https://padlet.com/naomimillner/q86sqfeza2on Unsettling environments en-us 2018-09-25 14:39:31 UTC 2019-01-08 09:29:36 UTC hello@padlet.com naomimillner https://padlet.com/naomimillner/q86sqfeza2on/wish/285554123 Challenge/question the idea that environmental politics is simply a struggle over distribution over, access to and social control over resources: rather it is about different ways of SEEING the environment; what counts/does not count as environmental. Pushes us beyond a humanist/liberal account wihch holds that humans are the only agents of social change]]> 2018-09-25 14:41:45 UTC https://padlet.com/naomimillner/q86sqfeza2on/wish/285554123 naomimillner https://padlet.com/naomimillner/q86sqfeza2on/wish/285555344 Bringing together an eclectic set of thinkers and concepts drawn from political philosophy, anthropology, STS, postcolonial/decolonial geogs and indigenous scholars to understand what is at stake and/or rethink environmental politics]]> 2018-09-25 14:43:19 UTC https://padlet.com/naomimillner/q86sqfeza2on/wish/285555344 naomimillner https://padlet.com/naomimillner/q86sqfeza2on/wish/285556472 Emphasise the importance of political aesthetics and 'ways of seeing' in making the world we know -- we look both at science, tech and art/literature/ film to demonstrate and explore how the environment is created through different kinds of practice]]> 2018-09-25 14:44:51 UTC https://padlet.com/naomimillner/q86sqfeza2on/wish/285556472 naomimillner https://padlet.com/naomimillner/q86sqfeza2on/wish/285557298 we are looking at examples from the past including romanticism and the enlightenment and especially the 20th century... retell history of environmental movements, ideas and governance via contestation and struggle (including over what it meant to be environmental)]]> 2018-09-25 14:45:55 UTC https://padlet.com/naomimillner/q86sqfeza2on/wish/285557298 naomimillner https://padlet.com/naomimillner/q86sqfeza2on/wish/285558222 To say the environment is 'mainstreamed' is an idea already under discussion but we focus on the how - the technicity, specifically of environment-making and contestation.]]> 2018-09-25 14:47:10 UTC https://padlet.com/naomimillner/q86sqfeza2on/wish/285558222 naomimillner https://padlet.com/naomimillner/q86sqfeza2on/wish/285558258 The book is written in an accessible way; it is theoretical but does not rely on jargon to communicate its key ideas. It works to demonstrate and show rather than explain; uses boxes to signpost key ideas in more detail and also lists of resources for follow-up (link to shock of the anthropocene: breadth, form, popular culture)]]> 2018-09-25 14:47:13 UTC https://padlet.com/naomimillner/q86sqfeza2on/wish/285558258 naomimillner https://padlet.com/naomimillner/q86sqfeza2on/wish/285561382 The environment has become a flat term, associated with emotions of apathy and indifference... also associated with localism in global north; or with int'l NGOs and lobbying; or as proxy for anti-neoliberal politics. We're trying to open up a multi-dimensional way of knowing environment as textured, involving labour, technology, under contestation, touching all aspects of life]]> 2018-09-25 14:51:01 UTC https://padlet.com/naomimillner/q86sqfeza2on/wish/285561382 naomimillner https://padlet.com/naomimillner/q86sqfeza2on/wish/285563943 Shows how mainstreaming environments excludes new groups of actors and is contested]]> 2018-09-25 14:53:56 UTC https://padlet.com/naomimillner/q86sqfeza2on/wish/285563943 naomimillner https://padlet.com/naomimillner/q86sqfeza2on/wish/285564138 Environmental politics in the context of a devastated planet - signposting possibilities for collective, progressive politics]]> 2018-09-25 14:54:09 UTC https://padlet.com/naomimillner/q86sqfeza2on/wish/285564138 naomimillner https://padlet.com/naomimillner/q86sqfeza2on/wish/285564859 not simply hoping in defunct universals but also not giving up]]> 2018-09-25 14:54:55 UTC https://padlet.com/naomimillner/q86sqfeza2on/wish/285564859