DOCSLIB.ORG

Air Works Emily Parsons-Lord

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Air Works Emily Parsons-Lord AIR WORKS EMILY PARSONS-LORD AIR WORKS: Air as material in contemporary installation and performance art in a time of climate emergency Emily Parsons-Lord A thesis in fulfilment of the requirement for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy School of Art & Design Faculty of Arts, Design & Architecture January, 2021 Thesis/Dissertation Sheet Surname/Family Name : Parsons-Lord Given Name/s : Emily Kathleen Abbreviation for degree as give in the University calendar : PhD Faculty : Faculty of Arts, Design & Architecture School : School of Art & Design “AIR WORKS: Thesis Title : Air as material in contemporary installation and performance art in a time of climate emergency” Abstract 350 words maximum: (PLEASE TYPE) Air is a politically incisive material in the climate emergency. Transcending national and political boundaries, air activates a power dynamic distributed asymmetrically between users (breathers/protesters), carbon contributors (polluters), and those of our elected rank (policymakers). This thesis proposes air as a new aesthetic of the climate crisis. This practice-led research (re)considers the creative potential of the material of air in contemporary art and performance through experimentation with its physical components and affective qualities. Air simultaneously and uniquely embodies lyrical imaginative thinking and physiological experience. The research draws from contemporary artists Latai Taumoepeau, Teresa Margolles, Katie Paterson and Olafur Eliasson, as well as the artist’s own extensive body of work. Developed alongside the dissertation are artworks, or AIR WORKS, that critically interrogate the embodied material reality of the climate crisis and the creative possibilities of feminist perspectives. Across four installation and performance works, the material of air narrates evolutionary pasts, maps the dimensions of the current climate crisis, and imagines possible ongoing climate futures. This dissertation connects air to material feminisms, exemplifying the co-constitutive nature of language and material (Alaimo and Hekman). Air’s invisibility demonstrates material feminisms as it facilitates normal physical, emotional and intellectual functioning as well as eliciting imagination. Critical feminist perspectives underscore the material investigation of air (Star, Dunn, Puig de la Bellacasa, Neimanis) and the climate crisis aesthetic (Yusoff and Gabrys, Wazana, Tompkins, Wynter). Storytelling as feminist practice (Haraway, King, Le Guin) assembles speculative pasts, presents, and futures, and imagines creative feminist alternatives. The AIR WORKS and this dissertation make important contributions to new knowledge by expanding an understanding of air as material through the innovative manipulation of the chemical and biophysical components of air in performance and installation. The AIR WORKS present air as a potent aesthetic of international power relations relating to the climate crisis. This research demonstrates that air creatively invents and shapes feminist climate futures. Declaration relating to disposition of project thesis/dissertation I hereby grant to the University of New South Wales or its agents a non-exclusive licence to archive and to make available (including to members of the public) my thesis or dissertation in whole or in part in the University libraries in all forms of media, now or here after known. I acknowledge that I retain all intellectual property rights which subsist in my thesis or dissertation, such as copyright and patent rights, subject to applicable law. I also retain the right to use all or part of my thesis or dissertation in future works (such as articles or books). 12/1/21 ……….……………………...…….… …………………………………………………………… Date Signature The University recognises that there may be exceptional circumstances requiring restrictions on copying or conditions on use. Requests for restriction for a period of up to 2 years can be made when submitting the final copies of your thesis to the UNSW Library. Requests for a longer period of restriction may be considered in exceptional circumstances and require the approval of the Dean of Graduate Research. ORIGINALITY STATEMENT ‘I hereby declare that this submission is my own work and to the best of my knowledge it contains no materials previously published or written by another person, or substantial proportions of material which have been accepted for the award of any other degree or diploma at UNSW or any other educational institution, except where due acknowledgement is made in the thesis. Any contribution made to the research by others, with whom I have worked at UNSW or elsewhere, is explicitly acknowledged in the thesis. I also declare that the intellectual content of this thesis is the product of my own work, except to the extent that assistance from others in the project's design and conception or in style, presentation and linguistic expression is acknowledged.’ Signed …………………………………………….............. 