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Phd & Post-doc position at Lund University´s Centre for Sustainability Studies:

We are looking for candidates to work with us on an exciting project on glaciers and human-nature relations. We have a  fully-funded PhD position and a postdoc position in Sustainability Science at LUCSUS/Lund University for the research project entitled NATURICE- Exploring plural values of human-nature relationships in glacierized environments.  Project’s main objective is to assess and examine how values and human-nature relationships are affected by climate related challenges through a trans-regional study of glaciers in Scandinavia and the Himalayas. Positions are funded by Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development (FORMAS) and will be supervised by Principal Investigator Dr. Mine Islar, Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS) in collaboration with Dr. Anna Sinisalo (GRID-Arendal), Prof. Erik Gomez-Baggethun (The Norwegian Institute for Nature Research-NINA) and Dr.Emma Li Johansson (LUCSUS).

Deadline: 1st of march, 2023

Good afternoon Pollinators

We are pleased to announce the commencement of registration for the upcoming POLLEN ’23 conference between the 27^th to 29^th June at Howard College in Durban South Africa. The main registration period will run between the 1^st of Feb and into March, where those whose session and presentation proposals were accepted will be able to begin the registration process. We will send more details and links in due course, but for now please take note of these few important points:

• The structure of the conference is primarily a collection of sessions organised independently by session organisers. We, therefore, remind session organisers to communicate and relay information to all their participants, as we do not have their emails ourselves before they are properly registered.

• Related to the above, if you are a presenter in a session and have not heard back from your session organiser, please do reach out and contact them to confirm your participation.

• We are still in the process of reviewing bursary applications and making awards to those who applied. Communications will follow about this in February, so we ask bursary applicants to await the outcomes before undertaking registration.

• As participants will recall, we had a number of covid enforced changes to the format, and are still awaiting RSVPs from some accepted session organisers and individual presenters. Even if you don’t intend to participate, please do let us know if you plan to attend so we can improve our planning and programming, and potentially allow extra sessions in your place.

• Finally, as indicated in our December email, we still have a few spaces available for sessions and/or individual presentations for those who may be interested in joining us in Durban. We will not open a new CFP, but will instead conduct a first-come-first-served, peer-reviewed process to select additional presenters, and in particular, hope to include further participation from South Africa and the region to bolster local support and networking. If you are interested, please send an email to nela@ukzn.ac.za to enquire further.

Many thanks

Adrian and the POLLEN23 Local Organising Committee

Dear POLLEN members,

We, the POLLEN group at LUCSUS and current Secretariat for the next 18 months, kindly wish you happy holidays, a life with harmony, and a new year filled with fulfillments.

To those spending their holidays away from their loved ones, or away from their lands, be it on grounds of exercising their rights to protest to stop the ecological crisis or of running away from the devastations this crisis provokes, we express our steadfast support.

Let us gather our strength to continue doing political ecology in 2023.

Good morning/afternoon/evening Pollinators

We have come to the 6^th and final of the preconference asynchronous workshops. You can check out the first 5 – on Radical Epistemologies and Future Natures; Emotional Ecologies; Power and Social Movements; Conservation and Agrarian Change and Blue Political Ecologies – on the conference website https://pollen2022.com/. Overall there have been some fantastic engagements on diverse and interesting themes of relevance to political ecology and we are happy to introduce the final workshop kicking off next week.

The workshop theme is Political Ecology Across Boundaries, and is co-hosted by Brock Bersaglio, Francis Massé and Charis Ennis and will run form the 12^th to the 15^th of Dec. It brings together three sessions that in different ways engage political ecology in ways that transgresses boundaries, be they disciplinary, epistemic, geographical, physical or structural. Full details can be found below and on the Worksop webpage (live from Monday) – https://pollen2022.com/asynchronous-workshops/political-ecology-across-boundaries/

We hope you enjoy the workshop, and extend a huge thanks for the co-hosts of this workshop and all the others for the work they have put in to curate the six workshops. We look forward to engaging more thoroughly now with the POLLEN23 in person conference planning for Durban, with registration opening in the new year.

