Matt Rhodes
Biographic Data
| ID | 175090 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matt Rhodes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matt |
| FAMILY NAME | Rhodes |
| SIGNATURE | RHODES M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Michigan Technological University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1537-3515 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
D. Morgan Rees: A Welsh Industrial Archaeologist for Welsh Industrial Heritage
David Morgan Rees was one of the leading pioneers to champion the remarkable industrial heritage and archaeology of Wales, injecting a drive for industrial history, preservation and interpretation into Welsh national institutions. Rees’ advocacy led to the founding of the first society in south Wales dedicated to industrial archaeology, and he was instrumental in establishing the Welsh Industrial and Maritime Museum that opened in 1977 as the fir…
Eponyms, Heirlooms, Living Memory, and the Planty Memorialization of People
While memorialization often invokes stony landscapes of public art, named buildings, and engraved plaques, living memorials occupy parallel and intersecting memory contexts. Plants ascribe processes of memorialization into their landscapes and broader meanings. This paper explores one subsection of these planty memorializations by highlighting fruits, vegetables, and grains whose names include eponyms, or names derived from other people’s names. …
Memorial Entrepreneurship and the Political Economies of Food-Based Living Memory
All memorials emerge in place from the work of individuals with vested interests in their commemoration. Geographers have long paid attention to the intricacies and connections of memory, heritage, and commemoration; however, not all memorials take the form of a street sign, statue, or building name. The increasing use of living memorials, such as survivor trees, gardens, and heirloom plants complicate existing understandings of the political eco…
A New Model for Public Participatory Engagement in Social Sciences and Spatial Humanities Digital Mapping Projects
Scholars in the social sciences and spatial humanities have developed a robust body of scholarship touting the benefits for the public and researchers alike in engaging with mapping projects, especially using public participatory geographical information systems (PPGIS) approaches. Developing robust and sustainable engagement from community stakeholders has been a continual challenge, however. Scholars have promoted many different public outreach…
Managing the Imagined Spatialities of Protected Sites: (Un)Bounding Industrial World Heritage via Mental Maps
Heritage sites often rely on defined boundaries for the management and interpretation of heritage discourse. Just as communities, regions, and nations can use space for defining, othering, and legitimizing, so, too, do heritage managers. Although heritage sites are (b)ordered—similar to communities and nations—we can also follow a path whereby a fuzzy understanding of these spatial boundaries dominates a heritage designation, highlighting the dia…
Unesco, mining heritage and the scalar sustainability of tourism geographies at industrial World Heritage Sites
Purpose Industrial heritage works within a world of contradictions, contentions and scalar liminality. Archaeologists and historians focus upon oral histories and discourses of tangible and intangible memory and heritage while planners and economists see industrial World Heritage, in particular, as a marketing ploy to redevelop deindustrialized spaces. Within this liminality, we explore the potential for geographical perspectives to solder such c…
Dwelling with sustainable pedagogy aboard Amtrak: Pathways for transdisciplinary and affective general education
Intersecting pressures within higher education ask geographers to be ever-more applied, global, community-engaged, field-based, and sustainable. Particularly within the liberal arts education systems, we navigate these pressures for both students seeking geography degrees and those completing their general education. While aspirational if often economically driven, these goals are in some ways contradictory. How can a course be both field and com…
National Museum Wales and the scalar bureaucracies of institutional memory work
A nation built on coal: Transcalar memory work at the Big Pit
Welsh and coal heritage may seem synonymous in the context of Welsh identities. One of seven national museums, Big Pit and its associated memory work reflect and shape the intertwined dynamic discourses of Wales and coal for visitors. We explore these discourses through a mixed methodology, highlighting the changing and transcalar nature of Wales itself, particularly the devolution of the tourism, heritage, and culture sector in 1997 from the UK …
Navigating STEMification for critical geography educators: Finding leverage in classroom and institutional pedagogies
This paper grapples with the challenges posed to critical geography educators by STEMification, or the enshrinement of market-oriented forms of science and technology education as the normative ideal for education in general. In both reactionary and progressive contexts, STEMification decontextualizes scientific and technological activity and deepens existing hierarchies of knowledge based on quantification, perceived scientific rigour, commercia…
