Collecting Cryographic Climate Data, Remembering Alberto Behar

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  • Rafico Ruiz

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https://doi.org/10.17742/IMAGE.LD.8.2.10

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Rafico Ruiz

Rafico Ruiz is a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Banting Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of Alberta. In the winter of 2018, he will be the Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Arctic Studies at Dartmouth College. He holds a PhD in Communication Studies and the History and Theory of Architecture from McGill University. He studies the relationships between mediation and social space, particularly in the Arctic and Subarctic; the cultural geographies of natural resource engagements; and the philosophical and political stakes of infrastructural and ecological systems. His work appears in a number of journals and edited collections, including the International Journal of Communication, the Journal of Northern Studies, Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, and Communication +1. His work has been supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Smallwood Foundation, Media@McGill, the McCord Museum and Archives, and Harvard Medical School, amongst others.

Rafico Ruiz est récipiendaire de la bourse postdoctorale Banting du Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada au Département de sociologie de l’Université de l’Alberta. À l’hiver 2018, il deviendra titulaire de la chaire de recherche Fulbright Canada en études arctiques au Dartmouth College. Il détient un doctorat en communication et en histoire et théorie de l’architecture de l’Université McGill. Il étudie les relations entre la médiation et l’espace social, en particulier dans l’Arctique et le Subarctique, les géographies culturelles de la mobilisation des  ressources naturelles, et les enjeux philosophiques et politiques des infrastructures et systèmes écologiques. Son travail apparaît dans plusieurs revues et ouvrages collectifs, y compris l’International Journal of Communication, le Journal of Northern Studies, Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, et Communication +1. Son travail a été appuyé, entre autres, par le Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada, la Smallwood Foundation, Media@McGill, le Centre d’archives du Musée McCord et la Harvard Medical School.

Imaginations 8.2 Location and Dislocation

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Published

2018-09-06

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Ruiz, R. (2018). Collecting Cryographic Climate Data, Remembering Alberto Behar. Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies, 8(2), 82–85. https://doi.org/10.17742/IMAGE.LD.8.2.10

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Vol. 8 No. 2 (2017): Location and Dislocation: Global Geographies of Digital Data

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