12/1/21 Date …………………………………………….............. COPYRIGHT STATEMENT ‘I hereby grant the University of New South Wales or its agents a non-exclusive licence to archive and to make available (including to members of the public) my thesis or dissertation in whole or part in the University libraries in all forms of media, now or here after known. I acknowledge that I retain all intellectual property rights which subsist in my thesis or dissertation, such as copyright and patent rights, subject to applicable law. I also retain the right to use all or part of my thesis or dissertation in future works (such as articles or books).’ ‘For any substantial portions of copyright material used in this thesis, written permission for use has been obtained, or the copyright material is removed from the final public version of the thesis.’ Signed ……………………………………………........................... Date ……………………………………………...............20/6/21 ............... AUTHENTICITY STATEMENT ‘I certify that the Library deposit digital copy is a direct equivalent of the final officially approved version of my thesis.’ Signed ……………………………………………........................... Date …………………………………………….......................20/6/21 ....... INCLUSION OF PUBLICATIONS STATEMENT UNSW is supportive of candidates publishing their research results during their candidature as detailed in the UNSW Thesis Examination Procedure. Publications can be used in their thesis in lieu of a Chapter if: • The candidate contributed greater than 50% of the content in the publication and is the “primary author”, ie. the candidate was responsible primarily for the planning, execution and preparation of the work for publication • The candidate has approval to include the publication in their thesis in lieu of a Chapter from their supervisor and Postgraduate Coordinator. • The publication is not subject to any obligations or contractual agreements with a third party that would constrain its inclusion in the thesis Please indicate whether this thesis contains published material or not: This thesis contains no publications, either published or submitted for publication ☒ (if this box is checked, you may delete all the material on page 2) Some of the work described in this thesis has been published and it has been ☐ documented in the relevant Chapters with acknowledgement (if this box is checked, you may delete all the material on page 2) This thesis has publications (either published or submitted for publication) ☐ incorporated into it in lieu of a chapter and the details are presented below CANDIDATE’S DECLARATION I declare that: • I have complied with the UNSW Thesis Examination Procedure • where I have used a publication in lieu of a Chapter, the listed publication(s) below meet(s) the requirements to be included in the thesis. Candidate’s Name Signature Date (dd/mm/yy) Emily Parsons-Lord 12/1/21 Table of Contents List of figures iii Acknowledgements v Abstract vi Chapter 1: An introduction to air thinking 1 1.1 Introduction 3 1.2 The physicality of the material air in art 11 1.3 An urgency in air 13 1.4 Situating the research 15 1.5 A disciplinary context for considering air 17 1.5.1 Art context 17 1.5.2 Environmental humanities context 37 1.6 A feminist perspective on the material nature of air 42 1.7 Outline of chapters 43 1.8 How to read this dissertation 54 Chapter 2: Air as material 56 2.1 Introduction 58 2.2 Feminism as method 59 2.3 Material and materiality 69 2.3.1 Air as material in relation to the body as material 72 2.3.2 Air materiality 74 2.4 Material feminisms 80 2.5 Different Kinds of Air, a Plant’s Diary 83 2.6 The linguistic: storytelling 86 2.6.1 Different Kinds of Air, a Plant’s Diary: some stories of the airs 89 2.7 Decentring the human: materials in deep time and planetary scales 95 2.7.1 Donna Haraway: sympoiesis and naturecultures 95 2.7.2 Astrida Neimanis: water and bodies 97 2.7.3 Kathryn Yusoff: coal and racial mattering 101 2.8 Things Fall Apart 103 2.9 Decentring the human: a look to the future 111 2.10 Conclusion 113 Chapter 3: Air as politics 116 3.1 Introduction 118 i 3.2 Our Fetid Rank (Margaret Thatcher’s bottom lip and Bill Clinton’s Tongue) 120 3.2.2 Audience experience of the work 126 3.3 A politics of air 128 3.3.1 Containment of air as political object 128 3.3.2 Air as boundary object 130 3.3.3 Art as boundary object 133 3.3.4 Air-commons 137 3.3.5 Air as Infrastructure 142 3.3.6 Responsibility for maintenance 148 3.4 The condition of the current climate crisis 149 3.5 Didacticism as feminist act 151 3.6 What does aesthetics mean in the climate crisis? 153 3.6.1 Graphs, diagrams,
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Notes and Sources for Evil Geniuses: the Unmaking of America: a Recent History
