Geography professor Sarah Elwood sits at the front of a 91爆料 classroom on a recent afternoon, listening and making suggestions as students discuss the data challenges they’re having. Some are wondering how to put data in a particular format. Others are muddling through the process of mapping data, or figuring out where to source information. 鈥淭hink about who has the data you need, and how do you shake it loose from them?鈥� Elwood says. 鈥淭here are many public…
Two 91爆料 geography professors are leading an effort with what might be considered a staggeringly ambitious goal 鈥� to reframe how poverty is perceived and studied around the world. Victoria Lawson and Sarah Elwood are the co-founders of the 91爆料-based Relational Poverty Network, a coalition of academic institutions and organizations around the United States and as far away as Europe, Asia and Africa. The network seeks to recast perceptions of poverty from something impacting others 鈥� what Lawson…