Regards

Adrian and the LOC

POLITICAL ECOLOGY ACROSS BOUNDARIES

POLLEN2022 Pre-conference Workshop

Hosted by Brock Bersaglio (University of Birmingham), Francis Massé (Northumbria University), Charis Enns (University of Manchester)

12-15 Dec 2022

The theme for the POLLEN 22/3 conference is Political Ecology, North South and Beyond; and there is a specific need to interrogate aspects of the ‘beyond’ – exploring ways in which political ecology approaches can be mobilised across boundaries, variously construed. Political ecology encourages critical reflection around the entanglements and encounters of political ecology with a variety of theories, approaches, and philosophies, and has been central to recent transdisciplinary debates about multi-species entanglements, biodiversity crisis, extinction, climate, racialisation, (de)coloniality, uneven and unequal geographical exchange, and the envisioning of alternative sustainability’s. This workshop brings together three sessions that in different ways speak to these themes and engage political ecology in ways that transgresses boundaries; be they disciplinary, epistemic, geographical, physical or structural. The sessions variously deal with spaces in which theoretical claims meet practical transdisciplinary challenges in Social-Ecological research, draw non-human entities into analysis of socio-ecological conflict, and reflect on political ecologies’ transformative role in repoliticizing spaces of technocratic power and marginalisation to pluralize roles, debates, and solutions to socio-ecological challenges. The result is a set of presentations and discussions which mobilise political ecology in novel and transformative ways and seek to expand discussions of its utility as a dynamic approach.

Workshop webpage (live from Monday) – https://pollen2022.com/asynchronous-workshops/political-ecology-across-boundaries/

Session information

Session 1: Researching social-ecological conflicts – Bringing non-human entities into the analysis (Part 1 & 2)(ID: 107 & 108)

Session organizer(s):     

Dr. Markus Rauchecker, ISOE – Institute for Social-Ecological Research, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, rauchecker@isoe.de

Dr. Fanny Frick-Trzebitzky, ISOE – Institute for Social-Ecological Research, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, frick@isoe.de

Heide Kerber, ISOE – Institute for Social-Ecological Research, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, kerber@isoe.de

Session 2: Synergy or contrast? When Political Ecology theoretical claims meet practical transdisciplinary challenges in Social-Ecological research projects

Session organizer(s):     

Dr. Fanny Frick-Trzebitzky, ISOE – Institute for Social-Ecological Research, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, frick@isoe.de

Heide Kerber, ISOE – Institute for Social-Ecological Research, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, kerber@isoe.de

Dr. Markus Rauchecker, ISOE – Institute for Social-Ecological Research, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, rauchecker@isoe.de

Session 3: Actualizing the potential of political ecology in transformative change I: Dismantling power (ID: 21)

Session organizer(s):      Josephine Chambers, Utrecht University, <j.m.chambers@uu.nl>

                                             Sierra Deutsch, University of Zürich, <sierra.deutsch@uzh.ch>

Virtual  workshop on Blue Political Ecologies 8^th and 9^th November, with subsequent asynchronous content engagement

We would like to welcome you to a virtual workshop on blue political ecologies, which will take place from the 8^th and 9^th of November. The event is co-hosted by Synne Movik (Norwegian University of Life Sciences),Emilie Wiehe (University of Guelph), Mialy Andriamahefazafy (University of Geneva), Marleen Schutter (Worldfish & University of Washington) and Mark Lamont (Open University), with support from Noé Mendoza, NMBU

There will be four sessions based  on short presentations that you are welcome to attend live (please follow the link provided on the website), or you can engage with the presentations asynchronously once they are recorded and made available (1-2 days after the live session). There will be a comments box where you can share your questions, thoughts, and reflections. 

