2202 NATURE AND CULTURE: ENGAGING DUALISMS AND DIALOGUES IN PLACE
9:00am – 3:00pm Saturday, February 18 Fiesta II
This workshop is intended for environmental communication scholars and others interested in the implications of the nature/culture dualism and dialogic understandings of the nature/culture relationship. Several environmental communication scholars have grappled with the project overcoming the nature/culture dualism that resides at the center of Western cultures, ideologies, and environmental practices (e.g., Carbaugh, Clarke, Gray, Milstein, Rogers, Salvador, Schutten). This workshop offers the opportunity to engage in dialogues about nature/culture dualisms, their deconstruction, and dialogues with “nature” in an experiential format through guided field trips to Petroglyph National Monument and the Rio Grande. The intent is to bridge the abstract discussion of nature/culture relationships through embodied grounding in the volcanic and riverside settings in Albuquerque. Facilitators will provide background information and prompts for (verbal) discussion and (nonverbal) engagement with workshop participants and the beings and settings of the Monument and the Bosque.
Questions to be engaged in the workshop include the following: How have peoples marked the landscape? How has the landscape informed those markings? What can we learn from the material intersection of nature and culture? How does this inform our understanding of the “nature” of symbolization? What are our experiences of these landscapes? How are they informing our identities, perceptions, and discourses? How can we foster active, dialogic relationships with the more-than-human world?
(Participants will meet up in Fiesta II before leaving for the off-site locations.)
Co-Facilitators:
- Richard A. Rogers, Northern Arizona University
- Julie Kalil Schutten, Northern Arizona University
3301 STRIVING FOR SOCIAL CHANGE THROUGH POSITIVE ENVIRONMENTAL CAMPAIGNING: CASE STUDIES IN ADVOCACY FOR CONSERVATION
10:15 – 11:30 Sunday, February 19 Fiesta I
Chair: Stacey Sowards, University of Texas at El Paso
- Creating Social Change through Barrier Removal Operation Plans: Case Studies in Conservation Behaviors and Attitudes – Álvaro Arvizo, El Paso Community College – Stacey Sowards, University of Texas at El Paso
- Creating Conservation Change through Farmer Mobilization Techniques in Gunung Leuser National Park – Ismail, Orangutan Information Centre, North Sumatra
- “Rumah Pintar Dongan” for Increasing Social Change for Conservation in the Dolok Surungan Wildlife Sanctuary, North Sumatra – Bobby Nopandry, Natural Resources Conservation Office of North Sumatra
- Socialization Processes and Community Mobilization: Lessons Learned from an Environmental Campaign Project in Mane, Aceh, Indonesia – Shaummil Hadi, University of Iskandar Muda
Respondent: Frank G. Pérez, University of Texas at El Paso
3501 PUBLIC PARTICIPATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONFLICT
1:00 – 2:15 Sunday, February 19 Fiesta I
Chair: Tracylee Clarke, California State University Channel Islands
- Use of the Body in Environmental Public Participation: A Case Study of Kennecott Utah Copper’s Cornerstone Expansion Project – Kathleen Hunt, University of Utah
- Mapping Value on the Land: An Analysis of Evidence in the 1889 Senate Special Committee Hearings on the Irrigation and Reclamation of Arid Lands* – Sarah A. Bell, University of Utah
- Managing for Stewardship and Sustainability: The SAMAN Model for Partnership Assessment and Development – Gregg B. Walker, Oregon State University – Steven E. Daniels, Utah State University
- Wilderness Conflict in Utah: Is the Rural/Urban Divide Meaningful? – Connie Bullis, University of Utah – Laura Dahl, University of Utah
Respondent: Jennifer Peeples, Utah State University
*Top Student Paper, Environmental Communication Interest Group
3701 RAISING THE VOICE OF ENVIRONMENTAL COMMUNICATION: HOW DID WE GET HERE AND WHERE ARE WE GOING?
4:00 – 5:15 Sunday, February 19 Fiesta I
Less than a decade ago there was no journal, no association, no WSCA interest group dedicated to environmental communication. Today we not only have the WSCA interest group, we also have available Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture and the brand new International Environmental Communication Association (IECA). This round table discussion will focus on the developing domain of environmental communication, taking stock of our past, present and future. It will be followed with a reception for the newly formed IECA.
