Global Change & Sustainability Center

FASB 295 and online. To attend via Zoom, register at https://utah.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIkd-Gopj0uHNQ1b6RfneIASNOzLIBrkFjP Abstract: This presentation will cover key arguments from Curley’s forthcoming book, “Carbon Sovereignty,” that focuses on coal and development on the Navajo Nation. The book chronicles the meaning of work and sovereignty for the tribe in the 21st century. Many accounts of extraction in […]

295 FASB. To attend via zoom, register at https://utah.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYvc-uspzkqEtA6qwJGEBKfVAJMU0q6o2qZ Human–environment relationships are fundamental to environmental and energy justice, and in many contexts, Indigenous ecological knowledge (IEK) is integral to such relationships. For example, Diné elders and community members identify firewood harvested from local woodlands as central to cultural and physical survival as, for Diné people, […]

295 FASB, coffee in the lobby prior. To attend via Zoom, register at https://utah.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJApf-ChrjwtH9HV1i0OVtv9wFre8iTer4vF Abstract: Grappling with hegemonic and counter-hegemonic discourses circulating around the spotted lanternfly, a species of planthopper accidentally introduced to the U.S. around 2014, in this presentation I argue that “rhetorical disturbances” unsettle the “violent rhetorical ecologies” in which many of us […]

"What is “Inclusive Sustainable Resilience”, and how does my iso-bio-geo-chemistry skillset move us towards these ideals? Stories from a groundwater-reliant scientist" 295 FASB, coffee in the lobby prior. To attend via zoom, register at https://utah.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMrcu2upjsqHNWo65Y280BXsYZ_pfr6qWkJ Abstract: I first review what resilience and diversity means in the intersecting diversity/equity/inclusion and sustainability/environmental spaces. I illustrate how my […]