{"id":2950,"date":"2023-04-17T16:29:35","date_gmt":"2023-04-17T20:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/climatecommons\/?page_id=2950"},"modified":"2023-05-01T16:11:31","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T20:11:31","slug":"noons-for-now-desert-humanities-with-veronika-kratz-april-20-2023","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/climatecommons\/noonsfornow\/noons-for-now-desert-humanities-with-veronika-kratz-april-20-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Noons for Now: Desert Humanities with Veronika Kratz (Carleton U) (April 20 2023)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What does it mean to bring deserts, the humanities, and climate change together? Come to this Noons for Now to find out! You will never think about deserts in the same way again.<\/p>\n

Speaker<\/strong>: Veronika Kratz<\/strong> is completing her PhD at Carleton University. She will be taking up a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Queen\u2019s University in the Fall. She is also the Carleton Climate Commons\u2019 Web Coordinator.<\/p>\n

Resource List:<\/h2>\n

To Read<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Desertification in US Fiction\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Claire Vaye Watkins, <\/span>Gold<\/a>, Fame, Citrus <\/span><\/i>(2015)<\/span><\/p>\n

Frank Herbert, <\/span>Dune<\/span><\/i> (1965)<\/span><\/p>\n

Mary Austin, The Land of Little Rain<\/a><\/em>, 1903<\/span><\/p>\n

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Desertification in International Policy\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n

Desertification is also central to number 15 of the UN Sustainable Development Goals<\/a>,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Great Green Wall<\/a> project<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Desertification in Academic Writings<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Diane K. Davis, Scholarship on Desertification, Deserts, Drought, and Land Degradation<\/span>, <\/span>The Arid Lands: History, Power, Knowledge<\/a>, <\/span><\/i>2016<\/span><\/p>\n

Michael Mortimore<\/span>, The End of Desertification? Disputing Environmental Change in Drylands<\/a>, <\/span><\/i>eds. Roy Behnke, 2016\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Jeremy Swift, \u201cDesertification: Narratives, Winners, & Losers.\u201d In <\/span>The Lie of the Land: Challenging Received Wisdom on the African Environment<\/span><\/i>, edited by Melissa Leach and\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Robin Mearns, 73\u201390. The International African Institute, 1996.<\/span><\/p>\n

David S. G. Thomas, and Nicholas J. Middleton. <\/span>Desertification: Exploding the Myth<\/span><\/i>. John Wiley & Sons (1994).<\/span><\/p>\n

Vittoria Di Palma, Thinking about American Deserts and Drylands, <\/span>Wasteland: A History<\/a>, 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n

John Beck, \u201cThe American Desert as Trope and Terrain.\u201d <\/span>Nepantla: Views from South<\/span><\/i>, vol. 2, no. 1, 2001, pp. 63\u201383.<\/span><\/p>\n

Valerie L. Kuletz, <\/span>The Tainted Desert: Environmental and Social Ruin in the American West<\/a>,<\/span><\/i> Routledge (1998)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

To-Dos<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Start noticing the Desertification Narratives in your everyday life and try to see how they might shape your relationship with Deserts <\/span><\/p>\n

Follow the research<\/a> on Non-GMO drought tolerant plants and crops<\/span><\/p>\n

Pay attention to drought conditions in Canada as we enter into drought season thanks to The Canadian Drought Monitor<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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