Environmental Sociology

Beyond the Right to be Rural I

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Tuesday May 30 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm (Eastern Daylight Time)
McLaughlin College-MC-211

Building on the 2022 release of our edited collection, The Right to be Rural, this session invited papers that consider the spatial dimensions of citizenship, and specifically the distribution of resources ... more

Beyond the Right to be Rural II

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Tuesday May 30 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm (Eastern Daylight Time)
McLaughlin College-MC-211

Biodiversity and Society I: Theorizing the Sociology of Biodiversity

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Friday Jun 02 8:30 am to 10:00 am (Eastern Daylight Time)
McLaughlin College-MC-212

Biodiversity decline and mass extinction have increasingly occupied the attention of governments, organizations, and scholars. The Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, for example, has published reports profiled in ... more

Biodiversity and Society II: The Social Construction of Problem Species

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Friday Jun 02 10:30 am to 12:00 pm (Eastern Daylight Time)
McLaughlin College-MC-212

Invasive species have increasingly been discussed as a problem in many countries. Yet the process by which a species becomes invasive, or is otherwise thought of as a “problem”, is ... more

Culture and the Environment I: Shaping National and Global Narratives

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Wednesday May 31 8:30 am to 10:00 am (Eastern Daylight Time)
McLaughlin College-MC-050A

Environmental sociology is increasingly interested in the cultural dimensions of environmental knowledge and practices. Climate change is deeply interwoven with diverse cultural processes, where culture informs, organizes, and represents how ... more