Rebecca Lave
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 132256 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Rebecca Lave |
| PRENOMES | Rebecca |
| SOBRENOME | Lave |
| ASSINATURA | LAVE R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Indiana University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5335-9058 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 38 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 394 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 36 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 4 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2010 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
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Critical Physical Geography
This article examines the first decade of work in Critical Physical Geography (CPG): an approach that integrates study of biophysical landscapes and the human structural inequalities that together coconstruct the environment. Based on a bibliometric analysis of 255 articles and book chapters that cite core CPG texts and 138 theses and dissertations that include CPG in their title, abstract, or keywords, we examine how the field has grown and chan…
Whose Geography, Whose History? Reimagining How We Teach the History of Geography
In this roundtable, we share our reflections on how to teach more critical histories of geography in Anglo-American institutions. Ashutosh offers a contrapuntal reading of the history of geography, looking for ways to represent both the forces of consolidation and resistance in telling the history of our discipline. Last considers how we might “re-expand” the history of the discipline through the teaching of countergeographies. Sundberg argues th…
Fixing Streams
Re-centering relations
Grass versus trees
Stream restoration has become an increasingly important focus in southwestern Wisconsin's Driftless Area, an unglaciated, hilly pocket of the Upper Mississippi River Basin rich in groundwater-driven coldwater streams, recreationally important trout species, and agricultural communities. Climate change is driving a major increase in precipitation and flooding across this rural and often under-resourced region, effects complicated by the ongoing le…
What Was the Norm Is No Longer the Norm
Wisconsin's Driftless Area, an unglaciated region defined by steep river valley systems, has been plagued by chronic flooding in part due to Euro-American agricultural practices and anthropogenic climate change. The region, which has played a central role in environmental knowledge production, has a storied history of resilience practices and flood experience. To capture histories of Driftless Area flood experience and underlying socio-ecological…
Practicing critical physical geography
Making a market in environmental credits II
This pair of papers examines and describes the state action necessary to make markets function as environmental policy instruments and as strategies of governance. We do this through a detailed look at the mechanics of environmental credit compliance markets in the US states of Oregon, Ohio, and North Carolina in which stream credits are privately created and sold to developers who have impacted protected stream systems. In this paper, we observe…
The political ecology playbook for ecosystem restoration
Restoration should address underlying causes of degradation. • The Playbook addresses political-economic perspectives within specific contexts. • Ten principles address how to achieve resilient and equitable ecosystem restoration. • Local and landscape processes are intricately linked to national and global scales. • Restoration aims to achieve ecologically, socially and economically just landscapes. The urgency of restoring ecosystems to improve…
Neoliberal policy refugia
The past decade has been a dynamic one for biodiversity offsetting policy. Efforts to incorporate offsetting into the Convention on Biological Diversity as a compliance mechanism did not succeed. The expansion of offsetting outside of the Natura 2000 network in the European Union (EU), which looked all but inevitable in the early 2010s, was withdrawn in the face of unexpectedly strong opposition from environmental groups and the business sector. …
Putting the Anthropocene into Practice
The foundational premise of the Anthropocene, constant across the range of proposed definitions, is that the biophysical world is now profoundly social. This carries substantive methodological implications: If the environment is ecosocial, surely the way it is studied must be, too. Yet, as our bibliometric analysis demonstrates, the bulk of academic articles on the Anthropocene published between 2002 and 2019 focus on its conceptual implications …
Habitat banking at a standstill
Retracing Rivers and drawing swamps
This article presents a novel geospatial approach to reconstructing and analyzing environmental change over extensive spatial and temporal scales, even in systems such as rivers and streams that are comparatively difficult to digitize. We used a drawing tablet and stylus to digitize features found on historical Army Corps maps across the spatially extensive landscape of the Lower Wabash River’s riparian zone, in Indiana and Illinois, USA. The met…
The Arid Lands
The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Physical Geography
Rebecca Lave, Christine Biermann, and Stuart N. Lane, eds. London, UK: Palgrave, 2018. xxxii and 594 pp., maps, photos, diagrams, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $239.00 cloth (ISBN 978
It's time to recognize how men's careers benefit from sexually harassing women in academia
Q-method and the performance of subjectivity
Intervenção
Um artigo de opinião, recentemente publicado, reacendeu o debate sobre se a composição interdisciplinar que atualmente existe na área da Geografia é um vestígio da história ou uma atual e potencial fonte de vitalidade intelectual. Neste artigo nós adotamos esta última postura e destacamos os benefícios da integração prolongada da Geografia Física e Geografia Humana crítica. Por razões políticas e pragmáticas, nós denominamos esta área de pesquisa…
