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# POLLEN
Political Ecology Network
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## Posts
- [Updates](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/updates/)
- [Charlotte Hemingway - Tracing matter, energy and inequality across agrarian systems](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/charlotte-hemingway-tracing-matter-energy-and-inequality-across-agrarian-systems/) - .
- [Job Opportunities](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/job-opportunities/) - Two postdoctoral fellowships at the University of St Andrews with Jessica Hope.
- [Sol Mora - Political ecology of Chinese infrastructure, land control and food systems in Argentina](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/sol-mora-political-ecology-of-chinese-infrastructure-land-control-and-food-systems-in-argentina/) - .
- [Sara Mingorria - From territorial struggles to global comparative political ecology](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/sara-mingorria-from-territorial-struggles-to-global-comparative-political-ecology/) - .
- [Atmaezer H. Simanjuntak: plantations, debt and the financialisation of agrarian life](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/atmaezer-h-simanjuntak-plantations-debt-and-the-financialisation-of-agrarian-life/) - .
- [Carly E. Nichols - Power, bodies and justice in contemporary agricultural transformations](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/carly-e-nichols-power-bodies-and-justice-in-contemporary-agricultural-transformations/) - .
- [Joe Williams - A Politics of Relationality: infrastructure and the political ecology of “new” water](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/joe-williams-a-politics-of-relationality-infrastructure-and-the-political-ecology-of-new-water/) - .
- [Mira Käkönen: water, power and infrastructural transformations in Southeast Asia](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/mira-kakonen-water-power-and-infrastructural-transformations-in-southeast-asia/) - .
- [Takeshi Ito - Worldviews, values and the political ecology of disasters](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/takeshi-ito-worldviews-values-and-the-political-ecology-of-disasters/) - .
- [Joana Sá Couto - Listening by the Sea: becoming an Anthropologist](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/joana-sa-couto-listening-by-the-sea-becoming-an-anthropologist/) - .
- [Alberto Coronel Tarancón - Social metabolism, biopolitics and ecological breakdown](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/alberto-coronel-tarancon-social-metabolism-biopolitics-and-ecological-breakdown/) - .
- [Patricia Homs Ramirez De La Piscina - Feminist political ecology and alternative food futures](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/patricia-homs-ramirez-de-la-piscina-feminist-political-ecology-and-alternative-food-futures/) - .
- [Gabriele Orlandi - Reinvigorating local epistemic communities around Alpine digital infrastructures](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/gabriele-orlandi-reinvigorating-local-epistemic-communities-around-alpine-digital-infrastructures/) - .
- [From hosts to hostages: how colonialism is turning our seas into graveyards of humanity](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/from-hosts-to-hostages-how-colonialism-is-turning-our-seas-into-graveyards-of-humanity/) - The Mediterranean, Palestine, and the Intersection between Ecocide and Genocide
- [Oikos and Polis: what is left for Political Ecology as nature and politics collapse](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/oikos-and-polis-what-is-left-for-political-ecology-as-nature-and-politics-collapse/) - By Rebecca Borges (Federal University of Pará - UFPA)
- [When Borders Float: Marine Governance Beyond Lines on Maps](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/when-borders-float-marine-governance-beyond-lines-on-maps/) - by Rebecca Borges (Federal University of Pará - UFPA) and Jonas Healy (University of Oldenburg/Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity)
- [Questioning quails: An experiment in interspecies decision-making](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/questioning-quails-an-experiment-in-interspecies-decision-making/) - By Cebuan Bliss, PhD, Founder of TIDE - The Transformative Interspecies Democracies Centre
- [A broken model: African thinkers denounce exclusionary conservation](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/a-broken-model-african-thinkers-denounce-exclusionary-conservation/) - Exclusion is not only about pushing people out of protected areas, but also about ignoring traditional knowledge and failing to bring local communities on board with conservation initiatives.
- [35 Apps and Counting: Mapping Bihar’s Digital Agriculture Experiment](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/35-apps-and-counting-mapping-bihars-digital-agriculture-experiment/) - Inside the fragmented landscape of climate-smart agriculture technology
- [The New Routledge Handbook of Political Ecology](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/the-new-routledge-handbook-of-political-ecology/) - A radical, decolonial and more-than-human reimagining of political ecology for the twenty-first century
- [We Are Not Weak: Resistance to Digital Coloniality in Bihar's Climate Adaptation](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/we-are-not-weak-resistance-to-digital-coloniality-in-bihars-climate-adaptation/) - Insights from ethnographic fieldwork across Bihar, India
- [What’s New in Pollen?](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/whats-new-in-pollen/) - As the year unfolds, many exciting developments are taking place across the Network. Here are our latest updates:First, we are pleased to announce the launch of our LinkedIn account. Together with our Bluesky profile, these platforms provide dynamic spaces for networking and for staying up to date with events, meetings, job opportunities, and new research
- [Social-ecological conflicts: conceptualising other-than-humans as conflict parties](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/social-ecological-conflicts-conceptualising-other-than-humans-as-conflict-parties/) - From actors to coalitions: advancing a social-ecological conflict perspective beyond anthropocentrism
- [Publication Spotlight: Disentangling the drivers of vegetation change in a mobility-constrained pastoral landscape in Laikipia Kenya](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/publication-spotlight-disentangling-the-drivers-of-vegetation-change-in-a-mobility-constrained-pastoral-landscape-in-laikipia-kenya/) - This research challenges the common narrative that pastoralist livestock degrade land in Kenya's Laikipia County. The study found vegetation changes were driven not by grazing, but by climate change, increased elephants, fire suppression, and conservation policies that restrict mobility.
- [Coexistence among disciplines, humans and predators: Five Dimensions of Analysis for More Convivial Human-Predator Interactions](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/coexistence-among-disciplines-humans-and-predators-five-dimensions-of-analysis-for-more-convivial-human-predator-interactions/) - Transdiciplinary collaboration to better understand human-predator interactions
- [Care workers are essential to a "just transition"](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/care-workers-are-essential-to-a-just-transition/) - Just Transition and Care explains how care work is a central aspect of socioecological transition.
- [Essential Oils and Essential Work: The Labor Behind Pandemic Wellness Commodities](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/essential-oils-and-essential-work-the-labor-behind-pandemic-wellness-commodities/) - Chanelle Adams writes about the relationships between essential oils and essential work, under a political ecology lens and in the context of Madagascar.
- [Why we need a Georgist political ecology](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/why-we-need-a-georgist-political-ecology/) - Incorporating Georgist theory into the field of political ecology
- [POLLEN Regional Conference: A Day of Political Ecology Discussions at Uni of Sussex](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-regional-conference-a-day-of-political-ecology-discussions-at-uni-of-sussex/) - POLLEN UK nodes are bringing together leading thinkers for a regional conference on September 19th (this Friday!) at the University of Sussex, Falmer. This one-day event will deliver thought-provoking discussions across three critical themes: labour, technology, and geopolitics. The conference features a lineup of speakers tackling urgent questions in political ecology. Gabriel Popham (Sussex) and
- [Community-Led Conservation: Learning Agency, Tenacity, and Solidarity from the Ground Up](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/community-led-conservation-learning-agency-tenacity-and-solidarity-from-the-ground-up/) - Johan-Arango Quiroga explains his inspiring journey from engineering towards environmental justice.
- [Between digital practice and transformative models: narratives beyond the digital divide and the DIVERSE project](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/between-digital-practice-and-transformative-models-narratives-beyond-the-digital-divide-and-the-diverse-project/) - By Claire Karaguesian and the DIVERSE Team By Claire Karaguesian and the DIVERSE Team By Claire Karaguesian and the DIVERSE Team
- [Energopolitics & soaps](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/energopolitics-soaps/) - I do research on topics related to energy humanities. With a background in physics and the history of science, I have eventually found a home in political ecology. In particular, I’m interested in the political use of energy in (post)colonial contexts and the expansion of the concept of energy justice.
- [Pollen 2026 - call for presentations & posters is open](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-2026-call-for-presentations-posters-is-open/) - Call for presentations & posters POLLEN2026, Barcelona Call ends 05 December 2025
- [Conservation, culture, and consciousness: awakening to a re-imagined vision of nature co-existence](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/conservation-culture-and-consciousness-awakening-to-a-re-imagined-vision-of-nature-co-existence/) - By Cebuan Bliss, Radboud University
- [Political ecology fieldwork with a toddler: a personal account](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/political-ecology-fieldwork-with-a-toddler-a-personal-account/) - By Dr Jessica Hope, University of Bristol
- [Courting justice: when legal challenges to corporate land grabs go wrong](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/courting-justice-when-legal-challenges-to-corporate-land-grabs-go-wrong/) - By Sango Mahanty, Jean-Christophe Diepart and Sarou Long
- [Car Recycling: an often-overlooked way to decrease your vehicle's environmental impact](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/car-recycling-an-often-overlooked-way-to-decrease-your-vehicles-environmental-impact/) - Contributed by Gabe Vargas Masters student at University of California, San Diego
- [From bombs to biodiversity: why we need a conceptual shift in security](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/from-bombs-to-biodiversity-why-we-need-a-conceptual-shift-in-security/) - By Cebuan Bliss Photo credits: James Calalang
- [Biodiversity and the blind spot of nature conservation policy](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/biodiversity-and-the-blind-spot-of-nature-conservation-policy/) - By Esther Turnhout, Wageningen University
- [Political ecology in the courtroom: Exploring connections between conservation litigation and political ecology](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/political-ecology-in-the-courtroom/) - By Jacob Phelps, Lancaster University (feature image: Jaclyn Schwanke)
- [Examining Apple's Sustainability Commitments: Beyond the Buzzwords](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/examining-apples-sustainability-commitments-beyond-the-buzzwords/) - By Wilhelm Wanecek
- [Beating, kicking, tearing down houses – how police, RWE, and the German state are causing climate catastrophe in the German Rhineland](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/beating-kicking-tearing-down-houses-how-police-rwe-and-the-german-state-are-causing-climate-catastrophe-in-the-german-rhineland/) - By Andrea Brock
- [Sound Fair? The Political Ecology of Urban Traffic Noise](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/sound-fair-the-political-ecology-of-urban-traffic-noise/) - By Kim Wölper, Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS)
- [Ethics research codes and contracts may oppress vulnerable and Indigenous groups](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/ethics-research-codes-and-contracts-may-oppress-vulnerable-and-indigenous-groups/) - By Stasja Koot
- [The unsustainability of the southern African wildlife economy](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/the-unsustainability-of-the-southern-african-wildlife-economy/) - By Stasja Koot, Lerato Thakholi, Bram Büscher
- [POLLEN 2026: Open for Panels](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-2026-open-for-panels/) - Get ready for Barcelona!
- [Confessions of a guerilla gardner: a photo essay ](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/confessions-of-a-guerilla-gardner-a-photo-essay/) - by Neelakshi Joshi
- [Is Sustainable Business an Oxymoron? Rethinking sustainability under capitalism on our new MSc programme](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/is-sustainable-business-an-oxymoron-rethinking-sustainability-under-capitalism-on-our-new-msc-programme/) - By Centre for Labour and Sustainable Production (CLaSP) Team
- [How Neoliberal Conservation Fails Forward](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/how-neoliberal-conservation-fails-forward/) - By Robert Fletcher, Wageningen University
- [Antonio Bontempi - from engineering to political ecology](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/antonio-bontempi-environmental-justice-and-post-development-theory/) - I am a political ecologist and engineer currently interested in post-development theory, environmental justice/conflicts scholarship, conservation studies, low-tech, and degrowth.
- [Privatisation of beaches: When access to nature is reserved for the rich](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/privatisation-of-beaches-when-access-to-nature-is-reserved-for-the-rich/) - By Mariarcangela Augello
- [Urban Political Ecologies of Heat in Europe](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/urban-political-ecologies-of-heat-in-europe/) - Guest editors: Hug March (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya), Katie Meehan (King's College London).
- [Sayan Banerjee: learning is a process](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/learning-is-a-process/) - Sayan Banerjee is a researcher exploring the more-than-human political ecology of human-wildlife interactions and biodiversity conservation in India. Apart from this, he is also interested in the governance of ICCAs and their interaction with market-based conservation, gender and environment interlinkages, and environmental history. He currently serves as board member of the Social Science Working Group and Asia region, both under the Society of Conservation Biology.
- [Sarah Anne Stevens: Living the Values of Political Ecology](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/sarah-anne-stevens-living-the-values-of-political-ecology/) - I am a PhD candidate at Leiden University’s Institute of Political Science who is researching questions of contestation, power, and hegemony in global governance. Specifically, my work empirically examines how processes of degrowth transformation are introduced, contested, and co-opted in multistakeholder forest governance.
- [UPF Planetary Health in 50 Days (Barcelona)](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/upf-planetary-health-in-50-days-barcelona/) - In order to contribute to and advance the global conversations around planetary health and associated issues, the JHU-UPF Public Policy Center is organising a series of conferences that will take place in Barcelona, Spain, under the umbrella of “Planetary Health in 50 days”.
- [Special Feature in People and Nature: “Halfway through the UN Decade: taking stock of social-ecological restoration”](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/special-feature-in-people-and-nature-halfway-through-the-un-decade-taking-stock-of-social-ecological-restoration/) - Call for Proposals: Taking stock of social-ecological restoration People and Nature is seeking proposals to the Special Feature “Halfway through the UN Decade: taking stock of social-ecological restoration” Over the past decades, ecosystem restoration efforts aiming to prevent, halt, and reverse the loss of nature and enhance human well-being have accelerated worldwide. Global initiatives such as
- [Eleonora: research as a journey](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/eleonora-research-as-a-journey/) - I am a researcher currently interested both in the environmental justice dimension of biodiversity conservation, and the challenges and opportunities posed by ecological transitions in Europe —critically examining dominant “greening” narratives to uncover both their transformative potential and their pitfalls. I am member of the Direction Board of the Environmental Justice Atlas (EJAtlas) and an honorary member of the ICCA Consortium.
- [POLLEN at the Sussex Political Ecology conference](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/hello-world/) - POLLEN will present itself for the very first time at the upcoming Sussex Political Ecology conference on 'Resources, Power and Justice' - check out our leaflet here!
- [Welcome!](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/we-are-online/) - POLLEN is an umbrella organisation of political ecology researchers, groups, projects, networks and ‘nodes’ within Europe. This website will become the central portal for POLLEN, please stay tuned while we are developing the content.
- [Nature can’t pay its own way](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/nature-cant-pay-its-own-way/) - Our first blog by Benjamin Neimark is online and it is called: Nature can’t pay its own way – so let’s take the market out of conservation
- [We welcome you to join POLLEN!](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/we-welcome-you-to-join-pollen/) - To learn more about starting your own POLLEN node please email: info@politicalecologynetwork.com Also, check out the POLLEN blog for upcoming events and political ecology related articles. Contributions welcome! https://politicalecologynetwork.wordpress.com/ If you want POLLEN to sponsor/promote your Political Ecology themed panel at an upcoming event, please let us know as well. Make sure you add our
- [ENTITLE conference, the programme](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/entitle-conference-the-programme/) - Check out the preliminary programme of the ENTITLE conference, including a POLLEN roundtable.
- [New event: "Rights to Nature" conference, Cambridge](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/new-event-rights-to-nature-conference-cambridge/) - Upcoming event by POLLEN members: 23-24 June 2016: Conference ‘Rights to Nature: Tracing alternative political ecologies to the neoliberal environmental agenda’, Cambridge, UK
- [Registration for the PE-3C conference now open!](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/registration-for-the-pe-3c-conference-now-open/) - Registration for the PE-3C conference, Political Ecologies of Conflict, Capitalism and Contestation (Wageningen, the Netherlands, 7-9 July 2016), is now open. If you want to register, please click on one of the orange buttons at the conference website.
- [After the gold rush: exploration on the permanent mining frontier of Burkina Faso](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/after-the-gold-rush-exploration-on-the-permanent-mining-frontier-of-burkina-faso/) - Excellent new blog post via Muriel Côte, a member of one of POLLEN's latest nodes at the University of Zürich: http://politicalecologynetwork.com/pollen-blog-4/
- [The II Congreso Latinoamericano de Ecología Política will be held in San Pedro de Atacama, Chile, between November 8-11, 2016.](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/the-ii-congreso-latinoamericano-de-ecologia-politica-will-be-held-in-san-pedro-de-atacama-chile-between-november-8-11-2016/) - The conference is co-organized by the Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology of the Universidad Católica del Norte, the Department of Geography of the Universidad de Chile, the Center for Intercultural Studies and Indigenous and the Laboratoire International Associé MINES-ATACAMA. New deadline for proposals and papers is April 30. Details of the conference and CFP can
- [PhD/Postdoc summer school: Governance at the edge of the state, Zürich, 12-14 September 2016](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/phdpostdoc-summer-school-governance-at-the-edge-of-the-state-zurich-12-14-september-2016/) - One of POLLEN's latest nodes – the Political Geography unit at the University of Zürich – will host the third edition of a summer school on ‘Governance at the Edge of the State’ on 12-14 September 2016 in Zürich. This year, the summer school will bring together research on ’spaces of violent rule’. Discussions will
- [Job Opportunity: SSHRC Tier II Canada Research Chair: Economy and Environment](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/job-opportunity-sshrc-tier-ii-canada-research-chair-economy-and-environment-school-of-environmental-studies-and-department-of-global-development-studies/) - SSHRC TIER II CANADA RESEARCH CHAIR: ECONOMY AND ENVIRONMENT School of Environmental Studies and Department of Global Development Studies Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada The School of Environmental Studies and the Department of Global Development Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Science at Queen’s University invite applications from outstanding individuals for a Social Sciences
- [Job Opportunity: Tenure Track Assistant Professor: The Political Economy of Extraction and Development](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/job-opportunity-tenure-track-assistant-professor-the-political-economy-of-extraction-and-development/) - Tenure Track Assistant Professor: The Political Economy of Extraction and Development Department of Global Development Studies Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada The Department of Global Development Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Science at Queen’s University invites applications for a Tenure-track faculty position at the rank of Assistant Professor in the field of The
- [Political Ecology Panel for ASEASUK, 16-18th September 2016 , SOAS, Russel Sq, London.](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/political-ecology-panel-for-aseasuk-16-18th-september-2016-soas-russel-sq-london/) - Political ecology is an analytical approach used across disciplines that combines political economy and cultural ecology (Robbins 2004) and that provides trans-disciplinary frameworks that apply methods of political economy to ecological contexts (Gossling, 2003). Political ecology considers the environment as critical to our understanding of the relationship between the social and environmental disparities that are
- [2 PhD Studentships in Politics and International Relations](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/2-phd-studentships-in-politics-and-international-relations/) - BIOSEC Biodiversity and Security: Understanding environmental crime, illegal wildlife trade and threat finance. The Department of Politics at the University of Sheffield is pleased to offer two PhD studentships for exceptional candidates. Applications are welcomed from Masters graduates working in any of the sub-fields of Politics and International Relations, Human Geography or Development Studies. The studentships
- [The ENTITLE Political Ecology for Civil Society Manual](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/the-entitle-political-ecology-for-civil-society-manual/) - A manual product of the ENTITLE project designed for the use of civil society organisations and active citizens. The book offers an accessible insight into political ecology issues and provides intellectual and practical tools based from the experiences of the new generation of political ecologists trained within the project. Organized around the 5 main themes
- [Call for organizing the second POLLEN conference in 2018](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/call-for-organizing-the-second-pollen-conference-in-2018/) - In July 2016, the first POLLEN biannual conference will be held in Wageningen, the Netherlands. The theme of the conference is on Political Ecologies of Conflict, Capitalism and Contestation (PE-3C). Since the idea is that POLLEN organizes a conference every 2 years, the next POLLEN conference will be held in 2018. We hereby invite any
- [Essay: Cut the CAP](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/essay-cut-the-cap/) - Tanglewest Douglas, an undergraduate ecology student at Lancaster University, reflects on a film showing organised by the Lancaster University node and the Landworkers' Alliance, and what both the film and the debate that followed tell us about current questions around the future of food and farming. Cut the CAP The Lancaster POLLEN node recently organised
- [November updates from the Political Ecology Network](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/november-updates-from-the-political-ecology-network/) - Dear POLLEN members and friends (with apologies for X-posting), Greetings and welcome to another monthly update from POLLEN. We would like to thank everyone for contributing their news, publications, opportunities, etc., and we hope you enjoy reading about it all in this newsletter! This month, we are happy to welcome a number of new nodes
- [DEEP SEA MINING AT THE THRESHOLD: THE POLITICS OF THE SEABED?](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/deep-sea-mining-at-the-threshold-the-politics-of-the-seabed/) - John Childs This article originally appeared on Discover Society Plenty of virtual ink has been spilled predicting the advent of commercial deep-sea mining (DSM). Successful extraction of zinc, gold and copper has already taken place in Japan in late 2017. Several other countries who have identified deep-sea mineral deposits in their territorial waters are considering whether
- [Convivial Conservation: book review and authors' response](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/convivial-conservation-book-review-and-authors-response/) - Read Rogelio Luque-Lora's review of "Convivial Conservation" with a response from the authors, Rob Fletcher and Bram Buscher - comments are very welcome!
- [New Masters (MA) in Political Ecology - Lancaster University](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/new-masters-ma-in-political-ecology-lancaster-university/) - •The only one of its kind in the UK: dedicated to understanding how the environment and politics intersect with issues of power and justice •You will work with and learn from one of the largest political ecology research groups in the UK •You will directly engage with both academic and non-academic practitioners of political ecology,
- [Live discussion session on "Methodological questions in emotional political ecology"](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/live-discussion-session-on-methodological-questions-in-emotional-political-ecology/)
- [These are the new members of the POLLEN Secretariat 2022-2024](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/these-are-the-new-members-of-the-pollen-secretariat-2022-2024/) - In mid-August LUCSUS (Lund University's Centre for Sustainability Studies) became the new home of POLLEN's Secretariat. We present you the eight people who will be actively involved with the duties of the Secretariat: Torsten Krause: Torsten is a Senior lecturer at the Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies, Sweden. His research involves the fields of
- [April 2023 Update](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/april-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 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
- [#POLLEN24 – 10-12 June 2024, Lund- Sweden – Call for papers](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen24-10-12-june-2024-lund-sweden-call-for-papers/) - Geopolitical Ecology of Extractivist Empire-Making For many in the global military-security apparatus, the Anthropocene is an era of approaching apocalypses and cascading ‘threat multipliers’ – from climate to migration chaos and war. Unsurprisingly then, as global temperatures skyrocket, military spending is also reaching record levels. This all comes in the backdrop of fresh conflict in
- [Laila Vivas](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/laila-vivas/) - I am a researcher from Barcelona, with special focus on environmental justice, ecofeminism and health imaginaries. I have been working and collaborating with the Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3), the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) and the JHU-UPF Public Policy Center.
- [POLLEN2024 Moling Call (Reminder)](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen2024-moling-call-reminder/) - Large multi-panelled conferences are hard to keep up with. There is so much going on simultaneously that it can be disorientating, even alienating. One of the ways of dealing with this is by recruiting ‘conference moles’. Moles have the task of listening to public conversations and discussions taking place in panels, workshops and around the meeting, and
- [Green(ing) War: Military Build-up, Warfare and Socio-Environmental Wounds - EISA](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/greening-war-military-build-up-warfare-and-socio-environmental-wounds-eisa/) - Together with Esther Marijnen, Corinne Lamain and Nico Edwards, and Benjamin Neimark, we are organising a stream at the next EISA conference in Bologna: https://eisa-net.org/event/pec-2025/https://eisa-net.org/event/pec-2025/ For our stream "Green(ing) War: Military Build-up, Warfare and Socio-Environmental WoundsGreen(ing) War: Military Build-up, Warfare and Socio-Environmental Wounds" (S30), we will in total organise 5 panels. Looking for as many
- [Introducing the new POLLEN Secretariat 2024-2026](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/introducing-the-new-pollen-secretariat-2024-2026/) - Dear Community: Next week we will hand over the POLLEN Secretariat to our colleagues at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA), of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) in Spain. We have enjoyed interacting with this amazing community for the past two years, keeping this network connected through our social media, through our
- [VACANCY: SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP IN THE GEOPOLITICS OF WILDLIFE CONSERVATION](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/vacancy-senior-research-fellowship-in-the-geopolitics-of-wildlife-conservation/) - WORCESTER COLLEGE OXFORD Note: The deadline has passed, but if interested please contact Professor David Macdonald by email. The Kadas Senior Research Fellowship in Geopolitics Worcester College Oxford is delighted to offer its first Senior Research Fellowship in Geopolitics, funded by a generous benefaction from the Kadas Family Foundation, tenable for a period of up
- [Vacancy: assistant/associate professor in Geography, Pennsylvania](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/vacancy-assistantassociate-professor-in-geography-pennsylvania/) - The Department of Geography at The Pennsylvania State University invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position at the assistant or associate professor rank. We seek an established scholar whose research and teaching contributes to the area of Environment and Society as a subfield of Geography. Areas of investigation could include water resources, sustainability, health, urbanization,
- [Vacancy: Visiting Lecturer in Environmental Studies, Mount Holyoke College](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/vacancy-visiting-lecturer-in-environmental-studies-mount-holyoke-college/) - Visiting Lecturer in Environmental Studies (#474) Date Posted: 12/19/2016Type/Department: Faculty in Environmental StudiesSearch Status: Search Is Open - Accepting ApplicationsApply Now: Would you like to apply for this position? To apply The Department of Environmental Studies at Mount Holyoke College invites applications for a Visiting Lecturer position in environmental studies with a focus on political ecology and expertise
- [Vacancy: Visiting Lecturer in Environmental Studies](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/vacancy-visiting-lecturer-in-environmental-studies/) - We are very excited to be recruiting for a one year faculty position in environment and public health to sit in the department of environmental studies at Mount Holyoke. Please circulate among your networks and feel free to direct any questions to Tim Farnham or myself (more information and contact information via the website): https://jobs.mtholyoke.edu/index.cgi?&JA_m=JASDET&JA_s=535
- [Vacancy: Post-Doctoral Research Scientist (Gender and Climate Services)](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/vacancy-post-doctoral-research-scientist-gender-and-climate-services/) - The Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security (CCAFS) is pleased to announce a new position for a post-doctoral research scientist. The position will be based at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) at the Earth Institute of Columbia University in Palisades, NY, United States. The project seeks to examine gender
- [Vacancy: Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Human Geography (Sustainable Development/Political Ecology), Brighton](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/vacancy-lecturersenior-lecturer-in-human-geography-sustainable-developmentpolitical-ecology-brighton/) - We are looking to hire a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Human Geography (Sustainable Development/Political Ecology) in the School of Environment and Technology, University of Brighton, UK. Closing date: Thurs 28 September 2017. Further details and link to application process: https://jobs.brighton.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?ref=SV3079-17-284 I’m happy to answer any questions about the post and the department. Becky Elmhirst Dr Rebecca
- [Vacancy: Governing the water-labour-land nexus in agriculture and long-term regional development in the Sagalassos/Ağlasun region](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/vacancy-governing-the-water-labour-land-nexus-in-agriculture-and-long-term-regional-development-in-the-sagalassosaglasun-region/) - An interdisciplinary consortium of the KU Leuven is opening a vacancy for a doctoral researcher for the C1 research project on ‘The role of change in understanding long-term regional development in the Sagalassos/Ağlasun region in Turkey’. Governing the water-labour-land nexus in agriculture and long-term regional development in the Sagalassos/Ağlasun region This is a joint project
- [Position vacancy listing: Professor of Indigenous Community Studies](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/position-vacancy-listing-professor-of-indigenous-community-studies/) - University of Wisconsin - Madison Position Vacancy Listing PVL # 92335 Working Title: Asst, Assoc, or Full Professor of Indigenous Community Studies Official Title: PROFESSOR(C20NN) or ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR(C30NN) or ASSISTANT PROFESSOR(C40NN) Degree and area of specialization: Holds a doctoral degree in a discipline relevant to the units and position e.g. psychology, human development and family
- [Postdoctoral researcher, University of Trier](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/postdoctoral-researcher-university-of-trier/) - A new postdoc position has opened up at the University of Trier for the WaterPower project. Please see the following link for more details: a25_16-wissma_postdoc_cfa_final
- [DOCTORAL / POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCH OPPORTUNITY FOCUS: TRANSFORMATIVE SOCIAL LEARNING IN FOOD SYSTEMS](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/doctoral-post-doctoral-research-opportunity-focus-transformative-social-learning-in-food-systems/) - SARChI Chair: Transformative Social Learning and Green Skills Learning Pathways Environmental Learning Research Centre, www.ru.ac.za/elrc Do you have a Masters degree in environmental education OR environmental sciences (with a social science emphasis), social anthropology, sociology, social learning, agricultural or development economics / studies, mobile learning, or social dynamics of the food system? Do you
- [Postdoctoral position, Department of Urban and Rural Development, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/postdoctoral-position-department-of-urban-and-rural-development-swedish-university-of-agricultural-sciences/) - ** Posted on behalf of Seema Arora Jonsson ** A Postdoctoral position is open at the Department of Urban and Rural Development at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. Project proposals are welcome that bring a feminist lens on to questions of European rural development and its global interconnections such as in the contexts of agrarian change,
- [Job Opportunity: Berg Postdoctoral Fellowship in Geography, Macalester College, Saint Paul, MN USA ](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/job-opportunity-berg-postdoctoral-fellowship-in-geography-macalester-college-saint-paul-mn-usa/) - Berg Postdoctoral Fellowship in Geography, Macalester College, Saint Paul, MN USA Macalester College invites applications for a two-year Berg Postdoctoral Fellowship in Geography to begin Fall 2019. We are seeking candidates with a specialization in geospatial technologies and the environment. The Fellow will teach three courses in each academic year: two that contribute to the department’s existing
- [Job opportunity: Postdoctoral Fellow at Cambridge University](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/job-opportunity-postdoctoral-fellow-at-cambridge-university/) - MRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Physical Activity and Public Health Programme £32,236-£39,609 Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Fellow based in the Physical Activity and Public Health programme in the MRC Epidemiology Unit, a department within the University of Cambridge’s School of Clinical Medicine on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus. The programme is one of seven core-funded MRC
- [Postdoctoral Fellow - Social Sciences at Lincoln University](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/postdoctoral-fellow-social-sciences-at-lincoln-university/) - Description As the longest-running agriculturally-based university in the Southern Hemisphere, Lincoln University’s story begins with farming, but it certainly doesn’t end there. As New Zealand’s economy diversified, so have we. Lincoln University is here to enhance and enrich lives. To grow the knowledge of our students so they can shape a world that benefits from
- [Job opportunity: Postdoctoral Fellow at the Indian School of Business](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/job-opportunity-postdoctoral-fellow-at-the-indian-school-of-business/) - Position: Postdoctoral Fellow – “Institutional networks and self-organized adaptation: Tracing the democratic architectures of climate response” Location: Indian School of Business, Hyderabad Position Description: We are recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to work on the project “Institutional networks and self-organized adaptation: Tracing the democratic architectures of climate response”, a multi-collaborator effort led by Harry Fischer (Swedish
- [Two postdoctoral tenure track positions within environmental governance and the global political economy of environment & development](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/two-postdoctoral-tenure-track-positions-within-environmental-governance-and-the-global-political-economy-of-environment-development/) - Dear All, The Department of International Environment and Development Studies (Noragric) at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences is now hiring to fill two "postdoctoral tenure track positions" (the 'Assistant Professor' rank is relatively uncommon in Norway). Application deadline: 01 August 2019. https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/172531/postdoctoral-tenure-track-position-the-global-political-economy-of-environment-and-development https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/172518/postdoctoral-tenure-track-position-in-interdisciplinary-knowledge-construction-for-environmental-governance I am happy to field questions from POLLEN members regarding life
- [Two, 3-year Research Scientist postdoctoral positions in Maritime Geographies/Social Sciences at the Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity (HIFMB), Oldenburg, Germany.](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/two-3-year-research-scientist-postdoctoral-positions-in-maritime-geographies-social-sciences-at-the-helmholtz-institute-for-functional-marine-biodiversity-hifmb-oldenburg-germany/) - Two, 3-year Research Scientist postdoctoral positions in Maritime Geographies/Social Sciences at the Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity (HIFMB), Oldenburg, Germany. Come and join a growing group of geographers and social scientists at the interdisciplinary Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity (HIFMB). Located in beautiful Oldenburg, Germany, the HIFMB - a collaboration between the Alfred Wegener Institute
- [Vacancy: Postdoctoral position in Environmental Justice](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/vacancy-postdoctoral-position-in-environmental-justice/) - Discipline: Environmental Social Sciences/Humanities Duration: 18 months Location: Lille Catholic University, France Start date: 1 May 2022 or as negotiated Salary: 32 000€ per year (gross salary), including public and additional private health insurance, and annual leave entitlement A postdoctoral researcher is sought for interdisciplinary research (social
- [Vacancy: Postdoctoral researcher, Development Processes, Actors and Policies](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/vacancy-postdoctoral-researcher-development-processes-actors-and-policies/) - Department: Institute of Development Policy (IOB)Regime Full-time Let’s shape the future - University of Antwerp The University of Antwerp is a dynamic, forward-thinking university. We offer an innovative academic education to more than 20 000 students, conduct pioneering scientific research and play an important service-providing role in society. We are one of the largest, most international and most
- [Post-Doctoral Research position at Centre de Sciences Humaines (CSH)](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/post-doctoral-research-position-at-centre-de-sciences-humaines-csh/) - Job Summary: This post-doctoral fellowship is for a total duration of one-year (renewable for one year). The position is open to all Post-doc researchers in social sciences and humanities from India.The CSH is an equal opportunity employer committed to excellence through diversity. Women are especially encouraged to apply. Prerequisite: Hold a PhD from a leading
- [Post doctoral research associate position](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/post-doctoral-research-associate-position/) - 1 year research position focused on eel trade Join our team! This one year Research Associate role arises from the award of a major grant (£859,000) from the UK Economic and Social Research Council to Professor Rosaleen Duffy and Professor Charlotte Burns. The project, BEaStly Business: Examining the Illegal Trade in Bears, Eels and Songbirds,
- [Workshop CfP 'Transformations: Engaging Radical Democracy in Kurdistan', abstract deadline 16 September](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/workshop-cfp-transformations-engaging-radical-democracy-in-kurdistan-abstract-deadline-16-september/) - Emancipatory Transformations: Engaging Radical Democracy in Kurdistan is the title of a workshop that will be convened in Brighton and at the University of Sussex, UK from 3-4 November 2016. As described in the call, this two-day workshop aims to bring together a diverse group of activists and researchers to mutually learn, explore, share, and think of future possibilities
- [Announcing three Degrowth International Conferences in 2018](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/announcing-three-degrowth-international-conferences-in-2018/) - The Support Group of the International Degrowth Conferences is happy to announce three degrowth events for 2018. After the conferences in Paris (2008), Barcelona (2010), Venice and Montreal (2012), Leipzig (2014) and Budapest (2016), in 2018 there will be: 1) 6th International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity: 'Dialogues in turbulent times' Where: Malmö (Sweden)
- [POLLEN monthly news round-up](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-monthly-news-round-up/) - A pdf version of the newsletter is available here. Dear POLLEN members and friends (with apologies for X-posting), Greetings and welcome to a bumper newsletter with two months’ worth of publications, blog posts and opportunities! Our most exciting news is that registration for POLLEN18 is now open for people who have submitted paper and panel
- [April monthly newsfeed](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/april-monthly-newsfeed/) - This newsfeed is also available as a pdf. Dear POLLEN members and friends (with apologies for X-posting), Welcome to our monthly news update for April. As ever, a lot has been happening in the network: we’ve got some great blog posts, a diverse set of publications, some cool job postings and a CFP for a
- [Political Ecology Network (POLLEN) Third Biennial Conference - Contested Natures: Power, Possibility, Prefiguration](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/political-ecology-network-pollen-third-biennial-conference-contested-natures-power-possibility-prefiguration/) - Brighton, United Kingdom June 24-26, 2020 #POLLEN20 We are happy to announce that the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN) Third Biennial Conference will be held in Brighton, United Kingdom, June 24-26, 2020 on the theme of Contested Natures: Power, Possibility, Prefiguration. POLLEN20 will be organized by the ESRC STEPS Centre (IDS/SPRU, University of Sussex) and co-hosted
- [POLLEN Newsletter: October](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-october-newsletter/) - Dear POLLEN friends! We are happy to send out our latest newsletter with updates from our members and nodes. You can read the simple text-version of the newsletter below, or click on the download button to access the PDF that includes some media inputs too. POLLEN October NewsletterDownload Note on posting articles on website In
- [Request for input for Newsletter](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/request-for-input-for-newsletter/) - Dear POLLEN Friends, The time has come for the last newsletter of 2019! We will publish these updates next week, so if you have any new publications, events, CfPs, blog posts or anything else you would like to share with the network, please send it to politicalecologynetwork@gmail.com by Wednesday, the 18th of December. Looking forward to
- [POLLEN December Newsletter](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-december-newsletter/) - Dear POLLEN Members and Friends, Thanks to all your input, we have a filled-up newsletter with plenty of exciting new publications, conference and course announcements, blog posts and job openings. As we have reached the end of 2019 and therefore the last newsletter of the year, we would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your continuous engagement with
- [Call for Newsletter Inputs!](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/call-for-newsletter-inputs/) - Dear POLLEN Friends, We will soon be publishing the newsletter for February. If you have any news, new publications, vacancies, blog posts, etc. to share with the network, please send it to politicalecologynetwork@gmail.com by Friday, the 21st of February. Also, our call for the monthly newsletter-photos is still active! So if you have an interesting,
- [Call for Newsletter Inputs!](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/call-for-newsletter-inputs-2/) - Dear all, As many of us are seeing our lives changed by COVID19 and the measures taken to delay and contain it, we believe there is value in trying to uphold the POLLEN sense of community. Thus, as always, we hope those of you who are able to, will share with us your updates, new
- [#POLLEN20 postponed due to COVID-19](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen20-postponed-due-to-covid-19/) - Dear POLLEN friends, We regret that we must announce that the POLLEN 20 conference, which was scheduled for 24-26 June 2020, has postponed by the hosts in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In light of this, the conference organizers are taking some time to consider carefully alternative arrangements for hosting the conference. We will be
- [Call for April Newsletter Inputs!](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/call-for-april-newsletter-inputs/) - Dear POLLEN friends, Another month has passed since our last call for inputs, and with the great amount of responses then, we continue to believe that in times like these we should work hard to keep the POLLEN community going! So if you have any news, publications, CfPs, blog posts, etc. you would like to
- [Request for May Newsletter input!](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/request-for-may-newsletter-input/) - Dear POLLEN friends, The time has come to gather all the news across the network for this month's newsletter. If you have any updates to share with POLLEN, please send it to politicalecologynetwork@gmail.com by the 27th of May. For registered nodes: we are encountering some technical difficulties, and have therefore not been able to send
- [Call for June Newsletter Input](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/call-for-june-newsletter-input/) - Dear POLLEN friends, We will be publishing this month's newsletter next week! If you have any new articles, posts, conferences, podcast, etc. to share with the network, please send them to politicalecologynetwork@gmail.com by Wednesday, 24th of June. Looking forward to reading your updates!
- [Request for newsletter input!](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/request-for-newsletter-input/) - Dear POLLEN Friends, We are once again compiling input for this month's newsletter! If you have any updates you would like to share with the network, please send them to politicalecologynetwork@gmail.com by Wednesday, the 29th of July. Looking forward to reading your news! POLLEN Secretariat
- [Request for newsletter input!](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/request-for-newsletter-input-2/) - Dear POLLEN friends, The time has come once again to ask you for input for this month's newsletter! If you have any updates, publications, blog posts, CFPs or similar to share, please send them to politicalecologynetwork@gmail.com by Friday, the 28th of August.Looking forward to hearing your news!
- [Request for newsletter input!](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/request-for-newsletter-input-3/) - Dear POLLEN friends, We are gathering input for November's newsletter, so if you have any updates to share with the network, please send them to politicalecologynetwork@gmail.com by Friday, the 27th of this month.Looking forward to hearing your news!
- [Request for newsletter input](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/request-for-newsletter-input-4/) - Dear POLLEN friends, In the first week of January we will gather together all the updates that happened across the network in December. Due to the holidays we are providing a much longer window for receiving inputs (and will therefore publish the newsletter a little bit later than usual), so please forward any news you have by
- [Send us your news items for the next POLLEN newsletter!](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/send-us-your-news-items-for-the-next-pollen-newsletter/) - We would love to hear from your node with any news or updates you'd like to share with the broader POLLEN community. Please send these to politicalecologynetwork@gmail.com by Wednesday 24 February!
- [POLLEN April 2021 Newsletter](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-april-2021-newsletter/) - Dear POLLEN Members and Friends, There are lots of updates to share this month, including an introduction to the POLLEN node at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, CfPs, publications from our community, opportunities to join workshops, teaching resources on political ecology, and much more. We would like to hear from nodes who are keen to feature their
- [INTRODUCING THE NEW POLLEN SECRETARIAT!](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/introducing-the-new-pollen-secretariat/) - A special note from your POLLEN secretariat hosts, Sango Mahanty, Ratchada Arpornsilp and Sarah Milne, at ANU’s Resources, Environment and Development Program. This week, we are handing over the secretariat to our wonderful colleagues at the Lund University Center for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS) in Sweden. We have really enjoyed interacting with all of you over
- [POLLEN24 Conference - Call for Papers is out!](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen24-conference-call-for-papers-is-out/) - We are thrilled to announce that the POLLEN24 Conference - Call for Papers is officially out! The Conference is set to take place between 10-12 June 2024 and will be held simultaneously across three locations in Lima (Peru), Dodoma (Tanzania) and Lund (Sweden). You can find information about the CfP and Conference below. Call for
- [February 2024 Update](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/february-2024-update/) - Dear POLLEN Members and Friends, We are pleased to share with you today the latest publications, vacancies, CfP, and much more from our vibrant community. Before we get to it, a quick reminder that if your Node is keen to share its work, vacancy opportunities, or others in our upcoming newsletter, please write to us
- [Public Call- Expression of Interest to host POLLEN Secretariat (2024-2026)](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/public-call-expression-of-interest-to-host-pollen-secretariat-2024-2026/) - Dear Community, It has been a pleasure engaging with all of you over the past two years, striving to maintain our network's connectivity and sharing political ecology-related updates and opportunities. However, the time has come to seek a new home for our network. We are therefore inviting expressions of interest to undertake the wonderful responsibility
- [News: updates from Political Ecology Research Centre, Massey University, NZ](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/news-updates-from-political-ecology-research-centre-massey-university-nz/) - POLLEN initiators Bram Buscher and Rob Fletcher (Wageningen University, The Netherlands) will be traveling to New Zealand in early February 2018 with colleagues from Sociology of Development and Change Group (SADE). They will visit Massey University’s PERC (Political Ecology Research Centre) members and researchers from the School of People Environment and Planning (SPEP). A workshop
- [June Updates from the Political Ecology Network](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/june-updates-from-the-political-ecology-network/) - Dear POLLEN members and friends (with apologies for X-posting), Greetings and welcome to another monthly update from POLLEN. There will be no newsletter next month as we will be busy with the POLLEN18 conference, so this is my last newsletter as secretary. Thank you for all your contributions and friendly emails, and happy scrolling! A
- [September updates from the Political Ecology Network](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/september-updates-from-the-political-ecology-network/) - Dear POLLEN members and friends (with apologies for X-posting), Greetings and welcome to another monthly update from POLLEN. After a great conference in Oslo in June (over 450 attendees!) and a brief hiatus after that, we are excited to get back into the regular newsfeed schedule. We would like to say many thanks to Katharine Howell
- [December updates from POLLEN](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/december-updates-from-pollen/) - A pdf version of the newsletter can be found here Dear POLLEN members and friends (with apologies for X-posting), Greetings and welcome to the last monthly update from POLLEN in 2018. We have a very full newsletter again – thanks to everyone for contributing their news, publications, opportunities, etc., and we hope you enjoy reading about it all in
- [January updates from POLLEN](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/january-updates-from-pollen/) - Dear POLLEN members and friends (with apologies for X-posting), Greetings and welcome to the first monthly update from POLLEN in 2019. We hope everyone had a restful break – even though it seems like a very long time ago already! Many thanks to everyone who sent in their contributions – the number of publications, opportunities, news articles
- [April updates from POLLEN](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/april-updates-from-pollen/) - A pdf version of this newsletter can be found here Dear POLLEN members and friends (with apologies for X-posting), Greetings and welcome to our monthly POLLEN update. We would like to start with exciting news! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We are happy to announce that the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN) Third Biennial Conference will be held in Brighton, United Kingdom, June 24-26, 2020
- [January 2020 Updates](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/january-2020-updates/)
- [February 2020 Updates](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/february-2020-updates/) - Dear Pollen Members and Friends, Thank you for once again providing us with great input for this month's newsletter. Along with a small task for nodes (see below picture), there's plenty of new publications, blog posts, conferences and even a few vacancies. NOTE: the updates below are a copy of the original newsletter, and therefore might not
- [March 2020 Updates](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/march-2020-updates/)
- [April 2020 Updates](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/april-2020-updates/) - Dear POLLEN Members and Friends, April has surely been another month of unprecedented change and challenges. Despite this, based on the input we received, it seems that the POLLEN network is not only standing strong, but - with a number of works connecting the covid-19 pandemic with broader societal, environmental and economic issues and calling for change
- [May 2020 Updates](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/may-2020-updates/) - Dear POLLEN Friends, Thank you for sending us your updates this month - again, we have a number of exciting blog posts, articles, special issues, and podcasts to share! We are also introducing a new segment to the newsletter, which will help us get to know our members better. And finally, we also share the preliminary
- [June 2020 Updates](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/june-2020-updates/) - Dear POLLEN Members and Friends, June has again been a month of big changes globally and accordingly, also across the network. In this month's newsletter we are introducing a node from Edinburgh; some updates on POLLEN20; a number of exciting new publications, blog posts and podcasts; as well as conferences, calls for papers and vacancies. Thank
- [POLLEN July Updates](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-july-updates/)
- [POLLEN20 Conference Updates !](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen20-conference-updates/) - Dear POLLEN friends, Below you can find a number of important updates regarding the conference: Call for proposals for individual paper presentations and poster presentations in line with the conference’s main themes and cross-cutting questions. The submission deadline is 10 August, 2020 (24.00 BST). More information is available here. Registration for the POLLEN20 virtual conference is now open, including for non-presenting
- [POLLEN August Updates](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-august-updates/) - Dear POLLEN Members and Friends, This month our newsletter is slightly longer than usual, as we are sending out some important information about the upcoming POLLEN20 Conference. We are also introducing a POLLEN node, this time from the University of Oklahoma and as usual, have a long list of new publications, articles, CfPs, vacancies, and
- [POLLEN September Updates](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-september-updates/)
- [POLLEN October Updates](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-october-updates/)
- [November 2020 Updates](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/november-2020-updates/)
- [POLLEN December Updates](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-december-updates/) - Dear POLLEN Members and Friends, We closed 2020 and look forward to a different 2021! However, before we do this, here's a look at what happened across POLLEN in December. We have plenty of publications, some CfPs, podcasts, blog posts and more. Also, as this is our last newsletter before handing over to our friends at the Australian
- [June 2024 Update](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/june-2024-update/) - Dear POLLEN Members and Friends, We are pleased to share with you today the latest publications, vacancies, CfP, and much more from our vibrant community. Before we begin, we want to extend a big thank you to all POLLEN24 participants, those who followed and joined the conversation on X (Twitter), and all the volunteers and
- [POLLEN January Updates](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-january-updates/) - Dear POLLEN Members and Friends, We have a packed newsletter to start the year with - lots of new publications, the introduction of the POLLEN Advisory Collective, CfPs, seminar and speaker series, courses, and more. We are also introducing the newly established Levant Node. Enjoy the read! Best wishes, POLLEN Secretariat NOTE: the updates below are a
- [POLLEN February Updates](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-february-updates/) - There are lots of updates to share this month, including preliminary information on POLLEN 2022, CfPs, publications from our community and more.
