Ernest J. Yanarella
Director of the Center for Sustainable Cities
University of Kentucky1659 Patterson Office Tower
Lexington, KY, USA
40506
O: 859-257-2989
Email: ejyana@uky.edu
Printable Curriculum Vitae
Born:
April 3, 1944, Beacon, New York
Current Homes Address:
1168 Lane Allen Road
Lexington, Kentucky 40504
Education:
Syracuse University, 1962 1966 B.A. (with honors), magna cum laude
University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill), 1966 1970 Ph.D. (August 1971)
Scholastic Honors:
Phi Beta Kappa
Pi Sigma Alpha (undergraduate political science honorary)
Phi Kappa Phi (all university scholastic honorary)
Awards:
Arts and Sciences Outstanding Teacher Award, 1993 94.
One of Ten Faculty Most Educationally Influential in 1994 Senior Class.
Chancellor’s Distinguished Scholar Award for a Tenured Faculty Member, 1997.
Appointments:
Chair, Senate Council; Presiding Officer, University Senate, 2004-.
Director, Environmental Studies Program, College of Arts and Sciences, 2001-.
Co-Director, Center for Sustainable Cities, 1993-.
Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Political Science, 1993-97.
Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Kentucky, 1987-.
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Kentucky, 1975-1986.
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science University, 1970-1975.
Scholarly Interests:
Critical policy analysis (energy and environment, agriculture, sustainable urban design, arms control and national security, political economy)
Political theory
Philosophy of the social sciences
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Publications
THE MISSILE DEFENSE CONTROVERSY: STRATEGY, TECHNOLOGY, AND POLITICS, 1955 1972. (Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky , 1977) 247 pp.
ENERGY AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES: A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL GUIDE TO THE LITERATURE. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1982. (With Ann Marie Yanarella)
THE ACID RAIN DEBATE: SCIENTIFIC, ECONOMIC, AND POLITICAL DIMENSIONS. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1985. (With Randal H. Ihara)
THE UNFULFILLED PROMISE OF SYNTHETIC FUELS: TECHNOLOGICAL FAILURE, POLICY IMMOBILISM OR COMMERCIAL ILLUSION? Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, August 1987. (Co edited with William C. Green)
POLITICAL MYTHOLOGY AND POPULAR FICTION. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press,1988. (Co edited with Lee Sigelman)
THE POLITICS OF INDUSTRIAL RECRUITMENT: JAPANESE AUTO INVESTMENT AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN THE AMERICAN STATES. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1990. (Co edited with William Green)
NORTH AMERICAN AUTO UNIONS IN CRISIS: LEAN PRODUCTION AS CONTESTED TERRAIN. Albany, N.Y.: SUNY Press, 1996. (Coedited with William C. Green.)
THE CROSS, THE PLOW, AND THE SKYLINE: CONTEMPORARY SCIENCE FICTION AND THE ECOLOGICAL IMAGINATION. Parkland, FL: Brown and Walker Press, 2001.
THE MISSILE DEFENSE CONTROVERSY: A TECHNOLOGY IN SEARCH OF A MISSION. [Second, expanded edition.] Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2002.
ARGUING SUSTAINABILITY: THE GLOBAL DEBATE OVER EARTH’S FUTURE . (With Richard S. Levine.) In-progress.
ENERGY AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES: A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL GUIDE TO THE LITERATURE. Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2006. (With the late Ann Marie Yanarella)—Reprint edition.
"The Foundations of Policy Immobilism Over Acid Rain Control," in Yanarella and Ihara, eds., THE ACID RAIN DEBATE: SCIENTIFIC, ECONOMIC, AND POLITICAL DIMENSIONS. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1985. 39 56.
"Environmental vs. Ecological Perspectives on Acid Rain: American Environmentalism and the West German Green Party," in Yanarella and Ihara, eds., THE ACID RAIN DEBATE. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1985. 243 260.
"Class Based Environmentalism in a Small Town: ERDA's "Gasifiers in Industry" Program and the Georgetown, Kentucky Controversy." In E.J. Yanarella and W.C. Green, eds. THE UNFULFILLED PROMISE OF SYNTHETIC FUELS . Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. 99 125. (With Herbert G . Reid)
“The Machine in the Garden Revisited: America Pastoralism and Contemporary Science Fiction." In E.J. Yanarella and Lee Sigelman, eds. POLITICAL MYTHOLOGY AND POPULAR FICTION. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1988. 159 184.
