Interview with Angie Carter

Abstract

Dr. Angie Carter, 2017 Blackmar Lecturer, is Assistant Professor of Environmental and Energy Justice at Michigan Technological University. Her work focuses on issues situated within environmental sociology, including agro-food systems, social inequity, social change and environmental justice. As the following conversation demonstrates, Dr. Carter is equally attentive to the significance of the participatory, community based methodologies she employs, as well as the importance of doing public sociology in the current socio political climate in the US. A selection of Dr. Carter’s recent publication titles includes “‘No Oil in Our Soil!’: Shifting Narratives from Commodities to the Commons”, “Changes on the Land: Gender and the Power of Alternative Social Networks”, and “Placeholders and Changemakers: Women Farmland Owners Navigating Gendered Expectations.”