Workshop on Pollution, Environmental Justice, and Citizen Science 3-4 May 2017, University of Warwick Programme DAY 1: Wednesday 3rd May 2017
Hosted by the European Research Council-funded project Toxic Expertise. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement 639583. This event is also funded by the ESRC Impact Acceleration Account at the University of Warwick.
Programme:
8:15-8:45am Coffee and Registration
8:45-9:00am Introduction from Toxic Expertise
9:00-10:00am Keynote: Phil Brown (Northeastern), “Toxic Trespass and Emerging Contaminants: Science, Activism, and Policy for Chemicals In Our Bodies”
10:00-11:00am Citizen Sensing Jennifer Gabrys (Goldsmiths), “From Citizen Sensing to Citizen Data” João Porto de Albuquerque (Warwick), “Citizens as sensors and beyond: Modes of engagement in the production of citizen-generated urban data”
11:00-11:15am Coffee
11:15am-12:30pm Participatory and Collaborative Research
Barbara Allen (Virginia Tech) “From Participatory Data Collection to Collaborative Analysis: Meaning-Making for Knowledge Justice”
Bhavna Shamasunder (Occidental College, LA), et al. “The South Los Angeles Neighborhood Oil Drilling Health and Exposure Study”
Sarah Rhodes (University of North Carolina), et al. “A community-based participatory research study of exposure to antibiotic-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in regions of dense industrial hog production in North Carolina, USA”
12:30-1:30pm Lunch
1:30-2:45pm DIY Aerial Mapping Demonstration, Cindy Regalado (UCL/Public Lab), “DIY aerial photography with Public Lab” 2:45-4:00pm Citizens and Air Pollution around the World Miguel Ángel López-Navarro and Vicent Tortosa-Edo (Universitat Jaume I, Castelló), “Legitimating confrontational discourses by local environmental groups: The case of air quality monitoring in a Spanish petrochemical area” Anneleen Kenis (KU Leuven, Belgium), “Citizens, science and air pollution: the construction of a fact, the framing of a problem” Dan McQuillan (Goldmiths), “Doing science politically; air quality measurements Kosovo”
4:00-4:15pm Coffee
4:15-5:30pm Environmental Justice around the World
Carmit Lubanov (Association of Environmental Justice in Israel) “The Role of Civic Society in Addressing Environmental Justice Policy – The case of Israel”
Roberto Pasetto, Nicolás Zengarini, Ivano Iavarone (Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome), “Environmental Justice in Industrially Contaminated Sites: the Italian SENTIERI approach and the European ICSHNet network”
Lei Xie (Independent Researcher),“Public perception of justice in China’s sharing of international rivers”
5:30-6:15pm Concluding Panel Discussion
7pm Conference Dinner
DAY 2: Thursday 4th May 2017
8:30-9:00am Coffee
9:00-10:00am Keynote: Gwen Ottinger (Drexel), “Information Infrastructures for Community Empowerment”
10:00-11:15am Pushing the Boundaries of Citizen Science Alex Zahara and Max Liboiron (Memorial University) “Refusal in citizen science: A decolonial, ethical approach to data circulation (or not)” Elizabeth Hoover (Brown), What does “citizen science” mean in an Indigenous community that sees themselves as citizens of their tribal nation first, and of the settler nation second? Sam Geall (Sussex), “Climate-change journalism and citizen science in contemporary China”
11:15-11:30am Coffee
11:30am-12:45pm Witnessing and Visualizing Peter C. Little (Rhode Island College),“Citizen Photography as Citizen Science Technique in Ghana’s Toxic Hotspot” Marina Da Silva (Goldsmiths), “Visual Pollution: How São Paulo’s Public Space is Being Shaped by Environmental Discourse” Amelia Fiske (Christian-Albrechts-Universitat zu Kiel), “To Bear Witness: Bodily burdens, Expertise, and Toxic Tours in the Ecuadorian Amazon”
12:45-1:00pm Discussion
1:00-2:00pm Lunch
2:00-5:00pm Ideation Workshop, Facilitator: Sigma user experience. Further details to follow
