washington, writes about a journey she and UMW Geography major Colin Hess made to Haiti in April 2012. &#160; During the first week of April, Colin Hess and I undertook a truly transformational journey.  We traveled to the island nation of Haiti; the only country in the world with a last name: “The poorest country in the western hemisphere.” Despite U.S. Government warnings about travel to Haiti (the Department of State strongly urges U.S. citizens to consider carefully all travel to Haiti), we were neither robbed, raped, or murdered.  In the view of U.S. authorities, this might be considered somewhat miraculous.  Not only did I survive, but I returned with a powerful sense of what Haitians can and have achieved, witnessing their organization and capacity building. I also learned about the demoralizing, destabilizing, and dehumanizing influence of NGOs and missionary groups on the Haitian people  (I make this last comment knowing that I may once again be labeled as the anti-Christ or being in bed with the devil.) Every day, I was impressed with the Haitian people and their organizations.  OP7G was the most amazing.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Shrinking World (for some)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 15:23:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donald Rallis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economic geography]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s now 6.15 am on Monday February 27, and I am sipping a cup of coffee in Suvarnabhumi Airport, Bangkok&#8217;s new, gleaming and vast international air gateway. I arrived here late last night on a journey that began on Saturday in Richmond, Virginia, when I boarded 7.40am flight for Chicago. There I connected to a 16-hour nonstop flight to Hong Kong, followed by a short 2 1/2 hour hop to Bankgkok. In an hour or so, I will leave here on Thai Airways for Phnom Penh, a journey of less than an hour. All being well, I will reach my final destination some 37 hours after departure; of that time, I will have spent about 22 hours in the air. This sounds like a grueling journey and, sitting in a cramped economy class seat of a full aircraft, I must admit that it is an experience I did not relished. But then I got to thinking about the discussion we had in one of my classes last week about the first European ships making their from Lisbon to Malacca (in modern-day Malaysia) in the early 1500s. This journey, which would have covered a distance roughly the same as mine, took the better [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A temple in Cambodia: Phnom Chiso</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:59:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donald Rallis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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. Nearly a hundred other temples dot the landscape around Angkor, and many others are to be found in other parts of Cambodia. Phnom Chiso is one of these temples, located atop a hill in Takeo Province, about 60 km south of Phnom Penh. This temple is older the Angkor Wat; it was built in the 11th century. Though damaged by American bombing during the war in Southeast Asia in the 1970s, much of the temple still stands. You can see some of the remains of the temple in this short video I made in December 2011. In the opening segment, I try to give an idea of the landscape around the temple; a landscape very typical of much of southern and central Cambodia. It is flat, and sugar palms dot the landscape, surrounded by rice paddies (most of them recently harvested when the video was taken.) [...]]]></description>
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