December 2022 & January 2023 Updates

Dear POLLEN Members and Friends, 

We wish you a 2023 full of joy. Let´s keep spreading the word and the work of political ecologists.

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 

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Publications

Journal articles 

  1. Carton, W. Hougaard, I. Markusson, N. & Lund, JF. (2023) Is carbon removal delaying emission reductions? doi.org/10.1002/wcc.826 
  1. Debates in Post-development & Degrowth Vol. 2: https://politicalecologynetwork.files.wordpress.com/2023/01/04853-degrowthvolume2.pdf  
  1. Dunlap A and Riquito M. 2023. Social warfare for lithium extraction? Open-pit lithium mining, counterinsurgency tactics and enforcing green extractivism in northern Portugal. Energy Research & Social Science 95(1): 1-21. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629622004157  
  1. Iddrisu AY, Ouma S and Yaro JA (2022) When agricultural commercialization fails: ‘Re-visiting’ value-chain agriculture and its ruins in northern Ghana. Globalizations: 1–21. 
  1. Marks, D. 2023. Unequal and unjust: The political ecology of Bangkok’s increasing urban heat island” and the link to it is here: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00420980221140999
  1. Loureiro, M., et al. (2023) Governance Diaries: An Approach to Researching Marginalized People’s Lived Experiences in Difficult Settings. https://doi.org/10.1177/16094069221150106 
  1. Rita Calvário & Annette Aurélie Desmarais (2023) The feminist dimensions of food sovereignty: insights from La Via Campesina’s politics, The Journal of Peasant Studies, DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2022.2153042 
  1. Special issue: Introduction on infrastructural harm, providing a nice overview of infrastructural research, revealing gaps, raising questions and outlining the contributors: 
    Kallianos Y, Dunlap A and Dalakoglou D. 2022. Introducing Infrastructural Harm: Rethinking moral entanglements, spatio-temporal modalities, and resistance(s). Globalizations: 1-20. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14747731.2022.2153493 
  1. Special Issue on Territory and decolonisation: debates from the Global Souths: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rtwt20/6/4-6  
  1. Sullivan, S. and Ganuses, W.S. 2022 !Nara harvesters of the northern Namib: a cultural history through three photographed encounters. Journal of the Namibian Scientific Society 69: 115-139, Special Issue “Gobabeb@60” 

Books & book chapters 

  1. Stacey, Paul. (2023) Global Power and Local Struggles in Developing Countries. https://brill.com/display/title/60893  
  1. Sutherland, William (2022) Transforming conservation: A practical guide to evidence and decision-making. https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0321 Open access. 

Events & Announcements 

  1. A message from the newly formed Enviornmental Justice Studies mailinglist: 
    Dear colleagues, 
    Following recurring discussions with several of you over the years, I am excited to announce the launch of EJList, a mailing list specifically devoted to the field of environmental justice studies. EJList is meant to become the go-to international email discussion group promoting the development and dissemination of environmental and climate justice research and scholarship – something which was long overdue in the field! 
    The list may be used for the discussion of any topic related to environmental justice and climate justice activism, regulation, and research, including (but not limited to) reports on research and publications; calls for papers and proposals; notices of meetings, conferences, reading groups; job announcements; etc.  
    If, like me, you are interested in staying up to date with the latest developments in the field and/or in easily reaching out to the environmental justice research community, join the list by clicking on the Subscribe link from the list webpage. 
    The list is open to everyone, even though the target audience is environmental/climate justice scholars. It is hosted by UCLouvain in Belgium and uses the mailing list service Sympa, a free and open-source software. 
    Please also do forward this announcement to your own environmental justice colleagues, students, and networks; the more the merrier.  
    All the best,  
    Brendan C.  
    EJList” 
  1. Climate Change and the Politics of Land 
    Online seminar by Prof. Saturnino “June” M. Borras, Jr., Fellow at the Transnational Institute 
    11 January 2023, 18:00-19:30 (GMT+9) 
    Registration link: https://www.kasasustainability.org/environmental-change-workshop  
    Organized by KASA Sustainability, and supported by the Sophia University Graduate Program of Global Studies, and the Institute of Comparative Culture. 
    For any concerns, please contact we@kasasustainability.org
  1. Workshop 4 Water Ethics (W4W), the Swiss Chinese Law Association (SCLA) and Globethics.net are hosting this International Conference on Water Management and Water Ethics in the Chinese context, in celebration of the recent publication of the Chinese translation of Blue Ethics: Ethical Perspectives on Sustainable, Fair Water Resources Use and Management and Water Ethics: Principles and Guidelines on 07 December 2022,11:00-12:50 CET(Click Here to Register
  1. PhD Course – Political Ecology of Land and Food Systems 
    When: 30 May-02 June 2023 
    Where: Bergen, Norway 
    Organizers: Department of Geography, University of Bergen + several Norwegian POLLEN nodes 
    Keynotes: Michael Watts and Nancy Peluso (UC Berkeley) 
    Course website: https://www.uib.no/en/course/GEO903 
    Registration form: https://skjemaker.app.uib.no/view.php?id=13951063 
    Application deadline: 01 March 2023 
  1. Environmental justice and violence: Resistances, articulations, and intersections 
    When: 4-6 October 2023 
    Where: San Cristobal de las Casas, Mexico 
    More info: https://enjust.net/conference-mexico-2023/  

