Shannon O'Lear
Biographic Data
| ID | 4532807 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shannon O'Lear |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shannon |
| FAMILY NAME | O'Lear |
| SIGNATURE | LEAR S O |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 63 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Concrete Revolution: Large Dams, Cold War Geopolitics, and the US Bureau of Reclamation
Exploring a critical legal cartography: Law, practice, and complexities
The word cartography literally means "to write the earth." Just as there are many ways to write a story, there are many ways to depict the world, or some part of the world, in a map. In this article, we consider the possibility of a critical legal cartography. Towards this end, we explore the main arguments for and against "mapping law" from legal scholars, human geographers, and legal anthropologists. Questions like "what does it mean to map law…
Climate science and slow violence: A view from political geography and STS on mobilizing technoscientific ontologies of climate change
Unconventional Classroom: Critical Work with Special Operations Forces Officers
As part of a discussion on geography and militarism, this article describes my work with midlevel officers in the Army Special Operations Forces who enroll in a graduate-level course I teach on environmental geopolitics. The theoretical framework for the course is critical geopolitics, a highly relevant subfield for these students but one to which most of them have never been exposed. Here, I draw from critical security studies and discuss what I…
Reframing Climate Change: Constructing ecological geopolitics
Reframing Climate Change: Constructing Ecological Geopolitics
Environmental Politics: Scale and Power
Shannon O'Lear brings a geographer's perspective to environmental politics. The book considers issues of climate change, energy, food security, toxins, waste, and resource conflict to explore how political, economic, ideological and military power have contributed to the generation of environmental issues and the formation of dominant narratives about them. The book encourages the reader to think critically about the power dynamics that shape (an…
Not Drawn to Scale: Research on Resource and Environmental Conflict
Resources and conflict in the Caspian Sea
The management of resources can shape or alleviate conflict. This article examines the case of the Caspian Sea as littoral states vie for oil fields in the transboundary water body. These five states have promoted conflicting proposals for the division of Caspian resources and are staking their claims through a mix of diplomatic efforts, international agreements, commercial contracts and militarization. Geoeconomic power has not fully surpassed m…
Environmental terrorism: A Critique
As terrorism once again makes news headlines and attracts renewed attention from scholars, the usage of terms related to terrorism may well outpace the development of sound conceptualization of these themes. A case in point is environmental terrorism about which a small body of literature has already been written. The objective of this paper is to examine the theme of environmental terrorism by applying critiques of the more developed but similar…
Electronic Communication and Environmental Policy in Russia and Estonia
The use of e-mail by a grassroots activist group that straddles the Estonian-Russian border transcends political boundaries and provides ready connections to people in distant places. Activists create a perceived space of resistance in a supportive network that is stretched across space. This network of concern, defined by the physical space in which these activists work and by the strong communicative connections among them, was created to overc…
Climate science and slow violence: A view from political geography and STS on mobilizing technoscientific ontologies of climate change
Electronic Communication and Environmental Policy in Russia and Estonia
The use of e-mail by a grassroots activist group that straddles the Estonian-Russian border transcends political boundaries and provides ready connections to people in distant places. Activists create a perceived space of resistance in a supportive network that is stretched across space. This network of concern, defined by the physical space in which these activists work and by the strong communicative connections among them, was created to overc…
Not Drawn to Scale: Research on Resource and Environmental Conflict
Resources and conflict in the Caspian Sea
The management of resources can shape or alleviate conflict. This article examines the case of the Caspian Sea as littoral states vie for oil fields in the transboundary water body. These five states have promoted conflicting proposals for the division of Caspian resources and are staking their claims through a mix of diplomatic efforts, international agreements, commercial contracts and militarization. Geoeconomic power has not fully surpassed m…
Environmental terrorism: A Critique
As terrorism once again makes news headlines and attracts renewed attention from scholars, the usage of terms related to terrorism may well outpace the development of sound conceptualization of these themes. A case in point is environmental terrorism about which a small body of literature has already been written. The objective of this paper is to examine the theme of environmental terrorism by applying critiques of the more developed but similar…
Exploring a critical legal cartography: Law, practice, and complexities
The word cartography literally means "to write the earth." Just as there are many ways to write a story, there are many ways to depict the world, or some part of the world, in a map. In this article, we consider the possibility of a critical legal cartography. Towards this end, we explore the main arguments for and against "mapping law" from legal scholars, human geographers, and legal anthropologists. Questions like "what does it mean to map law…
Electronic Communication and Environmental Policy in Russia and Estonia
The use of e-mail by a grassroots activist group that straddles the Estonian-Russian border transcends political boundaries and provides ready connections to people in distant places. Activists create a perceived space of resistance in a supportive network that is stretched across space. This network of concern, defined by the physical space in which these activists work and by the strong communicative connections among them, was created to overc…
Environmental terrorism: A Critique
As terrorism once again makes news headlines and attracts renewed attention from scholars, the usage of terms related to terrorism may well outpace the development of sound conceptualization of these themes. A case in point is environmental terrorism about which a small body of literature has already been written. The objective of this paper is to examine the theme of environmental terrorism by applying critiques of the more developed but similar…
Resources and conflict in the Caspian Sea
The management of resources can shape or alleviate conflict. This article examines the case of the Caspian Sea as littoral states vie for oil fields in the transboundary water body. These five states have promoted conflicting proposals for the division of Caspian resources and are staking their claims through a mix of diplomatic efforts, international agreements, commercial contracts and militarization. Geoeconomic power has not fully surpassed m…
Not Drawn to Scale: Research on Resource and Environmental Conflict
Environmental Politics: Scale and Power
Shannon O'Lear brings a geographer's perspective to environmental politics. The book considers issues of climate change, energy, food security, toxins, waste, and resource conflict to explore how political, economic, ideological and military power have contributed to the generation of environmental issues and the formation of dominant narratives about them. The book encourages the reader to think critically about the power dynamics that shape (an…
Reframing Climate Change: Constructing ecological geopolitics
Reframing Climate Change: Constructing Ecological Geopolitics
Climate science and slow violence: A view from political geography and STS on mobilizing technoscientific ontologies of climate change
Unconventional Classroom: Critical Work with Special Operations Forces Officers
As part of a discussion on geography and militarism, this article describes my work with midlevel officers in the Army Special Operations Forces who enroll in a graduate-level course I teach on environmental geopolitics. The theoretical framework for the course is critical geopolitics, a highly relevant subfield for these students but one to which most of them have never been exposed. Here, I draw from critical security studies and discuss what I…
Concrete Revolution: Large Dams, Cold War Geopolitics, and the US Bureau of Reclamation
Exploring a critical legal cartography: Law, practice, and complexities
The word cartography literally means "to write the earth." Just as there are many ways to write a story, there are many ways to depict the world, or some part of the world, in a map. In this article, we consider the possibility of a critical legal cartography. Towards this end, we explore the main arguments for and against "mapping law" from legal scholars, human geographers, and legal anthropologists. Questions like "what does it mean to map law…
Political science (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Geography (5 works) · Geopolitics (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Climatic changes (3 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Environmental ethics (3 works)