{"id":39273,"date":"2025-01-29T11:11:23","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T16:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/?post_type=cu_event&#038;p=39273"},"modified":"2026-02-18T14:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T19:36:10","slug":"department-speaker-series-cultivating-community-with-amanda-shankland","status":"publish","type":"cu_event","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/event\/department-speaker-series-cultivating-community-with-amanda-shankland\/","title":{"rendered":"Department Speaker Series: Cultivating Community with Amanda Shankland"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n        \n    <\/h1>\n    \n        <\/header>\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    <div class=\"cu-buttongroup cu-component-updated flex flex-wrap md:flex-1 gap-3 md:gap-5 justify-start\">\n                                                                        <\/div>\n    \n<p><strong>Due to inclement weather, this event will now be online only. A Zoom link will be sent by email.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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,&nbsp;<em>Cultivating Community: How discourse shapes the philosophy, practice and policy of water management in the Murray-Darling Basin.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"160\" height=\"226\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/Cultivating-Community-Book-Cover-1-160x226.jpg\" alt=\"Cultivating Community book cover\" class=\"wp-image-39282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/Cultivating-Community-Book-Cover-1-160x226.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/Cultivating-Community-Book-Cover-1-240x339.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/Cultivating-Community-Book-Cover-1-768x1086.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/Cultivating-Community-Book-Cover-1-400x566.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/Cultivating-Community-Book-Cover-1-1086x1536.jpg 1086w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/Cultivating-Community-Book-Cover-1-360x509.jpg 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/Cultivating-Community-Book-Cover-1.jpg 1089w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Cultivating Community<\/em><\/strong><em>&nbsp;<\/em>dissects the prevailing environmental discourses shaping water policy in the Murray\u2013Darling 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\u2013Darling Basin Authority officials, Dr Shankland presents a nuanced understanding of farmer perspectives within the broader policy discourse. By examining the interplay between environmental discourses&nbsp;and farmer knowledge, Shankland sheds light on how different ideologies shape policy decisions and, subsequently, impact water management practices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"160\" height=\"208\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/Amanda-Shankland-1-160x208.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait of Amanda Shankland\" class=\"wp-image-39284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/Amanda-Shankland-1-160x208.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/Amanda-Shankland-1-240x312.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/Amanda-Shankland-1-768x1000.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/Amanda-Shankland-1-400x521.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/Amanda-Shankland-1-360x469.jpg 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/Amanda-Shankland-1.jpg 1093w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Amanda Shankland<\/strong>&nbsp;is a post-doctoral fellow in Water Management at Toronto Metropolitan University.&nbsp; She has a PhD from the Department of Political Science at Carleton&nbsp;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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"register\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Register<\/h2>\n\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_event_type":[],"cu_event_audience":[34],"class_list":["post-39273","cu_event","type-cu_event","status-publish","hentry","cu_event_audience-anyone"],"acf":{"cu_event_start_date":"2025-02-13T14:30:00","cu_event_end_date":"2025-02-13T00:00:00","cu_event_location_type":"in-person","cu_event_meeting_address_type":"on-campus","cu_building":false,"cu_event_meeting_room":"","cu_event_meeting_address_full":null,"cu_event_virtual_type":"tbd","cu_event_virtual_meeting_link":"","cu_post_thumbnail":false,"cu_event_cost":"","cu_event_registration":"","cu_event_secondary_button":"","cu_event_contact_name":"","cu_event_email":"","cu_event_phone":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/39273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/39273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39318,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/39273\/revisions\/39318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_type?post=39273"},{"taxonomy":"cu_event_audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_audience?post=39273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}