January 2024 Update

Dear POLLEN Members and Friends, 

We are pleased to share with you our first newsletter of this new year. Here you can find publications, vacancies, CfP, and much more from our vibrant community.

Before we get to it, a quick reminder that if your Node is keen to share its work, vacancy opportunities, or others in our upcoming newsletter, please write to us at politicalecologynetwork@gmail.com. Everyone in the POLLEN community contributes to making this newsletter informative and valuable, so don’t hesitate to get in touch and share your work with us.

Finally, just to note that if your POLLEN Node has not been introduced by us yet, please write to us at politicalecologynetwork@gmail.com.

Enjoy the reading !

With best regards from your POLLEN Secretariat  

Fabiola Espinoza, Torsten Krause, Mine Islar and Wim Carton  

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Publications 

Journal articles 

1. Kuyakanon Knapp, Riamsara. “Shifting Sands, Land from the Sea: A Microhistory of Coastal Land Titling in Thailand.” Ethnos (2023): 1-21. DOI: 10.1080/00141844.2023.2213852 
    
2. Gutierrez, L., & Duffy, R. (2023). “Harms and the Illegal Wildlife Trade: Political Ecology, Green Criminology and the European” Eel. Critical Criminology, 1-16.https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10612-023-09734-4
    
3. Corbera, E. & Maestre-Andrés, S. & Collins, Y. A. & Mabele, M. B. & Brockington, D., (2024) “Decolonizing biodiversity conservation”, Journal of Political Ecology 28(1), 989–903. doi: https://doi.org/10.2458/jpe.5969
   
   
4. van Leeuwen, M., van der Haar, G., Ansoms, A., Akilimali, J. B., Mudinga, E. M., & 2Munezero, C. (2023). “Localized land tenure registration in Burundi and eastern DR Congo: Contributing to sustainable peace?. Global Environmental Change, 83, 102763. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2023.102763
   
   
5. Vogel, J., Guerin, G., O’Neill, D. W., & Steinberger, J. K. (2024). Safeguarding livelihoods against reductions in economic output. Ecological Economics, 215, 107977.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2023.107977
   

Books  

1. Suarez-Villa, L. (2023). Technology and Oligopoly Capitalism. Taylor & Francis. (Publ. by Routledge). https://www.routledge.com/Technology-and-Oligopoly-Capitalism/Suarez-Villa/p/book/9781032386157. To request an inspection copy: https://www.routledge.com/textbooks/evaluation/9781003345893?utm_id= ] –
    

Events & Announcements 

1. 31st Colloquium of the International Geographical Union Commission on the Sustainability of Rural Systems (IGU-CSRS)
   When: September 16-21, 2024
   Where: Mendoza, Argentina
   More info: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IH6JKw9oEWqbcAXUJFvRDGt0aaI_2Ssg/view?usp=sharing

2. International symposium “Demands for justice and responses to socio-spatial and environmental injustice in the global South” 
   When: April 25-26, 2024
   Where:  Montpellier (France)
   More info:https://umr-sens.fr/documents/20121/583836/Colloque+Justice+avril+2024.pdf/768c8d97-385e-f8fb-eec6-516c466e6793?t=1705506362882. Send proposals for participation by January 28 to stephen.huard@ird.fr.  

Vacancies 

1. PhD Candidate -Human Geography connected to the research project: “A just TRANSport TRANSformation? A TRANSnational, FEMinist analysis of the social reproduction of the lithium and copper supply chain. TRANS-FEM”(Lund University)
   Brief description:  The goal of the research project is to examine through a feminist mixed-methods approach the transnational labor dynamics of the lithium and copper supply chains from the places of extraction and export:  Antofagasta, Chile to the place of manufacture of e-batteries: Skellefteå, Sweden. The Ph.D. candidate is expected to engage in research on how an EU green energy transition should address socio-environmental fallouts and forms of labor exploitation associated with the extraction of critical minerals and the production of e-batteries in Europe. Most importantly, this project will question whether the green transition can truly be a global affair and bring about social and environmental justice in the form of fair and equitable inclusion for the most marginalized groups in improving their well-being.I am looking for someone with a background in human geography or related fields and experience with qualitative field methods. Because fieldwork will take place in Chile and Sweden, knowledge of Spanish is required, and of Swedish is preferable.The position comes with full benefits,  is extendable to 5 years with teaching and the PhD student will receive a monthly salary of SEK 30 000 to start, with two increases along the 4 yrs. 
   More info: https://lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:693422/  
   Deadline: March 3^rd, 2024
   
