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This omnibus session brings together presentations with a focus on Environmental Sociology.
Session Organizer: David B. Tindall, University of British Columbia
Dates and times are subject to change. Visit the CSA@Congress 2013 website http://www.csa-scs.ca/files/webapps/csapress/annual-conferences/ for details.
This omnibus session brings together presentations with a focus on Environmental Sociology.
Session Organizer: Kathrin Mentler, University of Waterloo
Session Chair: Joanne Gaudet, University of Ottawa
Dates and times are subject to change. Visit the CSA@Congress 2013 website http://www.csa-scs.ca/files/webapps/csapress/annual-conferences/ for details.
In recent years, environmental sociologists have increasingly turned their attention to the social interpretations, causes, impacts and solutions to climate change. For this session, we seek work that furthers our understanding of the sociological dimensions of this environmental issue. We welcome papers that focus on a range of climate change-related topics, including: public opinion and behaviour, policy-making and governance, media representations, social inequality, corporate responses, or social movements. We welcome papers that advance the sociology of climate change from a variety of methodological and theoretical perspectives.
Session Organizer: Mark Stoddart, PhD, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Session Co-organizer: David B. Tindall, University of British Columbia
Chair: Georgia Piggot
Dates and times are subject to change. Visit the CSA@Congress 2013 website http://www.csa-scs.ca/files/webapps/csapress/annual-conferences/ for details.
All scholars interested in the sociological aspects of the environment are invited to the Environmental Sociology Research Cluster meeting.
Discussion will include how to promote environmental sociology within the Canadian Sociology Association, how to better organize for more effective interaction among environmental sociologists, and whether and how to try to gain more public attention to the usefulness of sociological analysis of environmental matters.
In recent years, environmental sociologists have increasingly turned their attention to the social interpretations, causes, impacts and solutions to climate change. For this session, we seek work that furthers our understanding of the sociological dimensions of this environmental issue. We welcome papers that focus on a range of climate change-related topics, including: public opinion and behaviour, policy-making and governance, media representations, social inequality, corporate responses, or social movements. We welcome papers that advance the sociology of climate change from a variety of methodological and theoretical perspectives.
Session Organizer: Mark Stoddart, PhD, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Session Co-organizer: David B. Tindall, University of British Columbia
Chair: Howard Ramos
Discussant: Randolph Haluza-DeLay
Dates and times are subject to change. Visit the CSA@Congress 2013 website http://www.csa-scs.ca/files/webapps/csapress/annual-conferences/ for details.
In recent years, environmental sociologists have increasingly turned their attention to the social interpretations, causes, impacts and solutions to climate change. For this session, we seek work that furthers our understanding of the sociological dimensions of this environmental issue. We welcome papers that focus on a range of climate change-related topics, including: public opinion and behaviour, policy-making and governance, media representations, social inequality, corporate responses, or social movements. We welcome papers that advance the sociology of climate change from a variety of methodological and theoretical perspectives.
Session Organizer: Mark Stoddart, PhD, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Session Co-organizer: David B. Tindall, University of British Columbia
Chair: Stephanie Sodero
Dates and times are subject to change. Visit the CSA@Congress 2013 website http://www.csa-scs.ca/files/webapps/csapress/annual-conferences/ for details.
There is a growing awareness of the central role of the landscapes as embodiments of natural and historical values. In many areas, however, landscapes are being altered dramatically. Critics note a trend towards placelessness, as the forces of modernization replace local contours and textures with standardized forms. Landscapes are commodified, their shapes manipulated to meet new criteria of beauty and value. These changes are especially evident in western Canada and the US, where rural gentrification promotes landscapes that reflect the tastes and leisure-based lifestyles of affluent consumers. This session explores themes of landscape change and the erosion of place. The session does not focus exclusively on rural landscapes but will consider urban and peri-urban landscapes as well. Both theoretical and empirical papers are welcome.
Session Organizer: David MacLennan, PhD, Thompson Rivers University
Dates and times are subject to change. Visit the CSA@Congress 2013 website http://www.csa-scs.ca/files/webapps/csapress/annual-conferences/ for details.
WORK IN A WARMING WORLD (W3): Labour, Climate Change and Social Struggle
November 29, 2013 to December 1, 2013
Global warming is a universal concern, perhaps the greatest challenge facing work, workers and the planet in the 21st century. The failure of the 2009 Copenhagen conference ensures that the climate change that is already altering national economies, will continue to accelerate. The Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC (2007) estimates that agriculture, forestry, and industry produce 50% of GHGs without including energy or transportation emissions. The ILO’s 2011 Towards a greener economy notes that ‘over 80% of emissions (in the EU) originate from firms’ production of goods’.
There are three sides to the climate threat for work. Climate change is already changing how we work, what we produce, and where we produce it. It shifts employment within and between countries, regions and communities, creating millions of climate migrants in the global north and the global south, dislocating people and industries and futures. But as global warming ravages jobs, work itself produces significant greenhouse gases (GHGs). And as important as work is to slowing global warming, the role of work and workers has been strangely absent from policy and social science research. Labour and environmental movements have yet to effectively address the role of climate change in the world of work.
What role can workers and their unions play in slowing global warming?
Work in a Warming World (W3), a labour-environment-university research initiative1, is organising an international conference on the role of labour and work in the struggle to slow global warming. The Conference is for labour and environmentalists, students, community activists and the concerned public.
The Conference has three formats:
Note: Early expressions of interest are encouraged to Ann Kim (ann_kim [at] yorku.ca) and Carla Lipsig-Mumme (carlalm [at] yorku.ca).
Abstract Submission Guidelines: We invite academics and activists to submit 250 word abstracts for individual papers and/or case studies. Each submission in Word file should contain the following: 1) names of the author(s) with the contact author listed first, 2) title of the presentation 3) 250 word abstract; and 4) all contact information for the primary author (email, address and telephone number). The file should be submitted electronically as an attachment to W3conf [at ] yorku.ca. For further information see: http://www.workinawarmingworld.yorku.ca/w3conference/.
Environment and Society Research Committee (RC24) at the XVIII ISA World Congress of Sociology July 13-19, 2014 Yokohama, Japan More information: http://www.isa-sociology.org/congress2014/