More-than-human heritage: The political ecologies of the Paul Robeson tomato
Paul Robeson's global memorialization poorly represents the extent to which the famous African American activist, actor, athlete, singer, and scholar impacted international culture and politics. Robeson's memorials, while few and far between, particularly in the United States, reside primarily within college campuses and theatrical and musical productions, alongside a few more traditional plaques, works of public art, and his own work. While ther…
Coal dust in the wind: Interpreting the industrial past of South Wales
South Wales was once synonymous with coal, now among the most globally controversial natural resources due to its association with anthropogenic climate change. In the early twentieth century, Wales was the largest worldwide producer of coal, and mines employed more than ten percent of those living in the country. With rapid closure of coal mines between the 1960s and 1980s, Welsh communities lost the main source of their social and economic iden…
The Nation, the Festival, and Institutionalized Memory: Transoptic Landscapes of the Welsh National Eisteddfod
Each year the National Eisteddfod alternates between north and south Wales in a festival that consistently redefines itself and what it means to be and perform Welshness. As a publicly funded and organized national institution, the National Eisteddfod’s performances, competitions, and pavilions reflect aspects of Welsh memory and heritage through traditional poetry, dance, and music. Likewise, this space is central to the continuing evolution of …
Refraining on necropolitics: Lyrical geographies of labor music
All music takes place somewhere. While geographic analyses of lyrics have focused on the geographies of artists and/or particular places and regions of their inspiration, we see a developing opportunity to discuss music as a fundamental component of social resistance. While scholars have discussed social resistance in music as practiced by artists, such a focus has been researched less in regard to entire social movements on a certain topic. We w…
The absent presence of Paul Robeson in Wales: Appropriation and philosophical disconnects in the memorial landscape
Memorialisation of specific individuals necessitates processes of remembering and forgetting, memory work, and obfuscation. The African American Paul Robeson is considered an “honorary Welshman” and a “Welsh achiever.” How could Robeson, erased from the history books in his own country, be appropriated by popular vote as a Welsh national hero? This paper questions how Robeson’s philosophies, evident in his arts and actions, were memorialised into…
Dancing around the Subject: Memory Work of Museum Landscapes at the Welsh National Waterfront Museum
As the newest of the seven national museums in Wales, the National Waterfront Museum tells the story of Welsh industry and innovation. This article traces the construction and engagement of the museum’s fifteen galleries as performed landscapes in a detailed analysis of memory work. Focusing on the crafted discourse of the museum, visitor narratives as they experience the museum, and performances that regularly occupy the museum’s spaces presents…
Geographies of Post-Industrial Place, Memory, and Heritage
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Routledge via the DOI in this record
Music work: Traditional Cambodian music and state‐building under the Khmer Rouge
Recent scholarship has opened questions as to the everyday actions of the Khmer Rouge and those living under the regime which led to the Cambodian Genocide. Current work examines the critical cultural geographies of the Khmer Rouge: photography, poetry and music, for example. Music specifically has an interesting underpinning, as it was previously understood to be have been eradicated in the genocide as the standard narrative has us believe. This…
Exhibiting memory: Temporary, mobile, and participatory memorialization and the Let Paul Robeson Sing! exhibition
Since his first interactions with Welsh miners striking in London in 1929, Paul Robeson has been considered by some as an “honorary Welshman.” While the African American actor, athlete, activist, singer, and scholar never lived in Wales, he did have various interactions in Wales throughout his life. This special relationship persists on the memorial landscape of the country in various ways, but none as extensive as the Let Paul Robeson Sing! exhi…
Public art as public pedagogy: Memorial landscapes of the Cambodian genocide
Historical memory in the form of public art acts as a pedagogical tool, both revealing the artist’s interpretation of history and serving as a historical device for the viewer. In Cambodia, new generations are developing an understanding of the Khmer Rouge regime (1975–1979) and its effect on their country’s history. Young peoples’ understanding of history is constructed through institutional, living, and public memory pedagogies. These pedagogic…
Placing Paul Robeson in History: Understanding His Philosophical Framework
