Luke Bergmann
Biographic Data
| ID | 104152 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Luke Bergmann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Luke |
| FAMILY NAME | Bergmann |
| SIGNATURE | BERGMANN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Washington |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 171 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Geographically empowering the marginalized
The maverick American geographer William Wheeler Bunge (1928–2013) was never allowed to keep any academic job he had. Nevertheless, he made a series of seminal contributions to Geography over a 30-year period. A long-time communist, he was centrally concerned with society’s marginalized, using geographical methods and techniques to empower them, to improve their lot. He believed Geography was an instrument, a means, to better the world, and he di…
Dominant Modes of Agricultural Production Helped Structure Initial Covid-19 Spread in the U.S. Midwest
The spread of COVID-19 is geographically uneven in agricultural regions. Explanations proposed include differences in occupational risks, access to healthcare, racial inequalities, and approaches to public health. Here, we additionally explore the impacts of coexisting modes of agricultural production across counties from twelve midwestern U.S. states. In modeling COVID-19 spread before vaccine authorization, we employed and extended spatial stat…
Drug checking in the fentanyl era: Utilization and interest among people who inject drugs in San Diego, California
Our findings highlight low rates of DCS awareness and utilization, inequities by race/ethnicity and housing situation, high interest in advanced spectrometry DCS versus FTS, and the potential role of SSPs in improving access to DCS, especially among racial/ethnic minorities
Reifications in Disease Ecology 2: Towards a Decolonized Pedagogy Enabling Science by, and for, the People
In the second half of this essay about reifications in disease ecology, drawing upon our experience, we propose ideas and practices for invigorating a disease ecology by, and for, the people, guided by pedagogical principles and experiences that do not separate subjects and objects of study into roles and categories. Rather, we envision a disease ecology that seeks to understand relations, processes and contexts driving complex ecological phenome…
Reifications in Disease Ecology 1: Demystifying Land Use Change in Pathogen Emergence
Disease ecology has the potential to help build a new society where the contradictions of our time are recognized and confronted in the pursuit of a more considered, and just, understanding of the interrelationships of organisms with the environment. Unfortunately, the discipline is facing a major dilemma as the advent of new technologies, access to remote data, and lack of engagement with the contexts where diseases emerge and are transmitted, h…
For Geographical Network Analysis
For geographical imagination systems
For many, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and related libraries for programming languages define the terrain of geographical computing today. But what if GIS were locales within wider realms of geographical imagination systems (gis), realms more adequate to diverse theoretical commitments of geographical thought? Examining how various thinkers in spatial theory have conceived of phenomena, space, knowledge, and their entanglements, this arti…
China’s prefectural digital divide: Spatial analysis and multivariate determinants of ICT diffusion
Speculative and constructively critical GIS
Reimagining GIScience for relational spaces
A mismatch between largely absolute Newtonian models of space in GIScience and the relational spaces of critical human geography has contributed to mutual disinterest between the fields. Critical GIS has offered an intellectual critique of GIScience without substantially altering how particular key geographical concepts are expressed in data structures. Although keystone ideas in GIScience such as Tobler's “First Law” and the modifiable areal uni…
William Wheeler Bunge: Radical Geographer (1928-2013)
Bill Bunge was a geographer whose path was unconventional and whose transformative contributions can be difficult to bring into sharp focus using the lenses of the present. He was associated with s
Towards economic geographies beyond the Nature-Society divide
Toward speculative data: "Geographic information" for situated knowledges, vibrant matter, and relational spaces
This essay offers paths for scholars influenced by the critical social sciences and theoretical humanities to contribute to the construction of concepts and digital practices of "data" that will allow "data" to better align with their approaches to scholarly inquiry. In particular, it explores how "geographic information" might be refashioned, rereading it from simplified theoretical positions drawn from interpretative inquiry, process-relational…
Revisiting critical GIS
The article looks into the critical geographic information science (GIS) in approaching questions both emerging and enduring around the intersection of the spatial and the digital. It offers trading zones for discussion of issues, for building alliances and interrogating tensions, and for a constant dialectical process of critique and renewal. One tension running through critical GIS is the contradictory role it has played in addressing questions…
Land in Motion
Globalization entwines human lives with distant fields and forests. In response, our approach to land is relational yet also computational. We calculate and map intricate connections among land uses and distant populations mediated by both commodity chains and capital, thereby unpacking, deepening, extending, and pluralizing recent methods estimating land footprints of commodity consumption. After constructing networks of approximately 130 millio…
The dawn of Structural One Health: A new science tracking disease emergence along circuits of capital