- [May 2021 Updates](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/may-2021-updates/) - Dear POLLEN Members and Friends, As always, we are excited to share news from around the POLLEN network. This month we are featuring the Center for Social Development Studies, the POLLEN node at the Faculty of Political Science in Chulalongkorn University. We also have CfPs, publications from our community, an invitation for a book review, vacancies, and more. If your node is keen to feature your work in the upcoming newsletters, please drop us a line at politicalecologynetwork@gmail.com. We also welcome contributions, conversations, or comments for the POLLEN blog! It’s a great way to share and get dialogue around your work. Feel free to check out our recent blog with Rogelio Luque-Lora’s review of “Convivial Conservation” with a response from the authors, Rob Fletcher and Bram Buscher – your comments are very welcome!. Also, please write to us at the above email address if you are interested in contributing to the blog. With regards from your POLLEN Secretariat:Sango Mahanty | Sarah Milne | Ratchada Arpornsilp Getting to know your
- [June 2021 Updates](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/june-2021-updates/) - Dear POLLEN Members and Friends, This month we are happy to introduce a new POLLEN node – the School of Social Sciences at the University of Western Australia. As always, we are also happy to share the latest publications from our lively community, CfPs, vacancies, and more. If your node is keen to feature your work in the upcoming newsletters, please write to us at politicalecologynetwork@gmail.com. It’s a great way to share and get dialogue around your work. We also welcome proposals for blog posts on the POLLEN blog – please contact us at
- [July 2021 Updates](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/july-2021-updates/) - Dear POLLEN Members and Friends, This month we are delighted to introduce another POLLEN node – the School of Geographical Sciences at the University of Bristol. As always, we are also happy to share the latest publications, CfPs, and more from our lively community. If your node is keen to feature your work in the upcoming newsletters, please write to us at politicalecologynetwork@gmail.com. It’s a great way to share and get dialogue around your work. We also welcome proposals for blog posts on the POLLEN blog – please contact us at
- [August 2021 Updates](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/august-2021-updates/) - Dear POLLEN Members and Friends, This month we are delighted to introduce a new POLLEN node – the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro. As always, we are also happy to share the latest publications, CfPs, and more from our lively community. If your node is keen to feature your work in the upcoming newsletters, please write to us atpoliticalecologynetwork@gmail.com. It’s a great way to share and get dialogue around your work. We also welcome proposals for blog
- [September 2021 Updates](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/september-2021-updates/) - Dear POLLEN Members and Friends, This month we are delighted to introduce a new POLLEN node based in Czechia. As always, we are also happy to share the latest publications, CfPs, and more from our lively community. If your node is keen to feature its work in the upcoming newsletters, please write to us at politicalecologynetwork@gmail.com. It’s a great way to share and get dialogue around your work. We also welcome proposals
- [October 2021 Updates](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/october-2021-updates/) - Dear POLLEN Members and Friends, This month we are delighted to introduce another POLLEN node, at the University of St. Andrews. Our nodes and members continue to grow, and we invite your inputs! If your node is keen to feature its work in upcoming newsletters, please write to us at politicalecologynetwork@gmail.com. It’s a great way to share
- [November 2021 Updates](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/november-2021-updates/) - Dear POLLEN Members and Friends, This month we are delighted to introduce and share the great work of another POLLEN node in Africa at the University of Cape Town. If your node is keen to feature your fantastic work in upcoming newsletters, please write to us at politicalecologynetwork@gmail.com.We are keen to share and generate dialogue
- [December 2021 Updates](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/december-2021-updates/) - Dear POLLEN Members and Friends, We hope that you are having a restful break at this end of year time. This month we are delighted to feature the great work of another POLLEN node, Treatied Spaces Research Group at the University of Hull, UK. If your node is keen to share your fantastic work in
- [January 2022 Updates](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/january-2022-updates/) - Dear POLLEN Members and Friends, We hope that you have started 2022 renewed and well. This month we are delighted to feature the great work of another POLLEN node, the Urban Ecologies Project at the National Institute of Advanced Studies in Bangalore, India. If your node is keen to share your work in upcoming newsletters,
- [February 2022 Updates](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/february-2022-updates/) - Dear POLLEN Members and Friends, This month we are delighted to feature the great work of another POLLEN node, the Political Ecology and Landscape Governance research group at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). If your node is keen to share your work in upcoming newsletters, please write to us at politicalecologynetwork@gmail.com. As always,
- [April 2022 Updates](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/april-2022-updates/) - Dear POLLEN Members and Friends, Will your POLLEN node become the next host for the POLLEN Secretariat? We are inviting expressions of interest to host the POLLEN Secretariat, commencing in Quarter 3 of 2022. As secretariat host, your node will be the epicentre of this fantastic networks of scholars and practitioners. Speaking from our experience,
- [May 2022 Updates](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/may-2022-updates/) - Dear POLLEN Members and Friends, As usual, this month we are delighted to feature the great work of another POLLEN node, Political Ecology Reading Group (PERG) at the University of Sheffield. If your node is keen to share your work in upcoming newsletters, please write to us at politicalecologynetwork@gmail.com. We are pleased to share some recent
- [August/September 2022 Updates](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/august-september-2022-updates/) - Dear POLLEN Members and Friends, It was a dry and hot end of summer in southern Sweden, where the POLLEN Secretariat now resides. Since we skipped the August newsletter, brace yourselves for a two-month newsletter. It is a bit longer than the usual newsletter, but it is full of lots of new content! Has your
- [October 2022 Updates](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/october-2022-updates/) - October 2022 Update Dear POLLEN Members and Friends, We send this update from Lund's Botanical Garden, as the unusual autumn warmth in Sweden still allows for working outside. 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.
- [November 2022 Updates](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/november-2022-updates/) - November 2022 Update Dear POLLEN Members and Friends, Winter finally arrived to Sweden in mid-November. In Lund, where the Secretariat is now based, it snowed and the snow even stayed for a few days! Once the snow melted away, the darkness took over as "saving the planet" was promoted to the top of the list
- [December 2022 & January 2023 Updates](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/december-2022-january-2023-updates/) - Dear POLLEN Members and Friends, We wish you a 2023 full of joy. Let´s keep spreading the word and the work of political ecologists. 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
- [Call for Papers – Ocean Governance Conference - Bremen, Germany, March 6-8, 2017](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/call-for-papers-ocean-governance-conference-bremen-germany-march-6-8-2017/) - Ocean Governance for Sustainability - Challenges, Options and the Role of Science Deadline for Abstract Submission: December 31st, 2016. Current practices and future directions in Ocean Governance The subject of governing oceanic systems and coastlines is moving into the center of European strategic and sustainability interests. Yet, it suffers from a high degree of fragmentation
- [THANK YOU from Wageningen and welcome to Lancaster!](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/thank-you-from-wageningen-and-welcome-to-lancaster/) - Dear POLLEN members, From now on, the Lancaster Environment Centre at the Lancaster University is taking over the POLLEN secretariat! We from Sociology of Development and Change, Wageningen University, the Netherlands, want to thank everybody for being a part in this great and important initiative for the last 2.5 years. We have had the honor
- [POLLEN18 Roundtable: Can interdisciplinarity push disruptive junctures beyond business-as-usual reassembly?](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen18-roundtable-can-interdisciplinarity-push-disruptive-junctures-beyond-business-as-usual-reassembly/) - Second Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN) POLLEN18: Political Ecology, the Green Economy, and Alternative Sustainabilities Conference CFP: https://politicalecologynetwork.com/pollen-biannual-conference/ Theme: Challenges for and pathways to alternative sustainabilities Panel: Can interdisciplinarity push disruptive junctures beyond business-as-usual reassembly? Convenors: Siddharth Sareen and Don Kalb Panellists: Narasimha Rao, Patrik Oskarsson, Tarje Wanvik, Melissa García-Lamarca Ruptures, openings
- [May Monthly Newsletter](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/may-monthly-newsletter/) - This newsletter is available as a pdf here. Dear POLLEN members and friends (with apologies for X-posting), Greetings! We hope this finds you well. Here’s another month’s worth of interesting blog posts, publications and opportunities. We are especially excited to have so many new member nodes this month – if you are involved in political
- [III Latin American Congress of Political Ecology](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/iii-latin-american-congress-of-political-ecology/) - III Congresso Latinamericano de Ecologia Política III Latin American Congress of Political Ecology 5-9 Novembro, 2018 Cahoeira e Salvador, Bahia, Brasil Insurgências Decolonias e Horizontes Emancipatórios Decolonial insurgences and emancipatory horizons The Latin American Network of Political Ecology, through the organizing committee of the III Latin American Congress of Political Ecology, invites the academic community
- [Call for Papers: International workshop on “Narratives and practices of environmental justice” (6th to 8th June 2019)](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/call-for-papers-international-workshop-on-narratives-and-practices-of-environmental-justice-6th-to-8th-june-2019/) - The ongoing environmental crisis has strong implications for environmental justice. A relatively small and wealthy part of the global population claims an ever increasing share of the planet’s resources while polluting and destructing marine and terrestrial habitats. Negatively affected by these developments are especially those groups that are least responsible for them. Moreover, many of
- [Call for Papers for fully funded work/writeshop – May 2020](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/call-for-papers-for-fully-funded-work-writeshop-may-2020/) - Call for Papers for fully funded work/writeshop – May 2020 in the Abbazia di San Giusto, Italy on Crisis Conservation: Saving Nature in Times of Extinction, Exception and Enmity Organized by: Prof. Bram Büscher (Wageningen University, the Netherlands). Date: 10-16 May 2020 Place: Abbazia di San Giusto, Italy (an old abbey two hours from Rome,
- [POLLEN newsletter: June](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-newsletter-june/) - Dear POLLEN members and friends (with apologies for X-posting), Greetings and welcome to our monthly POLLEN update. We are happy to have received a number of interesting new publications and opportunities, and to once again welcome new nodes! Our teaching resources page is still expanding. If you have anything that you would like to add, please let
- [CALL FOR PAPERS: EMANCIPATORY AND RADICAL PERSPECTIVES ON ILLICIT GEOGRAPHIES AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/call-for-papers-emancipatory-and-radical-perspectives-on-illicit-geographies-and-environmental-change/) - CFP: A 2-day workshop on illicit geographies hosted at the University of Alabama This is a 2-day workshop, hosted at the University of Alabama May 4-5, 2020. Organized by Jared Margulies (University of Alabama), Francis Massé (University of Sheffield), and Brittany Gilmer (University of Alabama) We invite abstract submissions for an intensive two-day workshop on illicit geographies and environmental
- [Reminder: monthly POLLEN newsletter](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/reminder-monthly-pollen-newsletter/) - Dear POLLEN members, It is nearly time for our mid-Summer POLLEN newsletter! Many thanks to those who have already sent in their contributions. If you have anything that you would like to see circulated - CfPs, job adverts, blog posts, publications, petitions, etc., please email to us and we will include it. Please send us anything
- [POLLEN 2020: Call for session proposals](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-2020-call-for-session-proposals/) - The Third Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN) Contested Natures: Power, Possibility, Prefiguration #POLLEN20 When: 24 – 26 June 2020 Where: Brighton, UK Organized by: The ESRC STEPS Centre (IDS/SPRU, University of Sussex) and The Political Ecology Network (POLLEN) Secretariat (based at Lancaster University 2017 -2019; and moving to the University of Copenhagen 2019 – 2021).
- [Reminder: monthly POLLEN newsletter](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/reminder-monthly-pollen-newsletter-2/) - Dear POLLEN members, Our next newsletter is fast approaching, and we would like to invite everyone to send us things that they would like to see circulated - CfPs, job adverts, blog posts, publications, petitions, etc. We will then make sure to include it all in the newsletter.Please send us anything that you would like
- [POLLEN newsletter: September/October](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-newsletter-september-october/) - Dear POLLEN members and friends (with apologies for X-posting), Greetings and welcome to a new POLLEN update. Many thanks to all who have sent in their new publications and opportunities, which have been inspiring for us to read. We hope everyone enjoys reading this month’s newsletter and we thank everyone who sent us contributions. A
- [POLLEN Newsletter: November](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-newsletter-november/) - Dear Pollen Members! While days have shortened and darkened here in Copenhagen, there has been plenty of activity across the Political Ecology network. See the latest publications, blog posts and other news from our nodes in this month's newsletter! To see all media content and hyperlinks, as well as previous newsletters, follow the link below. Alternatively, you
- [Call for Newsletter Input](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/call-for-newsletter-input/) - Dear POLLEN friends, While POLLEN20 is going on with lots of exciting talks and sessions, we are also compiling input for this month's newsletter. So if you have any new publications, articles, posts, CfPs, job announcements, and anything else that's relevant, please send it to politicalecologynetwork@gmail.com by the 30th of September. Looking forward to reading
- [Call for Papers: European Conference on Politics and Gender](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/call-for-papers-european-conference-on-politics-and-gender/) - Fundamental Challenges to European Politics: Gender, Race, Intersectionality, and the More-Than-Human Conference Date and Location: 7-9 July, 2021 University of Ljubljana Deadline for submissions: 29 November 2020 at 00:00 CET Read full description in this document:Download
- [POLLEN 2022: Shift to a virtual format, extended call for organised session proposals, and call for individual papers](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-2022-shift-to-a-virtual-format-extended-call-for-organised-session-proposals-and-call-for-individual-papers/) - POLLEN 2022: The 4th Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network Political Ecology: North, South, and Beyond #POLLEN22 | www.pollen2022.com | @PolEcoNet Shift to a virtual format, extended call for organised session proposals, and call for individual papers When: 28 Jun – 1 July 2022 Where: South Africa | Virtual Organised By: The Discipline of
- [March 2022 Newsletter](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/march-2022-newsletter/) - Dear POLLEN Members and Friends, This month we are delighted to feature the great work of another POLLEN node, the Division of Rural Development at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU). If your node is keen to share your work in upcoming newsletters, please write to us at politicalecologynetwork@gmail.com. As always, we are pleased to
- [Perspectives on Environmental Justice in Scandinavian Green Transitions](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/perspectives-on-environmental-justice-in-scandinavian-green-transitions/) - Call for papers Green Transitions Workshop series: 18 October 2022 and 17-18 November 2022 This workshop is organised by Sebastian Lundsteen and Melina Antonia Buns Scandinavian discourses on green transitions predominantly center around techno-scientific solutions and the regulation of pollutive industries. Although absent of sociocultural perspectives, green transitions raise questions of social justice and equal
- [POLLEN ´23 is coming!](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-23-is-coming/) - Good afternoon Pollinators We are pleased to announce the commencement of registration for the upcoming POLLEN ’23 conference between the 27th to 29th June at Howard College in Durban South Africa. The main registration period will run between the 1st of Feb and into March, where those whose session and presentation proposals were accepted will
- [February 2023 Update](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/february-2023-update/) - Dear POLLEN Members and Friends, Thanks again for sharing and spreading the word and work of political ecologists. 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
- [POLLEN 2022/2023: Final Call for Papers, announcement of plenary indabas and registration](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-2022-2023-final-call-for-papers-announcement-of-plenary-indabas-and-registration/) - The 4th Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network Political Ecology: North, South, and Beyond. 27-29th June 2023 Organised by: The Discipline of Geography and the Centre for Civil Society at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Support is provided by the South African National Convention Bureau (SANCB), the South African National Research Foundation (NRF)Conference organiser: African
- [March 2023 Update](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/march-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. 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
- [May 2023 Update](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/may-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 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
- [June 2023 Update](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/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 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
- [July 2023 Update](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/july-2023-update/) - Dear POLLEN Members and Friends, We hope that you are having a nice and hopefully restful month of July (which here in Lund is typically a holiday period). We are pleased to share a slightly shorter update with the latest publications, vacancies, CfPs and more from our lively community. We aim to send this newsletter
- [August 2023 Update](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/august-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 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
- [September 2023 Update](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/september-2023-update/) - Dear POLLEN Members and Friends, We are pleased to share with you today, as usual on the 25th of every month, the latest publications, vacancies, CfP, and much more from our vibrant community. This month holds a special announcement! As you are aware, we welcome proposals from academics/activists for blog posts on the POLLEN blog.
- [#POLLEN24 - Call for papers on "Political Ecologies of carbon removal, net zero and climate delay"](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen24-call-for-papers-on-political-ecologies-of-carbon-removal-net-zero-and-climate-delay/) - POLLEN24 in Lund invites abstracts for papers that address the emerging political ecologies of carbon removal in its variety of emerging forms. More information about this CfP, including its rationale, deadline, and contacts below. Call for Papers – POLLEN 2024 CDR Stream CfP POLLEN24 – 10-12 June 2024, Lund- Sweden The climate conversation has in
- [October 2023 Update](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/october-2023-update/) - Dear POLLEN Members and Friends, Again the 25th of the month has arrived, and thus we are pleased to update you with the latest publications, vacancies, CfP, and much more from our vibrant community. Before we get into it, we just want to remind you that last week the CfP for the POLLEN24 Conference (10-12
- [#POLLEN24 - Call for papers on "Political Ecology of Glacierized Environments"](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen24-call-for-papers-on-political-ecology-of-glacierized-environment/) - POLLEN24 in Lund invites abstracts for papers that engage with climate change and glacierized environments. More information about this CfP, including its rationale, deadline, and contacts below. Call for Papers – POLLEN 2024 Glaciers Stream POLLEN24 – 10-12 June 2024, Lund - Sweden Glaciers are not just geographical features; they are integral components of global
- [#POLLEN24 - Call for papers on "Political ecologies of change: Degrowth as transformation"](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen24-call-for-papers-on-political-ecologies-of-change-degrowth-as-transformation/) - POLLEN24 in Lund invites abstracts for papers that address issues around sustainability, political ecology of change, and degrowth. More information about this CfP, including its rationale, deadline, and contacts below. Call for Papers – Degrowth Stream POLLEN24 – 10-12 June 2024, Lund- Sweden The degrowth scholarship presents a compelling case for a comprehensive transformation that
- [#POLLEN24 - Call for Papers](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen24-call-for-papers/) - We share two Calls for Papers for #POLLEN24 Lund (More than Human Cartographies: Putting Nonhuman Natures on the Map) and #POLLEN24 Dodoma (Political Ecology of Connectivity and Conservation). More information below. Call for Papers – More-than-Human Mappings: Putting Nonhuman Natures on the Map POLLEN24 – 10-12 June 2024, Lund- Sweden Maps have traditionally been dominated
- [POLLEN23 Asynchronous Conference Content](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen23-asynchronous-conference-content/) - As we all start mulling over CFPs for next year's POLLEN24 distributed conference, we have some last gems from POLLEN23 for you. We are pleased to present 12 recorded videos – the 4 plenaries and 8 conference sessions – for those who wish to revisit the content, and for those who were not able to
- [#POLLEN24 - Call for papers "Putting the Critique into Practice: Political Ecologists as Change Agents in Global/Local Wildlife Conservation Practice"](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen24-call-for-papers-putting-the-critique-into-practice-political-ecologists-as-change-agents-in-global-local-wildlife-conservation-practice/) - POLLEN24 in Dodoma invites abstracts for papers that address issues around effective changes in wildlife conservation at global and local scales. More information about this CfP, including its rationale, deadline, and contacts below. POLLEN24 – 10-12 June 2024, Dodoma- Tanzania Organized Paper Session Political ecology has been instrumental in thinking and theorizing how power and
- [#POLLEN24 - Call for papers "Green transitions as decolonization"](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen24-call-for-papers-green-transitions-as-decolonization/) - POLLEN24 in Lund invites abstracts for papers that address issues around green transition, nature restoration, and open-ended approaches to nature management and climate mitigation through the lens of decolonization theory. More information about this CfP, including its rationale, deadline, and contacts below. POLLEN24 – 10-12 June 2024, Lund- Sweden In our time, climate change and
- [#POLLEN24 - Call for papers: Political ecologies of ‘green’ authoritarianism. Recentering democracy in debates on environmental justice](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen24-call-for-papers-political-ecologies-of-green-authoritarianism-recentering-democracy-in-debates-on-environmental-justice/) - POLLEN24 in Lund invites abstracts for papers that address issues around re-centering the political question of democracy in political ecology. More information about this CfP, including its rationale, deadline, and contacts below. POLLEN24 – 10-12 June 2024, Lund- Sweden Across the planet, the urgency of addressing climate change seems to be overriding concerns for democracy.
- [#POLLEN24 - Call for papers: "Integrating ecology in political ecology research on agriculture"](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen24-call-for-papers-integrating-ecology-in-political-ecology-research-on-agriculture/) - POLLEN24 in Lund invites abstracts for papers that address issues of how to combine ecology with more traditional social science approaches to political ecology within the field of agricultural research. More information about this CfP, including its rationale, deadline, and contacts below. POLLEN24 – 10-12 June 2024, Lund- Sweden The world is currently facing multiple
- [#POLLEN24 - Call for papers and Exhibition Participants "Participatory Visual Methods"](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen24-call-for-papers-and-exhibition-participants/) - POLLEN24 in Lund invites contributions for exhibitions and/or panel presentations that showcase visual participatory methods for investigating and reimagining classic themes in political ecology in both the city and rural areas. More information about this CfP, including its rationale, deadline, and contacts below. POLLEN24 10-12 June 2024, Lund - Sweden. Participatory Visual Methods Why do
- [November 2023 Update](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/november-2023-update/) - Dear POLLEN Members and Friends, We are pleased to share with you today the latest publications, vacancies, CfP, and much more from our vibrant community. Before we get to it, we want to remind you if you are organizing a CfP for the POLLEN24 conference and want to share it in our POLLEN Blog, please
- [#POLLEN24 - Call for papers](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen24-call-for-papers-2/) - We share two Calls for Papers for #POLLEN24 Lund (10-12 June 2014 Lund-Sweden): (i) Unravelling the Political Ecology of Technologies and Digitalisation in the Agri-food System, and (ii) Just transitions and rural environmental justice in Europe. More information is below. Call for Papers – Unravelling the Political Ecology of Technologies and Digitalisation in the Agri-food System
- [#POLLEN24 - Call for papers "Political ecologies of islands in the Anthropocene"](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen24-call-for-papers-political-ecologies-of-islands-in-the-anthropocene/) - We share a CfP for #POLLEN24 Lund (10-12 June 2014 Lund-Sweden). More information is below. Call for Papers – Political ecologies of islands in the Anthropocene Panel organizers: Matthias Kowasch, University College of Teacher Education Styria, Austria; Inland Norway Universityof Applied SciencesHeide K. Bruckner, University of Graz, Austria While small island developing states generally produce low
- [#POLLEN24 - (Latest) Call for papers](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen24-latest-call-for-papers-2/) - We share four new Calls for Papers for #POLLEN24 . More information is below. Call for Papers – Political Ecology, Geopolitics, and the International POLLEN24 – 10-12 June 2024, Lund- Sweden Organised by: Jan Selby (University of Leeds) and Rosaleen Duffy (University of Sheffield) This panel will explore the intersection between political ecology and International Relations
- [#POLLEN24 - (Latest) Call for papers](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen24-latest-call-for-papers-3/) - We share three new Calls for Papers for #POLLEN24 . More information is below. Call for Papers – Combining and Contrasting Community Economies and Convivial Conservation Programmes POLLEN24 – 10-12 June 2024, Lund- Sweden (with possibility for online contributions tbc) Organizers: Louise Carver, Elizabeth Barron, Ella Hubbard, Kevin St. Martin, Dhruv Gangadharan Theorizing eco-social transformation is
- [#POLLEN24 - Call for papers](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen24-call-for-papers-3/) - We share two new Call for Papers for #POLLEN24 Lund-Sweden and Lima-Peru. More information is below. Call for Papers – What are safeguards for? Evidence to promote a transition in safeguards from ‘doing no harm’ to ‘doing better’ for community rights POLLEN24 – 10-12 June 2024, Lima-Peru In recent years, there has been an increasing awareness,
- [#POLLEN24 - Call for paper](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen24-call-for-paper/) - We share a CfP on "Political Ecologies of War and Conflict in the Great Lakes Region of Africa" (Dodoma, Tanzania). More information below: Political Ecologies of War and Conflict in the Great Lakes Region of Africa #POLLEN 24 - Dodoma, Tanzania 10-12 June 2024 (will also aim to organise a parallel session in Lund, Sweden) Convenors:
- [December 2023 Update](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/december-2023-update/) - Dear POLLEN Members and Friends, We are pleased to share with you our latest newsletter of the year. Here you can find publications, vacancies, CfP, and much more from our vibrant community. Before we get to it, we want to remind you that the POLLEN24 Conference has extended the Call for Submission deadline to January
- [#POLLEN24 - Call for papers](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen24-call-for-papers-4/) - We share two new CfPs for the POLLEN24 Conference ( 10-12 June 2024, Lund- Sweden) on "Political Epistemologies and Ontologies" and "Interrogating ontologies and epistemologies of the ‘green transition’: Political ecology meets political ontology in the North". More information below. Political Epistemologies and Ontologies Organisers: Fabio Gatti (fabio.gatti@wur.nl), David Ludwig (david.ludwig@wur.nl)- Knowledge, Technology and Innovation group (KTI),
- [January 2024 Update](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/january-2024-update/) - Dear POLLEN Members and Friends, We are pleased to share with you our first newsletter of this new year. Here you can find publications, vacancies, CfP, and much more from our vibrant community. Before we get to it, a quick reminder that if your Node is keen to share its work, vacancy opportunities, or others
- [CfP: Socio-environmental crises: Valuing human and non-human life under pressure](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-socio-environmental-crises-valuing-human-and-non-human-life-under-pressure/) - Call for papers for a panel at the 2017 Conference The Value of Life: Measurements, Stakes, Implications of the Centre for Space, Place and Society (CSPS), 28-30 June 2017, Wageningen, the Netherlands Socio-environmental crises: Valuing human and non-human life under pressure Convenors: Stasja Koot, Emile Smidt and Bram Büscher As is repeated often, we live
- [Conference announcement - CfP: The Lives and Afterlives of Plastic: A nearly carbon-neutral conference](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/conference-announcement-cfp-the-lives-and-afterlives-of-plastic-a-nearly-carbon-neutral-conference/) - Conference: The Lives and Afterlives of Plastic: A nearly carbon-neutral conference June 26th - July 14th 2017 More plastic was produced in the past decade than during the entire 20th century. We currently produce over 300 million tonnes of plastic each year. We have built a world in which we are reliant on plastic for
- [CfP: Of Life and Landscape: Shifting Biopolitics of 'More-than-Natural' Conservation Territories in Sub-Saharan Africa](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-of-life-and-landscape-shifting-biopolitics-of-more-than-natural-conservation-territories-in-sub-saharan-africa/) - Dear All, With apologies for cross-posting, please consider joining the session “Of Life and Landscape: Shifting Biopolitics of ‘More-than-Natural’ Conservation Territories in Sub-Saharan Africa" Conference: ‘The Value of Life: Measurement, Stakes, Implications’, Wageningen University, The Netherlands Conference Date: 28-30 June 2017 Session abstract deadline: 15. January 2017 Session organisers: Jevgeniy Bluwstein (University of Copenhagen) &
- [March 2024 Update](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/march-2024-update/) - Dear POLLEN Members and Friends, We are pleased to share with you today the latest publications, vacancies, CfP, and much more from our vibrant community. Before we get to it, a quick reminder that if your Node is keen to share its work, vacancy opportunities, or others in our upcoming newsletter, please write to us
- [April 2024 Update](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/april-2024-update/) - Dear POLLEN Members and Friends, We are pleased to share with you today the latest publications, vacancies, CfP, and much more from our vibrant community. Before we get to it, a quick reminder that if your Node is keen to share its work, vacancy opportunities, or others in our upcoming newsletter, please write to us
- [May 2024 Update](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/may-2024-update/) - Dear POLLEN Members and Friends, We are pleased to share with you today the latest publications, vacancies, CfP, and much more from our vibrant community. Before we get to it, a quick reminder that if your Node is keen to share its work, vacancy opportunities, or others in our upcoming newsletter, please write to us
- [August 2024 Update](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/august-2024-update/) - Dear POLLEN Members and Friends, We are pleased to share with you today the latest publications, vacancies, CfP, and much more from our vibrant community. As we just recently shared, this week we will hand over the POLLEN Secretariat 2024-2026 to our colleagues at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA), of the Universitat
- [CFP: JUST AIR? SPATIAL INJUSTICES, CONTESTATION AND POLITICISATION OF AIR POLLUTION](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-just-air-spatial-injustices-contestation-and-politicisation-of-air-pollution/) - RGS-IBG Annual Conference Tuesday 29 August to Friday 1 September 2017 CALL FOR PAPERS: JUST AIR? SPATIAL INJUSTICES, CONTESTATION AND POLITICISATION OF AIR POLLUTION Session organisers: Anneleen Kenis and Maarten Loopmans (University of Leuven) Sponsored by the Geographies of Justice Research Group and the Political Geography Research Group Though ‘air’ is undoubtedly one of the most fundamental
- [CFP Env, Cultural, Economic & Social Sustainability Cairns Institute, James Cook Uni Cairns, Aust. 17–19 Jan'18 http://bit.ly/2uri6y5](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-env-cultural-economic-social-sustainability-cairns-institute-james-cook-uni-cairns-aust-17-19-jan18-httpbit-ly2uri6y5/) - Fourteenth International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic & Social Sustainability Founded in 2005, the International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic & Social Sustainability provides a multidisciplinary space, spanning the various fields and perspectives through which we can address the fundamental and related questions of sustainability, brought together by a common concern for sustainability in
- [POLLEN18 CfP: Towards Convivial Conservation? Radical Strategies for Saving Nature in the ‘Anthropocene’](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen18-cfp-towards-convivial-conservation-radical-strategies-for-saving-nature-in-the-anthropocene/) - *** Forwarded via Bram Büscher and Rob Fletcher *** Dear all, See the below call for papers for a session on ‘convivial conservation’ at the POLLEN18 conference in Oslo next year. Please consider joining! Best Bram and Rob CALL FOR PAPERS - Presentation Session Proposal POLLEN18: Political Ecology, the Green Economy, and Alternative Sustainabilities 20-22
- [POLLEN18 CfP – Mobilization against resource extraction and political (re)actions ‘from above’](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen18-cfp-mobilization-against-resource-extraction-and-political-reactions-from-above/) - *** Forwarded via Judith Verweijen & Alexander Dunlap *** Call for Papers Political Ecology Network (POLLEN) bi-annual conference, Oslo, 20–22 June 2018 Mobilization against resource extraction and political (re)actions ‘from above’ Organizers: Judith Verweijen (Ghent University) & Alexander Dunlap (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) Recent scholarship on extractivist projects and land grabbing highlights the need to look
- [CfP POLLEN18 – Accumulation by Restoration](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/1319-2/) - Political Ecology Network (POLLEN) bi-annual conference, Oslo, 20 – 22 June 2018 Organised by Amber Huff (Institute of Development Studies and STEPS Centre) and Andrea Brock (University of Sussex) Deadline for abstracts – 30 November 2017 In recent years, scholars have highlighted the changing dynamics of conservation based on a convergence of interests and intensifying
- [CfP – Emancipatory Rural Politics: contextualising authoritarian populism (I) and resisting, mobilizing and creating alternatives (II)](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-emancipatory-rural-politics-contextualising-authoritarian-populism-i-and-resisting-mobilizing-and-creating-alternatives-ii/) - Call for papers, two sessions The 2018 annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), New Orleans, 10-14 April 2018 Organizers: Amber Huff (Institute of Development Studies and STEPS Centre) & Levi Van Sant (Georgia Southern University) Abstract deadline: 15 October 2017 We are organizing two sessions for AAG 2018 as part of
- [CFP AAG 2018: The Political Ecology of Urban Flood Risk and Management: Dialogues across the North-South Divide](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-aag-2018-the-political-ecology-of-urban-flood-risk-and-management-dialogues-across-the-north-south-divide/) - CALL FOR PAPERS American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting New Orleans, Louisiana, April 10-14, 2018 The Political Ecology of Urban Flood Risk and Management: Dialogues across the North-South Divide Organizers: Emma Colven (UCLA), Nate Millington (University of Cape Town), & Malini Ranganathan (American University) Discussant: Malini Ranganathan Sponsored by the Water Resources Speciality Group,
- [CFP AAG 2018: Urban Political Ecology: Bodies, Social Reproduction and Everyday Life](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-aag-2018-urban-political-ecology-bodies-social-reproduction-and-everyday-life/) - Call for Papers: AAG, New Orleans, 10-14 April 2018 Urban Political Ecology: Bodies, Social Reproduction and Everyday Life Session organisers: Archie Davies (King's College London) and James Angel (King's College London) Please email abstracts (no more than 250 words) to james.angel@kcl.ac.uk by Wednesday 18th October Urban political ecology provides a valuable lens through which to interrogate the power-laden production
- [CFP JPE special issue: Political Ecologies of the Blue Economy in Africa](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-jpe-special-issue-political-ecologies-of-the-blue-economy-in-africa/) - The Journal of Political Ecology is seeking contributions for a Special Issue on "Political Ecologies of the Blue Economy in Africa". Describing the potential contribution to human wellbeing provided by seas, oceans and their resources, the ‘blue economy’ and ‘blue growth’ agenda have variously become a guiding frame, policy discourse and set of practices across the globe.
- [CfP POLLEN18: The Green Panopticon and its Discontents](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen18-the-green-panopticon-and-its-discontents/) - *** Forwarded via Rob Fletcher *** CALL FOR PAPERS - Presentation Session Proposal POLLEN18: Political Ecology, the Green Economy, and Alternative Sustainabilities 20-22 June 2018 Oslo and Akershus University College, Oslo, Norway The Green Panopticon and its Discontents: New Directions in Environmentality Research Convenors: Robert Fletcher (Wageningen University, Netherlands) and José A. Cortes-Vazquez (University of
- [CfP POLLEN18: Decolonizing Property? Promises, Pitfalls, and Ambivalences of Collective Land and Resource Titling Schemes](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen18-decolonizing-property-promises-pitfalls-and-ambivalences-of-collective-land-and-resource-titling-schemes/) - *** With apologies for cross-posting *** Dear All, Kindly consider joining us for this session at the second Political Ecology Network (POLLEN) Biennial Conference in Oslo, Norway, 20–22 June 2018. More information about the conference is available here: https://politicalecologynetwork.com/pollen-biannual-conference/ Please send abstracts of around 300 words (including affiliations and contact information) to myself (connor.cavanagh@nmbu.no) and Adrian Nel (NELA@ukzn.ac.za) by 10
- [CfP POLLEN18: Towards green modernization? Implementation and institutionalization of the green economy](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen18-towards-green-modernization-implementation-and-institutionalization-of-the-green-economy/) - *** Forwarded on behalf of the organizers *** POLLEN18 - Political Ecology, the Green Economy, and Alternative Sustainabilities 20.- 22. June 2018, Oslo and Akershus University College (HiOA), Oslo, Norway Towards green modernization? Implementation and institutionalization of the green economy Conveners: Mikael Bergius and Jill Tove Buseth (Noragric, Norwegian University of Life Sciences) Contact: jill.buseth@nmbu.no
- [POLLEN18 CfP - Countering carbon: locating REDD+ contestation](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen18-cfp-countering-carbon-locating-redd-contestation/) - POLLEN Biennial Conference, 20-22 June 2018, Oslo, Norway Organizers: Jens Friis Lund (University of Copenhagen); Adeniyi P. Asiyanbi (University of Sheffield) Countering carbon: locating REDD+ contestation Climate change threatens the privileges and way of life of global economic and political elites. To mitigate climate change, core consumption patterns and habits of this elite must change.
- [CfP POLLEN18 - Doing Equality in Socio-environmental Conflicts: Power, Resistance and The Production of Political Subjectivities](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen18-doing-equality-in-socio-environmental-conflicts-power-resistance-and-the-production-of-political-subjectivities/) - *** Forwarded on behalf of the organizers *** Call for Papers: Political Ecology Network (POLLEN) Biennial Conference, Oslo, 20–22 June 2018 Doing Equality in Socio-environmental Conflicts: Power, Resistance and The Production of Political Subjectivities Abstract deadline: 8 December 2017 Organisers: Christos Zografos (Johns Hopkins University – Pompeu Fabra University Public Policy Centre, Barcelona, Spain); Irina
- [CfP POLLEN18 - The Limits and Exclusions of Sustainable Development: a renewed pathway for socio-environmental transformation?](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen18-the-limits-and-exclusions-of-sustainable-development-a-renewed-pathway-for-socio-environmental-transformation/) - *** Forwarded on behalf of the organizer *** CfP: POLLEN18: Political Ecology, the Green Economy, and Alternative Sustainabilities 20-22 June 2018, Oslo and Akershus University College, Oslo, Norway The Limits and Exclusions of Sustainable Development: a renewed pathway for socio-environmental transformation? This panel interrogates reiterations of sustainable development, as it becomes a guiding principle for global development
- [CFP: Women and Gender Equity in Agriculture](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-women-and-gender-equity-in-agriculture/) - [Call for Papers: Dimensions of Political Ecology conference, University of Kentucky, February 23-24, 2018] Women & Gender Equity in Agriculture: A Dialogue on Agrarian Feminism Women have always, of course, been leaders in family farm operations, though this leadership has long been erased, demeaned, and thwarted. Gender-based biases in agriculture unfold differently across contexts and times,
- [CFP: Unsettling Political Ecology: Dialogues on the Legacies of Trauma](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-unsettling-political-ecology-dialogues-on-the-legacies-of-trauma/) - Alex Moulton (Clark University) Stepha Velednitsky (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Dimensions of Political Ecology (DOPE) 2018 University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, Februrary 22-24, 2018 In his reflections on colonialism, decolonization and violence in ‘Wretched of the Earth’ and ‘Black Skin, White Masks’, Franz Fanon elucidates a range of psycho-affective responses of both the colonialist and the colonized. In his contemplations, trauma is
- [CfP POLLEN18: Conservation in ‘violent environments’](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen18-conservation-in-violent-environments/) - Organizers: Esther Marijnen, Rosaleen Duffy (University of Sheffield), and Lotje de Vries (Wageningen University) Abstract deadline: 01 December 2017 This panel focuses on the dynamics and politics of nature conservation in challenging, or so called ‘violent environments’ (Peluso and Watts, 2001). We aim to explore how ideas, concepts and theories in the critical conservation literature
- [CfP POLLEN18: Mobility, Immobility, and the Green Economy](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen18-mobility-immobility-and-the-green-economy/) - *** Forwarded on behalf of the organizers *** POLLEN18 – Political Ecology, the Green Economy, and Alternative Sustainabilities 20.- 22. June 2018, Oslo and Akershus University College (HiOA), Oslo, Norway Mobility, Immobility, and the Green Economy Conveners: Charis Enns,1 2 Brock Bersaglio,1 2 and Frances Cleaver1 1 Department of Geography, University of Sheffield 2 East
- [CfP POLLEN18: How do green interventions work through people?](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen18-how-do-green-interventions-work-through-people/) - How do green interventions work through people? Panel proposal POLLEN Biennial Conference, 20-22 June 2018, Oslo, Norway Organisers: Frances Cleaver (University of Sheffield); Mikkel Funder, (Danish Institute for International Studies) Abstract deadline: Please send a 300 word abstract by December 6th 2017 Contact: f.cleaver@sheffield.ac.uk & mfu@diis.dk Panel theme: How do local state and community representatives
- [CfP POLLEN18 - Securing Green, Greening security: Examining the Intersection of Green Economies and Green Securities ](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen18-securing-green-greening-security-examining-the-intersection-of-green-economies-and-green-securities/) - *** Posted on behalf of the organizers *** POLLEN18 – Political Ecology, the Green Economy, and Alternative Sustainabilities 20- 22, June 2018, Oslo and Akershus University College (HiOA), Oslo, Norway Securing Green, Greening security: Examining the Intersection of Green Economies and Green Securities Conveners: Francis Massé,1 Brock Bersaglio,2 and Rosaleen Duffy3 1Department of Geography, York
- [CfP POLLEN18: Rural Transformations](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen18-rural-transformations/) - *** Posted on behalf of the organizers *** Call for papers Political Ecology Network (POLLEN) Bi-annual conference, Oslo 20-22 June 2018 “Rural Transformations” Organizers: Kristi-Anne Stølen, Mariel Aguilar-Støen, Jostein Jakobsen and Susanne Normann. Land and resources are back on the political agenda—at the heart of contemporary conflicts over livelihoods and environments, both mundane and dramatic.
