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The Dimensions of Political Ecology Conference The University of Kentucky February 27 – March 1, 2014 1 Welcome to The Dimensions of Political Ecology Conference The Dimensions of Political Ecology Conference (DOPE 2014) is organized by an interdisciplinary group of graduate student volunteers at the University of Kentucky through the Political Ecology Working Group (UKPEWG). The conference organizing committee works throughout the year to make this conference possible. DOPE 2014 CONFERENCE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Core Organizers: Lily Brislen Daniel Cockayne Jessa Loomis Marita Murphy Lindsay Shade Sophia Strosberg Sarah Watson Organizers: Jay Bowen Kyle Burchett Jackie Monge Matthew Rosenblum Virginia Smith Kenny Stancil COVER IMAGE: Lily House-Peters Mules carrying U.S. Post Office mail to the Indigenous community in Havasu Falls, Arizona - the last mule-dependent post office route in the country. 2 Conference Locations The Registration and Information Desk will be located immediately upstairs from the UK Campus Book Store in the Student Center. Check in, grab your nametag, and say hello. A friendly volunteer will be available all day on Friday and until 12PM on Saturday to answer questions and welcome you to DOPE 2014. Paper Presentations will be held primarily in the UK Student Center, with additional sessions in the Niles Art Gallery on Friday and White Hall Classroom Building on Saturday. The UK Student Center is located on Avenue of Champions between Limestone Street and Martin Luther King Boulevard. The Niles Art Gallery is located in the Fine Arts Library, a short walk from the White Hall Classroom Building. From White Hall walk away from the Patterson Office Tower. The Fine Arts Library is the second building on your left and the Niles Gallery is the only room immediately off the foyer to the left. White Hall Classroom Building is located a short distance from the Student Center and is immediately adjacent to Patterson Office Tower. You can take any of the walkways up the hill from the Student Center, or walk Patterson Drive away from Parking Structure #5. The Keynote Addresses will be held in Memorial Hall at 5:15PM on Friday and Saturday. Memorial Hall is located a short walk from Patterson Office Tower. From the Patterson Office Tower, walk in the direction away from the Student Center, passing Miller Hall on your left and then Gatton Business School on your right. Continue on that path until you reach Memorial Hall. The Friday Opening Reception will be held at the Boone Center, which is located at 500 Rose Street on the way to the UK Young Library. The Saturday After Party will be held at Sound Bar, which is located at 208 South Limestone Street, a short walk north from campus on Limestone St. The DOPE Organizing Committee is pleased to provide a lactation/quiet room (Student Center Room 251) for use by conference participants. 3 DOPE 2014 RESOURCES Campus Maps Printable campus maps can be found here: http://www.ppd.uky.edu/CampusMaps/ Parking on Campus If you are driving to campus, please park in Parking Structure #5 ($10 all day), which is across Limestone Street from the Student Center. The Student Center, which is immediately adjacent to the Student Center with entrances on Avenue of Champions, is free on Saturdays. Lexington Public Transportation For information about Lexington’s public transportation services: http://www.visitlex.com/trolley.php and http://www.lextranonthemove.org/ Internet Access on Campus UKYEDU is a campus-wide wireless network that is accessible to guests. After connecting to the network open your web browser and you will find a guest log-on option to use. The web address for the University of Kentucky is: http://www.uky.edu . Taxi Service Bluegrass Cab - (859) 223-8888 Yellow Cab – (859) 231-8294 Printing Ricoh Document Service Center White Hall Classroom Building Room 29 Phone: (859) 257-1813 Mon-Friday 8:00am – 5:00pm Ricoh Document Service Center Young Library Room 156A Phone: (859) 257-9376 Mon-Fri 8:00am – 5:00pm Kinko’s 333 E Main St, Suite 130 Phone: (859) 253-1360 Mon-Fri 7:00am -11:00 pm Saturday: 9:00am - 9:00pm 4 DOPE 2014 CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS Thursday, February 27 Field Trips Ecofeminism Homesteading Tour, 12:00pm – 5:00pm Bourbon Distillery Tour, 12:00pm – 5:00pm Mountaintop Removal Tour, 9:00am – 8:00pm Political Ecology: Speculative Texts (PEST) Gaines Center, 232 East Maxwell Street, 6:00 pm-8:00 pm A Thursday evening event where conference participants share speculative fiction that addresses and transgresses dystopian/utopian visions of ecological presents, futures, and pasts through feminist, marxist, queer, indigenous, latin@, and afrocentric lenses (among infinite others). Informal Welcome Silks Lounge, 121 North Mill Street, 6:00 pm-11:00 pm Join us for an informal gathering of DOPErs at Silks Lounge. 