There’s irony in that term “natural resources” for me.\u00a0I learned to be skeptical of the very idea since my graduate studies with John Livingston (author of The Fallacy of Wildlife Conservation<\/a> and Rogue Primate<\/a>) and Neil Evernden (The Natural Alien<\/a> and The Social Creation of Nature<\/a>) at York University in the late 1980s. Both were sharply critical\u00a0to the ideology of “resourcism” that they saw as underpinning too much of mainstream environmentalism, not to mention the rest of society. While ecocritical discourse has evolved considerably since those days, that critique has stayed with me.<\/p>\n But names are just names, and those who confuse them for actions have always had a tough argument to sell (though poststructuralism has tried, with some success).<\/p>\n Meanwhile, I am on sabbatical this year and, in addition to a heavy writing schedule, have a few research trips and several speaking engagements ahead of me, including in Stockholm (the Stories for the Anthropocene Festival<\/a>), the University of Amsterdam<\/a>, Ky\u0457v and Lviv in Ukraine (the Visual Culture Research Center, and Ukrainian Catholic University), Morocco, Taiwan, Switzerland, and others (including hopefully next summer’s\u00a0Whitehead conference<\/a> in the Azores). Maybe even see some of you somewhere along the way…<\/p>\n As Robert Heinlein once put it, “Have space suit, will travel.” Will even speak, for a penny or two.<\/p>\n It gives me pleasure to share the news\u00a0that I’ve been named the Steven Rubenstein Professor for Environment and Natural Resources at the University of Vermont. The position provides some teaching release and a budget enabling me to\u00a0work on my proposed project of developing a new center for eco-arts, media, and culture (or something of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[203],"tags":[350299,275,100,350297],"class_list":["post-8974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academe","tag-john-livingston","tag-neil-evernden","tag-personal","tag-resourcism"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4IC4a-2kK","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7577,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2014\/06\/10\/nyc-arts-humanities-on-the-anthropocene\/","url_meta":{"origin":8974,"position":0},"title":"NYC: Arts & Humanities on the Anthropocene","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"June 10, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"This week's AESS conference\u00a0\"Welcome to the Anthropocene\" features a breakfast roundtable called \"The Arts and Humanities Respond to the Anthropocene.\" See the session description below. 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