- [CfP POLLEN18: Planning for disaster: predictability and disruption in the Anthropocene](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen18-planning-for-disaster-predictability-and-disruption-in-the-anthropocene/) - Planning for disaster: predictability and disruption in the Anthropocene Thorgeir Kolshus, Oslo and Akershus University College of the Applied Sciences/ University of Oslo One of many effects of climate change has been an increase in particularly severe natural calamities, which affects infrastructure, productive cycles, relations of exchange, perceptions of the future, residency patterns and a
- [CfP POLLEN18 - Financialising water security/securing financialisation?](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen18-financialising-water-security-securing-financialisation/) - Political Ecology Network (POLLEN) biennial conference, Oslo, Norway, 20 – 22 June 2018 Organized by Alex Loftus (King’s College London) and Hug March (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) Financialising water security/securing financialisation? The concept of water security has been adopted enthusiastically across a range of different domains, disciplines and fields, rapidly coming to shape dominant approaches
- [cfp POLLEN18: Tangled up in blue and green: The embedded politics of labour in the making of green commodities](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen18-tangled-up-in-blue-and-green-the-embedded-politics-of-labour-in-the-making-of-green-commodities/) - Second Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN)POLLEN18: Political Ecology, the Green Economy, and Alternative Sustainabilities 20-22 June 2018 - Oslo and Akershus University College, Oslo, NorwayConference website: https://politicalecologynetwork.com/pollen-biannual-conference/ Tangled up in blue and green: The embedded politics of labour in the making of green commodities Session organisers: Ben Neimark (b.neimark@lancaster.ac.uk) and Bradley Wilson (Bradley.Wilson@mail.wvu.edu)
- [CfP POLLEN18 – Diving into the ‘Water Towers’: studying the production, enactment and politicisation of an environmental narrative](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen18-diving-into-the-water-towers-studying-the-production-enactment-and-politicisation-of-an-environmental-narrative/) - *** Forwarded on behalf of the organizers *** Diving into the ‘Water Towers’: studying the production, enactment and politicisation of an environmental narrative What is a ‘Water Tower’? What is the origin of the concept? How is it spatially defined and by whom? Which institutions are involved? What does the ‘rehabilitation’ of montane forests entail
- [CfP POLLEN18 – From performativity to hybridization: exploring theory-practice entanglements in (so-called) market-based environmental initiatives](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen18-from-performativity-to-hybridization-exploring-theory-practice-entanglements-in-so-called-market-based-environmental-initiatives/) - CfP POLLEN18: From performativity to hybridization: exploring theory-practice entanglements in (so-called) market-based environmental initiatives POLLEN18: Political Ecology, the Green Economy, and Alternative Sustainabilities Oslo, Norway June 20-22, 2018 Session organizers: Catherine Windey (University of Antwerp), Vijay Kolinjivadi (Université du Québec en Outaouais), Gert Van Hecken (University of Antwerp), and Elizabeth Shapiro-Garza (Duke University) Over the
- [CfP POLLEN18: Political Ecologies of Meat](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen18-political-ecologies-of-meat/) - CfP POLLEN18: Political Ecologies of Meat Organizers: Kristian Bjørkdahl, Arve Hansen, Karen Victoria Lykke Syse The consumption of meat and dairy products holds a central position in food practices in a wide countries and cultures. For many, meat and dairy products represent an important part of the culinary dimensions of the ‘good life’, and increased
- [CfP POLLEN18: Green cities for whom? Interrogating dominant configurations of greening, governance and inequality](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen18-green-cities-for-whom-interrogating-dominant-configurations-of-greening-governance-and-inequality/) - POLLEN18: Political Ecology, the Green Economy, and Alternative Sustainabilities 20-22 June 2018, Oslo and Akershus University College, Oslo, Norway CfP: Green cities for whom? Interrogating dominant configurations of greening, governance and inequality Organisers: Panagiota Kotsila and Melissa García-Lamarca (both at the Barcelona Laboratory for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) Green infrastructure
- [CfP POLLEN18: Political Ecologies of Sustainability Certifications](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen18-political-ecologies-of-sustainability-certifications/) - POLLEN18: Political Ecology, the Green Economy, and Alternative Sustainabilities, 20-22 June 2018, Oslo and Akershus University College, Oslo, Norway Political Ecologies of Sustainability Certifications Organizers: Matthew Archer (Yale University, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies) and Martin Skrydstrup (University of Copenhagen, Center of African Studies) The construction and regimentation of sustainability certification programs speaks to
- [CfP POLLEN18: The political ecology of environmental peacebuilding](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen18-the-political-ecology-of-environmental-peacebuilding/) - POLLEN18 – Political Ecology, the Green Economy, and Alternative Sustainabilities, 20-22 June 2018, Oslo and Akershus University College, Oslo, Norway CfP POLLEN18: The political ecology of environmental peacebuilding – Exploring its values and critiques in the context of the green economy Organizers: Teresa Lappe-Osthege (University of Sheffield) and Lisa Trogisch (University of Wageningen) We invite
- [CfP POLLEN18 - “Seeing Like an Eastern European”: regional potentials of political ecology and social inquiry](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen18-seeing-like-an-eastern-european-regional-potentials-of-political-ecology-and-social-inquiry/) - *** Forwarded on behalf of the organizers *** POLLEN18: Political Ecology, the Green Economy, and Alternative Sustainabilities, 20-22 June 2018, Oslo and Akershus University College, Oslo, Norway “Seeing Like an Eastern European”: regional potentials of political ecology and social inquiry Through this call we are seeking expressions of interest as well as abstracts for a
- [CfP POLLEN18 - Making claims, making maps: The politics and practices of mapping in environmental planning and governance](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen18-making-claims-making-maps-the-politics-and-practices-of-mapping-in-environmental-planning-and-governance/) - *** Forwarded on behalf of the organizers *** POLLEN18: Political Ecology, the Green Economy, and Alternative Sustainabilities, 20-22 June 2018, Oslo and Akershus University College, Oslo, Norway Making claims, making maps: The politics and practices of mapping in environmental planning and governance Organizers: Synne Movik and Tim Richardson (Norwegian University of Life Sciences) The use of
- [CfP POLLEN18: The workings of green economies on the ground – impacts for social and environmental justice](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen18-the-workings-of-green-economies-on-the-ground-impacts-for-social-and-environmental-justice/) - *** Posted on behalf of the organizers *** POLLEN18: Political Ecology, the Green Economy, and Alternative Sustainabilities, 20-22 June 2018, Oslo and Akershus University College, Oslo, Norway The workings of green economies on the ground – impacts for social and environmental justice Organisers: Klara Fischer and Kaisa Raitio, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences The way
- [CfP POLLEN18: Drylands and “New” Accumulations of Wealth](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen18-drylands-and-new-accumulations-of-wealth/) - *** Posted on behalf of the organizers *** POLLEN18: Political Ecology, the Green Economy, and Alternative Sustainabilities, 20-22 June 2018, Oslo and Akershus University College, Oslo, Norway Drylands and “New” Accumulations of Wealth Organizers: Bilal Butt (University of Michigan) and Annemiek Pas Schrijver (Stockholm University) Amid multiple socio-ecological and political changes and uncertainties, mobile pastoralism
- [2nd CfP & extended deadline (5 Dec. 2017), POLLEN18 – Accumulation by Restoration](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/2nd-cfp-extended-deadline-5-dec-2017-pollen18-accumulation-by-restoration/) - We have already received a number of excellent and exciting submissions for this session, but have decided to re-circulate the call with an extended deadline of 5 December in hope of making this a double session. Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words to both Amber Huff (a.huff@ids.ac.uk) and Andrea Brock (a.brock@sussex.ac.uk) before 5
- [CfP POLLEN18: Political Ecologies of Violence in a Hyper-Extractive Age](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/1797-2/) - POLLEN18: Political Ecology Network - Biennial Conference, Oslo, Norway – June 20-22, 2018 Political Ecologies of Violence in a Hyper-Extractive Age Organizers: Garrett Graddy-Lovelace (American University, School of International Service) and Shai Divon (Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Noragric) What differentiates the particular violence of this, the Hyper-Extractive Age? Neither extraction nor violence are new,
- [CfP POLLEN18: The Political Ecology of Rewilding – Contested values in the context of environmental justice](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen18-the-political-ecology-of-rewilding-contested-values-in-the-context-of-environmental-justice/) - POLLEN18: Political Ecology Network – Biennial Conference, Oslo, Norway – June 20-22, 2018 The Political Ecology of Rewilding – Contested values in the context of environmental justice Organizers: Dara Sands and Erik Gómez-Baggethun (Noragric, Norwegian University of Life Sciences) Four decades of international environmental policy focused on mitigating and reversing anthropogenically driven biodiversity loss has
- [CfP POLLEN18: Green Energy and Politics in Latin America](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen18-green-energy-and-politics-in-latin-america/) - Second Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN) Oslo and Akershus University College, Norway, 20–22 June 2018 Green Energy and Politics in Latin America ABSTRACT DEADLINE: December 11, 2017 Conveners: Gustav Cederlöf (King’s College London) and Cornelia Helmcke (Norwegian University of Life Sciences) This panel takes foothold in four observations. First, while integral to
- [CfP POLLEN18: Political Ecologies of Agrobiodiversity Governance](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen18-political-ecologies-of-agrobiodiversity-governance/) - Political Ecologies of Agrobiodiversity Governance Organizers: Veronica Limeberry and Garrett Graddy-Lovelace (American University) We are seeking abstracts for 20-minute papers for a panel at the POLLEN (the Political Ecology Network) Biennial Conference, held in Oslo, Norway, 20-22 June 2018 Agricultural biodiversity—its declines and conservation, its values and contexts—are finally garnering broader political attention. Encroaching climate change and
- [CfP POLLEN18: Indigenous knowledges and sustainable development](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen18-indigenous-knowledges-and-sustainable-development/) - Indigenous knowledges and sustainable development This panel seeks to explore the relationships between indigenous knowledges and political ecology. Convenors: Maren Seehawer, Anders Breidlid and Roy Krøvel (Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences). International legislation recognizes indigenous peoples as having specific rights based on historical ties to a particular territory (in addition to being
- [CfP POLLEN18 – Nurturing “Life-in-Common”: Affective, Emotional and Embodied Practices of/for Abundance Beyond Sustainability](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen18-nurturing-life-in-common-affective-emotional-and-embodied-practices-of-for-abundance-beyond-sustainability/) - POLLEN18: Political Ecology, the Green Economy, and Alternative Sustainabilities 20-22 June, 2018, Oslo and Akershus University College, Oslo, Norway Nurturing “Life-in-Common”: Affective, Emotional and Embodied Practices of/for Abundance Beyond Sustainability Session organisers: Neera Singh, Department of Geography and Planning, University of Toronto Pamela Ngwenya, German Institute for Tropical and Subtropical Agriculture, Witzenhausen Andrea Nightingale, Department of Urban and Rural
- [CfP POLLEN18 – Blue Degrowth and the Politics of the Sea: Rethinking the Blue Economy](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen18-blue-degrowth-and-the-politics-of-the-sea-rethinking-the-blue-economy/) - CFP: Blue Degrowth and the Politics of the Sea: Rethinking the Blue Economy For the Second Biannual Conference of the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN) POLLEN18: Political Ecology, the Green Economy, and Alternative Sustainabilities Organizers: Maria Hadjimichael, University of Cyprus & Irmak Ertör, Autonomous University of Barcelona Over the last decade(s), the seas and the oceans
- [CfP POLLEN18 – Intricacies of Prefiguration: Experiments in Human-Environment Relations in Eco-Projects](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen18-intricacies-of-prefiguration-experiments-in-human-environment-relations-in-eco-projects/) - Second Biannual Conference of the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN), POLLEN18: Political Ecology, the Green Economy, and Alternative Sustainabilities Intricacies of Prefiguration: Experiments in Human-Environment Relations in Eco-Projects Organizer: Elvira Wepfer (University of Manchester) Eco-projects are civil society initiatives that consciously experiment with human-environment relations alternative to capitalist discourses of optimized utility and maximised resource extraction.
- [CfP POLLEN18: The Nuts and Bolts of "Climate Jobs" Transitions](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen18-the-nuts-and-bolts-of-climate-jobs-transitions/) - The Nuts and Bolts of "Climate Jobs" Transitions Conveners: Associate Professor Andreas Ytterstad (HiOA) and Jonathan Neale, One Million Jobs Campaign (UK) Campaigns highlighting the demand for "Climate Jobs" has emerged in ten countries over the last decade, including South Africa, Canada, the UK, Norway, Portugal and France. Although different in scope and size, these
- [CFP: Regional geographies of electricity: interrogating state territorialities from the periphery](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-regional-geographies-of-electricity-interrogating-state-territorialities-from-the-periphery/) - Call for Papers: RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, Cardiff (UK), 28-31 August 2018 Regional geographies of electricity: interrogating state territorialities from the periphery Convenors: Joshua Kirshner (University of York), Ivan Cuesta-Fernandez (University of Edinburgh), Sponsored by the Energy Geography Research Group The study of core-periphery relations has a long pedigree in Political Geography (Gottmann 1980; Rokkan
- [CFP RGS 2018: Re-engaging the Global Commons](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-rgs-2018-re-engaging-the-global-commons/) - Re-engaging the Global Commons Call for Papers: RGS-IBG Annual Conference, Cardiff, 28th August – 31st August 2018 Conveners: Craig Jones, Alexandra Gormally and Rosanna Carver, Lancaster University The Global Commons – the high seas, atmosphere, Antarctica, and outer space – have historically been construed as areas outside the control of any one nation state and, consequently, have
- [CFP: Examining inequalities in contexts of environmental degradation](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-examining-inequalities-in-contexts-of-environmental-degradation/) - Call for Papers Development Studies Association Annual Conference University of Manchester, 27-29th June 2018 Session: EXAMINING INEQUALITIES IN CONTEXTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION (Session B3) Convenors: Clare Barnes and Sam Staddon (University of Edinburgh) and Paola Ballon (University of Oxford) Chair: Fiona Nunan (University of Birmingham) Processes of environmental degradation in the Global South, such as land use change in forests or
- [CFP deadline extension: DSA 2018: Examining inequalities in contexts of environmental degradation](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-deadline-extension-dsa-2018-examining-inequalities-in-contexts-of-environmental-degradation/) - Due to the on-going strikes in UK Universities, the deadline for abstracts has been extended to Friday 9th March. If you are interested in submitting an abstract, please see full details below. Please also note that the DSA Council, the host institution, GDI and also the Journal of Development Studies have made significant funds available for postgraduate researchers, early career researchers
- [CFP: Translating Sea-Level Change in Urban Life](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-translating-sea-level-change-in-urban-life/) - Call for Papers Translating Sea-Level Change in Urban Life: Policies, Practices and their Intersections in Island Southeast Asia International Roundtable Symposium hosted by EMERSA – Epistemic Mobilities and the Governance of Environmental Risks in Island Southeast Asia, a DFG-financed research project. Jakarta, Indonesia, May 28/29 2018 The symposium ‘Translating Sea-Level Change in Urban Life’ aims to
- [CFP for special issue: Conservation in 'violent environments'](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-for-special-issue-conservation-in-violent-environments/) - CfP for an special issue on “Conservation in ‘violent environments’” Special issue proposal to Political Geography Deadline for abstracts: 30 March 2018 Organizers: Esther Marijnen (Ghent University), Lotje de Vries (Wageningen University) and Rosaleen Duffy (University of Sheffield) In the proposed special issue, we aim to draw explicit theoretical linkages between political geography literature on
- [CFP AAA18: Sharing the Wealth: The New Politics of Distribution in the Age of Sustainable Development](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-aaa18-sharing-the-wealth-the-new-politics-of-distribution-in-the-age-of-sustainable-development/) - Call for Papers: American Anthropological Association 2018 Sharing the Wealth: The New Politics of Distribution in the Age of Sustainable Development Marcos Mendoza [a] and Robert Fletcher [b] [a]University of Mississippi, Department of Sociology & Anthropology, mendoza[at]olemiss.edu [b]Wageningen University, Sociology of Development and Change, robert.fletcher[at]wur.nl The new “age of sustainable development” (Sachs 2015) is based upon the
- [CFP: Energy Anthropology Network Panel](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-energy-anthropology-network-panel/) - European Association for Social Anthropology 2018 Conference Energy Anthropology Network Panel This first EASA panel of the Energy Anthropology Network invites contributors to address the 'staying, moving, settling' found in energy anthropologies, addressing legacies and futures of energy-related practices, beliefs, theories and governance. Abstract We are living in an era of rapid change in relation to
- [CFP: Feral, a nearly carbon-neutral conference](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-feral-a-nearly-carbon-neutral-conference/) - Feral: A nearly carbon-neutral conference November 2018 Co-hosted by Massey University Political Ecology Research Centre (PERC) and Wageningen University Centre for Space, Place and Society (CSPS) In the twenty-first century, globalisation has become a truism, rather than a challenge or opportunity. People, money, resources, culture and power all flow around the world in ever increasingly
- [CFP: Blockchain and the Global South](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-blockchain-and-the-global-south/) - Some of you in the POLLEN network may be interested in this forthcoming workshop on critical approaches to blockchain and international development. We would be very happy to consider submissions on issues such as blockchain and recommoning, conservation, and critical takes on blockchain and natural resource governance in addition to the themes suggested in the
- [CFP: Global Feminisms and the Anti-Colonial Project](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-global-feminisms-and-the-anti-colonial-project/) - Institute for Gender and Development Studies, University of the West Indies 21-23 November 2018 More information here. Deadline for submission of abstracts: 30 June 2018
- [CFP: Sustainability and Development conference, University of Michigan](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-sustainability-and-development-conference-university-of-michigan/) - CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: SUSTAINABILITY AND DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCE https://umsustdev.org/ SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JULY 22, 2018 November 9-11, 2018 University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, MI Sustainable development, as a concept and call to action to end poverty, protect the planet, and guarantee human well-being, is perhaps the greatest challenge facing humanity. The
- [CFP: Environmental Justic Ethnography in the Classroom, SfAA meeting 2019](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-environmental-justic-ethnography-in-the-classroom-sfaa-meeting-2019/) - CALL FOR PAPERS Session: “Environmental Justice Ethnography in the Classroom: Teaching Activism, Inspiring Involvement” Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) annual meeting March 19 – 23 2019 in Portland, OR Abstract: Ethnographic research on ways people organize to protect their families and communities from exposure to toxins and demand accountability is a significant topic in applied anthropology.
- [CFP: III Latin American Congress of Political Ecology](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-iii-latin-american-congress-of-political-ecology/) - Second Call for submissions III Latin American Congress of Political Ecology DECOLONIAL INSURGENCES AND EMANCIPATORY HORIZONS: POLITICAL ECOLOGY AND LIBERATION Salvador, Bahia, Brazil | March 18-20 2019 Convocatoria en castello aqui, chamada em português aquí The Latin American Network of Political Ecology, thorugh the organizing committee of the III Latin American Congress of Political Ecology,
- [Cfp/panelists AAG2019: Implications of geospatial data for env governance](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-panelists-aag2019-implications-of-geospatial-data-for-env-governance/) - Dear POLLEN. We hope this might be of interest to some. Apologizes for x-posting. Thanks, T& B Cfp& panelists: After the map was made and the drone was flown: Implications of geospatial data for environmental governance Organizer(s): Teresa Bornschlegl (trAndeS), Bruno Portillo Seminario (UARM) Sponsors: Applied Geography Specialty Group, Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group;
- [AAG 2019 CFP- Threat Multipliers and Coalition Politics: Understanding and Resisting the Intersections of Militarism, War, Imperialism and Environmental Degradation](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/aag-2019-cfp-threat-multipliers-and-coalition-politics-understanding-and-resisting-the-intersections-of-militarism-war-imperialism-and-environmental-degradation/) - AAG 2019 CFP- Threat Multipliers and Coalition Politics: Understanding and Resisting the Intersections of Militarism, War, Imperialism and Environmental Degradation Organizers: Patrick Bigger (Lancaster University), Emily Gilbert (University of Toronto) & Benjamin Neimark (Lancaster University) As the aphorism goes, the primary job of the US military is to ‘break things and kill people.’ This
- [CFP: Securitization of non-human lives and spaces](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-securitization-of-non-human-lives-and-spaces/) - CFP: Securitization of non-human lives and spaces 2019 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers Washington, DC, April 3-7 Organizers: Hannah G. Dickinson, University of Sheffield Laszlo Cseke, Polytechnic University of Turin/University of Turin Discussant: Dr. Elizabeth Johnson, Durham University Sponsored by the Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group This session welcomes
- [CfP NGM 2019: Agency, Institutions, and Empirics in Environmentality Studies](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-ngm-2019-agency-institutions-and-empirics-in-environmentality-studies/) - ** With apologies for cross-posting ** Agency, Institutions, and Empirics in Environmentality Studies Call for Papers, 8th Nordic Geographers’ Meeting (NGM), Sustainable Geography – Geographies of Sustainability Trondheim, Norway, 16-19 June 2019 Conference website: https://www.ntnu.edu/geography/ngm-2019 Session organizers: Connor J. Cavanagh,1 Tor A. Benjaminsen,1 Rob Fletcher2 1 Department of International Environment and Development Studies (Noragric), Norwegian University of Life Sciences 2 Sociology of Development and Change, Wageningen University, the Netherlands
- [CfP Race & Climate Change Workshop, 27th February 2019](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-race-climate-change-workshop-27th-february-2019/) - CfP Race & Climate Change Workshop, 27th February 2019. Deadline for 200 word abstracts, 14th December Race & Climate Change A one-day workshop event followed by a public roundtable session at Birkbeck, University of London, Wednesday February 27 2019 This one-day event offers a space for considering how ‘race’, ‘racialisation’ and ‘racism’ operate as key terms
- [Final CfP NGM2019 – Agency, Institutions, and Empirics in Environmentality Studies](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/final-cfp-ngm2019-agency-institutions-and-empirics-in-environmentality-studies/) - ** With apologies for cross-posting ** Agency, Institutions, and Empirics in Environmentality Studies Call for Papers, 8th Nordic Geographers’ Meeting (NGM), Sustainable Geography – Geographies of Sustainability Trondheim, Norway, 16-19 June 2019 Conference website: https://www.ntnu.edu/geography/ngm-2019 Session organizers: Connor J. Cavanagh,1 Tor A. Benjaminsen,1 Rob Fletcher2 1 Department of International Environment and Development Studies (Noragric), Norwegian University of Life Sciences 2 Sociology of Development and Change, Wageningen University, the Netherlands
- [CfP: 8th European Conference on African Studies (ECAS)](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-8th-european-conference-on-african-studies-ecas/) - 8th European Conference on African Studies (ECAS): AFRICA: CONNECTIONS & DISRUPTIONS Conference will be held at: Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh, June 12-14, 2019 CALL FOR PAPERS for the Panel: Mining’s Connective & Disruptive Effects on Human Settlement in Africa Panel ref no Econ25 convened by Deborah Bryceson & Kate Symons, Centre of African
- [CFP ECAS 2019](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-ecas-2019/) - 8th European Conference on African Studies (ECAS) - Africa: Connections and Disruptions Edinburgh, June 11-14 2019 CFP New surplus populations in Africa: Ruptures and continuities in rural transitions Panel Soc02, convened by Michela Marcatelli (Stellenbosch University) and Lerato Thakholi (Wageningen University and Research) Contemporary land and green grabbing, both accelerated by global environmental challenges and
- [CfP RGS-IBG 2019: Trust in Rural Land Governance](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-rgs-ibg-2019-turst-in-rural-land-governance/) - RGS-IBG 2019 (28th – 30th August 2019, London) CFP: TRUST IN RURAL LAND GOVERNANCE Sponsor: Rural Geographers Research Group (RGRG) Convenors: Sam Staddon, Clare Barnes, Rachel Hunt (University of Edinburgh) Trust is at the heart of questions of rural land governance which involve interactions between actors from different sectors (the public, state, non-state and corporate), across
- [CfP Political Ecologies of Green Energy at RGS-IBG Annual Conference](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-political-ecologies-of-green-energy-at-rgs-ibg-annual-conference/) - Political Ecologies of Green Energy: troubling the realities of being green Convenors: Dr Jessica Hope & Dr Ed Atkins, University of Bristol Sponsored by DARG & ENGRG The 2015 Paris Agreement binds world leaders to a commitment to keep global temperature rise to well below 2 degrees Celsius this century. If this is not achieved,
- [CfP: Space in time: changing patterns of land use, land rights, and landscape narratives. ECAS, 11-14.06.2019, Edinburgh.](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-space-in-time-changing-patterns-of-land-use-land-rights-and-landscape-narratives-ecas-11-14-06-2019-edinburgh/) - The 8th European Conference on African Studies (ECAS19) Panel Env09: Space in time: changing patterns of land use, land rights, and landscape narrativesShort Abstract: Rivers are in the centre of dynamic landscapes in Southern Africa marked by competing narratives of land use and land claims. The panel addresses continuities and ruptures of these changing uses
- [Panel CfP for 2019 SANA/SUNTA Conference: Relocalizing Agriculture in a Transnational World](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/panel-cfp-for-2019-sana-sunta-conference-relocalizing-agriculture-in-a-transnational-world/) - Below please find a call for papers for a student proposed panel at the joint Society for the Anthropology of North America and the Society for Urban, National, and Transnational Anthropology conference this May, in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The conference theme is “Positive Futures.” Apologies if you're seeing this a second time -
- [CFP: SUSTAINABILITIES panel// DGSKA conference in Konstanz 2019, Germany](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-sustainabilities-panel-dgska-conference-in-konstanz-2019-germany/) - Workshop of the RG Circumpolar Regions and Siberia: Sustainabilities’, Or The Politics of a Many-Faced Concept Undoubtedly, ‘sustainability’ has become a widely used buzzword not only in our daily lives, but also on both domestic and international political stages. With regard to the Circumpolar North, it has recently been suggested that “sustainability research in the
- [CfP: FLARE network meeting](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-flare-network-meeting/) - Call for abstracts for the fifth annual FLARE meeting at The University of Michagin, Ann Arbor. August 23-25, 2019
- [CFP: 2019 AAA/CASCA "Pollution/Toxicity: Political Ecologies of Matter Out of Place"](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-2019-aaa-casca-pollution-toxicity-political-ecologies-of-matter-out-of-place/) - Organizers: Josh Fisher, Mary Mostafanezhad, and Sarah Marie Wiebe The livable surface of earth is polluted in unprecedented ways. Images abound of plastic bags riding the currents of the Pacific ocean and collecting in the Mariana Trench; stockpiles of nuclear waste pumped deep into earth’s outer crust; smoke and smog (a fusion of particulate matter
- [CFP SI: The species turn in South Asian identity politics](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-si-the-species-turn-in-south-asian-identity-politics/) - The species turn in South Asian identity politics Special Issue Proposal for Environment and Planning E Guest editors: Yamini Narayanan (Deakin) and Krithika Srinivasan (Edinburgh) In the last few years in India, cows have been mobilised prominently in efforts to ‘restore’ the geophysical Indian state as a Hindurashtra, or a racially ‘pure’ Hindu nation. The ‘protection’ of the
- [CFP: Special Issue of Environment & Society on Pollution/Toxicity](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-special-issue-of-environment-society-on-pollution-toxicity/) - Dear Colleagues,Please find below the Call for Papers for the 2021 edition of Environment and Society: Advances in Research. Please send along an abstract of no more than 250 words to ares.journal@gmail.com by October 1, 2019. Please remember that Environment and Society is an annual review journal. The scholarship that it publishes each year in response to specific calls
- [CfP POLLEN 20 – Migration and conflict in the West African Sahel: political ecology under a changing sky](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen-20-migration-and-conflict-in-the-west-african-sahel-political-ecology-under-a-changing-sky/) - Session proposalThird Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN 20)Contested Natures: Power, Possibility, Prefiguration (https://pollen2020.wordpress.com/call-for-session-proposals/) Brighton, United Kingdom24-26 June 2020 Organizers: Tor A. Benjaminsen, Norwegian University of Life Sciences & Jesse Ribot, American University, Washington DC Abstract: The West African Sahel has recently become a hotspot of international attention due to: increased armed conflicts such as the
- [POLLEN20 CfP – Frontiers of property: ‘trans-regional’ dynamics of resurgent collectivist governmentalities in global land reform](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen20-cfp-frontiers-of-property-trans-regional-dynamics-of-resurgent-collectivist-governmentalities-in-global-land-reform/) - ** With apologies for x-posting *** Dear All, Please consider joining us for this proposed session at the Third Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN) in Brighton, UK, 24-26 June 2020 . More information about the conference is available here: https://pollen2020.wordpress.com/ Engaging the POLLEN20 call for ‘novel’ session formats, the proposal’s “trans-regional” gambit
- [CfP POLLEN20– "Getting ready for Apartheid Ecologies and Dystopian Futures"](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen20-getting-ready-for-apartheid-ecologies-and-dystopian-futures/) - Third Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network - Contested Natures: Power, Possibility, PrefigurationBrighton, United Kingdom24-26 June 2020 Conference sub-theme: “Radical ecologies and future natures” Session organizers: Jevgeniy Bluwstein, Department of Geosciences, University of Fribourg, Switzerland, jevgeniy.bluwstein@unifr.ch & Salvatore Paolo De Rosa, Laboratory of Environmental Humanities, KTH of Stockholm, Sweden, salvatore.paolo.derosa@abe.kth.se Session keywords: ecological apartheid,
- [CfP POLLEN20 - Subjectivity at the extractive frontier: power, meaning and possibility](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen20-subjectivity-at-the-extractive-frontier-power-meaning-and-possibility/) - (cross-posted from the critical geography forum list) Organizers: Tomas Frederiksen and Judith Verweijen.Please send abstracts of no more that 250 words to tomas.frederiksen@manchester.ac.uk and j.verweijen@sheffield.ac.uk by Monday 11 November 2019. We expect to communicate decisions on which papers are accepted by Friday 15 November 2019. After the conference, we will explore a journal special issue. Call for abstracts for Third Biennial
- [CfP #Pollen20 – Grassroots activism in times of authoritarian neoliberalism: Pathways to radical ecologies and alternative futures](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen20-grassroots-activism-in-times-of-authoritarian-neoliberalism-pathways-to-radical-ecologies-and-alternative-futures/) - Session organizers: Elia Apostolopoulou (University of Cambridge and Harokopio University of Athens) and Jose A. Cortes-Vazquez (University of A Coruña) Instructions for submitting contributions: Please send your abstract proposal (from 200 to 250 words) to Elia Apostolopoulou (ea367@cam.ac.uk) and Jose Cortes-Vazquez (jacorvaz@gmail.com) until the 10th of October 2019. Session abstract : Since the 2008 financial
- [CfP POLLEN 20: Unmaking the capitalist production of nature: exploring processes of (de)construction](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen-20-unmaking-the-capitalist-production-of-nature-exploring-processes-of-deconstruction/) - Session organizers Julia Spanier, Jacob Smessaert, Leonie Guerrero & Guilherme Raj, Utrecht University, Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development Instructions for submitting contributions Please send you abstract proposal (250 words) to Julia Spanier (j.r.spanier@uu.nl) and Jacob Smessaert (j.d.a.smessaert@uu.nl) until the 10th of October 8th of November 2019. Session keywords capitalist and post-capitalist natures; unmaking capitalism; societal transformations
- [CfP POLLEN 20: Loss, damage and right to adaptation in the city: Explorations in urban climate justice](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen-20-loss-damage-and-right-to-adaptation-in-the-city-explorations-in-urban-climate-justice/) - Session organizers Ethemcan Turhan (Environmental Humanities Laboratory, Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden) & Özlem Çelik (Department of Development Studies, Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science, University of Helsinki, Finland) Please send abstracts of maximum 250 words with your affiliation to Ethemcan Turhan (ethemcan@kth.se) and Özlem Çelik (ozlem.celik@helsinki.fi) the latest by 26 October 2019. Session
- [CfP POLLEN 20 – Political ecologies of education](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen-20-political-ecologies-of-education/) - Session organizers Hanne Svarstad (OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University) and Christine Noe (University of Dar es Salaam) Instructions for submitting contributions Please send your abstract (200 to 250 workds) to Hanne Svarstad (hanne.svarstad@oslomet.no) and Christine Noe (tinanoe@yahoo.com) until the 15th of October 2019. Session abstract What children learn at school may have a large impact
- [CfP POLLEN 2020: Fallen from Grace? Debating the legacy and state of Southern African conservation](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen-2020-fallen-from-grace-debating-the-legacy-and-state-of-southern-african-conservation/) - 24-26 June, 2020, Brighton, UK Convenors: Stasja Koot and Bram Büscher Southern Africa has long been at the forefront of nature conservation globally. Under colonialism, the region played an important part in the expansion of national parks (Ramutsindela 2004, Cock and Fig 2000), while independence and post-apartheid led to globally recognized forms of community-based conservation.
- [CfP POLLEN 20 – The Rights of Nature: between radical environmentalism and hegemonic threat](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen-20-the-rights-of-nature-between-radical-environmentalism-and-hegemonic-threat/) - Session organiser Mihnea Tanasescu (mihnea.tanasescu@vub.be), Vrije Universiteit Brussel Paper proposals (abstract, 250 words max) should be sent to mihnea.tanasescu@vub.be by October 13th, 2019. Session Abstract The first theoretical formulation of the rights of nature is attributed to professor Christopher Stone, an American legal scholar that, as a tactic for capturing his students’ attention at the end
- [CfP POLLEN 20 – Genetically Engineered ‘Natures’: Power, Possibility, Prefiguration](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen-20-genetically-engineered-natures-power-possibility-prefiguration/) - Third Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN 20)Brighton, United Kingdom24-26 June 2020 Conference theme: Contested Natures: Power, Possibility, Prefiguration, aims to explore plural natures and plural futures as sites of struggle and possibility whilst critically engaging with and ‘unpacking’ multiple and overlapping crises of our times. Session organizers: Molly Bond & Deborah Scott Abstract submission: Deadline 18
- [CfP POLLEN 20 – Innovations in Conservation Governance](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen-20-innovations-in-conservation-governance/) - Third Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN20)Brighton, United Kingdom24-26 June 2020 Please send expressions of interest to the lead session organizer, George Holmes, University of Leeds, UK at g.holmes@leeds.ac.uk. Session abstract The governance of conservation is changing. New forms of resource ownership and control, with new actors, systems, structures and strategies attempting to prevent
- [CfP POLLEN20 – The Political Ecology of Crops: From Seed to State and Capital](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen20-the-political-ecology-of-crops-from-seed-to-state-and-capital/) - Call for abstractsThe Third Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN 20)Brighton, United Kingdom24-26 June 2020 Session organizers Klara Fischer, Department of Urban and Rural Development, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Jostein Jakobsen, Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo, Bengt G. Karlsson, Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University & Ola Westengen, Faculty of Landscape and Society, Department of
- [CfP POLLEN20 – Political Ecologies of Environmental Future-Making](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen20-political-ecologies-of-environmental-future-making/) - Call for participantsThird Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN20)Brighton, United Kingdom24-26 June 2020 Please send expressions of interest to the session organizers, Katinka Wijsman (The New School, katinka.wijsman@newschool.edu) and Marta Berbés-Blázquez (Arizona State University, mberbes@asu.edu). Proposal abstracts (300 words) should be sent by October 25, 2019. Session abstract Millions of youth and allies around the
- [CfP POLLEN20 – Navigating differences across communities: Whether, why, who and how?](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen20-navigating-differences-across-communities-whether-why-who-and-how/) - Call for participantsThird Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN20)Contested Natures: Power, Possibility, PrefigurationBrighton, United Kingdom24-26 June 2020 Session organizers Jasper Montana (jasper.montana@ouce.ox.ac.uk), University of Oxford, and Josie Chambers (jmichambers@gmail.com), University of Cambridge Paper proposals (abstract, 250 words max) should be sent to jasper.montana@ouce.ox.ac.uk and jmichambers@gmail.com by October 18th, 2019. Session abstract Contradictory accounts of socio-environmental issues and
- [CfP POLLEN20 – Energising Political Ecology](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen20-energising-political-ecology/) - Call for participantsThird Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN 20)Contested Natures: Power, Possibility, PrefigurationBrighton, United Kingdom24-26 June 2020 Session convenors Siddharth Sareen (University of Bergen and University of Sussex) and Stefan Bouzarovski (University of Manchester). Abstracts are due 25th October to Siddharth.Sareen@uib.no and stefan.bouzarovski@manchester.ac.uk Session description As global rallies grow around the climate emergency,
- [CfP POLLEN20 – Political Ecologies of/at the Edge: Climate Futures, Marginal Landscapes and Infrastructural Imaginaries](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen20-political-ecologies-of-at-the-edge-climate-futures-marginal-landscapes-and-infrastructural-imaginaries/) - Call for participantsThird Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN 20)Contested Natures: Power, Possibility, PrefigurationBrighton, United Kingdom24-26 June 2020 Session organizers Aurora Fredriksen (University of Manchester) and Nate Millington (University of Manchester). Paper titles and abstracts of 250 words should be sent to nate.millington@manchester.ac.uk & aurora.fredriksen@manchester.ac.uk by 20 October 2019. Session description The promise of climate
- [CfP POLLEN 20: Political ecology of professional practice: plurality and possibilities in environmental governance](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen-20-political-ecology-of-professional-practice-plurality-and-possibilities-in-environmental-governance/) - The Third Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN 20) Contested Natures: Power, Possibility, Prefiguration Brighton, United Kingdom 24-26 June 2020 Session organisers Sam Staddon (University of Edinburgh, UK) and Floriane Clement (INRA, France). Paper titles and abstracts of 250 words should be sent to sam.staddon@ed.ac.uk and floriane.clement@inra.fr by 28 October 2019 by November 18. Session description Professional environment and
- [CfP POLLEN20 – Political ecologies of urban water beyond the pipes](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen20-political-ecologies-of-urban-water-beyond-the-pipes/) - Deadline extended! The Third Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN 20) Contested Natures: Power, Possibility, Prefiguration Brighton, United Kingdom 24-26 June 2020 Session organiser Natasha Cornea (University of Birmingham). Please send abstracts of 250 words or less to n.l.cornea@bham.ac.uk by October 25th by November 10th. Session description Over the last two decades (Urban) political ecologists have
- [CfP POLLEN20 - Towards a political ecology of renewable energy](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen20-towards-a-political-ecology-of-renewable-energy/) - Third Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN20)Contested Natures: Power, Possibility, Prefiguration24-26 June 2020Brighton, UK Session organizers: Stephanie Borchardt, Boitumelo Malope, and Michela Marcatelli, Stellenbosch University Session abstract Calls for a rapid transition to renewable energy as a solution to climate change and ecological crisis are currently rampant and across the board, from the
- [CfP POLLEN 20 – Papers, procedures, and plants: Expanding the political ecology of bureaucracy](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen-20-papers-procedures-and-plants-expanding-the-political-ecology-of-bureaucracy/) - Session organizers Scott Freeman (American University) and Raquel Machaqueiro (George Washington University). Please, send your abstract (250 words) by October 25 to Scott Freeman (freeman@american.edu) and Raquel Machaqueiro (rrmachaqueiro@gmail.com). Session description Interdisciplinary political ecology has exposed environmental conservation efforts as a domain in which multiple conceptualizations of space, time, and nature intersect and are forged
- [CfP POLLEN20 – Irrigation issues in emerging economies](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen20-irrigation-issues-in-emerging-economies/) - The Third Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN20) Contested Natures: Power, Possibility, Prefiguration Brighton, United Kingdom 24-26 June 2020 Session organisers This session is being organized by Adnan Mirhanoglu (adnan.mirhanoglu@kuleuven.be) and Maarten Loopmans (Maarten.Loopmans@kuleuven.be). Please submit abstracts between 250 and 500 words and full contact details to both organizers by the 28 of October 2019
- [CfP POLLEN20 – Calling postgraduate students and early career researchers: please contribute ideas! Extended deadline 22 November](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen20-calling-postgraduate-students-and-early-career-researchers-please-contribute-ideas-extended-deadline-22-november/) - The Third Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN20) Contested Natures: Power, Possibility, Prefiguration Brighton, United Kingdom 24-26 June 2020 In connection with the upcoming Third Biennial conference of the Political Ecology Network in Brighton from 24-26 June 2020, a working group made up of postgraduate researchers at the University of Sussex and Brighton
- [CfP POLLEN20 – Comparative perspective(s) on ontological conflicts in extractivism, conservation and development](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen20-comparative-perspectives-on-ontological-conflicts-in-extractivism-conservation-and-development/) - The Third Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN20) Contested Natures: Power, Possibility, Prefiguration Brighton, United Kingdom 24-26 June 2020 Session organizers Riccarda Flemmer (GIGA Hamburg), Jonas Hein (University of Kiel). We invite contributions on cases from the Global South and North. If you are interested to join our panel, please send us your
- [CfP POLLEN20 – (Re)making rangelands as new investment frontiers: Case studies, critiques and alternative futures](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen20-remaking-rangelands-as-new-investment-frontiers-case-studies-critiques-and-alternative-futures/) - Session Proposal for Third Biennial Conference of POLLEN Contested Natures: Power, Possibility, Prefiguration Brighton, United Kingdom 24-26 June 2020 Session organisers Charis Enns (c.enns@sheffield.ac.uk), Kennedy Mkutu (kmkutu@yahoo.com) and Marie Müller-Koné (marie.mueller@bicc.de) Session abstract Nearly half the Earth’s land surface is classified as rangelands, which are areas where vegetation consists predominantly of grasses, grass-like plants and shrubs
- [CfP POLLEN20 – Emplacing crisis and theorising nature-society transformations](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen20-emplacing-crisis-and-theorising-nature-society-transformations/) - Call for session participants The Third Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN20) Contested Natures: Power, Possibility, Prefiguration Brighton, United Kingdom, 24-26 June 2020 https://pollen2020.wordpress.com/ Session organizers Amber Huff (Institute of Development Studies and STEPS Centre) and Sango Mahanty (The Australian National University) Preliminary session abstract In cautioning that our foundational systems for life
- [CfP POLLEN20 – Convivial conservation: approaches for linking social and environmental justice](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen20-convivial-conservation-approaches-for-linking-social-and-environmental-justice/) - The Third Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN20) Contested Natures: Power, Possibility, Prefiguration Brighton, United Kingdom 24-26 June 2020 Session organizers Laila Thomaz Sandroni (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil) and Judith Krauss (University of Sheffield, UK). Please submit your proposals for paper titles and abstracts (250 words max) with full contact details by
- [CfP POLLEN20 – Decolonizing Conservation in Theory and Praxis](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen20-decolonizing-conservation-in-theory-and-praxis/) - The Third Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN20) Contested Natures: Power, Possibility, Prefiguration Brighton, United Kingdom 24-26 June 2020 Session organizers Megan Youdelis (University of Guelph) & Justine Townsend (University of Guelph). Please send abstracts of 250 words or less to Megan Youdelis (megan.youdelis@uoguelph.ca) and Justine Townsend (justine.townsend@uoguelph.ca) no later than November 18th. Presenters accepted
- [CfP POLLEN20 – Green financialization: Renewable energy transitions and the power of green finance flows](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen20-green-financialization-renewable-energy-transitions-and-the-power-of-green-finance-flows/) - Third Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN20) Contested Natures: Power, Possibility, Prefiguration Brighton, United Kingdom 24-26 June 2020 Session organizers Please circulate widely and send us your abstracts (up to 250 words) till November 10th to Franziska Müller (fmueller@uni-kassel.de) Session description Renewable energy is rapidly gaining relevance as a key energy source in many
- [CfP POLLEN20 – ‘Ecosystem Services’, ‘Natural Capital’ and the future of environmental politics](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen20-ecosystem-services-natural-capital-and-the-future-of-environmental-politics/) - Third Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN20) Contested Natures: Power, Possibility, Prefiguration Brighton, United Kingdom 24-26 June 2020 Session organizers Markus Leibenath (Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development, Dresden, Germany) and Brian Coffey (RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia). Submissions should include author name(s), affiliation(s), country and email address(es), paper title and an abstract (250 words maximum). They should be sent to m.leibenath@ioer.de by 18th November,
- [CfP POLLEN20 – Invasion/contagion : Entanglements of racialisation and biology in the making of policed natures](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen20-invasion-contagion-entanglements-of-racialisation-and-biology-in-the-making-of-policed-natures/) - Third Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN20) Contested Natures: Power, Possibility, Prefiguration Brighton, United Kingdom 24-26 June 2020 Session organizers Patricia J. Lopez (Dartmouth College) and Naomi Millner (University of Bristol). Please send abstracts to Naomi Millner (naomi.millner@bristol.ac.uk) and Tish Lopez (patricia.j.lopez@dartmouth.edu) by 15 November 2019. We will respond to submissions by November 20. Session
- [CfP POLLEN20 – Prefiguring Indigeneity at Capitalist Frontiers: Conservation-Extractivism and Resource Making in the Age of Climate Change](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen20-prefiguring-indigeneity-at-capitalist-frontiers-conservation-extractivism-and-resource-making-in-the-age-of-climate-change/) - Third Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN 20) Contested Natures: Power, Possibility, Prefiguration Brighton, United Kingdom 24-26 June 2020 Session organizers Melis Ece, British Academy Newton International Fellow, School of Global Studies, Anthropology, University of Sussex, UK (me329@sussex.ac.uk) James Fairhead, Anthropology, University of Sussex, UK (j.r.fairhead@sussex.ac.uk) Madhuri Karak, Mellon/ACLS Public Fellow, Washington D.C.,
- [CfP POLLEN20 – From the Anthropocene to the ‘Plantationocene’: Describing and defying plantation ecologies, replenishing multi-species worlds](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen20-from-the-anthropocene-to-the-plantationocene-describing-and-defying-plantation-ecologies-replenishing-multi-species-worlds/) - POLLEN20: Contested Natures: Power, Possibility, Prefiguration Brighton, U.K. June 24-26, 2020 Session organizers Session organizers: Vijay Kolinjivadi (University of Antwerp), Jean-François Bissonnette (Université Laval), Catherine Windey (University of Antwerp), Rut Elliot Blomqvist (University of Gothenburg), Gert Van Hecken (University of Antwerp) Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words to Vijay Kolinjivadi vijay.kolinjivadi@mail.mcgill.ca no later than
- [CfP POLLEN20 – Reframing legality and power in the contested terrain of European wildlife trade](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen20-reframing-legality-and-power-in-the-contested-terrain-of-european-wildlife-trade/) - Third Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN 20) Contested Natures: Power, Possibility, Prefiguration Brighton, United Kingdom 24-26 June 2020 Session organisers Hannah Dickinson, BIOSEC Project, Politics & IR, The University of Sheffield, UK (h.g.dickinson@sheffield.ac.uk) and George Iordachescu, BIOSEC Project, Politics & IR, The University of Sheffield, UK (g.a.iordachescu@sheffield.ac.uk). If you would like to
- [CfP POLLEN20 – Plant spaces, vegetal places? Placing vegetal life in urban political ecology](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen20-plant-spaces-vegetal-places-placing-vegetal-life-in-urban-political-ecology/) - Third Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN 20) Contested Natures: Power, Possibility, Prefiguration Brighton, United Kingdom 24-26 June 2020 Session organizer Marion Ernwein (University of Oxford) and James Palmer (University of Bristol). Please send 250-word abstracts to Marion Ernwein (marion.ernwein@ouce.ox.ac.uk) and James Palmer (james.palmer@bristol.ac.uk) by Monday 18th November 2019. Session description Efforts to “animate”
- [CfP POLLEN20 – Urban Political Ecology](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen20-urban-political-ecology/) - Third Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN 20) Contested Natures: Power, Possibility, Prefiguration Brighton, United Kingdom 24-26 June 2020 Session organisers Seth Gustafson (University College London, s.gustafson@ucl.ac.uk); Alex Loftus (King’s College London, alex.loftus@kcl.ac.uk); Katie Meehan (King’s College London, katie.meehan@kcl.ac.uk). Please send titles and abstracts of 250 words to all three of us by November 20, 2019.
- [CfP POLLEN20 – Blurred Boundaries and their Political Ecologies: Parties, patronage and bureaucratic practice](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen20-blurred-boundaries-and-their-political-ecologies-parties-patronage-and-bureaucratic-practice/) - Third Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN 20) Contested Natures: Power, Possibility, Prefiguration Brighton, United Kingdom 24-26 June 2020 Session organizers Please send abstracts of up to 250 words to Elsie Lewison, Rebecca McMillan and Zach Anderson at elsie.lewison@mail.utoronto.ca, rebecca.mcmillan@mail.utoronto.ca and z.anderson@utoronto.ca by November 19, 2019. Session description Over the past decade, political ecology has seen increasingly nuanced
- [CfP POLLEN20 –Waterscape, hydrosocial territory and other water words. Theorising space in the political ecology of water: Opportunities and challenges](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen20-waterscape-hydrosocial-territory-and-other-water-words-theorising-space-in-the-political-ecology-of-water-opportunities-and-challenges/) - Third Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN 20) Contested Natures: Power, Possibility, Prefiguration Brighton, United Kingdom 24-26 June 2020 Session organizers If you would like to contribute, please send abstracts (250 words maximum) to Silvia Flaminio (silvia.flaminio@unil.ch) and Gaële Rouillé-Kielo (gaele.rouille@parisnanterre.fr) by 15th November, 2019. Session description Over the past two decades, various
- [CfP POLLEN20 – ‘Defenders’, atmospheres of violence in conservation, extraction, and ‘sustainable’ development](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen20-defenders-atmospheres-of-violence-in-conservation-extraction-and-sustainable-development/) - Session organizers If you are interested in contributing a paper, please send a title and abstract to Mary Menton (m.menton@sussex.ac.uk) by 15 November. If you would like to express interest or discuss the session proposal before sending an abstract, please get in touch with Mary, Philippe LeBillon (Philippe.lebillon@ubc.ca) and/or Peter Larsen (peter.larsen@unigh.che) Session description This
- [CfP POLLEN20 – Creating carbon knowledges: conceptualising carbon ‘on the ground’](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen20-creating-carbon-knowledges-conceptualising-carbon-on-the-ground/) - Third Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN 20) Contested Natures: Power, Possibility, Prefiguration Brighton, United Kingdom 24-26 June 2020 Session organisers If you would like to contribute please send a title and abstract to Rebecca Kent at Rebecca.kent@canterbury.ac.uk by November 19, 2019. Session description This session seeks to examine how carbon knowledge is
- [CfP POLLEN20 – Conceptualizations and institutionalizations of variegated “green” economies in the global South](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen20-conceptualizations-and-institutionalizations-of-variegated-green-economies-in-the-global-south/) - Third Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN 20) Contested Natures: Power, Possibility, Prefiguration Brighton, United Kingdom 24-26 June 2020 Session organizers Jill Tove Buseth (Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences & Department of Social and Educational Sciences, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences) and Mathew Bukhi Mabele
- [CFP Pollen20 – Utopian ecologies of unburnable fuels](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen20-utopian-ecologies-of-unburnable-fuels/) - Third Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN 20) Contested Natures: Power, Possibility, Prefiguration Brighton, United Kingdom 24-26 June 2020 Session organizers Please send your abstracts by the 20th of November to Lorenzo Pellegrini (pellegrini@iss.nl) and Salvatore Eugenio Pappalardo (salvatore.pappalardo@unipd.it). Session description In order to limit the probable increase in global mean temperature to 2°C,
- [CfP POLLEN20 – Mapping [and] Contesting Value Regimes From Political Ecology Perspectives](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen20-mapping-and-contesting-value-regimes-from-political-ecology-perspectives/) - Third Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN 20) Contested Natures: Power, Possibility, Prefiguration Brighton, United Kingdom 24-26 June 2020 Session organizers Özlem Aslan (Boğaziçi University, Turkey), Prasad Khanolkar (Indian Institute of Technology-Guwahati, India) & Katie Mazer (McMaster University, Canada). Please send abstracts of no more that 250 words to Özlem Aslan (ozlem.aslan@mail.utoronto.ca), Prasad
- [CfP POLLEN20 – Is time out of joint? The politics of time in and beyond the climate movement](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen20-is-time-out-of-joint-the-politics-of-time-in-and-beyond-the-climate-movement/) - Third Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN 20) Contested Natures: Power, Possibility, Prefiguration Brighton, United Kingdom 24-26 June 2020 Session organizers Anneleen Kenis, Maarten Loopmans. Please send a short abstract (200-250 words) and/or proposal of theses by Monday the 18th of November at the latest. Email addresses: anneleen.kenis@kcl.ac.uk and maarten.loopmans@kuleuven.be Please don’t hesitate contacting us if you would have any questions. Session description
- [CfP POLLEN20 – Contested Waters and Fluid Properties in Capitalist Natures](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen20-contested-waters-and-fluid-properties-in-capitalist-natures/) - Third Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN 20) Contested Natures: Power, Possibility, Prefiguration Brighton, United Kingdom 24-26 June 2020 Session organizers Camelia Dewan (University of Oslo), Knut G Nustad (University of Oslo). Please send your abstract of 250 words by Monday 18th November (17 CET) to camelia.dewan@sai.uio.no and k.g.nustad@sai.uio. We will respond to submissions by 20th November.
