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Rodeo in Oregon and Florida: Two Peripheral-Yet-Significant Regions and Their Surprising Connections

Posted on May 6, 2026 by nathanalbright

Introduction When the rodeo world is mapped in the popular imagination, the core territory runs through Texas, Oklahoma, the Dakotas, Wyoming, Montana, Colorado, New Mexico, and Alberta. Oregon and Florida do not appear on most such mental maps, and this … Continue reading →

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White Paper: Conditions for Rural Development as Pressure Relief on the Peripheral Territories of Newfoundland and Labrador

Posted on May 1, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract This white paper addresses a question implied by the preceding analysis but not yet developed within it: under what conditions could rural development in Newfoundland and Labrador be made to function as genuine pressure relief on the non-primate territory … Continue reading →

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White Paper: Primate-City Concentration in the Far Periphery — Anchorage, Whitehorse, and St. John’s

Posted on May 1, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract This white paper examines three sub-national primate cities — Anchorage, Alaska; Whitehorse, Yukon; and St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador — as instances of a distinct urban phenomenon: extreme population concentration in remote, peripheral jurisdictions of large federal states. Each … Continue reading →

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White Paper: The Lighthouse Network of Newfoundland and the Calculus of Peripheral Value

Posted on May 1, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract This white paper examines Newfoundland’s lighthouse network as a material archive of the island’s relationship to imperial and federal authority, and treats the present condition of that network as a tractable diagnostic for the question of what Newfoundland is … Continue reading →

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Comparative Northern Governance: Labrador in Relation to Yukon, the Northwest Territories, and Nunavut, and Its Political Position within Newfoundland and Labrador

Posted on April 29, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract Labrador occupies an anomalous position in Canada’s federal architecture. By every metric typically used to characterize Northern Canada — high latitude, low population density, vast area, significant Indigenous proportion of population, and a resource-extraction economic base — Labrador resembles … Continue reading →

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Structural Determinants of Labrador’s Spatial Isolation: A White Paper on the Geographic, Jurisdictional, and Political-Economic Foundations of a Disconnected Territory

Posted on April 29, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract Labrador, the mainland portion of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, occupies roughly 294,000 square kilometres of the Labrador Peninsula yet hosts fewer than 27,000 inhabitants and only one through-road of any kind: the Trans-Labrador Highway, fully paved … Continue reading →

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White Paper 1 — Federal Policy Mismatch in Newfoundland and Labrador

Posted on April 29, 2026 by nathanalbright

1. Executive Summary This paper argues that Canadian federal policy, as it has been designed and implemented in the period since Confederation in 1949, has produced systematic mismatches with conditions in Newfoundland and Labrador, and that the mismatches have specifiable … Continue reading →

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White Paper: Spatial Distribution and Urban Form: Why Vice Clusters — or Spreads

Posted on March 21, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract The spatial organization of vice in urban environments is neither random nor merely the product of demand geography. It is the outcome of complex interactions among land use regulation, real estate economics, transportation infrastructure, enforcement practice, and the agglomeration … Continue reading →

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White Paper: Typology of Vice Ecosystems: How Different Cities Arrive at Similar Outcomes

Posted on March 21, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract Despite significant variation in legal regimes, cultural contexts, and political histories, cities across the United States and the world exhibit a striking convergence in outcomes related to vice — the persistence of markets for gambling, sex work, illicit substances, … Continue reading →

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White Paper: The Strategic Geography of Orbital Space: Orbital Regimes, Chokepoints, and the Mechanics of Celestial Power Projection

Posted on March 14, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract The emergence of space as a contested operational domain compels strategists and geographers alike to reconsider the foundational frameworks through which they understand geographic advantage. This paper argues that orbital space possesses genuine geographic structure — expressed through orbital … Continue reading →

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