   
2. Post-doctoral position in Decolonial and Indigenous Geography of Militarisation (focus on Sápmi) at the Geography Research Unit of the University of Oulu, Finland
   Brief description: You will be working on the Research Council of Finland-funded project ‘Militarised Indigenous Borderscapes: Reconfiguring geographies of war and borders’ (the public project description can be found here). Led by Dr Hidefumi Nishiyama (PI), the project will study the impacts of militarisation on Indigenous lands and peoples through the case studies of Sápmi and Okinawa. This position will focus on research on Sápmi and you will be conducting desk research and fieldwork with PI.
   More info: https://oulunyliopisto.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:690136/
   Deadline: February 16^th, 2024

Calls 

1. Call for papers “The cosmos and the possibility of a comprehensible meaning on the enigma of the implicit order in nature”  
   More info: https://cosmotheoros.com/numeros/vol-2-no-4-2023english/
   Contact: Carlos Hugo Sierra: carlos.ehu@gmail.com and Nicolás Jiménez Iguarán: nicolasjimeneziguaran@gmail.com 
   Deadline:  October 31st, 2023
   
   
2. Call for papers “From splendor to necessity in the art-nature binomium”
   More info: https://cosmotheoros.com/numeros/vol-1-no-3-2023-english/
   Contact: Carlos Hugo Sierra: carlos.ehu@gmail.com and Nicolás Jiménez Iguarán: nicolasjimeneziguaran@gmail.com 
   Deadline:  April 1, 2024
   
   
3. Call for presentation or panel “Rural African Futures: The role of work” in Panel PolEc002 at the Association for African Studies in Germany (VAD) Conference
   More info: https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/vad2024/p/13832
   Contact: Timothy Raeymaekers: timothy.raeymaekers@unibo.it  and Muriel Côte: muriel.cote@keg.lu.se

Other news items 

1. Two Political Ecology-based courses for Spring and Summer 2024 in Costa Rica. (i) Conservation Ecology and Sustainable Development with Wildlands Studies – April 9 through May 22, 2024 (Spring Quarter, 15 credits); and (ii) Surfing and Sustainability: Political Ecology in Costa Rica, with Dr. J. Peter Brosius, University of Georgia – July 5 through August 3, 2024 (Summer program, 6 credits). The application deadline is 15 Feb 2024 for both programs. For more information regarding the content and fieldwork see links.
   
   
2. The latest contribution of Institutional Landscapes: “The work of money in assembling the Aotearoa New Zealand Dairy Industry”. New Zealand company Fonterra has been a constitutive part of the demand regime that has created production incentives for dairy farming – both foreign-financed and domestic – in Aotearoa New Zealand. Massey University’s Russell Prince, Matt Henry, Michael Mouat and Carolyn Morris take the company’s pricing practices as a starting point to engage with the question of how we can deal with the largely undebated social and political character of money and its derivative forms – capital, credit/interest, dividends etc. in agri-investment contexts, introducing the concept of moneyness. By doing so, they build an important bridge to the earlier entry by Anitra Nelson on money. Read more here: https://institutionallandscapes.org/contribution/13-the-work-of-money-in-assembling-the-aotearoa-new-zealand-dairy-industry/. For past posts, and background to the finance-gone-farming story in Aotearoa NZ see here: https://institutionallandscapes.org/startseite/guest-contributions/ and https://institutionallandscapes.org/new-zealand/
   
   
3. Intervention Symposium ““Plantation Methodologies: Questioning Scale, Space, and Subjecthood”. Antipode- A Radical Journal of Geography. Edited and introduced by Alyssa Paredes (University of Michigan), Sophie Chao (University of Sydney), and Andrés León Araya (Universidad de Costa Rica).
   
   
4. We welcome two new POLLEN NODES: (i) Node based at the Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona- members: Brian Peterson, Denielle Perry, Sean Parsons, Lucero Radonic, and  Alder Keleman Saxena; (ii) Node based at the Department of Geography at the University of Bonn- members:  Jessica  Budds; Lisa Schipper and Detlef Müller-Mahn. You can locate the contact details of the new nodes and their members on the POLLEN Blog Website under the “NODES” section.