The oceans are being framed increasingly as a site of degradation and in need of conservation (Bennett, 2019; Gray, 2018), while simultaneously being promoted as the new economic frontier through blue economy frameworks and discourses of blue growth (Ertör and Hadjimichael 2020; Silver & Campbell, 2018). Critical scholars have drawn attention to conflict surrounding marine space and marine resources (e.g. Bavinck et al, 2018; Menon et al, 2016), the scalar politics of marine governance (Campbell, 2007; Gruby et al, 2013), fisheries politics, access and the neoliberalization of fisheries (Mansfield, 2004; Andriamahefazafy & Kull, 2019), the role of knowledge and technology in producing the marine environment (Gray, 2018; Drakopulos, 2019), and the political ecologies of emerging blue economies (Marleen & Hicks, 2019; Carver, 2019; Bond, 2019), to name a few. More recently, as the blue economy continues to be pushed as a development framework, scholars and practitioners alike are calling for increased attention to issues of blue justice – though there are signs that the term is being appropriated by powerful international actors,  diluting it and rendering it apolitical. Political ecology thus provides useful insights to make visible the political in marine governance and the blue economy and to examine power relations inherent in these realms.   The blue political ecologies workshops in this series of sessions aim to explore how power and politics, access and resource conflict continue to shape marine resource use and governance. Papers and discussions in this workshop also aim to further bridge research-practitioner gaps, particularly with regards to furthering blue justice aims.

On Tuesday 8^th of November, there will be two panel sessions, as follows

• Political Ecologies of the Blue Economy (organised  by Mark Lamont) 
• Decolonizing Fisheries Governance (co-ordinated by (Mialy  Andriamahefazafy)

On Wednesday 9^th of November, there will be two presentation sessions and a LIVE discussion, as follows:

• Coastal transformation and spatial justice (co-ordinated by Synne Movik)
• Advancing blue justice (coordinated by Emilie Wiehe)

Detailed programme available here: https://politicalecology.space/blue_political_ecologies/

Session link:  https://nmbu.zoom.us/j/62252282756

These will be followed by a live discussion session focusing on how to mobilise for greater equity and justice (coordinated by Mialy Andriamahefazafy and Marleen Schutter). 

The session will be kicked off by three short talks, which  will provide the basis for a discussion on how we can draw on pol political ecology to advance equity and justice.  We encourage you to join this live session, using the link provided on the webpage. 

Please do not hesitate to get in touch with the co-host Emilie Wiehe ewiehe@uoguelph.ca should you have questions and comments, and we really hope that you will engage with the issues that are being raised, either through the live discussion, or through leaving comments, questions and reflections in the comments box on the website. 

Regards,

Adrian and the POLLEN22/3 LOC, and workshop co-hosts Synne, Emilie, Mialy, Marleen, and Mark

Good morning/afternoon/evening Pollinators.

We are now in the middle of the 4^th POLLEN22/3 preconference workshop, entitled Conservation and Agrarian Change, co-hosten by Sam Staddon and Omar Saif (University of Edinburgh, UK) and Sayan Banerjee (National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, India).

Conservation and agrarian change have been staple interests of political ecology ever since it emerged as a discipline, with political ecologists exploring and engaging with cases and processes around the world. This on-line pre-conference workshop discusses on going and emerging political ecology approaches to conservation from a range of perspectives, including the neoliberalisation of nature in Protected Areas, the opportunities of ‘Convivial’ conservation, Other-Than-Human political ecologies of wildlife conservation, and the demand to cultivate ‘critical reflexivity’ for conservation. It engages in agrarian change through a focus on the reasons and effects of deagrarianisation and through political ecologies of ‘sustainable’ global food supply chains.

We have 6 Sessions in the workshop, each with a series of pre-recorded presentations by political ecologists from around the world. We invite you to watch these pre-recorded presentations, and to engage with the online discussion forum in order to share your own experiences, insights and questions. 4 out of our 6 Sessions also have a Live Discussion scheduled during this week, and we invite you to join us for those. We also have a Final workshop Live Discussion, to bring together the issues and interests and ideas shared across all 6 Sessions.