Vacancies 

  1. Phd Position at Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies: 
    The successful candidate will work within the 4-year research project entitled “Environmental Human Rights Defenders – Change Agents at the Crossroads of Climate change, Biodiversity and Cultural Conservation”, funded by the Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development (FORMAS). In a collaborative and ambitious research environment, participating researchers will collaborate to produce high level and cutting-edge research at the nexus of academia, society and policy. 
    Environmental human rights defenders (EHRD) are increasingly being recognized as pivotal actors in transformations towards sustainability, biodiversity protection and climate action. In addition, EHRD often defend the rights of indigenous peoples, local communities and other marginalized groups.  However, they may also be facing intimidation and violence for their efforts. Rarely are the struggles for political, cultural, social, economic and environmental rights made visible in international policy arenas. In this inter-disciplinary project, we seek to investigate how and to what extent are EHRD confronting these challenges, and acting as agents of change for cultural and biodiversity conservation and climate change mitigation and adaptation. 
    Deadline: 16 of feb 2023 
    More info: https://lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:577514/  
  1. 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. 
  1. The Department of Geographical Sciences at University of Maryland, College Park, is seeking a Post-Doctoral Associate in Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change. This position will be part of a large multi-year international research project, “Operation Pangolin: Unifying Diverse Data Streams to Redefine Species Conservation,” including other conservation criminology-related research as well as new research proposed by the applicant.  
    Position open until filled. 
    More info: https://ejobs.umd.edu/postings/101049  
  1. Project Researcher in Urban Governance (Södertörn University, Sweden) 
    We are looking for a motivated and qualified researcher to join our project team and collaborate on the development and delivery of project outcomes targeting practitioners, planners, and policymakers in the frame of contemporary aims and ambitions for more participatory and inclusive urban governance.  
    The School of Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies of Södertörn University is located at Flemingsberg Campus, Stockholm Region. We offer an international, collaborative, and highly interdisciplinary working environment. Our ambition is to recruit a talented researcher who has a strong interest in social and environmental justice and equity, the positioning of less-represented groups in relation to contemporary urban challenges. 
    Deadline: 24 Feb 2023 
    Please see the call text here: https://www.sh.se/english/sodertorn-university/meet-sodertorn-university/this-is-sodertorn-university/vacant-positions?rmpage=job&rmjob=6236&rmlang=UK 

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/ 
  1. 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 
  1. Call for Papers: On Relationalities: Politics, Narrative, Sociality 
    The theme of relationality is now centre stage in contemporary political and social thought. From relational ontology to post-foundational ethics and black feminisms, relationality has far-reaching implications for debates in politics, ethics, and aesthetics. For this symposium we invite engagements with, revisions of, and challenges to relationality as well as interventions about its role in the humanities and arts today. Relationality is a transdisciplinary topic that questions the academy, and compels us to rethink the conventions of an event like this. Our institutional and disciplinary practices normalise a certain politics of relationality while foreclosing others. For that reason, we are particularly open to interdisciplinary contributions from across the humanities, social sciences, and beyond. Colleagues working in (but not limited to) sociology, gender studies, history, black studies, queer theory, literary studies, politics, decolonial studies, cultural geography, disability studies, visual cultures, anthropology, neurodiversity studies, indigenous thought, environmental studies, and philosophy are invited to participate. 
  1. Call for Proposals for a Special Issue on Political Ecology by the Ecology, Economy and Society – The INSEE Journal 
    One of the relatively new academic traditions to emerge in the 1980s, political ecology has emerged in recent decades as a powerful analytical tool to explain how capitalist development processes affect the environment, how international conservation organizations influence national governments, and how environmental changes threaten local livelihoods. Political ecology, as an interdisciplinary field, often brings together political economy and cultural ecology, with an emphasis on multi-scalar analysis that elucidates linkages between local/everyday events and regional/national/global/planetary processes.  It illuminates ‘the political’ in ecological questions through the examination of power relationships and elucidation of forms of power, cross-scale links in political processes in view of which environmental decisions are made by communities, and the dynamics of the market and priorities of the nations.  
    EES is proposing a special issue on Political Ecology for Volume 6(2), to be published in July 2023. We are inviting: 
    Original research papers – not exceeding 8000 words; and 
    Insights from the field – not exceeding 2000 words 
    Detailed submission guidelines are available on the journal website. 
  1. CfP ECAS – Disrupting “modernity” – Towards alternative bioeconomic futures in Africa – deadline Jan 23rd. 
    Organizers: Leiyo Singo (University of Bayreuth), Dr. Richard Mbunda (University of Dar es Salaam) 
    This panel discusses alternatives to the mainstream bioeconomy narrative. Its core idea — an economy that respects environmental limits and provides enough resources for a fulfilling life — contains space for a plurality of interpretations, which we seek to showcase with a view from Africa. 
    Long Abstract: 
    The policy field of “bioeconomy” has emerged in the Global North as an attempt to unify the goals of climate change mitigation and sustaining economic growth. It envisions an economy that deploys only renewable resources. Although policies based on it have been directed at economies of the Global North, it is obvious that a transformation of the resource base from fossils to renewables will have tremendous impacts on economies of the Global South, including land-rich economies in Africa.  
    Scholars and activists from the Degrowth movement in the Global North have been criticizing the ethical and epistemic presuppositions of the mainstream bioeconomy narrative and its underlying notions of modernity and progress. However, the voices of African stakeholders remain scarce. 
    This panel intends to present views from Africa on alternatives to the mainstream bioeconomy narrative. Its core idea — an economy that respects environmental limits and provides enough resources for a fulfilling life — contains space for a plurality of interpretations for which we use the notion “bio_economy”. The goal of the panel is to identify and discuss African variants of this plurality. 
    Particularly, we invite contributions that present voices from members of social groups in Africa which find themselves at the margins of public or political debates about their conceptions of desirable land-use, agriculture, or other areas relevant for a bioeconomy; their attitudes to agricultural technologies, GMOs, notions of productivity; their conceptions of a fulfilling life; strategies for politicization of marginalized visions of land-use, agriculture, pastoralism etc. 
    Submit an abstract: https://ecasconference.org/2023/programme#12589 
  1. CfP: The Great Convergence? Agricultural Modernization and its Others in Global Perspective 
    With this panel, we want to discuss focal points for convergence as well as divergence among discourses on agricultural modernization (and its others) and how they shape local realities. In how far do the politically dominating narratives of agricultural modernity in different parts of the world converge despite their apparent differences? How do these narratives manifest in agrarian policies, practices, and imaginaries? Where do these ideas originate from, and how do they shape realities on the ground? And finally, what other visions of agriculture exist, where do they originate from, and in what might they converge globally, too? 
    More info: https://dkg2023.de/sitzungen/the-great-convergence-agricultural-modernization-81592 
     

