This talk is co-sponsored by UBC Geography and the Centre for Climate Justice.
Dr. Elizabeth Shapiro-
Garza
Visiting from the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke
University\, August 1\, 2024 to October 31\, 2024.
Abstract: Recent m ovements within academia have argued for greater engagement with and inclus ion of relevant local communities in the process of research and of knowled ge production more broadly. These calls are driven by both ethical concerns of the often-extractive nature of research involving communities who have been marginalized and a pragmatic awareness of the value of situated\, loca l knowledge and world views for understanding systems studied. Deriving fro m a wide range of academic disciplines\, these have included decolonial\, p luriversal and inter-epistemic approaches to research practice based in cri tical theory and liberatory frameworks to the more instrumental focus of su ch methodologies as human-centered design and implementation science. Howev er\, to date there has been little dialogue among these various movements t o promote community-engaged scholarship nor awareness of many similarly mot ivated previous sets of theories and methodologies. This talk will provide an overview of past and current calls for change to the institutions and pr actice of academic research on and with communities who have been marginali zed. Drawing on both relevant literature and on specific examples of commun ity-engaged scholarship in the environmental and natural resource fields\, it will explore points of synergy and tension among these approaches\, thei r potential power to enact social and environmental change\, but also their persistent and pervasive challenges and limitations.
Bio:
Elizab
eth Shapiro-Garza is an Associate Professor of the Practice of Environmenta
l Policy and Management at the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke U
niversity where she also serves as the Faculty Director for Engaged Scholar
ship for Duke University\, the Director of Community Engagement for the Duk
e University Superfund Research Center and the Co-Director of the master’s
program in Community Engagement and Environmental Justice. She is a human g
eographer with thirty years of experience in engaged scholarship in Latin A
merican and the southeastern United States related to community management
of and relationship with forests and agroforests.
This is hybrid event hosted in GEOG room 229 and on Zoom.
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