[gep-ed] Water privatization successes?
Hi Gepers, I teach a course in the Fall called "Water and Power" where we deal with water privatization theories and cases. I usually describe the range of models and focus on the failures (Cochabamba, South Africa etc...). Last year my students challenged me with the question - "where have new privatization schemes succeeded in the world"? I was stumped. Can anyone refer me to any scholarship or cases on this? Thanks, Roopali Phadke -- Roopali Phadke Environmental Studies Department Macalester College St. Paul, MN 55105 O: 651 696 6802
[gep-ed] Anyone taking students to COP21 in Paris?
Hi All, I am planning on taking a delegation of students to Paris for COP 21 (as part of a Fall course on climate talks). I wonder if anyone else is doing this. We have a Minnesota based collaboration across several academic institutions - we will each bring a group. We would love to connect with others with similar plans from other parts of the country/world. Best Roopali -- Dr. Roopali Phadke Associate Professor Environmental Studies Department Macalester College St. Paul, MN 55105 O: 651 696 6802 Email: pha...@macalester.edu http://www.macalester.edu/environmentalstudies/facultystaff/roopaliphadke/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to gep-ed+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[gep-ed] Looking for suggestions on regional environmental governance case studies
Hi All, I am working on an undergrad Environmental Politics syllabus for the Fall and am interested in having small groups of students investigate a series of regional environmental agreements. I am looking to spread the cases out topically and geographically. I've read a couple of good articles I can assign that lay out why the regional scope matters and is often overlooked (including by Ken Conca and Stacy Vandeveer). I've scoured the IEA database - but its hard to tell which specific cases are good examples of successful cooperation. Can you nominate your favorite case and any background reading on it? Many thanks, Roopali -- Dr. Roopali Phadke Associate Professor Environmental Studies Department Macalester College St. Paul, MN 55105 O: 651 696 6802 Email: pha...@macalester.edu http://www.macalester.edu/environmentalstudies/facultystaff/roopaliphadke/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to gep-ed+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[gep-ed] suggestions for a campus speaker
Hi All, We have the opportunity to bring a big name/big draw speaker to campus to address the intersection of climate science and social policy/culture/ethics. I wonder who you would invite? Have you had an excellent speakers recently you can recommend? Thanks, Roopali -- Dr. Roopali Phadke Associate Professor Environmental Studies Department Macalester College St. Paul, MN 55105 O: 651 696 6802 Email: pha...@macalester.edu http://www.macalester.edu/environmentalstudies/facultystaff/roopaliphadke/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to gep-ed+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[gep-ed] Workshop CFP - STS Underground: Investigating the Worlds of Mining and Subterranean Extraction
Apologies for cross-posting. ~~~ Dear colleagues, Please see the attached announcement and CFP for a workshop on STS, mining and extraction. Let me know if you have any questions! The deadline is fast approaching. Best, Roopali *CALL FOR PAPER PROPOSALS - PLEASE CIRCULATE* *STS Underground: Investigating the Technoscientific Worlds of Mining and Subterranean Extraction* A Three-Day Research Workshop February 5-7, 2017 Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO With keynote speaker Gabrielle Hecht, author of *Being Nuclear: Africans and the Global Uranium Trade* (MIT Press, 2012) This intensive three-day workshop aims to bring together interdisciplinary scholars whose work addresses technologies, practices, and forms of knowledge related to the mining of minerals, groundwater and fossil fuels. We seek papers that examine the technoscientific aspects of how questions about extraction are posed and deliberated, how extraction itself occurs, and how the consequences of such extraction are addressed. Twelve abstracts will be selected for the workshop, and authors will circulate their papers one month in advance. We encourage participation from graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and junior faculty. The workshop will include a public keynote address, a field trip/excursion with mining and petroleum experts, and a panel discussion with invited guest scholars. We will also include informal opportunities to network with fellow participants. Participants will not present their papers. Rather, submitted papers will be workshopped in small groups with an assigned discussant. The initial deadline for submitting abstracts is September 15, 2016. Please send proposals (no more than one page for a single abstract) as a word or pdf document to pha...@macalester.edu and kin...@rpi.edu. Include full contact details (email, affiliation and address for contact). Notifications and initial program details will be sent out by November 1, 2016. See attached CFP for more details. -- Dr. Roopali Phadke Professor Environmental Studies Department Macalester College St. Paul, MN 55105 O: 651 696 6802 Email: pha...@macalester.edu http://www.macalester.edu/environmentalstudies/facultystaff/roopaliphadke/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to gep-ed+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. CFP STS Underground.pdf Description: Adobe PDF document
