Soren C Larsen
Biographic Data
| ID | 95200 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Soren C Larsen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Soren C |
| FAMILY NAME | Larsen |
| SIGNATURE | LARSEN S C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Missouri |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-9474-3102 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 240 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Queering CoMO: Exploring the queer small city ecology of Columbia, Missouri, between 1991 and 2021
This paper employs Brown-Saracino’s [Brown-Saracino, J. 2018. How Places Make Us: Novel LBQ Identities in Four Small Cities. The University of Chicago Press] framework of queer city ecology, which emphasizes the unique cultures of individual cities, to explore the historical and contemporary queer geographies of Columbia, Missouri, a small, Midwestern college city. Using qualitative interview methods, this paper draws from an in-depth, purposeful…
Exploring learning game core dynamics for engagement: A 2-year cross-case comparison of geography undergraduates’ perceptions of Biomes Rescue , a platformer game
Educational games have been accepted across many disciplines as a learning tool to support learners’ performance through factors like engagement. By incorporating well-designed game elements, educational games can provide adult learners with more effective and enjoyable learning experiences. However, we still need a clear picture of how the game elements impact learners’ engagement in educational games. This study explored the interaction between…
A Line of Flight Through Yi-Fu Tuan
Map Cards: Creative Mapping for Place Dialogue
Creative mapping is a type of critical observational drawing that uses cartographic art to negotiate personal visions, social constructions, and objective representations of the world. Geographers have been experimenting with this method to produce their own creative maps and in the process have begun to explore the effects and implications of these works for engaging with the places and relationships of research in professional and personal life…
Gift of art/gift of place: Boundary work for Indigenous coexistence
Collaborative art is an important kind of “boundary work” in decolonizing relationships to self, others, and land in today’s settler societies, or the multinational states that formed as a result of European settler colonialism. This article tells the story of a children’s book co-produced by the Cheslatta Carrier Nation in British Columbia and two undergraduate students at the University of Missouri (MU) along with their faculty mentor and his s…
Refreshing methods: Reflections and Provocations
This virtual special issue of Social & Cultural Geography is part of a series of retrospectives published in celebration of the journal’s twentieth anniversary. This issue features a selection of eight previously published articles on method that, taken together, highlight key themes and developments in methodological work since the journal’s inception in 2000. In this introduction, the editors introduce the featured articles and, engaging other …
Being Together in Place: Indigenous Coexistence in a More Than Human World
Being Together in Place explores the landscapes that convene Native and non-Native people into sustained and difficult negotiations over their radically different interests. Using ethnographic research and a geographic perspective, this book shows activists in three sites learning how to articulate and defend their intrinsic and life-supportive ways of being-particularly to those who are intent on damaging these places
The Agency of Place: Toward a More-Than-Human Geographical Self
Contemporary Indigenous activism asserts an agency for place not normally found in geographical scholarship. Through place-based protest, organizing, and direct action, Native and non-Native people are interacting with place as a conscious being with the capacity to speak, create, and teach the responsibilities required for more inclusive forms of coexistence in today’s settler states. This “placework” articulates a more-than-human geographical s…
Regions of care: A Political Ecology of Reciprocal Materialities
Indigenous "country" or "land" is a region of reciprocities constituted through the relationships and obligations that preserve the continuity of life. It is a "region of care." In picking up and developing this phrase, this article opens a discussion about how regional political ecology can build from the materialist perspectives of contemporary scholarship and Indigenous politics. If, as some materialist scholars have argued, the political fiel…
Ethnographic fiction for writing and research in cultural geography
This article discusses the relevance of one form of ethnography, ethnographic fiction, for cultural geographers who are interested in the intersection of geographical ethnography and creative writing. Ethnographic fiction aims to evoke cultural experience and sense of place using literary techniques to craft conventional ethnographic materials-interviews, participant observation, fieldnotes, photographs-into a compelling story. The discussion pre…
In between worlds: Place, experience, and research in Indigenous geography
In this introduction to the special issue, we explore how the experience of on-the-ground research in Indigenous geography transforms Native and non-Native practitioners by challenging, reworking, and ultimately expanding their existential, social, and conceptual understandings of place. Following a brief overview of contemporary work in the area of Indigenous geography, the essay unpacks this process of place-based metamorphosis with specific re…
