Strategic Growth Area: Equity and Social Disparity in the Human Condition (ESDHC)
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ESDHC explores and analyzes crucial issues related to diversity, especially those highlighted through the application of the analytical lens of intersectionality, emphasizes the simultaneous possession of multiple identities for all human beings, producing unique interactions among the identities and factors such as place and social institutions that have implications for experience and life chances.
Scholarship about social disparities and difference in the human condition build on VT strengths in the areas of Health and the Environment, Identities and Culture, and Institutions, Organizations, and Policy (e.g., education, political and policy systems, businesses, and markets). Thematic areas include food security and systems, the built environment, the natural environment, sustainable global prosperity, public health, or innovative technologies.
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- Artivention 1King, Christine; Cumbie, Matthew (Virginia Tech, 2018-11-27)Led by Dance Exchange performers Matthew Cumbie and Christine King, these performances are integrated throughout the Symposium as a way to reflect upon and synthesize our work together.
- Artivention 2King, Christine; Cumbie, Matthew (Virginia Tech, 2018-11-27)Led by Dance Exchange performers Matthew Cumbie and Christine King, these performances are integrated throughout the Symposium as a way to reflect upon and synthesize our work together.
- Artivention 3King, Christine; Cumbie, Matthew (Virginia Tech, 2018-11-27)Led by Dance Exchange performers Matthew Cumbie and Christine King, these performances are integrated throughout the Symposium as a way to reflect upon and synthesize our work together.
- Artivention 4King, Christine; Cumbie, Matthew (Virginia Tech, 2018-11-27)Led by Dance Exchange performers Matthew Cumbie and Christine King, these performances are integrated throughout the Symposium as a way to reflect upon and synthesize our work together.
- Biodiversity conservation, project planning, and gender: Experiences from the fieldMaldonado, Oscar (Virginia Tech. University Libraries, 2017-04-20)Biodiversity conservation paradigms have considerably evolved during the last 20 years. A better understanding of the complexities that conservation entails has allowed reconsidering strict conservation strategies and adopting more inclusive and comprehensive approaches. Although cultural and gender aspects are increasingly deemed to be conditions for conservation success, many issues still remain to be fully included in the conservation practice. Oscar Maldonado shares his experiences in incorporating gender, culture and other sensitive social aspects in sound conservation planning, and explains how he has methodologically overcame methodological challenges and limitations.
- Climate Change and Agrobiodiversity in Nepal: A Gendered PerspectiveBhattarai, Basundhara (Virginia Tech. University Libraries, 2018-04-04)The WGD program at CIRED has conducted a monthly discussion series for over a decade. Students, faculty, staff and members of the community are encouraged to attend the discussions and bring their ideas and questions. The series offers an opportunity for scholars and development practitioners to share their research and knowledge surrounding gender and international development with the Virginia Tech community and beyond.
- Dear Appalachia: Readers, Identity, and Popular Fiction since 1878Satterwhite, Emily M. (Virginia Tech. University Libraries, 2012-03)Emily Satterwhite discusses her book, "Dear Appalachia: Readers, Identity, and Popular Fiction since 1878." Much criticism has been directed at negative stereotypes of Appalachia perpetuated by movies, television shows, and news media. Books, on the other hand, often draw enthusiastic praise for their celebration of the simplicity and authenticity of the Appalachian region. Dear Appalachia: Readers, Identity, and Popular Fiction since 1878 employs the innovative strategy of examining fan mail, reviews, and readers' geographic affiliations to understand how readers have imagined the region and what purposes these imagined geographies have served for them. As Emily Satterwhite traces the changing visions of Appalachia across the decades, from the Gilded Age (1865–1895) to the present, she finds that every generation has produced an audience hungry for a romantic version of Appalachia.
- Economic Development Through Art : Women, Gender & EnvironmentZehner, Amanda (Virginia Tech. University Libraries, 2016-11-10)Small-scale artisans are an important source of economic growth and sustainable livelihood development of great social and cultural significance around the world. Amanda Zehner, founder and owner of Living Threads Company, will discuss the role that business owners, development practitioners, and consumers can play in generating sustainable progress toward solving the challenges these artisans face and improving livelihoods around the world. Ms. Zehner is a Virginia Tech alumna with extensive experience working internationally, including service in the Peace Corps in West Africa. This event is part of the Women and Gender in International Development series and is free and open to the public.
- Envisioning Socialism: Television and the Cold War in the German Democratic RepublicGumbert, Heather L. (2014-11-06)The next Visible Scholarship Initiative presentation is by Heather Gumbert (History) speaking on her recent book Envisioning Socialism: Television and the Cold War in the German Democratic Republic. Envisioning Socialism examines television and the power it exercised to define the East Germans’ view of socialism during the first decades of the German Democratic Republic.
- Four Stories About Food Sovereignty: The Potential and Limits of Community Action and Transnational Solidarity under Conditions of Global CapitalismGill, Bikrum Singh (Virginia Tech. University Libraries, 2019-10-17)The Women and gender in International Development Discussion Series is organized by the Center for International Research, Education, and Development (CIRED) and is an Inclusive VT initiative of Outreach and International Affairs (OIA). The series offers an opportunity for scholars and development practitioners to share their research and knowledge surrounding gender and international development with the Virginia Tech community and beyond.
