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Visiting Assistant Professor of Government Peter F. Cannavò has published a review essay in the October 2007 issue of Political Theory, a leading political philosophy journal. Titled, "Confronting Postmodern Uncertainty: Political Insights from Cultural Practice," the essay reviews four recent books on cultural politics: Gay Hawkins, The Ethics of Waste: How We Relate Today to Rubbish; Marcie Franks, How to be an Intellectual in the Age of TV; Mary Caputi, A Kinder, Gentler America: Melancholia and the Mythical 1950s; and Helen Liggett, Urban Encounters.

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." 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."