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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!
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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 by Radical Futures at the University of Brighton and the Institute of Development Studies, with support from the BIOSEC project at the University of Sheffield. More information can be found here.
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Many thanks to everyone who sent in their valuable contributions again this month. We hope everyone enjoys reading all about it in this newsletter.
BLOG POSTS
Trophy hunting for conservation and development in Namibia? The limitations of economic benefits and the role of science by Stasja Koot
New collaborative works on political ecology, authoritarianism, and populism by POLLEN and ENTITLE
Populism as the final outcome of liberalism by Alvaro Gaertner Aranda
DEEP SEA MINING AT THE THRESHOLD: THE POLITICS OF THE SEABED? by John Childs
From our friends at Entitle:
Reflections on Authoritarian Populism: Democracy, Technology and Ecological Destruction by Alexander Dunlap
Political ecologies of urban nature in Bogotá, Colombia by Germán A. Quimbayo Ruiz
The Internet – a case for political ecology? by Annika Kettenburg
Grassroots initiatives in climate change-adaptation for justice and sustainability by Roberta Biasillo
About Permaculture Songs and the Food (In)security Narrative by Elena Louisa
The Loneliest Man on Earth by Juan Francisco Moreno
From the Political Ecology Research Centre at Massey University, New Zealand:
PERC AT THE 4TH SESSION OF THE UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT ASSEMBLY
PUBLICATIONS
An editorial clarifying the Geoforum editors’ position on the Open Access discussion:
The Editors, 2019. The future of scholarly publishing: Paywalls and profits or a new plan? Geoforum, 102, pp.1–4. Available at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016718519300831.
Apostolopoulou, E. and Cortes-Vazquez, J. (eds.) 2019 The Right to Nature. Social movements, environmental justice and neoliberal natures. Routledge – Earthscan. https://www.routledge.com/The-Right-to-Nature-Social-Movements-Environmental-Justice-and-Neoliberal/Apostolopoulou-Cortes-Vazquez/p/book/9781138385375
Special Issue
“Rights to Nature: Tracing alternative political ecologies to the neoliberal environmental agenda” (Guest editors: Jose A Cortes-Vazquez and Elia Apostolopoulou), link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/geoforum/vol/98/suppl/C
Introduction to the special Issue: Cortes-Vazquez, J.A., Apostolopoulou, E., 2019. Against Neoliberal Natures: Environmental Movements, Radical Practice and “the Right to Nature”. Geoforum 98, 202-205.
Ashraf, U., 2019. Exclusions in Afforestation Projects in Pakistan. Economic and Political Weekly, pp.17–20. Available at: https://www.epw.in/journal/2019/12/commentary/exclusions-afforestation-projects-pakistan.html
Zafra Calvo, N.; E. Garmendia; U. Pascual; I. Palomo; N. Gross-Camp; D. Brockington; J.A. Cortes-Vazquez; B. Coolsaet; N. Burgess. 2019. Progress towards Equitably Managed Protected Areas in Aichi Target 11: A global survey. BioScience (available online). doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biy143
Cortes-Vazquez, J. and Apostolopoulou, E. 2019. Rights to Nature: Tracing alternative political ecologies to the neoliberal environmental agenda. Geoforum, 48 (Special Issue) https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/geoforum/special-issue/108SD1PHJD2
Cortes-Vazquez, J. and Apostolopoulou, E. 2019. ‘Against Neoliberal Natures: Environmental Movements, Radical Practice and the Right to Nature’ Geoforum,48: 202-205. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2019.01.007
Dunlap, A., 2019. ‘Agro sí, mina NO!’the Tía Maria copper mine, state terrorism and social war by every means in the Tambo Valley, Peru. Political Geography, 71, pp.10-25. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2019.02.001
González-Hidalgo, M. and Zografos, C., 2019. Emotions, power, and environmental conflict: Expanding the ‘emotional turn’ in political ecology. Progress in Human Geography, p.0309132518824644.
Koot, S. and Hitchcock, R. (2019). In the way: Perpetuating land dispossession of the indigenous Hai//om and the collective action law suit for Etosha National Park and Mangetti West, Namibia. Nomadic Peoples 23 (1): 55-77: 2019 – Koot and Hitchcock – In the way
Mallin, M.A.F., Stolz, D.C., Thompson, B.S. and Barbesgaard, M., 2019. In oceans we trust: Conservation, philanthropy, and the political economy of the Phoenix Islands Protected Area. Marine Policy.