Community discourse and the emerging amenity landscapes of the rural American West
Toward an Open Sense of Place: Phenomenology, Affinity, and the Question of Being
This article contributes to ongoing efforts in human geography to theorize place as a basis for progressive politics by linking recent work in phenomenology with contemporary interpretations of affinity politics. The phenomenological insight is that existence is a foundational kind of placing through which the world presents itself and that a place-based ontology can be developed by exploring the features of situatedness. Affinity politics involv…
Author meets critics: A set of reviews and a response
Kathleen Stewart Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007, 144 pp., $18.95/£11.99 paperback, (ISBN 978-0822341079) $64.95/£47.00 hardback (ISBN 978-0822340881). Words fail. And so we need to experim
Environmental learning and the social construction of an exurban landscape in Fremont County, Colorado
Place making, grassroots organizing, and rural protest: A case study of Anahim Lake, British Columbia
Captain Canuck , audience response, and the project of Canadian nationalism
This paper addresses the role of comic books in interpellating national identities, locating the process of national identity formation in the interplay between popular culture producers and their audiences as described by Althusser (Citation1977) and McGee (Citation1975). The empirical section of this paper focuses on Captain Canuck, a Canadian-produced comic book originating in the 1970s and sporadically published through the present day. The a…
The future's past: Politics of time and territory among dakelh first nations in british columbia
This article examines contemporary political movements among Dakelh First Nations in British Columbia that have challenged Western modernity's fixation with a future achieved through industrial progress. Aboriginal people have been especially assertive in politicizing the connections between time and place through the display and performance of memory in forms as diverse as life history narratives, the cultural landscape, media and grass‐roots de…
Great Basin Imagery in Newspaper Coverage of Yucca Mountain
Place imagery in printed news is a vital but overlooked feature of the public debate regarding the disposal of the nation's nuclear waste in the proposed Yucca Mountain repository northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada. A content analysis of newspaper coverage reveals that participants use Great Basin imagery in the rhetorical strategies involved in making arguments for and against the site. This article identifies specific elements in the news‐productio…
Place, Activism, and Development Politics in the Southwest Georgia United Empowerment Zone
This essay presents the results of an ethnographic study of place and development politics in the Southwest Georgia United Empowerment Zone (SWGAUEZ). The zone was established as part of a 1993 federal program passed by Congress under the Clinton Administration, which guarantees some $40 million in block grants to selected impoverished communities. The analysis presented here focuses on how minority organizations from Westside, a low-income, Afri…
Place Identity in a Resource‐Dependent Area of Northern British Columbia
Residents of northern British Columbia's resource‐dependent areas have struggled to maintain the integrity of their communities as nonlocal firms exert ever‐increasing influence over the region's resources and landscapes. Local leaders both construct and mobilize place as a vital part of their efforts to promote community well‐being. This study focuses on the ways that the residents of three towns in the province's northern interior politicized p…
Promoting Aboriginal Territoriality Through Interethnic Alliances: The Case of the Cheslatta T’en in Northern British Columbia
Across rural North America, aboriginal and nonaboriginal people have formed strategic alliances to defend what are perceived to be common resources and attachments to place. Thus far, little is known about how these partnerships have factored into indigenous pursuits of territorial autonomy. This article describes how the Cheslatta T'en, a Dakelh (Carrier) community in north-central British Columbia, established a measure of control over their ho…
The Agency of Place: Toward a More-Than-Human Geographical Self
Contemporary Indigenous activism asserts an agency for place not normally found in geographical scholarship. Through place-based protest, organizing, and direct action, Native and non-Native people are interacting with place as a conscious being with the capacity to speak, create, and teach the responsibilities required for more inclusive forms of coexistence in today’s settler states. This “placework” articulates a more-than-human geographical s…
In between worlds: Place, experience, and research in Indigenous geography
In this introduction to the special issue, we explore how the experience of on-the-ground research in Indigenous geography transforms Native and non-Native practitioners by challenging, reworking, and ultimately expanding their existential, social, and conceptual understandings of place. Following a brief overview of contemporary work in the area of Indigenous geography, the essay unpacks this process of place-based metamorphosis with specific re…
