4/7 Friday Sessions
Slow Violence and the Environment I
is scheduled on Friday, 4/7/2017, from 8:00 AM - 9:40 AM in Columbus 2, Marriott, First Floor
Sponsorship(s):
Political Geography Specialty Group
Human Dimensions of Global Change Specialty Group
Energy and Environment Specialty Group
Organizer(s):
Ruth Trumble - University of Wisconsin - Madison
Shannon O'Lear - University of Kansas
Chair(s):
Ruth Trumble - University of Wisconsin - Madison
Abstract(s):
8:00 AM Author(s): *Shannon O'Lear, Ph.D. - University of Kansas
Abstract Title: Climate Science and Slow Violence: Technoscientific narratives
8:20 AM Author(s): *Shane Donnelly Hall - University of Oregon
Abstract Title: Slow Violence, Climate Justice, and Migration: The Narratives of the "Human Face of Climate Change"
8:40 AM Author(s): *Daniel Abrahams - University of South Carolina
Abstract Title: Responding to the Climate-Conflict Nexus: An Investigation of Discourses, Policy, and Implementation
9:00 AM Author(s): *Hanne Svarstad - Oslo and Akershus University College
Tor A. Benjaminsen - Noragric, NMBU
Abstract Title: A REDD Case in Tanzania: Slow Violence through Knowledge Claims, Concealed Practices and the Creation of a Success Story
9:20 AM Discussant: Ruth Trumble - University of Wisconsin - Madison
Discussant(s):
Ruth Trumble - University of Wisconsin - Madison
Session Description: Rob Nixon's concept of slow violence continues to contribute to the ways in which geographers engage with space. This session welcomes papers that engage slow violence with environmental issues (broadly defined) to extend the dialogue between slow violence and geographies that focus on the environment.
Hydroscapes I
is scheduled on Friday, 4/7/2017, from 8:00 AM - 9:40 AM in Room 108, Hynes, Plaza Level
Sponsorship(s):
Energy and Environment Specialty Group
Organizer(s):
Michael Minn - Eastern Washington University
Chair(s):
Michael Minn - Eastern Washington University
Abstract(s):
8:00 AM Author(s): *Karin Schauman - University of Illinois - Chicago
Nabil Nazha, PhD - University of Illinois at Chicago
8:20 AM Author(s): *Sokvisal Kimsroy - Kent State University
Abstract Title: Assessing the Impacts of a Hydropower Plant on the Livelihoods of Residents in Cambodia: The Case of the Sambor Project
8:40 AM Author(s): *Mohammad Eskandari -
Abstract Title: Fueling the Hydro-dream: Political Economy of Large Dams in Iran
9:00 AM Author(s): *Synne Movik - Norwegian Institute for Water Research
Synne Movik, Dr - Norwegian Institute for Water Research
Abstract Title: Shifting discourses on dams, development and donors: A longue durée perspective on Norwegian energy aid to Nepal and Tanzania
Session Description: In addition to being fundamental to biological and social life, water is also deeply tied to identities, meanings and power relations. These sessions will explore the myriad ways in which water shapes, and is shaped by, physical, political, economic and semiotic landscapes around the world.
Critical Geographies of Energy Infrastructure I: Governance and Justice
is scheduled on Friday, 4/7/2017, from 8:00 AM - 9:40 AM in Constitution A, Sheraton, Second Floor
Sponsorship(s):
Energy and Environment Specialty Group
Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group
Organizer(s):
Anthony Levenda - Arizona State University
Sarah E. Knuth - University of Michigan
Laura Tozer - University of Toronto
Chair(s):
Anthony Levenda - Arizona State University
Abstract(s):
8:00 AM Author(s): *Carol Hunsberger - University of Western Ontario
Abstract Title: Energy justice and Canada's National Energy Board: A critical analysis of the Line 9 pipeline decision
8:20 AM Author(s): *Stephanie Pincetl, PhD - UCLA
Abstract Title: Building Energy Policy; Lurching into the 21st Century
8:40 AM Author(s): *Carlo E. Sica, MA - Syracuse University
Abstract Title: Where's the "structure" in energy infrastructure?
9:00 AM Author(s): *Hudson Spivey - UCLA
Abstract Title: From Energy Colony to Regional Revolt: Decentralized Networks of Power in Fukushima, Japan
9:20 AM Discussant: Harriet Bulkeley - University of Durham
Discussant(s):
Harriet Bulkeley - University of Durham
Session Description: First of four sessions.
Today's interconnected energy crises - worsening climate change; battles between fossil interests and challengers in a volatile global economy; economic decline, austerity, and new energy poverty; and deeply unequal global access to the benefits of reliable and clean energy supply - command political and scholarly attention. In this period of instability and transformation, energy infrastructures in particular have become increasingly powerful objects as loci of emerging technological revolutions and industry restructurings, major targets and stakes in geopolitical conflicts, and symbols of alternate futures.
We argue that energy geographers are well positioned to analyze and critique these emerging energy challenges, and to help cultivate desirable energy futures. Geographic approaches offer unique insights into the spaces and politics of infrastructure (re)production, from the political ecologies of violent extraction and urban metabolism to political economic treatments of urban-regional infrastructure privatization and industrial change, socio-technical work on low-carbon transitions, and cultural and geo-humanities engagements with infrastructural materialities and meanings.
