June 2023 Update

Dear POLLEN Members and Friends,  We are pleased to share with you the latest publications, vacancies, CfPs and more from our lively community. We aim to send the newsletter on…

Dear POLLEN Members and Friends, 

We are pleased to share with you the latest publications, vacancies, CfPs and more from our lively community. We aim to send the newsletter on the 25th of every month.   

Has your POLLEN node NOT been introduced by us? If your node is keen to share your work in upcoming newsletters, please write to us at politicalecologynetwork@gmail.com.  

We also welcome proposals for blog posts on the POLLEN blog – please contact us at the same email address with any ideas!  

We are pleased to post the latest publications, CfPs and more from our lively community.  

With best regards from your POLLEN Secretariat  

Kelly Dorkenoo, Torsten Krause, Mine Islar and Wim Carton  

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Publications 

Journal articles 

  1. Sullivan, S. 2023 “Hunting Africa”: how international trophy hunting may constitute neocolonial green extractivism. Journal of Political Ecology 30(1), https://doi.org/10.2458/jpe.5489 in Themed Issue on ‘The Political Ecology of Green Extractivism’ edited by Alexander Dunlap and Judith Verweijen. 
  1. Maher, S., & McEvoy, J. K. (2023). Between De-Growth and Eco-Modernism: Theorizing a Green Transition. Critical Sociology, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/08969205231177370 
  1. Arnim Scheidel et al., Global impacts of extractive and industrial development projects on Indigenous Peoples’ lifeways, lands, and rights.Sci.Adv.9,eade9557(2023). DOI:10.1126/sciadv.ade9557 
  1. Iddrisu, Azindow Yakubu; Ouma, Stefan; Yaro, Joseph Awetori (2022): When agricultural commercialization fails: ‘Re-visiting’ value-chain agriculture and its ruins in northern Ghana. In: Globalizations, S. 1–21. DOI: 10.1080/14747731.2022.2135423. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14747731.2022.2135423  
  1. Tabur, M. (2023). Once upon a time in the anthropocene: Myths, legends, and futurity in Turkish climate fiction. Middle Eastern Literatures, 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1080/1475262X.2023.2223161 

Books 

  1. Hosseini, S.A.H., & Gills, B.K. (2023). Capital Redefined: A Commonist Value Theory for Liberating Life (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003340386  
  1. Neef, A., Ngin, C., Moreda, T., & Mollett, S. (Eds.). (2023). Routledge Handbook of Global Land and Resource Grabbing (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003080916  
  1. León Andrés. (2023). The coup and the palm trees : agrarian conflict and political power in honduras. University of Georgia Press. https://ugapress.org/book/9780820365374/the-coup-and-the-palm-trees/  

Events & Announcements 

  1. Conference  “The Failure of Green Capitalism: Findings, Objections, Alternatives” – Annual Conference 2023 (ON-SITE event). 
    When: 14.09. (in GERMAN) + 15.09. (in ENGLISH) 2023, 
    Where: Universität Hamburg  
    More info: https://www.zukuenfte-nachhaltigkeit.uni-hamburg.de/en/aktivitaeten/konferenzen/jahreskonferenz-2023.html  
  1. Policy Brief Launch 
    Responsible Drone Use in Biodiversity Conservation, on Tuesday, July 11th at 14:30 BST. Join us for an engaging and informative discussion on how we can monitor and protect biodiversity through responsible drone use. Register now to secure your spot and be a part of this important conversation.  Register here. 

Vacancies 

  1. Associate professor at Copenhagen University 
    Associate Professor in Political Ecology and Environmental Justice  
    More info: https://jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabelige-stillinger/?show=159406  
    Deadline: August 20th, 2023 
  1. Postdoctoral researcher at University of Delaware 
    Postdoctoral researcher to work on a funded feminist energy justice project. The Department of Geography and Spatial Sciences, in the College of Earth, Ocean and Environment at the University of Delaware is seeking a postdoctoral researcher to join a multi-disciplinary research team on a project funded by the Sloan Foundation: Advancing transformational energy justice across the renewable energy supply chain. 
    More info: https://careers.udel.edu/cw/en-us/job/500112/post-doctoral-researcher-department-of-geography-and-spatial-sciences 
    Deadline: August 1st, 2023 