[gep-ed] Teaching students to write public comments
Dear GEP and AESS folks, I am looking for some resources to help students learn to compose public comments (NEPA style). The opportunities seem almost endless these days. Have you ever come across a guide or have specific tips to impart? In addition to writing opeds, I have been working more public comment writing into my environmental policy class, including on their final exam. I have lots of oped writing strategies to offer, but fewer strategies on what makes an effective public comment. Thanks for your help, Roopali -- Dr. Roopali Phadke Professor Environmental Studies Department Macalester College St. Paul, Minnesota -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to gep-ed+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[gep-ed] Call for participation -- STS Underground Workshop
*Apologies for cross postings. Deadline extended to February 1.* Call for Participation 4s 2018 Pre-Conference Workshop *Making Sense of the Underground* *University of Wollongong**, Australia* *August 27-28, 2018* *DUE DATE EXTENDED TO FEBRUARY 1, 2018* What does the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS) have to say about the underground? Mining, subterranean exploration, burial, and other forms of underground work are rich areas of investigation for STS scholars. This workshop aims to strengthen and expand the network of researchers in STS who address the underground in their work. Our focus will be on methodology: *what research methods and analytical strategies can we use to observe and make sense of human interactions with subterranean materials and places? *By focusing on method, we can better understand and share the ways in which we come to know and mobilize the underground spaces and places that are so difficult to see, explore and develop. Our workshop will be sited in Wollongong, about 1.5 hrs from Sydney, and located in the heart of what is called the “Southern Coal Fields” of New South Wales. The workshop will include opportunities to share research in progress and network with international colleagues. Activities will include a keynote address by a noted scholar, a field excursion to a coal mining region, a panel discussion with activists confronting the mining industry, and exchanges with Sydney-based scientists and engineers working in mining and other related fields. This workshop is sponsored by the United States National Science Foundation, the University of New South Wales and the Australian Centre for Cultural Environmental Research (AUSCCER) at the University of Wollongong. It is organized by Roopali Phadke (Macalester College), Jessica Smith (Colorado School of Mines), Abby Kinchy (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) and Matthew Kearnes (U. of New South Wales). Applications to participate should include a 200-word biographical statement and a 500-word statement that describes and reflects upon the methodological challenges and opportunities that subterranean STS entails. For example, applicants could focus on: - Research techniques for probing, seeing, and representing human interactions with the underground. - Ways of connecting with networks and partners to facilitate engaged and community based practice. - Analytical frameworks that move up and down scales of analysis. We are particularly interested in including scholars whose work addresses public issues or involves collaboration with scientists, engineers, or members of the lay public. Applications to participate in the workshop are due on *February 1, 2018* and should be emailed to Abby Kinchy (kin...@rpi.edu). The subject line of the email should read “STSU Sydney (surname of applicant)”. Up two twenty applications will be chosen. Travel from Sydney to Wollongong, lodging and meals will be covered by the organizers. Ten workshop participants will be selected to receive a travel stipend of $500. Priority for stipends will be given to those traveling from outside Australia, particularly graduate students and junior scholars. The workshop is timed to precede the 2018 meetings of the Society for Social Studies of Science in Sydney. There will be a related panel (open session) for the 4S meetings titled “STS UNDERGROUND: Investigating the Technoscientific Worlds of Mining and Subterranean Extraction”. Please consider submitting a paper abstract to that session (listed as #12 under open panels on the 4S Sydney meeting website), in addition to applying to participate in this workshop. The deadline for applying for 4S Sydney open sessions is *February 1, 2018*. Questions about the workshop can be directed to Abby Kinchy (kin...@rpi.edu ). -- Dr. Roopali Phadke Professor Environmental Studies Department Macalester College St. Paul, MN 55105 O: 651 696 6802 Email: pha...@macalester.edu http://www.macalester.edu/environmentalstudies/facultystaff/roopaliphadke/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to gep-ed+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[gep-ed] Call for submissions - STS Underground at 4S 2019