Chair: Michael Salvador, Washington State University
Participants:
- Stephen DePoe, Chair, IECA, University of Cincinnati
- Stacey Sowards, Board of Directors, IECA, University of Texas at El Paso
- Tarla Rai Peterson, Texas A & M University
- Gregg Walker, Oregon State University
- Emily Plec, Western Oregon University
- Tracylee Clarke, California State University Channel Islands
4401 COMMUNICATING ABOUT GENETIC ENGINEERING AND GLOBAL WARMING
2:15 – 3:30 Monday, February 20 Fiesta I
Chair: Julie Kalil Schutten, Northern Arizona University
- Growing Seeds in a Time of Change: An Analysis of Media Messages About Genetically Modified Seeds in New Mexico – Jaelyn deMaria, University of New Mexico
- Eco-hacking a New World: Metaphors and the Rhetoric of Geoengineering* – Richard D. Besel, California Polytechnic State University
- The Relationship Between Political Ideology and Climate Change: An Exploratory Survey and Analysis – Christina R. Foust, University of Denver – Shannon Bradley, University of Denver – Sophia Ben-Hamoo, University of Denver – Beri Polonitza, University of Denver
- Social Climate Change: The Rhetoric of Global Warming Activists and their Opposition – Aubrie Adams, California State University Sacramento
Respondent: Jen Schneider, Colorado School of Mines
*Top Paper, Environmental Communication Interest Group
4501 PUBLIC EDUCATION ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT
3:45 – 5:00 Monday, February 20 Fiesta I
Chair: Delight Justice, Center for Western Cross Timbers Studies
- Obstacles and the Power to Overcome: Sustainability Education in Mechanical Engineering Programs – Maria Blevins, University of Utah
- The Bio-Lounge: Life, Death and Consumption and the Rhetoric of Environmental Activism* – Adam Conrad, University of Colorado Boulder
- The Misdiagnosis: Assessing and Retheorizing “Nature-Deficit Disorder” – Elizabeth Dickinson, Salem College
Respondent: Richard A. Rogers, Northern Arizona University
*Debut Paper
4611 SCREENING THE LAST MOUNTAIN: COAL, COMMUNICATION AND IDENTITY IN APPALACHIA
5:15 – 6:30 Monday, February 20 Sendero I
The 2011 documentary The Last Mountain is the first film about mountaintop removal (MTR) strip mining to be exhibited nationally in theaters, and it is also the first film on MTR to feature a nationally-recognized figure, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., as a spokesperson. In some ways, therefore, the arrival of The Last Mountain on the national scene marks the entry of MTR into public discourse as both a source of environmental crisis and social injustice.
A screening of the film will be followed with an open discussion of the issues and topics raised by the film.
Chair: Jen Schneider, Colorado School of Mines
5101 POLITICS AND COMMUNICATION IN MULTI-JURISDICTIONAL WATER MANAGEMENT: CASE STUDIES FROM THE NORTHWEST
8:30 – 9:45 Tuesday, February 21 Fiesta I
Chair: Todd Norton, Washington State University
- Stakeholder Perception Comparison Through Systems Modeling of Mental Models – Kathryn Tillotson, Washington State University – Todd Norton, Washington State University – Allyson Beall, Washington State University
- Mental Models and Decision Making Regarding Water Allocation: Water Resources in the Spokane-Coeur d’Alene Corridor – Brianne Tice, Washington State University
- Sustainability Indicators and Assessment Across Watershed Management Areas – Kara M. Whitman, Washington State University
- Evaluation of Communication Strategies to Reduce Stormwater Pollution Impacts – Michael Gaffney, Washington State University – Christina Sanders, Washington State University
- Communicating Stormwater Science: A Gap Analysis of Priorities and Communicative Choices – Eli Typhina, Washington State University
5301 CONFRONTING COAL: IDENTITY AND NETWORKS IN SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
10:00 – 11:15 Tuesday, February 21 Fiesta I
Chair: Jen Schneider, Colorado School of Mines
- The Faces of Coal Versus Appalachian Voices: The Blankenship/Kennedy Debate on Mountain Top Removal Mining and the Competing “Logic” of Identity Campaigns – Pete Bsumek, James Madison University
- Conflicted Nodes: Points of Intervention in Community Natural Resource Disputes – Jennifer Peeples, Utah State University
- Not the Last Mountain: Mountaintop Removal Documentaries and Coalition Building – Jen Schneider, Colorado School of Mines
- Mapping Coal Networks – Steve Schwarze, University of Montana
