Berkeley Workshop in Environmental Politics

The Berkeley Workshop in Environmental Politics fosters interdisciplinary and intercampus dialogue on questions of nature, culture, and power, promoting scholarship that is at once conceptually rigorous and empirically grounded, and encouraging innovative use of critical theory to address environmental problems.

Professors: Nathan Sayre and Nancy Peluso

 
 
 
 
 
Spring 2012 Events:
Friday, February 10, 3-5:30 p.m.
223 Moses Hall
"Epigenetic Biopolitics: Race, Population, and Environmental Health"
Becky Mansfield, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Ohio State University
 
Friday, March 2, 3-5:30 p.m.
223 Moses Hall
"Denormalizing Embodied Toxicity in a Central Valley Town"
Julie Sze, Associate Professor, Department of American Studies, UC Davis
 
Friday, April 6, 3-5:30 p.m.
223 Moses Hall
"The Socionature of Farmers Market"
Alison Alkon, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of the Pacific
 
Friday, April 20. 3-5:30 p.m.
223 Moses Hall
"Cold War, Hot Planet: Environment and Apocalypse"
Betsy Hartmann, Professor, Development Studies, Hampshire College