Situating Data in a Trumpian Era
The Trump administration’s antienvironmental policies and its proclivity to dismiss evidence-based claims creates challenges for environmental politics in a warming world. This article offers the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI) as a case study of one way to respond to this political moment. EDGI was started by a small group of Science and Technology Studies and environmental justice researchers and activists in the United Stat…
The Doreen Massey Reader
Doreen Massey (1944–2016) changed geography. Her ideas on space, region, labour, identity, ethics and capital transformed the field itself, while also attracting a wide audience in sociology, planning, political economy, cultural studies, gender studies and beyond. The significance of her contributions is difficult to overstate. Far from a dry defence of disciplinary turf, her claim that 'geography matters' possessed both scholarly substance and …
The Doreen Massey Reader
The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Physical Geography
The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Physical Geography
Wilted
Introduction by Rebecca Lave, Department of Geography, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN. Any new book from Julie Guthman sparks broad and immediate interest across a wide range of fi
Intervention
A recent opinion piece rekindled debate as to whether geography's current interdisciplinary make-up is a historical relic or an actual and potential source of intellectual vitality. Taking the latter position, we argue here for the benefits of sustained integration of physical and critical human geography. For reasons both political and pragmatic, we term this area of intermingled research and practice critical physical geography (CPG). CPG combi…
Introduction
In this special issue, we focus on the particular impacts of neoliberalism as a regime of scientific management. Drawing on a wide range of studies from other fields, as well as the four cases in this issue, we argue that while there are important differences in how neoliberalism has been implemented across nations and disciplines, there are a set of key principles and common outcomes that can serve a heuristic function for STS scholars attemptin…
Neoliberalism and the Production of Environmental Knowledge
In order for nature/society scholars to understand the dynamics of envi- ronmental appropriation, commercialization, and privatization, we must attend to the production of the environmental science that enables them. Case studies from anthro- pology, geography, history of science, science and technology studies, and sociology demonstrate that the neoliberal forces whose application we study and contest are also changing the production of environm…
The Future of Environmental Expertise
Many have observed the decline of scientific authority over the last three decades, for reasons ranging from the toxic legacies of Cold War science (Beck 1992), to the current commercialization and privatization of knowledge production (Mirowski 2011), to the success of social constructivist critique (Latour 2004). Whatever the cause(s), it seems clear that the relationship among academia, the military, and state and economic elites is shifting o…
Bridging Political Ecology and STS
Since the late 1990s there have been many calls to bring critical geography into conversation with science and technology studies (STS). Although the strongest cross-fertilization to date has been ontological, political economy is another productive area for conversation between the two fields. More specifically, I argue that fully understanding the role that environmental science plays in expropriation requires expanding our focus of analysis to…
Privatizing stream restoration in the US
In this paper, we use a case study of the stream restoration field to demonstrate how the particular state and market logics of neoliberalism are shifting both the practice of restoration scientists and the relations between public and private sector science. In particular, the embrace of neoliberal environmental management regimes has intensified the demand for environmental scientists to produce applied science that can: (1) be taught as a stan…
The political ecology playbook for ecosystem restoration
Restoration should address underlying causes of degradation. • The Playbook addresses political-economic perspectives within specific contexts. • Ten principles address how to achieve resilient and equitable ecosystem restoration. • Local and landscape processes are intricately linked to national and global scales. • Restoration aims to achieve ecologically, socially and economically just landscapes. The urgency of restoring ecosystems to improve…
It's time to recognize how men's careers benefit from sexually harassing women in academia
Putting the Anthropocene into Practice
The foundational premise of the Anthropocene, constant across the range of proposed definitions, is that the biophysical world is now profoundly social. This carries substantive methodological implications: If the environment is ecosocial, surely the way it is studied must be, too. Yet, as our bibliometric analysis demonstrates, the bulk of academic articles on the Anthropocene published between 2002 and 2019 focus on its conceptual implications …
Freedom and constraint
Q-method and the performance of subjectivity
Situating Data in a Trumpian Era
The Trump administration’s antienvironmental policies and its proclivity to dismiss evidence-based claims creates challenges for environmental politics in a warming world. This article offers the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI) as a case study of one way to respond to this political moment. EDGI was started by a small group of Science and Technology Studies and environmental justice researchers and activists in the United Stat…
Practicing environmental data justice