Like Swallowing a Butcher Knife: Layoffs, Masculinity, and Couple Conflict in the United States Construction Industry
Many construction workers face periods of layoff due to the seasonal nature of the industry, economic fluctuations in the building trades, and the fact that construction jobs tend to be of limited duration. Because this occupation is socially marked as masculine, male and female workers' emotional response to unemployment is likewise expressed in highly gendered terms, which can negatively impact family life. Based on research with unionized buil…
Bound by Chains of Carbon: Ecological–Economic Geographies of Globalization
In an era of globalization, how are we to associate carbon emissions with particular places or peoples? Contemporary environmental science and policy often debate between assigning emissions to the territories where they are emitted and assigning emissions to the consumers they ultimately benefit. In this article, I employ a postpositivist, relational approach to construct a broader set of quantitative perspectives, each of which takes a differen…
A Coevolutionary Approach to the Capitalist Space Economy
What happens to technologies, firms, regional outputs, interregional accessibility, and trade when they are understood as coevolving? This paper offers a relational mathematical approach to this question, one whose embrace of disequilibrium, context, history, uncertainty, both monetary and material perspectives on economic activity, and complexity resonates productively with many qualitative theoretical approaches. I present a multiregion, multis…
Legislating Clinical Practice: Counselor Responses to an Evidence-Based Practice Mandate
The demand to connect research findings with clinical practice for patients with substance use disorders has accelerated state and federal efforts focused on implementation of evidence-based practices (EBPs). One unique state driven strategy is Oregon's Evidence-Based Practice mandate, which ties state funds to specific treatment practices. Clinicians play an essential role in implementation of shifts in practice patterns and use of EBPs, but lit…
Getting Ghost: Two Young Lives and the Struggle for the Soul of an American City
Competition and the Limits of Solidarity among Unionized Construction Workers
Labor unions strive to reduce competitiveness and promote solidarity among their membership, and those in the U.S. construction industry also serve as job brokers between workers and employers. In this capacity, the attempts of unions to address the temporary nature of construction work through regulating the distribution of job assignments may inadvertently promote fierce competition between laborers. As workers struggle to make sense of their o…
Capitalism beyond Harmonious Equilibrium: Mathematics as If Human Agency Mattered
Narrating a world of flux entails moving away from equilibrium-oriented thinking toward considerations of emergence, uncertain futures, and unintended consequences. This is not the exclusive domain of the qualitative theory construction and analysis that has dominated such thinking in sociospatial theory: it is also involved in mathematical theory construction. It requires a relational approach to mathematical theory, however, that moves beyond u…
The dawn of Structural One Health: A new science tracking disease emergence along circuits of capital
Toward speculative data: "Geographic information" for situated knowledges, vibrant matter, and relational spaces
This essay offers paths for scholars influenced by the critical social sciences and theoretical humanities to contribute to the construction of concepts and digital practices of "data" that will allow "data" to better align with their approaches to scholarly inquiry. In particular, it explores how "geographic information" might be refashioned, rereading it from simplified theoretical positions drawn from interpretative inquiry, process-relational…
Capitalism beyond Harmonious Equilibrium: Mathematics as If Human Agency Mattered
Narrating a world of flux entails moving away from equilibrium-oriented thinking toward considerations of emergence, uncertain futures, and unintended consequences. This is not the exclusive domain of the qualitative theory construction and analysis that has dominated such thinking in sociospatial theory: it is also involved in mathematical theory construction. It requires a relational approach to mathematical theory, however, that moves beyond u…
Bound by Chains of Carbon: Ecological–Economic Geographies of Globalization
In an era of globalization, how are we to associate carbon emissions with particular places or peoples? Contemporary environmental science and policy often debate between assigning emissions to the territories where they are emitted and assigning emissions to the consumers they ultimately benefit. In this article, I employ a postpositivist, relational approach to construct a broader set of quantitative perspectives, each of which takes a differen…
Reimagining GIScience for relational spaces
A mismatch between largely absolute Newtonian models of space in GIScience and the relational spaces of critical human geography has contributed to mutual disinterest between the fields. Critical GIS has offered an intellectual critique of GIScience without substantially altering how particular key geographical concepts are expressed in data structures. Although keystone ideas in GIScience such as Tobler's “First Law” and the modifiable areal uni…
Revisiting critical GIS
The article looks into the critical geographic information science (GIS) in approaching questions both emerging and enduring around the intersection of the spatial and the digital. It offers trading zones for discussion of issues, for building alliances and interrogating tensions, and for a constant dialectical process of critique and renewal. One tension running through critical GIS is the contradictory role it has played in addressing questions…
For geographical imagination systems
