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March 5, 2011 Posted by andrewshears in Blog, Personal

Why I Didn't Go to Columbus.

Sure, I'm against the rampant GOP cuts to education, particularly higher education. But I certainly couldn't, in good faith, participate in helping my tenured and tenure-track colleagues maintain their stability when they've done nothing to help us, the abused class of adjuncts. Read more
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Tags: 2010 election, AAUP, academe, adjunct, collective bargaining, columbus, john kasich, ohio, politics, protest, sausage factory, sb5, union, work
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February 21, 2011 Posted by andrewshears in Academic, Blog, Featured, Geography, Research

Now that was some bad-ass DOPE

My thoughts on the 2011 Dimensions of Political Ecology conference. Read more
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Tags: academic, conference, dope, dope2011, ecology, kentucky, paul robbins, political ecology, political ecology working group, politics, university
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February 12, 2011 Posted by andrewshears in Academic, Blog, Geography, Research

My Talk for Dimensions of Political Ecology in Kentucky

The full (unedited) presentation I prepared for the 2011 DOPE Conference in Lexington, Kentucky. The actual presentation I gave was quite a bit shorter, but these were my notes from which I culled my talk. Read more
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November 1, 2010 Posted by andrewshears in Blog, Personal

Sorry Folks, I'm Gonna Sit This One Out

I discuss why, for the first time in my life, I choose not to vote. Read more
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Tags: 2010 election, election, no vote, none of the above, ohio, politics, us election, voting, why i'm not voting