Session details (N.B. Please note the timings, as there is a switch from BST and CEST at the start of the workshop, to GMT and CET by the end of it):

1. The production and neoliberalisation of nature in the PAs. Towards a public political ecology | Noelia Garcia Rodriguez [no Live Discussion]
2. Cultivating Critical Reflexivity for Conservation | Sam Staddon, Omar Saif, Fleur Nash, Timur Jack-Kadioglu. Live recording available online)
3. Convivial conservation: opportunities and limitations? | Judith Krauss, Laila Sandroni and Mathew Bukhi Mabele. Live Discussion 28^th October (12.30-13.30 BST / 13.30-14.30 CEST)
4. Other-than-Human Political Ecologies of Wildlife Conservation | Sayan Banerjee. Live Discussion 28^th October (14.00-15.00 BST / 15.00-16.00 CEST)
5. Deagrarianisation: what are the underlying reasons and effects with focus on livelihoods, poverty reduction and climate change | Sheona Shackleton, Klara Fischer     [No Live Discussion]
6. The political ecology of “sustainable” global food supply chains: prospects and limits for transformative change | Joss Lyons-White, Izabela Delabre, Rachael D. Garrett. Live Discussion 31^st October (15:00 – 16:00 GMT / 16:00-17:00 CET)
7. Final Workshop Live Discussion 31^st October (16:15 -17:15 GMT / 17:15 -16:15 CET)

 ALL Live Discussions can be joined using this link:

• https://ed-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/87459939144
• Passcode: POLLEN2022

Thanks, Adrian and the LOC

October 2022 Update 

Dear POLLEN Members and Friends, 

We send this update from Lund’s Botanical Garden, as the unusual autumn warmth in Sweden still allows for working outside.

Has your POLLEN node NOT been introduced by us? If your node is keen to share your work in upcoming newsletters, please write to us at 

politicalecologynetwork@gmail.com. 

We also welcome proposals for blog posts on the POLLEN blog – please contact us at the same email address with any ideas! 

We are pleased to post the latest publications, CfPs and more from our lively community. 

With best regards from your POLLEN Secretariat 

Torsten Krause, Juan Samper, Mine Islar and Wim Carton 

IMPORTANT! To get the best view of this newsletter, please enable the media content at the top of the e-mail. 

Publications

Books and book chapters 

1. Campos, L. & Patoine, P. (2022) Life, Re-scaled: The Biological Imagination in Twenty-First-Century Literature and Performance. Open Book Publishers. https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0303 

2. Milne, S. (2022) Corporate Nature: An insiders ethnography of global conservation. The University of Arizona Press. https://uapress.arizona.edu/book/corporate-nature  

3. Staddon S. (2022) Critically Understanding Livelihoods in the Global South: Researchers, research practices and power. In: Routledge Handbook on Livelihoods in the Global South, Eds. F. Nunan, C. Barnes & S. Krishnamurthy. Routledge, pp. 81-92. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003014041-10/critically-understanding-livelihoods-global-south-sam-staddon 

4. Stoetzer, B. (2022) Ruderal city: Ecologies of Migration, Race, and Urban Nature in Berlin. Duke University Press. https://www.dukeupress.edu/ruderal-city  

Journal articles 

1. Fair, H. et al., 2022. Dodo dilemmas: Conflicting ethical loyalties in conservation social science research. AREA. https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12839 

2. Gómez-Baggethun, E. 2022. Political ecological correctness and the problem of limits. Political Geography 98: 102622 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0962629822000361?via%3Dihub 

3. Mabele, MB., Kamnde, K., Bwagalilo, F. and Kalumanga, E. 2022. Calling for landscape-level assessments of participatory forestry’s role in improving biophysical conditions. Forest Policy and Economics 143, 102816  
   https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2022.102816 

4. Rogers, S. & Han, X. & Wilmsen, B., (2022) “Apples and oranges: political crops with and against the state in rural China”, Journal of Political Ecology 29(1), p.496–512. doi: https://doi.org/10.2458/jpe.4698 

5. Saif O., Keane, A. & Staddon S. (2022) Making a case for the consideration of trust, justice, and power in conservation relationships. Conservation Biology, 36. https://www.pure.ed.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/264380573/Saif._Keane._Staddon..pdf  

6. Trauger, A., (2022) “The vegan industrial complex: the political ecology of not eating animals”. Journal of Political Ecology 29(1), 639–655. doi: https://doi.org/10.2458/jpe.3052 

Events 

1. The Solidarity Economy Experiments of Indonesia’s Peasant and Fisher Movements 
   Join Dr Iqra Anugrah (Kyoto University) to reflect on Indonesia’s rural political economy, and learn about the achievements and limits of solidarity economy projects carried out by farming and fishing communities in Indonesia. 
   When: Thursday 27 October 2022, 5pm PT / 8pm ET 
                Friday 28 October 2022, 7am WIB / 11am AEDT 
   Where: Online via Zoom  Register here. 