Toward an Open Sense of Place: Phenomenology, Affinity, and the Question of Being
This article contributes to ongoing efforts in human geography to theorize place as a basis for progressive politics by linking recent work in phenomenology with contemporary interpretations of affinity politics. The phenomenological insight is that existence is a foundational kind of placing through which the world presents itself and that a place-based ontology can be developed by exploring the features of situatedness. Affinity politics involv…
Ethnographic fiction for writing and research in cultural geography
This article discusses the relevance of one form of ethnography, ethnographic fiction, for cultural geographers who are interested in the intersection of geographical ethnography and creative writing. Ethnographic fiction aims to evoke cultural experience and sense of place using literary techniques to craft conventional ethnographic materials-interviews, participant observation, fieldnotes, photographs-into a compelling story. The discussion pre…
Place making, grassroots organizing, and rural protest: A case study of Anahim Lake, British Columbia
Captain Canuck , audience response, and the project of Canadian nationalism
This paper addresses the role of comic books in interpellating national identities, locating the process of national identity formation in the interplay between popular culture producers and their audiences as described by Althusser (Citation1977) and McGee (Citation1975). The empirical section of this paper focuses on Captain Canuck, a Canadian-produced comic book originating in the 1970s and sporadically published through the present day. The a…
The future's past: Politics of time and territory among dakelh first nations in british columbia
This article examines contemporary political movements among Dakelh First Nations in British Columbia that have challenged Western modernity's fixation with a future achieved through industrial progress. Aboriginal people have been especially assertive in politicizing the connections between time and place through the display and performance of memory in forms as diverse as life history narratives, the cultural landscape, media and grass‐roots de…
Community discourse and the emerging amenity landscapes of the rural American West
Environmental learning and the social construction of an exurban landscape in Fremont County, Colorado
Great Basin Imagery in Newspaper Coverage of Yucca Mountain
Place imagery in printed news is a vital but overlooked feature of the public debate regarding the disposal of the nation's nuclear waste in the proposed Yucca Mountain repository northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada. A content analysis of newspaper coverage reveals that participants use Great Basin imagery in the rhetorical strategies involved in making arguments for and against the site. This article identifies specific elements in the news‐productio…
Regions of care: A Political Ecology of Reciprocal Materialities
Indigenous "country" or "land" is a region of reciprocities constituted through the relationships and obligations that preserve the continuity of life. It is a "region of care." In picking up and developing this phrase, this article opens a discussion about how regional political ecology can build from the materialist perspectives of contemporary scholarship and Indigenous politics. If, as some materialist scholars have argued, the political fiel…
Refreshing methods: Reflections and Provocations
This virtual special issue of Social & Cultural Geography is part of a series of retrospectives published in celebration of the journal’s twentieth anniversary. This issue features a selection of eight previously published articles on method that, taken together, highlight key themes and developments in methodological work since the journal’s inception in 2000. In this introduction, the editors introduce the featured articles and, engaging other …
Author meets critics: A set of reviews and a response
Kathleen Stewart Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007, 144 pp., $18.95/£11.99 paperback, (ISBN 978-0822341079) $64.95/£47.00 hardback (ISBN 978-0822340881). Words fail. And so we need to experim
Place Identity in a Resource‐Dependent Area of Northern British Columbia
Residents of northern British Columbia's resource‐dependent areas have struggled to maintain the integrity of their communities as nonlocal firms exert ever‐increasing influence over the region's resources and landscapes. Local leaders both construct and mobilize place as a vital part of their efforts to promote community well‐being. This study focuses on the ways that the residents of three towns in the province's northern interior politicized p…
Gift of art/gift of place: Boundary work for Indigenous coexistence
Collaborative art is an important kind of “boundary work” in decolonizing relationships to self, others, and land in today’s settler societies, or the multinational states that formed as a result of European settler colonialism. This article tells the story of a children’s book co-produced by the Cheslatta Carrier Nation in British Columbia and two undergraduate students at the University of Missouri (MU) along with their faculty mentor and his s…
Being Together in Place: Indigenous Coexistence in a More Than Human World