Other news items 

November 2022 Updates

November 2022 Update 

Dear POLLEN Members and Friends, 

Winter finally arrived to Sweden in mid-November. In Lund, where the Secretariat is now based, it snowed and the snow even stayed for a few days! Once the snow melted away, the darkness took over as “saving the planet” was promoted to the top of the list of depoliticized issues by becoming the only cause internationally accepted for the eventwashing of repressive authoritarian regimes. The need for critical and emancipatory political ecology scholarship and action couldn’t be bigger these days…

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 

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Publications 

Journal articles 

  1. Ali Rafaeifar et al., (2022). Decarbonize the military – mandate emissions reporting. Nature. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03444-7  
  1. Bluwstein, J., & Cavanagh, C. (2022). Rescaling the land rush? Global political ecologies of land use and cover change in key scenario archetypes for achieving the 1.5° C Paris agreement target. The Journal of Peasant Studies, Ahead-of-print, https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2022.2125386
  1. Luque-Lora, Rogelio (2022) The trouble with relational values. Environmental Values, Fast Track https://doi.org/10.3197/096327122X16611552268681  
  1. Lyons, K. (2022) ‘Nature’ and territories as victims: Decolonizing Colombia’s transitional justice process. American Anthropologist. https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.13798  
  1. McConnell, K. (2022) ‘The Green New Deal’ as partisan cue: Evidence from a survey experiment in the rural U.S. Environmental Politics. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2022.2090655 
  1. Pas, A., & Cavanagh, C. (2022). Understanding ‘night grazing’: Conservation governance, rural inequalities, and shifting responses ‘from above and below’ throughout the nychthemeron in Laikipia, Kenya. Geoforum134, 143-153. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016718522000926 
  1. Special Issue Acme Journal: Monumentality, memoryscapes, and the politics of place. https://acme-journal.org/index.php/acme/issue/view/131  

Books & book chapters 

  1. Cammack, P. (2022) The politics of global competitiveness. Oxford University Press. https://academic.oup.com/book/38762?login=true  
  1. Fabricant, N. (2022). Fighting to breathe: Race, toxicity, and the rise of youth activism in Baltimore. California Series in Public Anthropology. University of California Press. 1st Edition. https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520379329/fighting-to-breathe   
  1. Fletcher, R. (2022). Failing forward: The rise and fall of neoliberal conservation. University of California Press. 1st Edition. https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520390690/failing-forward 
  1. Ramnath, K. (2023). Boats in a storm: Law, migration, and decolonization in South and South East Asia, 1942-1962. Stanford University Press. https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=34914 
  1. Rodrigues Machaqueiro, R. (2023) The carbo calcultation: Global climate policy, forests, and transnational governance in Brazil and Mozambique. The University of Arizona Press. https://uapress.arizona.edu/book/the-carbon-calculation  

Events 

  1. Climate and land (in)justice: inequalities, intersections, and opportunities for justice in Southeast Asia. 
    When: Nov 30, 2022 
    More info: https://www.kasasustainability.org/environmental-change-workshop  
  1. DIALOGUES IN RADICAL GEOGRAPHY Third Edition: The Cost of Living under Intensified Austerity 
    Featuring Professor Mia Gray & Tilly Mason 
    Friday 16th December, 15.00-16.30 GMT 
    Live at the RGS-IBG building in London and synchronously online 
    Tickets are free and open to all: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dialogues-in-radical-geography-tickets-466220717717  

Vacancies 

  1. 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! 
  1. 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. 
  1. The Department of International Environment and Development Studies (Noragric), Faculty of Landscape and Society (LANDSAM) at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) has a vacant 4-year PhD–position in International Environment and Development Studies with one year of project work included. 
    We invite candidates to develop their research ideas on the links between land dispossession, elite capture and growth of jihadist groups in the West African Sahel. Recent research has pointed at land dispossession and elite capture in explaining why many people in the Sahel decide to join armed insurgency groups. This PhD position will be part of a new five-year project funded by an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) entitled LANDRESPONSE, which will study conflict and migration in the Sahel as parallel processes with potentially similar causes. 
    More info: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/234930/phd-within-international-environment-and-development-studies-violent-resistance-and-land-governance-in-the-sahel  
  1. The Department of International Environment and Development Studies (Noragric), Faculty of Landscape and Society (LANDSAM) at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) has a vacant 4-year PhD–position in International Environment and Development Studies with one year of project work included. 
    We invite candidates to develop their research ideas on migration from West Africa to Europe with a focus on land dispossession as a potential driver. This PhD position will be part of a new five-year project funded by an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) entitled LANDRESPONSE, which will study conflict and migration in the Sahel as parallel processes with potentially similar causes. 
    More info: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/234936/phd-scholarship-within-international-environment-and-development-studies-migration-from-west-africa  
  1. The Department of International Environment and Development Studies (Noragric), Faculty of Landscape and Society at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) has TWO VACANTS position as researcher for 39 months related to a new five-year project funded by an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) entitled LANDRESPONSE. This research project will study conflict and migration in the Sahel as parallel processes with potentially similar causes. 
    Vacant 1 more info: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/234950/researcher-within-international-environment-and-development-studies-land-use-conflicts-in-the-sahel  
    Vacant 2 more info: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/234954/researcher-within-international-environment-and-development-studies-migration-from-west-africa  
  1. The University of Manchester is seeking to appoint two Research Associates for the Sustainable Forest Transitions (SFT) project. SFT is a five-year, £1.7 million project funded as part of a UKRI Research Frontier grant based within the Global Development Institute in the School of Environment, Education and Development. The SFT project will conduct ground-breaking research to better understand how reforestation drivers affect forests and the communities that depend on them. Over the next five years, SFT will study the changing nature of forest cover and human development at unprecedented scale and detail. The SFT project will start working in Mexico, Brazil, India, and Nepal and very possibly expand to other countries. These two posts offer the opportunity for outstanding individuals to make a significant contribution to an exciting international sustainability research programme based at the University of Manchester. For a clearer sense of SFT’s research agenda, please see the publications pages of the project’s website (https://sites.manchester.ac.uk/sftresearch/). 
  1. Three PhD studentships on the social and environmental outcomes of reforestation processes at the University of Manchester. 
    More info: https://www.findaphd.com/phds/programme/three-phd-studentships-on-the-social-and-environmental-outcomes-of-reforestation-processes/?p5859  
    Deadline: 5th of January, 2023 
  1. Two Doctoral Students: Intersectional Political Ecologies of the Commons at the University of Laussane. 
    More info: https://career5.successfactors.eu/career?career%5fns=job%5flisting&company=universitdP&navBarLevel=JOB%5fSEARCH&rcm%5fsite%5flocale=fr%5fFR&career_job_req_id=20469&selected_lang=en_US&jobAlertController_jobAlertId=&jobAlertController_jobAlertName=&browserTimeZone=Europe/Zurich&_s.crb=j3u6SlZI8utLaBZsfW7knm%2fxBt1nR9WkdnQB13BzWds%3d  
    Deadline: December 10, 2022 
  1. Postdoctoral Researcher SNSF (80%) in Intersectional Political Ecologies at the University of Laussane. 
    More info: https://career5.successfactors.eu/career?career%5fns=job%5flisting&company=universitdP&navBarLevel=JOB%5fSEARCH&rcm%5fsite%5flocale=fr%5fFR&career_job_req_id=20549&selected_lang=en_US&jobAlertController_jobAlertId=&jobAlertController_jobAlertName=&browserTimeZone=Europe/Zurich&_s.crb=xVWRjLJpvrGYe%2bsPgKFYSwFEpDw2%2fB4gL08CLGMtIik%3d  
    Deadline: December 10, 2022 
  1. 3-year vacancy for a PhD Candidate in STS at NTNU. 
    The PhD candidate will work within the area of Sustainability Transitions research focusing on transformative policy mixes for cross-sectoral interactions and societal acceptance of Hydrogen. The current development of the hydrogen economy in Norway is built on a multi-level logic where regional, national and international dynamics interact, and where interests across sectors need to be aligned to succeed. This project uses the concept of transformative policy mixes for cross-sectoral interactions to understand the interactions between levels and sectors, to advance community acceptance, policy acceptance and market acceptance for hydrogen in Norway and beyond. 
    Deadline: December 5, 2022 
    More info: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/232563/phd-candidate-in-science-and-technology-studies  
  1. One Faculty Positionin Feminist Political and/or Economic Geographies in/of Asia Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track) or Associate Professor (With Tenure) at the National University of Singapore. 
    Deadline: December 5, 2022 
    More info: https://fass.nus.edu.sg/geog/2022/10/03/faculty-position-in-feminist-political-and-or-economic-geographies-in-of-asia/  

