Fw: Symposium on the Treadmill of Production

From: Fred Buttel

Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 9:22 AM

To: envtecsoc@csf.colorado.edu; ecopolitics@efn.org

Subject: Symposium on the Treadmill of Production

 

With apologies for cross-postings:

ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS

Symposium on
Environment and the Treadmill of Production

1:00 p.m. Friday, October 31, 2003  12:00 noon, Saturday, November 1, 2003
University of Wisconsin, Madison

Sponsored by
Departments of Rural Sociology and Sociology
University of Wisconsin, Madison

Co-sponsored by the Environment and Society Research Committee (RC 24)
International Sociological Association

The “treadmill of production” is arguably the most visible and venerable concept of the first three decades of environmental sociology.  This symposium aims to take stock of the development of North American and global environmental sociology through the lens of retrospective and prospective perspectives on the concept of treadmill of production. 

This two-day symposium will involve presentations by practitioners of the treadmill of production approach of Allan Schnaiberg (Professor of Sociology, Northwestern University) and his associates, and commentaries on the utility of this approach by other social scientists.  The presentations will consist of invited papers, and of papers by additional contributors who respond to this call.  Invited participants include Allan Schnaiberg, David Pellow, Kenneth Gould, John Bellamy Foster, Adam Weinberg, Rachel Schurman, and Michael Goldman.

Papers on any topic relating to the treadmill of production concept are welcome.  In addition to papers that examine the treadmill of production notion from an environmental-sociological perspective, we are especially interested in papers that examine the treadmill of production notion from the vantage points of political sociology, environmental studies, the world-economy and globalization, social movements, and economic sociology.  Highly promising papers proposed by authors unable to attend the symposium may be considered for presentation (by one of the members of the local organizing committee) and/or for publication in a book growing out of the symposium.  In the event that the number of submitted papers is larger than can be accommodated in the two-day symposium, the local organizing committee will select among the proposed abstracts to determine the final program.  The deadline for abstracts is 1 May 2003.  Notification of acceptance of abstracts and the preliminary program will be available by 15 May 2003.

The University of Wisconsin organizing committee for the Symposium on Environment and the Treadmill of Production consists of Frederick Buttel, Michael Bell, Stephen Bunker, Aya Hirata, Christine Overdevest, and Brad Brewster. 

For information about the symposium, contact Fred Buttel (Department of Rural Sociology, University of Wisconsin, 1450 Linden Drive, Madison, WI  53706; fhbuttel@wisc.edu; 608-262-7156).