- Geography and the Environment Through Kitchenspace: Cultural Ecology in the House-lot Garden in Central MexicoChristie, Maria Elisa (Virginia Tech. University Libraries, 2018-03-16)The WGD program at CIRED has conducted a monthly discussion series for over a decade. Students, faculty, staff and members of the community are encouraged to attend the discussions and bring their ideas and questions. The series offers an opportunity for scholars and development practitioners to share their research and knowledge surrounding gender and international development with the Virginia Tech community and beyond.
- Governance, Livelihoods and Gender Issues in Run-of-the-River Hydropower Project Areas in Uttarakhand, IndiaBuechler, Stephanie (Virginia Tech. University Libraries, 2016-10-13)As part of the Women and Gender in International Development discussion series, Dr. Stephanie Buechler, Assistant Research Professor in the School of Geography and Development at the University of Arizona, will present on run-of-the river hydropower projects in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand, India. Currently 450 hydroelectric power schemes are proposed or are under development in this region. Run-of-the-river hydropower projects are being developed in order to avoid some of the costs to local communities and to the environment created by large dams. Stakeholders in this rapid hydropower expansion in Uttarakhand include urban and rural actors, often with diverging interests. The resulting governance challenges are centered on tradeoffs between local electricity and revenue from sale of hydropower on the one hand, and impacts to small-scale irrigation systems, riparian-corridor ecosystem services, and other natural resource-based livelihoods on the other. This study focused on the Bhilangana River basin, where gender differentiated livelihoods dependent on water include farming, fishing, livestock rearing and fodder collection. The purpose was to identify strategies that safeguard or enhance livelihoods of women, youth, and men in areas with hydropower projects, while also maintaining critical ecosystem services for headwater regions across the Himalayas and globally. The presentation is hosted by Women and Gender in International Development of the Office of International Research, Education, and Development (OIRED)and is co-sponsored by the Geography Department, Women's and Gender Studies,and the Virginia Water Resources Research Center.
- The Impact of Culture and Family: Women's Education and their Role in Development in South SudanLado, Flora E. S. (Virginia Tech. University Libraries, 2017-10-19)The WGD discussion series aims to provide an avenue for prominent scholars from inside and outside the university as well as Virginia Tech students to share their research studies and discuss issues of women, gender, and international development with the greater Virginia Tech community.
- Intersections: Cross-Disciplinary Conversations about Social Justice and the Built EnvironmentPowell, Katrina M.; Weaver, Rachel L.; Pourchot, Georgeta V.; Bassett, Paola Zellner (Virginia Tech. University Libraries, 2019-11-13)Focus: Migration, moderated by Paola Zellner Bassett, Associate Professor, Architecture.
- Intersections: Cross-Disciplinary Conversations about Social Justice and the Built EnvironmentBrossoie, Nancy; Dorsa, Ed; Tural, Elif; Jacobson, Wendy R. (Virginia Tech. University Libraries, 2019-10-16)Focus: Aging and Place Moderated by Wendy Jacobson, Associate Professor, Landscape Architecture
- Intersections: PrivilegeIorio, Josh; Faulkner, Brandy S.; Paige, Frederick; Copper, Cathryn (Virginia Tech. University Libraries, 2018-10-10)How does gender, race, and class privilege inform the design and construction of the built environment? Panelists will discuss how gender-related language norms, race-related structures of power in the workplace, and occupancy of sustainable infrastructures in the housing industry impact the built environment. Should we as a society demand more equity from the individuals that create the built world?
- Intersections: ResilienceFranze, Simone; Hester, Rebecca; Meitner, Erika S.; Lawrence, Jennifer (Virginia Tech. University Libraries, 2018-11-07)This discussion panel unpacks the political, economic, and social impacts of resilience. Panelists speak to resilience in the trade industry, climate change, the human body, and the commonalities between the three.
- Keynote: Universities Responding to Global ChallengeGuzmán Cruzat, José Antonio (Virginia Tech, 2018-11-27)José Antonio Guzmán Cruzat, Chancellor of the Universidad de los Andes, Santiago, Chile, opens the symposium with an invitation for scholars, academics, educators, and practitioners to grapple with the complex questions of our age. Introduced by Mercedes Ramirez Fernandez, Associate Vice Provost for Strategic Affairs and Diversity.
- Overview, Advancing the Human Condition SymposiumDeramo, Michele C. (Virginia Tech, 2018-11-27)Michele C. Deramo is Assistant Provost for Diversity Education at Virginia Tech.
- Recognizing Women’s Needs: A Key in Agriculture Production and Food SecurityAbaye, Azenegashe Ozzie (Virginia Tech Libraries, 2018-11-08)The Women and Gender in International Development discussion series offers an opportunity for scholars and practitioners to share their research and knowledge surrounding gender and international development. Dr. Ozzie Abaye will talk about her research in the developing world. Women have been denied access to both financial and land resources throughout history. Yet, they contribute more than their share to agriculture and food security on a daily basis. Through USAID-ERA (United States Agency for International Development – Education and Research in Agriculture (USAID-ERA) a project that aimed (delivered) to revitalize the agricultural sector through education, research, and discovery, and outreach, implemented several agricultural interventions at the community, private, and public sector levels using the land-grant model. Some of the agricultural interventions focus on those that have the explicit goal of improving food security by supporting women at the village levels. Two of such projects are a small-scale silage project designed to conserve forages to feed small ruminants during the dry season and the introduction mungbean, to diversify the diets mainly composed of cereal crops. Mung bean is a greater source of protein and fiber when compared to its cultural counterpart, cowpeas, and other staple grains. The presentation will focus on the initial contribution of these two women targeted projects on perceived women’s health and productivity.