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    Climate Change: What’s Gender Got to Do with It?

    January 6, 2020No Comments
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    How women will lead us to a more sustainable future

    logo_northernarizonaclimatechangealliance2Clarkdale AZ (January 6, 2020) – Explore and discuss the many issues of social justice and gender inequity in a changing climate. Please come prepared for a lively, interactive discussion. Open to all, OLLI registration not required. Yavapai College: Verde Valley Campus 601 Black Hills Dr, Clarkdale, Thursday, January 16, 2020, 11:30 – 1:30, Community Room, Bldg M.

    Dr. Frances Julia Riemer is Professor of Educational Foundations and Associate Faculty/former Director of Northern Arizona University’s Women’s and Gender Studies Program. 

    Dr. Frances Julia Riemer
    Dr. Frances Julia Riemer

    An educational anthropologist who has conducted ethnographic research in the US, Africa, and Latin America, she focuses on change and issues of equity and access, gender, development and sustainable communities, and cultural difference and the social organization of community, school, and workplace. 

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    Dr. Riemer is the author of Working at the Margins: Moving off Welfare in America, co-editor of Qualitative Research: An Introduction to Methods and Designs, and editor of Front and Back Stage of Tourism Performance: Imaginaries and Bucket List Venues, as well as author of book chapters and articles in a range of journals and texts. She is a Fulbright Fellow affiliated with the University of Botswana, and recipient of a National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship, an Elva Knight Research grant, an Arizona Board of Regents Innovation Fund for Learner-Centered Education grant, and a Spencer Dissertation Fellowship for Research Related to Education. 

    Dr. Riemer’s current research and writing projects investigate the gendering of niceness, first generation college students and study abroad, women’s handicrafts as economic development in the Global South, and community-based natural-resource management in southern Africa. 

    Northern AZ Climate Change Alliance mission is to educate and empower people to take action now against the negative impact the climate crisis is having on our planet. NAZCCA is a grassroots, non-partisan, non-profit 501c3 organization.

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    The Symbolism of Jan. 6

    By Tommy Acosta
    Don’t mess with symbols. Just ask author Dan Brown’s character Robert Landon. The worth of symbols cannot be measured. Symbols make the world-go-round. Symbols carry the weight of a thousand words and meanings. Symbols represent reality boiled down to the bone. Symbols evoke profound emotions and memories—at a very primal level of our being—often without our making rational or conscious connections. They fuel our imagination. Symbols enable us to access aspects of our existence that cannot be accessed in any other way. Symbols are used in all facets of human endeavor. One can only feel sorry for those who cannot comprehend the government’s response to the breech of the capital on January 6, with many, even pundits, claiming it was only a peaceful occupation. Regardless if one sees January 6 as a full-scale riot/insurrection or simply patriotic Americans demonstrating as is their right, the fact is the individuals involved went against a symbol, and this could not be allowed or go unpunished. Read more→
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