Regionalists on Film Episode 11, Featuring Dayne Walling, University of Minnesota, USA
Interviewer: Michael Glass, University of Pittsburgh
Interview Date: September 29th, 2022
Dayne Walling is a community development consultant and doctoral candidate in geography at the University of Minnesota. Dayne has twenty years of professional experience as a public executive, non-profit administrator, social entrepreneur, research fellow and instructor. He previously served two terms as the mayor of his hometown of Flint, MI. Our conversation looks at how deindustrialization affects the provision of drinking water, and whether regional governance offers solutions to crises of inequality.
Regionalists on Film Episode 10, Featuring Grete Gansauer, Montana State University, USA
Interviewer: Michael Glass, University of Pittsburgh
Interview Date: November 2nd, 2022
A rural development scholar based at Montana State University with an interest in the condition of America’s ‘left behind regions’, Grete Gansauer is using geographic political economy theory to inform a qualitative approach that assesses the merit of infrastructure development as a pathway to improving the condition of peripheral and rural regions. The conversation touches on her work in rural development, and her research on the rural implications of infrastructural regionalism.
Regionalists on Film Episode 9, Featuring Prof. Jennifer Clark, Ohio State University, USA
Interviewer: Michael Glass, University of Pittsburgh
Interview Date: September 21st, 2022
Professor Jennifer Clark is Professor and Head of the City and Regional Planning Section at the Knowlton School in the College of Engineering at The Ohio State University and holds a courtesy appointment with the Department of Geography. She is also a Visiting Professor of City and Regional Planning with the School of Business at the University of Stavenger in Norway. Our conversation focuses on her work about urban innovation and the ‘smart city’; we discuss how these questions matter for understanding city-region development, and how regional scholars can position themselves to provide policy-relevant solutions.
Regionalists on Film Episode 8, Featuring Prof. Jose Maria Cardoso da Silva, University of Miami, USA
Interviewer: Michael Glass, University of Pittsburgh
Interview Date: September 21st, 2022
Professor. José Maria Cardoso da Silva is a Professor of Geography and Sustainable Development at the University of Miami. Professor Silva’s work examines the relationships between socio-economic development and environmental conservation in tropical regions. Integrating concepts and theories from several disciplines, he uses a regional approach to promote sustainable development solutions in tropical countries, particularly South America. Our conversation discusses the significance of conservation policy and regional studies, and his work on local economic growth and protected areas in Brazil.
Regionalists on Film Episode 7, Featuring Dr Jen Nelles, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Interviewer: Michael Glass, University of Pittsburgh
Interview Date: September 27th, 2022
Dr. Jen Nelles is a Senior Research Fellow with the Innovation Caucus and co-director of the Oxford Regions, Innovation, and Enterprise Lab (ORIEL) at Oxford Brookes Business School. Her most recent US-based work focuses on regional governance organizations and their abilities to coordinate policy across jurisdictional boundaries. Our conversation discusses her interdisciplinary work and our shared interests in infrastructure, as well as the challenges of translating research across regional contexts.
Regionalists on Film Episode 6, Featuring Prof. Anne Taufen, University of Washington, Tacoma
Interviewer: Michael Glass, University of Pittsburgh
Interview Date: September 7th, 2022
Dr. Anne Taufen is an Associate Professor in the School of Urban Studies at the University of Washington Tacoma. Her research focuses on equitable governance, port city infrastructures, and the social-ecological networks of urban regions, and is the co-editor of Routledge’s Handbook of Sustainable Cities and Landscapes in the Pacific Rim. We discuss her work on port infrastructure, exploring the intersection of ports, regional studies, and the benefits of comparative research on issues relating to sustainability goals.
Regionalists on Film Episode 5, Featuring Prof. Jean-Paul Addie, Georgia State University, USA
Interviewer: Michael Glass, University of Pittsburgh
Interview Date: July 28th, 2022
Dr. Jean-Paul Addie is an Associate Professor in the Urban Studies Institute at Georgia State University’s Andrew Young School of Policy Studies. His research focuses on the politics of urban infrastructure to address questions of access, mobility, and justice, and is my co-organizer with Jen Nelles for the Regional Studies Association’s research network, NOIR—the Network on Infrastructural Regionalism. We discuss NOIR, the intersections of infrastructure and regionalism, and his current focus on infrastructural time.
Regionalists on Film Episode 4, Featuring John Stehlin, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA
Interviewer: Michael Glass, University of Pittsburgh
Interview Date: July 21st, 2022
Dr. John Stehlin is an Assistant Professor of Geography, Environment, and Sustainability at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. His work examines new mobility infrastructures and how they intervene in the production of urban space. In this conversation we explore how platform economies are shaping urban futures and discuss the merits of multi-scalar analysis to the goal of thinking regionally.
Regionalists on Film Episode 3, Featuring Prof. Erica Schoenberger, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Interviewer: Michael Glass, University of Pittsburgh
Interview Date: August 31st, 2022
An economic geographer and environmental historian based at Johns Hopkins University, Erica Schoenberger is the author of Nature, Choice and Social Power. This book explores how different forms of social power, including the power of markets, create and sustain pollution problems. Her current research delves into the origins of capitalism. She was awarded a 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship for this book, a recognition of achievements and exceptional promise in scholarship or creative arts. Our conversation discusses Schoenberger’s call to ‘take history seriously’, and how regional scholarship can benefit from attending to the temporal dimension.
Regionalists on Film Episode 2, Featuring Prof. Nichola Lowe, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Interviewer: Michael Glass, University of Pittsburgh
Interview Date: August 24th, 2022
Professor Nichola Lowe is Professor in City and Regional Planning at UNC Chapel-Hill and is also a Visiting Professor in the Department of Human and Economic Geography at Lund University. Her research examines the institutional arrangements that can create more inclusive forms of urban and regional economic development. We discuss her book, Putting Skill to Work: How to Create Good Jobs in Uncertain Times, which looks at the role of workplace intermediaries across the United States that help extend job pathways to workers at the bottom of the labor market.
Regionalists on Film Episode 1, Featuring Prof. Michael Storper, LSE, UK
Interviewer: Michael Glass, University of Pittsburgh, USA and Territorial Ambassador to the USA
Interview Date: July 7th, 2022
Professor Michael Storper is the LSE Centennial Professor of Economic Geography and is also affiliated with the Centre de Sociologie des Organisations at Sciences-Po in Paris, and the Department of Urban Planning in the School of Public Affairs at UCLA. Professor Storper has received the Regional Studies Association’s Sir Peter Hall Prize for overall contribution to the field. His latest book is The Rise and Fall of Urban Economies, with Stanford University Press. In this video, Michael Glass interview Michael Storper and their conversation focuses on his work on regional innovation, and the focus on inter-regional institutional differences that he is presently exploring.