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 pdf version of the newsletter can be found here
A message on behalf of the Lancaster POLLEN node:
We would like to inform you that this will be Lancaster’s last newsletter as the POLLEN Secretariat. Alongside Katharine Howell who successfully finished her PhD, it has been an absolute pleasure to serve in this role for the past two years. We have watched the network grow, with many new nodes – particularly in the global south – and thousands of new members! We are pleased to be handing over the job of POLLEN Secretariat to the University of Copenhagen. We will continue to be active members and helping in communications on the twitter feed. We would like to thank all the nodes that make POLLEN what it is today, and of course Stasja Koot and the rest of the Wageningen node who enabled us to hit the ground running because of their great work. Looking forward to seeing many of you are POLLEN20 in sunny Brighton, UK in June!
Ben Neimark and Marleen Schutter
POLLEN CONFERENCE 2020: CALL FOR SESSION PROPOSALS
The POLLEN 20 organizing committee is pleased to announce a call for proposals for organized conference sessions. The deadline for submission of session proposals is 31 October 2019, and all proposals should be submitted via online form. The conference, titled Contested Natures: Power, Possibility, Prefiguration, will be held in Brighton, UK on 24-26 June 2020, hosted by the ESRC STEPS Centre (IDS/SPRU, University of Sussex) and The Political Ecology Network (POLLEN) Secretariat, and Radical Futures at the University of Brighton, with support from the BIOSEC project and SIID at the University of Sheffield. For inquiries about co-hosting or getting involved, please email POLLEN@sussex.ac.uk. All calls for papers and other news can be found here.
BLOG POSTS
Political ecology fieldwork with a toddler: a personal account by Jessica Hope
Branding indigenous peoples in tourism and beyond by Stasja Koot
Land matters in contemporary southern Africa by Stasja Koot, Catie Gressier and Robert Hitchcock
From our friends at Entitle:
Between drought and monsoon: the embodied hardship of seasonal work in Maharashtra’s sugar cane plantations by Irene Leonardelli
How can we use blockchain for an eco-socialist transformation? By Defne Gonenc
The Amazon fires are Bolsonaro’s political crimes and call for urgent action by Political Ecology from the South/Abya Yala Working Group of the Latin American Social Science Council (CLACSO)
From the POLLEN node at the Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo:
Terra Nullius: What is going on in the rural world? By Mariel Aguilar-Støen
From the POLLEN node at the Massey University Political Ecology Research Centre in New Zealand:
Dr. Trisia Farrelly at the Noumea and Waigani Convention COPs and the Pacific Environment Forum (PEF): http://perc.ac.nz/wordpress/trisia-farrelly-at-the-noumea-and-waigani-convention-cops/
Visiting Scholar at PERC DR. Pete Myers: http://perc.ac.nz/wordpress/perc-visiting-scholar-dr-pete-myers/
PUBLICATIONS
Bartels, Lara Esther (forthcoming): Peri-Urbanization as ‘Quiet Encroachment’ by the Middle Class. The Case of P&T in Greater Accra. Urban Geography.
Cameron, M.M., 2019. Three Fruits: Nepali Ayurvedic Doctors on Health, Nature, and Social Change. Lexington Books. https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498594233/Three-Fruits-Nepali-Ayurvedic-Doctors-on-Health-Nature-and-Social-Change
Córdoba, D., Juen, L., Selfa, T., Peredo, A.M., de Assis Montag, L.F., Sombra, D. and Santos, M.P.D., 2019. Understanding local perceptions of the impacts of large-scale oil palm plantations on ecosystem services in the Brazilian Amazon. Forest Policy and Economics, 109, p.102007. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2019.102007
Enns, C., Bersaglio, B. and Sneyd, A., 2019. Fixing extraction through conservation: On crises, fixes and the production of shared value and threat. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space. https://doi.org/10.1177/2514848619867615
Hein, J. (2019). Political Ecology
of REDD+ in Indonesia. London: Routledge.
https://www.routledge.com/Political-Ecology-of-REDD-in-Indonesia-Agrarian-conflicts-and-forest/Hein/p/book/9781138479319
Hung, P.Y., 2019. Placing Green Energy in the Sea: Offshore Wind Farms, Dolphins, Oysters, and the Territorial Politics of the Intertidal Zone in Taiwan. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, pp.1-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2019.1625749
Jakobsen, J., 2019. The maize frontier in rural South India: Exploring the everyday dynamics of the contemporary food regime. Journal of Agrarian Change. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/joac.12337
Lukas, M.C. and Flitner, M., 2019. Scalar fixes of environmental management in Java, Indonesia. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, p.2514848619844769. https://doi.org/10.1177/2514848619844769.
Massé, F., 2019. Conservation Law Enforcement: Policing Protected Areas. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, pp.1-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2019.1630249
Neri, M., Jameli, D., Bernard, E. and Melo, F.P., 2019. Green versus green? Adverting potential conflicts between wind power generation and biodiversity conservation in Brazil. Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pecon.2019.08.004
Parry, L., Radel, C., Adamo, S.B., Clark, N., Counterman, M., Flores-Yeffal, N., Pons, D., Romero-Lankao, P. and Vargo, J., 2019. The (in) visible health risks of climate change. Social Science & Medicine, p.112448. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.112448
Weldemichel, T. and TA Benjaminsen, C. J. Cavanagh, and H. Lein. (2019). Conservation: beyond population growth – response to Ogutu et al [eLetter response to Ogutu et al. 2019 and Veldhuis et al. 2019 in Science 365 (6449): 133-134.]
