"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.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