Date: Saturday, August 10

Time: 8:30 AM - 10:10 AM

Session 047: Environmental Activism: Local to Global
Room: Lamartine

Sponsors: Conflict, Social Action, and Change
Environment and Technology

Organizer &

Presider: Kat Fuller, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Description: 

This session focuses on topics relating to the social research on environmental activism in this current age of dynamics, such as local community organizing, globalization, extractivism, and litigation, to name just a few. How are communities coalescing to respond to environmental injustices? How are activists responding to the increasing criminalization of protests? Not exclusive to research related to these questions, this session focuses on international perspectives that broadly address environmental activism and inform our understanding of the crucial issues pertaining to activism around environmental problems.

Papers:

“Humanist and Atheist Movements and Environmental Activism: International Discourses and Local Experiences,” Morena Tartari, Northumbria University and Hamide Elif Üzümcü, University of Padua

“Fighting at the Meso-level? Environmental Justice Narratives within a Leading Environmental Movement Organization, 1950s to Present,” Sam Castonguay, Washington State University

“Organizing Corporate Environmental Activism: The Green Growth Elite Countermovement in Canada’s Atlantic Provinces,” J. P. Sapinski, Université de Moncton

“Indigenous Knowing Traditions for Environmental Futures: Indigenous Relationality, Intimacy of Ecologies, and Collective Reciprocity,” Doreen E. Martinez, Colorado State University

“Environmental Justice and Indigenous Feminisms in Oaxaca, Mexico: Linking Territory and Gender,” Alessandro Morosin, University of La Verne

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