2. Palm Oil: The Grease of Empire book event at Lakehead 
   When: October 28 
   Where: Hybrid. Register here: https://reimaginingvalue.ca/palm-oil-tb/  

3. The race to protect the Amazon: What does the future hold? 
   The aim of this event is to discuss how the changing political momentum in Colombia and Brazil is affecting the fate of the Amazon and the challenges that remain to protect the remaining rainforest areas. 
   Venue: Online (zoom) 
   More info: http://www.focali.se/en/events/the-race-to-protect-the-amazon-2013-what-does-the-future-hold  

4. Global Extraction Film Festival 
   October 26-30 
   More info: https://www.caribbeancreativity.nl/events/global-extraction-film-festival-2022/  

5. Political ecology seminar series at Université de Laussane: Thinking with plants and animals. 
   More info: https://www.unil.ch/files/live/sites/igd/files/Seminaires/PE-Seminar-Series-autumn-2022.pdf  

Vacancies 

1. Please find below a job offer for 2 PhD positions on questions of energy politics and authoritarian power in the MENA, based in Freiburg/Germany: 
    
   The Arnold Bergstraesser Institute (ABI) at the University of Freiburg (Germany) is seeking to fill two positions as Doctoral Researcher (Salary Level 65% TVL E 13) on the topics: 
    
   “The political economy of solar energy in Morocco” 
   “The political economy of solar energy in Jordan” 
    
   The positions are part of an Emmy Noether Junior Research Group, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), led by Dr. Benjamin Schuetze, and hosted by the ABI, on the overall topic ‘Renewable Energies, Renewed Authoritarianisms? The Political Economy of Solar Energy in the Middle East and North Africa’. 
    
   The successful candidates are expected to move to Freiburg, Germany, and start by April 1, 2023. Initial contracts will be for 2.5 years with possible extension of another 1.5 years. The selected candidates will enroll as PhD students with the University of Freiburg’s Faculty of Humanities, supervised by Dr. Benjamin Schuetze, and be provided with office space at the ABI. For further information please see the attached PDF and/or the following link: https://www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/news/stellenausschreibung-doctoral-researcher-tvl-e-13-65 
    
   Deadline: Applications should be sent to benjamin.schuetze[at]abi.uni-freiburg.de by November 6, 2022 (as one single PDF file), and should include the following: 
   
   Motivation letter (1-2 pages) 
   CV, including names and contact details of two referees 
   Copies of university degrees (BA and MA) 
   Work sample (MA thesis chapter, published article, or similar) 
   PhD project outline (2-3 pages) 

2. The Department of Geographical Sciences at the University of Maryland is accepting applications for our Fall 2023 Ph.D. Program. Applications are due by December 15th, 2022 and requirements are posted here: https://geog.umd.edu/graduate/application-requirements. The Department of Geographical Sciences at UMD offers generous funding, benefits, and tuition remission packages https://geog.umd.edu/graduate/assistantships-and-fellowships. Contact Dr. Leila De Floriani (deflo@umd.edu) or Dr. Rachel Haber (rberndts@umd.edu) for application or program questions. We hope to receive your application this season! 

