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GeoCurrents Vacation in August 5 Aug 2013 | 11:59 pm
Dear Readers, GeoCurrents will take a vacation for the next month or so. Both Martin Lewis and I are traveling during August and in the short time we are both in town, we will be (hopefully) making pr...
Burmese Migrants in Thailand 3 Aug 2013 | 05:39 am
Thailand has been a major destination for migrants from the neighboring Burma (Myanmar) for decades. In the past, members of ethnic groups residing along the Thai-Burma border, such as the Karen, the ...
Telangana, Again 1 Aug 2013 | 07:01 pm
The very first GeoCurrents article, posted on December 20, 2009, examined the possibility that the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh would be divided in two, with a new state of Telangana emerging from i...
North Kalimantan: Indonesia’s Newest Province and Southeast Asian Geopolitical Tensions 31 Jul 2013 | 09:57 pm
Indonesia and Malaysia have a long history of mutual distrust, despite—or perhaps because of—their similar historical and cultural backgrounds. Indonesia objected so strongly to the creation of an ind...
Mapping the Terms Used for First-Order Administrative Divisions 30 Jul 2013 | 11:06 pm
In examining the various countries of the world, I am often unsure what to call their main administrative divisions. Recently, I found myself writing about Peruvian departments but then wondered wheth...
Fiendishly Difficult One-Question Map Quiz 29 Jul 2013 | 08:07 pm
After making the map posted here I realized that its patterns are so odd that it would make an extremely difficult GeoQuiz. Just one question: what does the map show? The topic being mapped is commonp...
Baltimore turns to the Philippines to recruit teachers for inner city schools 26 Jul 2013 | 03:41 am
Many U.S. public schools, especially those in inner city districts and rural areas, are having trouble recruiting teachers, particularly in math, science, and special education. Baltimore has pioneere...
Explaining the Rapid Rise of the Xenophobic Right in Contemporary Europe 22 Jul 2013 | 10:47 pm
The last three decades have witnessed a remarkable rise in xenophobic, deeply conservative, and even extreme right-wing parties across much of Europe.[1] Whereas thirty years ago most xenophobic parti...
Mapping the Farmlands of Coastal Peru 20 Jul 2013 | 07:17 am
In writing about the fruit and vegetable exports of coastal Peru, I could not locate any on-line maps of the farming districts of the region. It is easy, however, to distinguish these areas in Google ...
Asparagus Land: Coastal Peru’s Fruit and Vegetable Export Boom 18 Jul 2013 | 05:55 am
The global market for temperate fruit was transformed several decades ago when Chile began to take advantage of its Southern Hemisphere location by massively exporting off-season produce to North Amer...
