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Filed under: observations and opinions, social justice on May 15th, 2008 | No Comments »
Over the past year I have interviewed and interacted with people who explore caves in the northeastern United States. This grounded theory research originally began with a broad question and a sub-question, respectively: How do cavers think and feel about caving, access to caves and the practice of caving by others? How does the physical […]
Filed under: caves, anthro of property, observations and opinions, natural landscape on April 20th, 2008 | No Comments »
Psychological ownership can be defined as that state where an individual feels as though the object of ownership is ‘theirs’ and has a sense of responsibility not necessarily bounded by legal right or static place (Pierce, Kostova & Dirks, 2001; 2003). Three features help elaborate this definition. First, the sense of ownership manifests itself in […]
Filed under: anthro of property, observations and opinions, natural landscape on April 19th, 2008 | No Comments »
A professor at University of Vermont’s Environmental Policy and Planning department recently sent out a call for papers on Conservation and Conflict Resolution. His overall research question is “Can cooperation over environmental factors such as water distribution, pollution control, (and) wildlife conservation lead to spillover cooperative behavior between erstwhile adversaries?” He believes, and I agree, […]
Filed under: observations and opinions, environmental planning on March 11th, 2008 | No Comments »
A friend of mine recently said that for him social justice was righting an injustice rather than promoting a right. However, I believe I may be the opposite.
I am taking three courses: Environmental Planning in the Architecture department at Columbia, Anthropology of Property in the CUNY GC Anthro department, and American Political Culture and National […]
Filed under: observations and opinions, goals on March 4th, 2008 | No Comments »
Just a thought about what green consumerism is, isn’t, should or shouldn’t be.
In reading about green consumerism I have found that a disagreement exists about whether it is an answer or solution to problems of sustainability.
Green consumerism is the idea that an individual should and can choose to buy products made within fda approved […]
Filed under: observations and opinions on March 1st, 2008 | No Comments »
A couple of years ago I took a class on Participatory Action Research (PAR). At that time I was just interested in it as a research methodology and only heard about PAR being used in urban education settings. Lately, I have been wondering if PAR is used in other community settings (like environmental justice) and […]
Filed under: observations and opinions, social justice on February 27th, 2008 | No Comments »