The Environmental Data and Governance Initiative ( EDGI ) formed in response to the 2016 US elections and the resulting political shifts which created widespread public concern about the future integrity of US environmental agencies and policy. As a distributed, consensus‐based organisation, EDGI has worked to document, contextualise, and analyse changes to environmental data and governance practices in the US . One project EDGI has undertaken is…
River Federalism
In studying rivers, physical and social science researchers tend to analyze water resource regulation at a national scale, treating “the state” as a monolithic entity mechanistically executing its regulatory code. Yet variation abounds in the interpretation and application of any national environmental policy. This study examines the complex geography of a small but crucial component of the U.S. Clean Water Act—compensatory stream mitigation—and …
Neoliberal policy refugia
The past decade has been a dynamic one for biodiversity offsetting policy. Efforts to incorporate offsetting into the Convention on Biological Diversity as a compliance mechanism did not succeed. The expansion of offsetting outside of the Natura 2000 network in the European Union (EU), which looked all but inevitable in the early 2010s, was withdrawn in the face of unexpectedly strong opposition from environmental groups and the business sector. …
Habitat banking at a standstill
History of US Presidential Assaults on Modern Environmental Health Protection
The Trump administration has undertaken an assault on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), an agency critical to environmental health. This assault has precedents in the administrations of Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush. The early Reagan administration (1981–1983) launched an overt attack on the EPA, combining deregulation with budget and staff cuts, whereas the George W. Bush administration (2001–2008) adopted a subtler approach, undermi…
Making a market in environmental credits II
This pair of papers examines and describes the state action necessary to make markets function as environmental policy instruments and as strategies of governance. We do this through a detailed look at the mechanics of environmental credit compliance markets in the US states of Oregon, Ohio, and North Carolina in which stream credits are privately created and sold to developers who have impacted protected stream systems. In this paper, we observe…
Re-centering relations
What Was the Norm Is No Longer the Norm
Wisconsin's Driftless Area, an unglaciated region defined by steep river valley systems, has been plagued by chronic flooding in part due to Euro-American agricultural practices and anthropogenic climate change. The region, which has played a central role in environmental knowledge production, has a storied history of resilience practices and flood experience. To capture histories of Driftless Area flood experience and underlying socio-ecological…
Grass versus trees
Stream restoration has become an increasingly important focus in southwestern Wisconsin's Driftless Area, an unglaciated, hilly pocket of the Upper Mississippi River Basin rich in groundwater-driven coldwater streams, recreationally important trout species, and agricultural communities. Climate change is driving a major increase in precipitation and flooding across this rural and often under-resourced region, effects complicated by the ongoing le…
Practicing critical physical geography
Retracing Rivers and drawing swamps
This article presents a novel geospatial approach to reconstructing and analyzing environmental change over extensive spatial and temporal scales, even in systems such as rivers and streams that are comparatively difficult to digitize. We used a drawing tablet and stylus to digitize features found on historical Army Corps maps across the spatially extensive landscape of the Lower Wabash River’s riparian zone, in Indiana and Illinois, USA. The met…
Introduction
In this special issue, we focus on the particular impacts of neoliberalism as a regime of scientific management. Drawing on a wide range of studies from other fields, as well as the four cases in this issue, we argue that while there are important differences in how neoliberalism has been implemented across nations and disciplines, there are a set of key principles and common outcomes that can serve a heuristic function for STS scholars attemptin…
Privatizing stream restoration in the US
In this paper, we use a case study of the stream restoration field to demonstrate how the particular state and market logics of neoliberalism are shifting both the practice of restoration scientists and the relations between public and private sector science. In particular, the embrace of neoliberal environmental management regimes has intensified the demand for environmental scientists to produce applied science that can: (1) be taught as a stan…
Contributions of cultural services to the ecosystem services agenda
Cultural ecosystem services (ES) are consistently recognized but not yet adequately defined or integrated within the ES framework. A substantial body of models, methods, and data relevant to cultural services has been developed within the social and behavioral sciences before and outside of the ES approach. A selective review of work in landscape aesthetics, cultural heritage, outdoor recreation, and spiritual significance demonstrates opportunit…
Fields and Streams
Examining the science of stream restoration, Rebecca Lave argues that the neoliberal emphasis on the privatization and commercialization of knowledge has fundamentally changed the way that science is funded, organized, and viewed in the United States. Stream restoration science and practice is in a startling state. The most widely respected expert in the field, Dave Rosgen, is a private consultant with relatively little formal scientific training…
Bridging Political Ecology and STS
Since the late 1990s there have been many calls to bring critical geography into conversation with science and technology studies (STS). Although the strongest cross-fertilization to date has been ontological, political economy is another productive area for conversation between the two fields. More specifically, I argue that fully understanding the role that environmental science plays in expropriation requires expanding our focus of analysis to…
