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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Ryan Driskell Tate from the “American West” channel of the “New Books Network” podcast interviewed Serin D. Houston about Imagining Seattle. In this interview, Houston discusses the main concepts of her book, gives examples of social values in action, and shares what surprised her most about her research. Listen to the podcast here at the
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Serin D. Houston will give a lightning talk, entitled “Conceptualizing Sanctuary as a Process in the United States,” at the American Geographical Society “Borders and a Borderless World” Symposium on November 22, 2019. Houston will speak about why sanctuary is not merely a name for a city, county, or state, but rather a complex process
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This is the video of the “Social Values in Action: Building Equitable and Sustainable Cities” symposium that was held at Mount Holyoke College on September 18, 2019. The speakers include Serin Houston (Assistant Professor of Geography and International Relations), Wayne Feiden (Director of Planning and Sustainability for the City of Northampton), and Waleska Lugo-DeJesús (CEO,
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Like so many of the best ideas, Serin D. Houston’s book Imagining Seattle began with a single very long walk. Houston recounts the walk in the book’s introduction: By the end of that October day in 2005, the contours of this urban context infused my body. The wonderment in my eyes reflected the array of façades and
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Congratulations to @AAUW alumna and @mtholyoke professor Serin Houston on her new book from @UnivNebPress, Imagining Seattle: Social Values in Urban Governance. Get your copy here: https://t.co/8Dow3lVvkP #Seattle #Sustainability pic.twitter.com/AHTYAsPCAV — AAUW (@AAUW) June 14, 2019
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Imagining Seattle dives into some of the most pressing and compelling aspects of contemporary urban governance in the United States. Serin D. Houston uses a case study of Seattle to shed light on how ideas about environmentalism, privilege, oppression, and economic growth have become entwined in contemporary discourse and practice in American cities. Seattle has,