5 DOPE 2014 CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS Friday, February 28 Plenary Panel: Engaging Difference: Displacing the Subject in Political Ecology Student Center, Worsham Theater, 12:45pm – 2:40pm Moderator: Rebecca Lave is an assistant professor at Indiana University in the Department of Geography. Rebecca’s research is within the field of Critical Physical Geography which explores the boundaries and intersections of political ecology, science and technology studies, and different fields of physical science. This approach is demonstrated in Rebecca’s new book, Fields and Streams: Stream Restoration, Neoliberalism, and the Future of Environmental Science. Panelists: Melanie DuPuis is a Professor in Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her work melds political economy and cultural perspectives in the study of consumption, food, agriculture, development, environment, technology, justice and social change. Her book, Nature’s Perfect Food, brought together these disciplines to understand the invention of milk as a commodity in the United States. Her most recent book, Smoke and Mirrors, brought together a group of urban environmental historians, economists, political scientists, and sociologists to look specifically at air pollution as a cultural and political phenomenon. Carolyn Finney is Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management at UC Berkeley. Carolyn’s research explores how issues of difference impact participation in decision-making processes designed to address environmental issues. The aim of her work is to develop greater cultural competency within environmental organizations and institutions, challenge media outlets on the (mis- or non-) representation of “different” folks, and increase awareness of how privilege shapes who gets to speak to environmental issues and determine policy and action. Sharlene Mollett is a critical cultural geographer and an assistant professor in the Centre for Critical Development Studies and the Geography Department at the University of Toronto, Scarborough Canada. Identifying as a scholar-activist, Dr. Mollett examines race and property rights in Latin American, indigenous politics, and international development. Additionally, Dr. Mollett has called upon Feminist Political Ecologists to grapple more directly with the intersectionalities of race and gender to acknowledge the social complexities that shape different engagements with the natural world. Laura Ogden is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Florida International University. Laura’s research seeks to understand the ways in which human and nonhuman processes interact to create landscapes, with a particular emphasis on the politics that shape our landscape practices. For over a decade, Laura has conducted fieldwork in the Florida Everglades, which is the basis of her book entitled Swamplife: People, Gators and Mangroves Entangled in the Everglades that portrays the lively collaborations among mangroves, alligators, hunters, outlaws, and snakes. Dianne Rocheleau is Professor of Geography at Clark University. Her interests include the environment and development, political ecology, forestry, agriculture and landscape change, with an emphasis on the role of gender, class and "popular" vs. "formal" science in resource allocation and land use. Dr. Rocheleau edited the seminal text Feminist Political Ecology. Keynote Address: Laura Pulido Environmental Racism as a Form of State-Sanctioned Racial Violence Memorial Hall, 5:15pm Laura Pulido is a geographer, whose work is defined theoretically through an interest in race, political activism, Chicana/o studies and the city of Los Angeles, helping her to understand themes of oppression and racism. Her recent book Black, Brown, Yellow, and Left: Radical Activism in Los Angeles is a comparative study of African American, Chicana/o and Japanese American social justice organizations in Los Angeles in the 1970s and 1980s. Laura is working on several projects, one exploring Latina/o racial identities and these identities vary over time and space. Secondly Laura is investigating racial political culture and how state domination has evolved in Los Angeles with an emphasis on accumulation. She has also done extensive work in the areas of environmental justice, social movements, labor studies and radical tourism. Laura is currently Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California and visiting professor of Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. 6 DOPE 2014 CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS Saturday, March 1 Undergraduate Symposium Student Center 231, 8:00am and 10:00am Special Series: Grassroots Political Ecology In The US And Latin America