This is x-posted from H-ENVIRONMENT. Apologies for any duplications. Stefanie Rixecker ECOFEM Coordinator ------- Forwarded message follows ------- Date sent: Wed, 09 May 2001 10:36:21 -0500 From: Melissa Wiedenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: CFP ASEH 2002 -- Roundtable on Race and Env. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send reply to: H-NET List for Environmental History <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: Linda Ivey, Georgetown University <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2001 11:22 PM Subject: CFP ASEH 2002 -- Roundtable on Race and Env. ------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers for ASEH 2002 Roundtable on Race and the Environment We are interested in developing a roundtable discussion for the 2002 annual meeting of the ASEH which will focus on the connections between race and environmental history. We invite papers from a range of geographical regions and chronological periods which explore the experiences of racial and ethnic minorities as they have been shaped by national ideals concerning the environment, or by the environment itself. We will seek to explore any or all of the following questions: In what ways have ethnic and racial minorities shaped environmental change? Are the changes brought on by the introduction of culturally distinct environmental relationships (especially in the case of migrating minorities)? Is their role in environmental change shaped by lifestyles or occupations that are tied into their ethnic and racial identities? What characterizes the dominant culture’s perception of the relationship between ethnic and racial minorities and the environment? Is there a “mythology” surrounding racial and ethnic relationships with nature as being somehow more “connected” to the land or nature? Is this is positive correlation or does it feed into notions of “savagery?” How do racial perceptions and environmental connections have an impact upon both human groups and ecosystems? How have specific nationalists ideals about the environment shaped the experiences of immigration, including assimilation or discrimination? How have they shaped the experiences of racial minorities? Are there national ideals concerning the environment/land and resource use to which minorities are expected to conform? Or do they face even more resentment if they encroach upon ideals established for or by the dominant culture? How do issues of limited resources influence interracial and interethnic relationships? We hope to host an exploratory discussion of the environment as a relatively unexplored and yet important facet in the history of racial and ethnic minorities, and furthermore highlight the complexity of environmental associations, illustrating that environmental relationships are not restricted to dominant attitudes (that may or may not have been translated into environmental policy). Please send abstracts of no more than 250 words to Linda Ivey Georgetown University [EMAIL PROTECTED] 831/622-9857 ------- End of forwarded message ------- ************************************ Dr. Stefanie S. Rixecker, Senior Lecturer Environmental Management & Design Division Lincoln University, Canterbury PO Box 84 Aotearoa New Zealand E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: 64-03-325-3841 ************************************
