Conférence tenue dans le cadre des Graduate Fellows Lunchtime Seminars du Social Justice Centre, en collaboration avec le GRÉEA. | Talk held as part of the Graduate Fellows Lunchtime Seminars of the Social Justice Centre, in collaboration with the GRÉEA.

Stephanie Eccles, PhD student at Concordia University, « Making Animal Waste Essential: ‘Renewing’ Animal Agriculture through the Fraught Politics of Renewable Natural Gas Development »

The talk will be followed by a commentary by Jan Dutkiewicz.

Abstract

Stephanie’s research engages with political economy/ecology focusing on the links between energy and food systems, Discard Studies, and multispecies relations. Her dissertation research looks at how industrial animal agricultural waste is produced, managed, and turned into frontiers for capital, in particular for renewable energy projects, at two temporalities: the ordinary day and during disasters. Exploring issues of environmental (in)justice, extreme weather events in North Carolina and British Columbia, and the emerging industry for waste-to-energy projects in North Carolina, she grapples with the enduring waste problems produced by industrial animal agriculture and the proposed socio-ecological fixes. Stephanie conducts multispecies fieldwork that grounds practices of care. Her work is grounded on the broader political projects of transforming how we relate to each other and the nonhuman animal world to work towards a future that is abundantly just and kind.

The talk will be hybrid, both in person and on zoom.

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Room H-1252
Geography, Planning, and the Environment
Henry F. Hall Building
1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.