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Mountaintop Mining in Appalachia:
Understanding Stakeholders and Change in Environmental Conflict
Dr. Susan Hirsch, Professor of Conflict Resolution and Anthropology and former Director of the Undergraduate Program, will be speaking from her new book about mountaintop mining in Appalachia and the issues and stakeholders surrounding the conflict.
Bring your lunch and join us!
Mountaintop Mining in Appalachia focuses on the people of the region, the people who have the most at stake and have been the most active in trying to shift views and practices. By examining the experiences of these stakeholders and their efforts to effect change, Susan F. Hirsch and E. Franklin Dukes introduce key concepts and theories from the field of conflict analysis and resolution. It provides a compelling case study of how stakeholders challenge governance-as-usual, while offering insight into the causes of conflict over other environmental issues.
Susan F. Hirsch is a cultural anthropologist in the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University who has written widely on law and conflict. She is the author of In the Moment of Greatest Calamity: Terrorism, Grief, and a Victim’s Quest for Justice; Pronouncing and Persevering: Gender and the Discourses of Disputing in an African Islamic Court; and the coeditor of Contested States: Law, Hegemony and Resistance, as well as many articles and book chapters.
The Brown Bag Lectures showcase current projects or trends in the conflict analysis and resolution field and are presented by practitioners, faculty or students.