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…
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 of depoliticized issues by becoming the only cause internationally accepted for the eventwashing of repressive authoritarian regimes. The need for critical and emancipatory political ecology scholarship and action couldn’t be bigger these days…
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Bluwstein, J., & Cavanagh, C. (2022). Rescaling the land rush? Global political ecologies of land use and cover change in key scenario archetypes for achieving the 1.5° C Paris agreement target. The Journal of Peasant Studies, Ahead-of-print, https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2022.2125386.
Lyons, K. (2022) ‘Nature’ and territories as victims: Decolonizing Colombia’s transitional justice process. American Anthropologist.https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.13798
McConnell, K. (2022) ‘The Green New Deal’ as partisan cue: Evidence from a survey experiment in the rural U.S. Environmental Politics. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2022.2090655
Pas, A., & Cavanagh, C. (2022). Understanding ‘night grazing’: Conservation governance, rural inequalities, and shifting responses ‘from above and below’ throughout the nychthemeron in Laikipia, Kenya. Geoforum, 134, 143-153. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016718522000926
Fabricant, N. (2022). Fighting to breathe: Race, toxicity, and the rise of youth activism in Baltimore. California Series in Public Anthropology. University of California Press. 1st Edition. https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520379329/fighting-to-breathe
Ramnath, K. (2023). Boats in a storm: Law, migration, and decolonization in South and South East Asia, 1942-1962. Stanford University Press. https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=34914
Rodrigues Machaqueiro, R. (2023) The carbo calcultation: Global climate policy, forests, and transnational governance in Brazil and Mozambique. The University of Arizona Press. https://uapress.arizona.edu/book/the-carbon-calculation
DIALOGUES IN RADICAL GEOGRAPHY Third Edition: The Cost of Living under Intensified Austerity Featuring Professor Mia Gray & Tilly Mason Friday 16th December, 15.00-16.30 GMT Live at the RGS-IBG building in London and synchronously online Tickets are free and open to all: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dialogues-in-radical-geography-tickets-466220717717
Vacancies
The Department of Geographical Sciences at the University of Maryland is accepting applications for our Fall 2023 Ph.D. Program. Applications are due by December 15th, 2022 and requirements are posted here: https://geog.umd.edu/graduate/application-requirements. The Department of Geographical Sciences at UMD offers generous funding, benefits, and tuition remission packages https://geog.umd.edu/graduate/assistantships-and-fellowships. Contact Dr. Leila De Floriani (deflo@umd.edu) or Dr. Rachel Haber (rberndts@umd.edu) for application or program questions. We hope to receive your application this season!
Adjunct Professor Environmental Studies at Dickinson College Candidates should submit the following via QUEST (online application system) at https://jobs.dickinson.edu: Letter of interest; Contact details for two references (at least one speaking to teaching ability); Teaching statement that references the candidate’s teaching philosophy, experience and ability to teach an upper level course in their area of expertise; Current CV. Review of applications will begin on January 15, 2023 and continue until the position is filled.
The Department of International Environment and Development Studies (Noragric), Faculty of Landscape and Society (LANDSAM) at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) has a vacant 4-year PhD–position in International Environment and Development Studies with one year of project work included. We invite candidates to develop their research ideas on the links between land dispossession, elite capture and growth of jihadist groups in the West African Sahel. Recent research has pointed at land dispossession and elite capture in explaining why many people in the Sahel decide to join armed insurgency groups. This PhD position will be part of a new five-year project funded by an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) entitled LANDRESPONSE, which will study conflict and migration in the Sahel as parallel processes with potentially similar causes. More info: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/234930/phd-within-international-environment-and-development-studies-violent-resistance-and-land-governance-in-the-sahel
The Department of International Environment and Development Studies (Noragric), Faculty of Landscape and Society (LANDSAM) at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) has a vacant 4-year PhD–position in International Environment and Development Studies with one year of project work included. We invite candidates to develop their research ideas on migration from West Africa to Europe with a focus on land dispossession as a potential driver. This PhD position will be part of a new five-year project funded by an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) entitled LANDRESPONSE, which will study conflict and migration in the Sahel as parallel processes with potentially similar causes. More info: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/234936/phd-scholarship-within-international-environment-and-development-studies-migration-from-west-africa
The University of Manchester is seeking to appoint two Research Associates for the Sustainable Forest Transitions (SFT) project. SFT is a five-year, £1.7 million project funded as part of a UKRI Research Frontier grant based within the Global Development Institute in the School of Environment, Education and Development. The SFT project will conduct ground-breaking research to better understand how reforestation drivers affect forests and the communities that depend on them. Over the next five years, SFT will study the changing nature of forest cover and human development at unprecedented scale and detail. The SFT project will start working in Mexico, Brazil, India, and Nepal and very possibly expand to other countries. These two posts offer the opportunity for outstanding individuals to make a significant contribution to an exciting international sustainability research programme based at the University of Manchester. For a clearer sense of SFT’s research agenda, please see the publications pages of the project’s website (https://sites.manchester.ac.uk/sftresearch/).
3-year vacancy for a PhD Candidate in STS at NTNU. The PhD candidate will work within the area of Sustainability Transitions research focusing on transformative policy mixes for cross-sectoral interactions and societal acceptance of Hydrogen. The current development of the hydrogen economy in Norway is built on a multi-level logic where regional, national and international dynamics interact, and where interests across sectors need to be aligned to succeed. This project uses the concept of transformative policy mixes for cross-sectoral interactions to understand the interactions between levels and sectors, to advance community acceptance, policy acceptance and market acceptance for hydrogen in Norway and beyond. Deadline: December 5, 2022 More info: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/232563/phd-candidate-in-science-and-technology-studies
Call for Proposals: Ecology, economy, and society – The INSEE Journal is an open access, peer reviewed journal of Indian Society for Ecological Economics (INSEE<https://ecoinsee.org/>), a registered society since 1999. It is indexed in Scopus<https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/21101049095> and recognized by the UGC-CARE<https://ugccare.unipune.ac.in/Apps1/Home/Index>. EES offers authors a forum to address socio-environmental issues from, across and within the natural and social sciences, with an aim to promote methodological pluralism and inter-disciplinary research. EES is proposing a special issue on Political Ecology for Volume 6(2), to be published in July 2023. Deadline for abstract submissions: December 31, 2022 More info: Write to insee.ees@gmail.com<mailto:insee.ees@gmail.com> or kuntala.lahiri-dutt@anu.edu.au<mailto:kuntala.lahiri-dutt@anu.edu.au>
The ESRC STEPS Centre has updated its free online course on Pathways to Sustainability, with a series of six video lectures and reading lists. It’s being made available open access, and we hope it will be of interest as background material for students and teachers on courses related to sustainability, political ecology and international development. https://steps-centre.org/online-course-pathways-to-sustainability/ The course introduces a set of ideas, approaches, cases and methods for critical research and action on sustainability. Sections include: The Pathways Approach Uncertainty Technology & Innovation Resource Politics Policy Processes Methods and Methodologies *There is no fee or time-limit for individuals who wish to take the course, and all the videos and most reading suggestions are Open Access.
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