Being Together in Place explores the landscapes that convene Native and non-Native people into sustained and difficult negotiations over their radically different interests. Using ethnographic research and a geographic perspective, this book shows activists in three sites learning how to articulate and defend their intrinsic and life-supportive ways of being-particularly to those who are intent on damaging these places
Place, Activism, and Development Politics in the Southwest Georgia United Empowerment Zone
This essay presents the results of an ethnographic study of place and development politics in the Southwest Georgia United Empowerment Zone (SWGAUEZ). The zone was established as part of a 1993 federal program passed by Congress under the Clinton Administration, which guarantees some $40 million in block grants to selected impoverished communities. The analysis presented here focuses on how minority organizations from Westside, a low-income, Afri…
Map Cards: Creative Mapping for Place Dialogue
Creative mapping is a type of critical observational drawing that uses cartographic art to negotiate personal visions, social constructions, and objective representations of the world. Geographers have been experimenting with this method to produce their own creative maps and in the process have begun to explore the effects and implications of these works for engaging with the places and relationships of research in professional and personal life…
Promoting Aboriginal Territoriality Through Interethnic Alliances: The Case of the Cheslatta T’en in Northern British Columbia
Across rural North America, aboriginal and nonaboriginal people have formed strategic alliances to defend what are perceived to be common resources and attachments to place. Thus far, little is known about how these partnerships have factored into indigenous pursuits of territorial autonomy. This article describes how the Cheslatta T'en, a Dakelh (Carrier) community in north-central British Columbia, established a measure of control over their ho…
Place, Activism, and Development Politics in the Southwest Georgia United Empowerment Zone
This essay presents the results of an ethnographic study of place and development politics in the Southwest Georgia United Empowerment Zone (SWGAUEZ). The zone was established as part of a 1993 federal program passed by Congress under the Clinton Administration, which guarantees some $40 million in block grants to selected impoverished communities. The analysis presented here focuses on how minority organizations from Westside, a low-income, Afri…
Place Identity in a Resource‐Dependent Area of Northern British Columbia
Residents of northern British Columbia's resource‐dependent areas have struggled to maintain the integrity of their communities as nonlocal firms exert ever‐increasing influence over the region's resources and landscapes. Local leaders both construct and mobilize place as a vital part of their efforts to promote community well‐being. This study focuses on the ways that the residents of three towns in the province's northern interior politicized p…
Great Basin Imagery in Newspaper Coverage of Yucca Mountain
Place imagery in printed news is a vital but overlooked feature of the public debate regarding the disposal of the nation's nuclear waste in the proposed Yucca Mountain repository northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada. A content analysis of newspaper coverage reveals that participants use Great Basin imagery in the rhetorical strategies involved in making arguments for and against the site. This article identifies specific elements in the news‐productio…
The future's past: Politics of time and territory among dakelh first nations in british columbia
This article examines contemporary political movements among Dakelh First Nations in British Columbia that have challenged Western modernity's fixation with a future achieved through industrial progress. Aboriginal people have been especially assertive in politicizing the connections between time and place through the display and performance of memory in forms as diverse as life history narratives, the cultural landscape, media and grass‐roots de…
Captain Canuck , audience response, and the project of Canadian nationalism
This paper addresses the role of comic books in interpellating national identities, locating the process of national identity formation in the interplay between popular culture producers and their audiences as described by Althusser (Citation1977) and McGee (Citation1975). The empirical section of this paper focuses on Captain Canuck, a Canadian-produced comic book originating in the 1970s and sporadically published through the present day. The a…
Place making, grassroots organizing, and rural protest: A case study of Anahim Lake, British Columbia
Author meets critics: A set of reviews and a response
Kathleen Stewart Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007, 144 pp., $18.95/£11.99 paperback, (ISBN 978-0822341079) $64.95/£47.00 hardback (ISBN 978-0822340881). Words fail. And so we need to experim
Environmental learning and the social construction of an exurban landscape in Fremont County, Colorado
Community discourse and the emerging amenity landscapes of the rural American West
Toward an Open Sense of Place: Phenomenology, Affinity, and the Question of Being
This article contributes to ongoing efforts in human geography to theorize place as a basis for progressive politics by linking recent work in phenomenology with contemporary interpretations of affinity politics. The phenomenological insight is that existence is a foundational kind of placing through which the world presents itself and that a place-based ontology can be developed by exploring the features of situatedness. Affinity politics involv…
