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Luke R. Barnesmoore

Luke R. Barnesmoore is Co-Founder/Director of the UBC Urban Studies Lab (UBC USL), Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Critical Interdisciplinary Studies 501(c)3 (CCIS) and PhD Candidate in the University of British Columbia Department of Geography (Supervisors: Elvin K. Wyly—Urban Geography; E. Wayne Ross—Curriculum and Pedagogy; Simon Springer—Anarchist Geography/Education). Luke completed his B.A. in International Relations at San Francisco State University where he graduated first in his class and his M.A. in Human Geography at the University of British Columbia. Luke has held a number of academic positions including Visiting Scholar at the UC Berkeley Statnews.org Lab where he developed theories and methods for application of large data text corpora analysis software in social science and humanities research. His interdisciplinary research centers the nexus of worldview(s) (i.e. cosmology-ontology), epistemology and human relations with the rest of nature and is situated between a number of disciplines including Urban Geography/Planning, Critical Pedagogy and Indigenous Studies. Luke’s theoretical and methodological approaches are rooted in a synthesis of western philosophers like Michel Foucault and Lewis Mumford and Indigenous Philosophers from Turtle Island (i.e. North America) and China like Four Arrows, Gregory Cajete and Lao Zi whose works provide cosmological-ontological and epistemological paradigms that foment healthier potentials for human relations with the rest of nature than the rationalistic/'man's dominion over earth' paradigm(s) that have guided normative western relationships with the rest of nature in Modernity. Luke’s research has been influenced by a number of authors including: Four Arrows, Michel Foucault, Gregory Cajete, Vine Deloria Jr., Dawn Morrison, Lao Zi, Zhuang Zi, Thomas Cleary, Meng Zi, William Blake, Jacob Needleman, Maurice Nicoll, P.D. Ouspensky, Patrick Geddes and Lewis Mumford.