This paper session aims to generate discussions about the future of critical energy geographies. Accordingly, we seek papers that engage with energy infrastructures from various perspectives and that are capable of provoking intellectually and politically creative conversations across areas of geographical inquiry. We seek to take up the challenge of understanding energy as a "physical medium through which to tilt the balance of power and exert social control," (Calvert 2015), to emphasize the ethical implications of uneven energy infrastructure development (Huber 2015), and, taking the advice of anthropologists, to reflect upon what the role of energy, as a concept itself, does to our study of geography (Boyer 2014). We invite contributions that both engage in critique and/or move beyond it to envision and make possible productive, just, and "abundant futures" (Collard et al 2015).
All Things Nuclear in a Post-Fukushima Context: Geographical Perspectives - 1
is scheduled on Friday, 4/7/2017, from 8:00 AM - 9:40 AM in Vineyard, Marriott, Fourth Floor
Sponsorship(s):
Hazards, Risks, and Disasters Specialty Group
Energy and Environment Specialty Group
Health and Medical Geography Specialty Group
Organizer(s):
Misa Yasumiishi - University at Buffalo
Marissa Z. Bell - University At Buffalo
Daisaku Yamamoto - Colgate University
Chair(s):
Daisaku Yamamoto - Colgate University
Abstract(s):
8:00 AM Author(s): *Chris S. Renschler - University at Buffalo (SUNY)
8:15 AM Author(s): *Xi Gong - University of New Mexico
F. Benjamin Zhan - Texas State University
Yan Lin - University of New Mexico
Abstract Title: Is Ionizing Radiation Near In the Vicinity of Nuclear Facilities Related to Low Birth Weight in Offspring
8:30 AM Author(s): *Carolynne Hultquist - Pennsylvania State University
Abstract Title: Radiation from Fukushima: Policy, Information, and Technology
8:45 AM Author(s): *Misa Yasumiishi - University at Buffalo
Abstract Title: Decoding Environmental Processes Using Soil Radioactivity Data for Environmental Decontamination and Recovery
9:00 AM Author(s): *Hiroyuki KANEKO - Rikkyo University
Abstract Title: Why People Continue to Consume Local Food?: Radioactive contamination and the use of resources.
9:15 AM Discussant: Chris S. Renschler - University at Buffalo (SUNY)
Discussant(s):
Chris S. Renschler - University at Buffalo (SUNY)
Session Description: The nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Japan in 2011 and the subsequent radioactive contamination in the region has impacted the ways in which we view and deal with nuclear power, radioactivity in the environment, and the complex assemblage of actors in the energy industry and communities. Five years after the incident, the concerns about the effects of the disaster persist and the new issues and challenges related to nuclear power and radioactivity continue to arise. This multiple-session series aims to provide an opportunity to share knowledge, experiences, and questions among researchers who have been engaging in a wide range of issues related to radioactivity, nuclear energy, nuclear accident/disaster, nuclear proliferation, and other relevant events and phenomena. Our paper sessions and panel discussion will address the following nuclear-energy related topics, not limited to the Fukushima region: isotope techniques in geography; environmental impacts; geographies of health, radiation, contamination and decontamination; social and community impacts and responses; social and economic impacts of power plant decommissioning; knowledge, expertise and information; sustainability and progress; demographics and migration; gender and diverse economies; reconstruction and governance; use of geospatial techniques; urban-centric challenges.
Slow Violence and the Environment II
is scheduled on Friday, 4/7/2017, from 10:00 AM - 11:40 AM in Columbus 2, Marriott, First Floor
Sponsorship(s):
Political Geography Specialty Group
Human Dimensions of Global Change Specialty Group
Energy and Environment Specialty Group
Organizer(s):
Ruth Trumble - University of Wisconsin - Madison
Shannon O'Lear - University of Kansas
Chair(s):
Shannon O'Lear - University of Kansas
Abstract(s):
10:00 AM Author(s): *Ruth Trumble - University of Wisconsin - Madison
Abstract Title: The Past is Present: Intersections of slow violence and disaster recovery
10:20 AM Author(s): *Lauren Richter, M.A. - Northeastern University
Abstract Title: Constructing Insignificance? Applying Racial Contract Theory to Regulatory Failure in Environmental Justice Communities
10:40 AM Author(s): *Himanshu Burte - Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai
Abstract Title: Tearing through the neighbourhood: conflicting temporalities of infrastructure, project and in/formal place
11:00 AM Author(s): *Dawn Biehler - University of Maryland Baltimore County
Abstract Title: Narratives of Infrastructure and Sanitary Collapse: Framing Environmental Injustice After Redlining in Baltimore, Maryland, USA
11:20 AM Discussant: Shannon O'Lear - University of Kansas
Discussant(s):
Shannon O'Lear - University of Kansas
Hydroscapes II
is scheduled on Friday, 4/7/2017, from 10:00 AM - 11:40 AM in Room 108, Hynes, Plaza Level
Sponsorship(s):
Energy and Environment Specialty Group
Organizer(s):
Michael Minn - Eastern Washington University
Chair(s):
Michael Minn - Eastern Washington University
Abstract(s):
10:00 AM Author(s): *Martina Angela Caretta - West Virginia University
10:20 AM Author(s): *Hussein A. Amery - Colorado School of Mines
Abstract Title: Expatriate Grievances and Water Security in the Arab Gulf
10:40 AM Author(s): *Theresa Pendergrast - Cornell University
Abstract Title: Discord, Dispossession, and Dairy: Water Governance and Social Change in Canterbury, New Zealand
11:00 AM Author(s): *Katharine Bolton - University of Colorado Denver
Abstract Title: Water as a Transformative Lens for Post Mining Landscapes
11:20 AM Author(s): *Susanna Diller - University of New Mexico - Albuquerque, NM
Abstract Title: Human Experience and Social Valuation of Fountain Spaces in Denver and Albuquerque
Session Description: In addition to being fundamental to biological and social life, water is also deeply tied to identities, meanings and power relations. These sessions will explore the myriad ways in which water shapes, and is shaped by, physical, political, economic and semiotic landscapes around the world.
