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Hofstra University invites applications for the newly-created position of Director of Sustainability Studies to be part of the Department of Global Studies and Geography and the National Center for Suburban Studies. The position is responsible for creating, developing, promoting, and providing leadership for a new Sustainability Studies program. This position will preferably be at the [...]
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Oil’s catastrophic power has been reaffirmed by the succession of environmental disasters that have accompanied the global expansion of oil extraction, a series culminating in the devastation produced by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon blowout. These ecological tragedies have been matched by the array of social antagonisms, global political conflicts, and boom-and-bust economic cycles that have developed around the oil industry since its beginnings. For this special issue, we seek essays that explore the wide field of “oil culture” that has emerged around the American petroleum industry in the 150 years since its inception in northwestern Pennsylvania.
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The conference seeks to critically engage with the market panacea in environmental policy and conservation in the context of histories and recent developments in neoliberal capitalism. The conference is steeped in traditions of political economy and political ecology, in order to arrive at a deeper understanding of where environmental policies and conservation in an age of late capitalism come from, are going and what effects they have on natures and peoples.
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The environment has played a profoundly important role in shaping the
movement of people, objects, and ideas in Canadian history. In turn,
mobility (travel, transport, and traffic) has had significant impacts
on the environment, both in materially tangible ways and in terms of
how people have perceived and experienced Canada´s varied landscapes. We therefore invite
scholars from all fields and all parts of the country to contribute
papers to an edited collection that will explore natural and built
environments of mobility in Canada´s past.
May 31st - June 1, 2010
Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec
Official Publication of the Environmental Studies Association of Canada
Current Issue: Environmental Education Directory
