Katrinka Somdahl‐Sands
Biographic Data
| ID | 6467154 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katrinka Somdahl‐Sands |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katrinka |
| FAMILY NAME | Somdahl‐Sands |
| SIGNATURE | SANDS K S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rowan University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Media, performance, and pastpresents: Authenticity in the digital age
Comic Book Geographies
COMIC BOOK GEOGRAPHIES. Edited by Jason Dittmer. 227 pp.; 47 ills. Mainz, Germany: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2014. $71.00 (cloth), ISBN 9783515102698. Comic cross many disciplines, including geography. Comic Book Geographies, edited by Jason Dittmer, is intended to bring geography and the interdisciplinary field of comic into dialogue. For this alone, this book is an important addition to the emerging genre of geohumanities. However, in speaking to w…
On Dittmer's Popular Culture, Geopolitics, and Identity as a classroom resource
In this intervention, four geographers, all of whom have used Jason Dittmer's book, Popular Culture, Geopolitics, and Identity, in their classes, assess its status as a teaching resource. All have had considerable success using Dittmer's book, alongside other resources, to cultivate critical thinking and critical knowledge production in a wide range of classes
Non-Representational Theory for the Uninitiated: Come Jump with me
The article/performance is a 13 minute performance/presentation/film investigating the role of the subject in nonrepresentational theory. The piece is a discussion of Non-Representational Theory, identity and dance. In particular, it I describe how I, as a feminist/political geographer who writes about dance, (so I fell in with Non-Representational Theory by association), came to understand what all the fuss was about with NRT by finally placing …
Citizenship, Civic Memory and Urban Performance: Mission Wall Dances
The meaning of art changes in various contexts. This article examines how an outdoor performance transformed an urban street in the Mission District of San Francisco into a site of citizenship and political communication. This is the story of how choreographer Jo Kreiter and her small group of dancers used the power of memory, the social narratives about her San Franciscan performance site and symbolism to enhance the political message about gent…
Cultural Geographies in Practice: Triptych: dancing in Thirdspace
Hereyou will be introduced to the BodyCarto-graphy Project, an explicitly political andgeographical ongoing dance project. TheBodyCartography Project, led by OliveBieringa and Otto Ramstad, chooses pub-lic places that convey particular meaningsand through engagement with the sitediscover the innate potential of thatspace. In so doing, the performanceallows the spectators to create their ownmeanings. The relationship of the public to the company s…
Comic Book Geographies
COMIC BOOK GEOGRAPHIES. Edited by Jason Dittmer. 227 pp.; 47 ills. Mainz, Germany: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2014. $71.00 (cloth), ISBN 9783515102698. Comic cross many disciplines, including geography. Comic Book Geographies, edited by Jason Dittmer, is intended to bring geography and the interdisciplinary field of comic into dialogue. For this alone, this book is an important addition to the emerging genre of geohumanities. However, in speaking to w…
Citizenship, Civic Memory and Urban Performance: Mission Wall Dances
The meaning of art changes in various contexts. This article examines how an outdoor performance transformed an urban street in the Mission District of San Francisco into a site of citizenship and political communication. This is the story of how choreographer Jo Kreiter and her small group of dancers used the power of memory, the social narratives about her San Franciscan performance site and symbolism to enhance the political message about gent…
Cultural Geographies in Practice: Triptych: dancing in Thirdspace
Hereyou will be introduced to the BodyCarto-graphy Project, an explicitly political andgeographical ongoing dance project. TheBodyCartography Project, led by OliveBieringa and Otto Ramstad, chooses pub-lic places that convey particular meaningsand through engagement with the sitediscover the innate potential of thatspace. In so doing, the performanceallows the spectators to create their ownmeanings. The relationship of the public to the company s…
Media, performance, and pastpresents: Authenticity in the digital age
On Dittmer's Popular Culture, Geopolitics, and Identity as a classroom resource
In this intervention, four geographers, all of whom have used Jason Dittmer's book, Popular Culture, Geopolitics, and Identity, in their classes, assess its status as a teaching resource. All have had considerable success using Dittmer's book, alongside other resources, to cultivate critical thinking and critical knowledge production in a wide range of classes
Cultural Geographies in Practice: Triptych: dancing in Thirdspace
Hereyou will be introduced to the BodyCarto-graphy Project, an explicitly political andgeographical ongoing dance project. TheBodyCartography Project, led by OliveBieringa and Otto Ramstad, chooses pub-lic places that convey particular meaningsand through engagement with the sitediscover the innate potential of thatspace. In so doing, the performanceallows the spectators to create their ownmeanings. The relationship of the public to the company s…
Citizenship, Civic Memory and Urban Performance: Mission Wall Dances
The meaning of art changes in various contexts. This article examines how an outdoor performance transformed an urban street in the Mission District of San Francisco into a site of citizenship and political communication. This is the story of how choreographer Jo Kreiter and her small group of dancers used the power of memory, the social narratives about her San Franciscan performance site and symbolism to enhance the political message about gent…
Non-Representational Theory for the Uninitiated: Come Jump with me
The article/performance is a 13 minute performance/presentation/film investigating the role of the subject in nonrepresentational theory. The piece is a discussion of Non-Representational Theory, identity and dance. In particular, it I describe how I, as a feminist/political geographer who writes about dance, (so I fell in with Non-Representational Theory by association), came to understand what all the fuss was about with NRT by finally placing …
On Dittmer's Popular Culture, Geopolitics, and Identity as a classroom resource
In this intervention, four geographers, all of whom have used Jason Dittmer's book, Popular Culture, Geopolitics, and Identity, in their classes, assess its status as a teaching resource. All have had considerable success using Dittmer's book, alongside other resources, to cultivate critical thinking and critical knowledge production in a wide range of classes
Media, performance, and pastpresents: Authenticity in the digital age
Comic Book Geographies
COMIC BOOK GEOGRAPHIES. Edited by Jason Dittmer. 227 pp.; 47 ills. Mainz, Germany: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2014. $71.00 (cloth), ISBN 9783515102698. Comic cross many disciplines, including geography. Comic Book Geographies, edited by Jason Dittmer, is intended to bring geography and the interdisciplinary field of comic into dialogue. For this alone, this book is an important addition to the emerging genre of geohumanities. However, in speaking to w…
Art (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Visual arts (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Dance (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Diversity and Impact of Dance (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works)