The Environment and Development
Advanced Research Circle (EDARC)* of the International Institute
and Global studies, in collaboration with the Robert F. and
Jean E. Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies**,
at UW-Madison Announce:
Political Ecologies of Knowledge,
Science and Technology Interdisciplinary Workshop
March 6-7, 2006
The Pyle Center – 702 Langdon Street
University of Wisconsin–Madison
DAY 1: Monday March 6, 2006 (8:00AM – 5:30PM)
8:00AM – 9:35AM***
I) INTRO SESSION: Reframing Nature-Society Relations: Networks, Methods, Theory,
and Reflectivity
1) Matt Turner: Welcome to workshop and brief discussion of political ecology
and critical engagements with environmental scientific practice
2) Sarah Whatmore: Knowledge controversies: Science, democracy and the redistribution
of environmental expertise
3) Dianne Rocheleau: Powered webs and rooted networks in complex landscapes
4) Peter Taylor: Political ecological accounts of intersecting processes as a
model for addressing the social situatedness of political ecological researchers
9:35AM – 9:50AM Break (with coffee, snacks)
9:50AM – 11:05AM
II. Politics and Hope at the Knowledge Interface: Alterative
Framings of Nature and Indigenous/Local (Knowledge) Claims
1) Maria Lepowsky: Sacred space and cultural memory in Southern California
2) Roopali Phadke: Damming the Krishna Valley: Lessons in technological reclamation
3) Joshua Ramisch: Interpreting farmers' soil fertility "experiments":
Performances at the development interface
11:05AM – 11:15AM Short Break
11:15AM – 12:50PM
III. Global(ized) Visions and Techniques of Control: Management, Institutions
and Governance
III.1. Global-Local Environments, Local-Global Knowledge:
The Politics of Scale in Seeing, Managing and Regulating
Nature and ‘the Environment’
1) Peter Brosius: Conservation and the metrics of accountability
2) Tim Forsyth: Discursive governance and land-use-cover-change: Moving beyond
narrative analysis
3) Nancy Peluso: Emergencies, insurgencies and forests in southeast Asia
4) Tori Jennings: Headlines and heresies: Why we debate climate change
12:50PM – 2:00PM Lunch (on own)
2:00PM – 3:35PM
III .2. Global Governance and Environmentality: Policy,
Institutions, Markets, and the State
1) Joe Masco: On the value of synthetic forests
2) Clark A. Miller: Governmentality and the globe
3) Samuel Randalls: Selling weather derivatives: Weather, risk and climate change
4) Rebecca Lave: Stream restoration: Emerging discipline, emerging market
3:35PM – 3:50PM Break (with snacks)
3:50PM – 5:30PM
Discussion, synthesis, and reflection (Discussants: Greg Mitman, Amit Prasad,
Leila Harris) 5:30PM – 6:30PM Reception at
the Pyle Center
7:00 PM-- Participants only: Dinner at Chautara, State Street
DAY 2: Tuesday, March 7, 2006 (8:00AM – 12:50PM)
IV. Science in Dialogue, Nature in networks: Theory and Methods of Knowledge
Circulation and Assemblage
8:00AM – 9:35AM
IV.1. Techniques of Conceptualization and Categorization: The Politics
of Naming, Cataloguing, Measuring, and Planning for Nature and ‘the
Environment’
1) Mrill Ingram: Characterizations and categorizations of microbes
2) Ryan Galt: Local-global discontinuities
in agro-food markets: Scientific risk (tables)
3) Mara Goldman: Conservation corridors: Constructing continuity
4) Joan Fujimura: Conceptualizing environments in human systems biology 9:35AM – 9:50AM
Break (coffee and snacks)
9:50AM – 11:25AM
IV.2. Divergent (Interdisciplinary) Framings of Nature
and Evolving Ecologies
1) Karl Zimmerer: Euro-American knowledge networks and the
Andean world in the proto-environmental science of Alexander
von Humboldt
2) Chris
Duvall: Divergent environmental narratives in divergent scientific
traditions: Ferricrete and forests in Africa
3) Paul Nadasdy: Adaptive co-management and the politics
of resilience
4) Yen-Chu Weng: Negotiating nature in the process of recreating
nature: A critical investigation of restoration ecology
11:25AM – 11:35AM Short Break
11:35AM – 12:50PM
Discussion, synthesis, and reflection: (Discussants: Frances
Westley, Samer Alatout)
Participants only:
12:50PM-2:00PM: Lunch on own
2:00PM –3:30PM: Discussion about edited volume
3:30PM-4:00PM: Departure of bus from Memorial Union to Chicago
* Director, Matthew Turner, Department of Geography. EDARC
is a member program of the International Institute, UW-Madison.
** Director, Linda Hogle, Medical History and Bioethics
*** 20 min/talk (15 min for talk and 5 min for questions),
then 15 min at end of each session for questions.
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