Mark Rhodes

@japoniano Given our size and population, our use of passenger rail transport is pathetic.

Students ride the rails in this course to learn about sustainability and tourism theconversation.com/students-ride-…

If you want the deeper dive, check out @Katpolo8 and my recent piece in @JGHE_Journal where we make the connections between our study away program on Amtrak to concepts of Slow Tourism, Play, and Dwelling. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

How can we use @Amtrak to better engage our students with our landscapes, our communities, our economies, and questions of sustainability and equity? I highlight some of what I've been doing @MichiganTech in this @ConversationUS. @theAAG @MTU_CSA theconversation.com/students-ride-…

"Seitz brings STAR TREK firmly into conversation with critical social theory and geography at a scope and scale not yet attempted. I hope this is just the beginning," writes Mark Alan Rhodes II of A DIFFERENT TREK. Read the full review: bit.ly/3UBaY1A

Check out this article by Mark Rhodes (@Cartomark) & Julianna Bartoszek exploring food-based living memory: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… @mtu_SocialSci @mturesearch @mtu_glrc @MTU_CSA @michigantech @AmericanGeo

Half of the students take a mixed grad/undergrad Industrial Communities course with @Cartomark where @AmgueddfaWlan they discussed industrial heritage interpretation techniques and in the @NLWales Archives they read through journals from @AmgueddfaCymru directors.

All students take a class on cultural immersion, but half are in Migrant and National Communities where @Katpolo8 has framed the role of textiles and fashion @AmgueddfaWlan and the themed narratives of cartography and biography @NLWales's Galleries.

Part of the foci on community transformations include environmental policy and post-industrial landscapes' ecological impacts. Fantastic to see work at @The_Waterfront, @OrielyParc, and @AmgueddfaWlan reflecting food and linguistic sovereignty and their socioecological impacts.

First days included both intentional and yet-to-be told narratives of the racialized, gendered, and plural histories of Wales where national institutions have a mandate to work towards anti-racism. @AmgueddfaCymru @SSAPWales @Museum_Cardiff @CuratorMark @The_Waterfront

The Wales 2024: Community Transformations @MichiganTech study abroad received a very warm welcome last week from the @WelshGovernment! Thank you to @walesintheworld for organizing and @Cadw and @WGCulture for walking through policies shaping the historic and cultural environment.

Huh, it's almost as though there's a constitutional amendment protecting the right to peaceful protest in public place. "Charges dismissed against 46 arrested during pro-Palestinian protest at UT Austin" kut.org/crime-justice/…

No, Mr. Netanyahu. It is not antisemitic or pro-Hamas to point out that in a little over six months your extremist government has killed 34,000 Palestinians and wounded more than 77,000 – 70% of whom are women and children. You will not distract us from this immoral war.

Always surprised at Paul Robeson's presence in Wales. [Un]SEEN [Un]HEARD @Museum_Cardiff modifies audio from the 1957 Miner's #Eisteddfod to disrupt the supposed "clarity" of a white industrial Wales with the voices of #PaulRobeson and @BarackObama. @AmgueddfaCymru

Calling in police enforcement on nonviolent demonstrations of young students on campus is an escalatory, reckless, and dangerous act. It represents a heinous failure of leadership that puts people’s lives at risk. I condemn it in the strongest possible terms.

First time doing proper archival research since the dissertation, and I'm busy finding the unexpected...and maps! Love to hear the thoughts folks may have on the role of national heritage institution presses.

We're weeks away from #KentStateMay4 and #May15 when national guard and police murdered students for protesting at #KentState and #JacksonState. Those students died protecting our #FreedomOfAssembly. Let's hope university admin across the country didn't fail US History.

@louisemiskell @HeritageNPT What do you know, something I can actually attend in between my archival research this week and ahead of leading my study abroad next week!!

I’ll be speaking at this event in Port Talbot one week today! It’s free to attend but prior registration via the eventbright link is essential ⁦@HeritageNPT⁩

Next week Novelist & poet Christopher Meredith & historian @louisemiskell will share their perspectives on the meaning and significance of the steel industry in Welsh communities, past, present and future TICKETS🎟️: bit.ly/4alTZVW