WHY POLITICAL ECOLOGY NOW?
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2018 WORKSHOPJanuary 26th-28th
University of California, Berkeley McCone Hall LCPE |
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From January 26th-28th, 2018--at the University of California, Berkeley--the Left Coast Political Ecology Network organizers facilitated a 2-day workshop to address the question of political ecology’s responsibility in the present moment.
In this workshop we engendered conversations around political ecology’s (PE’s) current engagements with racism and colonialism, as well as how we might strengthen our work toward anti-capitalist and anti-fascist ends. These questions are also methodological. The weekend included workshops on research methods that help us extend our work with non-academic communities and develop tools for critical ethnography and participatory research. We cultivated a collective dialogue among West coast scholars at all stages of their careers, as well as to provide opportunities for new collaborations and senior-junior mentorships to grow.
We gathered an intimate group for a two-day workshop aimed at building our own internal networks, and building out towards future collaboration and cross-pollination. We hope scholars came away from this event with new directions or stronger convictions of existing paths in their own PE research and/or activism. We had an invigorating weekend together.
The workshop featured a keynote talk by ESPM alumna Dr. Jade Sasser, “Climate Activism, Reproductive Justice, and Anticipation: Navigating the Intersections,” followed by a Q&A, from 6:30-7:30 pm on Friday, January 26, 2018. Please consider joining us next year.
In this workshop we engendered conversations around political ecology’s (PE’s) current engagements with racism and colonialism, as well as how we might strengthen our work toward anti-capitalist and anti-fascist ends. These questions are also methodological. The weekend included workshops on research methods that help us extend our work with non-academic communities and develop tools for critical ethnography and participatory research. We cultivated a collective dialogue among West coast scholars at all stages of their careers, as well as to provide opportunities for new collaborations and senior-junior mentorships to grow.
We gathered an intimate group for a two-day workshop aimed at building our own internal networks, and building out towards future collaboration and cross-pollination. We hope scholars came away from this event with new directions or stronger convictions of existing paths in their own PE research and/or activism. We had an invigorating weekend together.
The workshop featured a keynote talk by ESPM alumna Dr. Jade Sasser, “Climate Activism, Reproductive Justice, and Anticipation: Navigating the Intersections,” followed by a Q&A, from 6:30-7:30 pm on Friday, January 26, 2018. Please consider joining us next year.
WORKSHOP RESOURCES:
We opened with an acknowledgement of the workshop on Chochenyo Ohlone lands. For more thoughts on the possibilities and limits of territorial acknowledgments.
We heard from Tracey Osborne and Diego Martinez-Lugo, Claudia Diaz-Combs, and Pradnya Garud about their research with the Public Political Ecology Lab at the University of Arizona. In the following discussion, our key questions are: for whom do we do political ecology, and with whom do we do it? That is, who are our publics and who are our collaborators? We took Tracey Osborne’s 2017 article on Public Political Ecology as our point of departure, hearing from some of its creators how that project came to life
