Geography
Research Facilitation
Lucas Belury is a geographer, researcher, & facilitator working toward a sustainable and equitable world. His research focuses on racial justice, US-Mexico borderlands, and the power of geospatial data to challenge structural inequality.
HIGHLIGHTED WORK
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FLUJOS RGV
FLUJOS RGV is a collaborative research project developed with community-based flood justice organizations in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. This project challenges the environmental racism of flood injustice throughout the RGV.
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Queer Latinidad
This archival project addresses the silences of queer Latinidad in San Antonio, Texas. By focusing on a distinctive period of queer history, the decade between Stonewall (1969) and the HIV/AIDS Epidemic (1981), this project expands our knowledge of queer of color life.
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Water Justice Knowledge Exchange
The Water Justice Knowledge Exchange is a series of knowledge exchange sessions between scholars and community-based organizations around water injustice.
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Flood Justice en las Fronteras
Justice & Floods in the US-Mexico Borderlands/Justicia e Inundaciones en las Fronteras de Estados Unidos y México is a bilingual/binational podcast to grow our understanding of flood justice in the US-Mexico borderlands.
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FLUJOS
FLUJOS is a collaborative co-production model that centers the lived experiences of local communities with remote sensing for flood detection. By leveraging satellite-based flood maps and the local expertise of community-based organizations and flood affected populations, this model challenges flood injustice.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
GEOGRAPHIC Perspective
Lucas Belury (he/him/el) is a PhD Geography student at the University of Arizona. Lucas collaborates with community-based organizations and he has published articles on environmental racism, the US-Mexico borderlands, and racial equity. His current work integrates the lived experience of Latinx border residents into knowledge systems. Through this work he aims to center local knowledges and empowering communities as they challenge systemic inequality.
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Pedagogy
I aim to empower students to explore marginalized perspectives and identities by critical engaging with their world. My goal is to inspire students to become compassionate and informed advocates.
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Research
In my research I utilize the Latinx cultural concept of testimonios to elevate underprivileged voices and move the needle on (in)equity and (in)justice. In doing so I aim to center the lived experience of marginalized communities through advocacy, scholarship, and knowledge co-production.
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Community Engagement
A core tenant of my ethos as a scholar is community engagement and knowledge co-production. I see community engagement as both ethos and research methodology.