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/ 
  1. 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 
  1. Call for Proposals: 
    Antipode’s “Right to the Discipline” grants 
    More info: https://antipodeonline.org/a-right-to-the-discipline/ 
  1. Call for Papers: 
    Contesting human-wildlife interactions in the context of commons 
    More info: https://beastlybusiness.org/2022/11/17/cfp-iasc-2023-contesting-human-wildlife-interactions-in-the-context-of-commons/  
    Deadline: 12th of december, 2022 
  1. Call for Papers: 
    Environment and Society: Advances in research. Thematic focus: Reforestation.  
    Deadline for abstracts: December 5, 2022 
    More info: https://journals.berghahnbooks.com/_uploads/air-es/ares-cfp-2022-v15.pdf  
  1. Call for Proposals: 
    Ecology, economy, and society – The INSEE Journal is an open access, peer reviewed journal of Indian Society for Ecological Economics (INSEE<https://ecoinsee.org/>), a registered society since 1999. It is indexed in Scopus<https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/21101049095> and recognized by the UGC-CARE<https://ugccare.unipune.ac.in/Apps1/Home/Index>. EES offers authors a forum to address socio-environmental issues from, across and within the natural and social sciences, with an aim to promote methodological pluralism and inter-disciplinary research. 
    EES is proposing a special issue on Political Ecology for Volume 6(2), to be published in July 2023. 
    Deadline for abstract submissions: December 31, 2022 
    More info: Write to insee.ees@gmail.com<mailto:insee.ees@gmail.com> or kuntala.lahiri-dutt@anu.edu.au<mailto:kuntala.lahiri-dutt@anu.edu.au
     

Other news items 

  1. An ecosocialist strategy to win the future by Sabrina Fernandes: https://www.rosalux.de/en/news/id/49515/an-ecosocialist-strategy-to-win-the-future  
  1. The ESRC STEPS Centre has updated its free online course on Pathways to Sustainability, with a series of six video lectures and reading lists. It’s being made available open access, and we hope it will be of interest as background material for students and teachers on courses related to sustainability, political ecology and international development. 
    https://steps-centre.org/online-course-pathways-to-sustainability/ 
    The course introduces a set of ideas, approaches, cases and methods for critical research and action on sustainability. Sections include: 
    The Pathways Approach  
    Uncertainty  
    Technology & Innovation 
    Resource Politics 
    Policy Processes  
    Methods and Methodologies  
    *There is no fee or time-limit for individuals who wish to take the course, and all the videos and most reading suggestions are Open Access. 
  1. What are the ties between farming and finance? More info: http://institutionallandscapes.org/  

Political Ecology, Power and Social Movements session 3 (OCT 10th )

ENVIRONMENTAL CARE AND DEVELOPMENT ALTERNATIVES

PRESENTATION: “INTERPRETATION MACHINES IN NATURE CONSERVATION” by Larry Lohmann

Larry Lohmann works with The Corner House, a Dorset-based solidarity and research organization. He is a founding member of the Durban Group for Climate Justice and chairs the advisory board of the World Rainforest Movement, with which he has been associated for 25 years. He spent much of the 1980s with Thailand’s Project for Ecological Recovery and more recently has been working with social movements in Ecuador and other countries. Among his books are Pulping the South: Industrial Tree Plantations in the Global Paper Economy (1996, with Ricardo Carrere), Carbon Trading: A Critical Conversation on Privatization and Power (2006), Mercados de carbono: La neoliberalizacion del clima (2012), Energy, Work and Finance (2014, with Nicholas Hildyard) and Cadenas de bloques, automatizacion y trabajo: Mecanizando la confianza (2020). His articles have appeared in academic journals in political economy, environment, geography, accounting, Asian studies, law, science studies, socialism, anthropology and development and have been translated into many languages. Most are available at www.thecornerhouse.org.uk.    

