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Season Four comes to you from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, from the archives of the Annals of the Association of American Geographers, and from the crocodile-shaped island of Cuba.<\/h2>\n

[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.22.3″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.22.3″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″][et_pb_audio audio=”https:\/\/www.geographicalimaginations.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/EPISODE_37_web.mp3″ title=”Zanzibar, or the Last Reason” album_name=”EPISODE THIRTY SEVEN” image_url=”https:\/\/www.geographicalimaginations.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/DSCN5258.jpg” _builder_version=”3.0.92″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”] 
\n[\/et_pb_audio][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.0.92″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” text_orientation=”center” module_alignment=”center”]”Zanzibar, or the Last Reason,” translated from the German, “Sansibar oder der letzte Grund<\/em>,” is a novel by Alfred Andersch where one of the protagonists (a boy)\u00a0daydreams the far away Zanzibar from his small hometown in Germany.\u00a0 Maybe a bad case of fernweh<\/em>, this island in his mind is actually located in the Indian Ocean, but it\u00a0is less a concrete goal than the utopian place of a better future.\u00a0 Water temperature: 30 degrees Celcius.\u00a0\u00a0(Photo by Sonia Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez)
\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″][et_pb_audio audio=”https:\/\/www.geographicalimaginations.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/EPISODE_38_Web.mp3″ title=”Piece by Piece” album_name=”EPISODE THIRTY EIGHT” image_url=”https:\/\/www.geographicalimaginations.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/3_.jpg” _builder_version=”3.0.92″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”] 
\n[\/et_pb_audio][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.0.92″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” text_orientation=”center” module_alignment=”center”]In “Piece by Piece,” we sit down with Rukia Hatibu, aka The Annoyin’ Artist<\/a>, to discuss the importance of making public our ideas, stories and “pieces.”\u00a0 It is not enough to ask questions about who we are.\u00a0 What is vital is having an actual place to do it.\u00a0 Her evening forum helps showcase different voices and provides a space for personal poetic development.\u00a0 As if that was not enough, Rukia also discusses her new initiative, AIDIM<\/a>, that seeks to bring out this same development in school children.\u00a0 (Photo by\u00a0Sonia Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez)
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\n[\/et_pb_audio][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.0.101″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” text_orientation=”center” module_alignment=”center”]In EPISODE THIRTY-NINE we set out and explore “Dar City Geographies” with urban geographer\u00a0Dr. Sarah Smiley<\/a>\u00a0from Kent State University.\u00a0 This “urban safari” provokes discussions of the legacy of historical segregation policies on the urban landscape; the improvements made to the transport infrastructure in this rapidly growing, soon-to-be mega-city; and what residents in different zones have to do to access water across Dar es Salaam.
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\n[\/et_pb_audio][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.0.101″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” text_orientation=”center” module_alignment=”center”]In EPISODE FORTY we are on field assignment exploring the multi-species geographies of, perhaps, the most iconic safari game drive in the world.\u00a0 We report on site from Serengeti National Park in Tanzania, learning some basic Swahili (Safari means “trip”<\/em>) and seeing a range of animals we had never seen before outside of a zoo or a documentary.\u00a0 We have plenty of fun copying and\/or poking fun at nature documentary style reportage.
\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″][et_pb_audio audio=”https:\/\/www.geographicalimaginations.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/EPISODE_41_Web.mp3″ title=”DARchitecture” album_name=”EPISODE FORTY ONE” image_url=”https:\/\/www.geographicalimaginations.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/dar-es-salaam-po.jpg” _builder_version=”3.0.106″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”] 
\n[\/et_pb_audio][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.0.106″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” text_orientation=”center” module_alignment=”center”]In DARchitecture we discuss architectural heritage in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.\u00a0 Joining us for an episode-long conversation is Aida Mulokozi, CEO of the\u00a0Dar es Salaam\u00a0Centre for Architectural Heritage (DARCH<\/em><\/a>)<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 We walk through the process of urban heritage preservation in the context of rapid urban growth; we explore the politics of memory in Dar’s post-colonial present; and learn more about the vital work DARCH is doing to tell the story of Dar es Salaam to both locals and new arrivals alike.
