PDXPLORES

In this episode of PDXPLORES, Professor Jola Ajibade discusses research examining how cascading social and environmental hazards might impact communities in the Portland metro region and what policymakers and community members can do to mitigate the risks and promote a more just, livable, and sustainable urban future.

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In this episode of PDXPLORES, Emily Ford, a professor in the Millar Library at Portland State University, discusses the lived experiences of peer review, a small but landmark part of scholarly communications. Ford argues that proprietary publishing has influenced many of the processes in the scholarly publishing ecosystem, resulting in a need to reapply the values of human inquiry to scholarly communications. Drawing from her research, Ford suggests how the academic community might address this need.

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Fifty years ago, the City of Portland developed a plan for the downtown corridor with a radical vision of what a central city could be. The downtown we know today is the result of that plan. In this episode of PDXPLORES, Professor Emeritus Ethan Seltzer discusses the 1972 downtown plan and how Portland State evolved into an urban-serving university alongside the downtown corridor.

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In this episode of PDXPLORES, Harold McNaron and August White discuss how a collaboration with the American Association of Colleges and Universities will provide new information on how students experience community-based learning at PSU. The data provided by the project will support the University's efforts to improve racial and social justice through community and service-based learning opportunities. This project is supported by the University's Community Engaged Research Academy.

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In this episode of PDXPLORES, Jordan Hallmark (MA, History, '22) discusses the cultural construction of racial identity in late-18th century Saint-Domingue (Haiti). Inspired in part by a historiographic shift known as the “Global Turn,” the last two decades have given rise to a wealth of new studies on the history of Haiti. While these studies have varied in their chronological scope, the colonial and revolutionary periods of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries—when Haiti was known as Saint-Domingue—have emerged as an especially fertile ground for interdisciplinary scholarship. Despite the interdisciplinary richness of this emergent historiography, however, students of Haitian history may be surprised to learn that eighteenth-century Saint-Domingue has received comparatively little scholarly attention from art historians or historians of material culture. Using material culture as a lens through which to examine how social and racial status was conceived and negotiated in the last years of French colonial rule, Hallmark analyzes the collecting practices of two gens de couleur (free people of color) from the parish of Jérémie in Saint-Domingue’s southern province: Jacques Lafond (d. 1797) and Noel Azor (d. ca. 1798).

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