3. The Department of Geographical Sciences at University of Maryland, College Park also has multiple job openings focused on conservation criminology and human dimensions of global environmental change: 

Assistant Research Professor/Post Doc Associate(https://ejobs.umd.edu/postings/101123). The intersectionality of wildlife trafficking and biosafety from zoonotic pathogens and vectors has not received significant attention although there are serious implications for health and national security. The applicant(s) research will support critical surveillance, biosafety, and security (SB&S) efforts by creating new, and enhancing existing, capacity to address risks at the intersection of human-animal-ecosystem health, wildlife trafficking and zoonotic pathogens using geographical sciences. The applicant will join a dynamic and diverse interdisciplinary team with the unique experience and expertise to focus on anthrax and other zoonotic pathogens of security concern and pandemic potential in South Africa’s and Mozambique’s segments of The Greater Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area (GLTFCA), an unfenced transnational peace park. 

Post-Doctoral Research Associate (https://ejobs.umd.edu/postings/101049). The illegal harvest and trade in wild flora and fauna undermines sustainable development, erodes local and global economies, poses security risks to local people, degrades the carbon capture potential of forests, and facilitates the spread of zoonotic diseases. No group of species so perfectly embodies the limits of current conservation practice than pangolins – the most trafficked wild mammals globally. Pangolins represent the socio-ecological systems within which many high value species are illegally harvested and traded globally. This research capitalizes on the latest advances in technology, interdisciplinary conservation science, big data, and artificial intelligence to generate and unify diverse data sources to inform sustainable and cost-effective solutions to the global biodiversity crisis associated with wildlife crime. The research will synthesize information from wildlife crime, population monitoring, and socio-ecological systems through cutting edge artificial intelligence (AI) analytical pipelines to support: 1) sustainable, socially legitimate, and locally led conservation interventions, 2) evidence-informed international policy implementation, and 3) predictive tools for addressing wildlife crime. 

Faculty Specialist (https://ejobs.umd.edu/postings/101048). This is a full time position responsible for supporting and coordinating a large international, multi-institution research collaboration including project management; assisting in the logistical planning of research activities including remote international fieldwork, workshops, meetings and conferences, overseeing travel arrangements; maintaining the projects’ research profiles on a project website; tracking milestones of project implementation specific to the funding requirements; editing technical reports and papers; assisting in vital communication between co-researchers, sponsors, and collaborative organizations; assisting the project director in administering the project by formulating and monitoring project budgets, coordinating and supervise the arrangements for foreign visitors and interns working on the projects, as well as various other tasks as required for the smooth functioning of large research projects. 

4. PhD Scholarship on Critical geographies, political ecologies of forestry and biosecurity in Northern Australia at the University of Wollongong, Australiaassociated with Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellowship Project FT 200100006 (https://scholars.uow.edu.au/display/jenny_atchison). 

5. Assistant Professor, Ecological Stewardship and Community-Centered Indigenous Research at the University of Connecticut 
   More info: https://jobs.hr.uconn.edu/en-us/job/496909/assistant-professor-ecological-stewardship-and-communitycentered-indigenous-research 
   Review of applications will begin on November 10, 2022, and continue until the position is filled. For more information please visit the unit website: Anthropology. For questions about this position, please contact Deborah Bolnick (deborah.bolnick@uconn.edu). 

6. Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Chester 
   More info: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CTZ680/lecturer-in-human-geography-06fte  
   Deadline: 1st of Nov, 2022 

7. One Faculty Position in Feminist Political and/or Economic Geographies in/of AsiaAssistant Professor (Tenure-Track) or Associate Professor (With Tenure) at the Department of Geography at the National University of Singapore 
   More info: https://careers.nus.edu.sg/NUS/job/Kent-Ridge-AssistantAssociate-Professor-%28FeministEconomic-Geographies%29-Kent/10946644/  

8. Adjunct Professor Environmental Studies at Dickinson College 
   Candidates should submit the following via QUEST (online application system) at https://jobs.dickinson.edu: Letter of interest; Contact details for two references (at least one speaking to teaching ability); Teaching statement that references the candidate’s teaching philosophy, experience and ability to teach an upper level course in their area of expertise; Current CV. Review of applications will begin on January 15, 2023 and continue until the position is filled. 

