Laurel C Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 3692612 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laurel C Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laurel C |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH L C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oklahoma |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6151-7869 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Understanding urban expansion across primary and secondary cities in Ghana
The sprawl to infill ratio in secondary cities was higher than in primary cities. • Multiple factors influence sprawl and infill expansion. • More diverse land allocation regimes influence the faster expansion of secondary cities. • Urban expansion in cities reflects the aims and rationalities of the powerful stakeholders
Building A Fire: The Geographies Of Community Geography
This paper contributes to scholarly conversations about how to (not) define community in community geography (CG). We draw on Annemarie Mol and John Law's formulation of a fire topology to reflect on CG research spearheaded by a community-based environmental organization concerned with industrial contamination in northeastern Oklahoma. To explore how, where, and why we came together around a multimedia storytelling initiative aligned with the geo…
Charting Your Path to Full: A Guide for Women Associate Professors
Retracted Article: Representing transborder communities: Yolanda Cruz and Reencuentros
Our examination of the documentary film Reencuentros: 2501 migrantes (translated as 2501 Migrants: A Journey) contributes to scholarship connecting film geographies to critical geopolitics, accounting for affect, and attending to documentary films. We augment this literature with the concepts of Indigenous geopolitics and decolonial affect. After an abridged introduction to Yolanda Cruz, the Chatina filmmaker from Oaxaca, Mexico who made Reencuen…
Indigenous Media and Postcolonial Pedagogy
Decolonizing hybridity: Indigenous Video, Knowledge, and Diffraction
This article examines the hybrid cultural geographies of indigenous video with Donna Haraway's visual strategy of diffraction. Drawing on ethnographic inquiry, one particular video is explored from three different perspectives. First, a festival audience celebrates how the video represents place-based belonging, the joys of collective labor, and indigeneity. Second, a geographical analysis articulates the transnational circuits of advocacy and co…
Locating post‐colonial technoscience: Through the lens of indigenous video
This article draws on extended ethnographic inquiry and mobilizes a post‐colonial geopolitics of representation to narrate two different, but intersecting, stories about academic advocacy, indigenous activism, and the cultural politics of development in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca. In addition to describing how communication technologies reached indigenous communities during moments of time characterized by auspicious shifts in state–soc…
Decolonizing hybridity: Indigenous Video, Knowledge, and Diffraction
This article examines the hybrid cultural geographies of indigenous video with Donna Haraway's visual strategy of diffraction. Drawing on ethnographic inquiry, one particular video is explored from three different perspectives. First, a festival audience celebrates how the video represents place-based belonging, the joys of collective labor, and indigeneity. Second, a geographical analysis articulates the transnational circuits of advocacy and co…
Locating post‐colonial technoscience: Through the lens of indigenous video
This article draws on extended ethnographic inquiry and mobilizes a post‐colonial geopolitics of representation to narrate two different, but intersecting, stories about academic advocacy, indigenous activism, and the cultural politics of development in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca. In addition to describing how communication technologies reached indigenous communities during moments of time characterized by auspicious shifts in state–soc…
Understanding urban expansion across primary and secondary cities in Ghana
The sprawl to infill ratio in secondary cities was higher than in primary cities. • Multiple factors influence sprawl and infill expansion. • More diverse land allocation regimes influence the faster expansion of secondary cities. • Urban expansion in cities reflects the aims and rationalities of the powerful stakeholders
Locating post‐colonial technoscience: Through the lens of indigenous video
This article draws on extended ethnographic inquiry and mobilizes a post‐colonial geopolitics of representation to narrate two different, but intersecting, stories about academic advocacy, indigenous activism, and the cultural politics of development in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca. In addition to describing how communication technologies reached indigenous communities during moments of time characterized by auspicious shifts in state–soc…
Decolonizing hybridity: Indigenous Video, Knowledge, and Diffraction
This article examines the hybrid cultural geographies of indigenous video with Donna Haraway's visual strategy of diffraction. Drawing on ethnographic inquiry, one particular video is explored from three different perspectives. First, a festival audience celebrates how the video represents place-based belonging, the joys of collective labor, and indigeneity. Second, a geographical analysis articulates the transnational circuits of advocacy and co…
Indigenous Media and Postcolonial Pedagogy
Charting Your Path to Full: A Guide for Women Associate Professors
Retracted Article: Representing transborder communities: Yolanda Cruz and Reencuentros
Our examination of the documentary film Reencuentros: 2501 migrantes (translated as 2501 Migrants: A Journey) contributes to scholarship connecting film geographies to critical geopolitics, accounting for affect, and attending to documentary films. We augment this literature with the concepts of Indigenous geopolitics and decolonial affect. After an abridged introduction to Yolanda Cruz, the Chatina filmmaker from Oaxaca, Mexico who made Reencuen…
Understanding urban expansion across primary and secondary cities in Ghana
The sprawl to infill ratio in secondary cities was higher than in primary cities. • Multiple factors influence sprawl and infill expansion. • More diverse land allocation regimes influence the faster expansion of secondary cities. • Urban expansion in cities reflects the aims and rationalities of the powerful stakeholders
Building A Fire: The Geographies Of Community Geography
This paper contributes to scholarly conversations about how to (not) define community in community geography (CG). We draw on Annemarie Mol and John Law's formulation of a fire topology to reflect on CG research spearheaded by a community-based environmental organization concerned with industrial contamination in northeastern Oklahoma. To explore how, where, and why we came together around a multimedia storytelling initiative aligned with the geo…
Sociology (5 works) · Indigenous (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Geography (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works)