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…
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 agricultural futures are rather polarised. On the one hand, state actors and powerful corporate, as well as quasi-private organizations favor technology-intensive, scientific, and ‘modern’ agriculture, and tend to impose their ideals of the future of farming. Other actors, such as social movements, counter such narratives and dogmas, by promoting less input-demanding, smaller-scale modes of farming, yet sometimes idealizing “the local.” Strikingly, both sides couch their ideals in terms of resilience and sustainability, particularly in the context of climate change.
How and where do farmers position themselves in these debates? How do farmers make sense of these contrasting visions? Who owns the control over future production pathways? How to move beyond dogmas and account for and appreciate heterogeneity?
We invite papers that interrogate these questions through a critical political ecology lens and address the diversity of actors that are implicated and/or involved in the making of agricultural futures, and with what result: does it trigger a reconfiguration of power relations? We particularly welcome contributions that shed light on heterogeneity beyond polarization, yet also critically question the ways in which local imaginaries are shaped by hegemonic discourses and how various players (state, agribusiness, international organisations) exercise control in this regard. Empirically rich contributions, for instance focusing on contested fields such as modified seeds or precision agriculture, are particularly welcome.
Our deadline is tight! Please send your abstract of max. 200 words to irna.hofman@gmail.com and/or michael.spies@hnee.de before 10 December – you will hear back from us before 12 December if your abstract is accepted. In case of questions: please reach out to us!
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Call for Papers – Political afterlives of sudden ecological events
POLLEN24 – 10-12 June 2024, Lund- Sweden
Climate change not only affects global temperature and precipitation patterns, but also the intensity and frequency of extreme environmental events, such as forest fires, hurricanes, heat waves, floods, droughts, and storms. In the past political ecology approaches have mainly focused on identifying the broader political, economic, and social factors that cause these environmental changes. This panel reverses the focus in order to understand the effects of fire and sudden ecological events on political processes. We are interested how ecologies set politics in motion.
The panel builds on ideas explored in the research project Fire and Political Alterity in Amazonia, but invites papers and participants willing to think about fire or other sudden ecological events as political actants that hold the capacity to alter social relations and (political) landscapes. We seek to trace their afterlives through different policy fields such climate change and disaster preparedness, on land use and property rights or supply chain management.
We are not only interested in what effects emerge, but also how such political afterlives play out and affect political cultures, create polarization or political alterities within public debates, in relation private companies, among organizations and institutions also beyond local worlds. Like forest fires, political attention and controversies can flare or die, but sudden ecological events may also generate unintended, fleeting or long-lasting effects.
Papers might consider: How are political processes set in motion by ecologies and sudden ecological events? How do such events affect the form of political processes? and what forms of political polarization or alterity emerge?
The panel will take place in Lund, Sweden. Please submit your abstract (max 200 words including title) no later than 10 December to stine.kroijer@anthro.ku.dk and cari.tusing@uach.cl. We will let you know if you are included in our panel proposal by December 12, and submit the panel proposal on December 14 to the POLLEN conference.