Jason Lambacher delivers paper on 鈥淭he Politics of Ecological Nostalgia鈥

IAS faculty member Jason Lambacher attended the annual conference of the Western Political Science Association (WPSA) this month in Vancouver, B.C. The WPSA is the regional professional association of political scientists and is internationally known as a hot spot for work in environmental political theory. He delivered an environmental political theory paper titled, 鈥淭he Politics of Ecological Nostalgia.鈥 Lambacher鈥檚 paper was written over the winter and spring for a panel called 鈥淓nvironmental Pasts and Futures.鈥 The paper interrogates the phenomenon of 鈥渘ostalgia鈥 as a product of accelerated environmental and social change, and explores its complicated relationship to politics.