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Department Speaker Series: Cultivating Community with Amanda Shankland
February 13, 2025 at 2:30 PM
| Location: | Online |
| Cost: | Free |
| Audience: | Anyone |
Due to inclement weather, this event will now be online only. A Zoom link will be sent by email.
Please join us for the next event in our Department Speaker Series as former Political Science Ph.D. student Dr. Amanda Shankland discusses her new book, Cultivating Community: How discourse shapes the philosophy, practice and policy of water management in the Murray-Darling Basin.
Cultivating Community dissects the prevailing environmental discourses shaping water policy in the Murray–Darling Basin in southeastern Australia and assesses their implications for the environment and farming communities. Drawing on fivemonths of extensive field research among farmers and Murray–Darling Basin Authority officials, Dr Shankland presents a nuanced understanding of farmer perspectives within the broader policy discourse. By examining the interplay between environmental discourses and farmer knowledge, Shankland sheds light on how different ideologies shape policy decisions and, subsequently, impact water management practices.
Amanda Shankland is a post-doctoral fellow in Water Management at Toronto Metropolitan University. She has a PhD from the Department of Political Science at Carleton University. Dr Shankland specializes in research on social ecology, food sovereignty, water management, and rural development and has spent her career working towards advancing the goals of ecologically sustainable agriculture through political reform.