Resistance in the Face of Environmental Degradation and State-Sanctioned Violence

Session Submission Type: Roundtable

Affiliate Organization: ASEEES Committee on Environmental Sustainability

Brief Description

As people and places contend with the effects of climate change, capitalist accumulation, residues of environmental contamination, and active war, they also cultivate new modes of survival and resistance. In this roundtable, participants address new scholarship at the intersection of environmental studies, postsocialist cultural studies, and emerging forms of political activism. This includes critical takes on environmental sustainability initiatives, questions of how the “Green transition” shapes the lives of people living in its midst, what it means to remain in deeply contaminated sites to avoid the marginalization of neoliberalism, and how people are dealing with the environmental consequences of the war in Ukraine.

Sub Unit

• Anthropology, Cultural Studies

Chair

• Chana Dana Toth-Sewell, U of Chicago

Roundtable Speakers

• Angelina Davydova, Inst for Global Reconstitution

• Azra Hromadžić, Syracuse U

• Elana Resnick, UC Santa Barbara

• Magdalena Edyta Stawkowski, U of South Carolina