Graduate
Students
Margath (Maggie) A. Walker
M.A. San
Diego State (Latin American Studies)
B.A. University of Kentucky (Journalism)
contact:
1418
Patterson Office
Tower
Tel.:(859)
257-6992
Fax:
(859) 323-1969
email:
mwalk2@uky.edu
Profile
This is my third year
at the
University of Kentucky where I am a doctoral candidate with interests
in political geography, social theory, methodology and Latin America.
Currently I am a Research Assistant on an NSF- funded project doing
participant observation at a local non-governmental organization in
Oaxaca, Mexico. I was born in Malta and grew up in Nigeria,
Brazil and Mexico; circumstances that made Geography a natural if
obvious choice for a field of study.
Dissertation
Research
Building
on Vilar’s observation that “the
history of the world can best be viewed from the frontier”, my
dissertation
examines how the border city of Tijuana has become a center for the
production of Mexican national
identity. The research emphasizes the border as a
crucial site of nation-building and contributes to understandings of
the
nation-state at various geographic scales while elucidating the spatial
dialectic of the local and the national.
Published Works
2004.
“Guada-narco-lupe, Maquilarañas and the Discursive
Construction of Gender and Difference on the US-Mexico Border in
Mexican Media
Re-presentations” Gender, Place and
Culture (forthcoming).
2000.
"Tools of Protest: Social Movements and Spontaneous Settlements on
the U.S.-Mexico Border". San Diego
State
Graduate Working Paper Series.
2000. "Borderlink:
Alamar-Tecate Watershed Project." Institute for Regional Studies of the
Californias, San Diego State University (with
co-authors)
Papers
Presented
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"Mixtec Narratives: Perceptions of
Poverty on the
US-Mexico Border.
Qualitative Research Revisited."
Colloquium Series, University
of Kentucky, March 8, 2002.
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“Evolving US-Mexico
Borderlands."
Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American
Geographers, Los Angeles, March 21, 2000. (Session
Chair)
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“Media
Re-presentations: Discourses of Life and Death on
the US-Mexico
Border" Paper presented at the
Border Cities Conference, Milwaukee, WI.
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“Representations of La
Frontera: A View from Mexico
" Paper presented at the Southeastern Division
of the Association of Southeastern Geographers, Richmond,
VA.
-
Discussant for Hilda
Kurtz
“Environmental Justice Activism: Merging Liberal and Communitarian
Citizenship?”, Southeastern Division of the Association of Southeastern
Geographers, Richmond, VA
Teaching
Experience
August 2001-
Present- T.A./Primary Instructor Regional World Geography (Geo 152), University of Kentucky
- preparing lessons
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teaching class of
75 undergraduates
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