Paul Robeson is one of the greatest yet most unknown figures of the 20th century. This article goes beyond the traditional bibliographic style of documenting this great life, toward constructing a usable philosophical framework from it. Utilizing Robeson’s own works, and building on the small critical literature already in existence, I present his philosophical framework - comprised of anti-colonialism, socialism, and human rights. I present thes…
Music, Nature, Power, and Place: An Ecomusicology of Khmer Rouge Songs
Between 1975 and 1979, approximately 2 million men, women, and children died in Cambodia during the brutal regime of the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK; the Khmer Rouge). To date, much scholarship has focused on the widespread practices of torture, starvation, and execution; decidedly less attention has been directed toward the cultural or aesthetic practices of the Khmer Rouge. We maintain that this omission is exceptionally important, in tha…
Balancing Play and Formal Training in the Design of Serious Games
This article discusses the design and development of two serious games intended to train people to reduce their reliance on cognitive biases in their decision-making in less than an hour each. In our development process, we found a tension between rich and flexible experimentation and exploration experiences and robust learning experiences that ensured the lesson content was easily understood and recalled. In line with game-based learning researc…
Hip hop Ukraine: Music, race, and African migration
Hip Hop Ukraine came across my radar when it appeared on a Paul Robeson search alert, and besides the questions raised as to why a famous African-American spiritual artist would be connected to Ukr
A nation built on coal: Transcalar memory work at the Big Pit
Welsh and coal heritage may seem synonymous in the context of Welsh identities. One of seven national museums, Big Pit and its associated memory work reflect and shape the intertwined dynamic discourses of Wales and coal for visitors. We explore these discourses through a mixed methodology, highlighting the changing and transcalar nature of Wales itself, particularly the devolution of the tourism, heritage, and culture sector in 1997 from the UK …
Coal dust in the wind: Interpreting the industrial past of South Wales
South Wales was once synonymous with coal, now among the most globally controversial natural resources due to its association with anthropogenic climate change. In the early twentieth century, Wales was the largest worldwide producer of coal, and mines employed more than ten percent of those living in the country. With rapid closure of coal mines between the 1960s and 1980s, Welsh communities lost the main source of their social and economic iden…
The absent presence of Paul Robeson in Wales: Appropriation and philosophical disconnects in the memorial landscape
Memorialisation of specific individuals necessitates processes of remembering and forgetting, memory work, and obfuscation. The African American Paul Robeson is considered an “honorary Welshman” and a “Welsh achiever.” How could Robeson, erased from the history books in his own country, be appropriated by popular vote as a Welsh national hero? This paper questions how Robeson’s philosophies, evident in his arts and actions, were memorialised into…
The Nation, the Festival, and Institutionalized Memory: Transoptic Landscapes of the Welsh National Eisteddfod
Each year the National Eisteddfod alternates between north and south Wales in a festival that consistently redefines itself and what it means to be and perform Welshness. As a publicly funded and organized national institution, the National Eisteddfod’s performances, competitions, and pavilions reflect aspects of Welsh memory and heritage through traditional poetry, dance, and music. Likewise, this space is central to the continuing evolution of …
Dancing around the Subject: Memory Work of Museum Landscapes at the Welsh National Waterfront Museum
As the newest of the seven national museums in Wales, the National Waterfront Museum tells the story of Welsh industry and innovation. This article traces the construction and engagement of the museum’s fifteen galleries as performed landscapes in a detailed analysis of memory work. Focusing on the crafted discourse of the museum, visitor narratives as they experience the museum, and performances that regularly occupy the museum’s spaces presents…
Public art as public pedagogy: Memorial landscapes of the Cambodian genocide
Historical memory in the form of public art acts as a pedagogical tool, both revealing the artist’s interpretation of history and serving as a historical device for the viewer. In Cambodia, new generations are developing an understanding of the Khmer Rouge regime (1975–1979) and its effect on their country’s history. Young peoples’ understanding of history is constructed through institutional, living, and public memory pedagogies. These pedagogic…
Memorial Entrepreneurship and the Political Economies of Food-Based Living Memory