- [CfP POLLEN20 – The Enemy of Kinship & Kinship with the Enemies: Beyond Invasive Species and Ecosystem Services Parasites](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen20-the-enemy-of-kinship-kinship-with-the-enemies-beyond-invasive-species-and-ecosystem-services-parasites/) - Third Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN20) Brighton, United Kingdom 24-26 June 2020 Session organizers Please send your abstracts by the 21st of November to Karin Ahlberg, Stockholm University (karin.ahlberg@socant.su.se) and Panos Kompatsiaris, Higher School of Economics, Moscow (pkompatsiaris@hse.ru). Session description In his book the ‘Metamorphoses of Kinship’ (2011), the anthropologist Maurice Godelier speaks about
- [CfP POLLEN20 – Lost in transition? Capturing the impacts of conservation and development interventions on relational values and human well-being in the forested tropics](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen20-lost-in-transition-capturing-the-impacts-of-conservation-and-development-interventions-on-relational-values-and-human-well-being-in-the-forested-tropics/) - Third Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN20) Brighton, United Kingdom 24-26 June 2020 Session organizers Rachel Carmenta (University of Cambridge), Julie G. Zaehringer (University of Bern, CH) & Judith Schleicher (University of Cambridge). Please submit your abstract (Max 250 words) to Rachel Carmenta (rc730@cam.ac.uk), Julie G. Zaehringer (julie.zaehringer@cde.unibe.ch) and Judith Schleicher (schleicher.judith@googlemail.com) by midnight
- [CfP POLLEN20 – Renewable Energies and Agrarian Change: Contestations over Low Carbon Investments*](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen20-renewable-energies-and-agrarian-change-contestations-over-low-carbon-investments/) - Third Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN20) Brighton, United Kingdom 24-26 June 2020 *This session is part of ‘Conversations between political ecology and critical agrarian studies’, a series of six linked sessions that will explore complementarities and tensions between political ecology and critical agrarian studies in relation to land, energy, environment and nature, degrowth, green economies
- [CfP POLLEN20 – How can agrarian movements address the global food and environmental crises?*](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen20-how-can-agrarian-movements-address-the-global-food-and-environmental-crises/) - Third Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN20) Brighton, United Kingdom 24-26 June 2020 *This session is part of ‘Conversations between political ecology and critical agrarian studies’, a series of six linked sessions that will explore complementarities and tensions between political ecology and critical agrarian studies in relation to land, energy, environment and nature, degrowth, green economies
- [CfP POLLEN20 – Land, environment and nature: politics of resources*](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen20-land-environment-and-nature-politics-of-resources/) - Third Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN20) Brighton, United Kingdom 24-26 June 2020 *This session is part of ‘Conversations between political ecology and critical agrarian studies’, a series of six linked sessions that will explore complementarities and tensions between political ecology and critical agrarian studies in relation to land, energy, environment and nature, degrowth, green economies
- [CfP POLLEN20 – Degrowth, green economies and agrarian struggle*](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen20-degrowth-green-economies-and-agrarian-struggle/) - Third Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN20) Brighton, United Kingdom 24-26 June 2020 *This session is part of ‘Conversations between political ecology and critical agrarian studies’, a series of six linked sessions that will explore complementarities and tensions between political ecology and critical agrarian studies in relation to land, energy, environment and nature, degrowth, green economies
- [CfP ECPR 2020](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-ecpr-2020/) - Politics for Catastrophic Times: how to find the terrestrialPanel Proposal, ECPR General Conference 2020 Deadline: 10th of February, 2020 - send abstract (no more than 500 words) to louise.knops@vub.be and mihnea.tanasescu@vub.be Chairs:Louise Knops, doctoral candidate, Political Science department, Vrije Universiteit BrusselDr. Mihnea Tanasescu, post-doctoral researcher, Research Foundation Flanders, Political Sciencedepartment, Vrije Universiteit Brussel The Anthropocene
- [CfP Doctoral Colloquium on the Infrastructure Turn and Global Development](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-doctoral-colloquium-on-the-infrastructure-turn-and-global-development/) - In brief: Application and Deadline: Please submit the following information in one Word file by email to Charis Enns (c.enns@sheffield.ac.uk) by 6 March 2020 11.59pm GMT:1) A long abstract (up to 500 words) of your manuscript or dissertation chapter2) A short bio (up to 250 words) Eligibility: This colloquium aims to provide mentorship and support
- [CfP: It’s the (bio)economy, stupid! The future of growth and the promise of the bioeconomy](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-its-the-bioeconomy-stupid-the-future-of-growth-and-the-promise-of-the-bioeconomy/) - Where: Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany When: 7th – 8th October 2020 Application deadline: 500 word abstract by 3d of April, 2020, sent to flumen@uni-jena.de. Papers due by 18th of September, 2020. Read the full description by downloading the PDF:Download
- [CfP: Pathways Europe 2020: Human Dimensions of Wildlife conference](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pathways-europe-2020-human-dimensions-of-wildlife-conference/) - When: 20-23 September, 2020 Where: Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands Deadline for organised session submissions: 31 March 2020 Deadline for abstract submissions: 10 April, 2020 Dear colleagues, We would like to invite you for the “Pathways Europe 2020: Human Dimensions of Wildlife conference”. The conference will be held in Wageningen (The Netherlands), from 20 to
- [CfP American Association of Geographers (AAG) 2021 Annual Conference](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-american-association-of-geographers-aag-2021-annual-conference/) - CfP American Association of Geographers (AAG) 2021 Annual Conference **ONLINE SESSION** Roads, bridges, dams and ports: what does the turn to infrastructure (both empirical and theoretical) mean for Latin American environmental geographies? Dr Jessica Hope & Prof Murat Arsel Latin America’s contested environmental geographies remain globally significant, in particular for the negotiation and analysis of predatory extractive
- [CFP for Panel proposal to the BASAS (British Association for South Asian Studies) Annual Conference 2021](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-for-panel-proposal-to-the-basas-british-association-for-south-asian-studies-annual-conference-2021/) - See conference website. Deadline: 30th of November, 2pm UK time Panel title - ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE IN SOUTH ASIA: DISCURSIVE POLITICAL ECOLOGY OF CONTEMPORARY ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMMES Panel abstract The politicization of environmental issues since the 1970s has led to a proliferation of powerful, often north-based, environmental ‘experts’ who assert their ‘knowledge’ about the inter-relationship between environment, economy and
- [CfP: Digital Natures: Reworking Epistemologies, Ontologies and Politics Special Issue for the journal Digital Geography and Society](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-digital-natures-reworking-epistemologies-ontologies-and-politics-special-issue-for-the-journal-digital-geography-and-society/) - Abstracts deadline: 18th December 2020. Please submit abstracts of up to 250 words toAndrés Luque-Ayala (a.e.luque@durham.ac.uk), Eric Nost (enost@uoguelph.ca) and RuthMachen (ruth.machen@newcastle.ac.uk). Final paper submissions will be expected betweenMay–July 2021. Increasingly societal engagements with nature occur through digital encounters, processes,and technologies. Whether it is via robotic bees mobilised for pollination purposes, smart-phone apps directing city
- [CfP for SfAA 2022: The Transformative Potential of Teaching the Commons](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-for-sfaa-2022-the-transformative-potential-of-teaching-the-commons/) - Society for Applied Anthropology Annual MeetingSalt Lake City, March 22-26th (virtual participation is possible) We (Jessie Fly, Eckerd College and Jess Ham, Oxford College at Emory) are hoping to assemble a panel on teaching the commons for the Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting to be held in Salt Lake City March 22-26th (description below).
- [POLLEN22 CfP: Natures out of place? Spaces, ecologies and materialities of the ‘Weird’](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen22-cfp-natures-out-of-place-spaces-ecologies-and-materialities-of-the-weird/) - The Fourth Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network28‐30 June 2022Durban, South Africa Session conveners:Amber Huff (Institute for Development Studies, University of Sussex)Adrian Nel (Discipline of Geography, University of Kwazulu‐Natal) Bringing political ecology’s long‐standing concerns with the politics of human‐nature relations into dialoguewith insights from cultural and critical geography, cultural anthropology, the environmental humanities,geocriticism and
- [CfP POLLEN22 Biodiversity conservation, disruptive politics, and the challenges of (challenging) spatial injustices](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen22-biodiversity-conservation-disruptive-politics-and-the-challenges-of-challenging-spatial-injustices/) - Panel proposal and CfP for POLLEN 2022: The 4th Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network – 28-30 June 2022, #POLLEN22 | www.pollen2022.com | @PolEcoNet Organised by: Bram Büscher, Moenieba Isaacs and Lerato Thakholi Abstract: In many places around the world, both north and south, efforts to promote coexistence between humans and the rest of nature often run up against deeply
- [CfP POLLEN22: Researching social-ecological conflicts – Bringing non-human entities into the analysis](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen22-researching-social-ecological-conflicts-bringing-non-human-entities-into-the-analysis/) - Session proposal for POLLEN 2022 Call for Abstracts Organisers: Markus Rauchecker1,* (rauchecker@isoe.de or markus.rauchecker@isoe.de) & Fanny Frick-Trzebitzky1 (frick@isoe.de) 1 ISOE – Institute for Social-Ecological Research, Hamburger Allee 45, 60486 Frankfurt am Main * Contact organiser Abstract: Research on environmental conflicts analyses mainly conflicts between social actors such as conflicts about resource distribution and access. These analyses generally treat
- [CfP POLLEN22: The political ecology of China’s Belt and Road Initiative: A grounded analysis of the uneven effects of the New Silk Road on place, socionatures and livelihoods from the South, North and beyond](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen22-the-political-ecology-of-chinas-belt-and-road-initiative-a-grounded-analysis-of-the-uneven-effects-of-the-new-silk-road-on-place-socionatures-and-livelihoods-from-the-south-n/) - OrganizersElia Apostolopoulou, Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, University of CambridgeHan Cheng, Chinese Academy of Sciences, BeijingJonathan Silver, Urban Institute, University of SheffieldAlan Wiig, Urban Planning and Community Development, University of Massachusetts Boston The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), announced in 2013 by the Chinese President Xi Jinping, is the single largest infrastructure project since the
- [CfP POLLEN22: Synergy or contrast? When political ecology theoretical claims meet practical transdisciplinary challenges in social-ecological research projects](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen22-synergy-or-contrast-when-political-ecology-theoretical-claims-meet-practical-transdisciplinary-challenges-in-social-ecological-research-projects/) - Organizers: Fanny Frick-Trzebitzky1* (frick@isoe.de), Heide Kerber1 (kerber@isoe.de), Markus Rauchecker1 (rauchecker@isoe.de) 1 ISOE – Institute for Social-Ecological Research, Hamburger Allee 45, 60486 Frankfurt am Main * Contact organizer Abstract: Addressing crises in societal relations to nature involves co-creation of knowledge among multiple disciplines and practitioners. Research in transdisciplinary mode involves collaboration with key stakeholders from problem framing to deriving conclusions.
- [CfP POLLEN22: Political Ecology and Film: Cutting Away from Dominant Understandings and Aesthetics](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen22-political-ecology-and-film-cutting-away-from-dominant-understandings-and-aesthetics/) - Satya Ambasta; Moving Images India, Srishti Films Paromita Bathija; Independent Scholar Sanjay Barnela; Moving Images India, Srishti Films Nitin Rai; Independent Scholar Session Format: Exhibition Session Abstract: We propose to organise an Exhibition Session at POLLEN2022 to screen and discuss films built around interdisciplinary engagements between political ecology and environmental documentary. Political ecology has for
- [CfP POLLEN22: Deagrarianisation: what are the underlying reasons and effects with focus on livelihoods, poverty reduction and climate change](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen22-deagrarianisation-what-are-the-underlying-reasons-and-effects-with-focus-on-livelihoods-poverty-reduction-and-climate-change/) - Session organizers: Klara Fischer, Department of Urban and Rural Development, Swedish University of Agricultural SciencesSheona Shackleton, African Climate & Development Initiative, University of Cape TownFlora Hajdu, Department of Urban and Rural Development, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Across several parts of the world, there is evidence that smallholder farmers are ceasing farming (Hebinck, 2018, Bryceson,
- [CfP POLLEN 2022: “From Overtourism to Undertourism…and Back Again? Confronting Post-Pandemic Tourism ‘Regrowth’ with Postcapitalist Pathways”](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen-2022-from-overtourism-to-undertourismand-back-again-confronting-post-pandemic-tourism-regrowth-with-postcapitalist-pathways/) - Organised by:Asunción Blanco-Romero, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona: asuncion.blanco@uab.catMacià Blázquez-Salom, Universitat de les Illes Balears: mblazquez@uib.catRobert Fletcher, Wageningen University: robert.fletcher@wur.nl ABSTRACT: The ongoing COVID pandemic has dramatically impacted tourism in nearly every destination worldwide. One of the most striking of these impacts can been the way it quickly and decisively ended growing complaints about “overtourism” in
- [CfP POLLEN22: Power, knowledge and multi-species perspectives in smallholder agriculture](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen22-power-knowledge-and-multi-species-perspectives-in-smallholder-agriculture/) - Session organizers Klara Fischer, Department of Urban and Rural Development, Swedish University of Agricultural SciencesMaya Marshak, Department of Environmental and Geographical Science, University of Cape TownRachel Wynberg, Department of Environmental and Geographical Science, University of Cape Town Farming is critical for livelihood security, particularly for smallholders in the Global South (Bezner Kerr, 2013; Fischer, 2021;
- [CfP POLLEN22: Decolonizing conservation: Strategies of local-to-global initiatives](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen22-decolonizing-conservation-strategies-of-local-to-global-initiatives/) - Session organizers: Dr. Riccarda Flemmer (FU Berlin), Dr. Charlotte Schumann (FU Berlin) The current redefinition of global initiatives to halt biodiversity loss and prevent climate change (COP 15 CBD; Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework) calls into question the conventional measures to achieve reductions of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and the conservation of livelihoods. Especially, classical “fine-and-fence”
- [CfP POLLEN22: Anti-Caste Environmentalism: Marginal Perspectives around Political Ecology in India](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen22-anti-caste-environmentalism-marginal-perspectives-around-political-ecology-in-india/) - Session Organizers:Dr Prashant Ingole, PhD (Cultural Studies & Environmental Humanities): Postdoctoral Fellow, Humanities & Social sciences, IIT GandhinagarCamellia Biswas (Environmental Anthropology): Doctoral Candidate, Humanities & Social Sciences, IIT Gandhinagar ABSTRACTEver since the onset of discussion around environmental politics in India, anti-caste environmentalism and its relationship with nature/ecology is very different from the popular climate change
- [CfP POLLEN22: Political Ecologies of Zoonosis](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen22-political-ecologies-of-zoonosis/) - Session organizers: Francis Massé, Northumbria University (main contact)Brock Bersaglio, University of BirminghamCharis Enns, University of Manchester Abstract: An estimated 60% of known emerging infectious diseases are zoonotic, resulting from multispecies interactions. While clearly a public health concern, zoonotic diseases are also intimately connected to socio-ecological change and multispecies interactions. State and non- state actors are
- [CfP POLLEN22: Political ecology of memory: Memories of violence and socio-environmental struggles](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen22-political-ecology-of-memory-memories-of-violence-and-socio-environmental-struggles/) - Organisers: Esther Marijnen (Wageningen University and Research), David Mwambari (Kings College, London), Emmanuel Akampurira (Ghent University) For this panel, we are looking for contributions that aim to make connections between political ecology and memory studies. To date, political ecologists have only spent sparse attention to the politics of memory related to ecologies and different types
- [CfP POLLEN22: Cultivating Critical Reflexivity in Conservation](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen22-cultivating-critical-reflexivity-in-conservation/) - *Please note that the conference organisers are yet to determine the conference format, whether it be in person, virtual, or hybrid - they will make a determination early in 2022, given the prevailing COVID-19 situation in South Africa and the national, provincial, and University of KwaZulu-Natal guidelines and protocols at that time. Convenors: Sam Staddon
- [CfP POLLEN22: Emotional Political Ecologies - Methods, Insights and Potential](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen22-emotional-political-ecologies-methods-insights-and-potential/) - Convened by Alice Beban (Massey University), Sango Mahanty (The Australian National University) and Sopheak Chann (Royal University of Phnom Penh) Abstract Although emotions are a central facet of lived experience, they have been under-explored in the processes of dispossession, power and capital intensification that political ecologists study. The “affective turn” in feminist geography, feminist political ecology
- [CfP POLLEN22: Mobilising political ecology seeds to advance equity and justice for oceans and people: a conversation between academics and civil society](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen22-mobilising-political-ecology-seeds-to-advance-equity-and-justice-for-oceans-and-people-a-conversation-between-academics-and-civil-society/) - Session organizers: Mialy Andriamahefazafy (University of Portsmouth) and Marleen Schutter (WorldFish & University of Washington) Format of event: Indaba session Keywords: marine, fisheries, blue justice, equity, blue economies, blue regrowth The oceans are receiving unprecedented attention. Countries are establishing blue economy frameworks, there is Sustainable Development Goal 14 dedicated to the ocean and we are within the UN
- [CfP POLLEN22: Advancing Blue Justice? Political ecologies of equity and justice in oceans governance](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen22-advancing-blue-justice-political-ecologies-of-equity-and-justice-in-oceans-governance/) - Session Organizers: Emilie Wiehe and Noella Gray, University of Guelph Abstract The importance of equity and justice in marine conservation specifically and the blue economy more broadly has gained significant traction among scholars and practitioners alike in recent years (Bavinck & Verrips, 2020; Bennett et al., 2019). This momentum responds in part to the longstanding
- [CfP POLLEN22: Indigenous Self-Determination vis-à-vis Conservation and Climate Action](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen22-indigenous-self-determination-vis-a-vis-conservation-and-climate-action/) - Session organizers: Deborah Delgado1, Ana Watson2, Conny Davidsen2 1Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru 2University of Calgar Abstract: Despite growing international calls and strong evidence of their crucial roles, indigenous and local communities are still struggling to have a voice and impact in environmental governance to secure their livelihoods and territories vis-à-vis growing exploitation, violence, state
- [CfP POLLEN22: Other-than-Human Political Ecologies of Wildlife Conservation](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen22-other-than-human-political-ecologies-of-wildlife-conservation/) - Organised Paper Session: Sayan Banerjee and Anindya Sinha National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, India Abstract Political ecology (PE) has played a pivotal role in examining human–wildlife interactions and their implications for conservation practice. The most commonly researched themes in this domain include impacts of animals on people and related responses from different human actors;
- [CfP POLLEN22: Political Ecology of Rural-Urban Transformations and Transitions](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen22-political-ecology-of-rural-urban-transformations-and-transitions/) - Co-organizers: Shreya Sinha and Tanya Matthan There is a large and growing scholarship on growing fluidity and interconnections between the rural and the urban, reflected in terms such as rural-urban complex, ruralities, agrarian urbanisations, extended urbanisations, recombinant urbanization, etc. Scholars have emphasized that the contemporary ‘rural’ encompasses far more than the agrarian and that neat
- [CfP POLLEN22: If 'we' are the future of political ecology then what should change in political ecology?: Voices of early-career political ecologists](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen22-if-we-are-the-future-of-political-ecology-then-what-should-change-in-political-ecology-voices-of-early-career-political-ecologists/) - Co-organizers: Abigail Croker, Imperial College London Kapil Yadav, King’s College London Naira Dehmel, King’s College London Keywords: early-career perspectives, decolonizing political ecology, South-North positionalities, divisions and collaboration Abstract We are the early career political ecologists. We find ourselves in the South, North, between them or moving between both. We have started our academic journey and
- [CfP POLLEN22: Political ecology in the courtroom – power and knowledge dynamics in legal processes to redress environmental injustices from contested natural resource governance](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen22-political-ecology-in-the-courtroom-power-and-knowledge-dynamics-in-legal-processes-to-redress-environmental-injustices-from-contested-natural-resource-governance/) - Panel Conveners: Cristina Espinosa (Assistant Professor) & Zabrina Welter (PhD Candidate) From the Chair for Sustainability Governance, Institute of Environmental Social Sciences and Geography, University of Freiburg Panel Description: Throughout the world, new patterns of resource exploration, extraction and nature appropriation are rapidly emerging in the name of sustainable, low-carbon, and peaceful futures (Fairhead, Leach,
- [CfP POLLEN22: COASTAL TRANSFORMATIONS AND SPATIAL JUSITICE IN THE SOUTH AND NORTH](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen22-coastal-transformations-and-spatial-jusitice-in-the-south-and-north/) - Organiser: Synne Movik, Norwegian University of Life Sciences Session overview: Historically, human settlements have had an affinity for the shore, for broad horizons and the expanse of the oceans offering opportunities for travel and trade. Currently, coastal areas are the most densely populated and economically active places on Earth (Sachs, Mellinger et al. 2001, McGranahan,
- [CfP POLLEN22: Exploring the Interface between ‘Green’ Extractivism and Violent Conflict](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen22-exploring-the-interface-between-green-extractivism-and-violent-conflict/) - Panel convenors: Alexander Dunlap (SUM, University of Oslo) & Judith Verweijen (University of Sheffield) Panel description All over the globe, initiatives to mitigate climate change, including projects to promote a ‘green’ energy transition and the drastic increase of the protected area network, are accelerating. This process can be described as a rapid expansion of the
- [CfP POLLEN22: Power and politics in global forest restoration and tree planting effort](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen22-power-and-politics-in-global-forest-restoration-and-tree-planting-effort/) - Type of session: Panel session and/or paper session Organisers: Harry Fischer, Department of Urban and Rural Development, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, harry.fischer@slu.se Rose Pritchard, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester, rose.pritchard@manchester.ac.uk Co-organiser: Flora Hajdu, Department of Urban and Rural Development, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, flora.hajdu@slu.se Session Abstract Recent years have seen growing calls
- [CfP POLLEN2022: Political ecology meets abolition: Exploring the relationship between policing and environmental injustice](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen2022-political-ecology-meets-abolition-exploring-the-relationship-between-policing-and-environmental-injustice/) - Session organisers: Andrea Brock, University of Sussex, A.Brock@sussex.ac.uk, Nathan Stephens-Griffin, University of Northumbria, Nathan.stephens-griffin@northumbria.ac.uk Background In 2020, at least 227 environmental defenders around the world were killed by policing forces – police, militaries, paramilitaries, private security forces (Global Witness, 2021) – and all around the world, those who stand against ecological destruction are systematically harassed,
- [CfP POLLEN22: Critical political ecology perspectives on ‘the’ blue economy](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen22-critical-political-ecology-perspectives-on-the-blue-economy/) - Type of session: Panel session and/or paper session Organisers: Kate Symons, Lecturer in Global Development (kate.symons@open.ac.uk) and Mark Lamont (mark.lamont@open.ac.uk), Lecturer in International Development, both Development Policy and Practice, The Open University, UK. Session Abstract The ocean’s role in global sustainable development is firmly on the agenda. Environment, conservation and development institutions are paying more
- [CfP POLLEN2022: Cultivating grassroots](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen2022-cultivating-grassroots/) - Grassroots, the new section of the Journal of Political Ecology, is inviting proposals for the POLLEN 2022 panel session: "Cultivating Grassroots" Panel Abstract:In this panel we explore the notion of “Grassroots”, which has been mobilized by social environmental movements to link their political and life struggles with local realities and concerns. is also the name
- [CfP POLLEN2022: Political ecology of education – climate youth and indigenous activism](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen2022-political-ecology-of-education-climate-youth-and-indigenous-activism/) - Session organizers: Matthias Kowasch (University College of Teacher Education Styria, Austria; Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences) Jill Tove Buseth (Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences) Session description: The emergent political ecology of education provides fruitful ground for problematizing and re-imagining curricula and policy (Meek & Lloro-Bidart, 2017). But with growing awareness of climate change
- [CfP POLLEN2022: Crises in/of forest carbon offsetting](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen2022-crises-in-of-forest-carbon-offsetting/) - Session organizers: Kirstine Lund Christiansen, University of Copenhagen Adeniyi Asiyanbi, University of British Columbia Okanagan Jens Friis Lund, University of Copenhagen Session background Forest carbon offsetting continues to stumble through various crises – unrelenting global deforestation, growing severity of wildfires and other extreme weather events, widespread criticisms and local resistance, and enduring problems of additionality,
- [CfP POLLEN2022: Intersections of Political Ecology and STS: New Perspectives, Potentials, Limitations](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen2022-intersections-of-political-ecology-and-sts-new-perspectives-potentials-limitations/) - Co-conveners:Ekin Kurtiç - Brandeis University, Crown Center for Middle East StudiesAybike Alkan - TU Berlin, Institut für Philosophie, Literatur-, Wissenschafts- & TechnikgeschichteMaral Erol - Işık University, Humanities and Social Sciences Department Session background: In the last decade, scholarship at the intersection of political ecology and science and technology studies (STS) has been on the rise.
- [CfP POLLEN2022: The Politics of Agroecology in Sub-Saharan Africa: Critical Perspectives](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen2022-the-politics-of-agroecology-in-sub-saharan-africa-critical-perspectives/) - Organizer/main contact person: Patrick Bottazzi and Sébastien Boillat, Institute of Geography, University of Bern, Hallerstrasse 12, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland Agroecology is commonly defined as a triple object combining ecologically sounds agronomic practices, a corpus of scientific knowledge and a social movement (Wezel et al. 2009). It has been argued that its wide adoption in sub-Saharan
- [CFP POLLEN 2023: Rights, sovereignty, and emerging technologies in global environmental governance](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfp-pollen-2023-rights-sovereignty-and-emerging-technologies-in-global-environmental-governance/) - Dear all, We are excited that POLLEN 2023 will be held in person in Durban and are looking forward to seeing many people there. In the time between our original submission and now, interests and availabilities have evolved, so we are looking for a couple of panelists to round out our panel below. Please feel
- [SIDS Future Forum CFP [Deadline 27th November]](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/sids-future-forum-cfp-deadline-27th-november/) - Message from one of the POLLEN Nodes: The ODI Resilient and Sustainable Islands Initiative (RESI), in conjunction with UN-DESA, UN-OHRLLS, and AOSIS, is issuing a call for up to 10 policy-focused research papers to inform debate at the "SIDS Future Forum". This event will be co-hosted with Island Innovation and will take place in mid-to-late March 2024 (location TBC).
- [Announcement from a POLLEN NODE: Extended call for contributions to the edited book The Political Ecology of Forests in West Africa to be published by Routledge](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/announcement-from-a-pollen-node-extended-call-for-contributions-to-the-edited-book-the-political-ecology-of-forests-in-west-africa-to-be-published-by-routledge/) - The edited book seeks to document the politics, struggles, and conflicts that are (re)defining the political ecologies of forests across the West African region. It will offer a critical account of the ongoing transformation of West African forest socio-ecologies partly as a continuation of the long history of precolonial, colonial and postcolonial struggles over the
- [Publication of short-statements about "Just and Plural Political Ecologies: Traditions and Futures"](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/publication-of-short-statements-about-just-and-plural-political-ecologies-traditions-and-futures/) - Dear community and participants of the POLLEN 2024 Conference: As a run-up to the POLLEN 2024 conference, the Journal of Political Ecology - Grassroots has published a set of short statements about "just and plural political ecologies; traditions and futures". The original call for papers can be found here. The authors of these statements intend to generate and
- [Pathways Autumn School 2024](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pathways-autumn-school-2024/) - "Transformative Research for a Just World and a Habitable Planet"25-29 November 2024 - Aussois, Savoie (France) The Pathways Autumn School will allow the participants to share and reflect on the ways sustainability science can contribute to transforming societies towards new models which strive to achieve social equity and meet basic needs for all, while safeguarding
- [Invitation- online book launch "Urban Movements and Climate Change. Loss, Damage and Radical Adaptation"](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/invitation-online-book-launch-urban-movements-and-climate-change-loss-damage-and-radical-adaptation/) - Some POLLEN NODE members are organizing an online launch of the book "Urban Movements and Climate Change. Loss, Damage and Radical Adaptation"edited by Marco Armiero, Salvatore, Paolo Rosa and Ethemcan Turhan. More information below. From the social uprisings in Santiago de Chile to the radical municipalism experiments in Naples, this volume takes the reader on
- [POLLEN - London hosts: International Book Launch - Benjmain Neimark's 'Hottest of the Hotspots: The Rise of Eco-precarious Conservation Labor in Madagascar'](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-london-hosts-international-book-launch-benjmain-neimarks-hottest-of-the-hotspots-the-rise-of-eco-precarious-conservation-labor-in-madagascar/) - Book launch on Thursday, February 22, 2024, 4.30-6.30pm GMT. This event will be chaired by Shreya Sinha (QMUL) and Sian Sullivan (Bath-Spa University) will act as a discussant. If around London, please feel free to come in person. If not, here is the Eventbrite link to register online: https://bit.ly/3SKM4vk Cheers, Ben Neimark Event Details: Book
- [#POLLEN24 - (Latest) Call for papers](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen24-latest-call-for-papers-5/) - We are pleased to share four new Calls for Papers for #POLLEN24 Dodoma (Tanzania ), Lima (Peru), and Lund (Sweden). More information is below. Call for Papers – Decolonizing the normative foundations of political ecology: Decarbonization, conservation regimes, and territorial movements POLLEN24 – 10-12 June 2024, Lima- Peru Organizers: Dr. Cristóbal Balbontin Gallo (Universidad Austral de
- [#POLLEN24 - Call for contributions](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen24-call-for-contributions/) - Manufactured super creatures for damaged environments Many peasant farmers and other people living with, not just on the land, are well aware of the importance of soil life and biodiversity in maintaining good growing conditions and reducing pests. Nourishing the soil and preserving biodiversity through a wide variety of techniques like polyculture, water retention, the integration
- [Political ecology of education: PhD Course](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/political-ecology-of-education-phd-course/) - Several Norwegian POLLEN NODE members are organizing a PhD Course on the political ecology of education - Oslo 18-21 June 2024. More information below. -- Application deadline: 15 January, 2024 5 ECTS credits The course will critically examine the state of the art of current mainstream as well as critical approaches to education about sustainability,
- [#POLLEN24 - Call for papers "Political ecology of nature-based value chains"](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen24-call-for-papers-political-ecology-of-nature-based-value-chains/) - We share one new Call for Papers for #POLLEN24 Lund-Sweden. More information is below. Call for Papers – Political ecology of nature-based value chains Proposed by: Judith Krauss, University of York (corresponding convenor: judith.krauss@york.ac.uk); Rosaleen Duffy, University of Sheffield; Aarti Krishnan, Alliance Manchester Business School (all UK).This panel seeks submissions that help understand the political ecology
- [Message from #POLLEN24 Conference Team // Mensaje del Equipo de la Conferncia #POLLEN24](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/message-from-pollen24-conference-team-mensaje-del-equipo-de-la-conferncia-pollen24/) - Contributions for POLLEN24 are rolling in and we are excited to see so many excellent abstracts among the early submissions. We are currently mostly receiving submissions to present in Lund, so we would like to take this opportunity to stress the decentralized nature of the conference. To really make this work in the way intended,
- [#POLLEN24 - (Latest) Call for papers](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen24-latest-call-for-papers-4/) - We share two new Calls for Papers for #POLLEN24 Lund-Sweden. More information is below. Call for Papers – Urban Frontiers. From Illegal Land Occupation to Legalized Property Theme: Political ecologies of interconnected crises Organizers: Kasper Hoffmann and Christian Lund, University of Copenhagen Urban property development in the Global South often starts out in illegality and only
- [#POLLEN24 - Latest Call for Papers](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen24-latest-call-for-papers/) - We share two Calls for Papers for #POLLEN24 Lund: (i) Contested imaginaries? Eclectic pathways of agrarian change; and (ii) Political afterlives of sudden ecological events. More information is below. Call for Papers –Contested imaginaries? Eclectic pathways of agrarian change POLLEN24 – 10-12 June 2024, Lund- Sweden In debates on agricultural development, imaginaries or visions of
- [#POLLEN24 - Call for papers: "Is It Time for Global Sustainability Goals for The Global North? Defining a post-2030 Agenda"](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen24-call-for-papers-is-it-time-for-global-sustainability-goals-for-the-global-north-defining-a-post-2030-agenda/) - POLLEN24 – 10-12 June 2024, Lund- Sweden The United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a flagship project of global development, which recasts development issues as for the global North, as well as for the global South (UN, 2015). Partly, this recognises that expertise and aid do not neatly flow from the North to South,
- [POLLEN 2024 Conference - Call for submissions open!](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-2024-conference-call-for-submissions-open/) - 'TOWARDS PLURAL AND JUST FUTURES' JUNE 10-12, 2024. LIMA (PERU), DODOMA (TANZANIA), LUND (SWEDEN) The unfolding and entwined social-ecological crises make the challenge of how to move towards more plural and just futures more pressing than ever. Political ecology provides an important toolbox to explore the unjust and colonial power relations that condition global flows
- [Call for expressions of interest to host the POLLEN26 conference!](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/call-for-expressions-of-interest-to-host-the-pollen26-conference/) - We now call for expressions of interest to host the POLLEN conference in 2026! The biennial POLLEN conferences are the lifeblood of the POLLEN network. This is where we meet, exchange ideas, and build community. Previous conferences have emphasized creating inclusive, informal and inspiring events and have through this gathered lots of experiences on how
- [Two summer schools: "Laboratory of transdisciplinary artistic research" and "Situating Hydrological Modelling"](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/two-summer-schools-laboratory-of-transdisciplinary-artistic-research-and-situating-hydrological-modelling/) - Summer school "Laboratory of transdisciplinary artistic research" at Centro de Estudios Sociales in Coimbra, Portugal. Artistic practises and social and human sciences. Full description and programme https://ces.uc.pt/summerwinterschools/?lang=2&id=41696Dates: June 21-23. Application deadline closes on April 20.If you have questions, you can contact one of the organizers, Claudia Carvalho: claudiacarvalho@ces.uc.pt IRI THESys Summer School: Situating Hydrological Modelling
- [Oops! These two vacancies accidentally didn´t make it to the last newsletter:](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/oops-these-two-vacancies-accidentally-didnt-make-it-to-the-last-newsletter/) - Phd & Post-doc position at Lund University´s Centre for Sustainability Studies: We are looking for candidates to work with us on an exciting project on glaciers and human-nature relations. We have a fully-funded PhD position and a postdoc position in Sustainability Science at LUCSUS/Lund University for the research project entitled NATURICE- Exploring plural values of human-nature relationships in glacierized
- [To close 2022: Here´s to happiness, harmony, and fulfillment!](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/to-close-2022-heres-to-happiness-harmony-and-fulfillment/) - Dear POLLEN members, We, the POLLEN group at LUCSUS and current Secretariat for the next 18 months, kindly wish you happy holidays, a life with harmony, and a new year filled with fulfillments. To those spending their holidays away from their loved ones, or away from their lands, be it on grounds of exercising their
- [POLITICAL ECOLOGY ACROSS BOUNDARIES - Final asynchronous POLLEN workshop of 2022](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/political-ecology-across-boundaries-final-asynchronous-pollen-workshop-of-2022/) - Good morning/afternoon/evening Pollinators We have come to the 6th and final of the preconference asynchronous workshops. You can check out the first 5 – on Radical Epistemologies and Future Natures; Emotional Ecologies; Power and Social Movements; Conservation and Agrarian Change and Blue Political Ecologies – on the conference website https://pollen2022.com/. Overall there have been some
- [Blue Political Ecologies Workshop!](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/blue-political-ecologies-workshop/) - Virtual workshop on Blue Political Ecologies 8th and 9th November, with subsequent asynchronous content engagement We would like to welcome you to a virtual workshop on blue political ecologies, which will take place from the 8th and 9th of November. The event is co-hosted by Synne Movik (Norwegian University of Life Sciences),Emilie Wiehe (University of Guelph), Mialy Andriamahefazafy (University
- [Political Ecology, Conservation, and Agrarian Change](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/political-ecology-conservation-and-agrarian-change/) - Good morning/afternoon/evening Pollinators. We are now in the middle of the 4th POLLEN22/3 preconference workshop, entitled Conservation and Agrarian Change, co-hosten by Sam Staddon and Omar Saif (University of Edinburgh, UK) and Sayan Banerjee (National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, India). Conservation and agrarian change have been staple interests of political ecology ever since it
- [Political Ecology, Conservation, and Agrarian Change - Oct 24-31, 2022](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/political-ecology-conservation-and-agrarian-change-oct-24-31-2022/) - We invite you to the next in the series of Asynchronous Workshops series for the POLLEN 2022/2023 4th Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network; “Political Ecology, Conservation and Agrarian Change” 24th-31st October All workshop details are found on the POLLEN conference webpages here https://pollen2022.com/ Conservation and agrarian change have been staple interests of
- [Political Ecology, Power and Social Movements session 3 (OCT 10th )](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/political-ecology-power-and-social-movements-session-3-oct-10th/) - ENVIRONMENTAL CARE AND DEVELOPMENT ALTERNATIVES PRESENTATION: "INTERPRETATION MACHINES IN NATURE CONSERVATION" by Larry Lohmann Larry Lohmann works with The Corner House, a Dorset-based solidarity and research organization. He is a founding member of the Durban Group for Climate Justice and chairs the advisory board of the World Rainforest Movement, with which he has been associated
- [Live discussion on Political Ecology, Power and Social Movements, October 3](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/live-discussion-on-political-ecology-power-and-social-movements-october-3/) - Good morning/afternoon/evening Pollinators A final reminder to register for Today’s live discussion on Political Ecology, Power and Social Movements - 2 pm today, South Africa Time, 6 am US and Canada Mountain time. Please click the link below to register and receive the zoom link for the event.: https://ucalgary.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEldeyqrzwvGdGZxb9EGCUJuTmqETDhMgoL Thanks Adrian on behalf of Ana,
- [Upcoming events this week in the Emotional Political Ecology Symposium:](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/upcoming-events-this-week-in-the-emotional-political-ecology-symposium/) - Kia Ora koutou, hello to all of you! Thanks to all our panelists in the first day's live session. We had a great discussion about how we can know emotions in our research. The recording is now up on the Panel 1 webpage. We have three more live events to finish up the symposium this
- [Next in the POLLEN 2022 Virtual series: Emotional Political Ecology](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/next-in-the-pollen-2022-virtual-series-emotional-political-ecology/) - The next workshop in the POLLEN 2022 Virtual Conference series is coming soon! Massey University’s Political Ecology Research Centre, The Australian National University and Royal University of Phnom Penh are convening the Emotional Political Ecology Symposium from 29 August to 9 September 2022. Explore how emotions influence resource access, use, and control, and shape people's everyday
- [CALL FOR PAPERS](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/call-for-papers/) - International Conference of the Center for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies (ZtG) at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Nature-Society Relations and the Global Environmental Crisis –Thinking on Climate Change and Sustainability from the Fields of Intersectional Theory and Transdisciplinary Gender Studies From Thursday, 4th May to Saturday, 6th May 2023at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Senate Hall) Human-made climate
- [Special Issue Call - Mitigation Deterrence and Carbon Removal in the Age of Net Zero](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/special-issue-call-mitigation-deterrence-and-carbon-removal-in-the-age-of-net-zero/) - This is a call for papers that examine how the focus on net zero and carbon removal in current climate governance changes the dynamics of mitigation deterrence and climate delay (Carton et al., 2020). It invites contributions that in one way or another engage with empirical examples where (the promise of) carbon removal results in
- [Green Anarchy or Eco-Socialism: an online debate on scale and tactics ](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/green-anarchy-or-eco-socialism-an-online-debate-on-scale-and-tactics/) - Monday, September 12, 2022 4 PM Central Europe/Africa, 10AM Eastern Time FREE Register Now: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/green-anarchy-or-eco-socialism-a-debate-on-scale-and-tactics-tickets-384215708527 Benjamin Sovacool— energy and climate change scholar, Editor of Energy Research & Social Science, University of Sussex, United Kingdom, and Aarhus University, Denmark Matthew T. Huber— Eco-Socialist and Marxist Geographer, Author of Climate Change as Class War (Verso 2022), Syracuse University The facilitator
- [POLLEN22/3 Update: Radical Epistemologies and Future Natures workshop](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen22-3-update-radical-epistemologies-and-future-natures-workshop/) - As you are aware this week has seen the launch of the first asynchronous workshops, entitled Radical Epistemologies and Future Natures, co-hosted by the Centre for Future Natures at the Institute for Development Studies, Sussex. The workshop itself is hosted on the following website: https://pollen2022.com/asynchronous-workshops/radical-epistemologies-and-future-natures/ So far content on Commoning, Enclosure and Future Natures, as well
- [POLLEN22/3 pre-conference asynchronous workshop: Radical Epistemologies and Future Natures](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen22-3-pre-conference-asynchronous-workshop-radical-epistemologies-and-future-natures/) - This week we launch the first of the pre-conference asynchronous workshops, entitled Radical Epistemologies and Future Natures, co-hosted by the Centre for Future Natures at the Institute for Development Studies, Sussex. The new centre is led by Amber Huff, and a number of sessions in the workshop are drawn from a soft launch of the
- [Call for paper: Frontiers in Sustainability](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/call-for-paper-frontiers-in-sustainability/) - How to Achieve a Planetary Health Diet Through System and Paradigm Change? About this Research Topic The call for a transformation toward planetary health diets (such as the one suggested by the EAT-Lancet Commission in 2019) is getting louder and more urgent. Such diets take into account not only human health, but also the ecological
- [Workshop 'Social Ecology meets Political Ecology'](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/side-event-social-ecology-meets-political-ecology/) - We will host a workshop at the Frankfurt node at ISOE - Institute for Social-Ecological Research on the above topic. In 3 sessions we will explore the topics 'Researching social-ecological conflicts – Bringing non-human entities into the analysis' and 'Synergy or contrast? When political ecology theoretical claims meet practical transdisciplinary challenges in social-ecological research projects'.
