ExtrACTION and Environment TIG

It’s Been a Full Year

The ExtrACTION Team

One of the hardest decisions made by the SfAA Executive Board is what to do about already scheduled annual meetings. Last year, our bags were packed, bound for Albuquerque, when the meeting was cancelled. It was a good call, as the State of New Mexico closed down the following week. But it was too late to move to a virtual platform. This year, the decision was made enough in advance that a vibrant virtual meeting could be planned. The ExtrACTION and Environment TIG invites you to join us in attending and/or moderating this March.

We invite you to especially join us for a joint session sponsored by ExtrACTION, Risk and Disaster and PESO. Our interests and activities often overlap, and this is an chance to pour some coffee and join us. And don’t miss out on Business Meeting on Friday. We can’t send you each a cheese platter, but we’ll be thinking of you!

One of our favorite jobs is to take volunteered abstracts and organize them into coherent, and often fascinating sessions. It is amazing how well the individual papers fit together, and they have been some of the best sessions we’ve attended.

All of the our TIG sponsored sessions are listed below. This year has been an environmental rollercoaster ride, and we look forward to talking about it and hearing your comments. Not sure how this will work? Join some of the training sessions described in the Newsletter. If you are interested in learning how to be a moderator email Jenail Marshall at jenail.marshall21@gmail.com ASAP!

If you haven’t yet, please go to https://www.appliedanthro.org/annual-meeting to register for the meeting. We look forward to seeing you (in whatever format) there!

(22-15) MONDAY 2:00-3:45
Channel 5 (live/simulcast): Sharing Ideas & Joining Forces: Connections, Intersections, and Collaborations among Extraction & Environment, Risk & Disaster, and PESO (ExtrAction & Environment TIG, Risk & Disaster TIG, PESO)

CHAIR: MOOLENAAR, Elisabeth (Regis U)

ROUNDTABLE PARTICIPANTS: HEYMAN, Josiah (UTEP), TRIVEDI, Jennifer (UDel), SIMONELLI, Jeanne (NPS)

(23-4) TUESDAY 10:00-11:45
Channel 4 (live/simulcast): Extraction and Environment Over Time (ExtrAction & Environment TIG

CHAIR: WILLOW, Anna (Ohio State U)

JALBERT, Kirk (ASU) Tracing the Timescapes of Helium Extraction in Arizona’s Holbrook Basin
BEDI, Heather Plumridge (Dickinson Coll) Lessons from India’s Coal Extraction Past to Inform a Just Energy Transition
SKRZYPEK, Emilka (U St Andrews) Assessing the Future: Environmental Impact Statement Review at a Proposed Copper and Gold Mine
SIMONELLI, Jeanne (NPS) Now You See It; Now You Don’t: The Constitution Pipeline Saga
SWAMY, Raja (UTK) Capital Time, Nature Time, and the Politics of Disaster Recovery in Houston
WILLOW, Anna (Ohio State U) Ethnographies of the Future (And Why They Matter)

Meet up 11:45-12:30

(PR 24-4) WEDNESDAY 12:00-1:45
(Pre-recorded, on demand)
Seeking Social Justice in Changing Environments (ExtrAction & Environment TIG)

CHAIR: GROSSE, Corrie (CSBSJU)

GROSSE, Corrie (CSBSJU) Pipeline Resistance and Native-Led Solutions: Engaging in Solidarity Work in Minnesota
WALLER, Amanda (Purdue U) Solar for All: Expectations and Benefits in an Environmental Justice Community
CHAUDHARY THARU, Buddhi, ACCIAIOLI, Greg, and ERSKINE, William (UWA) Adaptation to Climate Change: Adaptive Capacity, Strategies and Barriers of the Tharu Farmers in the Western Tarai of Nepal
GRANIER, Kalie (Loud Spring), SJOSTROM, Anja (ECU), MCHUGH, Tristin (Reef Check CA), and GABO, Lora (Musician, France) Fusing Contemporary Art and Science: Using Poetic and Artistic Film of Kelp to Explore How Linked Patriarchal, Colonial, and Capitalist Systems Oppress Women and Ecological Foundation Species

(26-2) FRIDAY 10:00-11:45
Channel 2 (live/simulcast)
Converging Crises: Anthropology at the Intersection of Extraction, Climate, and COVID-19 (ExtrAction & Environment TIG)

CHAIR: MOOLENAAR, Elisabeth (Regis U)

GONZÁLEZ, Melinda (LSU) Making Home betwixt Maria, Earthquakes, and COVID-19: Confronting UnEnding Disaster in the Puerto Rican Diaspora MAACK, Stephen C. (REAP Change Consultants) Responding to Pandemics and Climate Change
MOOLENAAR, Elisabeth (Regis U) Mobilizing Crisis in the Groningen Gas Field

Meet up 11:45-12:30

(PR 26-4) FRIDAY 12:00-1:45
(Pre-recorded, on demand)
Water & Waste (ExtrAction & Environment TIG)

CHAIR: KIESSLING, Brittany (US EPA)

JACOB, Cara and RADONIC, Lucero (MI State U) Cracking the Myth of Universal Water Security in the Global North: Women Document the Burdens of Household Water Insecurity
WILFONG, Matthew and PAVAO-ZUCKERMAN, Mitchell (UMD) Rethinking Stormwater: Analysis Using the Hydrosocial Cycle
LINN, Colleen and O’LEARY, Brendan (Wayne State U) Interdisciplinary Research on the Hydrosocial Cycle in Southeast Michigan
SINGER, Gideon (City of Baltimore) The Social Lives of Discarded Electronics in Alice Springs
KIESSLING, Brittany and MAXWELL, Keely (US EPA) “If the residents were happy, that was success for me”: Practitioner Perspectives on Environmental Cleanup Outcomes

FRIDAY 4:00-5:45
ExtrAction & Environment TIG Business Meeting

(PR 26-13) FRIDAY 6:00-7:45
(Pre-recorded, on demand)
Social Science in Environmental Management: New Perspectives on Natural Resources, Wildlife, and Fire (ExtrAction & Environment TIG)

CHAIR: ULMER, Gordon (Humboldt State U)

PRIMO, John and BROOKS, Jeffrey (BOEM) Is That a Thing?: Applied Social Scientists in Natural Resources Management
PALLAS-BRINK, Jaroslava (Wayne State U) Common Spaces: The Role of Community Engagement in Urban Park Management
RAYCRAFT, Justin (McGill U) Community Perceptions of Human-Wildlife Conflict in the Tarangire-Manyara Ecosystem, Tanzania
ULMER, Gordon and ADAMS, Dara (Humboldt State U) Socioecologies of Human-wildlife Conflicts in Northern California: An Applied Public Anthropology Project
STRACCIA, Patricio (U Buenos Aires) Environmental and Subjugated Subjectivities in the Paraná River Delta, Buenos Aires, Argentina