All memorials emerge in place from the work of individuals with vested interests in their commemoration. Geographers have long paid attention to the intricacies and connections of memory, heritage, and commemoration; however, not all memorials take the form of a street sign, statue, or building name. The increasing use of living memorials, such as survivor trees, gardens, and heirloom plants complicate existing understandings of the political eco…
Exhibiting memory: Temporary, mobile, and participatory memorialization and the Let Paul Robeson Sing! exhibition
Since his first interactions with Welsh miners striking in London in 1929, Paul Robeson has been considered by some as an “honorary Welshman.” While the African American actor, athlete, activist, singer, and scholar never lived in Wales, he did have various interactions in Wales throughout his life. This special relationship persists on the memorial landscape of the country in various ways, but none as extensive as the Let Paul Robeson Sing! exhi…
Music, Nature, Power, and Place: An Ecomusicology of Khmer Rouge Songs
Between 1975 and 1979, approximately 2 million men, women, and children died in Cambodia during the brutal regime of the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK; the Khmer Rouge). To date, much scholarship has focused on the widespread practices of torture, starvation, and execution; decidedly less attention has been directed toward the cultural or aesthetic practices of the Khmer Rouge. We maintain that this omission is exceptionally important, in tha…
A New Model for Public Participatory Engagement in Social Sciences and Spatial Humanities Digital Mapping Projects
Scholars in the social sciences and spatial humanities have developed a robust body of scholarship touting the benefits for the public and researchers alike in engaging with mapping projects, especially using public participatory geographical information systems (PPGIS) approaches. Developing robust and sustainable engagement from community stakeholders has been a continual challenge, however. Scholars have promoted many different public outreach…
National Museum Wales and the scalar bureaucracies of institutional memory work
Navigating STEMification for critical geography educators: Finding leverage in classroom and institutional pedagogies
This paper grapples with the challenges posed to critical geography educators by STEMification, or the enshrinement of market-oriented forms of science and technology education as the normative ideal for education in general. In both reactionary and progressive contexts, STEMification decontextualizes scientific and technological activity and deepens existing hierarchies of knowledge based on quantification, perceived scientific rigour, commercia…
More-than-human heritage: The political ecologies of the Paul Robeson tomato
Paul Robeson's global memorialization poorly represents the extent to which the famous African American activist, actor, athlete, singer, and scholar impacted international culture and politics. Robeson's memorials, while few and far between, particularly in the United States, reside primarily within college campuses and theatrical and musical productions, alongside a few more traditional plaques, works of public art, and his own work. While ther…
Refraining on necropolitics: Lyrical geographies of labor music
All music takes place somewhere. While geographic analyses of lyrics have focused on the geographies of artists and/or particular places and regions of their inspiration, we see a developing opportunity to discuss music as a fundamental component of social resistance. While scholars have discussed social resistance in music as practiced by artists, such a focus has been researched less in regard to entire social movements on a certain topic. We w…
Hip hop Ukraine: Music, race, and African migration
Hip Hop Ukraine came across my radar when it appeared on a Paul Robeson search alert, and besides the questions raised as to why a famous African-American spiritual artist would be connected to Ukr
Placing Paul Robeson in History: Understanding His Philosophical Framework
Paul Robeson is one of the greatest yet most unknown figures of the 20th century. This article goes beyond the traditional bibliographic style of documenting this great life, toward constructing a usable philosophical framework from it. Utilizing Robeson’s own works, and building on the small critical literature already in existence, I present his philosophical framework - comprised of anti-colonialism, socialism, and human rights. I present thes…
Music, Nature, Power, and Place: An Ecomusicology of Khmer Rouge Songs
Between 1975 and 1979, approximately 2 million men, women, and children died in Cambodia during the brutal regime of the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK; the Khmer Rouge). To date, much scholarship has focused on the widespread practices of torture, starvation, and execution; decidedly less attention has been directed toward the cultural or aesthetic practices of the Khmer Rouge. We maintain that this omission is exceptionally important, in tha…
Balancing Play and Formal Training in the Design of Serious Games
This article discusses the design and development of two serious games intended to train people to reduce their reliance on cognitive biases in their decision-making in less than an hour each. In our development process, we found a tension between rich and flexible experimentation and exploration experiences and robust learning experiences that ensured the lesson content was easily understood and recalled. In line with game-based learning researc…