    Notes and Sources for Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History Introduction xiv “If infectious greed is the virus” Kurt Andersen, “City of Schemes,” The New York Times, Oct. 6, 2002. xvi “run of pedal-to-the-medal hypercapitalism” Kurt Andersen, “American Roulette,” New York, December 22, 2006. xx “People of the same trade” Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, ed. Andrew Skinner, 1776 (London: Penguin, 1999) Book I, Chapter X. Chapter 1 4 “The discovery of America offered” Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy In America, trans. Arthur Goldhammer (New York: Library of America, 2012), Book One, Introductory Chapter. 4 “A new science of politics” Tocqueville, Democracy In America, Book One, Introductory Chapter. 4 “The inhabitants of the United States” Tocqueville, Democracy In America, Book One, Chapter XVIII. 5 “there was virtually no economic growth” Robert J Gordon. “Is US economic growth over? Faltering innovation confronts the six headwinds.” Policy Insight No. 63. Centre for Economic Policy Research, September, 2012. --Thomas Piketty, “World Growth from the Antiquity (growth rate per period),” Quandl. 6 each citizen’s share of the economy Richard H. Steckel, “A History of the Standard of Living in the United States,” in EH.net (Economic History Association, 2020). --Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson, The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies (New York: W.W. Norton, 2016), p. 98. 6 “Constant revolutionizing of production” Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx, Manifesto of the Communist Party (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1969), Chapter I. 7 from the early 1840s to 1860 Tomas Nonnenmacher, “History of the U.S.
    [Show full text]
  • Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 6/4/2019 Surprise That Borders Have Become So Porous
    Losing Earth A Recent History Nathaniel Rich An instant classic: the most urgent story of our times, brilliantly reframed, beautifully told By 1979, we knew nearly everything we understand today about climate change—including how to stop it. Over the next decade, a handful of scientists, politicians, and strategists, led by two unlikely heroes, risked their careers in a desperate, escalating campaign to convince the world to act before it was too late. Losing Earth is their story, and ours. The New York Times Magazine devoted an entire issue to Nathaniel Rich’s groundbreaking chronicle of that decade, which became an instant journalistic phenomenon—the subject of news coverage, editorials, and SCIENCE conversations all over the world. In its emphasis on the lives of the people who grappled with the great existential threat of our age, it made vivid the MCD | 4/9/2019 moral dimensions of our shared plight. 9780374191337 | $25.00 / $32.50 Can. Hardcover with dust jacket | 224 pages 4 Black-and-White Illustrations / Notes on Now expanded into book form, Losing Earth tells the human story of climate Sources | Carton Qty: 28 | 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W change in even richer, more intimate terms. It reveals, in previously unreported detail, the birth of climate denialism and the genesis of the fossil MARKETING fuel industry’s coordinated effort to thwart climate policy through disinformation, propaganda, and political influence. The book carries the National review attention Print features and profiles story into the present day, wrestling with the long shadow of our failures and Online features and profiles asking crucial questions about how we make sense of our past, our future, Interest-specific media outreach: environment and ourselves.
    [Show full text]
  • University of Tasmania Law Review
    UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA LAW REVIEW VOLUME 37, NUMBER 2 SPECIAL ISSUE: IMAGINING A DIFFERENT FUTURE, OVERCOMING BARRIERS TO CLIMATE JUSTICE University of Tasmania Law Review VOLUME 37 NUMBER 2 2018 SPECIAL ISSUE: IMAGINING A DIFFERENT FUTURE, OVERCOMING BARRIERS TO CLIMATE JUSTICE Introduction NICKY VAN DIJK, JAN LINEHAN AND PETER LAWRENCE 1 Articles Imagining Different Futures through the Courts: A Social Movement Assessment of Existing and Potential New Approaches to Climate Change Litigation in Australia DANNY NOONAN 25 Justice and Climate Transitions JEREMY MOSS AND ROBYN KATH 70 Ecocide and the Carbon Crimes of the Powerful ROB WHITE 95 Individual Moral Duties Amidst Climate Injustice: Imagining a Sustainable Future STEVE VANDERHEIDEN 116 Lawfare, Standing and Environmental Discourse: A Phronetic Analysis BRENDON MURPHY AND JEFFREY MCGEE 131 Non-Peer Reviewed Article Climate, Culture and Music: Coping in the Anthropocene SIMON KERR 169 The University of Tasmania Law Review (UTLR) has been publishing articles on domestic, international and comparative law for over 50 years. Two issues are published in each volume. One issue is published in winter, and one is published in summer. Contributors We welcome the submission of scholarly and research articles of any length (preferably 4000–10 000 words) on legal topics, particularly those concerning Tasmania, Australia or international law. Articles and papers should be accompanied by a brief (200 word) abstract. Contributions are to be submitted using the online form available at: http://www.utas.edu.au/law/publications/university-of-tasmania-law- review/submission-form. Co-authored articles should be identified as such in the ‘Comments to the Editors’ field and all authors other than the lead author are required complete the University of Tasmania Law Review Submission and Publication Agreement using the form available at: http://www.utas.edu.au/law/publications/university-of-tasmania-law- review/co-author-submission-form.
