Supported by the Penn State College of Earth and Mineral Sciences Sustainability Council, Penn State Geography PhD Student Harman Singh and Lab Director Mark Ortiz are collaborating on a project to better understand student perspectives on sustainability within the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences at Penn State. This research will involve a comprehensive survey of students in the College coupled with in-depth interviews with student leaders to gather information on student perceptions and forms of engagement in sustainability efforts. For further information on the project, see this write-up from Penn State.

An experimental collaboration between Rawe Kefi (University of Manouba-Tunis & GYSRL) and Mark Ortiz (Penn State & GYSRL), this work reflects on the role of poetic inquiry in creating the basis for multivocal, pluriversal, and intergenerational climate justice analysis.

Taking seriously the Zapatistas’ injunction to imagine and enact a “world in which many worlds are possible,” we offer two examples of poetic inquiry that help us to contextualize and explore collective action and environmental (in)justice in our home contexts. We demonstrate and illustrate how we use poetic inquiry in our own work to build relational and placed-based understandings of climate and environmental politics that are inclusive of multiple voices and relationships to space and place. Our poetic inquiry emerges at the intersections of our scholarship, advocacy, policy work, and creative practice.