- [Political Geography seeks two new Associate Editors](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/political-geography-seeks-two-new-associate-editors/)
- [Permanent Environment and Development Lectureship (research and teaching) at University of Leeds](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/permanent-environment-and-development-lectureship-research-and-teaching-at-university-of-leeds/) - Are you an interdisciplinary academic with proven abilities to carry out teaching and research in, environment and development? Are you developing an excellent research record and have clear potential for success in obtaining funding? Are you passionate about delivering an exceptional student experience in a research-intensive Russell Group University? The Sustainability Research Institute (SRI) in the School of Earth
- [The 3rd International Conference on Rural Socio-Economic Transformation](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/the-3rd-international-conference-on-rural-socio-economic-transformation/) - The Department of Communication Sciences and Community Development (SKPM) IPB University are pleased to cordially invite you and POLLEN Network to participate and submit the abstract in The 3rd International Conference on Rural Socio-Economic Transformation (RUSET) which will be held from 10 until 11 August 2022 (hybrid) at the IPB University, Bogor, Indonesia. The theme
- [M.Phil in Environmental History at Trinity College Dublin](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/m-phil-in-environmental-history-at-trinity-college-dublin/) - This course gives students a firm understanding of the interplay of, and feedbacks between, nature and culture over time. The taught full- or part-time degree has a strong methodological focus, including training in digital humanities technologies, mixed (quantitative-qualitative) methods and innovative assessment design, supplemented by an optional self-financed field trip to Iceland. The purpose of
- [Announcement: POLLEN 2022/3 Pre-conference Asynchronous workshop timetable](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/announcement-pollen-2022-3-pre-conference-asynchronous-workshop-timetable/) - Dear Pollinators, We are pleased to announce the timeline and co-hosting arrangements for the upcoming asynchronous pre-conference workshops. Six of the seven prospective workshop arrangements are in varying stages of finalisation, while the seventh will be announced in due course. Please see the below workshop date, theme and co-host details: POLLEN 2022/3 Pre-conference Asynchronous workshop
- [Open call for contributions to an edited volume “Grounding China’s Belt and Road Initiative: The uneven effects of the New Silk Road on place, socionatures and livelihoods from the South, North and beyond” ](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/open-call-for-contributions-to-an-edited-volume-grounding-chinas-belt-and-road-initiative-the-uneven-effects-of-the-new-silk-road-on-place-socionatures-and-livelihoods-from-the-sou/) - Co-Editors: - Elia Apostolopoulou, Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, University of Cambridge; ICTA - Autonomous University of Barcelona - Han Cheng, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing - Jonathan Silver, Urban Institute, University of Sheffield - Alan Wiig, Urban Planning and Community Development, University of Massachusetts Boston The
- [Vacancy: PhD Research Fellow, Department of Geography, University of Bergen, Norway](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/vacancy-phd-research-fellow-department-of-geography-university-of-bergen-norway/) - The Department of Geography, University of Bergen invites applications for a fixed-term PhD position of 4 years, of which 25% will be dedicated to teaching, supervision, and administrative tasks. The position is linked to the Department of Geography's focus area on environmental sustainability and societal change. Candidates with theoretical interests in political ecology, sustainable land
- [Call for application: Weekend course in commons](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/call-for-application-weekend-course-in-commons/) - By the Institute of Commoning The Institute for Commoning, (InCommons) will be running a taster course in commons and commoning in the south of England from 24th-26th June. The course is a taster for a programme of study for any adult learner who wants to explore the commons as an alternative and challenge to markets, the capitalist
- [SEMINAR](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/seminar/) - The Rent Relation and Struggles over Distribution in the 21st Century May 25 2022 8-10:30am EST / 1-3:30pm GMT / 2-4:30pm SAST / 5:30pm-8:00pm IST School Environment, Education and Development, University of Manchester Zoom Registration Link: Seminar on Rent Manuel Aalbers (KU Leuven) Callum Ward (London School of Economics) Preeti Sampat (Ambedkar University Delhi) Kai Bosworth (Virginia Commonwealth University) Alex Loftus (King's
- [Call for application - CES Summer School](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/call-for-application-ces-summer-school/) - The Pluriverse of Eco-social Justice 11-16 July 2022 Organized by the Ecology and Society Workshop (ECOSOC) of the Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra: CES | Alta (plus other locations in Coimbra, PT) Application until 1 MAY 2022 Overview The Ecology and Society Workshop at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra (ECOSOC, CES), with
- [CALL FOR ASSOCIATE EDITORS - African Geographical Review](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/call-for-associate-editors-african-geographical-review/) - Positions: Associate Editor—Human GeographyAssociate Editor—Physical GeographyAssociate Editor—Geospatial Background to the Journal The African Geographical Review (AGR) is a leading international peer reviewed journal for geographical scholarship relating to Africa. It publishes the highest quality research in all fields of geography, including human, nature - society, physical and the techniques. The journal publishes several types of
- [How EU public money finances environmental sacrifice: A call for change](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/how-eu-public-money-finances-environmental-sacrifice-a-call-for-change/) - By Alexander Dunlap This is a lightly edited and expanded testimony made at the European Parliament PETI Hearing, “Environmental and Social Impacts of Mining Activity in the EU,” on December 2, 2021. It confronts the European Commission for publicly funding practices organized to persuade publics to accept mining operations. This funding stream, it is argued,
- [Privatisation and commodification: Ecotourism as capitalist expansion in Sumatra, Indonesia](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/privatisation-and-commodification-ecotourism-as-capitalist-expansion-in-sumatra-indonesia/) - By Stasja Koot, Lubabun Ni’am, Chantal Wieckardt, Roderick Buiskool, Nadya Karimasari, Joost Jongerden Introduction Ecotourism in Sumatra, Indonesia, is driving processes of privatization and commodification. Here we explore how and why this happens by analysing recent ecotourism developments in the buffer zone to the east of the Mount Leuser National Park (MLNP). The close interaction
- [Despite Extractivism: Exhibition and Online Event Series](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/despite-extractivism-exhibition-and-online-event-series/) - It’s our pleasure to invite you to our online exhibition and event series exploring the ways in which care, creativity and community persist, exist and resist despite - or because - of extractivism. The Despite Extractivism online exhibition (opening on Thursday) assembles expressions of care, creativity and community from diverse sites of extraction and geographical contexts. Collectively, the
- [PhD Fellowship position: Critical education to transform the world](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/phd-fellowship-position-critical-education-to-transform-the-world/) - OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University is Norway’s third largest university, with more than 20,000 students and 2,000 employees. OsloMet delivers knowledge to solve societal challenges, in close cooperation with the society and employers. OsloMet is an urban and diverse university with a clear international profile, and an attractive place to work and study with campuses
- [Associate Lecturer (Education Focused) in Geography and Sustainable Development – School of Geography & Sustainable Development](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/associate-lecturer-education-focused-in-geography-and-sustainable-development-school-of-geography-sustainable-development/) - Vacancy Description: School of Geography and Sustainable Development Salary: £34,304 per annum Start Date: 11 April 2022, or as soon as possible thereafter Fixed term until 10 April 2023 We invite applications from candidates with interests in Geography and Sustainable Development, particularly those with expertise in Political Ecology, and commitment to excellence in teaching. You
- [Assistant Professor position in Environmental Policy at NAU](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/assistant-professor-position-in-environmental-policy-at-nau/) - The School of Earth and Sustainability (SES) at Northern Arizona University invites applications for a full-time, benefit eligible, tenure-track position of Assistant Professor in Environmental policy (#605899). We seek an environmental policy social scientist who will contribute to existing strengths in research, teaching, and practice within SES. We welcome applicants with interdisciplinary training and research experience
- [PhD Position: Pandemic Entanglements: The Political Ecology of Industrial Meat Production in the Pandemic Era ](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/phd-position-pandemic-entanglements-the-political-ecology-of-industrial-meat-production-in-the-pandemic-era/) - Job description The Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM) at the University of Oslo has a vacant 3-year PhD-position to work with the project “Pandemic Entanglements: The Political Ecology of Industrial Meat Production in the Pandemic Era (PANDEMEAT)” funded by the Research Council of Norway. The PhD candidate will study how people involved in
- [PhD course:](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/phd-course/) - Political Ecology of Scarcity, Limits and Degrowth New PhD course offered by NMBU's Political Ecology Forum and Sustainability Arena. Free course running 7-10 June 2022. Application deadline: 15 February 2022. Contents: Course backgroundLearning GoalsTeaching MethodsLecturers and facilitatorsParticipant requirements and applicationSeminar: Limits to Growth +50 Background In 1972, the Club of Rome report ‘Limits to Growth’ triggered heated debates on the
- [NEW PROJECT WEBSITE: ESRC-FUNDED CONCRETE IMPACTS: A SUPPLY CHAIN AND LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS OF THE US MILITARY’S ENVIRONMENTAL FOOTPRINT - https://www.concreteimpacts.org/](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/new-project-website-esrc-funded-concrete-impacts-a-supply-chain-and-life-cycle-analysis-of-the-us-militarys-environmental-footprint-https-www-concreteimpacts-org/) - Project Summary Concrete Impacts is a UKRI-Economic Social Research Council funded collaboration between Lancaster and Durham Universities examining the socio-ecological effects of military supply chains and wider environmental damage. At the heart of this research project is 'geo-political ecology' - defined as the '...synergies between political ecologists' careful attention to multi-scale environmental politics and the
- [The final showdown – ZAD Rhineland vs RWE, Germany](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/the-final-showdown-zad-rhineland-vs-rwe-germany/) - By Andrea Brock A small earth wall separates the tiny village of Lützerath from the enormous diggers operating in Garzweiler II, one of three opencast lignite coal mines operated by energy company RWE in the German Rhineland. Lignite is a type of heavy coal that is extracted and burnt locally. The mine is 235 metres
- [Call for participants in POLLEN22 paper sessions](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/call-for-participants-in-pollen22-paper-sessions/) - Actualizing the potential of political ecology in transformative change Fourth Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN22)POLLEN 2022: North, South and BeyondDurban, South Africa28-30 June 2022 Session organizers Sierra Deutsch (sierra.deutsch@geo.uzh.ch), University of Zürich, and Josie Chambers(josephine.chambers@wur.nl), Wageningen University Paper proposals (abstract, 250 words max) should be sent to sierra.deutsch@geo.uzh.ch andjosephine.chambers@wur.nl by Friday, December
- [PhD Course ‘Mitigating Climate Change: The Politics of Net Zero and Carbon Removal’](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/phd-course-mitigating-climate-change-the-politics-of-net-zero-and-carbon-removal/) - PhD Course (7.5 ECTS credits) ‘Mitigating Climate Change: The Politics of Net Zero and Carbon Removal’, 13-17 June, 2022, Copenhagen. In this 5-day intensive course, students will be acquainted with the promises and pitfalls of ‘net zero’ mitigationpathways and the technologies that are supposed to help bring these about. The course gives students a criticaloverview
- [Senior Lecturer role at Open University, UK in Sustainable Development](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/senior-lecturer-role-at-open-university-uk-in-sustainable-development/) - The Open University, UK is seeking to appoint a senior lecturer to lead research and teaching in global development, specialising in sustainable development. Please see more information here: https://www.open.ac.uk/about/employment/vacancies/senior-lecturer-global-development-18828 I have been with the OU for five months now as lecturer in global development and can promise supportive colleagues and excellent research. The students, who
- [Lecturer in Economic Geography -](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/lecturer-in-economic-geography/) - Lancaster University - Lancaster Environment Centre The Lancaster Environment Centre is one of the world’s largest centres for environmental research. Our mission is to perform world-leading research, and to use that research to help understand and respond to global and environmental challenges. We span social- and natural science and work in an interdisciplinary research environment.
- [New Two-year Postdoc Opportunity: Military Supply Chains & Environmental Footprints](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/new-two-year-postdoc-opportunity-military-supply-chains-environmental-footprints/) - We welcome applications for a Research Associate to join this new initiative funded by the Economic Social Research Council Secondary Data Analysis Initiative investigating military environmental footprints, led by Benjamin Neimark, Kirsti Ashworth, Patrick Bigger and Oliver Belcher. The initiative is a partnership between Lancaster University, and the Lancaster Environment Centre (LEC), and in collaboration
- [Check out these seminars at Norwegian University of Life Sciences in June!](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/check-out-these-seminars-at-norwegian-university-of-life-sciences-in-june/) - Two great book seminars coming up at Noragric on 18 June by Bram Buscher and on 22 June by Tor Benjamin and Hanne Svarstad - details here
- [Book launch: Coal, Colonialism & Resistance (by Still Burning - network against hard coal and neocolonialism)](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/book-launch-coal-colonialism-resistance-by-still-burning-network-against-hard-coal-and-neocolonialism/) - Book launch: Coal, Colonialism & Resistance (by Still Burning - network against hard coal and neocolonialism) Coal is colonial, coal destroys ecosystems and communities, and coal is a climate killer. Across Europe, governments are implementing coal phase-outs and closing down hard coal mines. At the same time, Europe continues to import hard coal, outsourcing the
- [Presentación del curso online “Crisis socioambiental en América Latina" (tercera edición)](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/presentacion-del-curso-online-crisis-socioambiental-en-america-latina-tercera-edicion/) - [English below] ¿Te gustaría conocer el funcionamiento de las clases, los objetivos y el temario? El jueves 18 de febrero, a las 2 p.m. México, tendrás la oportunidad de hablar directamente con los profesores durante la videoconferencia de presentación del curso. En ella, los docents harán una introducción a la temática que se trabajará, presentando
- [[Online event] Ibero-American Dialogues on eco-social perspectives and practices](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/online-event-ibero-american-dialogues-on-eco-social-perspectives-and-practices/) - The academic journal Iberoamérica Social is organizing the first edition of "Diálogos Iberoamericanos", a virtual venue to learn about the work of researchers in social sciences. On this occasion, scholars from different countries will be speaking about socio-environmental conflicts in Latin America and the Caribbean. Date: February 12, 2021. Time: 14h Mexico / 17h Brazil
- [200 NGOs and experts warn against UN plan to protect 30 percent of the planet by 2030](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/200-ngos-and-experts-warn-against-un-plan-to-protect-30-percent-of-the-planet-by-2030/) - Contributed by Jonathan Mazower, Survival International The One Planet Summit for biodiversity in Paris last month confirmed the agenda of many governments, and the conservation industry, to push ahead with a plan to place at least 30 percent of the Earth’s surface under conservation status by 2030. Organized by France in cooperation with the UN
- [PhD Course: Pastoralism, conflict, and change](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/phd-course-pastoralism-conflict-and-change/) - When: 19-22 October 2021 Where: Copenhagen, Denmark Read brief description below and see flyer on this link. The PhD course aims at presenting theoretical and empirical approaches relevant for scholarly work on pastoralism in the perspective of conflict and change. We will look into structural explanations of farmer-herder conflicts, including notions of scarcity and the
- [Call for newsletter inputs!](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/call-for-newsletter-inputs-4/) - Dear POLLEN friends, We are compiling input for our April newsletter, so if you have any news to share, please send it to politicalecologynetwork@gmail.com by Wednesday the 27th of April!Best wishes, Secretariat
- [Ph.D. Course: The political ecology of pandemics](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/ph-d-course-the-political-ecology-of-pandemics/) - Time and place: Aug. 9, 2021 9:00 AM–Aug. 11, 2021 4:00 PM, Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM), Oslo, Norway Application deadline: 15th March The objective of this interdisciplinary course is to critically approach the relationship between food production and food consumption and pandemics in an environmental perspective. See full description and apply on this link.
- [REPOST: “The world has become weird”: crisis, natures and radical re-enchantment](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/repost-the-world-has-become-weird-crisis-natures-and-radical-re-enchantment/) - In this essay, Amber Huff and Nathan Oxley reflect on questions that have emerged through Natures, the STEPS Centre’s theme throughout 2020. Original post here. Dear Reader, I hope that this essay finds you well in these turbulent times. When we last reached out in this format nearly one year ago, at the beginning of 2020, it
- [Online course: Methodologies to study socio-environmental conflicts in digital sources](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/online-course-methodologies-to-study-socio-environmental-conflicts-in-digital-sources/) - The course provides tools to analyze the connections between national and global contexts, identify disputes between different worldviews and valuation languages, reveal actors' agendas, and analyze socio-environmental conflicts explanation.
- [International Symposium - Stories from a Post-growth Future](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/international-symposium-stories-from-a-post-growth-future/) - 15th RIHN International Symposium: “Transitioning Cultures of Everyday Food Consumption and Production: Stories from a Post-growth Future. Date: Wednesday, January 13th, 2021 - Saturday, 16th, 2021 Language: English（Simultaneous translation to Japanese is available.） Pre-Registration: Register from here: https://forms.gle/VPfVVobMRcT7nCrs9 Website: https://www.chikyu.ac.jp/rihn_e/events/symposiums/no15.html Venue: Online（Zoom, Slack） Wednesday 13th, 9:30 – 12:15 (Japan); 0:30-3:30 (London); 19:30 – 22:30 (on the 12th East
- [Enchanting Nature: Tentacular Storytelling in the Great African Kelp Forest](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/enchanting-nature-tentacular-storytelling-in-the-great-african-kelp-forest/) - When: 30 November at 13.00-15.00 GMT As part of its 2020 series of activities on the theme of Natures, the STEPS Centre will be hosting an online roundtable with My Octopus Teacher director Pippa Ehrlich and other members of the Sea Change Project, moderated by Amber Huff (Institute of Development Studies) and Adrian Nel (University of KwaZulu-Natal). More
- [Repost: Enforcing Ecological Catastrophe at All Costs](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/repost-enforcing-ecological-catastrophe-at-all-costs/) - By Andrea Brock Original post accessible here. Image: Dannenröder Forest occupation pictured in August 2020. Credit: Leonhard Lenz After an activist is hospitalized in Germany following police action, Andrea Brock reflects on the criminalization of, and violence against, environmental defenders in Europe by state and private actors. Across the world, environmental defenders are being threatened, intimidated, repressed, injured, and
- [Post-doc: Climate change and governance in Indonesia and the Caribbean: A pilot program on marine protected areas (MPA’s) and coastal nature reserves](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/post-doc-climate-change-and-governance-in-indonesia-and-the-caribbean-a-pilot-program-on-marine-protected-areas-mpas-and-coastal-nature-reserves/) - Where: Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), Leiden, The Netherlands Deadline: 4 December For more information, read description below and visit this link. The Royal Netherlands Institute for Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV) have started to set up a research line on Governance of Climate Change Adaptation (https://www.kitlv.nl/governance-of-climate-change-adaptation/ ) for which they have
- [Request for Newsletter Input - October!](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/request-for-newsletter-input-october/) - Dear POLLEN Friends, We are compiling input for this month's Newsletter! If you have any news you would like to share with the network, please send it to politicalecologynetwork@gmail.com by Friday, 30th of October!Looking forward to reading your news,Best wishes, POLLEN Secretariat
- [Masterclass in Critical Agrarian Studies – Amended start date and extended application deadline!](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/masterclass-in-critical-agrarian-studies-amended-start-date-and-extended-application-deadline/) - New application deadline: 20th of October, 2020. Register on this link. The online Masterclass Series on Critical Agrarian Studies offered by the School of Human Ecology at Ambedkar University Delhi has a new start and finish date: 4th November to 4th December 2020. The Series brings together eminent academics and teachers who work on rural/
- [Masterclass in Critical Agrarian Studies - Apply now!](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/masterclass-in-critical-agrarian-studies-apply-now/) - Deadline to apply: 15th of October, 2020 Apply through this link. The POLLEN node at the School of Human Ecology at Ambedkar University Delhi has launched of the online Masterclass Series on Critical Agrarian Studies this semester. The Series brings together eminent academics and teachers who work on rural/ agrarian issues in the Global South. Read short description
- [Repost: Eco-Social Steps to Resilience](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/repost-eco-social-steps-to-resilience/) - Authors: Rosa Martínez Rodríguez and Yayo Herrero Original article posted in Green European Journal, and available at this link. As the world reels from the fallout of the Covid-19 crisis, discussion turned to rebuilding Europe’s economy with the EU clinching a deal on a coronavirus recovery fund after marathon negotiations this July. In this interview,
- [Second Edition - Online course: Herramientas teórico-conceptuales para el análisis de la crisis ambiental en América Latina [Theoretical-Conceptual Tools for the Analysis of the Socio-environmental Crisis in Latin America]](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/second-edition-online-course-herramientas-teorico-conceptuales-para-el-analisis-de-la-crisis-ambiental-en-america-latina-theoretical-conceptual-tools-for-the-analysis-of-the-socio-environmental-cr/) - Duration: six weeks, started Monday, October 5th, but registration open until Monday, 12th of October. Weekly live online lectures. Classes will be recorded and available after each session for all enrollees. Language: Spanish Professors: Marx José Gómez-Liendo and Raul Anthony Olmedo Nery (both are POLLEN members). See the detailed description by visiting the course website. Course Topics: Ambiente, crisis y capitalismo.
- [POLLEN22 - Save the date!](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen22-save-the-date/) - During the General Assembly held on the last day of POLLEN20, POLLEN node Adrien Nel and Connor Joseph Cavanagh announced that the POLLEN22 Biennial Conference will be hosted at the University of Kwazulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa! The dates of the conference are 28-30 June, 2022. More info will be published on the website: https://pollen2022.com/
- [POLLEN20 – Call for Volunteers](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen20-call-for-volunteers/) - As we are approaching the POLLEN 20 biennial conference, which will be held online from 22-25 September, the organizing group is issuing a call for volunteer ‘stage managers’ to help keep the online space running smoothly over the course of the conference. Volunteers will be asked to take part in an online training session and
- [Call for abstracts: FLARE Network Twitter Conference](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/call-for-abstracts-flare-network-twitter-conference/) - 'The FLARE network announces a call for abstracts for our first Twitter conference on the theme of “Reimagining Forests and Livelihoods in Turbulent Times.” We welcome abstracts and pre-organized sessions from students, researchers, practitioners, policy-makers, activists, and others that explore the nexus of forests and livelihoods within the context of one of the following contemporary subthemes: 1.
- [Tenure Track Position at Yale-NUS College](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tenure-track-position-at-yale-nus-college/) - Appointment: Environmental Social Scientist Location: Singapore Read job description here.
- [New issue of Konesh Space](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/new-issue-of-konesh-space/) - KONESH SPACE, an interdisciplinary journal working at the cross-section of architecture, art, urban studies, design, anthropology, politics, geography and visual cultures, has published a new issue on the topic of Trace. The journal is both available as online and as print edition. The new issue covers topics as diverse as the acoustic traces in search of the city of Smyrna, the
- [PhD position 'New information technologies in agricultural water management and agrarian change'](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/phd-position-new-information-technologies-in-agricultural-water-management-and-agrarian-change/) - Where: Wageningen University, The Netherlands Deadline to apply: 25 September 2020 'Do you want to find out how and why new information technologies in agricultural water management have resulted in agrarian transformation processes? What are the economic, political, cultural and technological drivers for these processes? To whom, how and why do new information technologies provide
- [Webinar: Political Ecology in Anti-Corruption Efforts and Practice](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/webinar-political-ecology-in-anti-corruption-efforts-and-practice/) - TNRC LEARNING SERIES: Anti-corruption insights for conservation and natural resource management When: August 13th9:00am - 10:30am Washington, DC1:00pm - 2:30pm Cambridge, UK4:00pm - 5:30pm Nairobi, Kenya8:00pm - 9:30pm Bangkok, Thailand Where: Remote Only. Register and access link here. Read more about the event on the website or by clicking on read more. *This is a repost of the original
- [Chapter publication on epistemologies of indigenous communities in the Ecuadorian and Colombian high mountains](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/chapter-publication-on-epistemologies-of-indigenous-communities-in-the-ecuadorian-and-colombian-high-mountains/) - Chapter publication “Alli Kawsay: Epistemology and Political Practice in the Territories, a Possibility from the Andean Pluriverse for Ecological Justice and the Care of Mother Nature” In Book: The Palgrave Handbook of Climate Resilient Societies. Access chapter here.
- [Covidarity Festival - Capturing and Celebrating the Moment of Solidarity](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/covidarity-festival-capturing-and-celebrating-the-moment-of-solidarity/) - Where: Brighton and Hove, United Kingdom When: 25-26 July, 2020 Read an excerpt from the event organisers below or visit the event website here. We came together as friends and change agents critically observing the COVID-19 progress. We are concerned about the exposure of embedded inequalities, and at the same time excited about the growing number of
- [Global Extraction Film Festival (GEFF) 2020](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/global-extraction-film-festival-geff-2020/) - *this is a repost of the article at https://www.caribbeancreativity.nl/events/global-extraction-film-festival-2020/ Streaming Online | July 16-20, 2020 | #FocusOnGlobalExtraction | #GlobalExtractionAction The 1st Global Extraction Film Festival, streaming online from July 16-20, 2020, is free to the public worldwide. Curated and hosted by Esther Figueroa, environmental filmmaker based in Jamaica and Emiel Martens, founding director of Caribbean Creativity based
- [Vacancy: Postdoc in Political Ecology](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/vacancy-postdoc-in-political-ecology/) - Where: Department of Geography, University of Zürich Starting date: 1 January, 2021, or as agreed upon Deadline for applying: 31 August, 2020 Full job description below or by visiting the vacancy website here. Postdoctoral Research Position in Political Ecology (70 - 80 %) The Department of Geography at the University of Zurich is advertising a
- [Risk Society: Call for essays, artworks and book reviews - Extended deadline!](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/risk-society-call-for-essays-artworks-and-book-reviews-extended-deadline/) - Transdisciplinary space for experimental praxis to advance new models for high-stakes, high uncertainty scenarios. Extended deadline: 1 September 2020 Societies worldwide face unprecedented future uncertainties. The information age allows for new perceptions on risks, which increasingly began to play a central role in policies and broader decision-making. Today, the growing amount of data on biodiversity
- [Call for Papers - “Social and Cultural Aspects of Circular Economy”](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/call-for-papers-social-and-cultural-aspects-of-circular-economy/) - Circular economy is a relatively new concept within the frame of sustainable development, despite having received significant attention within the scientific community. The world’s most populous country, China enacted a law to transform its economy based on principles of circular economy. The circular economy concept, however, has been criticized to be one-dimensional, lacking social and
- [Call for Contributors - Geography in the 21st Century: The Defining Moments that Shaped Society](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/call-for-contributors-geography-in-the-21st-century-the-defining-moments-that-shaped-society/) - This 2 volume reference encyclopedia, Geography in the 21st Century: Defining Moments that Shaped Society, explores important world events that defined the early 21st century. Topic entries will contextualize each event through a geographic perspective that demonstrates the importance of geography, and the significance and advantages derived from examining the modern world through a spatial
- [“Ontologías del habitar, cuerpo y territorio”](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/ontologias-del-habitar-cuerpo-y-territorio/) - El 8 de julio a la 1pm (Hora Col/Méx) y 8pm (hora España), se celebrará el conversatorio “Ontologías del habitar, cuerpo y territorio”. El propósito del mismo es poner encima de la mesa elementos nucleares de la reflexión filosófica que se integran en el pensamiento ambiental, pero también abordar una panorámica general de contexto en
- [Online conference: "Extraction: Tracing the Veins"](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/online-conference-extraction-tracing-the-veins/) - Free online conference on the political ecology of extraction: 29th June-10th July Massey University Political Ecology Research Centre and Wageningen University welcomes you to the free online conference "Extraction: Tracing the Veins”, kicking off on the 29th of June. The conference features more than 80 presentations from around the world spanning extractive policy, indigenous knowledge extraction, resistances to
- [CALL FOR PAPERS! Seeking contributions to a proposed edited book](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/call-for-papers-seeking-contributions-to-a-proposed-edited-book/) - Enforcing Ecological Catastrophe: The Police and Military as drivers of Climate Change and Ecocide. Editors: Alexander Dunlap, Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo. Email: Alexander.Dunlap@sum.uio.noAndrea Brock, Department of International Relations, University of Sussex. Email: A.Brock@sussex.ac.uk TIMELINE:Abstracts are due: September 1st, 2020.Chapters are due: January 31st, 2021.LENGTH:Abstracts: 250 to 500 words. Police violence
- [Water & the City: Special Issue Launch](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/water-the-city-special-issue-launch/) - Discussion on "Asia's changing cities: water, climate and power in the transformation of urban spaces" When: 25th of June, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM CEST Where: Online, register here: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/water-the-city-special-issue-launch-tickets-109503355484 Read full description on link above. To access the special issue, click here.
- [Covid-19 y Amazonía en Perspectiva](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/covid-19-y-amazonia-en-perspectiva/) - El 25 de junio a las 3 p. m. (hora Colombia) se celebrará un encuentro virtual titulado “COVID-19 y Amazonía en perspectiva. Miradas propias, resistencias y violencias estructurales” que tendrá como objetivo realizar una diagnóstico en profundidad de las situación de los Pueblos Indígenas en el Amazonas colombiano más allá de las distorsiones e informaciones
- [Environmental Economics and Animal Population Management: An exploration of society's perceptions and practices surrounding domestication - Survey](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/environmental-economics-and-animal-population-management-an-exploration-of-societys-perceptions-and-practices-surrounding-domestication-survey/) - POLLEN Node Alaina Doll is looking for participants to fill out her survey on the above topic. Results will be shared at the Society for Conservation Biology's Social Science Working Group Twitter Conference (@SCB_SSWG) on June 17th, 1:20 PT/4:20 ET.
- [Vacancy: Professor in Rural Development with a focus on the Global South](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/vacancy-professor-in-rural-development-with-a-focus-on-the-global-south/) - Where: Department of Urban and Rural Development, The Faculty of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Uppsala, Sweden Application deadline: August 3, 2020 Read more by visiting the vacancy website.
- [New Journal: Risk Society - Open Call](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/new-journal-risk-society-open-call/) - 'Transdisciplinary space for experimental praxis to advance new models for high-stakes, high-uncertainty scenarios'. The newly founded journal Risk Society that will be launched in the Fall of 2020 has announced an open call for contributions. Deadline for submission is August 1, 2020. You can read about the journal and the call by opening the PDF
- [POLLEN20 virtual 22nd – 25th of September 2020](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen20-virtual-22nd-25th-of-september-2020/) - Following the announcement that the Third Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network, Contested Natures: Power, Politics, Prefiguration, has been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are happy to announce that POLLEN20 will be moving, in a restructured form, to a virtual platform, and the new dates will be the 22nd – 25th of September 2020.
- [Postdoc Research Associate Position in the Social Dimensions of Gene Editing in Food and Agriculture](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/postdoc-research-associate-position-in-the-social-dimensions-of-gene-editing-in-food-and-agriculture/) - A two-year postdoctoral position is available in the department of sociology at Iowa State University (ISU). The postdoc will work with an interdisciplinary team examining the social dimensions and governance of gene editing in food and agriculture. The project is funded by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Social Implications of Emerging Technologies
- [IGI/IAS Webinar: Gender Based Violence During Fieldwork: Exploring experiences of women researchers](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/igi-ias-webinar-gender-based-violence-during-fieldwork-exploring-experiences-of-women-researchers/) - Female researchers can suffer gender-based violence while conducting fieldwork. Register now to join a special Zoom webinar that explores experiences and coping strategies. https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_zPxRa0ncTt6N0t2y9bTjow
- [UrbanA Open Webinar: COVID-19, Justice and Sustainability in Cities](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/urbana-open-webinar-covid-19-justice-and-sustainability-in-cities/) - When: June 5 @ 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm (CET) To register and get the event link, visit this page. Below you can read the event description, copied from the original event website. What does COVID-19 tell us about justice and sustainability in cities? This session will include a short lecture followed by an online conversation on
- [Global Degrowth Day Conversation: "Exploring Degrowth: A Critical Guide".](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/global-degrowth-day-conversation-exploring-degrowth-a-critical-guide/) - When: June 6, at 11 am (CET). https://facebook.com/events/247214709832550/
- [EXALT Webinar: Degrowth and Post-Extractivism - A Good Life for All?](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/exalt-webinar-degrowth-and-post-extractivism-a-good-life-for-all/) - This is a repost of the original EXALT post that can be accessed here. When? Friday June 5th at 14.00-15.30 EEST Where? Online via Zoom, streaming link will be published soon Chair: Dr. Ossi Ollinaho, Post-doctoral researcher at Development Studies, University of Helsinki, member of both EXALT and HELSUS Speaker: TBC The earth and all of its inhabitants are on
- [#DegrowthTalks: Green New Deal and political economy of degrowth](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/degrowthtalks-green-new-deal-and-political-economy-of-degrowth/) - The UK Degrowth Summer School has been holding a series of online talks on degrowth. On the 27th of May, Stefania Barca, Riccardo Mastini and Timothée Parrique will hold the next talk. The event is free and open to all, and will be streamed live via the Degrowth Talks youtube channel.
- [Signatures wanted: Manifesto for the Reorganisation of Barcelona After Covid-19](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/signatures-wanted-manifesto-for-the-reorganisation-of-barcelona-after-covid-19/) - Posted on behalf of Massimo Paolini Replace commodification with the centrality of life https://manifiesto.perspectivasanomalas.org The COVID19 pandemics and the experience of confinement have madeevident the urgent need for deep change in the organisation of the city. Inorder to address future pandemics, and respond proactively to the seriousclimate crisis affecting the planet, all commodification of the
- [[Coorgt 2022] CLACSO - Declaración del Grupo de Trabajo Ecología(s) política(s) desde El Sur/Abya- Yala, la pandemia y el genocidio](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/coorgt-2022-clacso-declaracion-del-grupo-de-trabajo-ecologias-politicas-desde-el-sur-abya-yala-la-pandemia-y-el-genocidio/) - Compartimos la declaración del Grupo de Trabajo Ecología(s) política(s) desde El Sur/Abya-Yala, en la que advierten sobre la posibilidad de un nuevo genocidio indígena y negro en medio de la pandemia que se sumaría a la ya larga historia de poblaciones vulnerables. El GT hace un llamado a tomar las medidas necesarias para evitar el genocidio.
- [Insights Invited COB 5/29 - Transformative Conservation in Social-Ecological Systems](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/transformative-conservation/) - Insights invited by COB 5/29 on new discussion paper on Transformative Conservation in Social-Ecological Systems!
- [Special Section: Stabilizing a policy: reproducing REDD+](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/special-section-stabilizing-a-policy-reproducing-redd/) - Edited by Adeniyi Asiyanbi and Jens Friis Lund. Journal of Political Ecology 27:378-495. https://doi.org/10.2458/jpe.v27i1 1) Adeniyi Asiyanbi, Jens Friis Lund. 2020. Policy persistence: REDD+ between stabilization and contestation. Journal of Political Ecology 27: 378-400 https://doi.org/10.2458/v27i1.23493 At this time of rapid global environmental change and demands for sweeping societal transformation, we call for greater scrutiny of the persistence
- [Code for Webinar: Bram Büscher and Rob Fletcher on ‘The Conservation Revolution: Radical Ideas for Conserving Nature Beyond the Anthropocene’](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/code-for-webinar-bram-buscher-and-rob-fletcher-on-the-conservation-revolution-radical-ideas-for-conserving-nature-beyond-the-anthropocene/) - Colleagues, if you’re planning to join the webinar from a phone or a Zoom ‘room’, please use the following password: 6wRcB5. https://unimelb.zoom.us/j/4830821126
- [Poll: POLLEN conviviality in times of crisis](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/poll-pollen-conviviality-in-times-of-crisis/) - In our newsletter last week we published the link to a poll we are running, to find out how the POLLEN network could best be used to keep in touch and be supportive of each other in these challenging times. We have already received some great inputs, but the poll is open for another week
- [Vienna Degrowth Conference on Strategies for Social Ecological Transformation (online and free)](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/vienna-degrowth-conference-on-strategies-for-social-ecological-transformation-online-and-free/) - Registration for the (newly online) Vienna Degrowth Conference on Strategies for Social Ecological Transformation is now open!The event will take place from 29 May - 1 June 2020. We are happy to share that participation is free of charge thanks to generous funding from different funding bodies and academic institutions. Visit website here or read
- [Vacancy: Lecturer in Human Geography](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/vacancy-lecturer-in-human-geography/) - Where: University of Bristol - School of Geographical Sciences Deadline: 24th of May, 2020 Read more on the vacancy website.
- [SSRC Grants](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/ssrc-grants/) - The Social Science Research Council (SSRC) has published a number of research grants, also available to citizens outside the US: Rapid-Response Grants on Covid-19 and the Social Sciences. Deadline: 1 June, 2020Call for Proposals: Transregional Planning Grants. Deadline: multipleSocial Data Research and Dissertation Fellowships. Deadline: 16 June, 2020
- [Online course: Herramientas teórico-conceptuales para el análisis de la crisis ambiental en América Latina [Theoretical-Conceptual Tools for the Analysis of the Socio-environmental Crisis in Latin America]](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/online-course-herramientas-teorico-conceptuales-para-el-analisis-de-la-crisis-ambiental-en-america-latina-theoretical-conceptual-tools-for-the-analysis-of-the-socio-environmental-crisis-in-latin-ame/) - Duration: six weeks, started Monday, April 27th, but registration open until Monday, 4th of May. Weekly live online lectures. Classes will be recorded and available after each session for all enrollees. Language: Spanish Professors: Marx José Gómez-Liendo (POLLEN member) and Raul Anthony Olmedo Nery See the detailed description by clicking on READ MORE, or visit the course
- [Webinar: Bram Büscher and Rob Fletcher on ‘The Conservation Revolution: Radical Ideas for Conserving Nature Beyond the Anthropocene’](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/webinar-bram-buscher-and-rob-fletcher-on-the-conservation-revolution-radical-ideas-for-conserving-nature-beyond-the-anthropocene/) - The School of Geography, University of Melbourne and Journal of Political Ecology will host a webinar by Bram Büscher and Rob Fletcher on their new book ‘The Conservation Revolution: Radical Ideas for Conserving Nature Beyond the Anthropocene’. Discussants: Associate Professor Haripriya (Priya) Rangan (School of Geography, Melbourne) and Dr. Sarah Milne (RE&D, ANU) When: 4:00 PM, May 7, 2020 (Melbourne, Australian Eastern Standard Time) – https://unimelb.zoom.us/j/4830821126 8:00 AM, May 7, Amsterdam
- [New resources to teach and learn about the political ecology of urban waste management](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/new-resources-to-teach-learn-about-the-political-ecology-of-urban-waste-management-www-situatedupe-net-tlr/) - Original post by Henrik Ernstson of http://situatedupe.net/tlr/ We are proud to present NEW RESOURCES from our #SituatedUPE Collective to teach & learn about the political ecology of urban waste management. We recently finalised our Turning Livelihoods to Waste?-project (TLR) and created this page with outputs: http://situatedupe.net/tlr On the site you will find: 1) Academic articles on
- [The green gig economy: precarious workers are on the frontline of climate change fight](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/the-green-gig-economy-precarious-workers-are-on-the-frontline-of-climate-change-fight/) - Sango Mahanty, Australian National University and Benjamin Neimark, Lancaster University Politicians and business people are fond of making promises to plant thousands of trees to slow climate change. But who actually plants those trees, and who tends them as they grow? The hard and dirty work of restoring ecosystems will be invaluable in coming decades,
- [Repost: Collaborative Feminist Degrowth: Pandemic as an Opening for a Care-Full Radical Transformation](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/repost-collaborative-feminist-degrowth-pandemic-as-an-opening-for-a-care-full-radical-transformation/) - By Feminisms and Degrowth Alliance (FaDA) The crisis we face as a global community must be understood not only as a public health crisis, or as an economic crisis of the capitalist mode of production, but also, fundamentally, as a crisis of the reproduction of life. In this sense, it is a crisis of care:
- [COVID19 y nuevos equilibrios. Fragilidad y sinergia](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/covid19-y-nuevos-equilibrios-fragilidad-y-sinergia/) - By Massimo Paolini | @perspanomalas Tras el fin de la pandemia estaremos ante una encrucijada: la producción de una deriva autoritaria o el nacimiento de una sociedad cuyo elemento fundamental sea la vida. La economía neoliberal ha creado un fragilidad inmensa, en particular entre la clase trabajadora y el número creciente de personas que viven
- [CRISES IN THE ANTHROPOCENE THROUGH AND BEYOND CORONA - Undisciplined Perspectives from the Governance and Sustainability Lab](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/crises-in-the-anthropocene-through-and-beyond-corona-undisciplined-perspectives-from-the-governance-and-sustainability-lab/) - 'After more than one week of staying in home offices and practicing ‘social distancing’ due to the outbreak of the Corona virus, we, the members of the Governance & Sustainability Lab at Trier University, put together a collection of undisciplined reflections on life in crises. Our knowledge generation processes will be affected by this situation
- [](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/4173-2/) - We are advertising a chaired professorship in Rural Development in the Global South in Uppsala, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. Please Apply https://www.slu.se/en/about-slu/jobs-vacancies/
- [Tourism, Degrowth, and the COVID-19 Crisis](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tourism-degrowth-and-the-covid-19-crisis/) - By Robert Fletcher, Ivan Murray Mas, Macià Blázquez-Salom & Asunción Blanco-Romero Cover photo Source: Ultima Hora The COVID-19 crisis shows what degrowth in the global tourism industry could look like. But it would need much more concerted planning to address the social impacts of this transition. From Overtourism to Undertourism Just a few short months
- [The Conservation Revolution: A Dialogue](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/the-conservation-revolution-a-dialogue/) - Following the recent publication of our new book The Conservation Revolution: Radical Ideas for Saving Nature beyond the Anthropocene, we have invited a range of readers to respond with their own thoughts on the book and the proposals it advances. These responses are collected below, under this blog post. If you would like to include your
- [Help us build a resource base for taking teaching/research/sharing online](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/help-us-build-a-resource-base-for-taking-teaching-research-sharing-online/) - Dear POLLEN friends, As a way of trying to help the POLLEN community and others adapt to the measures taken to slow down the spread of COVID19, we would like to gather and share resources that can inspire/help us moving conference panels, workshops, teaching, etc. online. If you know of any such resources, please share them
- [PhD Scholarship Opportunity: ‘Household and community innovations for low waste cities’](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/phd-scholarship-opportunity-household-and-community-innovations-for-low-waste-cities/) - Where: School of Social Sciences, Monash University Deadline to apply: 5 pm, 6th of April, 2020 International students welcome This PhD scholarship is funded as an important part of an ARC fundedproject Household innovation and the transition to the low waste cityconducted by Dr Ruth Lane, Prof Jo Lindsay, A/Prof Dharma Arunachalm, Prof Rob Raven
- [POLLEN20 – calling conference moles!](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen20-calling-conference-moles/) - Large multi-panel conferences are hard to keep up with. There is so much going on simultaneously that it can be disorientating, even alienating. One of the ways of dealing with this is by setting up ‘conference moles’. Moles have the task of listening to public conversations and discussions taking place in panels, workshops and around the
- [The POLLEN20 conference and concerns about COVID-19](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/the-pollen20-conference-and-concerns-about-covid-19/) - The POLLEN20 organizing group has been receiving questions about whether the conference will go forward as planned. We understand people’s concerns, particularly as many institutions have implemented travel restrictions in recent days. Based on an informed discussion of the situation, we have released the following statement, which we have added to our FAQ section. This is
- [EXTRACTION: TRACING THE VEINS](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/extraction-tracing-the-veins/) - A nearly carbon neutral conference Where: Massey University, New Zealand and Wageningen University and Research, The Netherlands June 29 – July 10, 2020 Website: http://perc.ac.nz/wordpress/extraction/ The global appetite for large-scale resource extraction is insatiable. Extraction is the basis for contemporary capitalism, and for almost every commodity we engage with, use and even consume in everyday
- [Vacancy: Funded PhD position at Lancaster Environment Centre](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/vacancy-funded-phd-position-at-lancaster-environment-centre/) - Theme: 'Political ecology of natural resource management: actors, communities, institutions' Supervisor: Prof. Frances Cleaver Deadline to apply: 13th of March, 2020 For more information and how to apply, visit this link.
- [Vacancy: Senior Research Associate/Research Associate Transformations to Sustainability](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/vacancy-senior-research-associate-research-associate-transformations-to-sustainability/) - What: Postdoctoral position Where: Lancaster Environment Centre Deadline: 4th of March 2020 Interviews: 17th of March 2020 Read the full job description and how to apply here.
- [New Book Out Now: The Conservation Revolution: Radical Ideas for Saving Nature Beyond the Anthropocene](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/new-book-out-now-the-conservation-revolution-radical-ideas-for-saving-nature-beyond-the-anthropocene/) - By Bram Büscher and Robert Fletcher Website accessible here. Conservation needs a revolution. This is the only way it can contribute to the drastic transformations needed to come to a truly sustainable model of development. The good news is that conservation is ready for revolution. Heated debates about the rise of the Anthropocene and the
- [Reminder: Conference Call on Mediterranean Studies: Renewable Energy and the Environment: Social, Political and Economic Dimensions](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/reminder-conference-call-on-mediterranean-studies-renewable-energy-and-the-environment-social-political-and-economic-dimensions/) - When: 4-5 June 2020 Where: Yaşar University, Izmir, Turkey Deadline for submissions: 15 February, 2020 Website: https://cms.yasar.edu.tr/720-2/ As energy politics remains a contested issue in the Mediterranean Basin, what political ecologies and future environments are emerging in the region? Can cooperation over renewable energies offer potential solutions? What are climate change and justice scenarios for different
- [13 open PhD positions to offer in field of Water Governance](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/13-open-phd-positions-to-offer-in-field-of-water-governance/) - Dear friends, Coordinated by VU Amsterdam we are starting a new international project, NEWAVE, on water governance & political ecology. www.nextwatergovernance.net We have 13 open positions to offer in field of Water Governance, fully funded by the EU ITN program. https://www.nextwatergovernance.net/esrs-recruitment/available-positions These positions relate to a variety of water challenges on multiple scales and focus
- [CfA: Concurrent Crisis and Sustainable Futures: Global Extractivisms and Alternatives](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfa-concurrent-crisis-and-sustainable-futures-global-extractivisms-and-alternatives/) - Where: University of Helsinki, Finland When: October 20-23, 2020 The Global Extractivisms and Alternatives Initiative (EXALT) is a new international network of scholars, activists, and policymakers dedicated to collaboration and knowledge creation around the pressing crises stemming from extractivist policies and practices. At the EXALT Initiative 2020 conference we seek to draw together diverse critical
- [Vacancy: Assistant/Associate Professor in International Political Economy (IPE)](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/vacancy-assistant-associate-professor-in-international-political-economy-ipe/) - Where: European School of Social and Political Science, Catholic University of Lille, France Deadline: 15th of March, 2020 Type of contract: permanent, 35 hours per week Starting date: 1st of September, 2020 Read full description and how to apply by visiting this link.
- [Ph.D. Course - May 11-15, 2020, Copenhagen, Denmark Degrowth in Europe: Foundations in theory and pathways to practice](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/ph-d-course-may-11-15-2020-copenhagen-denmark-degrowth-in-europe-foundations-in-theory-and-pathways-to-practice/) - ECTS: 5Course dates: May 11-15, 2020Deadline to apply: February 1, 2020 (Official registration and payment link will be provided followed acceptance). See ‘Practicalities’ below for details on how to apply.Venue: Institute of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen, Rolighedsvej 25, 1958 Frederiksberg, DenmarkFee: 75 euro nonrefundableLiterature and schedule: To be confirmed following enrollment. A
- [Request for input for newsletter](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/request-for-input-for-newsletter-2/) - Dear POLLEN friends, We will be publishing our monthly update early next week. If you have any publications, articles, blog posts, job announcements, or anything else to share with the network, please send it to politicalecologynetwork@gmail.com by Monday, 22nd of January. Looking forward to hearing your news!
- [Job opening: Assistant Professor - Integrated Science and Technology – Environment](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/job-opening-assistant-professor-integrated-science-and-technology-environment/) - Where: James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia, US Deadline: as soon as possible To apply: visit http://joblink.jmu.edu/postings/6740 or go to JobLink.jmu.edu and reference posting number F1414. The Integrated Science and Technology Program (ISAT) in the School of Integrated Sciences at James Madison University (JMU) seeks applicants for an assistant professor position with an environmental focus on climate change, sustainability, or
- [Conference Call on Mediterranean Studies: Renewable Energy and the Environment: Social, Political and Economic Dimensions](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/conference-call-on-mediterranean-studies-renewable-energy-and-the-environment-social-political-and-economic-dimensions/) - When: 4-5 June 2020 Where: Yaşar University, Izmir, Turkey Deadline for submissions: 15 February, 2020 Website: https://cms.yasar.edu.tr/720-2/ As energy politics remains a contested issue in the Mediterranean Basin, what political ecologies and future environments are emerging in the region? Can cooperation over renewable energies offer potential solutions? What are climate change and justice scenarios for
- [From our friends at Undisciplined Environments](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/from-our-friends-at-undisciplined-environments/) - A number of interesting reads have been published by our friends over at Undisciplined Environments. Follow the titles below to read the articles. Emergenciocracy: why demanding the “climate emergency” is risky - Giacomo D'Alisa On Bolivia: For peace, democracy and indigenous-popular self-determination - Undisciplined Environment El pequeño Pödelwitz global resiste - Emiliano Teran Mantovani How
- [Convivial Conservation - New Book](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/convivial-conservation-new-book/) - Our friends at Convivial Conservation have created a great illustrative video about their forthcoming book 'The Conservation Revolution'. Their network 'offers a new and integrated approach to understanding and practicing environmental conservation. It is a Whole Earth vision that responds to the major ecological, social and political-economic challenges facing people and biodiversity in the 21st
- [Ph.D. Course "Degrowth in Europe: Foundations in theory and pathways to practice"](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/ph-d-course-degrowth-in-europe-foundations-in-theory-and-pathways-to-practice/) - Ph.D. Course - May 11-15, 2020, Copenhagen, Denmark Degrowth in Europe: Foundations in theory and pathways to practice Convened by the Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen, Aim and content In the context of increasingly acute global socio-environmental problems, there is growing debate about the dominant economic growth-based societal model. Globally, there
- [Getting ready for POLLEN 2020!](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/getting-ready-for-pollen-2020/) - What will be on the agenda at POLLEN20 in Brighton? Big themes stand out from the dozens of proposals for organized paper sessions that were received from all over the world! Thank you for helping organize to everyone who submitted! (Note these are not actually linked to where proposals focus or originate from).