Critical Geographies of Energy Infrastructure II: Spatial,Temporal, and Material Politics
is scheduled on Friday, 4/7/2017, from 10:00 AM - 11:40 AM in Constitution A, Sheraton, Second Floor
Sponsorship(s):
Energy and Environment Specialty Group
Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group
Organizer(s):
Anthony Levenda - Arizona State University
Sarah E. Knuth - University of Michigan
Chair(s):
Laura Tozer - University of Toronto
Abstract(s):
10:00 AM Author(s): *Gordon Walker - LANCASTER UNIVERSITY
Mette Kragh-Furbo - Lancaster University
Abstract Title: Re-monetizing electricity (non)flows and commodifying (non)demand: the extending metrological regime of market-based grid balancing
10:20 AM Author(s): *Carlo E. Sica, MA - Syracuse University
Abstract Title: Where's the "structure" in energy infrastructure?
10:40 AM Author(s): *Conor Harrison - University of South Carolina
Jeff Popke, PhD - East Carolina University
Abstract Title: Mining steam: The promise and peril of geothermal energy in the Caribbean energy transition
10:50 AM Introduction: Jeff Popke - East Carolina University
Session Description: Second of four sessions.
Today's interconnected energy crises - worsening climate change; battles between fossil interests and challengers in a volatile global economy; economic decline, austerity, and new energy poverty; and deeply unequal global access to the benefits of reliable and clean energy supply - command political and scholarly attention. In this period of instability and transformation, energy infrastructures in particular have become increasingly powerful objects as loci of emerging technological revolutions and industry restructurings, major targets and stakes in geopolitical conflicts, and symbols of alternate futures.
We argue that energy geographers are well positioned to analyze and critique these emerging energy challenges, and to help cultivate desirable energy futures. Geographic approaches offer unique insights into the spaces and politics of infrastructure (re)production, from the political ecologies of violent extraction and urban metabolism to political economic treatments of urban-regional infrastructure privatization and industrial change, socio-technical work on low-carbon transitions, and cultural and geo-humanities engagements with infrastructural materialities and meanings.
This paper session aims to generate discussions about the future of critical energy geographies. Accordingly, we seek papers that engage with energy infrastructures from various perspectives and that are capable of provoking intellectually and politically creative conversations across areas of geographical inquiry. We seek to take up the challenge of understanding energy as a "physical medium through which to tilt the balance of power and exert social control," (Calvert 2015), to emphasize the ethical implications of uneven energy infrastructure development (Huber 2015), and, taking the advice of anthropologists, to reflect upon what the role of energy, as a concept itself, does to our study of geography (Boyer 2014). We invite contributions that both engage in critique and/or move beyond it to envision and make possible productive, just, and "abundant futures" (Collard et al 2015).
All Things Nuclear in a Post-Fukushima Context: Geographical Perspectives - 2
is scheduled on Friday, 4/7/2017, from 10:00 AM - 11:40 AM in Vineyard, Marriott, Fourth Floor
Sponsorship(s):
Hazards, Risks, and Disasters Specialty Group
Energy and Environment Specialty Group
Water Resources Specialty Group
Organizer(s):
Misa Yasumiishi - University at Buffalo
Marissa Z. Bell - University At Buffalo
Daisaku Yamamoto - Colgate University
Chair(s):
Marissa Z. Bell - University At Buffalo
Abstract(s):
10:00 AM Author(s): *Takehito Noda - Ritsumeikan University
10:15 AM Author(s): *Bien Xuan Do - Department of Geography, Graduate School of Letters, Hiroshima University, Japan
Abstract Title: Factors that Influence Migration Location Choices in the Fukushima Nuclear Accident Displacement
10:30 AM Author(s): *Aleksandr Sklyar, PhD Candidate, Sociocultural Anthropology - University of Michigan
Abstract Title: Post-Fukushima Materially and Socially Permeable Homes
10:45 AM Author(s): *David W. Edgington, Professor - University Of British Columbia
Abstract Title: The Road Back: Arrangements for Recovery of Population and Jobs in the Futaba District of Fukushima Prefecture
11:00 AM Author(s): *Mitsuo Yamakawa - Professor, Faculty of Economics, Teikyo University
Abstract Title: great east japan earthquake/ nuclear disaster and fukushima urban area master plan
11:15 AM Discussant: Misa Yasumiishi - University at Buffalo
Discussant(s):
Misa Yasumiishi - University at Buffalo
Session Description: The nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Japan in 2011 and the subsequent radioactive contamination in the region has impacted the ways in which we view and deal with nuclear power, radioactivity in the environment, and the complex assemblage of actors in the energy industry and communities. Five years after the incident, the concerns about the effects of the disaster persist and the new issues and challenges related to nuclear power and radioactivity continue to arise. This multiple-session series aims to provide an opportunity to share knowledge, experiences, and questions among researchers who have been engaging in a wide range of issues related to radioactivity, nuclear energy, nuclear accident/disaster, nuclear proliferation, and other relevant events and phenomena. Our paper sessions and panel discussion will address the following nuclear-energy related topics, not limited to the Fukushima region: isotope techniques in geography; environmental impacts; geographies of health, radiation, contamination and decontamination; social and community impacts and responses; social and economic impacts of power plant decommissioning; knowledge, expertise and information; sustainability and progress; demographics and migration; gender and diverse economies; reconstruction and governance; use of geospatial techniques; urban-centric challenges.