Hip hop Ukraine: Music, race, and African migration
Hip Hop Ukraine came across my radar when it appeared on a Paul Robeson search alert, and besides the questions raised as to why a famous African-American spiritual artist would be connected to Ukr
Exhibiting memory: Temporary, mobile, and participatory memorialization and the Let Paul Robeson Sing! exhibition
Since his first interactions with Welsh miners striking in London in 1929, Paul Robeson has been considered by some as an “honorary Welshman.” While the African American actor, athlete, activist, singer, and scholar never lived in Wales, he did have various interactions in Wales throughout his life. This special relationship persists on the memorial landscape of the country in various ways, but none as extensive as the Let Paul Robeson Sing! exhi…
Public art as public pedagogy: Memorial landscapes of the Cambodian genocide
Historical memory in the form of public art acts as a pedagogical tool, both revealing the artist’s interpretation of history and serving as a historical device for the viewer. In Cambodia, new generations are developing an understanding of the Khmer Rouge regime (1975–1979) and its effect on their country’s history. Young peoples’ understanding of history is constructed through institutional, living, and public memory pedagogies. These pedagogic…
Geographies of Post-Industrial Place, Memory, and Heritage
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Routledge via the DOI in this record
Music work: Traditional Cambodian music and state‐building under the Khmer Rouge
Recent scholarship has opened questions as to the everyday actions of the Khmer Rouge and those living under the regime which led to the Cambodian Genocide. Current work examines the critical cultural geographies of the Khmer Rouge: photography, poetry and music, for example. Music specifically has an interesting underpinning, as it was previously understood to be have been eradicated in the genocide as the standard narrative has us believe. This…
The Nation, the Festival, and Institutionalized Memory: Transoptic Landscapes of the Welsh National Eisteddfod
Each year the National Eisteddfod alternates between north and south Wales in a festival that consistently redefines itself and what it means to be and perform Welshness. As a publicly funded and organized national institution, the National Eisteddfod’s performances, competitions, and pavilions reflect aspects of Welsh memory and heritage through traditional poetry, dance, and music. Likewise, this space is central to the continuing evolution of …
Refraining on necropolitics: Lyrical geographies of labor music
All music takes place somewhere. While geographic analyses of lyrics have focused on the geographies of artists and/or particular places and regions of their inspiration, we see a developing opportunity to discuss music as a fundamental component of social resistance. While scholars have discussed social resistance in music as practiced by artists, such a focus has been researched less in regard to entire social movements on a certain topic. We w…
The absent presence of Paul Robeson in Wales: Appropriation and philosophical disconnects in the memorial landscape
Memorialisation of specific individuals necessitates processes of remembering and forgetting, memory work, and obfuscation. The African American Paul Robeson is considered an “honorary Welshman” and a “Welsh achiever.” How could Robeson, erased from the history books in his own country, be appropriated by popular vote as a Welsh national hero? This paper questions how Robeson’s philosophies, evident in his arts and actions, were memorialised into…
Dancing around the Subject: Memory Work of Museum Landscapes at the Welsh National Waterfront Museum
As the newest of the seven national museums in Wales, the National Waterfront Museum tells the story of Welsh industry and innovation. This article traces the construction and engagement of the museum’s fifteen galleries as performed landscapes in a detailed analysis of memory work. Focusing on the crafted discourse of the museum, visitor narratives as they experience the museum, and performances that regularly occupy the museum’s spaces presents…
Coal dust in the wind: Interpreting the industrial past of South Wales
South Wales was once synonymous with coal, now among the most globally controversial natural resources due to its association with anthropogenic climate change. In the early twentieth century, Wales was the largest worldwide producer of coal, and mines employed more than ten percent of those living in the country. With rapid closure of coal mines between the 1960s and 1980s, Welsh communities lost the main source of their social and economic iden…
Navigating STEMification for critical geography educators: Finding leverage in classroom and institutional pedagogies
