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SUMMARY:The place of desire for more-than-human political ecology - Dr Jar
 ed Margulies\, University of Alabama
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CONTACT:Valerio Donfrancesco
DESCRIPTION:Discussion of emotion and affect is rife in works of political
  ecology that draw on more-than-human geographic theory. While concern for
  psychological impacts or emotional well-being in relation to or caused by
  environmental destruction and change is present in the literature\, it is
  a smaller body of work in political ecology that engages more explicitly 
 with psychoanalytic theory. In this paper I make a claim for a need for gr
 eater attention to desire within political ecology\, in part drawing on a 
 robust tradition of Lacanian psychoanalytic geographies. By way of empiric
 al example\, I will seek to explain how and why it is as someone with a ba
 ckground in more-than-human geographies and political ecology\, I have tur
 ned more recently towards Lacanian understandings of desire\, anxiety\, an
 d the drives to study illegal wildlife trades in rare and endangered cactu
 s and succulent plants. In developing these arguments I will reflect on se
 veral interventions by others researchers who have similarly turned to Lac
 anian thought to advance analyses of environmental change germane to polit
 ical ecology.
LOCATION:https://zoom.us/j/8314166462
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