We invite abstract submissions for STS Underground panels at the 2019 4S Conference <https://www.4s2019.org/accepted-open-panels/>, to be held Sept 4-7 in New Orleans. Panel description: The panel aims to bring together international scholars whose work addresses technologies, practices, and forms of knowledge related to the mining of minerals, groundwater and fossil fuels. Recent technological developments such as high-volume hydraulic fracturing to extract oil and gas from shale, solar technologies that require rare earth metals, and even the pursuit of minerals found in asteroids have all been of interest to STS scholars, but have not typically been treated as an identifiable domain of research. This panel will seek to highlight the theoretical and topical commonalities as well as disagreements and debates that make the study of the underground a vibrant, emerging subfield of STS. Researchers are encouraged to submit abstracts on a wide range of topics, including: research and development on extractive technologies, environmental health and grassroots activism, extraction and indigenous communities, climate change and the Anthropocene, historical perspectives on extractive industries, labor and workers’ rights, and mining and extraction infrastructures. Given the conference location in New Orleans, we also welcome papers that consider the underground through engagement with the petrochemical industry. We anticipate having multiple panels, as in years past, and will group papers by theme. We have already been in touch with scholars who would like a specific panel on rare earths, for example. Paper abstracts of up to 250 words should be submitted to the 4S conference platform <https://www.4s2019.org/call-for-submissions/>, which also includes additional logistical information. Please choose to submit your paper to an “open panel” and then select STS Underground #159. Additional questions can be directed to Jessica Smith (jmsm...@mines.edu). *Organized by: * *Roopali Phadke, Macalester College* *Abby Kinchy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute* *Jessica Smith, Colorado School of Mines* -- Dr. Roopali Phadke Professor Environmental Studies Department Macalester College St. Paul, MN 55105 O: 651 696 6802 Email: pha...@macalester.edu http://www.macalester.edu/environmentalstudies/facultystaff/roopaliphadke/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to gep-ed+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[gep-ed] 2020 STS Underground workshop in Freiberg, Germany
*2020 Workshop: Timescapes of Mining* *Freiberg (Saxony), Germany* *August 16-17, 2020* *Application deadline: February 29, 2020 * This workshop aims to strengthen and expand the network of researchers in STS who address the underground in their work. Our focus will be on the *timescapes of mining:* how can we understand the long history and emerging futures of mining? By focusing on timescapes, participants will develop new capacities to contextualize and interpret changes and transformations in our relations to mined materials, mining technologies, and the sciences of Earth’s subsurface. Our workshop will take place immediately before the *4S/EASST Prague conference* and will be sited in Freiburg, Germany, about 160 kilometers northwest of Prague. The workshop will include opportunities to share research in progress and network with international colleagues. Activities will include visits to an underground lab and closed mine at “Reiche Zeche” and a historic “Muldenhütten” smelter in Freiburg. In addition, we will connect with local activists and academics interested in decontamination and resource extraction from mining tailings. *Applications* Applications to participate should include a 200-word biographical statement and a 500-word statement that describes and reflects upon how the participant’s research deals with the timescapes of mining. We are particularly interested in including scholars whose work addresses public issues or involves collaboration with scientists, engineers, or members of the lay public. Applications to participate in the workshop are due on *February 29, 2020* and should be emailed to Jessica Smith at jmsm...@mines.edu. The subject line of the email should read “STSU Freiberg (surname of applicant)”. Up to fifteen non-local applications will be chosen. Travel from Prague to Freiberg, lodging, and some meals will be covered by the organizers. *STSU @ 4S/EASST Prague * The workshop is timed to precede the 2020 joint meetings of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) and the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST), in Prague. There is a related panel (open session) for the 4S/EASST meetings titled “STS Underground: Locating Matter and Agency in Emerging Subterranean Worlds.” Please consider submitting a paper abstract to that session (listed as #168 under open panels on the meeting website), in addition to applying to participate in this workshop. The deadline for submitting an abstract for 4S/EASST Prague open sessions is * February 29, 2020*. *Questions?* *This workshop is organized by Alena Bleicher (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ), Abby Kinchy (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Roopali Phadke (Macalester College), and Jessica Smith (Colorado School of Mines). Questions about the workshop can be directed to Roopali Phadke (**pha...@macalester.edu **) or Abby Kinchy (kin...@rpi.edu ).* -- Dr. Roopali Phadke (she/her/hers) Professor and Chair Department of Environmental Studies Macalester College St. Paul, MN 55105 Email: pha...@macalester.edu http://www.macalester.edu/environmentalstudies/facultystaff/roopaliphadke/ To sign up for office hours please visit *https://tinyurl.com/roopaliofficehours <https://tinyurl.com/roopaliofficehours>* -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to gep-ed+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gep-ed/CANoPDWpspnWtDUS-%2B65YwQ4c5xjsva1h%2B%2BWcxVmNp%3DKNA7kw7A%40mail.gmail.com.
