Digital Scholarship in Environmental Studies
To wrap up the engagement piece of our project, Treasure and I gave Robin Teater a call. Robin is the Executive Director at Healthy Democracy, and has worked with LC's Environmental Studies Program in the past to help us develop skills in communicating across difference through the dialogic model of communication. Robin is also an expert… Continue reading Project Update: A final phone call.
The next person we engaged with was Bob Goldman, a professor of Sociology and Lewis & Clark. Last semester, Treasure and I took his Political Economy of Food course. Because Bob is an expert who has devoted a lot of time to the topics we've been exploring in our engagement project, Treasure and I thought… Continue reading Project Update: Solidifying thoughts through conversation.
Hoping to continue to explore our nagging question, why do people buy what they buy? Treasure and I set up a meeting with Lewis & Clark Philosophy professor, Jay Odenbaugh. In Jay's Philosophy and the Environment class, students grapple with the meanings, pros, and cons of individual and collective action. We hoped our meeting would get us… Continue reading Project Update: More talking, more listening.
Beginning to feel pressed for time and curious about consumer opinions on purchasing power and making change, Treasure and I created an online survey. The survey asked participants to rank and assess various grocery stores and explain their reasoning, to articulate the factors (such as cost, selection, accessibility, perceived environmental impacts, nutritional value, etc.) that… Continue reading Project Update: Consumer Survey
Recently, Treasure and I took the first step in our project. Feeling a little overwhelmed by the task of engagement, we started with people who were most accessible to us: our friends. Before we engaged, we reviewed our scholarship and developed our thinking a little, which caused our nagging questions to change. Our broadest, overarching question… Continue reading Project Update: A Dialogue with a Friend
Last week, Treasure and I took some more small but important steps in our engagement project. We agreed that in order to move forward we first needed to continue to lay the groundwork for the project by solidifying its Why, What, Who, and How. In a meeting with our professor, Jessica, we went through a… Continue reading Project Update: Questions, Dialogue, and Email
Two weeks ago, I began to learn about India's colonial period while reading Modern India: A Very Short Introduction by Craig Jeffrey. His writing is concise and to the point—I learned a lot about India's colonial history in just 22 tiny pages—but, like the book's title warns, it is A Very Short Introduction, and I finished the chapter… Continue reading Reflections on Colonialism in India
My partner and I have been busy and have not been able to begin to carry out our project. In order to stay on track and to be able to accomplish what we’d like, we’ve expanded and solidified our project’s connections to scholarship as well as outline a plan for the next week or so.… Continue reading Project Update: Scholarship connections, plan of action!
Update Last week, our Environmental Engagement class gave oral proposals in the form of a short presentation and gave each other project feedback about integration of scholarship, stakeholder suitability, level of “difference,” project feasibility, and connecting action creativity and view exchange. After reading through our feedback, it was clear that we have some work to… Continue reading Engagement Project Update: Feedback Incorporation & Annotated Bibliography
Over the past few weeks, Treasure and I have been working together to create an environmental engagement project. When asked to revisit some key contemporary environmentalist works, we were especially taken with Michael Maniates' "Individualization: Plant a Tree, Buy a Bike, Save the World?" because we felt it spoke to something we've struggled to wrap our… Continue reading The Power of the Consumer Dollar: A Preliminary Project Proposal
Grace Anderson 