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Emerging Climate Change Publics: Cultivating Sustainability and Justice in the Pioneer Valley University of Massachusetts Amherst ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst Doctoral Dissertations Dissertations and Theses November 2015 Emerging Climate Change Publics: Cultivating Sustainability and Justice in the Pioneer Valley Vanessa Adel University of Massachusetts Amherst Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations_2 Part of the Sociology Commons Recommended Citation Adel, Vanessa, "Emerging Climate Change Publics: Cultivating Sustainability and Justice in the Pioneer Valley" (2015). Doctoral Dissertations. 489. https://doi.org/10.7275/7499596.0 https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations_2/489 This Open Access Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Dissertations and Theses at ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. It has been accepted for inclusion in Doctoral Dissertations by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. For more information, please contact [email protected]. EMERGING CLIMATE CHANGE PUBLICS: CULTIVATING SUSTAINABILITY AND JUSTICE IN THE PIONEER VALLEY A Dissertation Presented by VANESSA ADEL Submitted to the Graduate School of the University of Massachusetts Amherst in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY September 2015 Department of Sociology © Copyright by Vanessa Adel 2015 All Rights Reserved Emerging Green Publics: Cultivating Sustainability and Justice in the Pioneer Valley A Dissertation Presented By VANESSA ADEL Approved as to style and content by: _______________________________________________ Millie Thayer, Chair _______________________________________________ Joya Misra, Member _______________________________________________ Leslie King, Member ______________________________ Michelle Budig, Chair Department of Sociology DEDICATION To my children. For a better future. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Thank you Millie Thayer, the chair of my dissertation committee. I am so honored and humbled to have been your student. Thank you for your always thoughtful and provocative comments and insights. I took copious notes of our meetings together, and I was continually struck by how many levels of insight your comments always had, as I studied them intently for guidance. Thank you for the thoroughness and care you took in supporting my research process in its many manifestations; from the messy and confusing details of the data, to the thickets of analytical frameworks and analyses I was weaving together in this project. Your teaching embodies feminist pedagogy at its best, and I thank you so much for making it a plain matter of fact that I could -- and indeed, should, trust my insights and value what I have to say. Thank you Joya Misra. Your support of graduate students is an inspiring model for us all. I have benefited so much from your generosity to the entire graduate student body in the mentoring environments you created over the years, facilitating writing groups, prospectus groups, dissertation support groups, and job market classes. You listen closely and respectfully to our needs, and you respond in real time, with an eye to equity and inclusion of all students, always seeking out the latest information so that we can engage with the real world and have the tools we need to succeed. Thank you too for always being there for me personally and professionally, and for understanding the ways that the personal and the professional are intertwined, in both challenging and fruitful ways. Thank you especially for your confidence in me, and the many compliments you gave me v over the years asserting my value and my participation as an academic member of the student body. I hope you know how much you enabled me to keep my eyes on the prize and assert my place in academia despite some major life challenges. Thank you Leslie King for your honest and inspiring reflections on my work, and for seeing the value of my work to environmental sociology and environmental social change. Thank you for always giving me so much time and reflecting back what you thought was most interesting and inspiring in the many ethnographic examples that I struggled to bring together in a coherent way. Your feedback (I loved our meetings at the Roost!) was essential in helping me situate the data in an environmental and political context. Fundamental questions that you asked, such as: “tell me why this matters” and “tell me what’s the most important take-away?” helped me assert specificity in the context of unwieldy data, and a personal tendency to cast a wide net without settling clearly on linear points. I thank the individuals and organizations in my study who trusted me to represent their ideas and their words, and who engaged me in my research questions and ideas in our conversations in the field. I take all responsibility for any misrepresentations or misstatements that I have made in this study. I hope this piece