Panel and Book Launch: Environmental Politics of Sacrifice

Invitation for September 30th:

American University’s Global Environmental Politics program and Allegheny College present a public Book Launch and Panel Discussion of:

The Environmental Politics of Sacrifice

Featuring:

Erik Assadourian, Senior Fellow, Worldwatch Institute

Leslie Fields, National Environmental Justice Director, Sierra Club

John Meyer, Department of Politics, Humboldt State University, (Co-Editor)

Matthew Nisbet, School of Communication, American University

Paul Wapner, School of International Service, American University



Moderator: Michael Maniates, Dept. of Political Science, Allegheny College, (Co-Editor)


Thursday, September 30th
5:00 – 6:30pm

A reception and book signing will follow from 6:30 – 8:00pm

School of International Service Building
Founder’s Room, Terrace Level
4400 Massachusetts Ave, NW, Washington DC 20016

If the current impasse over energy and environmental policy teaches us anything, it should be that the election of sympathetic leaders is insufficient to tackle environmental challenges meaningfully. Politicians appear stymied by the fear that substantive action will be viewed as harmful to their constituents, especially during economic hard times.

This panel will explore new strategies and ways of thinking about environmental challenges featured in Michael Maniates and John Meyer’s new MIT Press book The Environmental Politics of Sacrifice. Can this fear be successfully countered by optimistic narratives about bold technological innovations? Must environmentalists also confront the fear of ‘sacrifice’ that is so often the basis for oppositional attacks?

Parking is available beneath the School of International Service building or in the Nebraska parking lot (corner of Nebraska Ave, NW and New Mexico Ave, NW) . For directions, see www.american.edu/sis/about/directions.cfm

For more information, please contact Simon Nicholson, simon.nicholson@american.edu, (202) 885–1614

******************