Graham receives postumous award for Australian field work
The Council of the Institute of Australian Geographers has awarded the Australia-International Medal posthumously to Geosciences professor Julie Graham, who died unexpectedly in April as she was returning home from field work in Australia.
The Australia-International Medal, which was awarded jointly to Graham and her Australian research partner and colleague Katherine Gibson of Centre for Citizenship and Public Policy, is awarded “in recognition either of outstanding contributions by Australian (or Australia-based) geographers to the advancement of Geography world-wide or of outstanding contributions to the understanding of the geography of Australia by geographers permanently residing outside Australia.” No more than one medal is to be awarded each year.
The pair published under the pen name J. K. Gibson-Graham. Among other works, the two are authors of “A Postcapitalist Politics and the End of Capitalism (As We Knew It),” subtitled “A Feminist Critique of Political Economy,” both from the University of Minnesota Press.
Graham, who was 64 at the time of her death, specialized in economic geography included rethinking economy and economic dynamics; diverse economies and community economies; alternative economic development practice in the US, Australia and the Asia Pacific region; and economic subjectivity and politics.
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International Medal Letter to Katherine Gibson.doc
July 8, 2010.
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