Ken Foote
Biographic Data
| ID | 1686572 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ken Foote |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ken |
| FAMILY NAME | Foote |
| SIGNATURE | FOOTE K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Colorado Boulder |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4054-6553 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 209 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Fostering Harassment-Free Geography Departments: Proactive Strategies for Departments and Their Leaders
Non-tenure track faculty in U.S. geography: Strategies for support
Robert E. Lee at West Point: Contested Landscapes and Legacies of the Civil War
The U.S. is currently experiencing an unparalleled transformation of its commemorative landscapes. Statues and memorials that have stood for decades are being removed. In particular, memorials associated with the Confederacy from the American Civil War are being addressed. The case of commemoration of Confederate General Robert E. Lee at the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, New York, offers a unique perspective on the difficulties of untangling…
Police Torture in Chicago: Theorizing Violence and Social Justice in a Racialized City
Harvey's Social Justice and the City was published just as a major case of social injustice was unfolding on Chicago's South Side. Starting in the early 1970s and continuing for almost twenty years, police officers under Detective Jon Burge tortured confessions from as many as 200 black men. We use the contrast between Social Justice and the City and the Chicago police torture cases to emphasize the work that geographers have accomplished since t…
Museum/space/discourse: Analyzing discourse in three dimensions in Denver's History Colorado Center
Museums have recently gained attention from cultural geographers as important sites of cultural production and reproduction. Within this growing field of 'museum geographies', we focus on how discourses are arranged in the three-dimensional spaces of galleries and exhibits. We argue that the spatial arrangement of text, media, and artifacts shape narrative storylines and suggest sequences, connections, progressions, and pathways within and betwee…
Rest in Peace? Burial on Private Land
This chapter explores the ways in which Maxwell Fry's ideas on crematorium design and what he called 'an anatomy of mourning'. An anatomy of mourning embodied at Coychurch by means of architectural space, the formalist language of Modernism and the elements of delay and distance in order to make people participate more closely in the cremation service through the design of the building and its approaches. In order to evaluate Fry's remarkable ach…
On the Edge of Memory: Uneasy Legacies of Dissent, Terror, and Violence in the American Landscape
Objective The Oklahoma City bombing of 1995 has had a major impact on public memory and commemoration in the United States. My aim here is to set this bombing in the broader context of how other events of violence and terror have been remembered. Method That many of the examples I mention are now largely forgotten speaks to their equivocal meanings and their relatively faint imprint on the American landscape. Using a comparative case‐study method…
Rethinking the PhD in geography: Overview and introduction
Rethinking Postgraduate Geography Education in the USA: Issues and Concerns
Postgraduate geography education in the USA is growing and changing. In recent years, the number of postgraduate programs has increased at both the doctoral and master's levels. Interest in improving and reforming doctoral education has increased dramatically both inside and outside geography, and geography has been involved in these reforms. Master's programs in the USA face somewhat different concerns. One difference is that, in some respects, …
Rethinking Postgraduate Education in Geography: International Perspectives on Improving Practice
This symposium brings together multi-national assessments of the current state of and challenges facing postgraduate education in geography. Contributors from Europe, Australia, South Africa and the USA identify ways in which restructuring of educational systems and wider political contexts affect programmes within the field. While highlighting the implications of initiatives such as restructuring of degrees in European universities, merging of G…
Creating a community of support for graduate students and early career academics
This paper focuses on strategies for enhancing the preparation of geographers moving into academic careers. Based on research and experience gained from the Geography Faculty Development Alliance and Enhancing Departments and Graduate Education in geography projects, several suggestions for improved practice are detailed. These move beyond self-help models and argue for a systematic, community-based approach to professional development. Reasons f…
Hungary after 1989: Inscribing a New Past on Place
Since the fall of the Communist government in 1989, Hungary's political monuments and historical shrines have undergone great change. Although popular attention focused on the removal of overtly political monuments, new shrines were also created, and forgotten memorials were restored. In a departure from earlier political eras, decisions about contested places are issuing from local authorities and private citizens, rather than from the central g…
Historical space as narrative medium: On the configuration of spatial narratives of time at historical sites
Foreign-born Scholars in US Universities: Issues, Concerns, and Strategies
This symposium focuses on foreign-born geographers pursuing careers in US colleges and universities. Though foreign-born scholars make up a significant portion of the US geography professoriate, little is known about their experiences, the cultural problems and legal issues they confront in the US, and policy and institutional changes that might be implemented to support them. These papers address some of these challenges—particularly in American…
Concerns, Attitudes and Abilities of Early-career Geography Faculty’: Research Context and Future Directions