- [POLLEN20 – Submitting a session proposal (due 22/11/2019)](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen20-submitting-a-session-proposal-due-22-11-2019/) - We have been getting a lot of questions by email, so have prepared a handy TLDR guide that addresses the most common questions about submitting a session proposal for POLLEN20 in Brighton. Please note that full and complete proposals for organized sessions are due by midnight UK time on Friday, 22 November 2019. Proposals should
- [POLLEN20 storytelling session proposal – Facing authoritarian designs: our emotions, trajectories and methodological reinventions among political ontologies](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen20-storytelling-session-proposal-facing-authoritarian-designs-our-emotions-trajectories-and-methodological-reinventions-among-political-ontologies/) - Third Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN20) Brighton, United Kingdom 24-26 June 2020 Session organizers Marco Malagoli (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brasil) and Lúcia Fernandes (Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal). Please send abstracts of 250 words or less to marcomalagodi@id.uff.br and luciaof@gmail.com no later than November 21st. Session description At the present global context
- [POLLEN20 Call for workshop participants – Challenges of critical knowledge production for a transformation: perspectives and experiences](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen20-call-for-workshop-participants-challenges-of-critical-knowledge-production-for-a-transformation-perspectives-and-experiences/) - Third Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN 20) Contested Natures: Power, Possibility, Prefiguration Brighton, United Kingdom 24-26 June 2020 Workshop organizers If you are interested in participating in this workshop, please contact the organizers Judith Bopp (bopp@geographie.uni-kiel.de) and Jonas Hein (hein@geographie.uni-kiel.de). Workshop description Working at the interface of knowledge production requires critical reflection
- [POLLEN20 Call for workshop participants & input – Bridging environmental research and activism](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen20-call-for-workshop-participants-input-bridging-environmental-research-and-activism/) - Third Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN 20) Contested Natures: Power, Possibility, Prefiguration Brighton, United Kingdom 24-26 June 2020 Workshop organizers Eszter Kovacs at eszter.kovacs@geog.cam.ac.uk, Leverhulme Fellow the Department of Geography at the University of Cambridge, and Jessica Hope, Vice-Chancellor’s Research Fellow at the University of Bristol, at jessica.Hope@bristol.ac.uk. Please do get in touch by
- [POLLEN20 Call for contributions to a collective exhibition – ‘Extracting Us’](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen20-call-for-contributions-to-a-collective-exhibition-extracting-us/) - The Third Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN20) Contested Natures: Power, Possibility, Prefiguration Brighton, United Kingdom 24-26 June 2020 Are you interested in sharing creative work around extractivism? Would you like to join an action-research-led exhibition project? We are calling for contributions to a collective exhibition at the POLLEN20 conference that seeks to
- [Focali Annual Meeting and 10-year Anniversary, 5-6 November](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/focali-annual-meeting-and-10-year-anniversary-5-6-november/) - The Focali (the Forest, Climate, and Livelihood Research Network based in Sweden) Annual Meeting and 10-year Anniversary 5-(6)th of November is approaching. Please see the invitation and draft outline for the event here. Here's how you can contribute: Submit a theme/draft title for a speadtalk about your research/work to the thematic sessions (approx. 5 min presentation). The
- [Geopolitical Ecologies of Violence and Resistance](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/geopolitical-ecologies-of-violence-and-resistance/) - Call for Proposals: POLLEN20 Call for participants Third Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN20) Contested Natures: Power, Possibility, Prefiguration Brighton, United Kingdom 24-26 June 2020 Session organizers: Benjamin Neimark b.neimark@lancaster.ac.uk & Patrick Bigger, Lancaster University, p.bigger@lancaster.ac.uk; Oliver Belcher, Durham University, oliver.belcher@durham.ac.uk; and Andrea Brock, University of Sussex, A.Brock@sussex.ac.uk In early October 2019, hundreds
- [POLLEN20 – Extended deadline for Session Proposal submission – 22 November](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen20-extended-deadline-for-session-proposal-submission-22-november/) - The Third Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN20) Contested Natures: Power, Possibility, Prefiguration Brighton, United Kingdom 24-26 June 2020 Extended deadline – Friday, 22 November 2019 We wish to announce that, due to demand, the deadline for submission of proposals for organized sessions for The Third Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network
- [The Case for Convivial Conservation](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/the-case-for-convivial-conservation/) - By Bram Büscher and Robert Fletcher Published by Undisciplined Environments on October 1st, 2019 In the face of the sixth extinction, rising wildlife crime and biodiversity under dire threat around the globe, environmental conservation finds itself in desperate times. A new approach is needed, one that takes seriously our economic system’s structural pressures, violent socio-ecological
- [Migration and conflict in the West African Sahel: political ecology under a changing sky](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/migration-and-conflict-in-the-west-african-sahel-political-ecology-under-a-changing-sky/) - Session proposal Third Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN 20) Contested Natures: Power, Possibility, Prefiguration (https://pollen2020.wordpress.com/call-for-session-proposals/) Brighton, United Kingdom 24-26 June 2020 Organizers: Tor A. Benjaminsen, Norwegian University of Life Sciences & Jesse Ribot, American University, Washington DC Abstract: The West African Sahel has recently become a hotspot of international attention due to: increased armed
- [Political Ecologies of/at the Edge: Climate Futures, Marginal Landscapes, and Infrastructural Imaginaries](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/call-for-papers-pollen-2020-political-ecologies-of-at-the-edge-climate-futures-marginal-landscapes-and-infrastructural-imaginaries/) - Call for Papers: POLLEN 2020 Brighton, United Kingdom 24-26 June 2020 https://pollen2020.wordpress.com/ Political Ecologies of/at the Edge: Climate Futures, Marginal Landscapes, and Infrastructural Imaginaries Aurora Fredriksen (University of Manchester) Nate Millington (University of Manchester) The promise of climate change mitigation through large-scale infrastructural development looms large in imaginaries of the Anthropocene. Narratives of resilience, new
- [Tropical Forest (Double) Standard - Dead on Arrival?](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tropical-forest-double-standard-dead-on-arrival/) - Kathleen McAfee Professor of International Relations San Francisco State University kmcafee@sfsu.edu September 25, 2019 On September 19, after a day of intense debate, the California Air Resources Board endorsed the contentious proposal for a Tropical Forest Standard (TFS) designed to allow California companies to offshore the consequences of their greenhouse-gas emissions to communities and ecosystems
- [CALL FOR PAPERS - 25 years of Living Under Contract: Contract Farming and Agrarian Change in the Global South](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/call-for-papers-25-years-of-living-under-contract-contract-farming-and-agrarian-change-in-the-global-south/) - International workshop, 29th April – 1st May 2020, Wageningen University, the Netherlands // Keynote participation by Michael Watts (UC Berkeley) // Organizers: Niels Fold (University of Copenhagen), Helena Perez-Nino (University of Cambridge), Mark Vicol (Wageningen University & Research), Sudha Narayanan (IGIDR Mumbai), Caroline Hambloch (ICRISAT) // Aim This workshop will bring together prominent contract farming
- [Environmental Justice MOOC starts 14 October](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/environmental-justice-mooc-starts-14-october/) - This free 5 week online course is open to everyone around the world. Understand how climate change, biodiversity loss and deforestation affect people, exploring justice in environment management. Learn with the University of East Anglia’s Global Environmental Justice Group - an interdisciplinary mix of scholars interested in social justice and environmental change. Hear from activists
- [POLLEN 20 – Calling all PhD students and early career researchers: please contribute ideas!](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-20-calling-all-phd-students-and-early-career-researchers-please-contribute-ideas/) - The Third Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN) Contested Natures: Power, Possibility, Prefiguration24 - 26 June 2020Brighton, UK#POLLEN20 As part of the upcoming Third Biennial conference of the Political Ecology Network in Brighton from 24-26 June 2020, a working group made up of postgraduate researchers at the University of Sussex and Brighton University are
- [Louise Emily Carver's (Lancaster University) research poster on Farming Nature Post Brexit nominated for the Beazley Designs of the Year Award at London Design Museum](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/louise-emily-carvers-lancaster-university-research-poster-on-farming-nature-post-brexit-nominated-for-the-beazley-designs-of-the-year-award-at-london-design-museum/) - Louise Emily Carver's (Lancaster University) research that informed a poster exhibit Farming Nature Post Brexit on the UK's new agricultural subsidy systems after Brexit has been nominated for the Beazley Designs of the Year Award at the London Design Museum, and will be displayed in the exhibition at the Museum between 10th September 2019 and 9th
- [Call for contributions: “Bridging research, policy and activism for environmental justice in times of crises”](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/call-for-contributions-bridging-research-policy-and-activism-for-environmental-justice-in-times-of-crises/) - International workshop on Environmental Justice “Bridging research, policy and activism for environmental justice in times of crises” Freiburg, Germany, 27 – 29 May 2020 Institute of Environmental Social Sciences and Geography, University of Freiburg EnJust Network for Environmental Justice Call for contributions In the face of the global multi-dimensional sustainability crises, questions of environmental justice
- [STREAMS-conference, Stockholm 5-8 august 2020](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/streams-conference-stockholm-5-8-august-2020/) - The KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory wishes to invite you and colleagues to participate in the upcoming conference STREAMS: Transformative Environmental Humanities in Stockholm 5–8 August 2020.The link provides you with information for submitting session proposals (deadline September 30) as well as for individual papers (deadline November 30). Additional content, including links for registration, will be updated to
- [Job opportunity: Professor of Human Geography](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/job-opportunity-professor-of-human-geography/) - The University of Manchester seeks to appoint a Professor in Human Geography in the Department of Geography (School of Environment, Education and Development, SEED) to provide leadership in our research in Human Geography. Although outstanding candidates from any field of human geography are encouraged to apply, we are particularly keen to hear from those who
- [Branding indigenous peoples in tourism and beyond](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/branding-indigenous-peoples-in-tourism-and-beyond/) - By Stasja Koot Throughout the years, much has been written about the image of ‘indigenous’[1] peoples as ‘authentic’ people of nature (Garland and Gordon 1999, Carrier and West 2004, Comaroff and Comaroff 2009, Koot 2017a, Hüncke and Koot 2012, Gordon and Douglas 2000, Fennell 2008, Sylvain 2014, Butler and Hinch 2007, Carr, Ruhanen and Whitford
- [The Amazon fires are Bolsonaro’s political crimes and call for urgent action](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/the-amazon-fires-are-bolsonaros-political-crimes-and-call-for-urgent-action/)
- [How can we use blockchain for an eco-socialist transformation?](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/how-can-we-use-blockchain-for-an-eco-socialist-transformation/)
- [Between drought and monsoon: the embodied hardship of seasonal work in Maharashtra's sugar cane plantations](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/between-drought-and-monsoon-the-embodied-hardship-of-seasonal-work-in-maharashtras-sugar-cane-plantations/)
- [Empowering Producers in Commercial Agriculture (EPIC) International insight pooling workshop](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/empowering-producers-in-commercial-agriculture-epic-international-insight-pooling-workshop/) - Wed 13th - Fri 15th November, 2019 Blantyre, Malawi. The EPIC project aims to empower rural producers and their wider communities to influence public decisions and private sector conduct in favour of bottom-up, locally beneficial and more sustainable investments in commercial agriculture. The event Hosted by IIED and EPIC partners from Malawi and Nepal1, the
- [Call for Papers – Nature as Climate Solution? Exploring the Political Ecologies of Nature-based Carbon Removal](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/call-for-papers-nature-as-climate-solution-exploring-the-political-ecologies-of-nature-based-carbon-removal/) - Call for Papers – Nature as Climate Solution? Exploring the Political Ecologies of Nature-based Carbon Removal Third Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN 20) Contested Natures: Power, Possibility, Prefiguration Brighton, United Kingdom 24-26 June 2020 Organizers: Wim Carton, Kate Dooley, Jens Friis Lund In the belief that emission reductions will be insufficient to
- [Job opportunity: Assistant Professor of Sociology in Global Inequality at Illinois State University](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/job-opportunity-assistant-professor-of-sociology-in-global-inequality-at-illinois-state-university/) - Dear Colleagues, We would welcome applicants from political ecology-oriented scholars for the job description below. Feel free to contact me with any questions. Assistant Professor of Sociology in Global Inequality Department of Sociology and Anthropology Position Summary: The Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Illinois State University, USA invites applications for a nine-month, tenure track
- [PhD course on local / indigenous knowledge - Deadline 1 September](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/phd-course-on-local-indigenous-knowledge-deadline-1-september/) - PhD course to be held in Paris 20-22 November 2019: Local / Indigenous knowledge and global mechanisms (5 ETC/STP) This course is offered by the Anthropology Programme, in the Department of Social Sciences, UiT Arctic University of Norway, in Tromsø In cooperation with the project Justice and Indigenous Peoples (JUSTIP) École des Hautes Études en
- [Land matters in contemporary southern Africa](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/land-matters-in-contemporary-southern-africa/) - Authors: Stasja Koot, Catie Gressier and Robert Hitchcock A series of recent events in southern Africa reveal that the land question—and especially that related to land reform—is a long way from being resolved. There are currently no indications that these issues will be addressed quickly or efficiently. Land reform is at the top of the
- [Resilient, Inclusive, & Sustainable Environments (RISE): A Challenge to Address Gender-Based Violence in the Environment](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/resilient-inclusive-sustainable-environments-rise-a-challenge-to-address-gender-based-violence-in-the-environment/)
- [PhD Course: Debating (Rural) Development and the Environment across the global North and South](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/phd-course-debating-rural-development-and-the-environment-across-the-global-north-and-south/) - *** Extended deadline to apply for the following course: August 15 (but please let us know ASAP if you are interested to attend) Ph.D. course, Debating (Rural) Development and the Environment across the global North and South (5 credits) at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala. The entire course period will be August 19 – September 6 with half day classes
- [Call for papers: Slow Violence and Environment at the International Sociological Association forum conference in Porto Allegre- Brazil in 14-18 July 2020](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/call-for-papers-slow-violence-and-environment-at-the-international-sociological-association-forum-conference-in-porto-allegre-brazil-in-14-18-july-2020/) - Session organiser: Saad Amira, University of Basel, Urban Studies Department The forum's overarching theme is : Challenges of the 21st Century: Democracy, Environment, Inequalities, Internationality. This session is titles Eco-Politics of Israeli Settler Colonialism, Palestinian Neo-Patrimonial Politics of Corruption and Every Day Forms of Ethnic Cleansing in the West Bank and falls under the following theme: Human Rights and
- [Call for papers: “The Future of Forever Chemicals? Citizen Participation and Rising Awareness of PFAS and Related Contamination in a Time of Deregulation”](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/call-for-papers-the-future-of-forever-chemicals-citizen-participation-and-rising-awareness-of-pfas-and-related-contamination-in-a-time-of-deregulation/) - Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) annual meeting March 17 – 21 2020 in Albuquerque, NM There has recently been a great rise in public awareness over the health effects of exposure to Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) – often called “Forever Chemicals” because they do not degrade in the environment and persistently remain and accumulate
- [The concerns of the young protesters are justified: A statement by Scientists for Future concerning the protests for more climate protection](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/the-concerns-of-the-young-protesters-are-justified-a-statement-by-scientists-for-future-concerning-the-protests-for-more-climate-protection/) - The full text can be found here. In March 2019, German-speaking scientists and scholars calling themselves Scientists for Future, published a statement in support of the youth protesters in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland (Fridays for Future, Klimastreik/Climate Strike), verifying the scientific evidence that the youth protestors refer to. In this article, they provide the full text of
- [Chair/Reader in Political Ecology](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/chair-reader-in-political-ecology/) - Lancaster University - Lancaster Environment Centre Closes: 8th September 2019 https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BUB441/chair-reader-in-political-ecology Lancaster University wishes to appoint an exceptional interdisciplinary academic in Political Ecology (broadly defined) at the Chair/Reader level. You will work within the Political EcologyResearch Group and in close collaboration with the Critical Geographies Research Group. You are expected to continue the Lancaster Environment
- [POLLEN newsletter: July/August](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-newsletter-july-august/) - Dear POLLEN members and friends (with apologies for X-posting), Greetings and welcome to a new POLLEN update. A mid-summer newsletter for some, and a mid-winter newsletter for others! We are happy to have received such a great number of interesting new publications and opportunities, which have been inspiring for us to read. We hope everyone
- [Pupils at the forefront: the school-work interchange on climate change between university and high school in Naples](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pupils-at-the-forefront-the-school-work-interchange-on-climate-change-between-university-and-high-school-in-naples/)
- [Call for chapter contributions: An Eastern European Political Ecology of Environment-State Relations](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/call-for-chapter-contributions-an-eastern-european-political-ecology-of-environment-state-relations/) - *** Call for chapter contributions to An Eastern European Political Ecology of Environment-State Relations *** We are seeking a couple more chapters for our edited volume that seeks to survey the current state of social inquiry into environment-state relations in Central and Eastern Europe. The volume engages with ‘political ecology’ as a particular way of thinking and analysing,
- [Call for papers: Special Issue "Global Resource Industries and Environmental Conflicts: Disciplinary Approaches, Methods, Literatures and Comparative Insights"](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/call-for-papers-special-issue-global-resource-industries-and-environmental-conflicts-disciplinary-approaches-methods-literatures-and-comparative-insights/) - Special Issue "Global Resource Industries and Environmental Conflicts: Disciplinary Approaches, Methods, Literatures and Comparative Insights" (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Human Geography and Social Sustainability". An online version of this call can be found here Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2020. Special Issue Editor Guest Editor Dr. Michael L. DoughertyDepartment of Sociology
- [Job opportunity: tenure-track position in ‘Indigenous Resurgence and Development’ at Queen’s University, Canada](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/job-opportunity-tenure-track-position-in-indigenous-resurgence-and-development-at-queens-university-canada/) - Please see in the following link the call for our tenure-track position in ‘Indigenous Resurgence and Development’ at Queen’s University, Canada:https://www.queensu.ca/devs/indigenous-resurgence-and-development-tenure-track-position-applications-due-9sept2019 Applications are due by September 9th, 2019. Please contact Marcus Taylor (taylorm@queensu.ca) if you have any questions on this vacancy.
- [Assistant Professor (tenure track) in Societal Challenges of Climate Change Impacts - The University of Lausanne](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/assistant-professor-tenure-track-in-societal-challenges-of-climate-change-impacts-the-university-of-lausanne/) - Assistant Professor (tenure track) in Societal Challenges of Climate Change Impacts The Faculty of Geosciences and the Environment (FGSE) of the University of Lausanne invites applications for a professorship in the Societal Challenges of Climate Change Impacts, to be based in the Institute of Geography and Sustainability (IGD). We are looking for an excellent candidate
- [Call for Papers: Special issue on “Putting Culture back into Cultural Ecosystem Services (CES): Case Studies on CES and Conservation from the Global South”](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/call-for-papers-special-issue-on-putting-culture-back-into-cultural-ecosystem-services-ces-case-studies-on-ces-and-conservation-from-the-global-south/) - Call for Papers: Special issue on “Putting Culture back into Cultural Ecosystem Services (CES): Case Studies on CES and Conservation from the Global South” Cultural ecosystem services (CES) have been defined as the “intangible and non-material benefits that people enjoy from ecosystems,” first introduced in the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MEA 2005). The MEA specified several
- [Why 'Game of Thrones' was about ecomodernism](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/why-game-of-thrones-was-about-ecomodernism/)
- [Eco(in)movilismo. Movilidad urbana e inmovilismo cultural.](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/ecoinmovilismo-movilidad-urbana-e-inmovilismo-cultural/) - Ante la catástrofe ecológica es necesario dar vida a un cambio cultural profundo a través del decrecimiento. A nivel de movilidad urbana el vehículo eléctrico representa la defensa del dogma del crecimiento económico ilimitado. André Gorz ya lo escribió en 1974: «La ecología es como el sufragio universal y el descanso dominical: en un primer
- [Why no change? Sustainable development, extractivism and the environment in Bolivia](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/why-no-change-sustainable-development-extractivism-and-the-environment-in-bolivia/) - Reblogged from the Open University Today's blog comes from Dr Jessica Hope, Vice-Chancellor’s Research Fellow at the University of Bristol and Chair of the Developing Areas Research Group (DARG) of the Royal Geographical Society (RGS). Her research spans human geography, development studies and political ecology and addresses questions of socio-environmental change in response to climate change.
- [What is "good practice" in academia?](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/what-is-good-practice-in-academia/)
- [Open letter to the President of Colombia denouncing threats and murder of social leaders // Carta abierta al Presidente de Colombia denunciando amenazas y asesinatos a lideres sociales](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/open-letter-to-the-president-of-colombia-denouncing-threats-and-murder-of-social-leaders-carta-abierta-al-presidente-de-colombia-denunciando-amenazas-y-asesinatos-a-lideres-sociales/)
- [Job opportunity: Lecturer in Political Ecology](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/job-opportunity-lecturer-in-political-ecology/) - The School for Field Studies is looking for a lecturer in Political Ecology for the Peru program in the NE Peruvian Amazon for the 2019-2020 academic year. We’re looking for a PhD, but will also consider someone with a Masters and university-level teaching experience in areas related to political ecology, cultural anthropology, human geography, or related field.
- [Draft/example email for inviting partners](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/draft-example-email-for-inviting-partners/) - We have drafted an email that you can use if you would like to invite colleagues to join POLLEN. We would like to thank Sabaheta Ramcilovik-Suominen for suggesting this great idea. We hope this draft email will encourage existing nodes to ask their global partners to start their own node: Dear…, In attempts to branch out across the globe,
- [Environmentalism is not a metaphor](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/environmentalism-is-not-a-metaphor/)
- [Why is vanilla so expensive? | The Economist](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/why-is-vanilla-so-expensive-the-economist/) - With Benjamin Neimark In recent years, natural vanilla has sometimes been more expensive than silver by weight. Vanilla farmers in Madagascar are cashing in—but violence, theft and volatile markets are threatening their prospects. Read more here: https://econ.st/2W5qwNB. From ice cream to cakes and even perfume, vanilla is the go-to flavour the world over. In recent
- [Travel policy reduces travel costs and CO2 emissions](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/travel-policy-reduces-travel-costs-and-co2-emissions/) - From Jens Friis Lund at the University of Copenhagen: In 2015, my department at University of Copenhagen created a simple travel policy that aimed to reduce travel costs and employees CO2 footprint from travelling. The policy sought to create awareness and to put a cap on numbers of flights financed by internal sources. Since it
- [Statement of the Encounter of Critical and Autonomous Geographies of Latin America // Pronunciamiento del Encuentro de Geografías Críticas y Autónomas de América Latina](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/statement-of-the-encounter-of-critical-and-autonomous-geographies-of-latin-america-pronunciamiento-del-encuentro-de-geografias-criticas-y-autonomas-de-america-latina/)
- [Call for Contributions: Political Ecologies of the Far Right](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/call-for-contributions-political-ecologies-of-the-far-right/) - Call for Contributions: Political Ecologies of the Far Right - **Deadline extended for applications: Friday 31st May** https://www.pefr.event.lu.se/ Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/665553393879568/ Lund University, 15-17 November 2019An interdisciplinary academic-activist conference organized by the Human Ecology Division at Lund University in collaboration with The Zetkin Collective and CEFORCED at Chalmers UniversityConfirmed speakers: Cara Daggett (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University), Leon Sealey-Huggins (University of Warwick), Bernard Forchtner (University of Leicester),
- [BLOG | DOING POLITICAL ECOLOGY AMIDST DISASTER](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/3203-2/) - Reblogged from BIOSEC Welcome to Otay Mountain, an alternative field guide Having recently returned to the UK following several months of fieldwork in USA and Mexico, Jared Margulies writes this blog about his zine ‘Welcome to Otay Mountain, an alternative field guide’. During the course of fieldwork earlier this year, I spent a month in California investigating an
- [POLLEN newsletter: May](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/may-updates-from-pollen/) - A pdf version of this newsletter can be found here Dear POLLEN members and friends (with apologies for X-posting), Greetings and welcome to our monthly POLLEN update. We are happy to have received a number of interesting new publications and opportunities, and to once again welcome new nodes! Many thanks to everyone who sent in
- [Traveling abroad to “save” the planet](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/traveling-abroad-to-save-the-planet/)
- [A case for small climate stories](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/a-case-for-small-climate-stories/)
- [Political Ecologies of Waste: Salvaged Livelihoods and Infra-structural Labour](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/political-ecologies-of-waste-salvaged-livelihoods-and-infra-structural-labour/)
- [The big picture - a political ecology comic essay](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/the-big-picture-a-political-ecology-comic-essay/)
- [Announcement for the 2019 Eric Wolf Prize](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/announcement-for-the-2019-eric-wolf-prize/) - Feel free to share; apologies for cross-posting. The Political Ecology Society (PESO) announces the 2019 Eric Wolf Prize for the best article-length paper. We seek papers based in substantive field research that make an innovative contribution to political ecology. Clear links to some specific set of political ecology ideas and literature is important. To be eligible
- [Environmental Justice Conference: Early Bird Registration open until 14 April](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/environmental-justice-conference-early-bird-registration-open-until-14-april/) - Early bird registration for the 2019 Environmental Justice Conference 'Transformative Connections' is now available until 14 April 2019. To register go to the UEA online store. The conference will take place at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK, on 2 July - 4 July 2019. A Draft Conference Programme is now available to view on the conference
- [Geoforum and open access debate](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/geoforum-and-open-access-debate/) - Editorial clarifying the Geoforum editors' position on Open Access and Elsevier can be found here
- [The Loneliest Man on Earth](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/the-loneliest-man-on-earth/)
- [About Permaculture Songs and the Food (In)security Narrative](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/about-permaculture-songs-and-the-food-insecurity-narrative/)
- [Call for Contributions: "Political Ecologies of the Far Right" conference (Lund, 15-17 november)](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/call-for-contributions-political-ecologies-of-the-far-right-conference-lund-15-17-november/)
- [PhD position on Negative Emissions at LUCSUS, Lund University](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/phd-position-on-negative-emissions-at-lucsus-lund-university/) - We currently have an open position for a PhD candidate within our new four-year research project, entitled ‘Negative Emissions and the Politics of a Projected Future’. This project critically investigates emerging discourses and practices on large-scale carbon dioxide removal/negative emissions, including but not limited to Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS). We are looking
- [Book Presentation | Liquid Power](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/book-presentation-liquid-power/) - 15 Mar 201915:00 - 17:30Westvest 7, 2611 AX Delft IHE Delft, Library Reading Room Every political project is also an environmental project, and every environmental project is deeply inserted in specific political projects. This is only one of the many strong ideas proposed by Erik Swyngedouw in his book Liquid Power, which can be seen
- [Grassroots initiatives in climate change-adaptation for justice and sustainability](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/grassroots-initiatives-in-climate-change-adaptation-for-justice-and-sustainability/)
- [Call for Contributions: Political Ecologies of the Far Right, 15-17 Nov 2019](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/call-for-contributions-political-ecologies-of-the-far-right-15-17-nov-2019/) - Call for Contributions: Political Ecologies of the Far RightLund University, 15-17 November 2019www.pefr.hek.lu.se An interdisciplinary academic-activist conference organized by the Human Ecology Division at Lund University in collaboration with The Zetkin Collective and CEFORCED at Chalmers University Far-right political parties, ideologies and social movements are increasingly exercising influence across the world. At the same time, ecological issues, such as climate change, deforestation, land use change, biodiversity loss, and toxic waste are intensifying
- [The Internet – a case for political ecology?](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/the-internet-a-case-for-political-ecology/)
- [Political ecologies of urban nature in Bogotá, Colombia](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/political-ecologies-of-urban-nature-in-bogota-colombia/)
- [Reflections on Authoritarian Populism: Democracy, Technology and Ecological Destruction](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/reflections-on-authoritarian-populism-democracy-technology-and-ecological-destruction/)
- [Activist and Integrated: Madalina must stay in Italy! # Stand4Madalina](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/activist-and-integrated-madalina-must-stay-in-italy-stand4madalina/)
- [Environmental Justice MOOC starting 11 March](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/environmental-justice-mooc-starting-11-march/) - This free 5 week online course is open to everyone around the world. Understand how climate change, biodiversity loss and deforestation affect people, exploring justice in environment management. Learn with the University of East Anglia’s Global Environmental Justice Group - an interdisciplinary mix of scholars interested in social justice and environmental change. Hear from activists
- [Ph.D. course Gender, Development and Environmental Governance (8,5 credits)](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/ph-d-course-gender-development-and-environmental-governance-85-credits/) - The course period is May 10 - June 24 with actual class days at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala, Sweden from June 10 – 14., Sweden. The rest of the time is for reading and writing on your own. The course will: 1) Introduce you to issue of gender and explore interconnections between
- [Job opportunity: Professor of Climate Change and Societal Impacts](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/job-opportunity-professor-of-climate-change-and-societal-impacts/) - The Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change at the Faculty of Environmental, Regional and Educational Sciences (University of Graz) is seeking to appoint a Professor (f/m) of Climate Change and Societal Impacts (40 hours per week; permanent employment according to the Austrian Law on Salaried Employment (AngG); planned starting date March 1st 2020) We are looking to appoint a full
- [Job opportunity: Academic assistant, Environment and sustainable development](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/job-opportunity-academic-assistant-environment-and-sustainable-development/) - The Institute of Development Policy (IOB) of the University of Antwerp wants to contribute to a more just and sustainable world through multidisciplinary academic research, education, partnerships and political engagement. More information about the institute and its activities can be found at www.uantwerp.be/iob. The Institute of Development Policy (IOB) is seeking to fill a full-time (100%) vacancy for
- [Populism as the final outcome of liberalism](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/populism-as-the-final-outcome-of-liberalism/) - by Alvaro Gaertner Aranda In 1917 Lenin published his book Imperialism as the highest stage of capitalism (Lenin 1999), and immediately after he started a revolution in Russia that no Marxist theorist could have foreseen. This conclusion seemed logical on the light of the events he had witnessed in the previous decades. In 1873, Germany
- [New collaborative works on political ecology, authoritarianism, and populism](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/new-collaborative-works-on-political-ecology-authoritarianism-and-populism/) - ** With apologies for cross-posting ** On behalf of the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN) and our friends at the ENTITLE Writing Collaborative, we would like to draw your attention to some recent collaborative works on the subjects of Political Ecology, Authoritarianism, and Populism. We hope this work is relevant and helpful as a teaching tool particularly in
- [Trophy hunting for conservation and development in Namibia? The limitations of economic benefits and the role of science](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/trophy-hunting-for-conservation-and-development-in-namibia-the-limitations-of-economic-benefits-and-the-role-of-science/) - By Stasja Koot, 12 February 2019 Recent years have shown an increase in the, often heated, debate on trophy hunting, with some important developments taking place in southern Africa. To name just some that have accelerated the debate: In 2012, pictures of King Juan Carlos of Spain emerged in which he posed in front of
- [Gratitude](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/gratitude/)
- [PhD position at Leibniz ZMT](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/phd-position-at-leibniz-zmt/) - Doctoral vacancy at the Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT) - call attached - for a sub-project under the interdisciplinary Fiction Meets Science initiative 'Narrating Sea Level Change as a World-making Activity.' We welcome applicants in the environmental humanities and the social sciences. Deadline - Feb 8, 2019
- [Night of the Living ‘Things’: Zombie Archaeology](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/night-of-the-living-things-zombie-archaeology/)
- [Should political ecology be populist?](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/should-political-ecology-be-populist/)
- [Urban forests, regeneration and conflicts: the case of Prati di Caprara in Bologna (Italy)](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/urban-forests-regeneration-and-conflicts-the-case-of-prati-di-caprara-in-bologna-italy/)
- [Assembling a Movement for Real Democracy in Every Community - launch statement from Symbiosis](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/assembling-a-movement-for-real-democracy-in-every-community-launch-statement-from-symbiosis/)
- [Who is guarding whom?](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/who-is-guarding-whom-2/)
- [Headless populism and the political ecology of alienation](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/headless-populism-and-the-political-ecology-of-alienation/)
- [Call for papers extended - #EJ2019](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/call-for-papers-extended-ej2019/) - The deadline for submissions of abstracts and sessions for the Environmental Justice Conference 2019 - Transformative Connections at University of East Anglia in July 2019 has been extended to 14 February 2019. Find out more: www.uea.ac.uk/global-environmental-justice/conference-2019 There are also a number of open panels looking for participants here: www.uea.ac.uk/global-environmental-justice/conference-2019/open-panels-call-for-papers Get in touch: gej.group@uea.ac.uk
- [Scientific Editor (Social Science), One Earth](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/scientific-editor-social-science-one-earth/) - One Earth, a new journal from Cell on environmental sustainability, is looking for a social sciences editor. More information can be found at https://4re.referrals.selectminds.com/elsevier/jobs/scientific-editor-social-science-one-earth-20590
- [New PhD position at ISS Erasmus University Rotterdam : Valuing nature in the circular economy](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/new-phd-position-at-iss-erasmus-university-rotterdam-valuing-nature-in-the-circular-economy/) - New PhD position at ISS: Valuing nature in the circular economy- Applications are invited for an ‘Early Stage Researcher’ (ESR) to pursue a PhD at the International Institute of Social Studies on the political ecology/economy of value within the context of scholarly debates on and practical efforts towards the creation of a ‘circular economy’. While
- ["Entangled Natures: A Conference on Human Ecology" ](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/entangled-natures-a-conference-on-human-ecology/) - We are happy to inform you that the School of Human Ecology at Ambedkar University Delhi (AUD) is organising a conference titled "Entangled Natures: A Conference on Human Ecology" during 14th to 17th February 2019. The conference will have five thematic panels, speed talks, posters, photo exhibition celebrating a decade of SHE, and an open house and photography competition
- [The School of Environmental Studies at the University of Victoria is hiring a Tier II Canada Research Chair in Political Ecology.](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/the-school-of-environmental-studies-at-the-university-of-victoria-is-hiring-a-tier-ii-canada-research-chair-in-political-ecology-2/) - Political Ecology Environmental Studies - Faculty of Social Sciences January 1, 2020 start date The School of Environmental Studies at the University of Victoria, located on the traditional territories of the Songhees, Esquimalt and WSÁNEĆ peoples, invites applications for a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Political Ecology. The interdisciplinary field of Political Ecology critically
- [The School of Environmental Studies at the University of Victoria is hiring a Tier II Canada Research Chair in Political Ecology.](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/the-school-of-environmental-studies-at-the-university-of-victoria-is-hiring-a-tier-ii-canada-research-chair-in-political-ecology/) - Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) Political Ecology Environmental Studies - Faculty of Social Sciences January 1, 2020 start date The School of Environmental Studies at the University of Victoria, located on the traditional territories of the Songhees, Esquimalt and WSÁNEĆ peoples, invites applications for a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Political Ecology. The interdisciplinary
- [Tenure track position as Associate Senior Lecturer at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tenure-track-position-as-associate-senior-lecturer-at-the-swedish-university-of-agricultural-sciences-uppsala/) - Tenure track position as Associate Senior Lecturer in Rural Development in Sweden and Europe with a focus on environmental and agricultural politics for sustainable rural development at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala The subject covers rural development in Sweden and Europe with a focus on the socio-political aspects that lead to sustainable development
- [Environmental populisms – alongside and beyond (state) authority](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/environmental-populisms-alongside-and-beyond-state-authority/)
- [Book Review: "Total Transition - The human side of the Renewable Energy Revolution"](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/book-review-total-transition-the-human-side-of-the-renewable-energy-revolution/)
- [Authoritarianism, populism and political ecology](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/authoritarianism-populism-and-political-ecology/)
- [Job opportunity: tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Community-Engaged Research in Community Development](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/job-opportunity-tenure-track-assistant-professor-position-in-community-engaged-research-in-community-development/) - https://ukjobs.uky.edu/postings/208670 The University of Kentucky Department of Community & Leadership Development (UK-CLD) seeks candidates to fill a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Community-Engaged Research in Community Development. UK-CLD is a multidisciplinary social science unit within the College of Agriculture, Food and Environment (CAFE), with a mission to strengthen the capacities of individuals, organizations and communities
- [Funded PhD in rewilding & geography](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/funded-phd-in-rewilding-geography/) - Exciting Rewilding PhD opportunity at University of Brighton,. Fully funded by ESRC on a 1+3 (Masters plus PhD) or +3 (PhD for those already with relevant Masters). The PhD will explore the intersection of social and conservational, human and more-than-human benefits. Suited to an excellent final year undergraduate or postgraduate student of geography, anthropology, social sciences or
- [PhD studentship on the role of trust in conservation in Nepal](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/phd-studentship-on-the-role-of-trust-in-conservation-in-nepal/) - Dear all, We are pleased to let you know about a PhD studentship on 'The role of trust in conserving biodiversity and reducing conservation conflict, a case study in Nepal', funded through the NERC E4 DTP, supervised between the University of Edinburgh (Dr Sam Staddon and Dr Aidan Keane) and Aberdeen University (Prof. Steve Redpath), and in collaboration with the
- [What’s behind Mali livestock herders joining jihadist groups](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/whats-behind-mali-livestock-herders-joining-jihadist-groups/) - By Tor A. Benjaminsen This post originally appeared on The Conversation In Mali, pastoralists have become increasingly disgruntled with a predatory and corrupt state. Flickr/Mary Newcombe In Mali, jihadist groups have taken control of more than half the country since 2012. How has such a fundamental change been possible in a country previously praised by international observers as a
- [Ces arbres qui cachent des forêts de « greenwashing »](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/ces-arbres-qui-cachent-des-forets-de-greenwashing/) - By Benjamin Neimark This post originally appeared on The Conversation. The English version can be found here. Planter des arbres est devenu au cours des dernières décennies un mode de compensation écologique plébiscité par les entreprises. iDraw/Shutterstock Nous n’imaginons pas tout ce que les arbres font pour nous. Leurs racines préviennent l’érosion des sols, leur canopée nous offre de l’ombre ;
- [Sustainability implications of spatial shift in global capitalism: An eco-socialist perspective](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/sustainability-implications-of-spatial-shift-in-global-capitalism-an-eco-socialist-perspective/) - Wednesday 5 December 2018, 4 - 5pm, Clerici Learning Studio Professor Pritam Singh has recently been awarded distinguished Professor Emeritus status. Pritam has been part of the Oxford Brookes Business School since 1988 and to mark the occasion we would like to invite you all to attend his lecture on 5th December: Sustainability implications of spatial shift in global
- [Social implications of wildlife camera traps](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/social-implications-of-wildlife-camera-traps/) - Wildlife cameras very frequently take pictures of people, often unintentionally, with the images then being used for conservation management purposes. In many cases this seems to be causing harm to the people being photographed, which can create conflict and costs for the conservation projects. Chris Sandbrook, Rogelio Luque Lora, and Bill Adams have been doing
- [Call for papers: Environmental Justice Conference 2019: "Transformative Connections"](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/call-for-papers-environmental-justice-conference-2019-transformative-connections/) - Call for papers Environmental Justice Conference 2019: ‘Transformative Connections’, University of East Anglia, 2-4 July 2019 Exploring ‘francophone’ environmental justice approaches Convenors: Brendan Coolsaet, ESPOL Lille; Valérie Deldrève, IRSTEA Bordeaux The political ideal of environmental justice (EJ) emerges in the late 1970s in the United States, with the struggles of minorities against unequal spatial distributions
- [Heterotopias and a serious joke at IHE Delft library](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/heterotopias-and-a-serious-joke-at-ihe-delft-library/)
- [Who is guarding whom?](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/who-is-guarding-whom/) - By Mihnea Tanasescu Reblogged from The Civil Animal I am currently in Aotearoa New Zealand for a three-month fellowship researching two legal persons: the river Whanganui, and the former national park and ancestral Tūhoe homeland, Te Urewera. These natural beings were recognized as persons in law, a move that has generated widespread international media coverage and fawning commentary.
- [Call for abstracts for Development Days 2019 Conference is now open!](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/call-for-abstracts-for-development-days-2019-conference-is-now-open/) - Call for abstracts for Development Days 2019 Conference is now open! We invite you to join us in Helsinki, for Development Days 2019 Conference Repositioning global development: changing actors, geographies and ontologies, to take place on 27.2-1.3.2019. Join and contribute to a critical academic and practitioner exchange on new trends, promises, pitfalls and alternatives in development-related research. You
- [Feral: an online conference](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/feral-an-online-conference/) - Feral: An Online Conference (http://perc.ac.nz/wordpress/feral/) November 12 – December 2 No registration required. Please join us for a free online conference examining the concept of the ‘feral’ through the lenses of political ecology and ecocriticism. The idea of the feral gestures towards forms of non-human life that have spurned human control or expectations: ‘bad’ forms of wilderness
- ['The Land Beneath Our Feet' - A Review](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/the-land-beneath-our-feet-a-review/)
- [Local Science Fiction: Call for submissions for futuristic imaginaries](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/local-science-fiction-call-for-submissions-for-futuristic-imaginaries/)
- [3 Years of Impunity - Letter to the world by a victim of the crime of Mariana, Brazil](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/3-years-of-impunity-letter-to-the-world-by-a-victim-of-the-crime-of-mariana-brazil/)
- [Open letter to the California Air Resources Board on their proposed new Tropical Forest Standard: please sign!](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/open-letter-to-the-california-air-resources-board-on-their-proposed-new-tropical-forest-standard-please-sign/) - Dear friends and fellow scholars, A few of us have drafted an open letter to the California Air Resources Board that we hope you consider signing. We’ve had a great initial response and hope to get many signatures by Nov. 11 and present the document at a pubic ARB session on Nov. 15-16. Here's the story: The ARB
- [Call for papers: special issue 'Legitimacy and Accountability in the Governance of Sustainable Energy Transitions'](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/call-for-papers-special-issue-legitimacy-and-accountability-in-the-governance-of-sustainable-energy-transitions/) - Dear colleagues, I'm pleased to announce a call for papers towards a special issue of the new journal Global Transitions which I am editing along with Håvard Haarstad. The focus is on 'Legitimacy and Accountability in the Governance of Sustainable Energy Transitions'. We trust many of you have valuable perspectives to contribute on this emerging
- [“Radical Bricoleurs”: On Doing Science, Community Life, Activism and Bureaucracy in Mozambique](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/radical-bricoleurs-on-doing-science-community-life-activism-and-bureaucracy-in-mozambique/) - By Anselmo Matusse, University of Cape Town One day I was walking with Mr. Angelo, 69 years old, a former Renamo soldier, demobilized in 1994, who is now a farmer and a hunter towards his rice farm in Nvava, which is located in the lands of former colonial tea plantations called Cha Tacuane in Nvava, Lugela
- [2019 Environmental Justice Conference](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/2019-environmental-justice-conference/) - Dear Friends and Colleagues, We are excited to share with you details of the 2019 Environmental Justice Conference 'Transformative Connections' to be held at University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK, 2 July - 4 July 2019. The conference is hosted by UEA’s Global Environmental Justice group, with support from colleagues on our advisory board. The primary focus of the conference is
- [Special Issue: "The Making of Caribbean Not-so-Natural Disasters"](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/special-issue-the-making-of-caribbean-not-so-natural-disasters/)
- [Political Ecology Syllabi](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/political-ecology-syllabi/) - Just a brief note: the POLLEN website now includes a page to facilitate the sharing of political ecology-related course syllabi, curricula, and other teaching resources: https://politicalecologynetwork.wordpress.com/political-ecology-syllabi/ If you have a relevant syllabus that you would like to make available, kindly get in touch via the Wordpress online interface, or at politicalecologynetwork@gmail.com Please join us in improving access
- [Bolsonaro Calls for Carnage and Environmental Holocaust in Brazil](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/bolsonaro-calls-for-carnage-and-environmental-holocaust-in-brazil/)
- [Defend democracy in Brazil](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/defend-democracy-in-brazil/)
- [Workshop for young researchers - Water as a transdisciplinary challenge - Delft, May 2019](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/workshop-for-young-researchers-water-as-a-transdisciplinary-challenge-delft-may-2019/) - Dear all, The Centre for Latin American Research and Documentation (CEDLA) and the Delft Institute for Water Education (IHE) are pleased to invite you to participate to the Workshop for young researchers that will take place on May 30, 2019, in Delft, Netherlands. The topic of the workshop will be "Studying water as a transdisciplinary challenge:
- [Call for proposals: “Repositioning global development: changing actors, geographies and ontologies”](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/call-for-proposals-repositioning-global-development-changing-actors-geographies-and-ontologies/) - On behalf of the Finnish Society for Development Research (FSDR), it is my pleasure to invite you to submit your proposals for sessions to our forthcoming conference, Development Days 2019. The conference “Repositioning global development: changing actors, geographies and ontologies” will take place from 27.2-1.3.2019, in Helsinki. It will feature three keynote speeches, delivered by Rosalba
- [Climate Futures, Design and the Just Transition Friday Nov 9th 1.30pm-6.30pm Saturday Nov 10th 9am-3pm. RISD Providence, Rhode Island](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/climate-futures-design-and-the-just-transition-friday-nov-9th-1-30pm-6-30pm-saturday-nov-10th-9am-3pm-risd-providence-rhode-island/) - Climate Futures, Design and the Just Transition – A Symposium Friday Nov 9th 1.30pm-6.30pm Saturday Nov 10th 9am-3pm. Location: The Rhode Island School of Design, The RISD Auditorium 7 Canal Walk, Providence River Greenway, Providence, RI https://www.google.com/maps/place/7+Canal+Walk,+Providence,+RI+02903/@41.8259504,-71.410998,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x89e4451656a05ee3:0x56db1c2ff77bad9b!8m2!3d41.8259464!4d-71.408804 This event is free but to obtain a ticket please sign up here. https://www.eventbrite.com/o/division-of-liberal-arts-the-rhode-island-school-of-design-17952030680 Sponsored by: RISD Liberal Arts Graduate Program
- [Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, RISD](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/assistant-professor-of-environmental-studies-risd/) - Assistant Professor in Environmental Studies The Department of History, Philosophy and the Social Sciences (HPSS) at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) invites applications for a full-time Assistant Professor in Environmental Studies starting in the fall of 2019. Rhode Island School of Design recognizes diversity and inclusivity as fundamental to its learning community and
- [Fracking democracy, criminalising dissent](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/fracking-democracy-criminalising-dissent/) - This article was first published by The Ecologist. Fracking democracy, criminalising dissent Andrea Brock, Dr Amber Huff, Dr Judith Verweijen, Professor Jan Selby, Professor David Ockwell, Professor Peter Newell | 18th October 2018 Source: FrackFree4 Supporters The anti-fracking victory yesterday should not distract from disturbing trends in the criminalisation of dissent. Ecological direct action against extractivism represents
- [CSPS SYMPOSIUM: TOWARDS CONVIVIAL CONSERVATION? Governing Human-Wildlife Relations in the ‘Anthropocene’ (CONVIVA)](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/csps-symposium-towards-convivial-conservation-governing-human-wildlife-relations-in-the-anthropocene-conviva/) - POSTER conviva Please click here for the website and full program of this symposium. Convivial conservation is a new conservation approach that aims to move beyond currently dominant paradigms that promote nature-culture dualisms and market-based funding mechanisms. Both of these are increasingly recognized as obstacles to sustainable conservation, yet viable alternatives for transcending them have
- [Job opportunity: three faculty positions at the School of Human Ecology at Ambedkar University Delhi (AUD)](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/job-opportunity-three-faculty-positions-at-the-school-of-human-ecology-at-ambedkar-university-delhi-aud/) - The School of Human Ecology at Ambedkar University Delhi (AUD) is inviting applications from eligible candidates for three faculty positions. AUD is a university established by the Government of Delhi and focuses on research and learning in the Social Sciences, Humanities and Liberal Studies. At present, the School of Human Ecology offers two full-time academic programmes,
- [Curiosity, relationalities and monkeywrenching: The futures of the Anthropocene](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/curiosity-relationalities-and-monkeywrenching-the-futures-of-the-anthropocene/)
- [Open letter from UK academics: The harsh sentencing of anti-fracking campaigners sets a dangerous precedent](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/open-letter-from-uk-academics-the-harsh-sentencing-of-anti-fracking-campaigners-sets-a-dangerous-precedent/) - An open letter has been initiated by Andrea Brock, Lecturer in International Relations, Dr. Amber Huff, Research Fellow, and Dr Judith Verweijen, Lecturer in International Relations, at the Institute of Development Studies, expressing their serious concerns and condemning the prison sentences for three anti-fracking protectors in the UK. The Independent has written about the letter, and this is what
- [Job opportunity: two tenure track positions at Rutgers University](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/job-opportunity-two-tenure-track-positions-at-rutgers-university/) - TWO TENURE TRACK POSITIONS IN GEOGRAPHY AVAILABLE AT RUTGERS UNIVERSITY Assistant Professor in Political Ecology We seek candidates with a focus on patterns of uneven development and how they shape resource systems and users. We specifically look to hire a scholar with demonstrated commitment to in-depth fieldwork in a developing world region. We seek a
- [Call for papers: The environmental state in the village: The place of the state in neoliberal and community-based conservation](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/call-for-papers-the-environmental-state-in-the-village-the-place-of-the-state-in-neoliberal-and-community-based-conservation/) - American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting, April 3-7, 2019, Washington DC Call for Papers The environmental state in the village: The place of the state in neoliberal and community-based conservation In this session, we invite empirical contributions that illustrate how the state intervenes in local environmental development, with particular reference to market-based environmental management -
- [The battle of Hambacher Forest](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/the-battle-of-hambacher-forest/) - Activists have occupied Hambacher Forest for six years to prevent the area being destroyed and mined for coal. State violence, police brutality and corporate power are combining to try and oust them for good, writes Andrea Brock In one of the largest policing operations in the history of the German state, police forces are currently evicting hundreds
- [Call for papers: the power of political ecology workshop](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/call-for-papers-the-power-of-political-ecology-workshop/) - Call for papers for a workshop on the power of political ecology at the Institute of Geography, University Augsburg. Deadline for abstract submission (max. 300 words): 30 September 2018. More information (in German): http://forschungswerkstatt.geo.uni-augsburg.de/
- [Job: tenure track professorship in mountain geography (Lausanne/Sion, Switz.)](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/job-tenure-track-professorship-in-mountain-geography-lausanne-sion-switz/) - The University of Lausanne is recruiting new a tenure-track professor position in geography of resources of mountain regions. We seek to reinforce our new Interdisciplinary Center for Mountain Research (CIRM) based out of our satellite campus in Sion (VS). The candidate must have demonstrated experience in undertaking and developing interdisciplinary research at the interface of
- [Can Recognition be Decolonised?](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/can-recognition-be-decolonised/) - by James Fraser on August 16, 2018 Europe’s colonial encounter with the Americas has profoundly influenced modern conceptualisations of the political subject. As argued in an article ‘Amazonian Struggles for Recognition’ in Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Europeans started from a point of non-recognition of Native Americans – they were either too innocent or too evil, too degenerate or too weak
- [POLLEN18 Conference Introduction – Tor Arve Benjaminsen and Lan Marie Nguyen Berg](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen18-conference-introduction-tor-arve-benjaminsen-and-lan-marie-nguyen-berg/) - [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeo6D4yzRkU] Introductory remarks by Tor Arve Benjaminsen (Professor, Norwegian University of Life Sciences) and Lan Marie Nguyen Berg (Vice Mayor for Environment and Transport, City of Oslo) at the Second Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN), 'Political Ecology, the Green Economy, and Alternative Sustainabilities', Oslo Metropolitan University, Oslo, Norway, 19-22 June 2018.