All Things Nuclear in a Post-Fukushima Context: Geographical Perspectives - 3
is scheduled on Friday, 4/7/2017, from 1:20 PM - 3:00 PM in Vineyard, Marriott, Fourth Floor
Sponsorship(s):
Hazards, Risks, and Disasters Specialty Group
Energy and Environment Specialty Group
Economic Geography Specialty Group
Organizer(s):
Misa Yasumiishi - University at Buffalo
Marissa Z. Bell - University At Buffalo
Daisaku Yamamoto - Colgate University
Chair(s):
Misa Yasumiishi - University at Buffalo
Abstract(s):
1:20 PM Author(s): *Noritsugu Fujimoto, Professor - Toyo University
*Noritsugu Fujimoto, Visiting Professor - Fukushima University
Abstract Title: Regional economic boom after the nuclear disaster: Political economy, governance and reconstruction policy in Fukushima
1:35 PM Author(s): *Masayuki SETO - Fukushima University
Akira Takagi - Kumamoto Gakuen University
Abstract Title: International transferring of disaster management knowledge
1:50 PM Author(s): *Makoto Takahashi - University of Cambridge
Abstract Title: Enacting Nuclear Expertise: a performative analysis of post-Fukushima workshops and exercises
2:05 PM Author(s): *Alexander Michael Pustelnyk - Colgate University
Abstract Title: The 'Nature' of Exclusion: Nuclear Natures in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone
2:20 PM Author(s): Nathaniel Trumbull - Univ. of Connecticut
Oleg Bodrov - Green World
Abstract Title: Best Practices of Nuclear Power Plant Decommissioning: International Lessons and Mitigating its Socio-Economic Impacts
2:35 PM Discussant: Marissa Z. Bell - University At Buffalo
Discussant(s):
Marissa Z. Bell - University At Buffalo
Session Description: The nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Japan in 2011 and the subsequent radioactive contamination in the region has impacted the ways in which we view and deal with nuclear power, radioactivity in the environment, and the complex assemblage of actors in the energy industry and communities. Five years after the incident, the concerns about the effects of the disaster persist and the new issues and challenges related to nuclear power and radioactivity continue to arise. This multiple-session series aims to provide an opportunity to share knowledge, experiences, and questions among researchers who have been engaging in a wide range of issues related to radioactivity, nuclear energy, nuclear accident/disaster, nuclear proliferation, and other relevant events and phenomena. Our paper sessions and panel discussion will address the following nuclear-energy related topics, not limited to the Fukushima region: isotope techniques in geography; environmental impacts; geographies of health, radiation, contamination and decontamination; social and community impacts and responses; social and economic impacts of power plant decommissioning; knowledge, expertise and information; sustainability and progress; demographics and migration; gender and diverse economies; reconstruction and governance; use of geospatial techniques; urban-centric challenges.
The past, present, and future of environmental justice research: Introducing the Routledge Handbook of Environmental Justice
is scheduled on Friday, 4/7/2017, from 1:20 PM - 3:00 PM in Boylston, Marriott, First Floor
Sponsorship(s):
Ethics, Justice, and Human Rights Specialty Group
Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group
Energy and Environment Specialty Group
Organizer(s):
Ryan Holifield - University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Gordon Walker - LANCASTER UNIVERSITY
Jayajit Chakraborty - University of Texas - El Paso
Chair(s):
Ryan Holifield - University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Panelist(s):
Jonathan K. London - ept of Human Ecology/ Community and Regional Development
Isabelle Anguelovski - Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
Juliana Maantay - Lehman College/CUNY
Rosie Day - University of Birmingham
Discussant(s):
Julian Agyeman - TUFTS UNIVERSITY
Gordon Walker - LANCASTER UNIVERSITY
Jayajit Chakraborty - University of Texas - El Paso
Ryan Holifield - University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Laura Pulido - University of Oregon - Eugene, OR
Session Description: This panel discussion will introduce the new Routledge Handbook of Environmental Justice (to be published in 2017), which includes 51 chapters by over 90 authors from multiple disciplines and six continents. The Handbook, the first and most comprehensive resource of its kind, addresses key theories, methods, substantive issues, and geographical contexts for environmental justice research. Our invited panelists and discussants will use the occasion to reflect on the past, present, and future directions of the field, which will also be the focus of our general discussion.
Critical Geographies of Energy Infrastructure III: Contested Energy Landscapes
is scheduled on Friday, 4/7/2017, from 1:20 PM - 3:00 PM in Constitution A, Sheraton, Second Floor
Sponsorship(s):
Energy and Environment Specialty Group
Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group
Organizer(s):
Anthony Levenda - Arizona State University
Laura Tozer - University of Toronto
Chair(s):
Sarah E. Knuth - University of Michigan
Abstract(s):
1:20 PM Author(s): *Kees Lokman - University of British Columbia
Abstract Title: Critical Geographies of Energy Infrastructure: Power, Politics, and Possibilities
1:40 PM Author(s): *Mumtaz Derya Tarhan - University of Toronto
Abstract Title: Energy Democracy: A Critical Technology Studies Perspective
2:00 PM Author(s): *Brent Sturlaugson, AIA, NCARB - University of Kentucky
Abstract Title: 'What You Don't See Matters': Supply Chain Capitalism and the Architecture of Production
2:20 PM Author(s): *Kirby Calvert - University of Guelph
Kirsten Greer, Assistant Professor - Nipissing University
Abstract Title: (Re-)Reading energy landscapes as recursive cartographies: a human-environment history of energy transitions in Bermuda
2:40 PM Discussant: Matt Huber - Syracuse University
Discussant(s):
Matt Huber - Syracuse University
Session Description: Session three of four.