Calls 

  1. Call for papers: ‘A Profound Reorganising of Things’ Conference
    A call for papers is now open. The Centre invites proposals for papers, workshops and creative contributions that explore the following broad topics: 
  1. Workshop call for participants: 
    We, Cristina Espinosa, Rike Sinder, and Zabrina Welter from the University of Freiburg, would like to invite you to the authors’ workshop on “The politics of legal processes to redress environmental injustices from contested natural resource governance”, from the 15 to 17 November 2023, at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies – FRIAS, in Freiburg, Germany. Reasonable travel expenses will be reimbursed and accommodation will be covered. This workshop is organized with the generous support of the Young Academy for Sustainability Research — Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies – FRIAS (uni-freiburg.de). If you are interested in participating, please send an abstract of your planned contribution and a short biographical note by 15 July 2023. The deadline to submit the draft of the manuscript is 31 October 2023. Contact: zabrina.welter@envgov.uni-freiburg.de and cristina.espinosa@envgov.uni-freiburg.de. 
  1. Call for contributions: 
    Dear colleagues, some months ago, I shared a call for chapters for a publication whose proposal I was working on (contract signed by now). As the editor, I am keen to include a few more excellent chapters from established researchers within and outside academia in the Routledge International Handbook of Gender-Based Violence Research. Contributors are invited to reflect upon the research process itself (hence the chapters will not be about presenting research results as in a traditional article/chapter). I would welcome chapter proposals that align with one or several of the following criteria: Black feminisms or other decolonial approaches to research; Chapters by authors affiliated with organisations outside Europe and USA; Chapters on fieldwork as a process (beyond the use of specific methods); Reflections on quantitative research approaches; Chapters around project formulation, writing-up, disseminating research results and implementing recommendations/ advocacy; Chapters that consider forms of gender-based violence different from that directed at cisgender women, e.g., transgender men, transgender women, cisgender men, etc.; Chapters specifically focusing on GBV forms such as sexual harassment, rape, or incest. Full chapters would be expected by the end of November 2023.  Please feel free to contact me at carolina.borda@ed.ac.uk for more information. 
  1. Call for papers: 
    We invite researchers, practitioners, artists, and activists to submit their contributions to a special issue in the Grassroots section of the Journal of Political Ecology. This special issue intends to be a platform for advancing new, radical thinking for solutions to transition towards post-growth food systems. Radical refers to the most important or basic parts of something. Radical solutions then, are those that can overcome the systemic problems currently faced by our global food systems. It encourages submissions targeting a shift from food systems centred around commodification of food and growing financial wealth, to food systems that are built around meeting social and ecological needs. We thus welcome papers that can lead to advancements in understanding how to transition to just socio-ecological food systems within the planetary boundaries, and that are particularly focused on social movements. The topic of this special issue was also chosen in order to inform the agenda that emerged after the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit and to amplify the voices of those who are ignored or underrepresented in the scientific and political discourse on sustainable food systems.  By “food systems”, we mean the complex web of livelihoods, activities, and multiscale organizational structures related to the production, processing, transportation, distribution, consumption, and disposal of food. We interpret post-growth food systems as those livelihoods, activities and social or institutional structures that are centered around sufficiency, equity, inclusiveness, environmental justice, socio-ecological well-being, sovereignty, and solidarity.  
    This work can take the form of activist pieces, academic reflections, engaged scholarship or creative work addressing political ecology debates that are based on particular cases or rooted in direct experience. We invite pieces in a variety of formats, including written articles and visual essays based on pictures, videos, interviews or other creative expressions. Please send a 100-words abstract by July 7th 2023, or contact us for further inquiries: Eduard at claudiu.nedelciu@uib.no , Kenza kenza.benabderrazik@usys.ethz.ch , and Laura at l.elsler@outlook.com. When sending an email, please make sure to include all of us in the recipients list. 

Other news items 

  1.  Oryx May issue’s special section on human rights and conservation comprises eight articles written jointly by Indigenous and non-Indigenous authors. Topics include legal battles over rights, the use of participatory video to mediate dialogue and the value of collaboration and mutual respect between international researchers, Indigenous scientists and NGOs. Link: https://www.oryxthejournal.org/blog/new-issue-may-2023/  
  1. Short piece on “How does political ecology help us understand the social implications of the 30×30 conservation initiative?” by Diana Vela Almeida and Teklehaymanot G. Weldemichel. Link: https://www.currentconservation.org/how-does-political-ecology-help-us-understand-the-social-implications-of-the-30×30-conservation-initiative/