Welcome to the PIP Lab

The People Identity and Place (PIP) Lab aims to support critical cultural and political geography approaches in graduate student research and promote the recognition of such approaches in the University of Oregon Department of Geography. The structure of our lab is student-led; this is to say that we are not organized by any single professor’s projects or research interests. Our research group is collaborative but is not aimed at producing a single result.  

As a group of graduate students with shared interests, we hope to promote current and future interest in the theoretical and empirical areas that we share. We also advocate for departmental support and recognition regarding the human geography research that we do. This includes courses offered related to our interests, teaching assignments, reading groups, seminar topics, and access to resources such as data analysis software.  

Our empirical foci include, but are not limited to: power relations at the local and global scales and the interrelations between them; how subaltern populations at localized scales construct agency and navigate power in and across space; the role of the state in affecting people’s use of and interactions with their environment(s); the geographies of power and social movements; the relationships between identity, capital, and space. 

This term, PIP meets every other Tuesday at 10am in Condon 207.

For more information on the PIP Lab, please email Emily Doerner at edoerne2@uoregon.edu