Video Link: https://youtu.be/kunjLOYcw6M    

GUEST PANEL: “LATIN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES: POLITICAL ECOLOGY AND ALTERNATIVES TO DEVELOPMENT”

Chair: Miriam Lang, Universidad Andina Simon Bolivar Ecuador.  

This session features the research of five young Latin American scholars who are part of the first generation of students of the Masters in Political Ecology and Alternatives to Development, created in 2020 at Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar in Quito, Ecuador. This Masters Program provides a transdisciplinary base for young scholars with an activist background to strengthen specifically southern and Latin American perspectives on political ecology. It additionally draws from different recent strands of Latin American critical knowledge production, e.g. on alternatives to development, critical geography, decoloniality or subaltern feminist approaches. The students come from a variety of Latin American countries and disciplines. In this panel, biologists from Uruguay and Ecuador come together with a Venezuelan expert in industrial relations, an anthropologist from Colombia and an Ecuadorian engineer in ecotourism. Their research focuses on the ongoing disputes between hegemonic and counter-hegemonic territorialities and modes of living, perspectives on the economy, societal nature relations and democratic decision-making, which characterize socio-ecological conflicts in Latin America today.  

1.         Introduction by the chair (Miriam Lang, Ecuador): Video Link:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpoX-NIW8yg    

2.         Case 1: Approaches to a Political Ecology of Bottled Water in Bogotá, Colombia Anyi Castelblanco: Video Link:  https://youtu.be/U4060hNrVJE    

3.         Case 2: Community Tourism as a Local Alternative to the Globalized Neoliberal Tourism Model Lina Noboa Video Link:  https://vimeo.com/756012300    

4.         Case 3: Impacts of Dumps on Rural Livelihoods Héctor Jesús Pérez Zamora: Video Link:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enSqZw6Dp3o&t=11s    

5.         Discussion Melissa Moreano Video Link:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqzRHHGUggI

August/September 2022 Updates

Dear POLLEN Members and Friends,

It was a dry and hot end of summer in southern Sweden, where the POLLEN Secretariat now resides. Since we skipped the August newsletter, brace yourselves for a two-month newsletter. It is a bit longer than the usual newsletter, but it is full of lots of new content!

Has your POLLEN node NOT been introduced to the rest of the network? 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 the latest publications, CfPs, and more from our lively community.

With best regards from your POLLEN Secretariat,

Torsten Krause | Mine Islar | Wim Carton | Juan Samper | Lina Lefstad | Fabiola Espinoza | Kelly Dorkenoo

Getting to know your fellow POLLEN members

From next month’s newsletter forward we will continue the monthy practice of getting to know your fellow POLLEN members. If your node is keen to share your work, please do not hesitate to tell us! You can do so by sending us an e-mail to: politicalecologynetwork@acaroldoll

Promoting POLLEN collaboration 

Do you write with other members of POLLEN?
To gain visibility for collaborations across our network, we invite you to consider adding something along these lines to your acknowledgments: 
“This paper represents collaborative work with colleagues in the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN).”

PUBLICATIONS 

Books & Book Chapters

Baruah, M. (2023) Slow disaster: Political ecology of hazards and everyday life in the Brahmaputra Valley, Assam. Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Slow-Disaster-Political-Ecology-of-Hazards-and-Everyday-Life-in-the-Brahmaputra/Baruah/p/book/9780367509774

Dunlap, A. & Brock, A. (2022). Enforcing ecocide: Power, policing & planetary militarization. Pallgrave Macmillan. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-99646-8

Gemählich, A. (2022). The Kenyan cut flower industry & global market dynamics. Boydell & Brewer. https://boydellandbrewer.com/9781847012951/the-kenyan-cut-flower-industry-and-global-market-dynamics/

Herbeck, J. & Siriwardane-de Zoysa, R. (2022). Transformations of Urban Coastal Network(s): Meanings and Paradoxes of Nature-Based Solutions for Climate Adaptation in Southeast Asia. In: Misiune, I., Depellegrin, D., Egarter Vigl, L. (eds) Human-Nature Interactions. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-01980-7_6

Ponte, S., Noe, C. & Brockington, D. (2022)
Contested sustainability: The political ecology of conservation and development in Tanzania. Boydell & Brewer. https://boydellandbrewer.com/9781847013224/contested-sustainability/. OPEN ACCESS!

Selby, J., Daoust, G., & Hoffman, C. (2022) Divided environments: An international political ecology of climate change, water, and scarcity. Cambridge University Press. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/divided-environments/0621F20A4464C4E05BF76980BBF25D3F#fndtn-information

Vehrs, H.P. (2022) Pokot Pastoralism: Environmental change and socio-economic transformation in North-West Kenya. Boydell & Brewer. https://boydellandbrewer.com/9781847012968/pokot-pastoralism/

Journal articles 
Godamunne, V. et al. (2022) Shored curfews: Constructions of pandemic islandness in contemporary Sri Lanka. Maritime Studies (21), 209-221 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40152-022-00262-5#citeas

Gonzalez-Duarte, Columba. 2022. Borders of Care: Ethnography with the Monarch Butterfly, American Ethnologist website, 18 May 2022, [https://americanethnologist.org/features/reflections/borders-of-care-ethnography-with-the-monarch-butterfly]

Kass, H., 2022. Food anarchy and the State monopoly on hunger. Journal of Peasant Studies (Ahead of print), 1-20. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03066150.2022.2101099?src=

Selby, J. (2022) International/inter-carbonic relations. International Relations (36). https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00471178221116015

Siders, A.R., 2022. The adminsitrator’s dilemma: Closing the gap between climate adaptation justice in theory and practice. Environmental Science and Policy (137), 280-289. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1462901122002714

Voicu, S. & Vasile, M. (2022) Grabbing the commons: Forest rights, capital and legal struggle in the Carpathian Mountains. Political Geography (98). https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0962629822001329

Way, R., et al., 2022. Empirically grounded technology forecasts and the energy transition. Joule (6), 1-26. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S254243512200410X

Events

Hybrid Roundtable on Agroextractivism

Date: 21st of October 2022

Workshop Topic 

The motivation for this roundtable is to advance the definition and understanding of agro/agrarian extractivisms. We want to have a serious debate on the different nuances and meaning of extractivism, extrativismo (from Brazilian Portuguese), and other variations of the concept that are used in theory and practice. There are four broad guiding questions that will be explored during this roundtable discussion.