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\n[\/et_pb_audio][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.3.1″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” text_orientation=”center” module_alignment=”center”]In EPISODE FORTY TWO we start our two-episode Summer Reading Series with a reading and discussion of\u00a0John Kirtland Wright\u2019s<\/a>\u00a01946 Association of American Geographers (AAG) Presidential Address <\/em>where he outlines his ideas for\u00a0geosophy<\/a>.\u00a0 The word is a compound of \u2018geo\u2019 (Greek for earth) and \u2018sophia\u2019 (Greek for wisdom). \u00a0It is the study of geographical knowledge from any or all points of view. \u00a0Joining us is Dr. Geoffrey Martin, leading Geography historian and AAG Archivist to help put this canonical text in context.
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\n[\/et_pb_audio][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.7.1″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” text_orientation=”center” module_alignment=”center”]In EPISODE FORTY THREE we continue with our two-part Summer Reading Series and finish our reading and discussion of John Kirtland Wright’s<\/a> 1946 Association of American Geographers Presidential Address.\u00a0 <\/em>In this canonical text, Wright outlines his ideas for geosophy<\/a>.\u00a0 How was this address received by his colleagues?\u00a0 What would the study of geosophy look like?\u00a0 Professor John L. Allen joins us to explore these questions–and others<\/em>–as we round out our first major exploration of this key text.
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\n[\/et_pb_audio][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.0.106″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” text_orientation=”center” module_alignment=”center”]In Geographies of Everything<\/em> we have the great pleasure of sitting down with world renowned academic geographer Dr. Yi-Fu Tuan.\u00a0 In the first part of this two-episode series we explore\u00a0space, place, offices, Madison (Wisconsin), film, deserts\u00a0<\/em>and much more with this intellectual pioneer of humanist geography.\u00a0 Tuan is noted for bringing together philosophy and geography and his work blazed the trail for our show.
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\n[\/et_pb_audio][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.12.2″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” text_orientation=”center” module_alignment=”center”]In EPISODE FORTY FIVE we explore the geographies of nothing with Yi-Fu Tuan.\u00a0 The second installment of a two-part long form interview with one of the 20th century’s most influential human geographers, we discuss his search through meaning through the discipline of geography, the scale of home, National Geographic, the human need for belonging and routines.\u00a0 Be sure to listen to the first part of this series before you listen here.
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\n[\/et_pb_audio][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.12.2″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” text_orientation=”center” module_alignment=”center”]With EPISODE FORTY SIX\u00a0<\/em>we start a series made while conducting fieldwork in Cuba in Spring 2018.\u00a0 In\u00a0Puentes<\/em>\u00a0we sit down with don Jose Poveda\u2013poet, philosopher, man of letters and of faith\u2013in this wide ranging discussion of his poetry, travel from Cuba to Russia, and his work as interpreter to Russian technical advisers working in Cuban industry.\u00a0 This episode is in Spanish.
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\n[\/et_pb_audio][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.12.2″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” text_orientation=”center” module_alignment=”center”]In our second episode from fieldwork in Cuba we sit down with \u201cSong Maker\u201d Enid Rosales and discuss her two albums (Brisa Pasajera<\/em> and Dentro de M\u00ed<\/em>), her listeners in Cuba and beyond, the Nueva Trova genre, the Buena Vista Social Club effect, Celia Cruz and what it means to be an \u201chacedora de canciones.\u201d\u00a0 EPISODE FORTY SEVEN is in Spanish.
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In EPISODE FORTY EIGHT we are joined again by geographer Johnny Finn (from EPISODE THIRTY TWO).\u00a0 Rounding out our three-episode on-the-ground fieldwork series on the crocodile-shaped island of Cuba, we discuss health care, Fidel, Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ed, memorialization, b\u00e9isbol and literacy.\u00a0 It airs December 22nd at 1:06 PM (New York time).\u00a0 Stay tuned!<\/p>\n

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