For many, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and related libraries for programming languages define the terrain of geographical computing today. But what if GIS were locales within wider realms of geographical imagination systems (gis), realms more adequate to diverse theoretical commitments of geographical thought? Examining how various thinkers in spatial theory have conceived of phenomena, space, knowledge, and their entanglements, this arti…
Towards economic geographies beyond the Nature-Society divide
Competition and the Limits of Solidarity among Unionized Construction Workers
Labor unions strive to reduce competitiveness and promote solidarity among their membership, and those in the U.S. construction industry also serve as job brokers between workers and employers. In this capacity, the attempts of unions to address the temporary nature of construction work through regulating the distribution of job assignments may inadvertently promote fierce competition between laborers. As workers struggle to make sense of their o…
Land in Motion
Globalization entwines human lives with distant fields and forests. In response, our approach to land is relational yet also computational. We calculate and map intricate connections among land uses and distant populations mediated by both commodity chains and capital, thereby unpacking, deepening, extending, and pluralizing recent methods estimating land footprints of commodity consumption. After constructing networks of approximately 130 millio…
A Coevolutionary Approach to the Capitalist Space Economy
What happens to technologies, firms, regional outputs, interregional accessibility, and trade when they are understood as coevolving? This paper offers a relational mathematical approach to this question, one whose embrace of disequilibrium, context, history, uncertainty, both monetary and material perspectives on economic activity, and complexity resonates productively with many qualitative theoretical approaches. I present a multiregion, multis…
Reifications in Disease Ecology 1: Demystifying Land Use Change in Pathogen Emergence
Disease ecology has the potential to help build a new society where the contradictions of our time are recognized and confronted in the pursuit of a more considered, and just, understanding of the interrelationships of organisms with the environment. Unfortunately, the discipline is facing a major dilemma as the advent of new technologies, access to remote data, and lack of engagement with the contexts where diseases emerge and are transmitted, h…
Speculative and constructively critical GIS
William Wheeler Bunge: Radical Geographer (1928-2013)
Bill Bunge was a geographer whose path was unconventional and whose transformative contributions can be difficult to bring into sharp focus using the lenses of the present. He was associated with s
For Geographical Network Analysis
Capitalism beyond Harmonious Equilibrium: Mathematics as If Human Agency Mattered
Narrating a world of flux entails moving away from equilibrium-oriented thinking toward considerations of emergence, uncertain futures, and unintended consequences. This is not the exclusive domain of the qualitative theory construction and analysis that has dominated such thinking in sociospatial theory: it is also involved in mathematical theory construction. It requires a relational approach to mathematical theory, however, that moves beyond u…
Getting Ghost: Two Young Lives and the Struggle for the Soul of an American City
Competition and the Limits of Solidarity among Unionized Construction Workers
Labor unions strive to reduce competitiveness and promote solidarity among their membership, and those in the U.S. construction industry also serve as job brokers between workers and employers. In this capacity, the attempts of unions to address the temporary nature of construction work through regulating the distribution of job assignments may inadvertently promote fierce competition between laborers. As workers struggle to make sense of their o…
Legislating Clinical Practice: Counselor Responses to an Evidence-Based Practice Mandate
The demand to connect research findings with clinical practice for patients with substance use disorders has accelerated state and federal efforts focused on implementation of evidence-based practices (EBPs). One unique state driven strategy is Oregon's Evidence-Based Practice mandate, which ties state funds to specific treatment practices. Clinicians play an essential role in implementation of shifts in practice patterns and use of EBPs, but lit…
A Coevolutionary Approach to the Capitalist Space Economy
What happens to technologies, firms, regional outputs, interregional accessibility, and trade when they are understood as coevolving? This paper offers a relational mathematical approach to this question, one whose embrace of disequilibrium, context, history, uncertainty, both monetary and material perspectives on economic activity, and complexity resonates productively with many qualitative theoretical approaches. I present a multiregion, multis…
Like Swallowing a Butcher Knife: Layoffs, Masculinity, and Couple Conflict in the United States Construction Industry
Many construction workers face periods of layoff due to the seasonal nature of the industry, economic fluctuations in the building trades, and the fact that construction jobs tend to be of limited duration. Because this occupation is socially marked as masculine, male and female workers' emotional response to unemployment is likewise expressed in highly gendered terms, which can negatively impact family life. Based on research with unionized buil…
Bound by Chains of Carbon: Ecological–Economic Geographies of Globalization
In an era of globalization, how are we to associate carbon emissions with particular places or peoples? Contemporary environmental science and policy often debate between assigning emissions to the territories where they are emitted and assigning emissions to the consumers they ultimately benefit. In this article, I employ a postpositivist, relational approach to construct a broader set of quantitative perspectives, each of which takes a differen…