  1. How are agroextractivisms defined?
  2. What are the roots (and consequences) of the different language’s uses of the extractivism concept?
  3. What should be included in the definition of extractivism and what should not?
  4. Do the resistance efforts against agroextractivisms differ from resistance and transformative alternatives to other types of extractivisms?

The roundtable features an exciting line-up! We will have an opening greeting by Anja Nygren, University of Helsinki to introduce the event. 

Facilitator: Markus Kröger, Univeristy of Helsinki

Speakers:

  • Sérgio Sauer, University of Brasilia
  • Maria Ehrnström-Fuentes, Åbo Akademi University
  • Alberto Alonso Fradejas, Utrecht University

More speakers to be announced!!

Discussants:

  • Barry Gills, University of Helsinki
  • Franklin Obeng-Odoom, University of Helsinki

Language: The discussion will be conducted in English and simultaneous interpretation will be available in Spanish on Zoom (on Zoom you can choose to listen in Spanish or English). The English discussion and Spanish interpretation will both be recorded and made later available on the EXALT YouTube channel.

Registration: There is no cost to attend either in-person or on Zoom, but registration is required. Please register by October 19 using this form. Please note there is limited space to attend in person.

Please do not hesitate to contact EXALT via e-mail (exalt@helsinki.fi) if you have any questions or need additional information. We look forward to seeing you on October 21, 2022.

Stories from the Anthropos-not-seen

Date: 29th of September 2022

Link: https://ppeh.sas.upenn.edu/events/stories-anthropos-not-seen

Description:

Feminist critiques of the Anthropocene suggest how this name for a new geological time risks uncritical assumption of an unmarked concept of history, humanity, and the geologic record. Native scholars in particular point out that the environmental impacts of settler colonialism have long created a present that their ancestors would have characterized as a dystopian future (Whyte 2018). Historically, countries in the Global South have the smallest carbon footprint, yet today they are on the frontlines of planetary overheating, facing extreme weather, and the increasingly frequent socio-natural disasters endemic to global warming. Black, Indigenous, and diverse communities of the Global South possess practical knowledge and lived expertise of climate change that should be shaping policy, energy transitions, and alternative economic proposals. 

During the 2022-2023 academic year, this four-part conversational series brings feminist philosophers, humanists, and social scientists in dialogue with lawyers, natural scientists, engineers, policy makers, and other transdisciplinary and community-based practitioners.

Curated discussions build on what Marisol de la Cadena (2015) calls the “anthropos-not-seen”: those ways of making and doing life disappeared or marginalized by colonialism and capitalism and further perpetuated by a singular optics of Anthropocene thinking (Myers 2019).  The series introduces conceptual and methodological frameworks that actively expand legal paradigms, foster transdisciplinary collaborations, nurture anti-colonial sciences, and develop participatory-action research praxes. It is designed to listen for the silences and exclusions too often perpetuated even within progressive agendas for climate justice, rights of nature rulings, and citizen science projects. 

Centering ontological diversity and intersectional justice struggles, the series explores proposals and practices that pose renewed questions about the politics of solidarity and alliance-building.

Kristina Lyons, Topic Director 

Bethany Wiggin, Program Director 

Online book talk: Chao, In the Shadow of Palms

Date: 26th of September 2022

Link: https://stavanger.zoom.us/j/65253287040?pwd=UktqOFdkclNGYXZXQURtUmRrTEp1dz09

Description:

With In the Shadow of the Palms, Sophie Chao examines the multispecies entanglements of oil palm plantations in West Papua, Indonesia, showing how Indigenous Marind communities understand and navigate the social, political, and environmental demands of the oil palm plant. As Chao notes, it is no secret that the palm oil sector has destructive environmental impacts: it greatly contributes to tropical deforestation and is a major driver of global warming. Situating the plant and the transformations it has brought within the context of West Papua’s volatile history of colonization, ethnic domination, and capitalist incursion, Chao traces how Marind attribute environmental destruction not just to humans, technologies, and capitalism but also to the volition and actions of the oil palm plant itself. By approaching cash crops as both drivers of destruction and subjects of human exploitation, Chao rethinks capitalist violence as a multispecies act. In the process, Chao centers how Marind fashion their own changing worlds and foreground Indigenous creativity and decolonial approaches to anthropology.

Feminisms and degrowth workshop

Date: 14th-16th of October 2022

Where: Lund University

Preliminary programme: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gGRg1Q4-Xu68GaV6m1_4H0Wu_lFoMB9Qy8Jd8M8rgYs/edit

Registration: https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=lICmegRhpkG0Q9S1JFH2Fw3gr-Z7Q4tIlUqc9U2LEqFUOVdTNVpZRlJYVE9SN0w3SlJMWVZGTDZZOS4u

 
Conference: Decolonizing geograpjy and environmental studies?

Date: 6th-7th of October 2022

Info: https://www.unil.ch/igd/decolonizing-geography-and-environmental-studies

Vacancies
Call for three (four) PhD positions in the Medical Humanities graduate programme at Uppsala University

Deadline
: 7th of October 2022

The graduate programme in Medical Humanities at Uppsala University will commence in January 2023, involving five PhD studetns with interdisciplinary projects relating to Medical humanities. The PhD students will have supervisors from both the medical and humanistic/social science desciplinary domains, and will be affiliated to and receive support from the Centre for Medical Humanities through the graduate programme.

More info: https://www.idehist.uu.se/news/?tarContentId=1019894

PhD position the University of Oulu’s (Finland) Biodiverse Anthropocenes Research Programme.

Deadline: 6th of October 2022

More info: https://rekry.saima.fi/certiahome/open_job_view.html?did=5600&lang=en&id=000013883&jc=1

PhD position at the Marine Governance Group at Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity (Odenburg, Germany).

