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David Butz - Seeking MA Students

<p><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-size: 1.8em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1em; ">Road construction and social change in rural areas of the global South</span></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: url(http://www.brocku.ca/sites/all/themes/rootcandy/rootcandy_fixed/images/page_wrapper.png); background-repeat: repeat-y; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(112, 111, 111); font: normal normal normal 13px/160% 'Trebuchet MS', verdana, sans-serif; background-position: 50% 0%; "><p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(112, 111, 111); font: normal normal normal 13px/160% 'Trebuchet MS', verdana, sans-serif; "><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; color: rgb(88, 88, 88); font: normal normal normal 13px/160% 'Trebuchet MS', verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.6em; ">In my own current work this interest involves investigating the implications of a newly constructed road for the daily lives, identities, and spatialities of residents in a small agricultural village in northern Pakistan. Funded opportunities exist for qualified and interested students to work with interviews, testimonial information, archives and photographic evidence relevant to this particular road-building project. I would also be interested in supervising students who would like to work on this general topic in relation to other geographical contexts.</span></p></div><p> </p> [1]

<p><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-size: 1.8em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1em; ">Geographies of Musi</span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-size: 1.8em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1em; ">c</span></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: url(http://www.brocku.ca/sites/all/themes/rootcandy/rootcandy_fixed/images/page_wrapper.png); background-repeat: repeat-y; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(112, 111, 111); font: normal normal normal 13px/160% 'Trebuchet MS', verdana, sans-serif; background-position: 50% 0%; "><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(112, 111, 111); font: normal normal normal 13px/160% 'Trebuchet MS', verdana, sans-serif; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: url(http://www.brocku.ca/sites/all/themes/rootcandy/rootcandy_fixed/images/page_wrapper.png); background-repeat: repeat-y; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 50% 0%; "><p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(112, 111, 111); font: normal normal normal 13px/160% 'Trebuchet MS', verdana, sans-serif; "><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; color: rgb(88, 88, 88); font: normal normal normal 13px/160% 'Trebuchet MS', verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.6em; ">My interests are in (a) sound as a resource for understanding and representing spatiality, (b) music's role in constituting specific spaces, (c) the concept of acoustic space, and (d) relationships among music, identity and place. I have thought about these issues most carefully in relation to reggae music, but my supervisory interests are not constrained by genre preferences. I recently supervised a student who studied how the use of i-pods is shaping the constitution and experience of public transit environments.</span></p></div></div><p> </p> [2]

<p><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-size: 1.8em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1em; ">Qualitative research methods, especially ethnography and autoethnography in their various forms</span></p><p>I am eager to work with students who wish either to use or interrogate the use of these approaches in geographical research. Students entering graduate school seldom realize that methodology itself is a dynamic area of research. Ethnography, and especially the place of the self-reflexive researcher-self in ethnographic research, is an especially dynamic area of research on methodology, that I would be interested to help interested students explore.</p> [3]

David Butz - Geography

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