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…
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 University
of Applied Sciences
Heide K. Bruckner, University of Graz, Austria
While small island developing states generally produce low levels of greenhouse gas emissions, they are on the frontline of climate and environmental changes—facing rising sea levels, and more frequent cyclones or hurricanes. These occur concurrently to a rise in extractive industries, including mining activities (on land and deep-sea) and logging. While older Western narratives considered islands as backward, remote and irrelevant places, within Anthropocene scholarship, islands have become salient in conceptualizing both the uneven impacts of climate change and for imagining possibilities for climate-resilient futures (Chandler and Pugh, 2021). As opposed to passive sinking places in need of ‘saving’ (DeLoughrey, 2019), islands and island thinking (diverse epistemologies and relational forms of human-nature entanglements) are being productively re-centered in scholarship on the Anthropocene (Haraway, 2016; Tsing et al., 2019). For example, research on traditional knowledge and community-based adaptation to the climate crisis have gained significant international attention (e.g. Clarke et al., 2019; Granderson, 2017). Referring to the concept of island metabolism, Bahers et al. (2020) showed how the political economy in small extractive island industries reinforce social, environmental, and economic vulnerabilities. Nonetheless, political ecology has been largely absent from island scholarship, and islands themselves are infrequently centered as such in political ecology literature (Brown et al. 2021; Manglou et al. 2022).
In this panel, we therefore ask how thinking with and across islands can complicate and enrich existing discussions on political ecology related to territory, natural resource management and mining governance (including of marine ‘commons’), climate justice and carbon colonialism, indigenous knowledge systems and epistemologies, and a ‘more-than-wet’ ontologies (Steinberg and Peters, 2019) that emerge when thinking through land/sea intersections in changing environments. We welcome diverse contributions on conceptual or empirical work on political ecologies of islands in the Anthropocene. Potential topics include:
If interested, please send your abstract (max. 200 words) to Dr. Heide K. Bruckner (heide.bruckner@uni-graz.at) and Prof Matthias Kowasch (matthias.kowasch@phst.at) by Sunday, December 10th, 2023. Please include your name and affiliation in the abstract and which of the three conference locations you will preferably be presenting from. The panel will be hosted in Lund, but we welcome papers from Dodoma and Lima to create a hybrid panel. By December 13th, 2023 we will inform you whether your paper is accepted as part of the panel.
You can also access this CfP here
References:
Bahers, J.-B., Higuera, P., Ventura, A. & Antheaume, N. (2020). The “Metal-Energy-Construction Mineral” Nexus in the Island Metabolism: The Case of the Extractive Economy of New Caledonia. Sustainability 12(6), 2191. doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/su12062191.
Brown, H., Tompkins, E.L., Hudson, M., Schreckenberg, K. & Corbett, J. (2021). Climate and Development Research in Small Island Developing States: The Benefits of a Political Ecology Approach. In: Moncada, S., Briguglio, L., Bambrick, H., Kelman, I., Iorns, C., Nurse, L. (eds), Small Island Developing States. The World of Small States, vol 9. Springer, Cham. doi:
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82774-8_3.
Chandler, D. and Pugh, J. (2021). Anthropocene islands: there are only islands after the end of the world. Dialogues in Human Geography. Vol 11(3), 395-415.
Clarke, T., McNamara, K. E., Clissold, R. & Nunn, P. D. (2019). Community-based Adaptation to Climate Change: Lessons From Tanna Island, Vanuatu. Island Studies Journal, 14(1), 59-80. doi: https://doi.org/10.24043/isj.80.
DeLoughrey, E. M. (2019). Allegories of the Anthropocene. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Granderson, A.A. (2017). The Role of Traditional Knowledge in Building Adaptive Capacity for Climate Change: Perspectives from Vanuatu. American Meteorological Society journal, 545–561, doi: 10.1175/WCAS-D-16-0094.1.
Haraway D. J. (2016). Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Manglou, M., Rocher, L. & Bahers, J. (2022). Waste colonialism and metabolic flows in island territories, Journal of Political Ecology 29(1), 1-19. doi: https://doi.org/10.2458/jpe.2836.
Peters, K. and Steinberg, P. (2019). The ocean in excess: Towards a more-than-wet ontology Dialogues in Human Geography, 9(3), 293-307. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/2043820619872886.
Tsing A. L., Mathews A. S. & Bubandt N. (2019) Patchy Anthropocene: Landscape structure, multispecies history, and the retooling of anthropology: An introduction to supplement 20.Current Anthropology, 60(20), 186-197.