Re: [gep-ed] just a thought
Thanks everyone for your thoughts today. I have one month left in my environmental policy course and my challenge, which I am sure is shared, is do I continue business as usual or lean into this crisis and throw out what I had planned in favor of the kinds of questions Susi posed. I am also not confident that Zoom will see us through our "regular" schedule. On top of that, I think students will burn out after a week or two and just stop participating if I don't make it feel relevant. Our campus has given them all the option of taking the semester pass/fail and most of them have done well enough to just quit and still pass. The idea of creating smaller working groups of students who can meet asynchronously most of the time, with virtual office hour support from me, seems the way to go. I'd love to know if others are interested in collectively coming up with a GEP-related COVID question *and resource* repository. Best, Roopali On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 7:22 AM promu...@susannemoser.com < promu...@susannemoser.com> wrote: > > Thank you, Ron, for getting my thinking in gear this morning. > > I love the emerging ideas of bartering and a cooperative exchange of > speakers. You could also put your budgets together and record a speaker who > then is shared virtually. > > BUT, I wonder if you all might consider going beyond form and logistics, > i.e. the HOW of teaching and speakers, to the WHAT? > > Somewhere I saw a note about prioritization, but that is just about > weeding out and I doubt you all feel like you had tons of fluff in your > classes to begin with. > > So, my thinking this morning went off into a whole new direction, taking > off from the "not burden shifting but burden sharing" idea I emailed about > earlier. > > I mean, for a group like this one assembled on this listservs, doesn't > this crisis raise whole new (or new once again) questions such as: > * how does a global crisis like this affect the conditions for > (international) political and policy cooperation? > * how does a pandemic positively and negatively change the conditions and > outlook for environmental policy making and implementation? > * what does precarity mean in global environmental politics? > * what can we learn from this health-cum-economic crisis about the weak > spots in our globalized systems? > * how do we make the path to the SDGs more robust to disruption? > > Oh, I am sure you all could add fascinating other questions and all of a > sudden the contents of your classes gains a whole new level of immediacy > and relevance. Students will be way more engaged because everyone's brains > are already in this crisis. And because none of us have the answer to this, > you may use zoom classes and discussion fora and assignments as collective > thinking and learning events than just trying to figure out "delivery > mechanisms." > > Heck, universities could once again be places for true intellectualism and > serve society well in this difficult time. > > Ok, enough from me in one day. But this was fun! I can imagine so many > variants for any number of classes. The toilet paper case study will be an > utterly real teaching device for oh so many things... > > Susi > > Sent from tiny phone. Forgive typos > > > Original message > From: Ronald Mitchell > Date: 3/17/20 11:31 PM (GMT-05:00) > To: GEPED > Subject: [gep-ed] just a thought > > One other thought on the whole online learning thing – Zoom or other apps > for streaming lectures might be an excellent, low-carbon way to bring in > guest speakers. We could each “trade” guest lectures on our well-known > subjects (the lectures we can give in our sleep), reducing workload of > developing lectures for us while giving our students better content. > > > > I am not offering to coordinate this – just a suggestion in case anyone > thinks it’s a good idea. > > > > Ron > > > > Ronald Mitchell, Professor > > Department of Political Science and Program in Environmental Studies > > University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1284 > > rmitc...@uoregon.edu > > https://rmitchel.uoregon.edu/ > > IEA Database Director: https://iea.uoregon.edu/ > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "gep-ed" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to gep-ed+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gep-ed/5e721272.1c69fb81.399de.0b91SMTPIN_ADDED_MISSING%40gmr-mx.google.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gep-ed/5e721272.1c69fb81.399de.0b91SMTPIN_ADDED_MISSING%40gmr-mx.google.com?
