Wednesday,
November 9, 2011
A conversation with Martin Lewis, Senior Lecturer in International
History and interim director
of
the International Relations program at Stanford University, on the
discipline of geography.
Outro Music: Agricantus, "Com'u ventu"
| Martin
W. Lewis is lecturer in international history and interim director of
the program in International Relations at Stanford University. He
graduated from UC Santa Cruz with a degree in Environmental Studies in
1979, and received a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in geography in 1987. His
dissertation, and first book, "Wagering the Land: Ritual, Capital, and
Environmental Degradation in the Cordillera of Northern Luzon,
1900-1986," examined the interplay among economic development,
environmental degradation, and cultural change in the highlands of
northern Luzon in the Philippines. Subsequently, he turned his
attention to issues of global geography, writing (with Karen Wigen)
"The Myth of Continents: A Critique of Metageography" (University of
California Press, 1997). He is also the co-author of a world geography
textbook, "Diversity Amid Globalization: World Regions, Environment,
Development" (Prentice Hall), and is the former associate editor of The
Geographical Review. Martin W. Lewis taught at the George Washington
University and then at Duke University, where he was co-director of the
program in Comparative Area Studies, before coming to Stanford
University in the fall of 2002. His current research is on the
core-periphery model of global spatial relations, focusing on its
application to issues in Philippine and world history. He also has his
own blog, GeoCurrents, consisting of "map-illustrated analyses of
current events and geographical issues" relevant to contemporary
politics. |