Fwd: RE: setting up a comparative environmental sociology 'network' for

Any takers for forming this network through SSHA? Contact me and I'll keep
a running list of respondants and contact them about it. Only 20-30 or so
required.


Regards,


Mark Whitaker
University of Wisconsin-Madison


>From: Social Science History Association <SSHA@MAIL.ECU.EDU>
>To: "'Mark Douglas Whitaker '" <mrkdwhit@wallet.com>
>Subject: RE: setting up a comparative environmental sociology 'network' fo
>       r SSHA
>Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 10:29:18 -0500
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>Hello Mark,  I suggest that you organize a session on your topic with 3 or 4
>papers, a chair and 1 or 2 discussants (the urban or politics networks
>chairs may be able to help you round out your session).  Then submit your
>session proposal online.
>   At this point, we cannot list your topic on the ssha network page, these
>are planned, organized, and advertised far ahead of time.  If you are
>interested in forming your own network in the future, you should find 20-30
>people who are interested and willing to be actively involved in comparative
>historical environmental sociology.  Then contact the program chairs over a
>year in advance, so you can be scheduled and meet with your group at the
>ssha conference to plan sessions for the next year's conference.  Good Luck
>with your session.
>  Don Parkerson         
>  SSHA 2001 Program Chair  
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Mark Douglas Whitaker
>To: ssha@mail.ecu.edu
>Sent: 1/15/01 9:10 PM
>Subject: setting up a comparative environmental sociology 'network' for SSHA
>
>Hi there,
>       I'm interested in being involved in the SSHA's networks, and in
>being
>listed on the following page, particularly since there is nothing
>particularly dealing with comparative historical environmental sociology
>in
>the SSHA. What do I do? I have myself (as well as one other already)
>interested in establishing a session for Chicago in November.
>       I have contacted people related to 'urban' as well as 'politics'
>this
>evening as well, though I feel that if I could swing a section with
>others
>that I can bring to the event that would be prefereable. What do you
>say?
>       I have a paper I would present. I'm interested in contributing a
>piece
>dealing with comparing and contrasting the different textiles cities in
>the
>British Midlands in the early 1800s, explaining the different urban
>morphologies of them in relation to their raw materal choices as well as
>state power. It's an environmental sociological critique of much of what
>we
>have come to consider as 'industrialization,' which was linked to
>specific
>raw materal relationships. 
>       Someone else I know is willing to discuss the social
>construction and
>framing of 'natural disasters' comparatively and historically. Someone
else has something to present regarding different social constructions of
the same Michigan valley as different political knowledge regimes and land
uses changed.

>
>
>
>Regards,
>
>
>Mark Whitaker
>University of Wisconsin-Madison
>
>
>
>
>http://www.ssha.org/ssha2001/networks.html