March 2024 Update

Dear POLLEN Members and Friends, 

We are pleased to share with you today the latest 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. García, P. A. S., & Wong, G. Y. (2024). The political economy of deforestation in the Colombian Amazon. Journal of Political Ecology, 31(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.2458/jpe.5230
2. Tozzi, A., Bouzarovski, S., & Henry, C. (2022). Colonizing the rains: Disentangling more-than-human technopolitics of drought protection in the archive. Geoforum, 135, 12–24. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2022.07.011
3. Mukono, D. (2024). Beyond the REDD+ neoliberal environmentality and its discontents in Southern Tanzania. Journal of Political Ecology, 31(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.2458/jpe.5016
4. Wolford, W. W., White, B., Scoones, I., Hall, R., Edelman, M., & Borras, S. M. (2024). Global land deals: What has been done, what has changed, and what’s next? The Journal of Peasant Studies, 0(0), 1–38. https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2024.2325685

Books  

1. Armiero, M., Turhan, E., & de Rosa, S. P. (2023). Urban Movements and Climate Change: Loss, Damage and Radical Adaptation. Amsterdam University Press. [open access] 
2. Myers, K. A. (2024). A Country of Shepherds: Cultural Stories of a Changing Mediterranean Landscape. Open Book Publishers. https://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0387

Events & Announcements 

1. LATINMOV Latin America in Dialogue. The Third Encounter of Sociospatial and Socioterritorial Movements
   When: September 2^nd – 4^th, 2024
   Where: Queen Mary University of London
   More info: https://lagukinfo.wixsite.com/lag-uk/latinmov
   
   
2. Past & Future Commons
   When: May 9^th – 10^th, 2024
   Where: The University of Chicago
   More info: https://cegu.uchicago.edu/events/conference-2024/
   

Vacancies 

1. Post Doc position in Social Science (Centre de Sciences Humanies- CSH-Delhi)
   Brief description:  This post-doctoral fellowship is for a duration of one year (renewable for one year). The position is open to post-doc researchers in social sciences and humanities from India who obtained their PhD after 2020. The research areas are: “Documenting the democracy”: media (and/or) labour/work (and/or) social mobilisations” and “Populations and Spaces in transition”: urbanisation and urban policies (and/or) environment and health.
   More info: https://www.csh-delhi.com/news/job-offer-post-doc-position-in-social-sciences-deadline-31-march-2024/
   Deadline: March 31^st, 2024.
   
   
2. Lecturer in Geography, Climate Change and Society (University of Sussex)
   Brief description:  The post will involve teaching at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels including our MSc Climate Change, Development and Policy and our new BSc Geography, Sustainable Development and Climate Change. The department welcomes applications from natural and social scientists, and are seeking to recruit someone with strong quantitative and data analytical skills. If you have any informal enquiries, please send them to the Geography Head of Department, Dr Simon Rycroft (S.P.Rycroft@sussex.ac.uk).
   More info: https://jobs.sussex.ac.uk/job/e0a57bcc-6d5a-446c-b02d-19f1dafe5691
   Deadline: April 10^th, 2024.
   
   
3. PhD Candidate in Human Ecology (Lund University)
   Brief description:  This call welcomes doctoral proposals seeking to explore post development and pluriversal transformation based in empirical case study research grounded in a specific community or territory in the Global South and theoretical and conceptual development, for example, of the pluriverse; prefigurative politics; politics of hope; and real utopias. An engagement with decolonial and feminist methodologies would be a benefit. The holder of the position should direct research to the fields of human ecology, human geography, sustainability science, anthropology or a related field. 
   More info: https://lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:703169/
   Deadline: May 01^st, 2024.
   
   

Calls 

1. Call for papers: “The Geoeconomics of Electric Batteries”
   More info: The Special Issue on “The Geoeconomics of Electric Batteries” seeks to position the Hungarian experience in a global geoeconomic context marked by geopolitical rivalries between the US and China, competing vertical industrial policies, and decarbonization. These factors have led to rapid reconfigurations in Global Production Networks (GPNs), linking multiple sectoral supply chains from mining to chemicals, battery manufacturing, the automotive industry, as well as energy generation, storage, and retail. We are looking for empirically informed papers focusing on individual or comparative case studies from the entire Global Production Network of electric batteries (including but not limited to lithium-based batteries), as well as theoretical contributions, which propose novel ways to rethink the global geoeconomics of electric batteries from a historically- and geographically informed perspective on multi-scalar transformations in global capitalism. Read the full call here: http://fordulat.net/?q=cfp_english
   Deadline:  April 1^st , 2024.
   
