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Table 16: Culture, Identity, and Environmental Meaning
Sat, August 8, 4:00 to 5:00pm, TBASession Submission Type: Refereed Roundtable (60 minute)
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These papers explore how environmental practices, conflicts, and transitions are shaped by culture, identity, and meaning-making. From birding communities to energy transitions and multi-species relationships, they show how environmental engagement is socially constructed and contested. The session highlights the symbolic and relational dimensions of environmental life.
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A "Good Birder": Legitimacy and Inequality in the Environmental Practice of Birding in the Greater Boston - Lan Huang, Boston College; Brian J. Gareau, Boston College
Articulating Place: A Contradictory Coalition Against Offshore Wind on the Eastern Shore - Amienne Spencer-Blume, Johns Hopkins University; Michael Levien, Johns Hopkins University
Exploring multi-species solidarity: a case for the urban forest in the age of climate change - Arnab Kumar Ghosh, CUNY-Graduate Center
Growing Democracy: Gardens as Sites of Resistance, Resilience, and Community Policy Alternatives Amidst Political Crisis - Sadie M. Dempsey, University at Buffalo; Micaela F. Lipman, University at Buffalo
Urban environments and segregated mobility in the early 20th century - Jonathan Tollefson, University of Chicago