9. Funded PhD Position | Dartmouth College Graduate Program in Ecology, Evolution, Environment and Society 
   More info: https://ires.ubc.ca/funded-phd-position-dartmouth-college-graduate-program-in-ecology-evolution-environment-and-society/  

Calls 

1. Call for contributions: 
   Review of African Political Economy special issue, titled ‘The climate emergency in Africa: crisis, solutions and resistance’ 
   Themes: Extraction and the exploitation of fossil fuels // War, repression and climate change // Renewable energy sources and labour // Climate disaster in Africa and its impacts // Solutions 
   More info: https://roape.net/2022/10/06/roape-special-issue-call-for-contributors-the-climate-emergency-in-africa-crisis-solutions-and-resistance/  

2. Call for Abstracts:  
   International Conference “Sustainable Food and Biomass Futures. Localised approaches to agricultural change and bioeconomy”, June 22-24, 2023, Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development, Germany 
   More info here: https://www.transect.de/call-for-papers-international-conference-on-sustainable-food-and-biomass-futures  
   The deadline for abstract submission is December 7, 2022. 

3. CFPapers:  
   Confronting Climate Coloniality: 2023 American Association of Geographers (AAG) annual conference, 23-27 March 2023, Denver CO, USA https://www.aag.org/events/aag2023/ 
   Abstracts of papers (100-200 words max) should be submitted no later than 2 Nov 2022 at this link: https://tinyurl.com/mumxadrm 

4. Call for papers: 
   Ontological Destruction: Negotiating Trauma through Re-imagined & Practiced Human Non-Human Relations 
   Special session CFP, AAG, Denver, CO, Thursday March 23-Monday March 27, 2023. 
   Submit an abstract of no more than 200 word to Muhammad_Salman.Khan@kcl.ac.uk by November2, 2022.  
   The AAG deadline for submission is November 10, 2022. 

5. Call for Proposals: 
   Antipode’s “Right to the Discipline” grants 
   More info: https://antipodeonline.org/a-right-to-the-discipline/  

6. Call for papers: 
   Queer/trans ecologies: methodological considerations for critical geographical research 
   Deadline for EOIs 25 October 2022 
   To be considered for this panel please send a short statement of interest (250 words) outlining relevant research projects and areas of interest. Expressions of interest are also invited from those who wish to contribute in a facilitative role, for example as introducer or discussant. These and any questions should be directed to sage.brice@durham.ac.uk<mailto:sage.brice@durham.ac.uk> by 25 October 2022. 

7. Call for papers: 
   Feminist Political Economies of Displacement 
   Papers may engage with some of the following themes: 
   -     Theorizing feminist political economies of displacement 
   -     Displacement and social reproduction 
   -     Displaced women’s detention and unfree labor 
   -     Affect and displaced labor subjectivities 
   Organizers: Shae Frydenlund (Indiana University Bloomington) and Georgina Ramsay (University of Delaware) 

8. Call for papers: 
   Seeping, leaching, drifting: contaminated earth and colonial violence 
   AAG Annual Meeting. 23-27 March 2023. Denver, Colorado 
   Organisers: Kali Rubaii (Purdue University), Mark Griffiths (Newcastle University), Mikko Joronen (Tampere University) 
   We invite abstracts for papers that engage with the topic of toxified earth and colonial violence. Please send abstracts of ~250 words to jrubaii@purdue.edu<mailto:jrubaii@purdue.edu>; mark.griffiths@ncl.ac.uk<mailto:mark.griffiths@ncl.ac.uk>;  mikko.joronen@tuni.fi<mailto:mikko.joronen@tuni.fi> by 26 October 2022 

9. Call for papers: 
   Anti-caste political ecologies 
   Organizers: Amani Ponnaganti (Wisconsin-Madison), Sahithya Venkatesan (Rutgers), and Tanya Matthan (UC-Berkeley) 
   Please submit abstracts of no more than 250 words by October 31. Notice of acceptance will be sent out by November 4. Conference registration must be completed by November 10. 
   More info: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1drNgY1jYTEqb6-MH03_C6NTMYhHyrkVTW9qhjk2VeZg/edit  

Other news items 

1. Report: A decade of defiance – Global Witness’s report: https://www.globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/environmental-activists/decade-defiance/  

