Digital Scholarship in Environmental Studies
This week in Environmental Engagement, we moved forward in our project planning process. Our goal was to begin identifying stakeholders. Before we did this in our own project, we grounded ourselves in scholarship written about what we call the "Who" of environmental engagement. We began with Vincent Luyet's, "A framework to implement Stakeholder participation in… Continue reading The “Who” of Environmental Engagement
As the spring semester begins, our Environmental Engagement class, ENVS 295, revisited four key pieces of contemporary environmental thought; Bruno Latour's "Love Your Monsters", Manitates' "Individualization: Plant a Tree, Buy a Bike, Save the World?" Rayner's "Wicked Problems" and White's "The Problem with Purity". It was interesting to revisit these pieces as a second semester… Continue reading “What” is the Common Thread?
Today's ENVS Poster Celebration marks the end of my time in ENVS-220 Environmental Analysis. What an experience it has been! I am definitely excited to finally complete the course, and to celebrate by presenting my lab group's main achievement of the semester: this poster. It may not look like much, but this colorful rectangle represents… Continue reading ENVS-220 Environmental Analysis: The End!
Earlier this semester, our ENVS class did a lab which used ArcGIS to study environmental justice in Portland. This was my first form exposure to environmental justice in college, and I was excited to be able to engage with the movement through environmental analysis. In the past couple weeks I've had the opportunity to read… Continue reading Julie Guthman Weighs In: GIS
Full Project Page Previously, we began our situated project at the top of the hourglass. Our goal this week was to move down the hourglass and forward in our project. Before getting too ahead of ourselves, our group revisited our framing and focus questions and decided they needed some refining. We explored both our framing… Continue reading Update: Project Progress!
See complete project page and concept map here Last week, my (lab) partner Margot and I researched the relationship between class and environment in India. Our online library contains academic sources that pertain to both our framing question, "How does class influence one’s relationship with the environment?" and focus question, "How does caste influence one's relationship… Continue reading Situated Research Project Update
Earlier this week, we did an in-class activity that introduced us to examples of situated environmental research. Each student was asked to select a reading from a list created by our professor, Jim, and to become an 'expert' on it. Each reading on the list was an example of situated environmental research. Examples ranged from… Continue reading Situation: Situation
Background Transitioning out of the course’s Capitalocene unit, lab groups were instructed to begin thinking about other significant environmental influences. As we’ve explored in weeks past, the Anthropocene’s broad (and arguably vague) “human activity” or “anthropos” and the “capital” of the Capitalocene provide robust frameworks that guide thinking, questioning and research about the environment. This… Continue reading Cast(e)ing About for New Frameworks
Background Previously in our weeks-long investigation of “the Capitalocene,” our lab group used country-level data on income, environmental performance, and environmental values and tools like Google Sheets and ArcGIS to analyze global differences and draw conclusions about the relationship between capital and environment. This week we were finally able to shed the limitations of country-level… Continue reading Environmental Justice in Portland, Oregon
Three weeks ago, Lewis and Clark College's ENVS program hosted Daryl Davis at our annual symposium. Davis is an R&B and blues musician, activist, author and actor. Additionally, Davis, an African American man, is responsible for the withdrawal of over 200 members from the Ku Klux Klan. Under the broad theme of "communication across difference," Davis'… Continue reading Communication Across Difference
Grace Anderson 