We would like to thank the judges of the JGHE for this award. We are honored to be selected, particularly in light of the quality of the other papers nominated for this year's competition as well a
Concerns, Attitudes, and Abilities of Early-Career Geography Faculty
Professional experiences during graduate school through the first few years of an academic appointment shape patterns of work and social behavior that prefigure the long-term success of new faculty members, including prospects for tenure and promotion. We explore these experiences through interviews and surveys with a sample of early-career faculty in postsecondary American geography. Our analysis reveals that teaching is the primary source of an…
Concerns, Attitudes, and Abilities of Early‐Career Geography Faculty
Professional experiences during graduate school through the first few years of an academic appointment shape patterns of work and social behavior that prefigure the long‐term success of new faculty members, including prospects for tenure and promotion. We explore these experiences through interviews and surveys with a sample of early‐career faculty in postsecondary American geography. Our analysis reveals that teaching is the primary source of an…
Shadowed Ground: America’s Landscapes of Violence and Tragedy
Shadowed Ground explores how and why Americans have memorialized—or not—the sites of tragic and violent events spanning three centuries of history and every region of the country. For this revised edition, Kenneth Foote has written a new concluding chapter that looks at the evolving responses to recent acts of violence and terror, including the destruction of the Branch Davidian compound at Waco, Texas, the Oklahoma City bombing, the Columbine Hi…
Semiotik / Semiotics, Part 3
The Unfinished Bombing: Oklahoma City in American Memory Edward T. Linenthal
Cultivating Student Research and Study Skills in Web-based Learning Environments
The use of Web-based learning environments involves cultivating new types of study and research skills among students. Students must be able to find authoritative sources efficiently, evaluate the quality of documents thoroughly, and use and cite materials properly. Students may also need guidance in what constitutes appropriate conduct in respect of the Internet and Web. They need to understand the difference between citing a source and plagiari…
From Cheltenham to Honolulu: The purposes and projects of the International Network for Learning and Teaching (INLT) in geography in higher education
A variety of challenges and opportunities associated with educational change, technological shifts and resource limitations make appropriate an international network for geography education. Such a network was established formally in Hawai'i during April 1999 under the name International Network for Learning and Teaching (INLT) Geography in Higher Education. INLT has the goal of improving the quality of learning and teaching of geography in highe…
Re-Reading Cultural Geography
Re-Reading Cultural Geography
Mapping the Past: A Survey of Microcomputer Cartography
Hungary after 1989: Inscribing a New Past on Place
Since the fall of the Communist government in 1989, Hungary's political monuments and historical shrines have undergone great change. Although popular attention focused on the removal of overtly political monuments, new shrines were also created, and forgotten memorials were restored. In a departure from earlier political eras, decisions about contested places are issuing from local authorities and private citizens, rather than from the central g…
Historical space as narrative medium: On the configuration of spatial narratives of time at historical sites
Foreign-born Scholars in US Universities: Issues, Concerns, and Strategies
This symposium focuses on foreign-born geographers pursuing careers in US colleges and universities. Though foreign-born scholars make up a significant portion of the US geography professoriate, little is known about their experiences, the cultural problems and legal issues they confront in the US, and policy and institutional changes that might be implemented to support them. These papers address some of these challenges—particularly in American…
Museum/space/discourse: Analyzing discourse in three dimensions in Denver's History Colorado Center
Museums have recently gained attention from cultural geographers as important sites of cultural production and reproduction. Within this growing field of 'museum geographies', we focus on how discourses are arranged in the three-dimensional spaces of galleries and exhibits. We argue that the spatial arrangement of text, media, and artifacts shape narrative storylines and suggest sequences, connections, progressions, and pathways within and betwee…
From Cheltenham to Honolulu: The purposes and projects of the International Network for Learning and Teaching (INLT) in geography in higher education
A variety of challenges and opportunities associated with educational change, technological shifts and resource limitations make appropriate an international network for geography education. Such a network was established formally in Hawai'i during April 1999 under the name International Network for Learning and Teaching (INLT) Geography in Higher Education. INLT has the goal of improving the quality of learning and teaching of geography in highe…
Re-Reading Cultural Geography
The City and the Sign: An Introduction to Urban Semiotics
1988). The City and the Sign: An Introduction to Urban Semiotics. Economic Geography: Vol. 64, No. 1, pp. 77-80
Police Torture in Chicago: Theorizing Violence and Social Justice in a Racialized City
Harvey's Social Justice and the City was published just as a major case of social injustice was unfolding on Chicago's South Side. Starting in the early 1970s and continuing for almost twenty years, police officers under Detective Jon Burge tortured confessions from as many as 200 black men. We use the contrast between Social Justice and the City and the Chicago police torture cases to emphasize the work that geographers have accomplished since t…
Velocities of Change of a Built Environment, 1880–1980 Evidence From the Photoarchives of Austin, Texas