   
2. Call for papers: “Matter of Urban Expertise: Who develops the city of the future?” (ETH Future Cities Lab, 6-8 November 2024)
   More info: In a rapidly urbanizing world increased attention is being paid to the development of urban environments. At the same time the array of experts who are expected to design and develop the cities of tomorrow is currently in a state of flux (Björkman and Harris 2018; Savini and Raco 2019; Robin and Acuto 2023). Contemporary urban challenges are perceived to require new skills and competencies that go beyond the traditional urban professions. We invite papers for a symposium that explores contemporary formations of expertise in the field of urban development. The symposium will explore the intertwining of the ‘politics of what’ with the ‘politics of how’ and the ‘politics of who’ in relation to contemporary urban development – thus critically addressing the fundamental question of who is shaping the city of the future, on what grounds, and to which effects. Accepted proposals will be invited to a 2½ day symposium in Zürich, 6-8th of November 2024, with full costs covered for hotels and meals. To apply for the symposium, please submit a 300-500 word abstract with relevant references (references not included in word limit) to jenny.lindblad@abe.kth.se and julio.paulos@arch.ethz.ch. Accepted contributors will also be expected to submit an extended abstract / short paper (1500-3000 words) in advance of the symposium.
   Deadline:  May 15^th , 2024.
   
   
3. Call for papers “Climate Mobilities: Adapting to Shifting Landscapes and Uncertain Futures” (Weather Matter)
   More info: Weather Matters is an independently-edited publication fostering conversation on the human dimensions of climate change across anthropology, geography, the environmental humanities and other social sciences. We are currently welcoming contributions for our Spring 2024 Series “Climate Mobilities: Adapting to Shifting Landscapes and Uncertain Futures <https://www.weathermatters.net/>”.  In particular, we hope to explore the following themes: (i) Making place in shifting climates: How do shifting climates urge and shape new places, spatial practices, and modes of mobility? How do people negotiate new spaces and places transformed by and in response to climate How do infrastructures of mobility enable and constrain possibilities for place-making, from the local to the planetary?; (ii) Climate Risks, Mobility, and Politics: How does the construction of climate risk shape priorities and capabilities for movement, futurity, and life? How are practices and infrastructures of risk mitigation embedded in social, economic, and political systems of value? How do certain climate mobilities come to be classified and managed as risks?; (iii) Movement, Immobility, and Navigating Climate Uncertainty: How do climate uncertainties challenge and reinforce notions of fixity, stability, and security – of home, land, belonging, ways of knowing, and borders? What strategies, practices, and tools do different actors employ to cope with and manage climate uncertainties?. Perspectives should be a maximum of 1,500 words (or less). Read the full call here: https://www.weathermatters.net/
   Deadline: April 16^th, 2024.

Other news items 

1. Young Researchers Workshop: Communicate your science: where, how & to whom?. 29-30 May, 2024. SLU Global and SIANI invite you to participate in a two-day communication workshop on 29-30 May 2024 at SLU Ultuna Campus, Uppsala. We have prepared two full productive days for selected young researchers to engage with well-known journalist Magnus Linton, most recognised researcher in Swedish media, Prof. Ashok Swain and anthropologist turned podcast expert, Ian Cook. Deadline for registration: 24^th April. More information: https://www.siani.se/event/young-researchers-workshop/#:~:text=SLU%20Global%20and%20SIANI%20invite,researcher%20in%20Swedish%20media%2C%20Prof.
   
   
2. The Development Geographies Research Group of the RGS-IBG (DevGRG) are pleased to invite postgraduate researchers and academics of all career stages to a two-day workshop on ‘Decolonising Development Geographies’. The workshop will take place on 17 and 18 June 2024 in London, at the Royal Geographic Society in South Kensington. Lunch and refreshments will be provided, covered by a small, income-staggered fee: £12 waged and £6 unwaged/low-income. The workshop objectives are to: (i) build a strategy for moving forward and create a vision for the discipline of development geography, centred on decolonising research and teaching within the UK Higher Education sector and beyond. This strategy can involve some practical guidance; (ii) bring together development geographies students and researchers interested in putting decolonial values and principles into practice. More information on the workshop and application process: https://docs.google.com/document/d/17aqRK1JfINgihwzxgnzlOacaYddItWhb/edit. Deadline: 30^th April 2024.
   
   
3. The latest contribution of Institutional Landscapes: “Land Assembly, Financialization and Agriculture in Canada’s North”. Building on her long-lasting interest in settler-colonial land transformations in Canada, Sarah Rotz focuses on a hitherto neglected topic: The expansion of large-scale agriculture in the country’s north. Focusing on the intertwined processes of capitalist frontier-making, large-scale land assembly, and financialization, she engages with the questions of whether such processes reify settler colonial land relations and enable further Indigenous land dispossessions. She also engages with the crucial question of what alternative models of agricultural world-building could look like, contributing to one of the key themes of this website. Read more here: https://institutionallandscapes.org/contribution/15-land-assembly-financialization-and-agriculture-in-the-north/. For past posts, and a background to the general project, including an Open Access Version of the background book “Farming as Financial Asset: Global Money and the Making of Institutional Landscapes”, see here: https://institutionallandscapes.org/startseite/guest-contributions/ and https://institutionallandscapes.org/
   
   
4. Special issues relevant for political ecologists: (i) “The political ecology of technology: a non-neutrality approach” – Environmental Values Journal. See the special issue here. (ii) “How can we construct an economic consistent with the biophysical limits to economic growth?”- Real-World Economics Review. See the special issue here.
   
   
5. We welcome the University of Calgary (Canada) as a new POLLEN NODE. Members: Sujoy Subroto, Ana Watson, Saurabh Chowdhury and Sammy Sánchez.