FYI.
Stefanie Rixecker
ECOFEM Coordinator
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Date sent: Tue, 09 Sep 2003 14:04:19 -0600
From: Melissa Wiedenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CFP: Panel on Southwest Rancing
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Sent: Tuesday, 09 September, 2003 12:11 PM
Call for Papers
Panel on "Southwest Ranching:
Sustainable Agriculture or Ecological Devastation?"
Southwest Ranching area
Southwest/Texas Pop. Culture Assn.
American Culture Assn. Conference,
National Conference
Marriott Rivercenter
San Antonio, TX April 7-10, 2004
(A joint meeting with the National Pop Culture Assn. and American Pop.
Culture Assn. annual meeting)
Submission Deadline: November 15, 2003
The Southwest Ranching area of the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture
Association of the American Pop Culture Assn. is soliciting papers for a
panel on issues in southwest cattle ranching, particularly concerning public
lands ranching, its ecological aspects, and rhetorical dimensions of the
debate on that subject.
While open to papers on any aspect of southwest ranching, of
particular interest are presentations that take a position on the
sustainability of livestock operations on public land allotments in the arid
southwest. Ideally, we would like to see papers presenting perspectives on
both sides of the issue: either claiming how ranching in the arid southwest
can be made to be sustainable, or, conversely, claiming that such operations
contribute to ecological damage to arid lands. Also of interest are
analytical pieces that provide insight into the rhetoric on the issue.
The intention is to foster an open discussion of how ranching
affects range ecology and to hear appropriately supported positions from
both sides, as well as papers analyzing the rhetoric of either or both sides
of the issue. Of further interest are presentations that address how the
issue might be resolved for the future.
Papers should be no more than 15 minutes in presentation time, and
may be shorter if the speaker can then expound upon his or her perspectives
in ensuing discussion.
Please send 300-word abstract by November 15, 2003, to:
by email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
by post: Anthony Chiaviello, chair, SW Ranching panel
Dept. of English, S-1045
Univ. of Houston-Dntn
One Main Street
Houston, TX 77002
Anthony R. S. Chiaviello, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Professional Writing
Department of English
University of Houston-Downtown
1 Main Street, Houston, TX 77002-0001
713.221.8520 / "Who can say?"
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Dr. Stefanie S. Rixecker, Director
Environment, Society and Design Division
Lincoln University, Canterbury
PO Box 84
Aotearoa New Zealand
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ph: 03-325-2811, x8643
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