can be of some use to the important work that is happening in the Pioneer Valley and beyond. And I hope we can have some more fruitful conversations and interactions in the future. vi Special thanks to my mentor Holly Carter at Lesley University who first insisted that I pursue a PhD; and to Dee Royster, my first advisor at the University of Massachusetts, for believing in me in my early years as a grad student – I hope our paths cross again soon. Profound thanks to Enoch Page for your mentorship, and for facilitating so many crucial dialogues in and out of the classroom. Your commitment to laying bare the underlying dynamics of social, political, and cultural processes, is a model that shapes my personal and professional engagement with experience, with ideas, and with “data” in all its forms, every day. Thank you for your fearless generosity to the world. And most especially, thank you for your friendship and personal guidance. Profound thanks too, to my close friend and mentor Suzanne Berland, without whom I would surely not be who I am today, and to Yourek Kujawski, both of whom saw in me what I didn’t see in myself, and set me on a course to an empowered life. Vous me manquez tous les jours. Thank you to Jonathon Wynn for extending a hand when my data chapters were in their messiest forms; for meeting with me at length at the Roost and in my office, and lending me different books that I could use as a reference for writing up ethnographic data. Our paths crossed at both Smith College and at the University of Massachusetts, and I hope we can continue to work together in different contexts. vii Thank you bacon gang -- Elisa Martinez and Kathleen Hulton -- for inspiring sessions at Esselon that came with sometimes tea, sometimes coffee, and always bacon. It was extra special to connect and support each other in our graduate experience as students who were also moms. Our conversations about our parenting and family experiences were just as motivating for me as the many dissertation chapter drafts you both read in the final year and a half of my graduate journey. Elisa, your kindness, your commitment to social justice, and your profound grasp of theory really helped me through. Kathleen, thank you for questioning the boxes I find myself in, and for urging me on more than one occasion to see the ways in which I might be falling into normative traps, and to be judicious about where and when I make moral claims. Thank you too for really detailed comments on many of my final drafts – those comments really pulled me across the finish line. Thank you to the Department of Sociology for supporting me for many years and providing an environment in which I really developed as a sociologist and came into my own as an academic. I could not have finished without such strong departmental support. So many staff and faculty supported me and taught me over the years. I especially thank the late Andy Anderson, Doug Anderton, Sarah Babb, Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Beth Berry, Juliet Carjaval, Jay Demerath, Laurel Smith-Doerr, Naomi Gerstel, Janice Irvine, Agustin Lao-Montes, Jennifer Lundquist, Jill McCorkel, Heather Ockington, Cindy Patten, the late Jerry Platt, Winona Rymond-Richmond, Randall Stokes, Rick Tessler, Don Tomaskovic-Devey, Maureen Warner, Wendy Wilde, and Bob Zussman. The department awarded me a summer dissertation grant in 2013 for which I am truly grateful. viii Thanks too to the Graduate School for organizing periodic writing retreats, and to Kathleen Marie Baldwin for facilitating a graduate writing group in the spring of 2014. Thanks as well to the Institute for Social Science Research for developing an institute that supports training, development, and collegiality for graduate students as well as faculty. I took advantage of many of these resources at ISSR and the Graduate School, and it made a big difference. Special thanks to Jacki Stein for teaching me Nvivo and for helping me troubleshoot my data organizing; and to Chris Smith for introducing me to Schrivener. I am a zealous convert to Schrivener -- I can not imagine having been able to write this dissertation without that platform. Thank you to friends in sociology who gave me feedback on my work along the way including Oyman Basaran, Irene Boeckmann, Alma Castro, Anna Curtis, Jenny Folsom, Melissa Fugiero, Jennifer Hill Geertsma, Joohee Han, Annette Hunt, Dana Huyser de Bernardo, Ben Johnson, Kat Jones, Sonny Nordmarken, Rachel Rybaczuk, Jacki Stein, Eiko Strader, Abby Templer, Shawn Trivette, Kristy Watkins, and Catherine Wilson. Many people have shaped my time here. I thank my original cohort for that early grad school bond. We were dubbed the “whiny” cohort so long ago, but we always knew we were so much more than that deprecating moniker. We set out to change some stuff! I like to think we made a difference. Special thanks to Minh and Kathy who have cheered me on the whole way, and who took time out of their busy schedules to attend my defense.
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