Velocity of change is introduced as a measure of the dynamism of the built environment relevant to the relationship of cultural process and built form. Whereas previous studies have addressed, implicitly, velocity of change for particular urban processes, this paper attempts to develop methods for evaluating broad sections of the built environment based on the transcription and comparison of photographs available from archival and contemporary co…
Rethinking the PhD in geography: Overview and introduction
Concerns, Attitudes, and Abilities of Early‐Career Geography Faculty
Professional experiences during graduate school through the first few years of an academic appointment shape patterns of work and social behavior that prefigure the long‐term success of new faculty members, including prospects for tenure and promotion. We explore these experiences through interviews and surveys with a sample of early‐career faculty in postsecondary American geography. Our analysis reveals that teaching is the primary source of an…
Creating a community of support for graduate students and early career academics
This paper focuses on strategies for enhancing the preparation of geographers moving into academic careers. Based on research and experience gained from the Geography Faculty Development Alliance and Enhancing Departments and Graduate Education in geography projects, several suggestions for improved practice are detailed. These move beyond self-help models and argue for a systematic, community-based approach to professional development. Reasons f…
Rethinking Postgraduate Education in Geography: International Perspectives on Improving Practice
This symposium brings together multi-national assessments of the current state of and challenges facing postgraduate education in geography. Contributors from Europe, Australia, South Africa and the USA identify ways in which restructuring of educational systems and wider political contexts affect programmes within the field. While highlighting the implications of initiatives such as restructuring of degrees in European universities, merging of G…
Concerns, Attitudes, and Abilities of Early-Career Geography Faculty
Professional experiences during graduate school through the first few years of an academic appointment shape patterns of work and social behavior that prefigure the long-term success of new faculty members, including prospects for tenure and promotion. We explore these experiences through interviews and surveys with a sample of early-career faculty in postsecondary American geography. Our analysis reveals that teaching is the primary source of an…
Re-Reading Cultural Geography
Documentary Photography and Questions of Urban Change
Rethinking Postgraduate Geography Education in the USA: Issues and Concerns
Postgraduate geography education in the USA is growing and changing. In recent years, the number of postgraduate programs has increased at both the doctoral and master's levels. Interest in improving and reforming doctoral education has increased dramatically both inside and outside geography, and geography has been involved in these reforms. Master's programs in the USA face somewhat different concerns. One difference is that, in some respects, …
Concerns, Attitudes and Abilities of Early-career Geography Faculty’: Research Context and Future Directions
We would like to thank the judges of the JGHE for this award. We are honored to be selected, particularly in light of the quality of the other papers nominated for this year's competition as well a
Cultivating Student Research and Study Skills in Web-based Learning Environments
The use of Web-based learning environments involves cultivating new types of study and research skills among students. Students must be able to find authoritative sources efficiently, evaluate the quality of documents thoroughly, and use and cite materials properly. Students may also need guidance in what constitutes appropriate conduct in respect of the Internet and Web. They need to understand the difference between citing a source and plagiari…
Velocities of Change of a Built Environment, 1880–1980 Evidence From the Photoarchives of Austin, Texas
Velocity of change is introduced as a measure of the dynamism of the built environment relevant to the relationship of cultural process and built form. Whereas previous studies have addressed, implicitly, velocity of change for particular urban processes, this paper attempts to develop methods for evaluating broad sections of the built environment based on the transcription and comparison of photographs available from archival and contemporary co…
Documentary Photography and Questions of Urban Change
Relics of old London: Photographs of a changing Victorian City
The Victorian era was a period of tremendous growth and change. The cities of the era, as precursors of today's, have attracted much attention because they seem capable of .deepening understanding of the dynamics of urban social and morphological change.1 Study of these cities also lends insight into Victorian society's perceptions and responses to rapid change, attitudes which were held in tension between excitement about progress and alarm over…
Object as memory: The material foundations of human semiosis
The City and the Sign: An Introduction to Urban Semiotics
1988). The City and the Sign: An Introduction to Urban Semiotics. Economic Geography: Vol. 64, No. 1, pp. 77-80
Mapping the Past: A Survey of Microcomputer Cartography
Re-Reading Cultural Geography
Re-Reading Cultural Geography
Cultivating Student Research and Study Skills in Web-based Learning Environments
The use of Web-based learning environments involves cultivating new types of study and research skills among students. Students must be able to find authoritative sources efficiently, evaluate the quality of documents thoroughly, and use and cite materials properly. Students may also need guidance in what constitutes appropriate conduct in respect of the Internet and Web. They need to understand the difference between citing a source and plagiari…
From Cheltenham to Honolulu: The purposes and projects of the International Network for Learning and Teaching (INLT) in geography in higher education
