The spectral turn of satellites
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Join SGDE in welcoming Dr. Mia Bennett from the University of Washington to kick off our Spring 2024 Colloquium lineup! This talk will take place from 3:30-5pm on Friday, January 19 in room S107 of the ENR2 building. All are welcome!
Dr. Mia Bennett is an assistant professor in the Department of Geography. As a political geographer with geospatial skills, she is interested in transportation infrastructure and natural resource development in northern frontiers, namely the Arctic, Russian Far East, and the more remote corridors of China’s Belt and Road Initiative. Her work combines ethnographic fieldwork and remote sensing to consider issues such as how local and Indigenous actors leverage geopolitical transformations to attract development to their homelands. In recent years, Bennett's work has expanded to consider the geopolitics and epistemologies of satellites and remote sensing, leading her to collaborate with colleagues to develop the field of critical remote sensing.