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West Lake Landfill

AllanaRoss

Annotation of

Land Use Scales and Systems Questions

In response to

DEUTERO: Who is thinking or worrying about the impacts of varied land use in a reflective manner? When/where/with whom are the scalar impacts of certain land uses recognized or acknowledged (or are unseen or ignored)?

What does 'reflective' mean? Impacts are seen by those who live/work there on the ground, in the dirt, in their yards...raising children, being in proximity day in/out. Like a farmer knows their land. These people recognize and acknowledge the (physical existence of ) impact, but may have different perceptions of what that impact actually is. These people are worrying and thinking.

It seems that the people who have the power to do anything about the situation are physically removed from it and thus have a very different perception of the impact. The mound itself remains relatively unseen, or very rarely seen, and cursorily acknowledged if at all.

West Lake Landfill

AllanaRoss

Annotation of

Land Use Scales and Systems Questions

In response to

MICRO: What kinds of land use are carried out in this place? What practices make up efforts to shape land use/management? How is “public participation” organized, encouraged, valued or discounted?

Land use: extraction: Pits. Fill: mounds.

quarry to farm to landfill

practices: extraction, cultivation, disposal.

public participation is discouraged at sites engaged in these practices. Landfill has always been private property (what does that mean when the contents of 'private property' are regularly distributed into public property downstream?). Public participation is organized solely by the public, met with resistance by most public officials, and disdain/scorn/disbelief by PRPs.

West Lake Landfill

AllanaRoss

Annotation of

Land Use Scales and Systems Questions

In response to

MESO: What groups, networks, and publics seek to participate in land and resource governance? What forms of political organization have been developed in order to call for or enact particular forms of land management?

-Republic Services (land owners)---priority: $$$ for shareholders

-PRPs (land owners, past and present, and companies who dumped)---priority:avoiding losing $$$

-Government organizations (from AEC to EPA)---priority: competing pressure from lobbyists and citizen activists

-Citizen organizing (Just Moms etc)---priority: neighborhood health and safety

-Civil servants (at behest of one of the above)---competing pressure from lobbyists and citizen activists, retention of power

NOLA

AllanaRoss

Annotation of

River School Call 3.27.2019

In response to

How do you want to participate in the River School Open Seminar over the next six months (leading to another Field Campus and presentation of our work at the annual meeting of the Social Studies of Science in New Orleans)?

It really depends on the opportunities offered and the funding available. I'd love to participate in any capacity in which I am able.

Feedback

AllanaRoss

Annotation of

River School Call 3.27.2019

In response to

If you participated in the St. Louis Field Campus, what feedback do you have? What components were most interesting and productive for you? What suggestions do you have for future field campuses?

Feedback: I wish I had had more time to talk to other participants, to digest and process our experiences. Most interesting/productive components: museum visits, interactive experiences with other participants, group projects. Suggestions: Somehow not cramming so much information into so little time! It was a bit like drinking from a fire hydrant without a moment to catch my breath. I don't know if that can be done, though, I wouldn't want to sacrifice any of the experiences.

West Lake Landfill

Land Use Scales and Systems Questions

DEUTERO: Who is thinking or worrying about the impacts of varied land use in a reflective manner? When/where/with whom are the scalar impacts of certain land uses recognized or acknowledged (or are unseen or ignored)?

West Lake Landfill

Land Use Scales and Systems Questions

MICRO: What kinds of land use are carried out in this place? What practices make up efforts to shape land use/management? How is “public participation” organized, encouraged, valued or discounted?

West Lake Landfill

Land Use Scales and Systems Questions

MESO: What groups, networks, and publics seek to participate in land and resource governance? What forms of political organization have been developed in order to call for or enact particular forms of land management?

NOLA

River School Call 3.27.2019

How do you want to participate in the River School Open Seminar over the next six months (leading to another Field Campus and presentation of our work at the annual meeting of the Social Studies of Science in New Orleans)?

Feedback

River School Call 3.27.2019

If you participated in the St. Louis Field Campus, what feedback do you have? What components were most interesting and productive for you? What suggestions do you have for future field campuses?

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River School Call 3.27.2019

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