"Political Ecology at Home"

University Inn Conference Center, Rutgers University

March 29, 2003

PROGRAM

9:00 Welcome and Introduction

Richard Schroeder, Rutgers University. "Political Ecology at Home"

9:15 Debating the Binary I: First World/Third World Continuities

James P. McCarthy, Pennsylvania State University.
"Community-based Forestry as Exotic Policy."

Paul Robbins, Ohio State University.
"Barstool Biologists Meet Forest Intellectuals: Local Knowledge and the Politics of Uncertainty in Montana and Rajasthan."

Deborah Che, Western Michigan University.
"Ecotourism Place Production, Timber Harvesting, and ‘Local Customs and Culture’ in Northwestern Pennsylvania."

Discussion

10:45 Coffee Break

11:00 Debating the Binary II: First World/Third World Difference

Peter A. Walker, University of Oregon.
"Reconsidering ‘Regional’ Political Ecologies: Toward a Political Ecology of the Rural American West."

Katherine Albert, Rutgers University.
"The Political Ecology of Regional Change in the ‘Acadian Forest’."

Julie Guthman, University of California-Santa Cruz.
"The Value of Land in the Land of Value: Organic Farming Meets California Exceptionalism."

Discussion

12:30 Lunch

1:45 Contested Terrains I: Urban/industrial ecologies

Alec Brownlow, Temple University.
"Fragmented Forest, Fragmented City: Environmental Change and Vulnerability in Philadelphia."

Scott Carlin, Southampton College of Long Island University.
"Biochemical Intimacy: Breast Cancer Politics' Redefinition of Science."

Joel Wainwright, University of Minnesota.
"The Postcolonial Politics of Highway 55 in Minneapolis."

Discussion

Break

3:15 Contested terrains II: Rural/agrarian ecologies

Marla R. Emery, USDA Forest Service,
"The Persistence of Subsistence in U.S. Forests."

Kevin St. Martin, Rutgers University.
"Locating Community and Commons in the Industrialized Fisheries of the Northeast."

Gail Hollander, Florida International University.
"Agricultural Trade Liberalization, Multifunctionality, and the Florida Landscape."

J. Sandy Rikoon, University of Missouri-Columbia.
"Wild Horses and the Political Ecology of Nature Restoration in the Missouri Ozarks."

Discussion

5:00 Commentary

Benjamin Neimark, Rutgers University

Sharon Baskind, Rutgers University

Bonnie McCay, Rutgers University