Hi everyone, Jennifer Bailey and I are organizing a panel on environmentalism and opposition, and we would like to invite you if you are interested in the general ideas. If you are interested please respond off list directly to me.
Right now this is our panel synopsis: "Tree-huggers, Misanthropes and Terrorists: (Mis)Representing the Environmental Movement in the Public Sphere" At a time when the realities of global warming and the limits of the seas and food production are being broadly acknowledged, environmentalists continue to be dismissed as sentimental, irrational and emotional. Instead of taking seriously the need to rethink the relationship between humans and the non-human world, many "solutions" to environmental crises embrace their drivers: technology, development, scientism, and modernist extraction. This panel explores the strategies used to dismiss alternative views of the environment and their messengers, and it will offer consideration to major innovative thinkers like Bruno Latour and Ulrich Beck on the ideas of constructing a democratic discourse. in peace, Peter Peter J. Jacques, Ph.D. Department of Political Science University of Central Florida P.O. Box 161356 4000 Central Florida Blvd. Orlando, FL 32816-1356 Phone: (407) 823-2608 Fax: (407) 823-0051 http://politicalscience.cos.ucf.edu/main.php?URL=jacques