Deadline: 22nd of September 2022

More info: https://recruitingapp-5442.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/1123/Description/2

Post-doc position with IRD/G-EAU (France)_Cambodia hydrosocial territories

Deadline: 30th of September 2022

More info (in French):https://www.ird.fr/post-doctorat-etudier-les-transformations-des-territoires-socio-hydrologiques-du-haut-delta-du

Tenure-track position –  Associate professor in Development Geography at Mount Holyoke College.

Deadline: 1st of October 2022

More info: https://careers.mtholyoke.edu/en-us/job/493052/assistant-professor-of-geography

Social Science Researcher at University of Oregon Ecosystem Workforce Programme (Job type: Permanent)

Deadline: Until filled – Reviews started September 2022

More info: https://www.conservationjobboard.com/job-listing-social-science-researcher-eugene-oregon/4499681185

Two tenure-track Asst. Prof. in Environmental Studies positions at St. Mary’s College of Maryland

Deadline: Until filled – Reviews begin 1st of October 2022

More info:https://apply.interfolio.com/112034 & https://apply.interfolio.com/112030

Tenure-track position in Latinx Studies with a focus on Afro-Latinx issues and social movements at the Latin American Studies Program of Bucknell University

Deadline: Review of applications will begin 15th of October 2022

More info:https://careers.bucknell.edu/cw/en-us/job/497165/tenuretrack-position-in-latinx-studies-with-a-focus-on-afrolatinx-issues-and-social-movements

Calls for Papers/Applications/etc.
CfPapers: Understanding the embeddedness of individuals within the larger system to support the energy transition

Deadline: Abstract submission to  katharina@biely.net by 31st of October 2022

More info:https://resource-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/content/23402504/data/v1

CfPapers: Climate, justice, and the politics of emotion – A symposium at University of California, Riverside

Deadline: 1st of October 2022

More info:https://www.asle.org/calls-for-papers/climate-justice-and-the-politics-of-emotion/

CfPapers: Land and sustainable food transformations – Elementa special issue

Deadline: 14th of January 2023

More info:https://online.ucpress.edu/elementa/pages/land_and_sustainable_food_transformations

CfProposals: 3rd European Rural Geographies Conference in Groningen, The Netherlands

Deadlines:
– Call for session proposals: Mid-October
– Call for papers: Mid-December
– Paper submission: Mid-January
– Acceptance of papers: Early to mid-February

Short description:

The conference themer is Rural Geographies in Transition. Rural aereas in Europe are under increasing and intersecting pressures, but many of these areas seem to be resilient. The landscapes, the actors, the uses, the challenges, and how the rural is produced and reproduced, are all changing rapidly. This brings forward new research questions and asks for new approaches, both in term sof theoretical perspectives and in terms of empirics, on topics such as Population Developments, Socio-spatial Inequalities, Governance and Policies, Economic Challenges, Quality of Life, Smart Villages, Landscape transitions, Rural Entrepreneurship, Agricultural Transformations, Rural Housing, Energy Transitions, and Climate Change Adaptation.

More info: https://www.ruralgeo2020.nl/

CfProposals: 10th East Asian Regional Conference in Alternative Geography

Deadline: 22nd of September 2022 (Very soon!)

Short description:

In this year’s conference, we invite world-class scholars as keynote speakers, including Roger Keil (York University), Tania Li (University of Toronto), Timothy Oakes (University of Colorado), Jamie Peck (University of British Columbia), James Sidaway (National University of Singapore) and Branda Yeoh (National University of Singapore). There are also a series of fascinating sessions organized from researchers arouns different disciplines and regions. The session topics include:
– Post-covid geography: Inequality of health, mobility and security
– Hong Kong after the National Security Law
– Geographies of Smart-Led Regeneration: Perspectives from the Global South
– Digital and Geo-Political transformations of cities
– Migration of “somewhere in between” in East Asia
– Redefining “Geo” in geopolitics

More info:https://sites.google.com/view/earcag2022/session-topics?authuser=0

CfProposals: 35th Annual Political Geography Speciality Group Preconference to the 2023 AAG Annual Meeting

Deadline: 10th of January 2023

More info: http://www.politicalgeography.org/pre-conference/

CfProposals: New directions in popular culture and geography at AAG

Deadline: 1st of October 2022

Short description:

Over the past several years, popular culture has made its presence increasingly felt across the field of Geography. In the wake of Donald Trump’s presidency – alongside the ascendancy of other ‘pop culture’ icons to the status of world leaders (e.g. Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Imran Khan) – the role of popular culture demands ever greater attention in the field. The rising importance of deterritorialized, user-friendly platforms for content creation such as TikTok, alongside the proliferation of imaginary worlds shaped and sustained by conspiracy theories(theorists such as QAnon, are just two prevalent examples of popular culture’s impact on space, place, and power across the globe. Elsewhere, pressing geopolitical concerns of our world are increasingly present in popular media products; likewise, contemporary debates around bodies, identities, and ideologies are evermore reflected in ‘new’ geographies of existing pop-culture imaginaries, from the alt-right discourses of DC’s The Peacemaker and gender politics of Marvel’s She-Hulk to the racialization of reception of the recent iterations of the Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones, and other fantasy/franchises. Consequently, such ‘safe spaces’ – as redoubts from the so-called ‘real world’ – are being increasingly compromised by globalized social media practices.

More info: Robert A. Saunders (robert.saunders@farmingdale.edu), Darren Purcell (dpurcell@ou.edu), and Katrinka Somdahl (somdahl-sands@rowan.edu).

CfChapters: From legacies of extraction to environmental health governance

Deadline: 10th of October 2022

Short description:

Vernon Press invites chapter proposals for the volume entitled “From Legacies of Extraction to Environmental Health Governance: Collaborative Research and Responses to the Impacts of Mining among Indigenous Communities”, edited by Thomas A. De Pree, Valoree Gagnon, and Jessica Worl.

More info: TADepree@salud.unm.edu

CfAbstracts: 18th Annual Conference of The International Association for the Study of Environment, Space and Place in Hochschule Pforzheim (Pforzheim, Germany).