In between worlds: Place, experience, and research in Indigenous geography
In this introduction to the special issue, we explore how the experience of on-the-ground research in Indigenous geography transforms Native and non-Native practitioners by challenging, reworking, and ultimately expanding their existential, social, and conceptual understandings of place. Following a brief overview of contemporary work in the area of Indigenous geography, the essay unpacks this process of place-based metamorphosis with specific re…
Ethnographic fiction for writing and research in cultural geography
This article discusses the relevance of one form of ethnography, ethnographic fiction, for cultural geographers who are interested in the intersection of geographical ethnography and creative writing. Ethnographic fiction aims to evoke cultural experience and sense of place using literary techniques to craft conventional ethnographic materials-interviews, participant observation, fieldnotes, photographs-into a compelling story. The discussion pre…
The Agency of Place: Toward a More-Than-Human Geographical Self
Contemporary Indigenous activism asserts an agency for place not normally found in geographical scholarship. Through place-based protest, organizing, and direct action, Native and non-Native people are interacting with place as a conscious being with the capacity to speak, create, and teach the responsibilities required for more inclusive forms of coexistence in today’s settler states. This “placework” articulates a more-than-human geographical s…
Regions of care: A Political Ecology of Reciprocal Materialities
Indigenous "country" or "land" is a region of reciprocities constituted through the relationships and obligations that preserve the continuity of life. It is a "region of care." In picking up and developing this phrase, this article opens a discussion about how regional political ecology can build from the materialist perspectives of contemporary scholarship and Indigenous politics. If, as some materialist scholars have argued, the political fiel…
Being Together in Place: Indigenous Coexistence in a More Than Human World
Being Together in Place explores the landscapes that convene Native and non-Native people into sustained and difficult negotiations over their radically different interests. Using ethnographic research and a geographic perspective, this book shows activists in three sites learning how to articulate and defend their intrinsic and life-supportive ways of being-particularly to those who are intent on damaging these places
Refreshing methods: Reflections and Provocations
This virtual special issue of Social & Cultural Geography is part of a series of retrospectives published in celebration of the journal’s twentieth anniversary. This issue features a selection of eight previously published articles on method that, taken together, highlight key themes and developments in methodological work since the journal’s inception in 2000. In this introduction, the editors introduce the featured articles and, engaging other …
Gift of art/gift of place: Boundary work for Indigenous coexistence
Collaborative art is an important kind of “boundary work” in decolonizing relationships to self, others, and land in today’s settler societies, or the multinational states that formed as a result of European settler colonialism. This article tells the story of a children’s book co-produced by the Cheslatta Carrier Nation in British Columbia and two undergraduate students at the University of Missouri (MU) along with their faculty mentor and his s…
Map Cards: Creative Mapping for Place Dialogue
Creative mapping is a type of critical observational drawing that uses cartographic art to negotiate personal visions, social constructions, and objective representations of the world. Geographers have been experimenting with this method to produce their own creative maps and in the process have begun to explore the effects and implications of these works for engaging with the places and relationships of research in professional and personal life…
Exploring learning game core dynamics for engagement: A 2-year cross-case comparison of geography undergraduates’ perceptions of Biomes Rescue , a platformer game
Educational games have been accepted across many disciplines as a learning tool to support learners’ performance through factors like engagement. By incorporating well-designed game elements, educational games can provide adult learners with more effective and enjoyable learning experiences. However, we still need a clear picture of how the game elements impact learners’ engagement in educational games. This study explored the interaction between…
A Line of Flight Through Yi-Fu Tuan
Queering CoMO: Exploring the queer small city ecology of Columbia, Missouri, between 1991 and 2021
This paper employs Brown-Saracino’s [Brown-Saracino, J. 2018. How Places Make Us: Novel LBQ Identities in Four Small Cities. The University of Chicago Press] framework of queer city ecology, which emphasizes the unique cultures of individual cities, to explore the historical and contemporary queer geographies of Columbia, Missouri, a small, Midwestern college city. Using qualitative interview methods, this paper draws from an in-depth, purposeful…
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