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Research Paper with Fieldwork Component (30%): Your research Paper investigating your own city (of origin) and its environmental consciousness should be 7-8 pages long, Times New Roman 12pt font, single-spaced, with a Bibliography of ten scholarly sources (peer-review) or relevant reports, with brief 2-3 sentence annotations. You are required to have in-text citations and a references page listing your ten annotated bibliographic resources. The paper has a bibliography (in addition to the 7-8 pages) and interview notes (in addition to the 7-8 pages) A program called Turnitin will check the paper for evidence of plagiarism. DO NOT PLAGIARIZE OR USE CHAT GPT!!!
This Research Paper with Fieldwork Component is designed to allow you to develop your own skills as a social scientific researcher, reflecting your active participant-observational research into your own hometown or city (or county, or other leaders, if unincorporated…) and its relationship to the environment, society, and larger questions of relevance. These may explore issues that are political, scientific, or even religious with respective actors from different communities. This engagement may explore contemporary matters related to history, environmental harm, environmental justice and transitions, institutional accountability, sustainability science and action, as well as transitions that may include activist involvement in the political and/or social services sector.
PLEASE MAKE SURE TO ADD A PART OF AN INTERVIEW WITH A FIREMAN WITH THE QUESTIONS THAT ARE ASKED AND WHAT THEY WOULD ANSWER.
Research Paper format:
This paper should follow a general format of (1) Introduction to city with stated research question; (2) a background sketch of the history, geography, and observation of the entity/organization, and its particular development with regard to environmental awareness; (3) a presentation of field research findings; (4) a summary conclusion with recommendations for environmental justice.
Fieldnotes (appended to your 7-8 page paper) (5%):
With the completed paper, you will be required to append detailed field notes (no more than 5 pages total, single-spaced roughly) to your paper. You will be required to write detailed comments about the experience of a field visit and interview. These will be detailed field notes that go over specific activities you are doing for the ethnographic component. The purpose of the fieldnotes is simply to get as much data as possible for your paper. Write down specific observations, quotes (no lengthy transcriptions, please!), and detailed insights, but most of what you should be writing is just what you notice regarding sets of assumptions, bases of authority (religious, secular, local-knowledge, data-informed, etc.), and orientations, especially if repeated, abnormal, or leaning either more progressive or conservative, as it were. Save the analysis for memos you might write to yourself or the ethnographic observations. You should write 4-5 single-spaced typed pages for your set of notes. You will be graded on whether you have completed the 4-5 pages and the degree to which you provide a sense of place, character, and scene. For additional guidance on Fieldnotes, see Rubin, pp. 164-78.
Bibliography (5%):
With the completed paper, you will need to include an annotated research bibliography with a short summary of each of the ten outside research sources. The brief summaries should be two-three sentences long describing the article, book, paper, or report and why the work is relevant to your project. You will need to make sure these sources are included in your research paper. Rosa, Norgaard, and the Gould/Lewis book must be cited in your paper.
PLEASE MAKE SURE TO ADD these ones in there too:
bell hooks, Belonging: A Culture of Place (Routledge, 2008)
Amitav Gosh, The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis (Chicago, 2022)
*See Drew Malmuth’s LARB interview with Ghosh: https://dev.lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-earth-is-doing-our-thinking-for-us-a-conversation-with-amitav-ghosh/
Links to an external site.
Robin Wall Kimmerer (Potawatomi), Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Milkweed, 2013)
Norman Wirzba, Agrarian Spirit: Cultivating Faith, Community, and the Land (Notre Dame, 2022)
Mike Davis, Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster (Verso, 1998)