In the 1990s and early 2000s, she realized how important a regional scale of analysis is to understand the intersection of global extractive economies with local struggles. She started her work as a cultural anthropologist in the West Virginia coal camps in the 1980s. Visiting Speakers Betsy Taylor (Director, Livelihoods Knowledge Exchange Network / LiKEN)īetsy Taylor works with communities on the front lines of global coal and timber extraction. His dissertation looks at the histories of resource extraction, conquest, and colonialism in South America's Gran Chaco forest in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He is broadly interested in environmental histories of modern Latin America. Chris McQuilkinĬhris McQuilkin is a graduate student in the Department of History. Theo has been active in the fossil fuel divestment movement, climate justice pedagogy, and youth activism at the United Nations climate talks. During his field research Theo spent time with front-lines climate justice communities in British Columbia, Richmond CA, and Standing Rock ND. His dissertation assesses the power of fossil fuel companies and the strategies climate justice campaigners deploy to counter it. She is the 2018-19 graduate researcher for the English Department's Literature and Environment Initiative. Her research interests include the energy humanities, environmental justice, infrastructure, multispecies studies, and feminist and queer science and technology studies. Sage Gerson is a PhD student in the English Department at UCSB. Her work with grassroots political organizations in Mexico inspires her work for inclusive and decolonial futures. Jéssica draws from feminist studies, political ecology, and science and technology studies, and is interested in collaborative research methods. Her research focuses on indigenous sovereignty, infrastructures, and energy justice. Jéssica Malinalli Coyotecatl Contreras is a PhD student in the Anthropology Department. Graduate Student Fellows Jéssica Malinalli Coyotecatl Contreras Her current book-in-progress is entitled “Mapping Documentary: Media, Space, Environment” and concerns the entangled relationships among energy infrastructures, indigenous and other local communities, and geolocational media. Walker is committed to the emerging subfield of media and environment with a focus on social justice. Janet WalkerĪ longtime scholar of documentary studies, Dr. He has published a number of works on environmental justice struggles in communities of color in the U.S. Pellow has worked to strengthen and advance Environmental Justice studies and Critical EJ Studies and has contributed to new and related areas of inquiry like climate justice studies, food justice studies, and critical animal studies. David PellowĪs a scholar in the field of Environmental Justice studies, Dr. Their innovative work engages with the question of energy justice. Lane Clark to produce the documentary film Ghana's Electric Dreams, which foregrounds Akosombo's unintended consequences. Miescher, a historian of West Africa, has written the forthcoming book A Dam for Africa: The Volta River Project and Modernization in Ghana, a history of the Akosombo Dam, Ghana's largest development project. Mona's current book project is a history of how petroleum companies have mediated images and ideas of oil in the modern Middle East through film and media sponsorship. Her teaching, research and creative work engages underrepresented media histories and cultural studies of oil, urban space and infrastructure with a focus on the Middle East and its diasporas. Mona Damluji is Assistant Professor of Film & Media Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara and a Peabody and Emmy Award-nominated producer of the short documentary series The Secret Life of Muslims. She has also been conducting fieldwork on the politics of lithium extraction and industrialization in Chile, Argentina, and Bolivia. Barandiaran's new book, Science and Environment in Chile: The Politics of Expert Advice in a Neoliberal Democracy (MIT Press), examines how scientists participate in environmental conflicts, with attendant demands for justice, in Chile. Working from science and technology studies, Dr.
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