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[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_3,1_3,1_3″ _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_audio audio=”https:\/\/www.geographicalimaginations.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/EPISODE_FORTY-NINE-Final-web.mp3″ title=”Pilgrim’s Mood” album_name=”EPISODE FORTY NINE” image_url=”https:\/\/www.geographicalimaginations.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Pilgrim-Mood.jpg” _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_audio][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n
For the opener of Season Five, we are joined by Phil Cousineau<\/a>, the award-winning author of The Art of Pilgrimage<\/em>.\u00a0 In a wide-ranging “long conversation” we discuss how to make travel meaningful and sacred.\u00a0 Along the way we unpack the tourist gaze and consider how mentors and words<\/em> can open pathways to finding the pilgrim’s mood.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_audio audio=”https:\/\/www.geographicalimaginations.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/EPISODE_50_web.mp3″ title=”50″ album_name=”EPISODE FIFTY” image_url=”https:\/\/www.geographicalimaginations.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/50-GIEI.jpg” _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_audio][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Celebrating Geographical Imaginations: Radio Expeditions into the Geographies of Everything and Nothing’s<\/em> 50th episode we revisit the concept for the show and take a look back at all of the different questions, themes and collaborators that brought us here to this point over four years later.\u00a0 If you are a new listener, this is a great departure point as each and every radio expedition is highlighted and summarized.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_audio audio=”https:\/\/www.geographicalimaginations.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/EPISODE_51_web.mp3″ title=”Imagine Energy” album_name=”EPISODE FIFTY ONE” image_url=”https:\/\/www.geographicalimaginations.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/energy-futures-1.jpeg” _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_audio][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Who is imagining the energy landscapes of the future?\u00a0 How are they doing it?\u00a0 Where?\u00a0 In what spaces?\u00a0 Elizabeth Monoian and Robert Ferry, Founding Co-Directors of the <\/span>Land Art Generator Initiative<\/a> (LAGI), discuss the global project that is giving\u00a0<\/span>artists, architects, landscape architects, and other creatives a space to propose sustainable energy infrastructures and imagine a low-carbon future<\/span>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_3,1_3,1_3″ _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_audio audio=”https:\/\/www.geographicalimaginations.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/EPISODE-FIFTY-TWO-web.mp3″ title=”Amateur\/Donkey\/ Expedition” album_name=”EPISODE FIFTY TWO” image_url=”https:\/\/www.geographicalimaginations.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Merrifield-Gribouille.jpg” _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_audio][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n In EPISODE FIFTY TWO we track down Andy Merrifield, a geographer who left academia in 2003 to do what he loves.\u00a0 We discuss his writings on William Bunge, Guy Debord, Henri Lefebvre and John Berger and engage in a wide-ranging conversation that explores the expedition, the amateur, walking with a donkey and the pilgrimages we make to better understand who and what have shaped our geographical imaginations.\u00a0<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_audio audio=”https:\/\/www.geographicalimaginations.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/EPISODE_FIFTY-THREE_web.mp3″ title=”Arctic Fever” album_name=”EPISODE FIFTY THREE” image_url=”https:\/\/www.geographicalimaginations.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Arctic_Ocean.jpg” _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_audio][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n In\u00a0Arctic Fever<\/i>\u00a0we embark on our multi-episode explorations of \u201cThe Arctic.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Joining us is historian Michael Robinson\u2014creator, host and producer of\u00a0Time to Eat the Dogs<\/a><\/em>, a weekly podcast about science, history, and exploration.\u00a0We discuss his book,\u00a0The Coldest Crucible: Arctic Exploration and American Culture<\/i><\/a>,\u00a0unpack what it means to go on expedition and outline the impact Arctic explorers had on the American imagination of this polar region.\u00a0<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_audio audio=”https:\/\/www.geographicalimaginations.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/EPISODE_54_web.mp3″ title=”Don’t Feed the Bears” album_name=”EPISODE FIFTY FOUR” image_url=”https:\/\/www.geographicalimaginations.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSC00305.jpg” _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_audio][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n How does one prepare for an expedition to the Arctic North?\u00a0 In\u00a0Don’t Feed the Bears<\/em> we speak with\u00a0Ann Christin Auestad, project manager at the Arctic Safety Centre<\/a>, to learn more about the different training available for risk management and planning for expeditions within the polar north.\u00a0 We also revisit with Patrick Schaudy (EPISODE TWO) to discuss his summer employment as a polar bear guard.\u00a0 What is that?<\/em>\u00a0 Listen.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_3,1_3,1_3″ _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_audio audio=”https:\/\/www.geographicalimaginations.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/EPISODE_55_web.mp3″ title=”Asking Svalbard” album_name=”EPISODE FIFTY FIVE” image_url=”https:\/\/www.geographicalimaginations.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSC00834.jpg” _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_audio][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n In Asking Svalbard<\/em> we begin to move beyond generalizations about the Arctic.\u00a0 By digging deeper we interrogate a place that might only exist on the fringes of our imaginations\u2014Svalbard, Norway.\u00a0 Located well above the Arctic Circle, this archipelago is home to over 2,500 people.\u00a0 Guiding us in this radio expedition is Rolf Stange<\/a>, geographer and author of the top-selling guidebook for this land of the cold shores.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_audio audio=”https:\/\/www.geographicalimaginations.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/EPISODE_56_web.mp3″ title=”Writing the Arctic” album_name=”EPISODE FIFTY SIX” image_url=”https:\/\/www.geographicalimaginations.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/DSC00562.jpg” _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_audio][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n On expedition in Svalbard we encountered the circa 1930s cabin that <\/span>pioneer\u00a0<\/span>female big game hunter and writer\u00a0<\/span>Wanny Wolstad lived in during five overwinters<\/em>. Literature scholar\u00a0Dr.\u00a0Ingrid Urberg<\/a>\u00a0contextualizes Wolstad and her writings within the works of other “Svalbard Daughters” whose narratives collectively challenged the overtly masculine storytelling about the Arctic landscape all the while asking us to reconsider how we imagine the polar north.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_audio audio=”https:\/\/www.geographicalimaginations.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/EPISODE-57-web.mp3″ title=”Polar Bear” album_name=”EPISODE FIFTY SEVEN” image_url=”https:\/\/www.geographicalimaginations.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/65609482_2389851387959436_2751439393657978880_o.jpg” _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_audio][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n