Today's interconnected energy crises - worsening climate change; battles between fossil interests and challengers in a volatile global economy; economic decline, austerity, and new energy poverty; and deeply unequal global access to the benefits of reliable and clean energy supply - command political and scholarly attention. In this period of instability and transformation, energy infrastructures in particular have become increasingly powerful objects as loci of emerging technological revolutions and industry restructurings, major targets and stakes in geopolitical conflicts, and symbols of alternate futures.
We argue that energy geographers are well positioned to analyze and critique these emerging energy challenges, and to help cultivate desirable energy futures. Geographic approaches offer unique insights into the spaces and politics of infrastructure (re)production, from the political ecologies of violent extraction and urban metabolism to political economic treatments of urban-regional infrastructure privatization and industrial change, socio-technical work on low-carbon transitions, and cultural and geo-humanities engagements with infrastructural materialities and meanings.
This paper session aims to generate discussions about the future of critical energy geographies. Accordingly, we seek papers that engage with energy infrastructures from various perspectives and that are capable of provoking intellectually and politically creative conversations across areas of geographical inquiry. We seek to take up the challenge of understanding energy as a "physical medium through which to tilt the balance of power and exert social control," (Calvert 2015), to emphasize the ethical implications of uneven energy infrastructure development (Huber 2015), and, taking the advice of anthropologists, to reflect upon what the role of energy, as a concept itself, does to our study of geography (Boyer 2014). We invite contributions that both engage in critique and/or move beyond it to envision and make possible productive, just, and "abundant futures" (Collard et al 2015).
Critical Geographies of Energy 1: Space, Scale and Discourse in Post-Hydrocarbon Politics
is scheduled on Friday, 4/7/2017, from 1:20 PM - 3:00 PM in Boston University, Marriott, Third Floor
Sponsorship(s):
Energy and Environment Specialty Group
Ethics, Justice, and Human Rights Specialty Group
Human Dimensions of Global Change Specialty Group
Organizer(s):
Ryan Maurice Katz-Rosene - University of Ottawa
Noel Healy - Dept Geography Salem State University
Chair(s):
Ryan Maurice Katz-Rosene - University of Ottawa
Abstract(s):
1:20 PM Introduction: Ryan Maurice Katz-Rosene - University of Ottawa
1:25 PM Author(s): *Sean F Kennedy - UCLA
Abstract Title: "Alternative energy capital of the world"? Geographies of energy transition and governance in Los Angeles' urban periphery
1:45 PM Author(s): *Danya Al-Saleh - University of Wisconsin
Abstract Title: The engineering of energy infrastructures for a "post-hydrocarbon" Qatar
2:05 PM Author(s): *Jessica Debski - Salem State University
Abstract Title: Fossil Fuel Divestment: Implications for the Future of Sustainability Discourse and Action within Higher Education
2:25 PM Author(s): *Ryan M Katz-Rosene, SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow - University of Ottawa
Abstract Title: Energizing 8.5 Billion: The Socio-Spatial Implications of Eco-Modernist and De-Growthist Energy Futures
2:45 PM Discussant: Noel Healy - Dept Geography Salem State University
Discussant(s):
Noel Healy - Dept Geography Salem State University
Session Description: Whether it be to help mitigate climate change, to obtain national energy security, to stimulate growth in domestic industries, or to lift populations out of energy poverty, governments around the globe are actively involved in retooling, reregulating, rebranding and/or reinvesting in various energy infrastructures, all while the dominance of fossil fuels within the global economy appears to be under threat. Multi-scalar projects, plans, and regulatory structures have emerged in recent years to start instituting change in energy systems (or in some instances to maintain the status quo), begging us to question the various dimensions and spatial dynamics at play. Several schisms have showcased themselves as communities, megacities, larger regional jurisdictions and nation-states have moved forward in attempts to achieve energy plans and targets. Among such divisions are those between eco-modernist and de-growthist ideologies, urban and rural development, globalism and localism, and multinational companies and communities challenging the influence and impacts of petro-capitalism. Together, this series of papers seeks to address the emergent issues around energy from a critical geographical perspective, with attention to various themes such as energy security, energy justice, socio-technical transitions, infrastructure, and climate change.
Critical Geographies of Energy Infrastructure IV: Inequality, Violence and (Dis)Connection
is scheduled on Friday, 4/7/2017, from 3:20 PM - 5:00 PM in Constitution A, Sheraton, Second Floor
Sponsorship(s):
Energy and Environment Specialty Group
Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group
Organizer(s):
Anthony Levenda - Arizona State University
Laura Tozer - University of Toronto
Sarah E. Knuth - University of Michigan
Chair(s):
Abstract(s):
3:20 PM Author(s): *Mary Finley-Brook - University of Richmond
Abstract Title: Racial Violence and Deadly Energy in the Americas
3:40 PM Author(s): *Veronica Isabel Jacome - University of California, Berkeley
Abstract Title: Access at the Fringe: precarity within electric services in Unguja, Tanzania
4:00 PM Author(s): *Sophie L.Van Neste - University of Montreal
Abstract Title: Energy politics and the 'ferocious love for place': complex entanglements for activists against pipelines
4:20 PM Discussant: Jennifer Baka - Pennsylvania State University
Discussant(s):
Jennifer Baka - Pennsylvania State University
Session Description: Today's interconnected energy crises - worsening climate change; battles between fossil interests and challengers in a volatile global economy; economic decline, austerity, and new energy poverty; and deeply unequal global access to the benefits of reliable and clean energy supply - command political and scholarly attention. In this period of instability and transformation, energy infrastructures in particular have become increasingly powerful objects as loci of emerging technological revolutions and industry restructurings, major targets and stakes in geopolitical conflicts, and symbols of alternate futures.