"Problems of Coalition Building in Japanese Auto Alley: Public Opposition to the Georgetown/Toyota Plant." In E.J. Yanarella and W.C. Green, eds. THE POLITICS OF INDUSTRIAL RECRUITMENT. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1990. 153 173. (With Herbert G. Reid)
"Whither Hegemony? Between Gramsci and Derrida." In J.P. Jones, Wolfgang Natter, and Theodore Schatzki, eds. POSTMODERN CONNECTIONS: EPOCHS, POLITICS, AND SPACE. New York: Guilford Publications, Inc., 1992. 65 98.
"From 'Trained Gorilla' to 'Humanware': Repoliticizing the Body Machine Complex Between Fordism and Post Fordism." In J.P. Jones, Wolfgang Natter, and Theodore Schatzki, eds. THE SOCIAL POLITICAL BODY. New York: Guilford Publications, Inc., 995. (With Herbert G. Reid.)
"Introduction." In William C. Green and Ernest J. Yanarella, eds. NORTH AMERICAN AUTO UNIONS IN CRISIS: LEAN PRODUCTION AS CONTESTED TERRAIN. Albany,.N.Y.: SUNY Press, 1995. 1-15. (With William C. Green.)
"The UAW and CAW Under the Shadow of Post Fordism: A Tale of Two Unions." In William C. Green and Ernest J. Yanarella, eds. NORTH AMERICAN AUTO UNIONS IN CRISIS: LEAN PRODUCTION AS CONTESTED TERRAIN. Albany, N.Y.: SUNY Press, 1996. 41-61.
"Work Training at Toyota and Saturn: Hegemony Begins in the Training Center Classroom." In William C. Green and Ernest J. Yanarella, eds. NORTH AMERICAN AUTO UNIONS IN CRISIS: LEAN PRODUCTION AS CONTESTED TERRAIN. Albany, N.Y.: SUNY Press, 1996. 125-157.
“Generating Models of Urban Sustainability: Vienna’s Westbahnhof Sustainable Hill Town.” In Katie Williams, Elizabeth Burton, and Mike Jenks, eds. ACHIEVING SUSTAINABLE URBAN FORM. New York: E & FB Spon (Routledge), 2000. 288-298, 379. (With Heidi Dumreicher, Richard Levine, and Taghi Radmard)
"On the Concept of a Military Industrial Complex: Notes Toward a Strategy of Liberation." BULLETIN OF THE PEACE STUDIES INSTITUTE. November 1972. 112 121.
"Arms and Impotence: The Concept of Violence, Rationality, and Control in the Strategic Analyses of T.C. Schelling." REVIEW OF PEACE SCIENCE. Vol. 1 (1973). 127 169. (Reprinted in the BULLETIN OF THE PEACE STUDIES INSTITUTE, October 1973, pp. 1 13.)
"Toward a Post Modern Theory of American Political Science and Culture: Perspectives from Critical Marxism and Phenomenology." CULTURAL HERMENEUTICS. II (August, 1974). 91 166. (With Herbert G. Reid.)
"Reconstructed Logic' and 'Logic in Use' in Decision Making Analysis: A Critique of Allison." POLITY. VIII (Fall 1975). 156 172.
"The Strategic Arms Race and the 'Technological Imperative'." PEACE AND CHANGE. III (Spring 1975). 3 16.
"Tensions and Ambiguities in the Decision Making Approach: From Snyder, Bruck, and Sapin to Allison." INTERNATIONAL INTERACTIONS. II, 1 (1976). 105 110.
"The ABM Controversy and the Politics of the Scientific Community: Some Implications for Peace Research. INTERNATIONAL INTERACTIONS. II, 2 (1976). 217 230.
"Political Science and the Post Modern Critique of Scientism and Domination." REVIEW OF POLITICS. XXXVII (July 1975). 286 316. (Co authored with Herbert G. Reid.)
"Toward a Critical Theory of Peace Research in the United States: The Search for an 'Intelligible Core'." JOURNAL OF PEACE RESEARCH. No. 3 (1976). 315 341. (Co authored with Herbert G. Reid.)
"Critical Political Theory and Moral Development: On Kohlberg, Hampden Turner, and Habermas." THEORY & SOCIETY. IV (Winter 1977 78), 505 541. (Co authored with Herbert G. Reid.)
"Psycho Political Development, Political Internships, and the Crisis of Liberal Arts: An Experiment in Political Education." INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF POLITICAL EDUCATION. I, 3 (1978). 201 224. (With Herbert G. Reid.)
"The Military/Energy Connection: The Institutionalization of the Technological Breakthrough' Approach to Energy R&D." NORTHEAST PEACE SCIENCE JOURNAL. I (1978). (With Randal H. Ihara.)