    [Show full text]
  • Chapters 1 to 18
    Preface Red Country, Blue Country. I am both red and blue. I was born in a farmhouse in Charter Oak township, Iowa, and I grew up in nearby Denison, Iowa. Denison is the county seat of Crawford County and contains most of the population of the county. In the 2016 Presidential election Crawford County went 67 percent for Donald Trump. The omnipresent political maps show our region as dark red country. I was educated at the University of Iowa, in Iowa City, which is a university town, and of course liberal. I do not need to look up election statistics to know that it is dark blue on political maps. I love both Denison and Iowa City. I cannot think of better places to grow up and go to school. I wish that young people today were as lucky as I was. The problem is not the place or the people. Red country people are good people. Blue country people are good people. Let me give liberals a little reassurance about Denison, given its landslide vote for Trump: in 2008 Obama handily won the Presidential vote in Crawford County. On election night, as results began to show an Obama victory, I had tears in my eyes. I was proud of our country. When Obama took office he had a lot of good will, even in red country. Yet Obama failed badly. Sure, he did some good things, and we enjoyed an exemplary First Family. But Obama did not convert opportunities to improve fundamental prospects for youth, who secured his election.
    [Show full text]
  • The Citizen's Guide to Climate Success
    Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.202.226, on 29 Sep 2021 at 14:05:57, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/49D99FBCBD6FCACD5F3D58A7ED80882D Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.202.226, on 29 Sep 2021 at 14:05:57, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/49D99FBCBD6FCACD5F3D58A7ED80882D THE CITIZEN’S GUIDE TO CLIMATE SUCCESS Humanity has failed for three decades to decarbonize our energy system to address the climate threat, yet average citizens still don’t know what to do personally or what to demand from their politicians. For climate success, we need to understand the combined role of self-interested and wishful thinking biases that prevent us from acting effectively and strategically. Fossil fuel and other interests delude us about climate science or try to convince us that every new fossil fuel investment is beneficial. But even climate-concerned people propagate myths that hinder progress, holding to beliefs that all countries will agree voluntarily on sharing the cost of global decarbonization; that carbon offsets are effective; that behavioral change is critical; that energy efficiency and renewable energy are cheap; and that carbon taxes are absolutely essential. For success with the climate-energy challenge, we must strategically focus our effortsascitizensonafewkeydomesticsectors (especially electricity and transportation), a few key policies (regulations and/or carbon pricing); and the identification and election of climate-sincere politicians.