We argue that energy geographers are well positioned to analyze and critique these emerging energy challenges, and to help cultivate desirable energy futures. Geographic approaches offer unique insights into the spaces and politics of infrastructure (re)production, from the political ecologies of violent extraction and urban metabolism to political economic treatments of urban-regional infrastructure privatization and industrial change, socio-technical work on low-carbon transitions, and cultural and geo-humanities engagements with infrastructural materialities and meanings.
This paper session aims to generate discussions about the future of critical energy geographies. Accordingly, we seek papers that engage with energy infrastructures from various perspectives and that are capable of provoking intellectually and politically creative conversations across areas of geographical inquiry. We seek to take up the challenge of understanding energy as a "physical medium through which to tilt the balance of power and exert social control," (Calvert 2015), to emphasize the ethical implications of uneven energy infrastructure development (Huber 2015), and, taking the advice of anthropologists, to reflect upon what the role of energy, as a concept itself, does to our study of geography (Boyer 2014). We invite contributions that both engage in critique and/or move beyond it to envision and make possible productive, just, and "abundant futures" (Collard et al 2015).
Critical Geographies of Energy 2: Security and Power in Energy Infrastructure
is scheduled on Friday, 4/7/2017, from 3:20 PM - 5:00 PM in Boston University, Marriott, Third Floor
Sponsorship(s):
Energy and Environment Specialty Group
Ethics, Justice, and Human Rights Specialty Group
Human Dimensions of Global Change Specialty Group
Organizer(s):
Ryan Maurice Katz-Rosene - University of Ottawa
Noel Healy - Dept Geography Salem State University
Chair(s):
Abstract(s):
3:20 PM Introduction: Mia Renauld
3:25 PM Author(s): Don Alexander, PhD, MCP, RPP - Vancouver Island University
Abstract Title: The Political Economy of Energy Megaprojects: The Case of British Columbia, Canada
3:45 PM Author(s): *Peter Forman - University of Durham
Abstract Title: Governing Gas: Ontological Projects of Security Governance
4:05 PM Author(s): *Yuwan Malakar - Energy and Poverty Research Group, UQ Energy Initiative, The University of Queensland, Australia
Chris Greig - Energy and Poverty Research Group, UQ Energy Initiative, The University of Queensland, Australia
Elske van de Fliert - Centre for Communication and Social Change, School of Communication and Arts, The University of Queensland, Australia
Abstract Title: Human Agency of Energy Poor: Exploring Structural Domination in Energy Practices
4:25 PM Author(s): *Ioan M. Charnley-Parry, BSc, MSc - University of Central Lancashire
John Whitton - University of Central Lancashire
4:45 PM Discussant: Brandon Derman - University of Washington
Discussant(s):
Brandon Derman - University of Washington
Session Description: Whether it be to help mitigate climate change, to obtain national energy security, to stimulate growth in domestic industries, or to lift populations out of energy poverty, governments around the globe are actively involved in retooling, reregulating, rebranding and/or reinvesting in various energy infrastructures, all while the dominance of fossil fuels within the global economy appears to be under threat. Multi-scalar projects, plans, and regulatory structures have emerged in recent years to start instituting change in energy systems (or in some instances to maintain the status quo), begging us to question the various dimensions and spatial dynamics at play. Several schisms have showcased themselves as communities, megacities, larger regional jurisdictions and nation-states have moved forward in attempts to achieve energy plans and targets. Among such divisions are those between eco-modernist and de-growthist ideologies, urban and rural development, globalism and localism, and multinational companies and communities challenging the influence and impacts of petro-capitalism. Together, this series of papers seeks to address the emergent issues around energy from a critical geographical perspective, with attention to various themes such as energy security, energy justice, socio-technical transitions, infrastructure, and climate change.
All Things Nuclear in a Post-Fukushima Context: Geographical Perspectives - 4
is scheduled on Friday, 4/7/2017, from 3:20 PM - 5:00 PM in Vineyard, Marriott, Fourth Floor
Sponsorship(s):
Hazards, Risks, and Disasters Specialty Group
Energy and Environment Specialty Group
Economic Geography Specialty Group
Organizer(s):
Misa Yasumiishi - University at Buffalo
Marissa Z. Bell - University At Buffalo
Daisaku Yamamoto - Colgate University
Chair(s):
Chris S. Renschler - University at Buffalo (SUNY)
Abstract(s):
3:20 PM Author(s): Melissa Haller - UCLA
Abstract Title: The End of the Nuclear Era: An Investigation of Nuclear Decommissioning and its Economic Impacts on US Counties
3:35 PM Author(s): *Jennifer Stromsten, MRP - Institute for Nuclear Host Communities
Abstract Title: The Social and Economic Impacts of Nuclear Power Plant Closures
3:50 PM Author(s): *Daisaku Yamamoto - Colgate University
Yumiko Yamamoto - Colgate University
Paul Plummer - University of Western Australia
Abstract Title: What Does It Take for a Nuclear Host Community to Transition to a Sustainable Path?
