Gabe Schwartzman
Biographic Data
| ID | 195822 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gabe Schwartzman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gabe |
| FAMILY NAME | Schwartzman |
| SIGNATURE | SCHWARTZMAN G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tennessee at Knoxville |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Transition to What? Uncontentious Politics and West Virginia’s ‘Just’ Transition
In this article, Schwartzman and Walk reflect on the politics of economic transition programmes that have come to the southern West Virginia coalfields in the United States since 2015, following directly upon the scale-down of a direct action non-violent civil disobedience campaign protesting the environmental injustices of coal extraction. The article provides historical context for the shift between the contentious politics of protesting coal e…
Protected Areas on an Amazon Frontier: Payments for Environmental Services and the Future of Extractive Reserves in the Terra da Meio
The Brazilian Amazon is home to a network of protected areas established in the past two decades to provide people living in the forest territorial autonomy and incorporate them into conservation schemes. These protected areas include Indigenous territories, quilombos (African-descended communities), and extractive reserves (where forest communities exchange the right to practice agrarian livelihoods in exchange for conserving forests). These “pa…
Distributed energy infrastructure development: Geospatial and economic feasibility in rural West Virginia
Energy transition from conventional centralized power plants, particularly coal-fired units, is critical for West Virginia’s long-term energy and economic future. The socioeconomic challenges faced by West Virginia are closely linked to its reliance on the centralized coal industry and economy, which has declined precipitously in the past decade. Many postindustrial communities in rural areas struggle to sustain economic viability, resulting in d…
Valuing conservation and socio-environmental services on an Amazon frontier: The Extractive Reserves of the Terra do Meio
In the Brazilian Amazon, forest conservation has relied on the presence of 'traditional communities' and Indigenous peoples to secure legally demarcated protected areas from deforestation and biodiversity degradation. Facing pressures for land-use change from a rapidly encroaching frontier of resource extraction and commodity production, there is no guarantee that Indigenous peoples or traditional communities will continue to occupy these forests…
Living on the Edge: When Hard Times Become a Way of Life
Celine-Marie Pascale's book Living on the Edge: When Hard Times Become a Way of Life offers a fresh take on the study of economic hardship in the United States. Weaving together the stories of several dozen interviewees in some of the places in the United States with the highest levels of poverty—Appalachia, Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, and East Oakland, California—Pascale argues for understanding these people as members of a “struggling clas…
Country Queers
Most representations of rural life depict the stories of straight, white American families, in some way or other. Rae Garringer is out to set the record straight. But, far from simply challenging the idea that rural areas are monolithic, Garringer and their editorial team are producing engaging and moving podcasts that offer much-needed opportunities to connect rural and small-town queer people with one another.Garringer's podcast Country Queers:…
Anti-Blackness, Black Geographies, and Racialized Depopulation in Coalfield Appalachia from 1940 to 2000
In this article, I investigate the ways that anti-Blackness has shaped coalfield Appalachia's human geographies. I draw on Black Studies and Black geographies literature to inform my theorization of anti-Blackness. Beginning with the question of why Black people left Appalachia in greater numbers than their white neighbors, I find that Black people left the mountains largely due to the unequal effects of deindustrialization. Black communities fac…
Climate rentierism after coal: Forests, carbon offsets, and post-coal politics in the Appalachian coalfields
The central Appalachian coalfields have become a major site of carbon forestry offsets on California's carbon market. I use these coalfields as a vantage point from which to examine the emerging dynamics of climate change and rentier capitalism in the rural Global North. Studying one valley on the Kentucky-Tennessee border where coal mining has largely ended, I document how emergent land uses take the form of rentier capitalism. I conclude that r…
Climate rentierism after coal: Forests, carbon offsets, and post-coal politics in the Appalachian coalfields
The central Appalachian coalfields have become a major site of carbon forestry offsets on California's carbon market. I use these coalfields as a vantage point from which to examine the emerging dynamics of climate change and rentier capitalism in the rural Global North. Studying one valley on the Kentucky-Tennessee border where coal mining has largely ended, I document how emergent land uses take the form of rentier capitalism. I conclude that r…