    [Show full text]
  • Dædalus Issue Is “Witnessing Climate Change
    Dædalus Journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences Fall 2020 Witnessing Climate Change Nancy L. Rosenblum, guest editor with Robert Jay Lifton · Naomi Oreskes Robert H. Socolow · Dennis F. Thompson Michael B. Gerrard · Mark A. Mitchell Patrick L. Kinney · Rebecca Henderson David W. Titley · Elke U. Weber · Jessica F. Green Rafe Pomerance · Carolyn Kormann Scott Gabriel Knowles · Antonio Oposa Jr. Dædalus Journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences “Witnessing Climate Change” Volume 149, Number 4; Fall 2020 Nancy L. Rosenblum, Guest Editor Phyllis S. Bendell, Managing Editor and Director of Publications Peter Walton, Associate Editor Heather M. Struntz, Assistant Editor Committee on Studies and Publications John Mark Hansen, Chair; Rosina Bierbaum, Johanna Drucker, Gerald Early, Carol Gluck, Linda Greenhouse, John Hildebrand, Philip Khoury, Arthur Kleinman, Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Alan I. Leshner, Rose McDermott, Michael S. McPherson, Frances McCall Rosenbluth, Scott D. Sagan, Nancy C. Andrews (ex officio), David W. Oxtoby (ex officio), Diane P. Wood (ex officio) Inside front cover: Unknown artist, The Dramatic Birth of a Giant Iceberg, originally printed in The Popular Science Educator, Volume 2, edited by Charles Ray (London: The Amalgamated Press, 1935). Contents 6 Introduction: Paths to Witnessing, Ethics of Speaking Out Nancy L. Rosenblum 25 On Becoming Witnessing Professionals Robert Jay Lifton 33 What Is the Social Responsibility of Climate Scientists? Naomi Oreskes 46 Witnessing for the Middle to Depolarize the Climate Change Conversation Robert H. Socolow 67 The Professional Ethics of Witnessing Professionals Dennis F. Thompson 79 An Environmental Lawyer’s Fraught Quest for Legal Tools to Hold Back the Seas Michael B.
    [Show full text]
  • Chapter 31. Testifying to Congress: 1982 & 1986
    Chapter 31. Testifying to Congress: 1982 & 1986 Testimony to Congress is the pinnacle for communication with the public and lawmakers on important matters and on actions that may be required to address those matters. Washington in the 1980s was more than the nation’s capital. It was the world’s capital. Its architecture includes spacklings of ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome and medieval Europe. However, the power of the almighty dollar is what made Washington the one capital city that could set the world on a different energy course, if Washington had the will to do so. Congressional hearings have trappings that create an essential aura. Lawmakers, like Supreme Court Justices, sit on a raised dais behind an impressive oaken podium. Trapped between this platform, usually curved outward, and the gallery behind, expert witnesses sit at a bare table, nervously. With a full gallery, television cameras, and congressional aides scurrying behind the Congress people, this is a setting that can catch public attention. My first congressional testimony was to a joint hearing of two subcommittees of the Committee on Science and Technology of the U.S. House of Representatives. James Scheurer of New York and Albert Gore, Jr. of Tennessee chaired these subcommittees. Their initial hearing, in 1981, featured Roger Revelle. As a professor at Harvard in the 1960s, Revelle had introduced undergraduate student Al Gore to the CO2 greenhouse problem. His professorial presentation had spurred Gore’s interest, but such an academic presentation would not ignite the public. The evening television news and the newspapers ignored the hearing. The second hearing, on a cold March day in 1982, fared little better.
    [Show full text]
  • Project Nur, El FIC 150 "I Love My Air Fryer" Keto Diet Recipe Book
    TITLE AUTHOR Categ Pesos 'life' Project Nur, El FIC 150 "i Love My Air Fryer" Keto Diet Recipe Book: From Veggie Frittata to ClassicDillard, MinSamCKB 410 (Nearly) Teenage Girl's Guide to (Almost) Everything Coombes, SharieYAN 200 #lovemutts: A Mutts Treasury McDonnell, CGNPatrick 480 1-2-3, You Love Me Jill HowarthKIDS 200 1, 2, 3 To The Zoo: A Counting Book Carle, Eric/ KIDSCarle, Eric 200 1,000 Facts about Ancient Egypt Honovich, NancyJNF 360 10 Fat Turkeys Deas, Rich JUV 170 10 Little Rubber Ducks Carle, Eric JUV 220 10 Practice Tests for the Sat, 2020 Edition: Extra Preparation to Help AchieveThe Princeton a STU Review 600 10% Happier Revised Edition: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, ReducedHarris, DanStressSEL Wi 410 100 Christmas Wishes: Vintage Holiday Cards from the New York PublicNew Library York PublicREL Library 440 100 Drives, 5,000 Ideas: Where to Go, When to Go, What to Do, WhatYogerst, to See JoeTRV 600 100 Inventions That Made History DK PublishingJNF 410 100 stories day 21 morgan cassJUV 290 100 Weight Loss Bowls: Build Your Own Calorie-Controlled Diet Plan Whinney, HeatherCKB 480 1000 Animals revised ANI 360 1000 Dot-To-Dot: Masterpieces Pavitte, ThomasKIDS 360 1000 Things Under the Sea Revised NAT 360 1001 Animals To Spot Brocklehurst,JUV Ruth/ Gower, 240 Ter 1001 Quotations to Enlighten, Entertain, and Inspire Arp, Robert REF 440 101 Dalmatians Coloring Book: Coloring Book for Kids and Adults 50 IllustrationsOrneo, JulianaCRA 170 102 Dalmatians and Madagascar Escape 2 Africa Coloring Book: 2 in Westfild,1 Coloring Angela BooCRA 150 104-Story Treehouse: Dental Dramas & Jokes Galore! Griffiths, AndyJUV 340 11/22/63 King, StephenFIC 480 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos Peterson, JordanPSY B 630 13 Things Mentally Strong Parents Don't Do Intl Amy Morin FAM 440 13 Things Mentally Strong Women Don't Do: Own Your Power, ChannelMorin, Your Amy ConfidencSEL 440 13-Story Treehouse book 1 Griffiths, AndyKIDS 200 1356..
