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Faculty Biography
I am interested in a wildly wide range of subjects and approaches, but they all cohere around the themes of “social and cultural values,” the “impact of technology on traditional ways of living,” and “qualitative and participatory methods for responding to the world.” I think that pursuing a synthetic goal such as “environmental well-being” involves many complex dimensions that usually are treated only in a fragmented or even contradictory manner. The alternative for research and practice is to find ways to unify alternative modes of understanding and acting that still respect, even nurture, differences. This means combining approaches that focus on large, structural dimensions of phenomena and, simultaneously, using very specific cases in which meaning is contextually generated. Surprisingly, we under-utilize the power of film and new media and do not fully appreciate the importance of rhetoric and scenario building in the democratic planning process--shortcomings which we can remedy. Courses:
Mugerauer, R. with Monkia Kaup. "Global versus Local Spaces and Languages: Tourism and Resistance in the Caribbean Sea," in Felipe Hernandez, editor, Transcultural Architecture. Amsterdam--Atlanta: Rodopi Press, 2005. Mugerauer, R. "Deleuze and Guattari's Return to Science as a Basis for Environmental Philosophy," in Bruce V. Foltz and Robert Frodeman, editors, Nature Revisited: Environmental Philosophy in a New Key. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004. Mugerauer, R. "The Tensed Embrace of Tourism and Traditional Environments: Exclusionary Practices in Cancun, Cuba, and South Florida," in Nezar AlSayyad, editor, The End of Tradition. New Your: Routledge, 2003, pp. 116-143, illustrated. Mugerauer, R. "To Love the Earth: The Abysmal Sublime from Landscape to Laughter," New Nietzsche Studies, Vols. 5:3/4 and 6:1/2, Winter 2003/Spring 2004, 135-146. Mugerauer, R. "Openings To Each Other in the Technological Age," in Nezar AlSayyad, editor, Global Norms & Urban Forms in the Age of Tourism: Comsuming Tradition, Manufacturing Heritage. New York: Rouledge/Spon, 2001. Mugerauer, R. "Porous Boundaries: Fence Patterns and Mexican-American Identity in San Antonio, Texas," in Nezar AlSayyad, editor, Hybrid Urbanism: On Identity and Tradition in the Built Environment. New York: Praeger Publishers/Greenwood Press, 2001. Mugerauer, R. "Qualitative GIS: To Mediate, Not Dominate," in Donald G. Janelle and David Hodge, editors, Information, Space, and Cyberspace. Frankfurt am Main, 2000, pp. 317-338, illustrated. Mugerauer, R. with David Seamon, Eds. Dwelling, Place, and Environment, new 3rd Edition, Gainesville, Florida: Krieger Press, 2000, 355 pp., illustrated. |
