{"id":1181,"date":"2018-07-17T00:06:05","date_gmt":"2018-07-17T00:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/160-geography\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=1181"},"modified":"2021-04-09T16:34:49","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T16:34:49","slug":"jay-bowman","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/geography\/facultystaff\/jay-bowman\/","title":{"rendered":"Jay Bowman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jay Bowman is a PhD candidate in the Department of Geography, Environment and Society at the University of Minnesota.\u00a0 Jay is visiting Macalester to teach courses on the Middle East, Gender and Development, and Human Geography of Global Affairs.<\/p>\n<p>Jay is currently working on his dissertation titled, <em>The Politics of Waste: Decentralization, Labor and Homegrown Neoliberalism<\/em>, which examines the restructuring of the waste system in Amman, Jordan.\u00a0 Through conditional loans from international lending institutions, the Greater Amman Municipality is currently creating a privately-structured company to overtake the municipal waste infrastructure.\u00a0 However, as the company\u2019s shares will be entirely owned by the city itself, this form of pseudo-privatization does not fit perfectly into the model of urban neoliberalism preferred by global lenders.\u00a0 The fate of labor within this system \u2013 both government employees and informal waste workers \u2013 remains unclear.\u00a0 Full-bore privatization has meant dispossession and loss of livelihoods in many places throughout the world; but the retention of governmental ownership may give workers novel avenues for self-preservation.<\/p>\n<h2>Courses<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"fact-list\">\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul class=\"fact-list\">\n<li>GEOG 111: Human Geography of Global Issues<\/li>\n<li>GEOG 294:\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Life and Geography of the Middle East: From Colonialism to the Arab Spring<\/span><\/li>\n<li>GEOG 394: G<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ender, Development and Public Policy<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Links for Geography course syllabi can be found on our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/geography\/courses\/coursepages\/\">Course Syllabi<\/a> page.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":1244,"template":"","class_list":["post-1181","profile","type-profile","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2339,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1181\/revisions\/2339"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}