"The Tyranny of the Categorical: On Kohlberg and the Politics of Moral Development." In Richard Wilson and Gordon Schochet, eds. POLITICS AND MORAL DEVELOPMENT (New York: Praeger Publishers, 1980). 107 132. (With Herbert G. Reid.)
"The Politics of the 'Peaceful Atom' from the Manhattan Project to Three Mile Island." PEACE & CHANGE. VII (Spring 1981). 45 58.
"The Politics of Energy." FELLOWSHIP. 47 (July/August 1981). 12,13, and 29. (With Herbert G. Reid.)
"Public Information on Public Issues: A Multivariate Analysis." SOCIAL SCIENCE QUARTERLY. 67 (June 1986). 102 107. (With Lee Sigelman.)
"Towards a Humanistic Political Geography." STUDIES IN COMPARATIVE INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT. 22 (Summer 1987). 3 49. (With Stanley D. Brunn); and "Comments and Rejoinders," pp. 83 86.
"Does Sustainable Development Lead to Sustainability?" FUTURES. 24 (October 1992). 759 774. (With Richard S. Levine.)
"Community, Labor, and Environmental Participation in Industrial Recruitment: East Asian Automobile Investment in Canada in Comparative Perspective." ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT QUARTERLY. VII (May 1993). 140 159. (With William C. Green.) "The Sustainable Cities Manifesto: Pre Text, Text, and Post Text." BUILT ENVIRONMENT. 18 (December 1992). 301 313. (With Richard S. Levine.)
"Canadian Recruitment of East Asian Automobile Transplants: Economic, Political, and Cultural Dimensions." CANADIAN JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY. 18 (Fall 1993). 359 381. (With William C. Green.)
"The UAW and CAW Confront Lean Production at Saturn, CAMI, and the Japanese Transplants." LABOR STUDIES JOURNAL. 18 (Winter 1994) . 52 75.
"Sustainable Development/Sustainability?" STADTPLANE. I (September 1994). 39 46. (With Richard S. Levine.)
“Quebec and NAFTA: Free Trade and the Future of Sovereignty-Association.” QUEBEC STUDIES. 21 (Winter 1995-96).
“Plato Meets Lawnmower Man in the Virtual Polis: The Case of PS 776.” P.S. (POLITICAL SCIENCE). 11 (December 1998).
“Cities and Regions in the Global Sustainability Debate: Co-Evolution Toward Sustainable Development.” AGRITOP. Forth. (With Richard S. Levine)
“Patrick Geddes’ Outlook Tower—and Ours.” STADTPLAENE. 5 (1998): 8-11.
“Eco-polis: the New Political Economy of the Oikos.” STADTPLAENE. 5 (1998). 43-45.
“Local Sustainability Programmes in Comparative Perspective: Canada and the USA.” LOCAL ENVIRONMENT. 4 (June 1999): 209-223.
“Sustainability Between System and Lifeworld: Luhmann vs. Habermas.” STADTPLAENE. 6 (1999): 31-36
“The Space of Flows, the Rules of Play, and Sustainable Urban Design: The Sustainability Game as a Tool of Critical Pedagogy in Higher Education.” INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SUSTAINABILITY IN HIGHER EDUCATION. I (2000): 48-66. (With Richard S. Levine)
“Beyond Environmental Moralism and Policy Incrementalism in the Global Sustainability Debate: Case Studies and an Alternative Framework.” SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT. 8 (August 2000): 123-134. (With Horace Bartilow)
“Dreams of Sustainability: Beyond the Antinomies of the Global Sustainability Debate.” INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT. 6 (December 2000): 1-25. (With Horace Bartilow)
“How Green is Jerry Brown? An Oakland Ecopolis Memoir.” TERRAIN: AN ONLINE JOURNAL OF SUSTAINABILITY. (March 2001).
“Robinson’s Martian Stories and Mars Trilogy: Heterotopian Science Fiction and the Post-Modern Appropriation of the Gaia Hypothesis.” FOUNDATION: INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF SCIENCE FICTION. Fall, 2003.
“Sustainable Cities: A Strategy for a Post-Terrorized World.” TERRAIN: AN JOURNAL OF THE NATURAL & BUILT ENVIRONMENT. 13 (Summer/Fall 2003). With Richard S. Levine and Taghi Radmard.
“Prison Recruitment as a Local Economic Development Strategy: A Literature Review and Alternative Framework.” CONTEMPORARY JUSTICE REVIEW. VII (June 2004): 183-198. (With Susan Blankenship)
“A Vision for Shakertown in the New Millennium. TERRAIN: A JOURNAL OF THE NATURAL & BUILT ENVIRONMENT. 15 (Fall/Winter 2004).