A variety of challenges and opportunities associated with educational change, technological shifts and resource limitations make appropriate an international network for geography education. Such a network was established formally in Hawai'i during April 1999 under the name International Network for Learning and Teaching (INLT) Geography in Higher Education. INLT has the goal of improving the quality of learning and teaching of geography in highe…
Shadowed Ground: America’s Landscapes of Violence and Tragedy
Shadowed Ground explores how and why Americans have memorialized—or not—the sites of tragic and violent events spanning three centuries of history and every region of the country. For this revised edition, Kenneth Foote has written a new concluding chapter that looks at the evolving responses to recent acts of violence and terror, including the destruction of the Branch Davidian compound at Waco, Texas, the Oklahoma City bombing, the Columbine Hi…
Semiotik / Semiotics, Part 3
The Unfinished Bombing: Oklahoma City in American Memory Edward T. Linenthal
Concerns, Attitudes, and Abilities of Early‐Career Geography Faculty
Professional experiences during graduate school through the first few years of an academic appointment shape patterns of work and social behavior that prefigure the long‐term success of new faculty members, including prospects for tenure and promotion. We explore these experiences through interviews and surveys with a sample of early‐career faculty in postsecondary American geography. Our analysis reveals that teaching is the primary source of an…
Concerns, Attitudes and Abilities of Early-career Geography Faculty’: Research Context and Future Directions
We would like to thank the judges of the JGHE for this award. We are honored to be selected, particularly in light of the quality of the other papers nominated for this year's competition as well a
Concerns, Attitudes, and Abilities of Early-Career Geography Faculty
Professional experiences during graduate school through the first few years of an academic appointment shape patterns of work and social behavior that prefigure the long-term success of new faculty members, including prospects for tenure and promotion. We explore these experiences through interviews and surveys with a sample of early-career faculty in postsecondary American geography. Our analysis reveals that teaching is the primary source of an…
Historical space as narrative medium: On the configuration of spatial narratives of time at historical sites
Foreign-born Scholars in US Universities: Issues, Concerns, and Strategies
This symposium focuses on foreign-born geographers pursuing careers in US colleges and universities. Though foreign-born scholars make up a significant portion of the US geography professoriate, little is known about their experiences, the cultural problems and legal issues they confront in the US, and policy and institutional changes that might be implemented to support them. These papers address some of these challenges—particularly in American…
Creating a community of support for graduate students and early career academics
This paper focuses on strategies for enhancing the preparation of geographers moving into academic careers. Based on research and experience gained from the Geography Faculty Development Alliance and Enhancing Departments and Graduate Education in geography projects, several suggestions for improved practice are detailed. These move beyond self-help models and argue for a systematic, community-based approach to professional development. Reasons f…
Hungary after 1989: Inscribing a New Past on Place
Since the fall of the Communist government in 1989, Hungary's political monuments and historical shrines have undergone great change. Although popular attention focused on the removal of overtly political monuments, new shrines were also created, and forgotten memorials were restored. In a departure from earlier political eras, decisions about contested places are issuing from local authorities and private citizens, rather than from the central g…
Rethinking Postgraduate Geography Education in the USA: Issues and Concerns
Postgraduate geography education in the USA is growing and changing. In recent years, the number of postgraduate programs has increased at both the doctoral and master's levels. Interest in improving and reforming doctoral education has increased dramatically both inside and outside geography, and geography has been involved in these reforms. Master's programs in the USA face somewhat different concerns. One difference is that, in some respects, …
Rethinking Postgraduate Education in Geography: International Perspectives on Improving Practice
This symposium brings together multi-national assessments of the current state of and challenges facing postgraduate education in geography. Contributors from Europe, Australia, South Africa and the USA identify ways in which restructuring of educational systems and wider political contexts affect programmes within the field. While highlighting the implications of initiatives such as restructuring of degrees in European universities, merging of G…
Rethinking the PhD in geography: Overview and introduction
Rest in Peace? Burial on Private Land
This chapter explores the ways in which Maxwell Fry's ideas on crematorium design and what he called 'an anatomy of mourning'. An anatomy of mourning embodied at Coychurch by means of architectural space, the formalist language of Modernism and the elements of delay and distance in order to make people participate more closely in the cremation service through the design of the building and its approaches. In order to evaluate Fry's remarkable ach…
On the Edge of Memory: Uneasy Legacies of Dissent, Terror, and Violence in the American Landscape
Objective The Oklahoma City bombing of 1995 has had a major impact on public memory and commemoration in the United States. My aim here is to set this bombing in the broader context of how other events of violence and terror have been remembered. Method That many of the examples I mention are now largely forgotten speaks to their equivocal meanings and their relatively faint imprint on the American landscape. Using a comparative case‐study method…
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