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From: Stacia Ryder [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2016 12:49 PM
Subject: Call for Papers: Special Session on Environmental Justice & Natural 
Resource Extraction


Hello and Happy New Year to you all!



I am pleased to share with you that Dr. Stephanie Malin and I are hosting an 
exciting special session at the 2016 ISSRM meetings in Houghton, MI.  Abstracts 
are due no later than January 11, 2016, so time is of the essence!



The special session,“Intersectional Environmental Justice & Natural Resource 
Extraction," will approach environmental justice as intersectional justice—that 
is, the extent to which ‘interlocking systems of oppression’ shape 
environmental justice experiences in the context of natural resources 
extraction and energy production, both across and within stratified 
populations. We are looking for papers to explore: situated and contextual 
environmental knowledges; practices that display intersections among structures 
of oppression; and their differential impacts on communities (both physical and 
identity-based) in relation to energy development, agriculture, or extractive 
industries and consequential technological disasters.


Papers should examine one or more of the following:
1) intersecting forms of environmental injustice in these contexts;
2) multiplicative experiences of environmental injustice in these contexts; OR
3) intersecting forms of structural natural recourse dependence that create or 
exacerbate environmental injustice. This session will highlight the hidden, 
interwoven inequities currently under-analyzed in studies of society and 
natural resources.

We welcome perspectives from a variety of settings, methodological approaches, 
and theoretical orientations!  To be considered as a participant, please submit 
an abstract of no more then 500 words by January 11, 2016.  Abstracts should be 
included as electronic files and emails to Stacia Ryder, at 
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>.

For general information on the ISSRM Conference or on IASNR, please see: (see: 
http://www.iasnr.org/?page_id=1059).

The full Call for Papers can be accessed below.  Any questions? Feel free to 
email Stephanie (stephanie/[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>) or 
me! Please also feel free to distribute this call to your networks.

All Best,

Stacia Ryder

Full Call for Papers

“Intersectional Environmental Justice & Natural Resource Extraction”

Special Session at the 2016 International Symposium on Society and Resource 
Management
Houghton, Michigan

Organizers:
Stephanie A. Malin, Ph.D. & Stacia S. Ryder
Colorado State University

We encourage abstract submissions for our special session at the 2016 ISSRM 
meeting. We encourage submissions the take a comparative approach, and welcome 
abstracts from a variety of research settings, methodological approaches, and 
theoretical perspectives.  Please provide us with an abstract of no more than 
500 words by January 11, 2016.  Please send your abstract as an electronic 
attachment to: 
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>.

Special Session Description:
Environmental sociologists have found that environmental risks are inequitably 
distributed within and among communities in the U.S. and internationally, where 
locally-undesirable land uses (LULUs) (Freudenburg 1993) concentrate among 
under-served and marginalized populations, (see Bell and York 2010; Brown 2007; 
Mohai, Roberts, and Pellow 2009; Pellow 2001, 2002, 2012). In a largely 
unconnected literature, rural sociologists have built a substantial foundation 
of knowledge about extractive industries, persistent poverty, and economic 
instabilities associated with resource dependent communities (see Brown et al 
2003, England and Albrecht, 1984; Swanson, et al., 2003). Often, these 
extractive or energy production industries are located in rural or otherwise 
marginalized communities, yet the EJ implications remain under-analyzed.

Despite these firm foundations, social scientists have yet to systematically 
explore environmental injustice using an intersectional lens, particularly in 
analyzing intersecting experiences of injustice in a context of natural 
resource dependence. The void of intersectional analysis of within-group 
difference is particularly striking when thinking about the nuanced EJ outcomes 
of energy production, extractive industries, and related development in 
marginalized populations. There is much more to critically analyze at the 
convergence of identity, lived experiences, intersecting structures of 
oppression, and subjugated knowledge in the context of extraction and energy 
production.

In attempt to address this gap in the literature, this session will approach 
environmental justice as intersectional justice—that is, the extent to which 
‘interlocking systems of oppression’ shape environmental justice experiences in 
the context of natural resources extraction and energy production, both across 
and within stratified populations. We are looking for papers to explore: 
situated and contextual environmental knowledges; practices that display 
intersections among structures of oppression; and their differential impacts on 
communities (both physical and identity-based) in relation to energy 
development, agriculture, or extractive industries and consequential 
technological disasters.


Manuscripts may focus on: 1) intersecting forms of environmental injustice in 
these contexts; 2) multiplicative experiences of environmental injustice in 
these contexts; OR 3) intersecting forms of structural natural recourse 
dependence that create or exacerbate environmental injustice. This session will 
highlight the hidden, interwoven inequities currently under-analyzed in studies 
of society and natural resources.


--
Stacia S. Ryder, PhD Student
Assistant Editor
Society and Natural Resources Journal
Department of Sociology
Colorado State University
Clark B-238
Fort Collins, CO 80526
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
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Graduate Research Assistant
Center for Disaster and Risk Analysis
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Program Coordinator
Environmental Justice CSU
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Chair
City of Fort Collins Women's Commission

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