Picturing Environmental Resistance and Resilience
How do we envision a just and sustainable future? How do enduring visual narratives complicate this effort? This talk offers insight into the value of interdisciplinary environmental research through the lens of photography, with a focus on images of environmental resistance and resilience. Central to nineteenth-century understandings of nature and nation and twentieth-century social movements, photography continues to shape our understandings of environment, justice, community, and action. This talk offers a brief exploration of this complex visual terrain.
About the Speaker
Dr. Gabrielson joined Western Washington University’s College of the Environment as Dean in August 2022. A scholar of environmental political theory, Dr. Gabrielson earned a PhD from the University of California, Davis and has taught and researched at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas and the University of Wyoming. Her research appeared in American Journal of Political Science, Environmental Politics, Citizenship Studies, Political Research Quarterly, and Environmental Humanities and she is co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Political Theory (2016). Dr. Gabrielson’s teaching earned peer and student award nominations at three institutions and her administrative path has included roles as both department chair and associate dean. She now takes great pride in working to support the incredible faculty, staff, and students in the College of the Environment.
Environmental Speaker Series
The Environmental Speaker Series is hosted by the College of the Environment at Western Washington University.
The Series is free and open to the public. Talks are held each Thursday at 4:30 pm in Academic Instructional Center West room 204 - AW-204. Parking is available in lot C.