2. Opinion: Ecological civilization: why it is necessary and how can we create it? https://www.meer.com/en/70893-ecological-civilization  

3. Article:Energy transition from below – Undisciplined Environments: Energy transition from below: From climate colonialism to energy sovereignty (En esp: La transición energética desde abajo: Del colonialismo climático a la soberanía energética) 

We invite you to the next in the series of Asynchronous Workshops series for the POLLEN 2022/2023 4th Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network; “Political Ecology, Conservation and Agrarian Change” 24^th-31^st October

All workshop details are found on the POLLEN conference webpages here https://pollen2022.com/

Conservation and agrarian change have been staple interests of political ecology ever since it emerged as a discipline, with political ecologists exploring and engaging with cases and processes around the world. This on-line pre-conference workshop discusses on going and emerging political ecology approaches to conservation from a range of perspectives, including the neoliberalisation of nature in Protected Areas, the opportunities of ‘Convivial’ conservation, Other-Than-Human political ecologies of wildlife conservation, and the demand to cultivate ‘critical reflexivity’ for conservation. It engages in agrarian change through a focus on the reasons and effects of deagrarianisation and through political ecologies of ‘sustainable’ global food supply chains.

We have 6 Sessions in the workshop, each with a series of pre-recorded presentations by political ecologists from around the world. We invite you to watch these pre-recorded presentations, and to engage with the online discussion forum in order to share your own experiences, insights and questions. 4 out of our 6 Sessions also have a Live Discussion scheduled during this week, and we invite you to join us for those. We also have a Final workshop Live Discussion, to bring together the issues and interests and ideas shared across all 6 Sessions.

Session details (N.B. Please note the timings, as there is a switch from BST and CEST at the start of the workshop, to GMT and CET by the end of it):

1. “The production and neoliberalisation of nature in the PAs. Towards a public political ecology”  Noelia Garcia Rodriguez [no Live Discussion]
2. “Cultivating Critical Reflexivity for Conservation” Sam Staddon, Omar Saif, Fleur Nash, Timur Jack-Kadioglu. Live Discussion 24^th October (15.00-16.00 BST / 16.00-17.00 CEST)
3.  “Convivial conservation: opportunities and limitations?” Judith Krauss, Laila Sandroni and Mathew Bukhi Mabele. Live Discussion 28^th October (12.30-13.30 BST / 13.30-14.30 CEST)
4. “Other-than-Human Political Ecologies of Wildlife Conservation” Sayan Banerjee. Live Discussion 28^th October (14.00-15.00 BST / 15.00-16.00 CEST)
5.  “Deagrarianisation: what are the underlying reasons and effects with focus on livelihoods, poverty reduction and climate change” Sheona Shackleton, Klara Fischer            [No Live Discussion]
6.  “The political ecology of “sustainable” global food supply chains: prospects and limits for transformative change” Joss Lyons-White, Izabela Delabre, Rachael D. Garrett. Live Discussion 31^st October (14.00-15.00 GMT / 15.00-16.00 CET)
7. Final Workshop Live Discussion 31^st October (15.30-16.30 GMT / 16.30-17.30 CET)

ALL Live Discussions can be joined using this link:

• https://ed-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/87459939144   
• Passcode: POLLEN2022 

All workshop details are found on the POLLEN conference webpages here https://pollen2022.com/

All the very best, and we look forward to engaging with you through the Workshop,

Sam Staddon, Omar Saif and Sayan Banerjee

This workshop is convened by Sam Staddon and Omar Saif (University of Edinburgh, UK) and Sayan Banerjee (National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, India). This event is part of the Asynchronous Workshops series for the POLLEN 2022/2023 4th Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network: Political Ecology: North, South, and Beyond.

Good morning/afternoon/evening Pollinators

A final reminder to register for Today’s live discussion on Political Ecology, Power and Social Movements – 2 pm today, South Africa Time, 6 am US and Canada Mountain time.

Please click the link below to register and receive the zoom link for the event.:

https://ucalgary.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEldeyqrzwvGdGZxb9EGCUJuTmqETDhMgoL

Thanks

Adrian on behalf of  Ana, Conny and Deborah