- [3-year PhD Research Fellowship in Human Geography on Green energy unionism, University of Oslo](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/3-year-phd-research-fellowship-in-human-geography-on-green-energy-unionism-university-of-oslo/) - ** Re-Posted via David Jordhus-Lier ** The University of Oslo has just announced a 3-year PhD Research Fellowship in Human Geography, as a part of “WAGE: Work, labour and greening the economy” - a consortium project investigating the role of energy unions and oil workers in system transformation in Norway, Canada and Nigeria. Scandinavian fluency
- [Journal of Political Ecology special section on power in political ecology, and other new articles in Vol. 25](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/journal-of-political-ecology-special-section-on-power-in-political-ecology-and-other-new-articles-in-vol-25/) - ** Re-blogged via Simon Batterbury/Journal of Political Ecology ** Vol. 25 of Journal of Political Ecology [free to read, free to publish, a voluntary effort, no corporate publishers - Scopus Citescore 2017: 2.66 - 51/605 in Geography/Planning/Development, 10/347 Anthropology, 17/461 Pol.Sci. & IR] 'Special section on Power in Political Ecology' At bottom of https://journals.uair.arizona.edu/index.php/JPE/issue/view/1483 Journal
- [Environmental Justice MOOC starting in October](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/environmental-justice-mooc-starting-in-october/) - Enrolment is now open for the new Environmental Justice MOOC, a free online course, run by the University of East Anglia and FutureLearn. Why join the course? This free online course will help you understand how injustice is a common feature of many environmental problems, and that sustainable environmental management requires attention to justice. How long
- [Resisting Development: The politics of the zad and NoTav](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/resisting-development-the-politics-of-the-zad-and-notav/)
- [Tania Murray Li Keynote Lecture at POLLEN18 Conference, Oslo, 22 June 2018](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tania-murray-li-keynote-lecture-at-pollen18-conference-oslo-22-june-2018/) - [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qq0HI6E44YA] Keynote lecture by Prof. Tania Murray Li (University of Toronto), 'Commons, co-ops, and corporations: Assembling Indonesia's 21st century land reform'. Delivered at the Second Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN), 'Political Ecology, the Green Economy, and Alternative Sustainabilities', Oslo Metropolitan University, Oslo, Norway, 19-22 June 2018. Discussant: Bram Büscher (Wageningen University).
- [Ashish Kothari Keynote Lecture at POLLEN18 Conference, Oslo, 21 June 2018](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/ashish-kothari-keynote-lecture-at-pollen18-conference-oslo-21-june-2018/) - [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAyRVvU89BY&w=560&h=315] Keynote lecture by Ashish Kothari (Kalpavriksh), 'Eco-swaraj: Radical Ecological Democracy – Alternatives to Unsustainability and Inequity'. Delivered at the Second Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN), 'Political Ecology, the Green Economy, and Alternative Sustainabilities', Oslo Metropolitan University, Oslo, Norway, 19-22 June 2018. Discussant: Paul Robbins (University of Wisconsin-Madison). Chair: Hanne Svarstad
- [Paige West Keynote Lecture at POLLEN18 Conference, Oslo, 20 June 2018](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/paige-west-keynote-lecture-at-pollen18-conference-oslo-20-june-2018/) - [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ao4vhGdMUo] Keynote lecture by Prof. Paige West (Barnard College and Columbia University), 'Critical Approaches to Dispossession in the Melanesian Pacific: Conservation, Voice, and Collaboration'. Delivered at the Second Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN), 'Political Ecology, the Green Economy, and Alternative Sustainabilities', Oslo Metropolitan University, Oslo, Norway, 19-22 June 2018. Discussant: Nitin
- [Paul Robbins Keynote at POLLEN18 Conference, Oslo, 21 June 2018](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/paul-robbins-keynote-at-pollen18-conference-oslo-21-june-2018/) - [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhjYeKlBGUk&w=560&h=315] Keynote lecture by Prof. Paul Robbins (University of Wisconsin-Madison), 'Is less more, or is more less? Scaling the political ecologies of the future'. Delivered at the Second Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN), 'Political Ecology, the Green Economy, and Alternative Sustainabilities', Oslo Metropolitan University, Oslo, Norway, 19-22 June 2018. Discussant:
- [ENTITLE blog: 2018 so far and what’s in store](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/entitle-blog-2018-so-far-and-whats-in-store/)
- [Decolonizing Conservation](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/decolonizing-conservation/) - We are delighted to share these two inspiring and challenging keynote talks, co-written by Paige West and John Aini, which were presented by Paige at the POLLEN18 conference and by John at the International Marine Conservation Congress.
- [Essay: Political ecologists in solidarity with Nicaragua](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/essay-political-ecologists-in-solidarity-with-nicaragua/) - By Noémi Gonda, Frédéric Huybrechs, René Rodríguez-Fabilena, Gert Van Hecken, and other political ecologists from Nicaragua whose names are not displayed for security reasons For over 3 months, Nicaragua has been facing its worst political crisis in recent decades. The simmering discontent erupted as a full-blown crisis on 18 April 2018, when promulgated reforms of
- [Job opportunity: 4 tenure-track positions at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/job-opportunity-4-tenure-track-positions-at-university-of-michigan-ann-arbor/) - School for Environment and Sustainability University of Michigan, Ann Arbor The School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS) at the University of Michigan is seeking applications for four full-time, nine-month, tenure-track faculty positions, part of a suite of new faculty hires at SEAS. For more detail, including required application materials visit: http://seas.umich.edu/employment. Assistant Professor in Data
- [Postdoc opportunity: Urban Environmental Governance, University of Lausanne](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/postdoc-opportunity-urban-environmental-governance-university-of-lausanne/) - Postdoctoral fellow in Urban Environmental Governance Introduction The University of Lausanne (UNIL) is a higher teaching and research institution composed of seven faculties where approximately 14,300 students and nearly 3,900 collaborators, professors, and researchers work and study. Ideally situated along the lake of Geneva, near Lausanne's city center, its campus brings together over 120 nationalities. Presentation A postdoctoral position is available to further a new research project entitled “Challenges of municipal solid waste management: Learning from post-crisis governance initiatives in South Asia” funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation
- [Italian eco-narratives - Paths into the nationalisation of forests](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/italian-eco-narratives-paths-into-the-nationalisation-of-forests/)
- [Job Opportunity: Visiting Assistant Professor in Environmental Studies, Augustana College, IL](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/job-opportunity-visiting-assistant-professor-in-environmental-studies-augustana-college-il/) - Augustana College-Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Position The Environmental Studies Program at Augustana College invites applications for a full-time (9-month) Visiting Assistant Professor beginning August of this year. Augustana College is a selective liberal arts college of 2,500 students, most of whom live on a wooded 115-acre campus. Rock Island, Illinois is one of
- [Postdoc Opportunity: Research Fellow in International Relations and Political Ecology, University of Sussex](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/postdoc-opportunity-research-fellow-in-international-relations-and-political-ecology-university-of-sussex/) - Research Fellow in International Relations and Political Ecology Ref 3451 School/department: School of Global Studies Hours: Full time Contract: Two years fixed term Reference: 3451 Salary: starting at £32,548 and rising to £38,833 per annum Placed on: 10 July 2018 Closing date: 25 July 2018. Applications must be received by midnight of the closing date. Expected Interview date: w/c
- [New Master's in Degrowth](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/new-masters-in-degrowth/)
- [We Need to Talk about Robots](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/we-need-to-talk-about-robots/)
- [Is Decolonizing the New Black?](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/is-decolonizing-the-new-black/) - Really thought-provoking discussion of the trend of 'decolonial' and 'decolonising' work in academia and keeping it political, by Sisters of Resistance.
- [Defending degrowth at ecomodernism’s home](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/defending-degrowth-at-ecomodernisms-home/)
- [Postdoc Opportunity: Gender, Environment and Rural Development in Europe, Swedish University of Agricultural Science](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/postdoc-opportunity-gender-environment-and-rural-development-in-europe-swedish-university-of-agricultural-science/) - Please find the full job listing here. Department of Urban and rural development The Department of Urban and Rural Development offers a stimulating research environment. Research and education at the department are carried out at four different divisions: Agrarian History, Rural Development, Landscape Architecture and Environmental Communication. The appointment will be at the Division of
- [Into the fascist forest – a real Italian controversy](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/into-the-fascist-forest-a-real-italian-controversy/)
- [PhD Opportunity: Comparative political ecology of Payments for Ecosystem Services in Nicaragua and Guatemala, University of Antwerp](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/phd-opportunity-comparative-political-ecology-of-payments-for-ecosystem-services-in-nicaragua-and-guatemala-university-of-antwerp/) - 4-year PhD scholarship on a "Comparative political ecology of Payments for Ecosystem Services in Nicaragua and Guatemala". Application deadline: 12 August 2018 Start date of scholarship: 1 October, 1 November, or 1 December 2018 or 1 January 2019 More information on this vacancy can be found at https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/jobs/vacancies/ap/2018bapdocproex251/
- [Postdoc opportunity: Development Corridors Partnership, University of Cambridge](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/postdoc-opportunity-development-corridors-partnership-university-of-cambridge/) - Applications are invited for a postdoctoral research associate to work with Dr Chris Sandbrook and Dr Liz Watson on the Development Corridors Partnership (DCP) project, funded by the Global Challenges Research Fund, in the Department of Geography, University of Cambridge. 'Development corridors' are increasingly being used as a strategy to promote economic growth in Africa
- [Day 1 & 2: Oslo to Wageningen](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/day-1-2-oslo-to-wageningen/) - Thoughts on the return Train Tour from POLLEN18 to Wageningen Summer School...
- [Postdoc Opportunity: Nature Net](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/postdoc-opportunity-nature-net/) - NATURE NET POSTDOC FELLOWSHIP INFO The Nature Conservancy is pleased to solicit applications for the NatureNet Science Fellowship, a trans-disciplinary postdoctoral fellowship and research grant program. The NatureNet Science Fellows program bridges academic excellence and conservation practice to create a new generation of climate change leaders who combine the rigor of academic science with real-world application.
- [A tale of two associations: institutions and governance of the green economy](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/a-tale-of-two-associations-institutions-and-governance-of-the-green-economy/)
- [The political ecology of Cornelius Castoriadis](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/the-political-ecology-of-cornelius-castoriadis/)
- [POLLEN18: Final Conference Programme Now Available!](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen18-final-conference-programme-now-available/) - The organizing committee of the POLLEN18 conference in Oslo, 19-22 June, is pleased to announce that the final conference programme is now available. For sustainability reasons, this will be accessible in two versions: 1. The condensed session overview is available at this link. For your convenience, a hardcopy of the condensed programme will also be
- [Day 1 of 4: Bristol to Oslo](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/day-1-of-4-bristol-to-oslo/) - Notes from the Pollen Train Tour - a group of European academics travelling to the POLLEN18 conference by train, sea and bus to try and reduce our environmental impact...
- [The REDD debate: Some published studies on local impacts of REDD in various countries](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/the-redd-debate-some-published-studies-on-local-impacts-of-redd-in-various-countries/)
- [Two tales of terrorism from the Tía María conflict, Peru](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/two-tales-of-terrorism-from-the-tia-maria-conflict-peru/)
- [Postdoc opportunity: Group Water Schemes in Ireland, Trinity College Dublin](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/postdoc-opportunity-group-water-schemes-in-ireland-trinity-college-dublin/) - 12-month post-doctoral research position based in the Geography Department, Trinity College Dublin. This is the second of two post-doctoral research positions connected to this project. The research project is based in Ireland and looks at Group Water Schemes (rural, community-managed water infrastructures). While Group Water Schemes are often understood as a minor, even residual component
- [Norwegian climate policy affects the poorest](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/norwegian-climate-policy-affects-the-poorest/)
- [Zimbabwe Land reform research feedback](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/zimbabwe-land-reform-research-feedback/) - News from our University of KwaZulu-Natal Adrian Nel, a lecturer in Geography at UKZN, along with colleagues from the National University of Zimbabwe’s Institute for Development Studies conducted a fieldwork feedback exercise at the beginning of the year. The feedback was based on information produced from a three year project on Livelihoods after the Fast
- [Essay: seeding new ideas in the neoliberal city](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/essay-seeding-new-ideas-in-the-neoliberal-city/) - We're happy to share with you this beautiful essay, the first in what we hope will be a series of essays about political ecology in practice. If you would like to contribute an essay, please get in touch! El silencio del viento contrario By Massimo Paolini The nocturnal wanders through Zurich of a man who
- [The enlightenment of Steven Pinker: Eco-modernism as rationalizing the arrogance (and violence) of empire](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/the-enlightenment-of-steven-pinker-eco-modernism-as-rationalizing-the-arrogance-and-violence-of-empire/)
- [Call for participants: Exploring Urbanization: Events, Resources, Risks and Movements](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/call-for-participants-exploring-urbanization-events-resources-risks-and-movements/) - A reminder to register for our two-day seminar EXPLORING URBANIZATION: EVENTS, RESOURCES, RISKS AND MOVEMENTS, Monday 18 and Tuesday 19 June 2018 With PhD & MSc Urbanization masterclass: 20 June (09.30—12.30) Venue: Wageningen University, Netherlands (Orion building) Organized by WUR’s Centre for Space, Place and Society (CSPS) Full program and registration: https://centreforspaceplacesociety.com/2018/03/28/seminar-exploring-urbanization-events-resources-risks-and-movements/ Short overview: Day 1: Keynote 1: Prof. Erik Swyngedouw (University of Manchester) Keynote
- [Call for participants: Hidden Figures and the Worlding of Global Environmental Politics](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/call-for-participants-hidden-figures-and-the-worlding-of-global-environmental-politics/) - Call for Panel Participation on: “Hidden Figures and the Worlding of Global Environmental Politics” International Studies Association 60th Annual Convention March 27-30, 2019. Toronto, Canada Worlding means realizing the situatedness of our own knowledge and, thus, how it is constitutive of our worlds. The task of “worlding” aims at unearthing what is hidden or obscured -actors, places, ecosystems, times, and processes- while also discovering why and howour concepts, theories, research designs
- [Call for papers: 2018 Eric Wolf Prize](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/call-for-papers-2018-eric-wolf-prize/) - ** Posted on behalf of the Political Ecology Society (PESO) ** Announcement for the 2018 Eric Wolf Prize The Political Ecology Society (PESO) announces the 2018 Eric Wolf Prize for the best article-length paper. We seek papers based in substantive field research that make an innovative contribution to political ecology. Clear links to specific political ecology
- [Trashopolis! Storytelling, waste research and glocal conflicts](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/trashopolis-storytelling-waste-research-and-glocal-conflicts/)
- [PhD project: “What’s all the Buzz? Managing competing interests in developing Western Australia’s beekeeping industry” ](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/phd-project-whats-all-the-buzz-managing-competing-interests-in-developing-western-australias-beekeeping-industry/) - About the project: An innovative and motivated PhD candidate is needed to develop new approaches for a ’license to operate’ tailored to the Western Australian beekeeping industry. The project will examine the social, political and ecological barriers and opportunities for securing optimal hive site accessibility (license to operate) now and into the future. A license
- [End the “Green” Delusions: Industrial-scale Renewable Energy is Fossil Fuel+](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/end-the-green-delusions-industrial-scale-renewable-energy-is-fossil-fuel/) - By Alexander Dunlap. Full article on the Verso blog. Industrial-scale renewable energy does nothing to remake exploitative relationships with the earth, and instead represents the renewal and expansion of the present capitalist order.
- [Illegal wildlife trade & Nepal’s Ex-Prime Minister: Petition to the Supreme Court of Nepal](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/illegal-wildlife-trade-nepals-ex-prime-minister-petition-to-the-supreme-court-of-nepal/) - We are sharing this press release (and amazing story!) on behalf of Kumar Paudel, a research associate of Lancaster Environment Centre. You can read more about Kumar's work with us here. Kathmandu, Nepal 16 May, 2018 A unique petition, involving a tiger pelt and Nepal’s Ex-Prime Minister, was submitted to Nepal’s honorable Supreme Court today
- [Broadcasted Seminar on “Water Justice and the Commons”](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/broadcasted-seminar-on-water-justice-and-the-commons/) - Broadcasted Seminar on “Water Justice and the Commons” Date: Thursday, May 24th 2018 Time: From 15 to 18h Venue: Room Z/022 ICTA-UAB Introduction The conventional theory of the commons has been criticized for its relative inattention to how historically-shaped patterns of power, conflict, the ‘state’ and the broader political-economic context shape the access to and uses of common
- [Expanding large-scale agriculture in the name of the green economy in Tanzania](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/expanding-large-scale-agriculture-in-the-name-of-the-green-economy-in-tanzania/)
- [PhD opportunity: Political ecology/ environmental justice approach to an environmental resource governance issue in the global South](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/phd-opportunity-political-ecology-environmental-justice-approach-to-an-environmental-resource-governance-issue-in-the-global-south/) - The Department of Food and Resource Economics at the University of Copenhagen and the School of International Development at the University of East Anglia (UEA) advertise one 3-year PhD scholarships/Postgraduate Research Studentships looking at the relationship between resources and politics. The deadline for applications is 20th June 2018. We invite project proposals that adopt a
- [My experience with depression in academia](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/my-experience-with-depression-in-academia/)
- [The dystopian world of the Handmaid’s tale 2/2](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/the-dystopian-world-of-the-handmaids-tale-2-2/)
- [The dystopian world of the Handmaid’s tale](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/the-dystopian-world-of-the-handmaids-tale/)
- [POLLEN18: Last Call for Inputs to the Draft Conference Programme!](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen18-last-call-for-inputs-to-the-draft-conference-programme/) - Dear All, Many thanks to those of you who have already contacted us with inputs to the POLLEN18 draft conference programme. This is just to inform you that the deadline for further revisions is 07 May (at 23.59 in Oslo). After this, the programme will be sent to the graphic designer for typesetting, and no
- [Grabbing Green? The institutionalization of the green economy in Tanzania](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/grabbing-green-the-institutionalization-of-the-green-economy-in-tanzania/)
- [Utopias against modernity: Huxley, Serreau and the making of non-capitalist ecologies](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/utopias-against-modernity-huxley-serreau-and-the-making-of-non-capitalist-ecologies/)
- [PhD opportunity: Narrative and Nuclear Materials](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/phd-opportunity-narrative-and-nuclear-materials/) - Narrative and Nuclear Materials: Fully Funded PhD studentship (3 years) in the Department of Languages and Cultures, Lancaster University, UK and the Leverhulme Centre for Material Social Futures Research. Full job description and application details here. Background We live in a world where energy demand continues to expand. Individuals and institutions do not just use
- [Postdoc opportunity: Extractive industries, transparency and civic engagement](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/postdoc-opportunity-extractive-industries-transparency-and-civic-engagement/) - Postdoctoral Fellowship in Extractive Industries, Transparency and Citizen Engagement, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim Full job description and application details available here.
- [Naomi Klein: “We need a counter-narrative that explains the people’s plan” (Part II)](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/naomi-klein-we-need-a-counter-narrative-that-explains-the-peoples-plan-part-ii/)
- [Postdoc opportunity: The Great Green Transformation, Stockholm University](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/postdoc-opportunity-the-great-green-transformation-stockholm-university/) - Stockholm University and the Department of Political Science has a call out for a two-year postdoc position with the project “The Great Green Transformation - Politics, Markets and Civic Society in the Anthropocene (GREENTRANS)”. Deadline for applications is May 2nd. The project is funded by the Marcus and Marianne Wallenberg Foundation with Professor Andreas Duit
- [Naomi Klein: “We need a counter-narrative that explains the people’s plan” (Part I)](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/naomi-klein-we-need-a-counter-narrative-that-explains-the-peoples-plan-part-i/)
- [Special Issue of Human Ecology](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/special-issue-of-human-ecology/) - POLLEN members and followers might be interested in the latest issue of Human Ecology which has a special focus on constitutionality and bottom-up governance building.
- [Job opportunity: Professorship in Human Geography, University of Trier](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/job-opportunity-professorship-in-human-geography-university-of-trier/) - The faculty of regional and environmental sciences at the University of Trier is looking to fill following position: W1-Professorship for Human Geography (Urban and Regional Transformations) In accordance to "Beamtenverhältnis auf Zeit". A Tenure-Track option towards a permanent W2 Professorship is available As a Professor in Human Geography, you will provide leadership in both research
- [Job opportunity: Research associate for project on cultural values, nutritional security, coral reefs and climate change](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/job-opportunity-research-associate-for-project-on-cultural-values-nutritional-security-coral-reefs-and-climate-change/) - Research Associate – Environmental Social Science / Political Ecology Lancaster Environment Centre Salary: £27,285 to £31,604 Closing Date: Sunday 13 May 2018 Interview Date: To be confirmed Reference: A2250 https://hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=A2250 An exciting opportunity exists for an environmental social scientist/ human geographer/ political ecologist to contribute to a collaborative project in French Polynesia: Cultural values, food
- [Job opportunity: Senior Lecturer in Rural Development in Sweden and Europe](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/job-opportunity-senior-lecturer-in-rural-development-in-sweden-and-europe/) - Senior Lecturer in Rural Development in Sweden and Europe with focus on migration and integration in rural areas Ref 2018.2.5.1-1235 For the full job advert, please see here. Department of Urban and Rural Development, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Research and education at the Department of Urban and Rural Development are carried out at four different divisions: Agrarian
- [Radicalizing the Ecological Transition. Reflections on “Lavoro Natura Valore: André Gorz tra marxismo e decrescita” by Emanuele Leonardi](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/radicalizing-the-ecological-transition-reflections-on-lavoro-natura-valore-andre-gorz-tra-marxismo-e-decrescita-by-emanuele-leonardi/)
- [POLLEN18 Press Passes](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen18-press-passes/) - The POLLEN18 organizing committee has recently received many inquiries from a range of Norwegian and international media outlets. Journalists and academic publishing professionals are encouraged to direct inquiries about press passes to us as far in advance of the conference dates as possible. More information is available here. To obtain a press pass, please send
- [POLLEN18 Draft Programme Now Available!](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen18-draft-programme-now-available/) - The POLLEN18 organizing committee is pleased to announce that a first draft of the complete/detailed conference programme is now available for viewing (below and on Google Sheets). In addition to the overview of panels, scroll down for information about the papers/presentations scheduled for inclusion in each session. With around 120 panels and nearly 500 presentations
- [Opportunity: Postdoc in Political Ecology/Crisis Conservation](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/opportunity-postdoc-in-political-ecology-crisis-conservation/) - Vacancy: Postdoc Political Ecology / Crisis Conservation (2,5 years) We are looking for... The Sociology of Development and Change Group (SDC) at Wageningen University seeks a candidate for a (sandwich*) Postdoc in Political Ecology, as part of the Netherlands Research Foundation (NWO) funded VIDI project entitled Crisis Conservation: Saving Nature in Times and Spaces of
- [Think Big Socialism and the spectre of degrowth: From one materialism to another (part II)](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/think-big-socialism-and-the-spectre-of-degrowth-from-one-materialism-to-another-part-ii/)
- [Deadline extended: Fourth Annual FLARE Network Meetings](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/deadline-extended-fourth-annual-flare-network-meetings/) - Deadline extended for abstract submission: Fourth Annual FLARE Network Meeting October 17-20, 2018 University of Copenhagen, Denmark In solidarity with UK universities, and to allow those who may miss the initial deadline to submit, we are extending the deadline to April 20th. The FLARE (Forests and Livelihoods: Assessment, Research, and Engagement)
- [Call for Participants: Summerschool: Governance at the edge of the state: materiality](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/call-for-participants-summerschool-governance-at-the-edge-of-the-state-materiality/) - Call for participants for the 5th ‘Governance at the edge of the state’ summerschool, with special theme Materiality (11-14 September 2018). The Conflict Research Group at Ghent University, together with the Department of Geography (University of Zürich) the Department of Food and Resource Economics (University of Copenhagen), and the Department of Urban and Rural Development
- [PhD Opportunity: Valuing environmental harm: How can local, legal and economic conceptualizations of deforestation be reconciled?](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/phd-opportunity-valuing-environmental-harm-how-can-local-legal-and-economic-conceptualizations-of-deforestation-be-reconciled/) - Valuing environmental harm: How can local, legal and economic conceptualizations of deforestation be reconciled? Supervisors: Jacob Phelps (Lancaster), James Fraser (Lancaster), Alejandra Rabasa (Environmental Law Institute), Carol Jones (Environmental Law Institute) Deadline for applications: 20th April 2018. More information here. We readily recognise that environmental harm has broad impacts on society (e.g., on livelihoods, tax
- [Think Big Socialism and the Spectre of Degrowth: The Ghost of Progress (Part I)](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/think-big-socialism-and-the-spectre-of-degrowth-the-ghost-of-progress-part-i/)
- [Opportunity: Anthropocene Campus Melbourne](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/opportunity-anthropocene-campus-melbourne/) - Applications to participate in Anthropocene Campus Melbourne 2018 (ACM18) are closing at midnight AEDT on Tuesday 3 April 2018. Applicants will be informed of the outcome of their application by Monday 23 April 2018. PhD candidates, Humanities, Arts and Social Science scholars at all levels, as well as artists, physical scientists, engineers, and other practitioners, are encouraged to apply.
- [Why #DefendAfrin? Confronting authoritarian populism with radical democracy](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/why-defendafrin-confronting-authoritarian-populism-with-radical-democracy/)
- [Why are water wars back on the agenda? And why we think it’s a bad idea!](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/why-are-water-wars-back-on-the-agenda-and-why-we-think-its-a-bad-idea/)
- [Mentalities of greening, governing, and getting rich](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/mentalities-of-greening-governing-and-getting-rich/) - *** Originally posted on the Greenmentality project blog *** Editor’s note: The below post by Connor J. Cavanagh is the first of three initial pieces on this blog that will explore the aims and conceptual bases of the Greenmentality project. Mentalities of greening, governing, and getting rich Today, it seems that we all have the environment
- [Call for Abstracts: Fourth Annual FLARE Network Meeting](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/call-for-abstracts-fourth-annual-flare-network-meeting/) - Call for Abstracts: Fourth Annual FLARE Network Meeting October 17-20, 2018 University of Copenhagen, Denmark The FLARE (Forests and Livelihoods: Assessment, Research, and Engagement) network, supported by DFID and coordinated from the School for Environment and Sustainability at the University of Michigan, is pleased to announce the Call for Abstracts
- [POLLEN18: Call for Conference Volunteers!](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen18-call-for-conference-volunteers/) - *** Posted on behalf of the OsloMet International Office *** THE POLLEN18 CONFERENCE IS LOOKING FOR STUDENT-VOLUNTEERS! Would you like to volunteer at an international conference on sustainability and the environment? We need you to make the POLLEN18 conference a success! When: 19-22nd of June 2018 Where: Oslo Metropolitan University (OsloMet) We are looking for
- [Book release [open access]: Virtuous Waters](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/book-release-open-access-virtuous-waters/) - Virtuous Waters: Mineral Springs, Bathing and Infrastructure in Mexico Casey Walsh University of California Press This book is available to read open access via Luminos. Virtuous Waters is a pathbreaking and innovative study of bathing, drinking and other everyday engagements with a wide range of waters across five centuries in Mexico. Casey Walsh uses political ecology
- [Job opportunity: Research Fellow in Mining Governance, University of Melbourne](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/job-opportunity-research-fellow-in-mining-governance-university-of-melbourne/) - This position is part of a research team coordinated by Professor Anthony Bebbington and working on his ARC Laureate Fellowship project, “Mining and Society in a Changing Environment: Pathways to Sustainability”. The role involves original research in Latin America and/or Indonesia, the organization of research workshops, mentoring support to students and a range of communication
- [POLLEN18 Welcome Reception at Oslo City Hall, 19 June 2018 at 19.00](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen18-welcome-reception-at-oslo-city-hall-19-june-2018-at-19-00/) - The POLLEN18 organizing committee is pleased to invite all conference participants to a welcoming ceremony and drinks reception at the Oslo City Hall on the evening of 19 June 2018. Where: Oslo City Hall, Rådhusplassen 1, 0037 Oslo When: 19 June 2018, at 19.00 (sharp -- late entry not possible!) until 20.30. Programme: Representatives from
- [Tourism and Degrowth: Impossibility Theorem or Path to Post-Capitalism?](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tourism-and-degrowth-impossibility-theorem-or-path-to-post-capitalism/)
- [“Down with the fumes!” The Year of the Shootings and its relevance for mining today](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/down-with-the-fumes-the-year-of-the-shootings-and-its-relevance-for-mining-today/)
- [POLLEN18 Political Geography Plenary](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen18-political-geography-plenary/) - The POLLEN18 organizing committee is pleased to announce the following special plenary session on the evening of 21 June 2018, which is sponsored by the journal Political Geography. The plenary will be followed by a drinks reception. Is less more... or is more less? Scaling the political ecologies of the future Chair: Philip Steinberg (Editor-in-Chief, Political Geography
- [More Shamans, less intolerance! An Indigenous Manifesto at Berlin Film Festival](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/more-shamans-less-intolerance-an-indigenous-manifesto-at-berlin-film-festival/)
- [Opportunity: Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/opportunity-visiting-assistant-professor-of-environmental-studies/) - Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, Dickinson College Dickinson College invites applications for a one-year Visiting Assistant Professor position in our Environmental Studies Department, commencing July 1, 2018. The successful candidate will approach environmental challenges from an interdisciplinary perspective and will use active pedagogy to engage students in the field of environmental studies. The candidate will
- [POLLEN18 Registration Deadline Extended](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen18-registration-deadline-extended/) - Dear All, We are happy to report that the organizing committee has decided to extend the POLLEN18 conference registration deadline until 10 March at 23.59 in Oslo (GMT+1). If you have not already done so, registration can be completed at the following link: https://webshop.hioa.no/produkt/pollen18-conference/ Due to extremely high demand for limited conference places, registration is
- [Reframing the Left Eco-Modernism vs. Orthodox Eco-Socialism Debate, or: Assessing the Transformation of the Value-Nature Nexus ](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/reframing-the-left-eco-modernism-vs-orthodox-eco-socialism-debate-or-assessing-the-transformation-of-the-value-nature-nexus/)
- [POLLEN18 Registration Deadline Fast Approaching!](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen18-registration-deadline-fast-approaching/) - Dear All, This is just a friendly reminder that the registration deadline of Thursday, 01 March for the POLLEN18 conference is fast approaching! Registration can be completed at the following link: https://webshop.hioa.no/produkt/pollen18-conference/ Please note that we will no longer be able to schedule paper proposals from participants who have not registered for the conference on or before the 01 March deadline. Tickets for
- [Free online course on Environmental Justice starting in March](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/free-online-course-on-environmental-justice-starting-in-march/) - Enrolment is now open for the Environmental Justice MOOC (massive open online course) run by the University of East Anglia and Future Learn. The course starts on 12th March and runs for 5 weeks. Why join the course? The world faces challenging environmental problems. This free online course will help you understand how injustice is a common feature
- [POLLEN18 Bursaries: Apply Now!](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen18-bursaries-apply-now/) - The POLLEN18 organizing committee is pleased to announce the availability of ten bursaries to facilitate conference attendance. These include: Five grants of up to 10,000 Norwegian Kroner (NOK) each for travel and accommodation expenses, plus a waiver of the POLLEN18 conference fee. Five additional waivers of the conference fee. We invite students, unwaged or precariously-employed
- [The Jacobin’s eco-modernist dilemma](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/the-jacobins-eco-modernist-dilemma/)
- [POLLEN18 Keynote Plenaries](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen18-keynote-plenaries/) - We are very pleased to announce the following three keynote plenary sessions for POLLEN18! Keynote Plenary I Paige West is The Claire Tow Professor of Anthropology at Barnard College and Columbia University. Her broad scholarly interest is the relationship between societies and their environments. She has written about the linkages between environmental conservation and international
- [Call for applications: 15 fully funded PhD studentships in Feminist Political Ecology](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/call-for-applications-15-fully-funded-phd-studentships-in-feminist-political-ecology/) - ***Shared on behalf of Becky Elmhirst*** On behalf of the WEGO-ITN, we are pleased to announce the recruitment of 15 Marie Sklodowska-Curie (MSCA) PhD positions (Early Stage Researchers). To download the full call for applications, go to this link: https://www.iss.nl/en/news/15-marie-sklodowska-curie-phd-positions WEGO-ITN’s consortium is made up of scholar-activists working on feminist political ecology from ten institutions in five European
- [PhD Fellowship: Political Ecology, Greenmentality and Education in Tanzania](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/phd-fellowship-political-ecology-greenmentality-and-education-in-tanzania/) - *** Posted on behalf of Hanne Svarstad *** PhD Fellowship: Political Ecology, Greenmentality and Education in Tanzania Section for Development Studies, Oslo Metropolitan University Candidates are invited to apply for a doctoral fellowship starting September 1st 2018. The fellowship is fully funded for three years. In addition, there might be possibilities to extend the position
- [Nature 3.0 – Will blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies save the planet?](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/nature-3-0-will-blockchain-technology-and-cryptocurrencies-save-the-planet/)
- [POLLEN18: Call for 'conference moles'](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen18-call-for-conference-moles/) - *** Posted on behalf of Dan Brockington *** Conference moling is an essential activity that allows feedback to participants and a chance to step back and reflect on the broader significance and implications of the last few days, and explore how their ideas fit into broader themes and issues. Being the mole is, for the
- [POLLEN18 registration is now open!](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen18-registration-is-now-open/) - Registration for the POLLEN18 conference ‘Political Ecology, the Green Economy, and Alternative Sustainabilities’ (in Oslo 20-22 June 2018) is now open. The registration website can be accessed at the following link: https://webshop.hioa.no/produkt/pollen18-conference/ Please note that the registration deadline for presenters and session organizers/conveners is 01 March 2018. Due to extremely high demand for limited conference
- [The shitty new communist futurism](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/the-shitty-new-communist-futurism/)
- [PhD Opportunity: What’s all the Buzz? Managing competing interests in developing Western Australia’s beekeeping industry](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/phd-opportunity-whats-all-the-buzz-managing-competing-interests-in-developing-western-australias-beekeeping-industry/) - This is a call for a PhD candidate for our PhD project: “What’s all the Buzz? Managing competing interests in developing Western Australia’s beekeeping industry” Innovative and motivated PhD candidates needed to examine how to best develop the WA beekeeping industry in ways that achieve harmonious and sustainable co-habitation of wild bees with commercial apiaries,
- [PhD Opportunity: Subterranean Spaces; Critical approaches to Underground Urban Development](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/phd-opportunity-subterranean-spaces-critical-approaches-to-underground-urban-development/) - Supervisors: Dr Alexandra Gormally (LEC) and Prof Nigel Clark (LEC) With intensifying demands on urban space, questions arise as to how to manage growth sustainably and how to best utilise physical and social resources. Increasingly these questions lead us to consider the role of the underground (or subterranean/ subsurface), due to the resources they provide
- [Job opportunity: Research fellow in Mining Governance](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/job-opportunity-research-fellow-in-mining-governance/) - Research fellow in Mining Governance School of Geography, University of Melbourne This position is part of a research team coordinated by Professor Anthony Bebbington and working on his ARC Laureate Fellowship project, “Mining and Society in a Changing Environment: Pathways to Sustainability”. The role involves original research in Latin America and/or Indonesia, the organization of research
- [Deadline extended: Faculty position in Data Science for Sustainable Development](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/deadline-extended-faculty-position-in-data-science-for-sustainable-development/) - Faculty Position Opening in Data Science for Sustainable Development School for Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor The new School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS) at the University of Michigan is seeking applications for a full-time, nine-month, tenure-track open rank faculty position in the field of Data Science for Sustainable Development. We seek candidates
- [Disrupted Landscapes: State, Peasants and the Politics of Land in Postsocialist Romania](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/disrupted-landscapes-state-peasants-and-the-politics-of-land-in-postsocialist-romania/)
- [The planned development of Hellenikon: A sacrifice that needs to be contested](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/the-planned-development-of-hellenikon-a-sacrifice-that-needs-to-be-contested/)
- [In memory of James O’Connor (1930-2017) - II part](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/in-memory-of-james-oconnor-1930-2017-ii-part/)
- [The screaming silence of sexual violence in academia: A call for reporting and action](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/the-screaming-silence-of-sexual-violence-in-academia-a-call-for-reporting-and-action/)
- [In memory of James O’Connor (1930-2017) - I part](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/in-memory-of-james-oconnor-1930-2017-i-part/)
- [A conversation about Gramsci on the Nile](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/a-conversation-about-gramsci-on-the-nile/)
- [Post-doc opportunity: democratic governance of the climate transition](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/post-doc-opportunity-democratic-governance-of-the-climate-transition/) - The Political Science Department and the Institute for European Studies (IES) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) invite applications for an early-career postdoctoral researcher in the framework of the joint Strategic Research Programme “Evaluating Democratic Governance in Europe” (EDGE) (beginning as soon as possible in 2018). The EDGE programme aims to further and deepen our
- [Job Vacancy: Assistant Professor in political ecology](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/job-vacancy-assistant-professor-in-political-ecology/) - Assistant Professor (tenure track) in political ecology, Department of Geography, National University of Singapore Deadline: 15th Jan 2018, to begin July 2018 or soon thereafter We welcome applications from candidates with expertise in any area of political ecology, but research and teaching activities should complement and/or enhance existing activities of the Department’s “Politics, Economies and Space” research
- [Job Vacancy: Data Science for Sustainable Development](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/job-vacancy-data-science-for-sustainable-development/) - Faculty Position Opening in Data Science for Sustainable Development School for Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor The new School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS) at the University of Michigan is seeking applications for a full-time, nine-month, tenure-track open rank faculty position in the field of Data Science for Sustainable Development. We seek candidates
- [Introducing Ecopsychoanalysis: Mind, Politics and Ecology](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/introducing-ecopsychoanalysis-mind-politics-and-ecology/)
- [From a New Deal to Projekt Deal: Time for solidarity with German scholars](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/from-a-new-deal-to-projekt-deal-time-for-solidarity-with-german-scholars/)
- [Tourism, labour and the rhino poaching crisis in South Africa](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tourism-labour-and-the-rhino-poaching-crisis-in-south-africa/) - By Stasja Koot, 12 December 2017 In the Kruger to Canyon (K2C) region, South Africa, there are two big phenomena of which the interactions have so far hardly been researched: tourism and the rhino poaching crisis. Based on four field trips to South Africa in 2016/17, totalling about 3 months, I have investigated these links,
- [Capitalist Floods in the Pacific Islands](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/capitalist-floods-in-the-pacific-islands/)
- [POLLEN newsfeed December 2017](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-newsfeed-december-2017/) - Greetings nodes and members! Our newsfeed for December is available to view here.
- [Post-doc opportunity: political ecologies of water infrastructure](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/post-doc-opportunity-political-ecologies-of-water-infrastructure/) - 12-month post-doc position based in the Geography Department, Trinity College Dublin The research project is based in Ireland and looks at Group Water Schemes (rural, community-managed water infrastructures). As well as learning more about how these localized water systems have developed and responded to changing political economic, demographic and environmental conditions and pressures, the aim
- [Why “Warning to Humanity” gets the socio-ecological crisis (and its solutions) wrong](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/why-warning-to-humanity-gets-the-socio-ecological-crisis-and-its-solutions-wrong/)
- [Call for panellists POLLEN18 – Political Ecologies, Authoritarian Populism and Emancipatory Politics](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cal-for-panellists-pollen18-political-ecologies-authoritarian-populism-and-emancipatory-politics/) - POLLEN Biennial conference, 20-22 June 2018 Oslo and Akershus University College, Oslo, Norway Organized by Amber Huff (Institute of Development Studies and STEPS Centre) Deadline for expressions of interest – 5 December 2017 Call for panellists Political ecologists have long emphasised the significance of understanding how dominant political-economic conditions articulate and manifest in rural spaces.
- [Sustainable integration? Nexus thinking and the foreclosure of progressive eco-politics](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/sustainable-integration-nexus-thinking-and-the-foreclosure-of-progressive-eco-politics/)
- [Book release: Large-scale Mines and Local-level Politics](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/book-release-large-scale-mines-and-local-level-politics/) - Large-scale Mines and Local-level Politics: Between New Caledonia and Papua New Guinea Despite the difference in their populations and political status, New Caledonia and Papua New Guinea have comparable levels of economic dependence on the extraction and export of mineral resources. For this reason, the costs and benefits of large-scale mining projects for indigenous communities has
- [Book release: Living with Floods in a Mobile Southeast Asia](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/book-release-living-with-floods-in-a-mobile-southeast-asia/) - Living with Floods in a Mobile Southeast Asia A Political Ecology of Vulnerability, Migration and Environmental Change Edited by Carl Middleton, Rebecca Elmhirst, Supang Chantavanich Routledge 202 pages | 49 B/W Illus. This book contributes to a better understanding of the relationship between migration, vulnerability, resilience and social justice associated with flooding across diverse environmental, social and policy contexts
- [Book release: Landscapes of Power: Politics of Energy in the Navajo Nation](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/book-release-landscapes-of-power-politics-of-energy-in-the-navajo-nation/) - Landscapes of Power: Politics of Energy in the Navajo Nation Author(s): Dana E. Powell Published: January 2018 Pages: 336 Illustrations: 21 illustrations (inclu. 1 in color) Series: New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century Series Editor(s): Arturo Escobar, Dianne Rocheleau In Landscapes of Power Dana E. Powell examines the rise and fall of the controversial Desert Rock Power Plant initiative in New Mexico to trace the political conflicts
- [Job announcement: Department of Geography, National University of Singapore – Assistant Professor in political ecology](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/job-announcement-department-of-geography-national-university-of-singapore-assistant-professor-in-political-ecology/) - Department of Geography, National University of Singapore Faculty Position – Assistant Professor (tenure track) in political ecology NB This position could suit a recent PhD (please note that the PhD must be in hand prior to taking up the post from July 2018 or as soon as possible thereafter), postdoc or other early career faculty who wishes
- [Trespass. An environmental history of modern migrations](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/trespass-an-environmental-history-of-modern-migrations/)
- [POLLEN newsfeed November 2017](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-newsfeed-november-2017/) - POLLEN newsfeed November 2017
- [Toxic Bios: A guerrilla narrative project mapping contamination, illness and resistance](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/toxic-bios-a-guerrilla-narrative-project-mapping-contamination-illness-and-resistance/)
- [Bolivia: the ever-expanding frontier of extractivism](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/bolivia-the-ever-expanding-frontier-of-extractivism/)
- [Call for applications: ESRC STEPS Centre 2018 Summer School, 14-25 May](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/call-for-applications-esrc-steps-centre-2018-summer-school-14-25-may/) - Applications are invited from highly-motivated doctoral and postdoctoral researchers working in fields around development studies, science and technology studies, innovation and policy studies, and across agricultural, health, water or energy issues.