4:05 PM Author(s): *Yumiko Yamamoto - Colgate University
Daisaku Yamamoto - Colgate University
Abstract Title: Women Cultivating Diverse Economies in a Nuclear Host Community: A Case Study of Kashiwazaki, Japan
4:20 PM Discussant: Elicia Mayuri Cousins - Northeastern University - BOSTON, MA
Discussant(s):
Elicia Mayuri Cousins - Northeastern University - BOSTON, MA
Session Description: The nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Japan in 2011 and the subsequent radioactive contamination in the region has impacted the ways in which we view and deal with nuclear power, radioactivity in the environment, and the complex assemblage of actors in the energy industry and communities. Five years after the incident, the concerns about the effects of the disaster persist and the new issues and challenges related to nuclear power and radioactivity continue to arise. This multiple-session series aims to provide an opportunity to share knowledge, experiences, and questions among researchers who have been engaging in a wide range of issues related to radioactivity, nuclear energy, nuclear accident/disaster, nuclear proliferation, and other relevant events and phenomena. Our paper sessions and panel discussion will address the following nuclear-energy related topics, not limited to the Fukushima region: isotope techniques in geography; environmental impacts; geographies of health, radiation, contamination and decontamination; social and community impacts and responses; social and economic impacts of power plant decommissioning; knowledge, expertise and information; sustainability and progress; demographics and migration; gender and diverse economies; reconstruction and governance; use of geospatial techniques; urban-centric challenges.
Legibility Acts and Climate Adaptation 3
is scheduled on Friday, 4/7/2017, from 5:20 PM - 7:00 PM in Northeastern, Marriott, Third Floor
Sponsorship(s):
Human Dimensions of Global Change Specialty Group
Energy and Environment Specialty Group
Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group
Organizer(s):
Denielle Perry - University of Oregon
Chair(s):
Denielle Perry - University of Oregon
Abstract(s):
5:20 PM Author(s): *Julia Smachylo, MSc, MUD - Harvard University
Abstract Title: Private Forests: Incentive-based Conservation in Southern Ontario
5:40 PM Author(s): *Caleb Gallemore - Lafayette College
Kristjan Jespersen, Ph.D. - Copenhagen Busines School
Abstract Title: Seeing Like a Standard: Sustainable Palm Oil and the Coasian Challenge
6:00 PM Author(s): *Sunita P. Reddy, Ph.D.
Abstract Title: Regulating Biomass as Carbon Neutral in the Biofuels Energy Landscape
6:20 PM Author(s): *Brian Pompeii - California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Abstract Title: Social Vulnerability to a Creeping Hazard: The Great California Drought in Tulare County, CA
6:40 PM Discussant: Matthew Neil Fockler - Augustana College
Discussant(s):
Matthew Neil Fockler - Augustana College
Session Description: Discussant: Matthew Fockler, Augustana College
Sponsors: Cultural and Political Ecology, Water Resources, Climate, Human Dimensions of Global Change, Energy and Environment specialty groups
Creating adaptation policies to contend with the impacts of climate change on the environment (e.g. drought, flooding, and biodiversity loss) and accompanying social ramifications (e.g. migration, conflict, economic losses) will require state intervention (Henstra 2015). Christian Parenti's illuminating 2013 AAG lecture drew attention to the state's role in the climate crisis through territorial acts that make aspects of the environment legible to its citizens. Legibility is a state territorial act that involves abstracting natural resources from nature by surveying and cataloging them, establishing property rights to them, and ultimately managing them. Nearly four years on, we see evidence of these legibility acts in adaptation strategies. Responses to extreme climate impacts are taking shape in path-dependent infrastructure development "solutions," such as Jakarta's lofty plans for walling out rising seas (Colven, forthcoming) and California's schemes for raising dam heights (Perry and Praskievicz, forthcoming). Similarly, we see evidence of the state crafting new relationships with nature in an effort to contend with the climate crisis. Perhaps the most compelling example is California's recent law recognizing forests and meadows as water infrastructure. This cutting-edge adaptation policy recognizes the necessity of conserving and restoring watersheds for productivity and resilience in the face of climate change (AB 2480, 2016). In myriad other cases, however, states refrain from adopting adaptation policies for political reasons. For instance, harvesting rainwater as still illegal in some states due to competing water rights regimes (Meehan and Moore, 2014).
As climate change compels the state's return to resource governance, understanding how legibility acts have been applied and managed can serve to promote better, more viable adaptation policies (Parenti, 2015). Examination of the Wise Use movement, for example, revealed that centralized state resource governance grounded in legibility acts can have positive ecological and social consequences (McCarthy, 2002). What other examples can be informative? This session brings together papers that discuss ways in which the state has related to the environment through territorial acts of legibility. The session seeks to advance theoretical and empirical approaches that examine the benefits, trade-offs, and political and spatial dimensions of legibility acts to inform climate change adaptation policymaking. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
• The use of environmental knowledge in policymaking.
• Historical cases of legibility-driven policy frameworks in resource conservation and extraction.
• The identification and management of ecosystem services.
• The explicit incorporation of "climate change" language in environmental policy.
• Debates on public vs. private lands and conservation.
• The role and rights of indigenous and local communities in environmental decision-making.
References:
A.B No. 2048. (2016). An act to add Section 108.5 to the Water Code, relating to water. State of California.
Colven, Emma (in preparation). "Understanding the Allure of Big Infrastructure: Jakarta's Great Garuda Sea Wall Project".
Henstra, D. (2015). The tools of climate adaptation policy: analysing instruments and instrument selection. Climate Policy, 1-26.
McCarthy, J. (2002). First World political ecology: lessons from the Wise Use movement. Environment and Planning A, 34(7), 1281-1302. http://doi.org/10.1068/a3526
Meehan, K.M. and Moore, A.W. (2014). Downspout politics, upstream conflict: formalizing rainwater harvesting in the United States.
