Geohumanities & Curatorial Work
Geohumanities refers to transdisciplinary scholarship at the intersection of geography and the humanities. Stemming from my interests in social theory and border cultures, it incorporates my most recent explorations in research and teaching, and includes curatorial work in border art and culture. The entire ethos in these transdisciplinary spaces is devoted to crossing boundaries of many kinds: linguistic, geopolitical, artistic, theoretical, philosophical and methodological. This hybrid milieu has been an exhilarating and mind-opening journey, and is one reason I am devoting more time to art and cultural projects. Read more.
Geohumanities
Books
Michael Dear, Border Witness: Reimagining the US Mexico Borderlands Through Film, UC Press, 2023.
Dear, J. Ketchum, S. Luria and D. Richardson (eds.) Geohumanities: Art, History & Text at the Edge of Place. Routledge, 2011.
Dear, G. Leclerc (eds.), Postborder City: Cultural Spaces of Bajalta California. Routledge, 2003.
Articles
Review: Walking the Line
December 2013 | Tucson Weekly
Book Review: Why Walls Won’t Work
October 2013 | LSE Review of Books
Third Nation or Trans-Nation? Remapping the US-Mexico Borderlands
September 24, 2013 | The Urban Fringe
Review: Why Walls Won’t Work reviewed by Daniela De Leo
August 2013 | Berkeley Planning Journal
Review: Why Walls Won’t Work: Repairing the U.S.-Mexico Divide
April 2013 | Geographical Review
Review: Why Walls Won’t Work: Repairing the US-Mexico Divide
March 12, 2013 | San Francisco Book Review
For a complete list of articles, refer to the full CV
Curatorial Work
Califas: Art of the US-Mexico Borderlands / El Arte de la Zona Fronteriza México-Estados Unidos September 11 to November 16, 2018, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA. Michael Dear and Ron Rael, Co-Curators
Tracing the Line / Trazando La Lineá May to July, 2012, Centro Estatal de las Artes in Mexicali, B.C. Hector Manuel Lucero and Michael Dear, Co-Curators
Mixed Feelings: Art and Culture in the Post-Border Metropolis / Sentimientos Contradictorios: Arte y cultura en la metropolis Posfronteriza September 4 to December 7, 2002. USC Fisher Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. Michael Dear and Gustavo Leclerc, Co-Curators
Articles
Is the U.S. Falling Behind Mexico? News from Ambos Nogales
July 29, 2014 | Huffington Post
For a complete list of articles, refer to the full CV