Neoliberalism and the Production of Environmental Knowledge
In order for nature/society scholars to understand the dynamics of envi- ronmental appropriation, commercialization, and privatization, we must attend to the production of the environmental science that enables them. Case studies from anthro- pology, geography, history of science, science and technology studies, and sociology demonstrate that the neoliberal forces whose application we study and contest are also changing the production of environm…
Freedom and constraint
River Federalism
In studying rivers, physical and social science researchers tend to analyze water resource regulation at a national scale, treating “the state” as a monolithic entity mechanistically executing its regulatory code. Yet variation abounds in the interpretation and application of any national environmental policy. This study examines the complex geography of a small but crucial component of the U.S. Clean Water Act—compensatory stream mitigation—and …
Intervention
A recent opinion piece rekindled debate as to whether geography's current interdisciplinary make-up is a historical relic or an actual and potential source of intellectual vitality. Taking the latter position, we argue here for the benefits of sustained integration of physical and critical human geography. For reasons both political and pragmatic, we term this area of intermingled research and practice critical physical geography (CPG). CPG combi…
Hydraulic Fracturing
Taking a critical physical geography approach, this article provides the first side‐by‐side review of the physical and social literature on hydraulic fracturing or “fracking” as it is frequently referred to. We note the striking disparities between the physical science literature's description of the relatively manageable impacts of fracking and the almost apocalyptic tone taken in some popular press and critical social science literature. We arg…
The Future of Environmental Expertise
Many have observed the decline of scientific authority over the last three decades, for reasons ranging from the toxic legacies of Cold War science (Beck 1992), to the current commercialization and privatization of knowledge production (Mirowski 2011), to the success of social constructivist critique (Latour 2004). Whatever the cause(s), it seems clear that the relationship among academia, the military, and state and economic elites is shifting o…
Environmental Data Justice and the Trump Administration
The Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI) was formed after the U.S. presidential elections in November 2016 to respond to the threat posed by the Trump administration to environmental data and policy, and to federal environmental agencies. During his campaign, Trump was openly hostile to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and to the science of climate change. Since taking office, Trump's administration has taken steps to radi…
The Doreen Massey Reader
Doreen Massey (1944–2016) changed geography. Her ideas on space, region, labour, identity, ethics and capital transformed the field itself, while also attracting a wide audience in sociology, planning, political economy, cultural studies, gender studies and beyond. The significance of her contributions is difficult to overstate. Far from a dry defence of disciplinary turf, her claim that 'geography matters' possessed both scholarly substance and …
The Doreen Massey Reader
The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Physical Geography
The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Physical Geography
Doreen Massey Critical Dialogues
Practicing environmental data justice
The Environmental Data and Governance Initiative ( EDGI ) formed in response to the 2016 US elections and the resulting political shifts which created widespread public concern about the future integrity of US environmental agencies and policy. As a distributed, consensus‐based organisation, EDGI has worked to document, contextualise, and analyse changes to environmental data and governance practices in the US . One project EDGI has undertaken is…
History of US Presidential Assaults on Modern Environmental Health Protection
The Trump administration has undertaken an assault on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), an agency critical to environmental health. This assault has precedents in the administrations of Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush. The early Reagan administration (1981–1983) launched an overt attack on the EPA, combining deregulation with budget and staff cuts, whereas the George W. Bush administration (2001–2008) adopted a subtler approach, undermi…
The Arid Lands
The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Physical Geography
Rebecca Lave, Christine Biermann, and Stuart N. Lane, eds. London, UK: Palgrave, 2018. xxxii and 594 pp., maps, photos, diagrams, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $239.00 cloth (ISBN 978
It's time to recognize how men's careers benefit from sexually harassing women in academia
Q-method and the performance of subjectivity
Intervenção
Um artigo de opinião, recentemente publicado, reacendeu o debate sobre se a composição interdisciplinar que atualmente existe na área da Geografia é um vestígio da história ou uma atual e potencial fonte de vitalidade intelectual. Neste artigo nós adotamos esta última postura e destacamos os benefícios da integração prolongada da Geografia Física e Geografia Humana crítica. Por razões políticas e pragmáticas, nós denominamos esta área de pesquisa…
Situating Data in a Trumpian Era
The Trump administration’s antienvironmental policies and its proclivity to dismiss evidence-based claims creates challenges for environmental politics in a warming world. This article offers the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI) as a case study of one way to respond to this political moment. EDGI was started by a small group of Science and Technology Studies and environmental justice researchers and activists in the United Stat…
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