3-0350 ANTHROPOLOGIES AND POLITICAL ECOLOGIES OF MITIGATION

Thursday, November 17, 2011: 10:15-12:00

Abstract not available in preliminary program.

This session would be of particular interest to:
Students, Practicing and Applied Anthropologists

Organizers: Peter C Little (Oregon State University)

Chairs: Peter C Little (Oregon State University) and Alexa S Dietrich (Wagner College)

Discussants: Melissa A Checker (Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center) and Barbara Rose Johnston (Center for Political Ecology)

10:15

Climate Change Mitigation and Self-Blame In the Marshall Islands: Opportunities, Risks, Ethics

Peter Rudiak-Gould (McGill University)

10:30

Paying People Not to Work the Land: Mitigation or Dispossesion?

Juliet Erazo (Florida International University)

10:45

Defining and Addressing the Impacts of Large-Scale Infrastructure and Energy Development: Indigenous People and the Bolivia-Brazil Gas Pipeiline

Michael D Painter (Wildlife Conservation Society) and Oscar Castillo (Wildlife Conservation Society)

11:00

From Neoliberal Disease to (Post) Neoliberal Mitigation: Lead Poisoning and the Uruguayan Left

Daniel E Renfrew (West Virginia University)

11:15

Living In Mitigated Times In IBM’s Tainted Birthplace

Peter C Little (Oregon State University)

11:30

Discussant

Melissa A Checker (Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center)

11:45

Discussant

Barbara Rose Johnston (Center for Political Ecology)

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