[gep-ed] Visiting Asst Prof in Ecology
We are looking for a two year Visiting Assistant Professor in Ecology beginning Fall 2021. Please see our job ad <https://www.macalester.edu/provost/wp-content/uploads/sites/73/2020/12/NTT-Ecology.pdf> . The Twin Cities are a wonderful place to live and work, and we are in very close proximity to the University of Minnesota for research collaborations. I'm happy to field inquiries. Best. Roopali -- Dr. Roopali Phadke (she/her/hers) Professor and Chair Department of Environmental Studies Macalester College St. Paul, MN 55105 Email: pha...@macalester.edu http://www.macalester.edu/environmentalstudies/facultystaff/roopaliphadke/ To sign up for office hours please visit *https://tinyurl.com/roopaliofficehours <https://tinyurl.com/roopaliofficehours>* -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to gep-ed+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gep-ed/CANoPDWpsJN79VnCnREra%3DOJPXUEoefLzfEfnvTP-E2fiNH3Bnw%40mail.gmail.com.
Re: [gep-ed] RE: Opinion: We Don't Need More Life-Crushing Steel and Concrete
tion and >> adaptation efforts? Does such research exist? Suggestions for specific >> publications would be most welcome. >> >> >> >> All the best, >> >> Debra >> >> >> >> * >> >> Debra Javeline >> >> Associate Professor | Department of Political Science | University of >> Notre Dame | 2060 Jenkins Nanovic Halls | Notre Dame, IN 46556 | tel: >> 574-631-2793 <(574)%20631-2793> >> >> >> >> Fellow, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies >> <http://kroc.nd.edu/>, Kellogg Institute for International Studies >> <http://nd.edu/~kellogg/>, Nanovic Institute for European Studies >> <http://nanovic.nd.edu/> >> >> Core faculty, Russian and East European Studies Program >> <http://germanandrussian.nd.edu/russian/faculty/program-faculty/RussianandEastEuropeanStudies.shtml> >> >> Affiliated faculty, Notre Dame Environmental Change Initiative >> <http://environmentalchange.nd.edu/> >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "gep-ed" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to gep-ed+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gep-ed/8b77e9b1c5fed4acdfcc5d8923e55a1e%40mail.gmail.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gep-ed/8b77e9b1c5fed4acdfcc5d8923e55a1e%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "gep-ed" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to gep-ed+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gep-ed/5099CE0B-8ED2-49D8-9935-D0EBE78BF1F4%40hxcore.ol >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gep-ed/5099CE0B-8ED2-49D8-9935-D0EBE78BF1F4%40hxcore.ol?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > > > -- > *A fly walks into a bar and asks, "Excuse me. Is this stool taken?"* > > > > Ronnie D. Lipschutz, President & Co-director, Sustainable Systems > Research Foundation; <http://sustainablesystemsfoundation.org> Emeritus > Professor of Politics, UC Santa Cruz > e-mail: rlip...@ucsc.edu; web site: > http://tinyurl.com/zeatctr > Host, "Sustainability Now!" <https://ksqd.org/sustainabilitynow/> every > other Sunday on KSQD 90.7FM & KSQD.org.(Shows archived at: > https://ksqd.org/sustainabilitynow/) > > <https://sustainablesystemsfoundation.org/sustainability-now-broadcasts-on-ksqd-90-7-fm-ksqd-org/> > *Read my latest book: Unhappy in Its Own Way--An Institutional Biography > of UC Santa Cruz > <https://sustainablesystemsfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Unhappy.pdf>* > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "gep-ed" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to gep-ed+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gep-ed/CAOGWZTWZb7Xc6e_yq_FqDKCk3PW7mknHCoMfr5QL1j-1ntERiw%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gep-ed/CAOGWZTWZb7Xc6e_yq_FqDKCk3PW7mknHCoMfr5QL1j-1ntERiw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Dr. Roopali Phadke (she/her/hers) Professor and Chair Department of Environmental Studies Macalester College St. Paul, MN 55105 Email: pha...@macalester.edu http://www.macalester.edu/environmentalstudies/facultystaff/roopaliphadke/ To sign up for office hours please visit *https://tinyurl.com/roopaliofficehours <https://tinyurl.com/roopaliofficehours>* -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to gep-ed+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gep-ed/CANoPDWrsHCGtzXU6otVwZR6SBUadwPF4r3wVmN7Gg%2BfHKgnxwg%40mail.gmail.com.