Parenti, C. (2015). The 2013 ANTIPODE AAG Lecture The Environment Making State: Territory, Nature, and Value. Antipode, 47(4), 829-848. http://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12134
Perry, D.M. and Praskievicz, S.J. (2016) "A New Era of Reclamation? [Re]developing Water Storage in the U.S. West in the Context of Climate Change and Environmental Regulation", In review
Scott, J. (1998) Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
Land Change 4: Dynamics of Systems
is scheduled on Friday, 4/7/2017, from 5:20 PM - 7:00 PM in Arlington, Marriott, Third Floor
Sponsorship(s):
Human Dimensions of Global Change Specialty Group
Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group
Energy and Environment Specialty Group
Organizer(s):
Chair(s):
Abstract(s):
5:20 PM Author(s): *Kemen G Austin - Duke University
Aline Mosnier - International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Johannes Pirker - International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Ian McCallum - International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Steffen Fritz - International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Prasad Kasibhatla - Duke University
Abstract Title: Making the case for forest benchmarking in zero-deforestation commitments: the case of oil palm in Indonesia
5:40 PM Author(s): *Nicholas J. Cuba - Brown University
Ben Fash - Clark University
Anam Khan - Clark University
John Rogan - Clark University
Abstract Title: Tracing Vulnerability to Environmental Impacts Downstream from Mining in Honduras
6:00 PM Author(s): *Diya Paul - Department of Geography. Rutgers University
Abstract Title: Unintended Wildlife Spaces in the Eastern Ghats, India
6:20 PM Author(s): *Brian Michael Birchler - Oklahoma State University
Jacqueline M. Vadjunec, PhD - Oklahoma State University
Todd Fagin, PhD - Oklahoma Biological Survey
Abstract Title: Mapping vulnerability to hazards and the effects of technology on building socio-ecological resilience in America's Southern High Plains
6:40 PM Author(s): *Kathryn Wenger - Oklahoma State University
Jacqueline Vadjunec, Associate Professor - Oklahoma State University
Todd Fagin - Oklahoma Natural Heritage Inventory/Oklahoma Biological Survey
Session Description: Part of the Land Systems Science Symposium
Critical Geographies of Energy 3: Energy Justice and Resistance
is scheduled on Friday, 4/7/2017, from 5:20 PM - 7:00 PM in Boston University, Marriott, Third Floor
Sponsorship(s):
Energy and Environment Specialty Group
Ethics, Justice, and Human Rights Specialty Group
Human Dimensions of Global Change Specialty Group
Organizer(s):
Noel Healy - Dept Geography Salem State University
Ryan Maurice Katz-Rosene - University of Ottawa
Chair(s):
Marcos J. Luna - Salem State University
Abstract(s):
5:20 PM Introduction: Marcos J. Luna - Salem State University
5:21 PM Author(s): *Noel Healy, Dr. - Salem State University
Abstract Title: Reconceptualizing Energy (In)Justice: Democratizing energy system transitions, divestment and a 'just transition'
5:41 PM Author(s): *Brandon Barclay Derman, PhD - University of Illinois, Springfield
Abstract Title: Emerging legal geographies: The Dakota Access pipeline conflict
6:01 PM Author(s): *Carolyn Snell, Dr - The University of York
Mark Bevan, Dr - Centre for Housing Policy, University of York
Ross Gillard - Department of Social Policy, University of York
Abstract Title: Justice, fuel poverty and vulnerable groups: a comparative analysis
6:21 PM Author(s): *Mia Renauld - Northeastern University
Abstract Title: Shaped by Chevron: Evolving Entanglements from a Company Town towards a Just Transition
6:41 PM Discussant: Ryan Maurice Katz-Rosene - University of Ottawa
Discussant(s):
Ryan Maurice Katz-Rosene - University of Ottawa
All Things Nuclear in a Post-Fukushima Context: Geographical Perspectives - Panel Discussion
is scheduled on Friday, 4/7/2017, from 5:20 PM - 7:00 PM in Vineyard, Marriott, Fourth Floor
Sponsorship(s):
Hazards, Risks, and Disasters Specialty Group
Energy and Environment Specialty Group
Economic Geography Specialty Group
Organizer(s):
Misa Yasumiishi - University at Buffalo
Marissa Z. Bell - University At Buffalo
Chair(s):
Daisaku Yamamoto - Colgate University
Introduction:
Daisaku Yamamoto - Colgate University
Panelist(s):
John R. Mullin - University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Mitsuo Yamakawa - Teikyo University
Chris S. Renschler - University at Buffalo (SUNY)
Session Description: The nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Japan in 2011 and the subsequent radioactive contamination in the region has impacted the ways in which we view and deal with nuclear power, radioactivity in the environment, and the complex assemblage of actors in the energy industry and communities. Five years after the incident, the concerns about the effects of the disaster persist and the new issues and challenges related to nuclear power and radioactivity continue to arise. This multiple-session series aims to provide an opportunity to share knowledge, experiences, and questions among researchers who have been engaging in a wide range of issues related to radioactivity, nuclear energy, nuclear accident/disaster, nuclear proliferation, and other relevant events and phenomena. Our paper sessions and panel discussion will address the following nuclear-energy related topics, not limited to the Fukushima region: isotope techniques in geography; environmental impacts; geographies of health, radiation, contamination and decontamination; social and community impacts and responses; social and economic impacts of power plant decommissioning; knowledge, expertise and information; sustainability and progress; demographics and migration; gender and diverse economies; reconstruction and governance; use of geospatial techniques; urban-centric challenges
Energy and Environment Specialty Group Business Meeting
is scheduled on Friday, 4/7/2017, from 7:10 PM - 8:10 PM in Room 311, Hynes, Third Level
Sponsorship(s):
Energy and Environment Specialty Group
Organizer(s):