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Brown Journal of World Affairs 23 (2) 2017. Political Ecology Of Development
Lily Zeng, Deepti Chatti, Chris Hebdon, and Michael R. Dove 2017 The Political Ecology Of Knowledge And Ignorance. BJWA 23(2) 159-176
http://bjwa.brown.edu/23-2/the-political-ecology-of-knowledge-and-ignorance/
William G. Moseley 2017 The New Green Revolution For Africa: A Political Ecology Critique BJWA 23(2) 177-190
http://bjwa.brown.edu/23-2/the-new-green-revolution-for-africa-a-political-ecology-critique/
Ivan R. Scales 2017 Tropical Forests, Politics, And Power: From Colonial Concessions To Carbon Credits. BJWA 23(2) 191-206
Susan Paulson 2017 Power and Difference in Conservation Policy: Changing Masculinities and Andean Watersheds BJWA 23(2) 207-224
Alain Lipietz 2017 2017. Contextualizing Political Ecology In Europe Within A Global Regulation Approach. BJWA 23(2) 225-234
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Nordia Yearbook on Affirmative Political Ecology, just out from the (electronic) press. The whole issue is freely available online here: https://nordia.journal.fi/
Table of Contents
(The whole issue is freely available here: https://nordia.journal.fi/)
Affirming political ecology: seeds, hatchets and situated entanglements. Tuomo Alhojärvi & Heikki Sirviö
The affect of effect: affirmative political ecologies in monitoring climate change adaptation interventions. Kelly Dombroski & Huong Thi Do
Meaningful engagement and oral histories of the indigenous peoples of the north. Tero Mustonen
Row: a thinkivist art intervention. Massa Lemu & Emmanuel Ngwira
Transcending binaries: a participatory political ecology of the Faroese foodscape. Elisabeth Skarðhamar Olsen & Rebecca Whittle
Land in transitions: the needs of Finnish households striving toward self-sufficiency. Eeva Houtbeckers
Pluriversal learning: pathways toward a world of many worlds. Susan Paulson
Affirmative and engaged political ecology: practical applications and participatory development actions. Simon Batterbury
CONFERENCES AND OPPORTUNITIES
CFP: 2019 AAA/CASCA “Pollution/Toxicity: Political Ecologies of Matter Out of Place”
Call for abstracts for the fifth annual FLARE meeting at The University of Michagin, Ann Arbor. August 23-25, 2019
Call for Contributions: Political Ecologies of the Far Right, 15-17 Nov 2019
Dear colleagues,
As part of the annual IGS seminar on political ecology, we are organizing a research seminar on “political agronomy”, entitled “Political Agronomy: Knowledge production and policy framing in the era of Super- and Miracle Food”, which will take place on June 5 and 6 at the University of Lausanne. The program is currently being finalized. It will include a half-day plenary conference, a half-day workshop and a visit to a quinoa farm in French-speaking Switzerland.
The final program and registration link will soon be available on the event page: https://www.unil.ch/igd/political-agronomy
We would be delighted to welcome you to this event, so please save the date!
For the organizing committee, Florence Bétrisey
Registration open for #EJ2019 Conference. We are excited to announce that registration is now open for the 2019 Environmental Justice Conference ‘Transformative Connections’, being held at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK, on 2 July – 4 July 2019.
To register go to: UEA online store
Early bird registration is available until 31 March 2019, with reduced rates available for students and delegates from low and middle income countries.
Call for abstracts: WaterPower Symposium 2019
Under the theme of “Transformative Development Pathways – Critical Perspectives on Urbanisation, Land and Water”, the WaterPower project invites you to participate in the project’s final symposium. Hosted by the Governance and Sustainability Lab at Trier University, the event aims to connect participants for discussions and exchanges on what efforts in knowing and governing the urban may be needed for transformative change. We invite researchers and early career professionals working across diverse sub-fields in Geography, Urban Studies, Development Studies, Environmental Sociology, Ecology, and related fields. The symposium will be held in English. The deadline for applications is 07 April 2019. More information can be found here.
PhD position on Negative Emissions at LUCSUS, Lund University
NEW NODES – Welcome to POLLEN!
- Institute of Anthropological Research, National Autonomus University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City (Paola Velasco Santos)
- University College London, Anthropology (Agnese Marino)
- Anwesha Dutta has joined the already existing node at the Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI), Bergen
- Western Washington University, Anthropology Department (Josh Fisher)
- University of Dundee (Lee Hewitson)
SUPPORT FOR STUDENT STRIKES
On behalf of the POLLEN secretariat, we would like to lend out support to the courageous students who have been taking to the streets in protest of climate inaction and other environmental injustices. These global strikes should be an inspiration to us all!
Find out more here: https://rebellion.earth/
And on Twitter
We encourage other POLLEN nodes to lend their support – for some, this means supporting our children when they want to go on strike instead of attending school on Fridays!
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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