My Troy Davis paper was officially published in ACME: Heynen, N. (2015) “If I am Troy Davis, I Failed Troy Davis: Abolishing the Death Penalty through an Antiracist People’s Geography.” ACME: An International E-Journal for […]
Urban political ecology II: The abolitionist century in Progress in Human Geography
My second UPE review titled “Urban political ecology II: The abolitionist century” in now on Progress in Human Geography’s on-line first page. Heynen, N. (2016) “Urban Political Ecology II: The Abolitionist Century” Progress Report for Progress in Human […]
We’ve been studied to death, we ain’t gotten anything”: (Re)claiming knowledge production through writing collectives
Many years of work has produced our second publication through the Newtown Florist Club Writing Collective. It always feels good to publish in Capitalism Nature Socialism. Yen-Kohl, E. and The Newtown Florist Club Writing Collective […]
Knowing Climate Change, Embodying Climate Praxis: Experiential Knowledge in Southern Appalachia
253-262We’re all excited that several years of fieldwork through the Coweeta Listening Project (CLP) is starting to yield some publications. Here is another new paper that is coming out in a special issue of the […]
Can Science Writing Collectives Overcome Barriers to More Democratic Communication and Collaboration? Lessons from Environmental Communication Praxis in Southern Appalachia
As some of my other posts show, I have been interested in how writing collectives can operate and say different things than single or multi-authored writing projects. This new paper reflects of efforts out of […]
Transforming Participatory Science into Socioecological Praxis: Valuing Marginalized Environmental Knowledges in the Face of the Neoliberalization of Nature and Science
Over the last several years I’ve worked with the Coweeta Listening Project (CLP) which is an ethnographically oriented action-research collective trying to better integrate social science within the Coweeta Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Project. Especially […]
Megapolitan Political Ecology and Urban Metabolism in Southern Appalachia
For several years I have been directing something called the Coweeta Listening Project (CLP). A subset of this group has just published a first-cut effort to think through the rapid exurbanization within southern Appalachia through […]
Director and Graduate Coordinator of UGA’s ICON Ph.D. Program
Unexpectedly over the summer I was appointed as the Director and Graduate Coordinator of UGA’s Integrative Conservation (ICON) Ph.D. Program. The ICON Ph.D. program brings together faculty and students from UGA’s Department of Geography, Department […]
A Pedagogical Model for Integrative Training in Conservation and Sustainability
In the concluding chapter of an edited book titled Neoliberal Environments: False Promises and Unnatural Consequences, published in 2007, James McCarthy, Scott.Prudham, Paul Robbins, and I wrote: “In a world where information, data, and evidence […]
Acknowledging Trade-offs and Understanding Complexity: Exurbanization Issues in Macon County, North Carolina
I have been working more and more with forms of collective writing, or in this case, large group writing, across a couple different groups. This recently published effort is the product of a seminar I […]
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