Intended Audience
The Environmental Studies department is pleased to welcome special guest Dr. Bradley Wilson, associate professor of geography at West Virginia University and director of the Center for Resilient Communities.
Please join us for a stimulating talk titled "Resilient Communities and Engaged Research" on Tuesday, February 20 at 4:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. at the Blackistone Room in Anne Arundel Hall. Dr. Wilson will be presenting on a decade's worth of learning in Appalachia, where his center has formed community partnerships and engaged in action research on food system transformation and beyond.
More on Dr. Bradley Wilson from his academic profile: "I am a broadly trained human geographer. My research is rooted in fields such as community economies, agrarian studies, political ecology, post-colonial theory, and rural development. For 20 years I have focused on the response of communities to regional economic crises - in coffee and coal country - and the central role of solidarity, mutual aid, grassroots initiatives and social movements in forging alternative rural development pathways in those regions. Methodologically I practice critical ethnography but in recent years have more fully embraced my identity as a participatory action researcher - working in teams to accompany community partners as they work for social change. With my students I have established a robust action research program and experiments focused on cooperative economics, food justice, food system development, community health and environmental justice in West Virginia and Appalachia which is now housed in the WVU Center for Resilient Communities. In recent years I have been thinking about pragmatist pedagogies and how to practice community geographies."
Contact Dr. Parisa Nourani Rinaldi for questions about this event: pnrinaldi@smcm.edu