Environment and Technology Division਍ഀ Newsletter਍ഀ ਍ഀ ਍ഀ Annual Meeting .... 1਍ഀ ਍ഀ Brent K. Marshall਍ഀ Student Paper Award਍ഀ Recipient ..... 2਍ഀ ਍ഀ Publications by਍ഀ Members ....... 2਍ഀ ਍ഀ Awards and਍ഀ Appointments ....... 3਍ഀ ਍ഀ ਍ഀ ਍ഀ ਍ഀ Share information਍ഀ about your਍ഀ publications, awards,਍ഀ and research. Share਍ഀ stories of relevant਍ഀ efforts near you.਍ഀ Help to build a sense਍ഀ of community within਍ഀ the division and gain਍ഀ exposure for your਍ഀ work at the same਍ഀ time. Please send਍ഀ any announcements,਍ഀ member news, and਍ഀ blurbs to਍ഀ ljvandenscott@u.nor਍ഀ thwestern.edu for਍ഀ inclusion in the next਍ഀ newsletter. Annual Meeting: ਍ഀ August 9-11, New York City ਍ഀ ਍ഀ By now we are all gearing up in some way or another਍ഀ for the annual meetings in New York City this summer. ਍ഀ Below are listed the sessions which are sponsored or co-਍ഀ sponsored by the Environment and Technology Division. ਍ഀ These meetings promise to be an exciting opportunity for਍ഀ dialogues previously started to flourish, and for new਍ഀ conversations to begin. ਍ഀ Please remember to register for the meetings as soon਍ഀ as possible. The deadline of July 1st is fast approaching! ਍ഀ We look forward to seeing you there. ਍ഀ ਍ഀ Session sponsored or co-sponsored by the division:਍ഀ • Critical Dialogues: Competing Perspectives on Capitalism਍ഀ and the Environment਍ഀ • Persistence and Change in Environmental Issues਍ഀ • Environmental Privilege: Wealth, Waste, and Inequality਍ഀ • New Resource Wars: Indigenous and Ethnic਍ഀ Environmental Struggles; co-sponsor with Racial and਍ഀ Ethnic Minorities਍ഀ • Community Spaces and Food Security; co-sponsored with਍ഀ Community Research & Development਍ഀ • Urban Environmental Issues; co-sponsored with਍ഀ Community Research & Development and Sociology &਍ഀ Social Welfare਍ഀ • Public Health Sustainability, Ecological Justice, and਍ഀ Globalization; co-sponsored with Health, Health Policy,਍ഀ and Health Services and Global਍ഀ • New Strategies in Online Constructionism; co-sponsored਍ഀ with Social Problems Theory਍ഀ • Transformative Environmental Education; co-sponsored਍ഀ with Conflict, Social Action & Change ਍ഀ Brent K. Marshall Student Paper਍ഀ Award: Janet Lorenzen, Rutgers਍ഀ University਍ഀ The Environment and Technology Division is਍ഀ pleased to announce the winner of the 2013 Brent਍ഀ K. Marshall Graduate Student Paper Award: Janet਍ഀ Lorenzen, Rutgers University for her paper,਍ഀ “Sustainable Lifestyles and Environmental਍ഀ Activism: How Lifestyle Change Supports਍ഀ Collective Action.”਍ഀ ਍ഀ ਍ഀ Abstract: Environmentally਍ഀ sustainable lifestyles have਍ഀ been characterized as part of਍ഀ “prefigurative communities”਍ഀ (aligning interests with਍ഀ social movements) or਍ഀ “inverted quarantines”਍ഀ (when environmental protection is satisfied by਍ഀ consumer goods at the expense of political action).਍ഀ To explore this contradiction I draw on 45 in-depth਍ഀ interviews and participant observation with three਍ഀ groups: (1) voluntary simplifiers, (2) religious਍ഀ environmentalists, and (3) green home owners. I਍ഀ dispute the assertion that sustainable lifestyles are਍ഀ apolitical or create a tradeoff with political਍ഀ participation or support for system-level change.਍ഀ Transitioning to a sustainable lifestyle is often one਍ഀ part of a multi-faceted approach to addressing਍ഀ climate change. First, my research confirms that਍ഀ people who are in the process of cultivating a਍ഀ sustainable lifestyle are often pulled or pushed into਍ഀ collective action through social networks. Second,਍ഀ activists also use lifestyle change to shore up਍ഀ long-term, sometimes discouraging, environmental਍ഀ and social movement participation. And third, I਍ഀ find that those who wish to avoid formal,਍ഀ contentious politics are drawn to sustainable਍ഀ lifestyles – a case of selection effects rather than਍ഀ causality. Contrary to the inverted quarantine਍ഀ thesis, transitioning to a more sustainable lifestyle਍ഀ does not cause people to avoid politics. Lifestyles਍ഀ do not necessarily support the individualization of਍ഀ responsibility so much as they are a consequence of਍ഀ it. The result is an expansion of the tactics used to਍ഀ address climate change, rather than the replacement਍ഀ of public strategies with personal ones.