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Friday,
July 22 am
9:30 to 14:00 Working group meetings in Health, Nursing, Environmental Studies (HNES) Building |
| 9:30
– 11:30 |
CNS
Editorial Meeting (HNES142)
Chair:
Joel Kovel (CNS Editor-in-Chief;
Bard
College,
Annandale-on-Hudson) |
| 12:00
– 14:00 |
CNS
Ecofeminism Meeting (HNES 142)
Chair:
Ellie Perkins (York University,
Toronto) |
Friday, July 22 pm
14:30 to 20:30 Conference opening in Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) Building |
| 14:30 |
Conference
Introduction (TEL 0016)
Liette Gilbert and Stefan Kipfer (CNS Toronto; York University, Toronto)
Joni Seager (Dean, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University)
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| 14:45 |
Opening Remarks (TEL 0016)
Joel Kovel (CNS Editor; Bard College,
Annandale-on-Hudson)
|
| 15:30 |
Capitalism:
Dynamic or Doomed? (TEL 0016)
Chair: Leo Panitch (York University, Toronto)
Patrick Bond (University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban
Joan
Martinez-Alier (Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, Barcelona)
Elmar Altvater (Freie
Universität, Berlin)
Sam Gindin (York University, Toronto)
Michael Dorsey (Dartmouth College, Hannover)
|
| 17:15 |
break |
| 17:30 |
Keynote Address
Maria Mies (Fachhochschule, Cologne)
"War is the Father of All Things" (Heraclit) but "Nature is the Mother of Life" (C.V. Werlhof)
Chair: Joel Kovel (CNS Editor, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson)
|
| 19:30 |
KeyWine and Cheese (The Underground)
Sponsored by Taylor & Francis
|
Saturday,
July 23 am
9:30
to 11:00 Morning Sessions
11:15 to 12:45 Plenary |
| session
1 |
Marxism, Critical Theory, and Ecology I (TEL 0006)
Marxism, Uneven Development, and the Contradictions of Capital |
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Elmar Altvater
(Freie Universität, Berlin)
Is there an Ecological Marx? |
| |
Noel Castree
(University of Manchester, Manchester)
The Political Economy of Environmental Change: From Blunt Tools to Sharp
Instruments |
| |
Alan Rudy
(Michigan State University, East Lansing)
Revisiting the Second Contradiction and its Critics |
| |
Costas Panayotakis
(New York City College of Technology, Brooklyn)
Conspicuous Consumption, Economic Inefficiency and Ecological Degradation |
| session
2 |
Ecosocialism,
Feminism, and Environmental Justice I (TEL 0010)
Environmental Justice and Participation |
| |
Joan Martinez-Alier
(Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, Barcelona)
Environmental Justice and Regional Planning |
| |
Ellie Perkins
(York University, Toronto)
Public Participation and Ecological Valuation: Inclusive=Radical |
| |
Andrea Moraes
(York University, University of Missouri, Columbia)
Meanings of Public Participation for the Brazilian Watershed Management
Committees |
| |
Irwin Sperber (SUNY
New Paltz, New Paltz)
Structural and Ideological Contradictions in the Environmental Movement: Why the
Movement is Dead in the Water and What to do About it |
| session
3 |
World
Order, Imperialism, and Global Ecological Politics I (TEL 0014)
Capitalist Globalization, Development, and Ecology |
| |
John Gulick and
Harwood Schaffer (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
Soybeans and the Sino-Brazilian Socio-Ecological Division of Labour |
| |
Orin Langelle
(Global Justice Ecology Project, Hinesburg)
Corporate Globalization’s Destruction of Earth’s Life Support System |
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Anne Petermann
(Global Justice Ecology Project, Hinesburg)
Global Warming, Carbon Trade, and Genetically Engineered Trees |
| |
Michael Goldman
(University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Minneapolis)
The World Bank and the Making of “Green Neoliberalism” |
| 11:15 |
PLENARY
SESSION:
Ecosocialism, Feminism, and Environmental Justice II (TEL 0016)
Social
Justice, Gender, and Sustainability |
| |
Giovanna Ricoveri
(Ecologia Politica, Rome)
Towards Ecological and Social Justice in the South and the North |
| |
Dagmar Vinz (Freie
Universität, Berlin)
Gender, Nature, and Time Politics: Feminist Perspectives on Sustainability |
| |
Patrick Bond
(University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban)
Global Governance Quandries: Red-Green Activist Analyses, Strategies, Tactics,
and Alliances |
| |
Stuart Rosewarne
(University of Sydney, Sydney)
Removing the Veil and Reclaiming Economic Space: Migrant Women Workers, the
Hidden Employment, and the Manufacture of Transnational Identities |
|
12:45 to 14:00 Lunch Break
|
Saturday, July 23 pm
14:00 to 15:30 Afternoon Sessions
15:45 to 19:15 Plenary |
| session
1
|
Marxism, Critical Theory, and Ecology II (0006)
Critical Theory, the Domination of Nature, and the Societal Relations with
Nature |
| |
Alex Demirovic
(J.W. Goethe Universität, Frankfurt)
Crisis and Nature |
| |
Christoph Görg
(J.W. Goethe Universität, Frankfurt/M.)
