Jessie Luna was an invited discussant for the session “Intersections of Interventions: On development, difference, dispossession and discourse” at the Dimensions of Political Ecology Conference in Lexington, Kentucky in February. She also presented a paper there, titled “Quantified Deservingness: a comparative political ecology of technological healthism.”
Special edition from Colorado Water Institute Malin and CSU’s Environmental Justice Working Group guest edited a recent special issue of Colorado Water, in partnership with the Water Center. The articles come from some of the stellar and engaging presentations from the Fall 2017 “Stories of Water Equity and Environmental Justice” symposium held at CSU.
Stephanie Malin, Stacia Ryder, and a Political Science colleague published “Of mills and mines: an intercategorical critique of the hidden harms of natural resource boom and bust cycles in U.S. history” in Environmental Sociology.
Jeni Cross is co-author of “Addressing the Infrastructure Decay Rate in US Cities: the Case for a Paradigm Shift in Information and Communication” published in Part XI The Role of Urban Planning and Public Policies in the edited volume Routledge Handbook of Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure.
Jessie Luna published “The Ease of Hard Work: Embodied Neoliberalism among Rocky Mountain Fun Runners” in Qualitative Sociology in January. Luna joined CSU’s Department of Sociology in Fall 2018 and specializes in environmental inequality, race, food and agriculture, development, and cultural sociology. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11133-019-9412-8#aboutcontent Direct access at: https://rdcu.be/bhWm1 ABSTRACT In contemporary Western countries, thin, fit, and “healthy” bodies operate as important markers […]
Jeni Cross and colleagues published “Trouble with Sense of Place in Working Landscapes” in Society & Natural Resources.
Josh Sbicca and Rebecca Shisler (’16 M.A.) published “Agriculture as Carework: The Contradictions of Performing Femininity in a Male-Dominated Occupation” in Society & Natural Resources.
Dr. Tara Opsal has been awarded an Ann Gill Faculty Development Award for Outstanding Research and Creative Activity in the College of Liberal Arts. Her winning project is Penitentiaries on the Plains: Rural Economies, Identities, and the Carceral State. In her proposal, Dr. Opsal says this is one component of a larger comparative project that examines the […]
Dr. Pat Hastings has been awarded an Ann Gill Faculty Development Award for Outstanding Research and Creative Activity in the College of Liberal Arts. His winning proposal is Rethinking Consumption Inequality: Investigating Differences by Types of Consumption and Consumers. In his proposal, Dr. Hastings describes how he will investigate what has happened to consumption inequality during the […]
Jeni Cross’s Sustainable Places, Health and Educational Research in Schools (SPHEReS) research team hosted 52 fourth-graders from Northglenn’s STEM Lab in January. SPHEReS partners with Adams 12 Schools to examine the impact of school environment on occupant health and performance. Funded by the EPA, the Healthy Schools project is the first time that epidemiologists, sociologists, economists, and sustainability experts have collaborated at this scale to address this question. STEM Lab […]