“Big House in the Hollers: Prison Recruitment As Economic Development in Appalachia and Beyond.” JOURNAL OF APPALACHIAN STUDIES. Forth. (With Susan Blankenship.)
“Sustainability Come to the Canadian Prairie: Lessons and Caveats from the Town of Okotoks, Alberta.” TERRAIN.ORG: A JOURNAL OF THE NATURAL & BUILT ENVIRONMENT. 19 (Spring 2006).
“Postmodern Irony and Ecological Wisdom in Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities.” ECOTECTURE. Forth. (Spring 2006).
“Okotoks, Alberta: From Historic Past to Sustainable Future? A Case Study and Policy Prescriptions.” LOCAL ENVIRONMENT. Under review.
“East Asian Transplants Reach Maturity: Rewards and Perils.” Under review.
Translation (with notes) of "Pravda." by Maurice Merleau Ponty, appearing in TELOS, No. 7 (Spring 1971), pp. 112 121.
Translation (with Bert Grahl and Susan Cohen) of "Forgetting Lenin," by Francois George, appearing in TELOS, No. 18 (Winter 1973), pp. 53 88.
"Evaluating Psycho Political Development," in Barbara K. Hofer, Robert F. Sexton, and Ernest J. Yanarella, "Assessing the Psycho Political Development of Liberal Arts Interns," in INITIATING EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING PROGRAMS: FOUR CASE STUDIES (Princeton, NJ: Educational Testing Service (September 1976), pp. 167 205.
Co editor. THE ROLE OF COAL IN THE ENERGY PICTURE TO THE YEAR 2000: ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL PERSPECTIVES. Lexington, Kentucky: Social Science/Technology Development Group, University of Kentucky, (April 1979), 52pp. (With Ann Marie Yanarella.)
Co editor. ENERGY DEVELOPMENT IN KENTUCKY: ITS IMPACT UPON COMMUNITY LIFE AND HIGHER EDUCATION. Lexington, Kentucky: Social/ Technology Development Group, University of Kentucky, (April 1979), 68pp. (With Ann Marie Yanarella.)
Co editor. SURFACE MINING AND THE LIMITS OF RECLAMATION: WHAT IS BEING RECLAIMED? WHAT IS NOT? Lexington, Kentucky: Social Science/Technology Development Group, University of Kentucky, (June 1979), 64pp. (With Ann Marie Yanarella.)
Co editor. COAL MINE REGULATION AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS: THE CASE OF MINE SAFETY. Lexington, Kentucky: Social Science/Technology Development Group, University of Kentucky, (October 1979), 62pp. (With Ann Marie Yanarella.)
Project Director. COAL AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES: A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL GUIDE TO THE LITERATURE. Lexington, Kentucky: Social Science/Technology Development Group, University of Kentucky (November 1979). 42pp.
Co editor. THREE MILE ISLAND AND MARBLE HILL: NUCLEAR POWER AND POLITICAL CONTROL. Lexington, Kentucky: Office of Undergraduate Studies, (March 1980), 69pp. (With Ann Marie Yanarella.)
"Set New Rules for Foreign Investors." JOURNAL OF COMMERCE. August 11, 1990. 8. (with William C. Green.)
“Oakland Ecopolis: A Plan for a Green Plan.” [http://www.wtp.org]. A plan for a green plan commissioned by former California governor Jerry Brown. (With Hugh Bartling, Christoper Rice, and Robert Lancaster.)
“We’re Off to See the Wizard.” ELEARN MAGAZINE. June 2002. http://www.elearnmag.org/subpage/sub_page.cfm?article_pk=4501&page_number_nb=1&title=COLUMN
EMERALD CITY: THE SUSTAINABILITY GAME. Under design as a pedagogical and research tool for teaching urban sustainability. With Richard S. Levine and Dennis Marshall.
PS 776 (Sustainable Urban Design)--http://www.uky.edu/Classes/PS776/--1996, 1998
PS 491/711 (Millennial Dreams, Millennial Nightmares)—http://www.uky. edu/~ejyana/PS 491/--1998
Kentucky-Canadian Studies Roundtable—http://www.uky.edu/Other Orgs/KCSR/
“Oakland Ecopolis: A Plan for a Green Plan”--http://www.wtp.org/.
Center for Sustainable Cities Homepage--http://www.uky.edu/~rlevine/.
“Patrick Geddes’ Outlook Tower—and Ours”—http://www.ed.ac.uk/ ~cce/geddes/ernie.htm
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