The dawn of Structural One Health: A new science tracking disease emergence along circuits of capital
Towards economic geographies beyond the Nature-Society divide
Toward speculative data: "Geographic information" for situated knowledges, vibrant matter, and relational spaces
This essay offers paths for scholars influenced by the critical social sciences and theoretical humanities to contribute to the construction of concepts and digital practices of "data" that will allow "data" to better align with their approaches to scholarly inquiry. In particular, it explores how "geographic information" might be refashioned, rereading it from simplified theoretical positions drawn from interpretative inquiry, process-relational…
Revisiting critical GIS
The article looks into the critical geographic information science (GIS) in approaching questions both emerging and enduring around the intersection of the spatial and the digital. It offers trading zones for discussion of issues, for building alliances and interrogating tensions, and for a constant dialectical process of critique and renewal. One tension running through critical GIS is the contradictory role it has played in addressing questions…
Land in Motion
Globalization entwines human lives with distant fields and forests. In response, our approach to land is relational yet also computational. We calculate and map intricate connections among land uses and distant populations mediated by both commodity chains and capital, thereby unpacking, deepening, extending, and pluralizing recent methods estimating land footprints of commodity consumption. After constructing networks of approximately 130 millio…
Speculative and constructively critical GIS
Reimagining GIScience for relational spaces
A mismatch between largely absolute Newtonian models of space in GIScience and the relational spaces of critical human geography has contributed to mutual disinterest between the fields. Critical GIS has offered an intellectual critique of GIScience without substantially altering how particular key geographical concepts are expressed in data structures. Although keystone ideas in GIScience such as Tobler's “First Law” and the modifiable areal uni…
William Wheeler Bunge: Radical Geographer (1928-2013)
Bill Bunge was a geographer whose path was unconventional and whose transformative contributions can be difficult to bring into sharp focus using the lenses of the present. He was associated with s
China’s prefectural digital divide: Spatial analysis and multivariate determinants of ICT diffusion
For Geographical Network Analysis
For geographical imagination systems
For many, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and related libraries for programming languages define the terrain of geographical computing today. But what if GIS were locales within wider realms of geographical imagination systems (gis), realms more adequate to diverse theoretical commitments of geographical thought? Examining how various thinkers in spatial theory have conceived of phenomena, space, knowledge, and their entanglements, this arti…
Dominant Modes of Agricultural Production Helped Structure Initial Covid-19 Spread in the U.S. Midwest
The spread of COVID-19 is geographically uneven in agricultural regions. Explanations proposed include differences in occupational risks, access to healthcare, racial inequalities, and approaches to public health. Here, we additionally explore the impacts of coexisting modes of agricultural production across counties from twelve midwestern U.S. states. In modeling COVID-19 spread before vaccine authorization, we employed and extended spatial stat…
Drug checking in the fentanyl era: Utilization and interest among people who inject drugs in San Diego, California
Our findings highlight low rates of DCS awareness and utilization, inequities by race/ethnicity and housing situation, high interest in advanced spectrometry DCS versus FTS, and the potential role of SSPs in improving access to DCS, especially among racial/ethnic minorities
Reifications in Disease Ecology 2: Towards a Decolonized Pedagogy Enabling Science by, and for, the People
In the second half of this essay about reifications in disease ecology, drawing upon our experience, we propose ideas and practices for invigorating a disease ecology by, and for, the people, guided by pedagogical principles and experiences that do not separate subjects and objects of study into roles and categories. Rather, we envision a disease ecology that seeks to understand relations, processes and contexts driving complex ecological phenome…
Reifications in Disease Ecology 1: Demystifying Land Use Change in Pathogen Emergence
Disease ecology has the potential to help build a new society where the contradictions of our time are recognized and confronted in the pursuit of a more considered, and just, understanding of the interrelationships of organisms with the environment. Unfortunately, the discipline is facing a major dilemma as the advent of new technologies, access to remote data, and lack of engagement with the contexts where diseases emerge and are transmitted, h…
Geographically empowering the marginalized
The maverick American geographer William Wheeler Bunge (1928–2013) was never allowed to keep any academic job he had. Nevertheless, he made a series of seminal contributions to Geography over a 30-year period. A long-time communist, he was centrally concerned with society’s marginalized, using geographical methods and techniques to empower them, to improve their lot. He believed Geography was an instrument, a means, to better the world, and he di…
Sociology (16 works) · Geography (13 works) · Political science (10 works) · Economic geography (8 works) · Economics (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Geographic Information Systems Studies (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Economic system (5 works)