I am excited to share that “Rethinking Translation: Emergent, Geographic, and Transformative,” written by Dan Trudeau and myself, was just published in ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies! ACME is an open source journal so you can access the PDF of our article for *free* right here. Our reconceptualization of translation as emergent and geographic […]
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One part of my fall 2022 course, ‘Global Movements: Migrations, Refugees, and Diasporas,’ was a visit to the Mount Holyoke College art museum to develop visual literacy skills through close observations of a range of visual representations of migration. After the dynamic and informative visit, I was thrilled when Charlotte Smith, a student in ‘Global
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The paperback edition of Imagining Seattle: Social Values in Urban Governance is now out with a discounted price! As Paul Constant writes in the Seattle Review of Books, “Imagining Seattle is a book about the distance between the Seattle that we mythologize to ourselves and to others and the real Seattle that we actually live
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I am delighted to share that the video of the Zube lecture I gave on March 25, 2021 is now available! The talk was titled, ‘Unsettling Whiteness in Neighborhood Planning: Social Justice Efforts in Seattle, WA.’ You can access the video on the website for the entire Zube lecture series (click the link at the end
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Serin Houston looks forward to discussing her book, Imagining Seattle: Social Values in Urban Governance, with Patricia Lopez, Jasmine Mahmoud, and Richard Wright during an ‘Author Meets her Readers’ session at the upcoming American Association of Geographers (AAG) conference in Seattle, Washington. The conference will be from April 7-11, 2021 and entirely virtual. To register
The University of Nebraska Press (UNP) has decided to release a paperback edition of Imagining Seattle: Social Values in Urban Governance in the spring 2021 series! Citing the lasting contribution of Houston’s book and the importance of keeping Imagining Seattle in print, the UNP is pleased to release the book at a lower paperback price. Houston
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An invited profile of the ‘New Sanctuary Movement’, written by Serin D. Houston and Mount Holyoke College junior Colleen Molnar, was just published by the World Religions and Spirituality Project (WRSP). The WRSP strives to be a comprehensive review of the world’s varied religious and spiritual groups and religious leaders. Colleen Molnar worked as Houston’s
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The Maxwell Perspective, a journal from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University, recently published a profile of Imagining Seattle by Serin D. Houston. The piece briefly summarizes the main argument of the book and includes a couple empirical examples. It closes by way of emphasizing that unless equity is foregrounded in urban governance, inequities
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Serin D. Houston’s interview with Sasha Nyary, senior editor in the Office of Communications and Marketing at Mount Holyoke College, just went live! In advance of Houston’s upcoming talk in Seattle, Nyary asked about key findings from Imagining Seattle and why the focus on imaginative geographies and three social values. Read the entire interview here.
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A new book review of Imagining Seattle by Wayne Feiden was published online at the Journal of Planning Literature. Feiden notes that Seattle has long been recognized in the field of planning as a leader in racial and social equity policies. At the same time, he underscores that Houston’s research illustrates how despite these intentions
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