Visiting Assistant Professor of Government Peter Cannavò participated in two panels at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association in Chicago, held August 30-Sept. 2. As part of a panel on environmentalism and civic republicanism that he organized, Cannavò presented a paper titled, "'To the Thousandth Generation': Timelessness and the Pastoral Nexus between Green Politics and Republicanism." The paper argues that the civic republican and environmental political traditions in the U.S. share an anti-historical perspective that seeks a utopian society exempt from the ravages of time. It maintains that this anti-historicism was transmitted from republicanism to environmentalism via the pastoral ideal.
Cannavò also presented his book, The Working Landscape: Founding, Preservation, and the Politics of Place (The MIT Press, 2007) as part of a panel titled "New Books in Green Politics and Theory."
Cannavò also presented his book, The Working Landscape: Founding, Preservation, and the Politics of Place (The MIT Press, 2007) as part of a panel titled "New Books in Green Politics and Theory."