Valuing conservation and socio-environmental services on an Amazon frontier: The Extractive Reserves of the Terra do Meio
In the Brazilian Amazon, forest conservation has relied on the presence of 'traditional communities' and Indigenous peoples to secure legally demarcated protected areas from deforestation and biodiversity degradation. Facing pressures for land-use change from a rapidly encroaching frontier of resource extraction and commodity production, there is no guarantee that Indigenous peoples or traditional communities will continue to occupy these forests…
Country Queers
Most representations of rural life depict the stories of straight, white American families, in some way or other. Rae Garringer is out to set the record straight. But, far from simply challenging the idea that rural areas are monolithic, Garringer and their editorial team are producing engaging and moving podcasts that offer much-needed opportunities to connect rural and small-town queer people with one another.Garringer's podcast Country Queers:…
Anti-Blackness, Black Geographies, and Racialized Depopulation in Coalfield Appalachia from 1940 to 2000
In this article, I investigate the ways that anti-Blackness has shaped coalfield Appalachia's human geographies. I draw on Black Studies and Black geographies literature to inform my theorization of anti-Blackness. Beginning with the question of why Black people left Appalachia in greater numbers than their white neighbors, I find that Black people left the mountains largely due to the unequal effects of deindustrialization. Black communities fac…
Climate rentierism after coal: Forests, carbon offsets, and post-coal politics in the Appalachian coalfields
The central Appalachian coalfields have become a major site of carbon forestry offsets on California's carbon market. I use these coalfields as a vantage point from which to examine the emerging dynamics of climate change and rentier capitalism in the rural Global North. Studying one valley on the Kentucky-Tennessee border where coal mining has largely ended, I document how emergent land uses take the form of rentier capitalism. I conclude that r…
Living on the Edge: When Hard Times Become a Way of Life
Celine-Marie Pascale's book Living on the Edge: When Hard Times Become a Way of Life offers a fresh take on the study of economic hardship in the United States. Weaving together the stories of several dozen interviewees in some of the places in the United States with the highest levels of poverty—Appalachia, Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, and East Oakland, California—Pascale argues for understanding these people as members of a “struggling clas…
Distributed energy infrastructure development: Geospatial and economic feasibility in rural West Virginia
Energy transition from conventional centralized power plants, particularly coal-fired units, is critical for West Virginia’s long-term energy and economic future. The socioeconomic challenges faced by West Virginia are closely linked to its reliance on the centralized coal industry and economy, which has declined precipitously in the past decade. Many postindustrial communities in rural areas struggle to sustain economic viability, resulting in d…
Valuing conservation and socio-environmental services on an Amazon frontier: The Extractive Reserves of the Terra do Meio
In the Brazilian Amazon, forest conservation has relied on the presence of 'traditional communities' and Indigenous peoples to secure legally demarcated protected areas from deforestation and biodiversity degradation. Facing pressures for land-use change from a rapidly encroaching frontier of resource extraction and commodity production, there is no guarantee that Indigenous peoples or traditional communities will continue to occupy these forests…
Transition to What? Uncontentious Politics and West Virginia’s ‘Just’ Transition
In this article, Schwartzman and Walk reflect on the politics of economic transition programmes that have come to the southern West Virginia coalfields in the United States since 2015, following directly upon the scale-down of a direct action non-violent civil disobedience campaign protesting the environmental injustices of coal extraction. The article provides historical context for the shift between the contentious politics of protesting coal e…
Protected Areas on an Amazon Frontier: Payments for Environmental Services and the Future of Extractive Reserves in the Terra da Meio
The Brazilian Amazon is home to a network of protected areas established in the past two decades to provide people living in the forest territorial autonomy and incorporate them into conservation schemes. These protected areas include Indigenous territories, quilombos (African-descended communities), and extractive reserves (where forest communities exchange the right to practice agrarian livelihoods in exchange for conserving forests). These “pa…
Geography (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Natural resource economics (3 works) · Appalachia (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Business (2 works)