    [Show full text]
  • Australian Humanities Review
    AUSTRALIAN HUMANITIES REVIEW issue 50 2011 Unloved Others Death of the Disregarded in the Time of Extinctions Edited by Deborah Bird Rose and Thom van Dooren Australian Humanities Review Editors: Monique Rooney, The Australian National University Russell Smith, The Australian National University Ecological Humanities Editors: Dr Deborah Rose, Macquarie University Dr Thom van Dooren, University of Technology, Sydney Editorial Advisors: Stuart Cunningham, Queensland University of Technology Ned Curthoys, The Australian National University Guy Davidson, University of Wollongong Ken Gelder, University of Melbourne Andrew Hassam, Monash University Marilyn Lake, La Trobe University Sue Martin, La Trobe University Fiona Probyn-Rapsey, University of Sydney Susan Sheridan, Flinders University Rosalind Smith, University of Newcastle, NSW Terry Threadgold, Cardiff University, Wales McKenzie Wark, Eugene Lang College, New York Terri-Ann White, University of Western Australia Adi Wimmer, University of Klagenfurt, Austria Elizabeth McMahon, University of New South Wales Libby Robin, The Australian National University Australian Humanities Review is published by the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, with the support of the School of Humanities at The Australian National University. Mailing address: Editors, Australian Humanities Review, School of Humanities, AD Hope Building #14, The Australian National University, ACT 0200, Australia. Email: [email protected] Website: www.australianhumanitiesreview.org Published by ANU E Press Email: [email protected] Website: http://epress.anu.edu.au © The Australian National University. This Publication is protected by copyright and may be used as permitted by the Copyright Act 1968 provided appropriate acknowledgment of the source is published. The illustrations and certain identified inclusions in the text are held under separate copyrights and may not be reproduced in any form without the permission of the respective copyright holders.
    [Show full text]
  • Space for Nature Symposium 27-28 February 2018
    SPACE FOR NATURE SYMPOSIUM Safeguarding space for nature and securing our future Developing a post-2020 Strategy | FEBRUARY 27– 28, 2018 IN PARTNERSHIP WITH TABLE OF CONTENTS SYMPOSIUM OVERVIEW 3 AGENDA 4 ABSTRACTS TUESDAY, FEB. 27 | Current targets, progress and shortfalls on protection of space for nature under Aichi Target 11 SESSION 1 Plenary 6 SESSION 2 How much is currently protected? 6 SESSION 3 Areas important for biodiversity 7 SESSION 4 How ecologically representative are current networks? 10 SESSION 5 The need for effective and equitable management 12 SESSION 6 Other effective area-based conservation measures 14 SESSION 7 Connectivity and integration into the wider land/sea-scape 16 SESSION 8 Posters and Reception 17 WEDNESDAY, FEB. 28 | An Ambitious Post-2020 Strategy On Space For Nature SESSION 9 Plenary 18 SESSION 10 How much space do we need for nature? 18 SESSION 11 Space for nature in a post-2020 biodiversity strategy: how to achieve it? 19 SESSION 12 Space for nature in a post-2020 strategy: what to include? 21 SPEAKER AND CHAIR BIOGRAPHIES 23 POSTER ABSTRACTS 38 SYMPOSIUM OVERVIEW SAFEGUARDING SPACE FOR NATURE AND SECURING OUR FUTURE: DEVELOPING A POST-2020 STRATEGY THE CHALLENGE We are rapidly losing Earth’s wild species and wild spaces, with global vertebrate populations having declined by two-thirds by in the last 40 years. Under the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020, Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) have pledged to protect at least 17% of land and freshwater and 10% of our oceans by 2020. The plan focuses on areas of importance for biodiversity and ecosystem services in systems of effective, equitable and ecologically connected protected and conserved areas.