This paper grapples with the challenges posed to critical geography educators by STEMification, or the enshrinement of market-oriented forms of science and technology education as the normative ideal for education in general. In both reactionary and progressive contexts, STEMification decontextualizes scientific and technological activity and deepens existing hierarchies of knowledge based on quantification, perceived scientific rigour, commercia…
More-than-human heritage: The political ecologies of the Paul Robeson tomato
Paul Robeson's global memorialization poorly represents the extent to which the famous African American activist, actor, athlete, singer, and scholar impacted international culture and politics. Robeson's memorials, while few and far between, particularly in the United States, reside primarily within college campuses and theatrical and musical productions, alongside a few more traditional plaques, works of public art, and his own work. While ther…
Unesco, mining heritage and the scalar sustainability of tourism geographies at industrial World Heritage Sites
Purpose Industrial heritage works within a world of contradictions, contentions and scalar liminality. Archaeologists and historians focus upon oral histories and discourses of tangible and intangible memory and heritage while planners and economists see industrial World Heritage, in particular, as a marketing ploy to redevelop deindustrialized spaces. Within this liminality, we explore the potential for geographical perspectives to solder such c…
Dwelling with sustainable pedagogy aboard Amtrak: Pathways for transdisciplinary and affective general education
Intersecting pressures within higher education ask geographers to be ever-more applied, global, community-engaged, field-based, and sustainable. Particularly within the liberal arts education systems, we navigate these pressures for both students seeking geography degrees and those completing their general education. While aspirational if often economically driven, these goals are in some ways contradictory. How can a course be both field and com…
National Museum Wales and the scalar bureaucracies of institutional memory work
A nation built on coal: Transcalar memory work at the Big Pit
Welsh and coal heritage may seem synonymous in the context of Welsh identities. One of seven national museums, Big Pit and its associated memory work reflect and shape the intertwined dynamic discourses of Wales and coal for visitors. We explore these discourses through a mixed methodology, highlighting the changing and transcalar nature of Wales itself, particularly the devolution of the tourism, heritage, and culture sector in 1997 from the UK …
Eponyms, Heirlooms, Living Memory, and the Planty Memorialization of People
While memorialization often invokes stony landscapes of public art, named buildings, and engraved plaques, living memorials occupy parallel and intersecting memory contexts. Plants ascribe processes of memorialization into their landscapes and broader meanings. This paper explores one subsection of these planty memorializations by highlighting fruits, vegetables, and grains whose names include eponyms, or names derived from other people’s names. …
Memorial Entrepreneurship and the Political Economies of Food-Based Living Memory
All memorials emerge in place from the work of individuals with vested interests in their commemoration. Geographers have long paid attention to the intricacies and connections of memory, heritage, and commemoration; however, not all memorials take the form of a street sign, statue, or building name. The increasing use of living memorials, such as survivor trees, gardens, and heirloom plants complicate existing understandings of the political eco…
A New Model for Public Participatory Engagement in Social Sciences and Spatial Humanities Digital Mapping Projects
Scholars in the social sciences and spatial humanities have developed a robust body of scholarship touting the benefits for the public and researchers alike in engaging with mapping projects, especially using public participatory geographical information systems (PPGIS) approaches. Developing robust and sustainable engagement from community stakeholders has been a continual challenge, however. Scholars have promoted many different public outreach…
Managing the Imagined Spatialities of Protected Sites: (Un)Bounding Industrial World Heritage via Mental Maps
Heritage sites often rely on defined boundaries for the management and interpretation of heritage discourse. Just as communities, regions, and nations can use space for defining, othering, and legitimizing, so, too, do heritage managers. Although heritage sites are (b)ordered—similar to communities and nations—we can also follow a path whereby a fuzzy understanding of these spatial boundaries dominates a heritage designation, highlighting the dia…
D. Morgan Rees: A Welsh Industrial Archaeologist for Welsh Industrial Heritage
David Morgan Rees was one of the leading pioneers to champion the remarkable industrial heritage and archaeology of Wales, injecting a drive for industrial history, preservation and interpretation into Welsh national institutions. Rees’ advocacy led to the founding of the first society in south Wales dedicated to industrial archaeology, and he was instrumental in establishing the Welsh Industrial and Maritime Museum that opened in 1977 as the fir…
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