Ecological Imperialism: A New Level in the Domination of Nature Postfordist
Relationship with Nature and Adorno’s Theory of Non-Identity |
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Christopher Buck
(University of Chicago, Chicago)
Experience First! Adorno and Radical Environmental Thought |
| |
Joel Kovel (CNS
Editor, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson)
The Conditions of Ecosocialism |
| session
2
|
Ecosocialism, Feminism, and Environmental Justice III (0010)
Ecosocialism, Ecology, and Environmental Histories
|
| |
Joan
Roelofs (Keene State College, Keene)
Socialism and Ecology
|
| |
Graeme
Chesters and Ian Walsh (Cardiff
University, Wales)
Complex Ecologies of Struggle
|
| |
Kate
Ervine (York University, Toronto)
A Critique of Green Developmentalism: The Case of Chiapas
|
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Victor Wallis (Berklee College of Music, Boston)
Socialism and Technology: A Sectoral Overview
|
| session
3
|
Urbanization, Ecological Degradation, and Political Ecology I (0014)
Food, Hunger, and Urban Conflicts from Cuba to Canada |
| |
Nik Heynen
(University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)
Starving for Revolution: The Black Panther Party’s Production of Revolutionary
Art and the Urban Political Ecology of Hunger |
| |
Gerda Wekerle
and L. Anders Sandberg (York University, Toronto)
Contested Natures, Land and Development: The Emergence of Bioregional Citizenship in an Exurban Region |
| |
Evan L Weissman
(University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
Food Security in the 21st Century: Lessons from Cuba for Peak Oil Production |
| |
Andi
Weiss Bartczak (Science Consultant, New Paltz)
Double-Edged Sword: Science for Profit, Science for Environmental
Justice
|
| session
4
|
World
Order, Imperialism, and Global Ecological Politics II (0007)
European Integration and Ecological Modernization |
| |
Birgit Mahnkopf
(Berlin School of Economics, Berlin)
The Impact of Regional and Bilateral Agreements on Trade and Investment on
Sustainable Development |
| |
Christoph Hermann
(FORBA, Vienna)
European Integration and Environmental Impacts |
| |
Frederick Peters
(York University, Toronto)
The Valuation of Water: What European Water Policy Has Made of James O’Connor’s
2nd Contradiction and What the Left Can Do about It |
| |
Brendan Haley
(York University, Toronto)
Social Democracy and Ecological Modernization: Sweden and Canada |
| 15:45 |
PLENARY
SESSION:
Urbanization, Ecological Degradation, and Political Ecology III (0016)
Dreams and Perils of Global Urbanization |
| |
Shane Gunster
(Simon Fraser University, Vancouver)
City Dreaming: Commercial Discourse and the Production of Urban Space |
| |
George Martin
(Montclair State University, Montclair)
Comparative Patterns and Social Ecologies of Global Motorization |
| |
George Gonzalez
(University of Miami, Coral Gables)
Urban Sprawl, Global Warming and Oil Depletion: The Unraveling of the Modern
Economy |
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Peter Freund
(Montclair State University, Montclair)
Fast Cars/Fast Foods: Modes of Consumption, Space-Time, Health, and
Environmental Consequences |
Sunday,
July 24 am
10:00 to 11:30 Morning Sessions
11:45 to 13:30 Plenary Session
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| session
1
|
Urbanization, Ecological Degradation, and Political Ecology II
(0006)
Urban
Political Ecology and Global Cities |
| |
Roger Keil and
Harris Ali (York University, Toronto)
The Urban Political Ecology of Infectious Disease: The Case of SARS in Toronto |
| |
Markus Wissen
(Institute for Regional Development & Structural Planning, Berlin)
Urban Politics and the Commercialization of Infrastructure in the Water Sector |
| |
Matthew Huber
(Clark University, Worcester)
We Are All Resource-Dependent People: Towards a Political Ecology of Consumption |
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Estair Van Wagner
(York University, Toronto)
Participatory Democracy in the Global City: Promise and Potential for Urban
Environmental Justice |
| session
2
|
World
Order, Imperialism, and Global Ecological Politics III (0010)
Continental Integration and Transnational Water Politics |
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Kristen Van
Hooreweghe (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
Intersecting Capitalism, Patriarchy, and the Environment: Looking at the NAFTA
through a Gendered Lens |
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Michael McMahon
(York University, Toronto)
From Neoliberal Threats to Social Nature: Lessons from Great Lakes Basin
Struggles? |
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Bettina Köhler
(Technische Universität, Vienna)
The Making of the Global Water Crisis |
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Zoe Wilson
(Centre for Civil Society and Institute for Research and Innovation in
Sustainability)
States, Socialism, and Sanitation: Challenges from Africa |
| session
3
|
World Order,
Imperialism, and Global Ecological Politics IV (0014)
Neoliberalism, Privatization, and Green Capitalism |
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Ariel
Salleh (Ecofeminist editor, Capitalism Nature Socialism)
Neo-Liberal Denial: an Ecofeminist Reflection on the Genetic Engineering
Industry
|
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Tim Luke
(Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg)
Structures of Sustainable Degradation: Eco-Managerialism, Eco-Judicialization,
and Eco-Commercialism |
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Terisa E. Turner and Leigh S. Brownhill (University of Guelph , Guelph)
The Future in the Present of Oil Wars |
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Michael Ekers
(York University, Toronto)
The Canadian Tree-Planting Experience: Producing Natures, Alienation, and
Critique |
| 11:45 |
PLENARY
SESSION:
World
Order, Imperialism, and Global Ecological Politics V (0016)
Empire, Nation, and Ecological Injustice |
| |
Daniel Faber
(Northeastern University, Boston)
International Capitalism, Ecological Injustice, and Unsustainable Production |
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Neil Smith
(Graduate Center, CUNY, New York)
Making Nature’s Nation |
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Kavita Philip
(University of California, Irvine)
Nature, Culture, Capital, and Empire: Reflections in Doing Environmental
Histories of the Global South |
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Thomas W. O’Donnell
(University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
The Global Oil System: Resources, Technology, and the New US Strategy |
| 13:15
Concluding
Statement |
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