    [Show full text]
  • Nathaniel Rich
    FREE EXAM COPIES BOOKS FOR THE FIRST-YEAR EXPERIENCE® 12 Days. 2,021 Miles. One Powerful Audio Journey. Driving the GREEN BOOK A living history podcast that preserves a powerful legacy and honors the stories of those who lived through segregation, supported and uplifted each other, and fought for equality. Available Now BOOKS FOR THE FIRST-YEAR EXPERIENCE® Macmillan Publishers is pleased to offer a diverse selection of broadly appealing, critically acclaimed books—all of them ideally suited for First-Year Experience and Common Reading programs. Accessible yet challenging, timely yet classic, these are books that invite campus-wide discussion while also fostering individual growth, that ask questions and make demands of all who pick them up—books meant to open doors, TABLE OF CONTENTS change minds, undercut assumptions, spark debates. Above all, these books will help students to succeed across all manner of academic disciplines by addressing NONFICTION 4 them—and stimulating them, and moving them— GRAPHIC NOVELS 70 as only the best books can. As a class or on their own, POETRY 72 first-year students achieve their very best, as readers FICTION 74 and as students, when they’re “on the same page” as their peers. That’s where these books come in. MACMILLAN SPEAKERS 81 COLLEGE SUCCESS 82 LAUNCHPAD 84 INSIDER’S GUIDES 85 CURRICULUM SOLUTIONS 86 ORDERING INFORMATION 87 *The First-Year Experience® is a service mark of the University of South Carolina. A license may be granted upon written request to use the term The First-Year Experience in association with products designed to assist educators in creating programs to enhance the first college year.
    [Show full text]
  • A Journal of Political Thought and Statesmanship
    VOLUME XIX, NUMBER 4, FALL 2019 A Journal of Political Thought and Statesmanship William Christopher Voegeli: Caldwell: e Politics Green Is of Race the New Red Mike Gonzalez: Peter Inventing Skerry: Hispanics Becoming White Mark Helprin: Unfair Harvard Nicholas Eberstadt: Charles Horner: Working Democracy Man Blues in China Christopher Michael Anton Flannery: Hadley Arkes David James L. Buckley McCullough’s D. Alan Heslop Pioneers Wilfred M. McClay and Jean M. Yarbrough: John J. Remembering DiIulio, Jr.: Michael M. On Marijuana Uhlmann A Publication of the Claremont Institute PRICE: $6.95 IN CANADA: $8.95 Hillsdale College VAN ANDEL GRADUATE SCHOOL OF STATESMANSHIP M.A. POLITICS Ph.D. POLITICS A First Principles Approach to Graduate Education in Political Philosophy and American Politics THE FACULTY Larry P. Arnn · Adam Carrington · Mickey Craig · John W. Grant Khalil Habib · Mark S. Kremer · Matthew Mendham · Ronald J. Pestritto Kevin Portteus · Paul A. Rahe · Kevin Slack · Thomas G. West Based on the core texts of the Western and American Traditions Offering Competitive Scholarships and Fellowship Stipends For more information or to apply: gradschool.hillsdale.edu | [email protected] | (517) 607-2483 HC_GradSchool_CRB_6-19.indd 1 6/13/19 3:55 PM mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK Charles R. Kesler: Trump and Our Political Stalemate: page 5 CORRESPONDENCE: page 6 ESSAYS Michael Anton: The Empire Strikes Back: page 8 Mark Helprin: Pride and Prejudice at Harvard: page 55 What the effort to impeach President Trump is really about. An essay and reminiscence. William Voegeli: Liberty, Equality, Reality: page 15 Charles Horner: China’s Democratic Future: page 73 Questions we’d rather not ask about race.
    [Show full text]