[gep-ed] 2022 4S/ESOCITE Open panel CFP: STS Engagements with Critical Mineral Studies
Dear Colleagues, We invite abstract submissions for an open panel on "STS Engagements with Critical Mineral Studies" at the 2022 Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) / Asociación Latinoamericana de Estudios Sociales de la Ciencia y la Tecnología (ESOCITE) conference to be held in *Cholula, Mexico, December 7-10*. *STS Engagements with Critical Mineral Studies* (Open Panel #123 <https://www.4sonline.org/123-sts-engagements-with-critical-mineral-studies/> ) Demand for critical minerals is predicted to soar in coming decades to support renewable energy, electric vehicle, aerospace, defense and related industries. In tandem with this rapid growth is an emerging body of scholarship in STS investigating how demand for and supply of critical minerals are co-produced within political, economic, cultural, and technoscientific systems. This open panel invites paper proposals exploring these interdependencies. Specifically, we welcome panelists examining resource nationalism, risk assessments, environmental evaluations, techniques and knowledges involved in extraction, production, and promotion, as well as the double-binds of securing lands for resource extraction to support green economies. Within these, we are interested in papers that explore questions such as: Who gets to define what natural resources are deemed most critical? Who will bear the environmental, social, and health impacts of the global race for critical minerals? How do knowledge and its gaps about the critical minerals industry contribute to these inequalities? What opportunities are there for democratizing science and technology related to critical minerals? And how can STS concepts, methods, and engagements provide foundational tools and resources for groups and communities seeking to make sense of their relationship with critical minerals industries? The answers to these questions are necessary to heeding this conference’s call to produce reconfigurations of assemblages of humans and more-than-humans based on care and responsibility. The panel co-chairs speak English and Spanish and can accommodate papers in these languages as well as Portuguese. Paper abstracts of up to 250 words should be submitted to the 4S/ESOCITE conference platform <https://www.4sonline.org/meeting/call-for-submissions/>, which also includes additional logistical information. Please choose to submit your paper to an “open panel” and then select "STS Engagements with Critical Mineral Studies (Open Panel #123)". Submissions close on April 14th, 2022. Questions regarding the open panel can be directed to Kirk Jalbert (kirk.jalb...@asu.edu). Javiera Barandiarán, University of California, Santa Barbara Kirk Jalbert, Arizona State University Roopali Phadke, Macalester College -- Dr. Roopali Phadke (she/her/hers) Professor and Chair Department of Environmental Studies Macalester College St. Paul, MN 55105 Email: pha...@macalester.edu http://www.macalester.edu/environmentalstudies/facultystaff/roopaliphadke/ To sign up for office hours please visit *https://tinyurl.com/roopaliofficehours <https://tinyurl.com/roopaliofficehours>* -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to gep-ed+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gep-ed/CANoPDWq97kUT7jZ3rnvyB3A8bOCv%3Dqxkx7kc3Z_yRAqFqfHz2w%40mail.gmail.com.
[gep-ed] Postdoc/TT positions in Native and Indigenous Studies at Macalester College
Dear Colleagues, Apologies for cross postings. Please help spread the word about these new opportunities at Macalester (see attached). I'm happy to talk to anyone who is interested in learning more. To apply: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/25341 Best, Roopali -- Dr. Roopali Phadke (she/her/hers) Professor Department of Environmental Studies Macalester College St. Paul, MN 55105 Email: pha...@macalester.edu http://www.macalester.edu/environmentalstudies/facultystaff/roopaliphadke/ To sign up for office hours please visit *https://tinyurl.com/roopaliofficehours <https://tinyurl.com/roopaliofficehours>* -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to gep-ed+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gep-ed/CANoPDWqBwi17Qm42B-fvJ8JcrDSrgpS4GraYHcetwd9_Uaip7w%40mail.gmail.com. MNI Postdoc Job Ad.pdf Description: Adobe PDF document