- [Are there alternative trajectories of technological development? A political ecology perspective](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/are-there-alternative-trajectories-of-technological-development-a-political-ecology-perspective/)
- [Confronting authoritarian populism: challenges for agrarian studies](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/confronting-authoritarian-populism-challenges-for-agrarian-studies/)
- [Latent alliances: the Women’s March and agrarian feminism as opportunities of and for political ecology](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/latent-alliances-the-womens-march-and-agrarian-feminism-as-opportunities-of-and-for-political-ecology/) - Garrett Grady-Lovelace (2017) Gender, Place and Culture. 24 (5): 674-695. Abstract On 21 January 2017, the day after a bitterly contested presidential inauguration, nearly 5 million women and men marched and protested in 673 places across the globe – under the banner of the Women’s March. The March exceeded and expanded expectations on many levels, from
- [Job announcement: Associate or Full Professor of Climate Change Politics, SIS, Washington DC. ](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/job-announcement-associate-or-full-professor-of-climate-change-politics-sis-washington-dc/) - The School of International Service (SIS) at American University invites candidates, from across the disciplines, with expertise in the politics of global climate change to apply for a tenured position at the Associate or Full professor level. Areas of particular interest include: Climate vulnerability, justice, and adaptation including social movements, the disproportionate impacts of climate
- [Job announcement: Assistant Professor of Society and Environment, University of Washington, Seattle](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/job-announcement-assistant-professor-of-society-and-environment-university-of-washington-seattle/) - The job announcement for the position of Assistant Professor, Society & Environment has been posted to the UW Academic jobs site. Please share with colleagues and those who may be interested or may know interested applicants: https://ap.washington.edu/ahr/academic-jobs/position/aa25472/ Marine and Environmental Affairs – Assistant Professor (AA25472) Position Overview Organization: College of the Environment, School of Marine and
- [Book release: Mining the Amazon - Large-scale mining and conflicts in the south of Ecuador](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/book-release-mining-the-amazon-large-scale-mining-and-conflicts-in-the-south-of-ecuador/) - LA AMAZONÍA MINADA Minería a gran escala y conflictos en el Sur del Ecuador (Mining the Amazon: Large-scale mining and conflicts in south of Ecuador) Edited by Karolien van Teijlingen, Esben Leifsen, Consuelo Fernández-Salvador and Luis Sánchez-Vázquez Published in Quito by Editorial USFQ and Ediciones Abya-Yala, September 2017 ISBN: 9789978681121, Pb. 404p. About the book:
- [POLLEN newsfeed October 2017](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-newsfeed-october-2017/) - POLLEN newsfeed October 2017
- [Why Amazonian forest peoples are ‘counter-mapping’ their ancestral lands](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/why-amazonian-forest-peoples-are-counter-mapping-their-ancestral-lands/) - “The earth is our mother. We should look after and respect her. This territory is where the peccary passed. Under the authority of Karodaybi [the first Munduruku warrior] Mauricio Torres, Author provided Author: James Fraser In 1707, a Jesuit missionary from the Czech Republic named Samuel Fritz published one of the first detailed maps of
- [www.radicalecologicaldemocracy.org](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/www-radicalecologicaldemocracy-org/) - Friends, I'm delighted to announce a new website, www.radicalecologicaldemocracy.org, dedicated to alternatives to destructive development and the forces underlying or associated with it, including patriarchy, capitalism, statism, casteism, racism, and other forms of concentration of power. This has been a dream for some years, and finally has come to fruition due to the hard work
- [Call for abstracts, special issue of Environment & Society on 'Mega-Projects'](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/call-for-abstracts-special-issues-of-environment-society-on-mega-projects/) - *** Posted on behalf of Paige West *** Mega-Projects Small is no longer beautiful. Small is out-dated, old-fashioned, inefficient and ugly. The future now consists of an ambitious series of massive plans and schemes for new infrastructure projects, beltways, roadways, railways, investment corridors, disaster-proofed cities and countries, carbon capture and storage, reforestation, wall building, migration
- [PhD positions: political ecology and ecological economics of deforestation in the Amazon](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/phd-positions-political-ecology-and-ecological-economics-of-deforestation-in-the-amazon/) - ** Posted on behalf of Lorenzo Pellegrini ** The International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) of Erasmus University Rotterdam (The Netherlands) and Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ) seek to fill several fully-funded PhD positions to join an exciting and dynamic multidisciplinary group conducting research on the political ecology and ecological economics of deforestation in
- [New edition – 'Ecofeminism as Politics: Nature, Marx and the Postmodern'](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/new-edition-ecofeminism-as-politics-nature-marx-and-the-postmodern/) - *** Posted at the Request of Zed Books *** 40% off from www.zedbooks.net with promo code ECOFEMINISM Ecofeminism as Politics: Nature, Marx and the Postmodern ISBN: 9781786990402 Published 15 August 2017 By Ariel Salleh With Forewords by Vandana Shiva and John Clark * A vastly updated new edition of Ariel Salleh’s landmark exploration of the
- [New Journal – Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/new-journal-environment-and-planning-e-nature-and-space/) - Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space is an interdisciplinary journal of nature-society scholarship. International in scope, the journal welcomes theoretically robust, empirically rich research from an array of fields including political ecology, environmental justice, science and technology studies, conservation and the environmental humanities. The journal proposes to push the ways we understand the uneven,
- [PhD Opportunity in Food, Agriculture and Sustainability, Dartmouth College, USA](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/phd-opportunity-in-food-agriculture-and-sustainability/) - The Ecology, Evolution, Ecosystems & Society (EEES) graduate program at Dartmouth College (New Hampshire, United States) seeks applicants for fully-funded PhD study in the area of sustainability and agro-food supply chains. One position is available this year. The successful candidate will have a demonstrated capacity for conducting original research, and a commitment to methodologies that
- [Environmental Justice MOOC (a free online course)](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/environmental-justice-mooc-a-free-online-course/) - Dear colleagues, Enrolment is now open for the new Environmental Justice MOOC (a free online course) run by the University of East Anglia and Future Learn. The course starts on 16th October and runs for 5 weeks. Environmental Justice MOOC - Understand how climate change, biodiversity loss and deforestation affect people, exploring justice in environment management.
- [Announcing POLLEN18: Political Ecology, the Green Economy, and Alternative Sustainabilities](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/announcing-pollen18-political-ecology-the-green-economy-and-alternative-sustainabilities/) - Second Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN) POLLEN18: Political Ecology, the Green Economy, and Alternative Sustainabilities When: 20-22 June 2018 Where: Oslo and Akershus University College, Oslo, Norway Organised by: The Political Ecology Network (POLLEN) Secretariat; Oslo and Akershus University College; Centre for Environment and Development (SUM), University of Oslo; Noragric, Norwegian University
- [Only local Amazonians can bring true sustainable development to their forest](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/only-local-amazonians-can-bring-true-sustainable-development-to-their-forest/) - Authors: Jos Barlow, Alexander C. Lees, Erika Berenguer, James Angus Fraser, Joice Ferreira The Brazilian government has earmarked a vast tract of Amazonian land for mining. The so-called “Renca” reserve sits in the last great wilderness area in the eastern Amazon and contains lots of unique rainforest wildlife. The controversial decision to allow mining has
- [POLLEN newsfeed September 2017](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-newsfeed-september-2017/) - POLLEN newsfeed September 2017
- [3rd Annual FLARE network meeting](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/3rd-annual-flare-network-meeting/) - Dear Colleagues, There is still time to join us in Stockholm for the 3rd annual FLARE network meeting! Stockholm University is well-equipped for a large audience and we still have slots for both presenters and observers. Along with Stockholm University, this year’s meeting is organized in partnership with Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), Swedish International Agricultural Network
- [What’s missing from Ostrom? Plural rationality and the commons](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/whats-missing-from-ostrom-plural-rationality-and-the-commons/) - Author: Benedict Singleton Designing and maintaining common-pool resource (CPR) institutions (often referred to as ‘the commons’) has long been a concern of social science. In this body of work the name of Elinor Ostrom has loomed large. Since 1990, her eight design principles for CPR institutions have proven influential across numerous disciplines, in part, because
- [CHANS researchers not keen on 'political ecology questions'](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/chans-researchers-not-keen-on-political-ecology-questions/) - In a recent article in Ecology and Society, hundreds of people who research 'coupled human and natural systems' (CHANS) were asked, what research questions do they consider most important for the field? A two-stage process was used to identify the key questions, and Likert scale responses elicited. As Appendix 3 of the article shows, the
- [POLLEN newsfeed July 2017](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-newsfeed-july-2017/) - POLLEN newsfeed July 2017 Please be aware that the next newsfeed will be early September! Thanks and a great summer/winter to you all!
- [Weaponizing Nature](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/weaponizing-nature/) - By Patrick Bigger and Benjamin Neimark* Military excursions into low carbon fuels is not a case of military greenwashing but rather one of ‘weaponizing nature’, an approach perpetuating an interventionist US foreign policy linked to environmental change. If we ever think about the military as environmental actor, it is most likely related to the damage
- [Uneven Earth](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/uneven-earth/) - Utopian dreamers, other-worldly explorers and psychonautic adventurers, scholars, activists, students, and critics: we are officially inviting submissions for a new collaborative writing project that combines critical perspectives and creative possibilities. Drawing inspiration from Uneven Earth (http://www.unevenearth.org/), an online magazine for political ecology established in 2015, we are excited to announce the launch of a new
- [Announcing the Emancipatory Rural Politics Initiative (ERPI) & call for small grants](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/announcing-the-emancipatory-rural-politics-initiative-erpi-call-for-small-grants/) - New exclusionary politics are generating deepening inequalities, jobless ‘growth’, climate chaos, and social division. The Emancipatory Rural Politics Initiative (ERPI) is focused on the social and political processes in rural spaces that are generating alternatives to regressive, authoritarian politics. The initiative is a collaboration between the ESRC STEPS Centre (Brighton), the ISS (The Hague), PLAAS (Cape Town), Cornell
- [Recruitment of four senior lecturers in the Global Development Institute, University of Manchester](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/recruitment-of-four-senior-lecturers-in-the-global-development-institute-university-of-manchester/) - As part of a major investment, the Global Development Institute is seeking to appoint four new senior lecturers. Please can you circulate this to your networks. We are seeking to make appointments in the following areas: - Senior Lecturer in Agrarian Change and Food Security - Senior Lecturer in Environment and Climate Change - Senior
- [FLARE network call for abstracts: deadline extension](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/flare-network-call-for-abstracts-deadline-extension/) - Good news! The deadline to submit abstracts for oral presentations, lightning talks, panels, posters, and workshops for the 3rd Annual FLARE meeting in Stockholm, Sweden, Sept 29 - Oct 2, 2017, has been extended to Tuesday, June 20th! The meeting will cover a wide array of themes related to forests and livelihoods. We will build on past discussions
- [POLLEN newsfeed June 2017](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-newsfeed-june-2017/) - POLLEN newsfeed June 2017
- [Call for abstracts: FLARE network meeting and thematic reports](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/call-for-abstracts-flare-network-meeting-and-thematic-reports/) - Dear colleagues, The FLARE network (Forests and Livelihoods: Assessment, Research, and Engagement) is now accepting abstracts for oral presentations, lightning talks, posters, and workshops for the 3rd Annual FLARE meeting. The meeting will be held in Stockholm, Sweden, September 29 - October 2. Abstracts are due June 10, 2017. We are also accepting abstracts for thematic reports around
- [Post graduate training day ‘RESEARCH METHODS IN GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE’](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/post-graduate-training-day-research-methods-in-global-environmental-justice/) - Friday 23rd June, 2017, University of East Anglia (UEA) Organised by the Global Environmental Justice Research Group from UEA's School of International Development, this one-day workshop will consider the opportunities and methodological challenges of using a Global Environmental Justice (GEJ) perspective to conduct critical environment and sustainable development research. For more information see here http://bit.ly/2qzFWre.
- [Decolonizing Urbanism at the Trier Summer University](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/decolonizing-urbanism-at-the-trier-summer-university/) - We would like to warmly invite you to the open series of lectures during our 2017 Summer University entitled “Decolonizing Urbanism: Transformative Perspectives”. During the week of Pentecost (Tuesday, June 6th-Friday, June 9th), we will be welcoming esteemed keynote speakers, doctoral and post-doctoral scholar at Trier University for the opportunity to consider and generate truly
- [POLLEN newsfeed May 2017](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-newsfeed-may-2017/) - POLLEN newsfeed May 2017
- [Job opportunity: Research Assistant on Stakeholder engagement in hydro-climatic services in India [1.0 FTE, 6 months. Based in Cambridge.]](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/job-opportunity-research-assistant-on-stakeholder-engagement-in-hydro-climatic-services-in-india-1-0-fte-6-months-based-in-cambridge/) - The Global Sustainability Institute at Anglia Ruskin University is looking to recruit a Research Assistant for a new project on stakeholder engagement in hydro-climatic services in India. The project commences in May and will involve a desk-based review, survey exercise and participatory research workshop in India. Full details are available at the following link: https://eb.anglia.ac.uk/vacancies/vacancy-details.aspx?VacancyID=7735
- [POLLEN newsfeed April 2017](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-newsfeed-april-2017/) - POLLEN newsfeed April 2017
- [Summer school on "Weak signals and emerging issues in ecological transition", Bordeaux , 3-7 July 2017](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/summer-school-on-weak-signals-and-emerging-issues-in-ecological-transition-bordeaux-3-7-july-2017/) - A summer school on "Weak signals and emerging issues in ecological transition" is organized in Bordeaux , 3-7 July 2017. This is a fantastic opportunity for PhD students for a one week work in a multicultural and interdisciplinary context in a very special environment. Please circulate among potential candidates. Application deadline is 23 April 2017.
- [Transformations 2017: Transformations in Practice - Learning from ground-up transformations for sustainability through the conflict transformation and alternatives framework](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/transformations-2017-transformations-in-practice-learning-from-ground-up-transformations-for-sustainability-through-the-conflict-transformation-and-alternatives-framework/) - Registration cost to attend – £50 Date – Tuesday 29th August Timings – 09.30-16.30 Venue – Dalhousie Building, UoD Background: In the face of an increase of extractive activities and development projects across the globe and a state failure to address these pressures, an environmental justice movement has been expanding and diversifying over the last
- [CfA: Protected areas under transformation – neoliberalisation and conservation](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfa-protected-areas-under-transformation-neoliberalisation-and-conservation/) - We want to call your attention to our panel on "Protected areas under transformation – neoliberalisation and conservation” at Deutscher Kongress für Geographie 2017 Tübingen (30.09.-05.10.2017) LT5-FS12 Protection areas under transformation – neo-liberalisation and conservation Abstracts for paper presentations can be handed in until 10. April 2017: http://www.dkg2017-tuebingen.de Convenors • Olivier Graefe, Universitat Fribourg, Depart. of Geosciences, Fribourg/Schweiz E-Mail: olivier.graefe@unifr.ch • Norman
- [What can we do about the media? Own it, suggests Vanessa Baird.](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/what-can-we-do-about-the-media-own-it-suggests-vanessa-baird/) - Author: Vanessa Baird We are living in a time full of threats – and unprecedented possibilities. It’s hard to imagine a more toxic combination than fake news and climate denial. And when the two become the official policy of the most powerful nation in the world, it’s hard not to believe that we are all
- [Summer School: Violent Political Ecologies: Resources, Labour, Transformation](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/summer-school-violent-political-ecologies-resources-labour-transformation/) - The International Political Economy and Ecology (IPEE) Summer School at York University is delighted to announce the 2017 course: Violent Political Ecologies: Resources, Labour, Transformation June 12 to 23, 2017 (1-4pm daily) Taught by Professor Nancy Peluso (ESPM, UC Berkeley) with Professors Libby Lunstrum and Peter Vandergeest (Geography, York University) as co-instructors We welcome applications
- [New book: Garcia, E.; M. Martinez-Iglesias & P. Kirby (ed.). 2017. Transitioning to a Post-Carbon Society: Degrowth, Austerity and Wellbeing.](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/new-book-garcia-e-m-martinez-iglesias-p-kirby-ed-2017-transitioning-to-a-post-carbon-society-degrowth-austerity-and-wellbeing/) - New book: Garcia, E.; M. Martinez-Iglesias & P. Kirby (ed.). 2017. *Transitioning to a Post-Carbon Society: Degrowth, Austerity and Wellbeing.* Palgrave Macmillan. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057%2F978-1-349-95176-5 The transition to a post-carbon society, in which the consumption of fossil fuels decreases over time, has become an inevitability due to the need to prevent catastrophic climate change, the increasing cost
- [WASS-SDC workshop in Wageningen: Ontological encounters](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/wass-sdc-workshop-in-wageningen-ontological-encounters/) - WASS (Wageningen School of Social Sciences)-SDC (Sociology of Development and Change) workshop: Ontological encounters: methodological challenges in fieldwork On the occasion of the public defence by Annet Pauwelussen on 5 April 2017 at 1.30 pm of her PhD entitled: Amphibious Anthropology. Engaging with Maritime Worlds in Indonesia. Programme: Introduction by Professor Dr Leontine Visser (SDC)
- [POLLEN newsfeed March 2017](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-newsfeed-march-2017/) - pollen-newsfeed-march-2017
- [Assistant Professor or Associate Professor in Geography Specialisation on Political Ecology](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/assistant-professor-or-associate-professor-in-geography-specialisation-on-political-ecology/) - Tenure track position: Assistant Professor or Associate Professor in Geography Specialisation on Political Ecology The University of Oulu is an international scientific community, with 16 000 students and approximately 3 000 employees. The strenghts of the University are wide multidisciplinary study/research interests and modern research and study environment and good cooperation with international educational and
- [Professor of Political Ecology of Resource Governance in the Global South (211-0487)](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/professor-of-political-ecology-of-resource-governance-in-the-global-south-211-0487/) - The Department of Food and Resource Economics at the University of Copenhagen invites applications for a position as Professor in political ecology. The Professor will develop, manage and participate in existing research projects and will develop the field of political ecology in the research group, Global Development. The Professor will also develop and teach courses
- [Call for book chapters ‘Rights to Nature: Tracing alternative political ecologies against the neoliberal environmental agenda’](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/call-for-book-chapters-rights-to-nature-tracing-alternative-political-ecologies-against-the-neoliberal-environmental-agenda/) - Dear all, We are preparing an edited book in connection with the ‘Rights to Nature: Tracing alternative political ecologies against the neoliberal environmental agenda’ Conference that was organized at the University of Cambridge last June (https://conservationandtransformation.com/conference-rights-to-nature/). This Book will report work that explores different forms of contesting neoliberalism within the broad field of political ecology.
- [Imagining a transformative environmental justice research agenda](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/imagining-a-transformative-environmental-justice-research-agenda/) - By: Hannah Gray Across the globe, environmental justice struggles over the right way to govern and use natural resources are increasing, and so is the attention being paid to studying and understanding these environmental conflicts. The Global Environmental Justice Group at the University of East Anglia (UEA) is a case in point, where empirical approaches
- [Political Ecology summer school, June 2017](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/political-ecology-summer-school-june-2017/) - We are excited to announce that enrollment for our next Political Ecology PhD summer school course is now open!! More information and a link to the registration page can be found here. The course fee is 500 € for non-Wageningen participants, which includes lunch and refreshments throughout the course. We’ve set the enrollment limit at
- [POLLEN newsfeed February 2017](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-newsfeed-february-2017/) - pollen-newsfeed-february-2017
- [Two new vacancies in Lancaster](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/two-new-vacancies-in-lancaster/) - A fully-funded PhD on 'Urban Land Grabbing' in Mali, for more information see: https://twitter.com/PolEcoNet/status/826035149343186944 Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, for more information see: https://hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=A1766
- [Request for PE readings](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/request-for-pe-readings/) - I am currently running a semester abroad program in Tanzania with the theme Wildlife Conservation and Political Ecology, and would really like to get recommendations on recent relevant readings introducing students to the concept of political ecology, addressing it in the context of sub-Saharan Africa, and highlighting key issues of relevance to the program. Could
- [POLLEN newsfeed January 2017](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-newsfeed-januari-2017/) - pollen-newsfeed-january-2017
- [Stroud Radical Reading Group: Liberation Ecology: Development, sustainability and environment in an age of market triumphalism by Peet and Watts](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/stroud-radical-reading-group-liberation-ecology-development-sustainability-and-environment-in-an-age-of-market-triumphalism-by-peet-and-watts/) - Announcement by the Stroud Radical reading Group: Liberation Ecology. Development, sustainability and environment in an age of market triumphalism’ Chapter 1 in Liberation Ecologies: Environment,. Development, Social Movements by Richard Peet and Michael Watts (Editors, 1996). See also the Stroud Radical Reading Group this month. Available as a pdf from http://faculty.washington.edu/stevehar/sust-peet.pdf (and see the pdf
- [Monthly reminder: News for January 2017](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/monthly-reminder-news-for-january-2017/) - Dear POLLEN member, This is the monthly reminder from POLLEN, the Political Ecology Network. Is there anything happening in your node that you wish us to share in the monthly POLLEN newsfeed on various listserves? If so, please send me an email with your messages latest by 31 December. I am planning to send out
- [Reminder for POLLEN nodes: contact person](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/reminder-for-pollen-nodes-contact-person/) - Dear POLLEN members, After the first and very successful POLLEN conference last summer in Wageningen, we feel it is important to keep momentum. As the secretariat of POLLEN, we would like to be of service to the political ecology community by increasing the role of POLLEN as a clearing house for political ecology news, events,
- [CfA - Trier Summer University 2017 "Decolonizing Urbanism - Transformative Perspectives"](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/cfa-trier-summer-university-2017-decolonizing-urbanism-transformative-perspectives/) - CfA - Trier Summer University 2017 "Decolonizing Urbanism - Transformative Perspectives" The Governance and Sustainability Lab at Trier University (Germany) is inviting applications for its 2017 Summer University "Decolonizing Urbanism - Transformative Perspectives", which will take place June 6-12, 2017. Applications are invited from advanced doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers as well as from early
- [Geografier -submissions!](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/geografier-submissions/) - My name is Johanna Adolfsson. I run the non-profit science-culture magazine Geografier, a magazine mainly but not exclusively for master and PhD students. We have now opened up for submissions for our upcoming issue and would like to reach out to people who might be interested to publish their texts. This time the central theme is landscape, land use and
- [Alternative Discourses of Payments for Ecosystem Services in the Global South](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/alternative-discourses-of-payments-for-ecosystem-services-in-the-global-south-2/) - Call for Participation an international workshop on Alternative Discourses of Payments for Ecosystem Services in the Global South Duke University April 10-12, 2017 Applications Due December 9, 2016 Organizers Christine Folch, Department of Cultural Anthropology (christine.folch@duke.edu) Elizabeth Shapiro-Garza, Nicholas School of the Environment (elizabeth.shapiro@duke.edu) Host Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke Sponsors Center for Latin
- [Alternative Discourses of Payments for Ecosystem Services in the Global South](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/alternative-discourses-of-payments-for-ecosystem-services-in-the-global-south/) - Call for Participation an international workshop on Alternative Discourses of Payments for Ecosystem Services in the Global South Duke University April 10-12, 2016 Applications Due December 9, 2016 Organizers Christine Folch, Department of Cultural Anthropology (christine.folch@duke.edu) Elizabeth Shapiro-Garza, Nicholas School of the Environment (elizabeth.shapiro@duke.edu) Host Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke Sponsors Center for Latin
- [IUFRO - Call for abstracts - 125th Anniversary Congress 2017](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/iufro-call-for-abstracts-125th-anniversary-congress-2017/) - Deadline for Submissions: 30 November 2016 The Congress Scientific Committee invites submissions of abstracts for oral and poster presentations for the IUFRO 125th Anniversary Congress, “Interconnecting Forests, Science and People”. All submissions must be made online. This Congress provides a platform for the exchange of scientific knowledge across all scientific disciplines relevant in forest research
- [Snr Lecturer, Discipline of Geography, UKZN](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/snr-lecturer-discipline-of-geography-ukzn/) - The University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) is committed to Employment Equity with the intention to promote representivity within the Institution. COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE, ENGINEERING AND SCIENCE PROFESSOR / ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR (HUMAN GEOGRAPHY) SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURAL, EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES PIETERMARITZBURG CAMPUS REF NO.: AEES24/2016 The School has an active group of academic staff contributing to research
- [Mining, indigenous peoples and land-use conflicts: A North-South meeting](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/mining-indigenous-peoples-and-land-use-conflicts-a-north-south-meeting/) - EN: The last decade was marked by an increase in indigenous mobilizations questioning mining operations around the world. Temporary increases in mineral prices due to demands from China and other emerging economies, new technology and legislative and policy changes are among the factors involved in the expansion of mining. Coincidentally, many of the territories with
- [Pastoral people and land conflicts 2: Sami reindeer herding](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pastoral-people-and-land-conflicts-2-sami-reindeer-herding/) - EN: Sámi reindeer pastoralism has a bad reputation in Norway. It is often claimed that there are too many reindeer leading to land-use conflicts, overgrazing, poor productivity and poor animal welfare. We show how these ideas are based on myths rather than empirical facts. NO: Samisk reindrift har et dårlig rykte i Norge. Det har
- [Pastoral people and land conflicts in Tanzania](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pastoral-people-and-land-conflicts-in-tanzania/) - EN: Pastoralists in Africa are experiencing increasing encroachment on traditional pastures and land-use conflicts. In Tanzania, the media often report that Maasai and Datoga pastoralists practice outdated ways of living, which are contrasted modernisation and environmental conservation. The meeting will show how conflicts instead can be understood as results of mistaken interpretations of pastoral ways
- [Globalisation Conference 2016: Without Borders](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/globalisation-conference-2016-without-borders/) - Globalisation Conference 2016: Without Borders October 27-30, 2016 Oslo, Norway About the Globalisation Conference The Globalisation Conference is the main program of NSF, and is the largest political workshop of civil organisations, labour unions and political parties in Norway. The conference is organised every other year in Oslo, and serves as a meeting place
- [One-day conference on exploring the frontiers of political ecology](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/one-day-conference-on-exploring-the-frontiers-of-political-ecology/) - International conference on exploring the frontiers of political ecology - October 11, 2016, Lausanne, Switzerland Join us for a day to explore the frontiers of political ecology. During this full-day colloquium, researchers, PhD students and practitioners will have the opportunity to discuss the field of political ecology through two public lectures and two workshops. The focus will be
- [Nature is priceless, which is why turning it into ‘natural capital’ is wrong](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/nature-is-priceless-which-is-why-turning-it-into-natural-capital-is-wrong/) - By Bram Büscher and Robert Fletcher For: The Conversation An increasingly popular line of argument is that, by turning nature into capital, it is possible to reconcile a capitalist growth economy with conservation. In this way, proponents assert, conservation can be expressed in a language that economists, policy-makers and CEOs understand. But this strategy is
- [Ecological Challenges 2017: Call for papers](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/ecological-challenges-2017-call-for-papers/) - Environmental movements use the slogan “System Change, not Climate Change.” It points out that international negotiations and technological innovations repeatedly fail to reduce carbon emissions levels, and that our societies need to be profoundly transformed to prevent disastrous climate change. At the Ecological Challenges conference in Oslo, Norway 15-18 February 2017, we take this as
- [Keynote speaker Philippe LeBillion at POLLEN Conference](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/keynote-speaker-philippe-lebillion-at-pollen-conference/) - https://youtu.be/wRXz3fsIA6A
- [Multi-layered mountain: Mt. Kenya’s hidden conflicts](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/multi-layered-mountain-mt-kenyas-hidden-conflicts/) - By: Lys-Anne Sirks for Vice Versa Control and access over land is an important issue that often causes conflict, yet what goes on behind the larger problem is often hidden and multi-faceted. The journey of how Mount Kenya became a World Heritage site shows how a complex, colonial background came into play and ultimately shaped
- [The fallacy of ecosystem services](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/the-fallacy-of-ecosystem-services/) - By: Bente Meindertsma for Vice Versa In our capitalist society, nature is increasingly defined as a service to mankind. Governments, companies and NGO’s assign value to certain features of nature in order to preserve it. ‘This is a convenient way to see nature, because it matches the way our economy is set up’, explains Vijay
- [Silent protest: women in Indonesia’s oil palm industry](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/silent-protest-women-in-indonesias-oil-palm-industry/) - By: Rosalie Koevoets for Vice Versa The oil palm industry brings to mind the image of men using large mechanical tools and carrying heavy loads of fruit. However, across Indonesia’s palm oil producing regions, women are frequently seen working on plantations alongside men. In fact, women form the backbone to the country’s most important industry.
- [The poacher-as-terrorist; the ‘benefit’ of seeing nature conservation as a security issue](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/the-poacher-as-terrorist-the-benefit-of-seeing-nature-conservation-as-a-security-issue/) - Author: Bente Meindertsma for Vice Versa The perception of environmental problems as security issues gave rise to a powerful, but false idea that poaching is financing terrorist organizations like Al-Shabaab. The poacher-as-terrorist is extremely beneficial to conservation NGO’s, as it gives them access to the large budget that is available for security initiatives. However, their
- [Why resource extraction and nature conservation lead to increasing conflict and violence](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/why-resource-extraction-and-nature-conservation-lead-to-increasing-conflict-and-violence/) - Author: Bente Meindertsma for Vice Versa We seem to have entered a new phase in the relation between violence and environment. Increasing violence against wildlife and communities living in protected areas and conflicts over access to natural resources have led scientists in the field of political ecology to discuss the causes and impacts of these
- [Political ecology conference in Lausanne - Oct 11](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/political-ecology-conference-in-lausanne-oct-11/) - International conference on exploring the frontiers of political ecology SAVE THE DATE - October 11, 2016 Lausanne, Switzerland Join us for a day to explore the frontiers of political ecology. During this full-day colloquium, researchers, PhD students and practitioners will have the opportunity to discuss the field of political ecology through two public lectures
- [Keynote Speaker Libby Lunstrum at POLLEN Conference](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/keynote-speaker-libby-lunstrum-at-pollen-conference/) - https://youtu.be/puinxKfm0c4
- [The ENTITLE Syllabus in Political Ecology](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/the-entitle-syllabus-in-political-ecology/) - The recently finalised ENTITLE (Marie Curie ITN European Network of Political Ecology) project has produced a syllabus for a 12-week post-graduate course in political ecology. The syllabus is based on courses taught as part of the project, and includes links to videos of those classes. The syllabus includes an expanded political ecology reading list kindly put together
- [Fully funded PhD Studentships on the Politics of Sustainable Prosperity/Grassroots Environmental Politics](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/fully-funded-phd-studentships-on-the-politics-of-sustainable-prosperitygrassroots-environmental-politics/) - Keele University, United Kingdom School of Politics, Philosophy, International Relations and Environment (SPIRE) __________________________________________________________________________________ Number of studentships: Funding for up to two PhD Projects (at European/UK Students rate - overseas applicants may apply but will have to pay the difference between overseas and UK/EU rate) Mode of Study: Full Time Application Deadline: 31 July 2016
- [Keynote Speaker Kumi Naidoo at POLLEN conference](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/keynote-speaker-kumi-naidoo-at-pollen-conference/) - https://youtu.be/0oJApprna6w
- [POLLEN Welcome E-mail](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-welcome-e-mail/) - Dear Nodes, I have just sent out an e-mail to the POLLEN Community concerning the new version of the website. It entails information on how to become a node and the activities you are now able to engage in when becoming a node. Such as: Post your own news online Take actively part in discussion
- [The PE-3C hashtag is #pollen16](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/the-pe-3c-hashtag-is-pollen16/) - The official hashtag for the PE-3C conference in Wageningen, 7-9 July, is now set: #pollen16. For more information see www.wageningenur.nl/pe-3c.
- [Follow PE-3C via #pollen16](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/follow-pe-3c-via-pollen16/) - The official hashtag for the PE-3C conference in Wageningen is now set: #pollen16. See many of you PE folks soon! Check out www.wageningenur.nl/pe-3c for more information.
- [Nature can't pay its own way – so let's take the market out of conservation](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/nature-cant-pay-its-own-way-so-lets-take-the-market-out-of-conservation/) - Benjamin Neimark, Lancaster University For years, scientists and environmentalists have debated the best ways to conserve and protect natural resources from pollution and over-exploitation. In the late 19th century, conservation advocates with the help of President Roosevelt succeeded in making Yellowstone the first US national park. Yellowstone’s status sent a strong message against unregulated commercial
- [After the gold rush: exploration on the permanent mining frontier of Burkina Faso](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/after-the-gold-rush-exploration-on-the-permanent-mining-frontier-of-burkina-faso-2/) - Muriel Côte, University of Zürich, 25th March 2016 Burkina Faso became 4th African producer of gold in 2012, at the time of a global mining rush. Since then, gold production has become the main engine of the Burkinabè economy, largely driven by industrial projects undertaken by foreign mining companies. The rush reminisces Ferguson’s extractive enclave
- [Why Won't "Overpopulation" (Finally) Go Away?](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/why-wont-overpopulation-finally-go-away/) - By: Robert Fletcher, Sociology of Development and Change, Wageningen University The age-old specter of “overpopulation,” it seems, is back in vogue among environmentalists once more. “Our population,” writes celebrity biologist E.O. Wilson on the first page of his new book Half-Earth, “is too large for safety and comfort.” Celebrity economist Jeffrey Sachs agrees, arguing in
- [Is Africa's 'resource nationalism' just big business as usual?](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/resource-nationalism/) - Is Africa's 'resource nationalism' just big business as usual? This is so-called “resource nationalism” in action, and the DRC is far from alone in seeking greater economic control of its natural resources. The state is back, the theory goes, and it’s taking on the multinational. From Scotland to Namibia, Zambia to Ecuador, resource rich nations
- [Is Africa’s ‘resource nationalism’ just big business as usual?](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/is-africas-resource-nationalism-just-big-business-as-usual-5/) - John Childs, Lancaster University http://politicalecologynetwork.com/pollen-blog-4/
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- [Nodes](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/about/nodes/) - What is a POLLEN Node? A POLLEN node is a connection point within the Political Ecology Network, shaped by local needs and contexts. Nodes are self-organized groups, typically based at academic institutions, NGOs, activist collectives, or other organizations engaged in political ecology. While most nodes are groups, individuals can also form a node if no
- [Programme](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-2026/programme/) - Downloadable pdf of the conference programme booklet: Now updated with room changes Login
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- [POLLEN Conference 2026](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-2026/) - Universitat de Barcelona: 29 June, 1-3 JulyFacultat de Geografia i Història, Carrer de Montalegre, 6, Ciutat Vella, 08001 Barcelona, Spain Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona: 30 JuneHotel Exe Campus, Villa Universitaria Campus de la UAB, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain POLLEN2026 Programme Here are important dates: The window to propose panels closed on 31 July
- [Travel, Eating & Drinking](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/travel-pollen2026/) - Getting around the city & venues The conference will be held at two different venues: 29 June, 1 July, 2 July & 3 July: Facultat de Geographia i Historia, Universitat de Barcelona, Carrer de Montelegre, 6, Ciutat Vella, 08001, Barcelona. Facultat de Geographia i Historia, UB on google maps 30 June only: Hotel Exe Campus, Universitat
- [Eating & Drinking](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-2026/eating-drinking/) - Where to eat & drink in Barcelona Barcelona is a city full of restaurants and lunchtime cafes, you can have a look at our list below, or go off exploring. There are many coffee shops and lunch places close to the two conference venues, and many more between them. We have a list of some
- [Plenary Page](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/plenary-page/) - Format The plenaries follow a slightly different format. One speaker will offer a slightly longer (but still short) talk on their topic. Then others will follow with much shorter interventions, designed to bring out different and / or complimentary aspects of the issue in hand. Our purpose is to provoke comment, thought and questions from
- [POLLEN2026 - Code of conduct](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-2026/conduct/) - Our Values Inclusion and diversity: POLLEN provides an inclusive platform for the cross fertilization of ideas and plural perspectives. Members acknowledge the many rich and diverse traditions that come together and that are valued equally in their contribution to the platform. Respect and care: The platform and conference is a space that promotes respectful and
- [Information for POLLEN2026](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-2026/info/) - General information for all Delegates conference structure Session length: The conference sessions vary in length so please ensure you are aware of this when planning your time.The final session of each day (sessions 2, 6, 10 & 14) will be 120 minutes long.The rest of the panel sessions will be 90 minutes.There are also lunchtime
- [Organizers](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-2026/organizers/) - Local Organising Committee Camila del Mármol, Universidad de BarcelonaDan Brockington, Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaDavid Gilbert, Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaEsteve Corbera, Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaIsabelle Anguelovski, Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaIsmael Vaccaro, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientíficasMaria Pastor, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Scientific Committee Adrian Nel, University of Kwa-Zulu NatalAmber Huff, Institute of Development StudiesAnwesha Dutta, Chr.
- [Call for presentations & posters](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-2026/call-for-presentations-posters/) - News: The call for presentations and posters has now concluded and closed on Friday 5 December. There will be no extension to this deadline, the response to the call was somewhat overwhelming with over 1800 proposals received across the whole conference. Due to the number of proposals each panel received there are almost no panels
- [POLLEN2026 Registration](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-2026/registration/) - All participants - panel convenors, authors, chairs, discussants, organisers, keynotes, plenary speakers, guests, volunteers, committee members and those without any specific role - MUST register in advance of the event. Registration is by online form only and does not require instant payment (you can register for the conference and use the invoice that will be
- [Call for funding POLLEN2026](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-2026/funding/) - The call for funding is now closed, the POLLEN2026 funding committee are aiming to announce the results by 17 April 2026. All applications must be submitted via the online form. Requests for funding may cover registration, accommodation, and international travel, but not any other costs such as food, drink or local travel while in Barcelona
- [Accommodation](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-2026/accommodation/) - The conference will be held at two different venues: Facultat de Geografia i Historia, Universitat de Barcelona, Carrer de Montelegre, 6, Ciutat Vella, 08001 (29 June, 1 July, 2 July & 3 July) Facultat de Geografia i Historia, UB on google maps Hotel Exe Campus, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Villa Universitaria Campus de la UAB, 08193 Cerdanyola
- [How to take part & FAQs](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-2026/how-to-take-part-and-faqs/) - How to take part Register to attend POLLEN2026 If you wish to attend, but do not have an accepted presentation or panel, then you will be pleased to know that registration is now open to all those who wish to attend POLLEN2026! Head to the registration page for more information. Registration Page Explore the conference
- [Visa information](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-2026/visa/) - If you need a visa invitation letter from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in order to attend POLLEN2026, please complete this form. Please note that we can only provide visa support letters for those with accepted roles in the conference.If you are travelling with family members who may also need such support then please fill in
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- [Convenor information](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-2026/convenor-information/) - Important dates End of the call for presentations: 23:59 CET on Friday 5 December Assignment of number of sessions - Monday 8 December Time to make your decisions on proposals: 8 December - 19 December 2025 Duty of care Convening a panel is a great opportunity, but also a serious responsibility to presenting colleagues. We
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- [Phishing Scam Alert](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-2026/phishing-scam-alert/) - There are phishing emails circulating pretending to be a conference accommodation booking service. This is a widespread problem, impacting a number of conferences over the past few years. We do NOT book accommodation for conference delegates, so please delete these emails on receipt and do not, under any circumstances, share your card details. How to
- [Diverse Origins, Multiple Futures: The Stories of Political Ecology](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-2026/diverse-origins-multiple-futures-the-stories-of-political-ecology/) - What stories can we tell of the world around us? What narratives might explain the maelstroms? How can we tell the stories that might allow us to stay with the trouble, and uncover obscured pathways to more abundant futures? Political ecology tries to make sense of the myriad confusions and strangenesses that beset us. There
- [Principles](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/about/principles/) - POLLEN regards political ecology as a wide field of research and practice that fundamentally holds that politics and ecology cannot be separated and should be studied and practiced in conjunction POLLEN is a network of autonomous (primarily academic but also activist and other) ‘nodes’ that study, teach, and practice political ecology. These nodes are what
- [About POLLEN](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/about/) - As the name suggests, POLLEN seeks to provide a platform for the ‘cross fertilization’ of ideas and where the world’s many rich, diverse traditions can come together, discuss, and debate the latest developments in the field. Historically, the term ‘political ecology’ has not been confined only to an analytical approach and research program, but also
- [Founders](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/about/founders/) - Tor Benjaminsen Connor Joseph Cavanagh Hanne Svarstad (Oslo Metropolitan University) Bram Buscher Rob Fletcher John Childs (Lancaster University) Ben Neimark (Queen Mary University of London) Christos Zografos (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) Amber Huff (University of Sussex) Stasja Koot Ben Neimark (Queen Mary University of London) Isabelle Anguelovski Giorgos Kallis Salvatore Paolo De Rosa (University of Copenhagen)
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- [Secretariat](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/about/secretariat/) - We are excited to announce the new Secretariat of the Political Ecology Network. As a network dedicated to fostering critical discussions in political ecology, POLLEN continues to grow and evolve. As part of this effort, every two years the network organizes a conference. The next POLLEN Conference will take place next June 2026 in the
- [Featured POLLENators](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/updates/featured-researchers/) - To encourage these connections, our website highlights a "Featured POLLENator" each month. We showcase here the work of POLLEN people in whatever domain they are active in academia, arts, policy-making, or any realm of Political Ecology. We hope you enjoy getting to know our POLLENators and that these short introductions spark new cross-pollination. Feel free
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- [edges and margins](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/edges-and-margins/)
- [infrastructure](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/infrastructure/)
- [spatialities of the built environment](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/spatialities-of-the-built-environment/)
- [technical fix](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/technical-fix/)
- [development](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/development/)
- [governance](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/governance/)
- [professional practice](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/professional-practice/)
- [transformations](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/transformations/)
- [hydroscapes](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/hydroscapes/)
- [urban pe](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/urban-pe/)
- [bureaucracy](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/bureaucracy/)
- [political economy](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/political-economy/)
- [focali](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/focali/)
- [extraction](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/extraction/)
- [ontological politics](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/ontological-politics/)
- [visibility](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/visibility/)
- [large-scale land acquisitions](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/large-scale-land-acquisitions/)
- [rangelands](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/rangelands/)
- [crisis](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/crisis/)
- [crisis narratives](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/crisis-narratives/)
- [disruption](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/disruption/)
- [place](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/place/)
- [rupture](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/rupture/)
- [biodiversity](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/biodiversity/)
- [coexistence](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/coexistence/)
- [convivial conservation](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/convivial-conservation/)
- [decolonizing](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/decolonizing/)
- [indigenous-led conservation](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/indigenous-led-conservation/)
- [art](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/art/)
- [exhibition](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/exhibition/)
- [extractivism](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/extractivism/)
- [feminist political ecology](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/feminist-political-ecology/)
- [financialization](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/financialization/)
- [fP](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/fp/)
- [Global South](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/global-south/)
- [green finance](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/green-finance/)
- [alternatives](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/alternatives/)
- [ecosystem services](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/ecosystem-services/)
- [biology](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/biology/)
- [contagion](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/contagion/)
- [infection](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/infection/)
- [invasive species](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/invasive-species/)
- [ontology](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/ontology/)
- [pedagogy](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/pedagogy/)
- [racialized natures](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/racialized-natures/)
- [indigeneity](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/indigeneity/)
- [re-making](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/re-making/)
- [Anthropocene](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/anthropocene/)
- [multispecies](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/multispecies/)
- [Plantationocene](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/plantationocene/)
- [Racism](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/racism/)
- [Europe](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/europe/)
- [global wildlife trade](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/global-wildlife-trade/)
- [illegal](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/illegal/)
- [narratives](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/narratives/)
- ['walking with'](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/walking-with/)
- [environmental research](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/environmental-research/)
- [impacts](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/impacts/)
- [mobilization](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/mobilization/)
- [scholar-activist divide](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/scholar-activist-divide/)
- [plant life](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/plant-life/)
- [vegetal politics](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/vegetal-politics/)
- [environmental justice](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/environmental-justice/)
- [urban natures](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/urban-natures/)
- [clientism](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/clientism/)
- [state](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/state/)
- [state/non-state partnerships](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/state-non-state-partnerships/)
- [hydrosocial territory](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/hydrosocial-territory/)
- [PE of water](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/pe-of-water/)
- [waterscape](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/waterscape/)
- [environmental defenders](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/environmental-defenders/)
- [carbon](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/carbon/)
- [knowledge](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/knowledge/)
- [STS](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/sts/)
- [VCM](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/vcm/)
- [hybridity](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/hybridity/)
- [institutionalization](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/institutionalization/)
- [practice](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/practice/)
- [variegated green economies](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/variegated-green-economies/)
- [fossil fuels](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/fossil-fuels/)
- [lternatives](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/lternatives/)
- [critical knowledge production](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/critical-knowledge-production/)
- [transdisciplinarity](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/transdisciplinarity/)
- [workshop](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/workshop/)
- [alternative imaginaries](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/alternative-imaginaries/)
- [contestation](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/contestation/)
- [value regimes](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/value-regimes/)
- [climate movement](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/climate-movement/)
- [future natures](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/future-natures/)
- [imaginaries](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/imaginaries/)
- [temporalities](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/temporalities/)
- [time](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/time/)
- [materialities of water](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/materialities-of-water/)
- [Political ecologies of water](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/political-ecologies-of-water/)
- [ethics](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/ethics/)
- [invasion ecology](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/invasion-ecology/)
- [kinship](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/kinship/)
- [making kin](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/making-kin/)
- [more-than-human](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/more-than-human/)
- [authoritarianism](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/authoritarianism/)
- [praxis](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/praxis/)
- [storytelling](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/storytelling/)
- [Contested frontiers](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/contested-frontiers/)
- [Plural values](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/plural-values/)
- [Social equity](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/social-equity/)
- [land governance](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/land-governance/)
- [PE/CAS](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/pe-cas/)
- [agrarian struggles](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/agrarian-struggles/)
- [environmental crisis](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/environmental-crisis/)
- [food](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/food/)
- [social movements](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/social-movements/)
- [resource politics](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/resource-politics/)
- [debates](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/debates/)
- [green economy](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/green-economy/)
- [proposals](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/proposals/)
- [submissions](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/submissions/)
- [newsletters](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/newsletters/)
- [COVID-19](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/covid-19/)
- [moles](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/moles/)
- [Webinar](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/webinar/)
- [Latin America](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/latin-america/)
- [Online course](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/online-course/)
- [just transition](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/just-transition/)
- [resilience](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/resilience/)
- [systems thinking](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/systems-thinking/)
- [transformation](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/transformation/)
- [global degrowth day](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/global-degrowth-day/)
- [online](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/online/)
- [film festival](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/film-festival/)
- [free](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/free/)
- [event](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/event/)
- [solidarity](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/solidarity/)
- [input](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/input/)
- [epistemologies](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/epistemologies/)
- [mountains](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/mountains/)
- [publication](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/publication/)
- [corruption](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/corruption/)
- [natural resource management](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/natural-resource-management/)
- [political ecology](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/political-ecology/)
- [journal](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/journal/)
- [new issue](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/new-issue/)
- [volunteering](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/volunteering/)
- [critical agrarian studies](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/critical-agrarian-studies/)
- [masterclass](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/masterclass/)
- [Teaching](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/teaching/)
- [the commons](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/the-commons/)
- [News](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/news/)
- [POLLEN24](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/pollen24/)
- [Secretariat](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/secretariat/)
- [care](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/care/)
- [emotions](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/emotions/)
- [POLLEN22](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/pollen22/)
- [restoration](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/restoration/)
- [Events](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/events/)
- [Publications](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/publications/)
- [germany](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/germany/)
- [POLLEN23](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/pollen23/)
- [POLLEN26](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/pollen26/)
- [environment](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/environment/)
- [books](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/books/)
- [politics](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/politics/)
- [blog](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/blog/)
- [gardening](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/gardening/)
- [borders](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/borders/)
- [boundaries](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/boundaries/)
- [Lough Foyle](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/lough-foyle/)
- [Ireland](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/ireland/)
- [Northern Ireland](https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/tag/northern-ireland/)