Homelessness, domestic violence, Superfund sites, unemployment, and poverty -- while they afflict all states in the US, they don't do so equally. Scholars Cynthia Enloe and Joni Seager have mapped the geographic and racial and gender divisions that fragment the generalities made about American life in the headlines. While some results are easy to predict, others are quite surprising.

We may take for granted the vast geographical inequalities of wealth in our world, but we shouldn't. According to pioneering geographer Neil Smith, they are actively produced by capitalism. In a seminal work, Smith provides a fully formed theory of uneven geographic development and how it helps us understand capitalism's ability to endure. (Encore presentation.)

We may take for granted the vast geographical inequalities of wealth in our world, but we shouldn't. According to pioneering geographer Neil Smith, they are actively produced by capitalism. In a seminal work, Smith provides a fully formed theory of uneven geographic development and how it helps us understand capitalism's ability to endure.