਍ഀ ਍ഀ ਍ഀ Division Member Publication਍ഀ Announcements:਍ഀ ਍ഀ J. Steven Picou has the following new਍ഀ publications: ਍ഀ ਍ഀ Adeola, Francis O. and J. Steven Picou਍ഀ (2012). “Race, Social Capital, and the਍ഀ Health Impacts of Katrina: Evidence from਍ഀ the Louisiana and Mississippi Gulf਍ഀ Coast.” Human Ecology Review 19:10-24.਍ഀ ਍ഀ Adeola, Francis O. and J. Steven Picou਍ഀ (2013). “Environment and Technology.”਍ഀ Pp. 255-264 in David L. Brunsma, et al,਍ഀ Handbook of Sociology and Human਍ഀ Rights. Boulder, CO: Paradigm਍ഀ Publishers.਍ഀ ਍ഀ Nicholls, Keith and J. Steven Picou (2013).਍ഀ “The Impact of Hurricane Katrina on਍ഀ Trust and Government.” Social Science਍ഀ Quarterly 94(2): 344-361.਍ഀ ਍ഀ Michael Mascarenhas, Rensselaer਍ഀ Polytechnic Institute, was recently਍ഀ interviewed about his book, Where the਍ഀ Water Divide, and global social਍ഀ movements, on Latin Waves Grass Roots਍ഀ Media, an internationally syndicated਍ഀ radio program, which features the voices਍ഀ of Noam Chomsky, Derrick Jensen,਍ഀ Vandana Shiva, Silvia Federici and others਍ഀ who are working to create a society based਍ഀ on justice (racial, gender, ecological and਍ഀ cultural) and principles of fairness and਍ഀ equity. ਍ഀ The interview can be found here:਍ഀ http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/pr਍ഀ ogram/67921 and here;਍ഀ http://www.radio4all.net/files/latinwav਍ഀ es@gmail.com/4108-1-Syndication_Week਍ഀ Of_April_22_2013.mp3 ਍ഀ ਍ഀ Lisa-Jo van den Scott, Northwestern਍ഀ University, has an insert in Planning਍ഀ Ethically Responsible Research, Second Edition,਍ഀ by Joan E. Sieber and Martin B. Tolich,਍ഀ published by Sage. Extensively revised਍ഀ and updated to serve today’s needs for਍ഀ insight and solutions to the most vexing਍ഀ ethical and regulatory problems faced by਍ഀ researchers today, Planning Ethically਍ഀ Responsible Research, Second Edition guides਍ഀ readers through one of the most important਍ഀ aspects of their social or behavioral਍ഀ research: planning ethically responsible਍ഀ research. Authors Joan E. Sieber and਍ഀ Martin B. Tolich offer invaluable, practical਍ഀ guidance to researchers and graduate਍ഀ students to understand ethical concerns਍ഀ within real-life research situations, satisfy਍ഀ federal regulations governing human਍ഀ research, and work with the university's਍ഀ Institutional Review Board (IRB). The book਍ഀ includes an abundance of useful tools:਍ഀ detailed instructions on development of an਍ഀ effective IRB protocol; methods for਍ഀ handling issues of consent, privacy,਍ഀ confidentiality and deception; ways to਍ഀ assess risk and benefit to optimize research਍ഀ outcomes; and how to respect the needs of਍ഀ vulnerable research populations.਍ഀ ਍ഀ ਍ഀ ਍ഀ ਍ഀ ਍ഀ ਍ഀ ਍ഀ ਍ഀ ਍ഀ ਍ഀ ਍ഀ ਍ഀ Awards and Appointments:਍ഀ ਍ഀ Ethan Schoolman, after defending his਍ഀ dissertation in sociology at the University਍ഀ of Michigan, will begin a postdoctoral਍ഀ appointment as a Dow Sustainability਍ഀ Scholar at the Erb Institute for Global਍ഀ Sustainable Enterprise, School of Natural਍ഀ Resources and Environment, University਍ഀ of Michigan.਍ഀ ਍ഀ J. Steven Picou, Director, Coastal਍ഀ Resource and Resiliency Center and਍ഀ Professor of Sociology, University of਍ഀ South Alabama, was recognized as one of਍ഀ fifty researchers over five decades at the਍ഀ University who has made outstanding਍ഀ contributions to sciences in the areas of਍ഀ Sociological Practice, Environmental ਍ഀ Sociology, and Disaster Research.਍ഀ ਍ഀ Lisa-Jo van den Scott, Northwestern਍ഀ University, has won the Karpf Prize from਍ഀ her department, which is awarded to an਍ഀ advanced graduate student whose work਍ഀ contributes to promoting “peace,਍ഀ goodwill, tolerance and understanding਍ഀ among the peoples of the Earth.”਍ഀ ਍ഀ ਍ഀ ਍ഀ ਍ഀ ਍ഀ