Weldemichel, T. and TA Benjaminsen, C. J. Cavanagh, and H. Lein. (2019). Conservation: beyond population growth. Science 365 (6449): 133 . [Letter response to Veldhuis et al. 2019 in Science 363 (6434), ‘Cross-boundary human impacts compromise the Serengeti-Mara ecosystem’.]
A debate in Science:
Weldemichel, Benjaminsen, Cavanagh & Lein. 2019. Conservation: Beyond population growth. Science 365 (6449): 133.
Follow-up on debate: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/365/6449/133.2/tab-e-letters
Benjaminsen, T. A. & P. Hiernaux. 2019. From desiccation to global climate change: A history of the desertification narrative in the West African Sahel, 1900-2018 Global Environment 12 (1): 206-236.
Wilshusen, P.R., 2019. Environmental governance in motion: Practices of assemblage and the political performativity of economistic conservation. World Development, 124, p.104626. Free downloads available at this link until Oct. 1, 2019: https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1ZYdw,6yxDAXzS
Aram Ziai, Franziska Müller & Daniel Bendix. Postdevelopment Alternatives in the North. In: Klein, E. and Morreo, C.E. eds., 2019. Postdevelopment in Practice: Alternatives, Economies, Ontologies. Routledge.
Special section in the Journal of Political Ecology: Political ecologies of the blue economy in Africa
- Securing the blue: political ecologies of the blue economy in Africa John R. Childs, Christina C. Hicks PDF
- Blue Economy threats, contradictions and resistances seen from South Africa Patrick Bond PDF
- Subsistence marine fishing in a neoliberal city: a political ecology analysis of securitization and exclusion in Durban, South Africa Marc Ronald Kalina, Alexio Mbereko, Brij Maharaj, Amanda Botes PDF
- Resource sovereignty and accumulation in the blue economy: the case of seabed mining in Namibia Rosanna Carver PDF
- Materializing the blue economy: tuna fisheries and the theory of access in the Western Indian Ocean Mialy Andriamahefazafy, Christian A. Kull PDF
- Networking the Blue Economy in Seychelles: pioneers, resistance, and the power of influence Marleen S. Schutter, Christina C. Hicks PDF
- Centering the Korle Lagoon: exploring blue political ecologies of E-Waste in Ghana Peter C Little, Grace Abena Akese PDF
NEWS, CONFERENCES AND OPPORTUNITIES
William Moseley has been appointed to the 2019-2021 Steering Committee of High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security & Nutrition of UN Committee on World Food Security
Two events at Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo:
Degrowth: A conversation about a new sustainable economy (3 October 2019)
Book Launch: Wind Energy Development, Conflict & Resistance in a Latin American Context (8 October 2019)
An interview with Diana Ojeda who is a professor and researcher at the Institute of Social and Cultural Studies (PENSAR) at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, in Bogotá, Colombia. She is interested in political ecology and feminist geography and holds a Ph.D. in Geography from Clark University in the United States: “Ethical notions in environmental and development research: an interview with professor Diana Ojeda”
The interview is posted in the “Environment, Society and Development in Latin America-ESDLA” research group’s weblog site. The research group is based at the Department of Geographical and Historical Studies, University of Eastern Finland, Finland.
CALLS FOR PAPERS AND OTHER NEWS ABOUT POLLEN20 CAN BE FOUND HERE
STREAMS-conference, Stockholm 5-8 august 2020
CFP: Special Issue of Environment & Society on Pollution/Toxicity
Chair/Reader in Political Ecology at Lancaster University
Job opportunity: Professor of Human Geography at the University of Manchester
Job opportunity: Assistant Professor of Sociology in Global Inequality at Illinois State University
Assistant Professor, Anthropology of Food, Department of Anthropology, Indiana University, Bloomington. The Department of Anthropology at Indiana University Bloomington seeks applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Social-Cultural Anthropology with a demonstrated expertise in food and culture, a commitment to ethnographic research, and success in interdisciplinary collaboration and comparative work. More information can be found here
NEW NODES – Welcome to POLLEN!
- University of Basel, Urban Studies Department (Saad Amira)
- Rural Development Graduate Program, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (Pedro Vasconcelos Rocha)
- School of Ethnology and Sociology, Yunnan University, China (Jun He)
- Department of Geography, University of Alabama (Jared Margulies)
- School of Arts and Sciences, University of Central Asia (Murodbek Laldjebaev)
- Núcleo Int. de Pensamiento en Epistemología Ambiental (NIPEA), Open and Distance National University (Colombia) (Carlos Hugo Sierra & Nicolás Jiménez)
Best wishes,
Marleen Schutter, Ben Neimark, John Childs, Simon Batterbury, Patrick Bigger, James Fraser, Giovanni Bettini, Katharine Howell
POLLEN secretariat, Lancaster University
politicalecologynetwork@gmail.com
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