Deadline: 1st of February 2023

Short description:

Human beings work with, alter, and manipulate their environments, transforming ‘natural’ or ‘neutral’ space into a place designed to meet specific needs or goals. The scale and type of manipulation of environments depend on whether the agent is an individual, family, or larger community and on goals and intentions. Over the course of time, some designed environments become obsolete, are repurposed, or are simply built over. For example, the ancient city of Trow has nine archaeological layers dating from 3600 BCE to 500 CE. Further, designs can be communal – e.g open source codes allow and encourage individuals to add to code to improve performance – or open-ended, enabling others to fill in the ‘blank’ space in a design.

More info: Jodie Hayob-Matzke at jhayob@umw.edu.

Other news items

Just Stop Oil:A long video of what seems to be the cutting edge of climate activism in the UK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUTiAfrNn7o

Green Anarchy and Eco-socialism: A discusssion with Benjamin Sovacool and Matt Huber, facilitated by Alexandra Koves. Youtube recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-yTZK2X_1M&feature=youtu.be

Documentary “The Territory”: Provides an immersive look at the tireless fight of Amazon’s Indigenous Uru-eu-wau-wau people against the encroaching deforestation brought by farmers and illegal settlers. https://films.nationalgeographic.com/the-territory

(Hyperlink fixed!) These are the new members of the POLLEN Secretariat 2022-2024

In mid-August LUCSUS (Lund University’s Centre for Sustainability Studies) became the new home of POLLEN’s Secretariat. We present you the eight people who will be actively involved with the duties of the Secretariat:

New POLLEN Secretariat (from left to right): Juan Samper, Kelly Dorkenoo, Torsten Krause, Fabiola Espinoza, Lina Lefstad, Mine Islar & Wim Carton

Torsten Krause: Torsten is a Senior lecturer at the Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies, Sweden. His research involves the fields of forestry and forest governance, conservation science, traditional ecological knowledge, ethno-biology, and environmental justice. He is part of the MaCoBioS project (https://macobios.eu/) on Marine Coastal Ecosystems, Biodiversity and Services in a Changing World. MaCoBios is a four-year project funded by the EU H2020. Its main objective is to ensure efficient and integrated management and conservation strategies for European marine coastal ecosystems to face climate change. He is also part of the new 3 year BiodivERsA project EPICC (funded through FORMAS in Sweden) with a focus onEnvironmental Policy Instruments across Commodity Chains Multilevel governance for Biodiversity-Climate in Brazil, Colombia, Indonesia. Within EPICC I will study gold and cattle commodity chains in Colombia.

Mine Islar: Mine Islar is an associate professor at LUCSUS. She obtained her PhD degree in sustainability science. Her expertise is on transformative governance, social and environmental justice as well as collective action towards sustainability in both urban and rural settings. Apart from this, she also acts as a scientific expert in UN Intergovermental Panel on Biodiversity and Ecosystem services (IPBES) as a Lead Author (2017-2020) for  policy tools and instruments for the Values Assessment and Global Assessment of Biodiversity where she leads a section on governance challenges of SDGs with a special focus on SDG7 goal on energy and its potential implications on biodiversity.

Wim Carton: Wim is a Human Geographer with a background in Development Studies, International Relations and History. His main academic objective is to help understand society-nature relations, and how these are changed and articulated through various sustainability challenges. His primary research focus is on the political ecology of climate change mitigation in carbon forestry and agriculture, and related discussions on negative emissions in climate policy. His current research centers on the politics, political economy and political ecology of climate change mitigation, with a particular focus on negative emissions / carbon removal. The research projects that I am part of for example study the politics of modelling negative emissions in integrated assessment models; the assumptions underpinning projections of large-scale carbon removal; the extent and form in which these are being taken up by policy makers in different countries; and the various narratives and imaginaries about negative emissions that are being produced by corporations, policy makers and in civil society.

Kelly Dorkenoo: Kelly is a Ph.D Candidate at LUCSUS. Her doctoral research focuses on the differentiated socio-economic and ecological impacts from extreme weather events associated with climate change, and how they affect people and society. In particular, she explores the occurrence of disproportionality or disproportionate losses and damages and their relationship with socio-economic development processes. Kelly holds undergraduate degrees in international business administration from Montpellier Business School and applied economics from Paris South XI; and a master’s degree in environmental management and policy from the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE) at Lund University.

Fabiola Espinoza: Fabiola is a doctoral student at LUCSUS. Her research takes place in the context of the MaCoBioS (Marine Coastal Ecosystem Biodiversity and Services in a Changing World) project. The aim of the project is to fill the knowledge gaps on the inter-relation between climate change, biodiversity, and ecosystem services to ensure an efficient and integrated management and conservation strategies for European Marine Coastal Ecosystems (MCE) to face climate change. MaCoBioS will study three ecoregions with different climates.She holds an undergraduate degree in biology with a specialization in fisheries management from the National University of San Marcos and a master’s degree in environmental science, policy, and management from the Central European University. Prior joining LUCUS, Fabiola was working as a fisheries and finance consultant at the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Additionally, she worked on marine protected area management in Peru

Lina Lefstad: Lina is a Ph.D Candidate at LUCSUS. Her doctoral research is about the imaginaries of carbon capture and storage in Scandinavia. She has an interdisciplinary background with a degree in International Business Management from the University of Applied Sciences in Utrecht, and a MSc in Ecological Economics from the University of Leeds. She is working towards driving change through, among other things, her role as a core member of the Post Growth Institute, the activist-researcher platform “DegrowthTalks” and as an elected coordination committee member of the Post Growth Economics Network. Lina is interested in degrowth, post-growth and equity in just socio-ecological transformations.

Juan Samper: Juan is a Ph.D Candidate at LUCSUS, where he investigates the symbolic and material elements of the defense of the territory in the Colombian Amazon. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Law from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Bogotá, Colombia) and a master’s degree in environmental studies and sustainability science from Lund University. Prior to his doctoral research, Juan conducted ethnographic research in the Andean-Amazonic region of Putumayo, Colombia, and policy analysis of climate politics focused on Green New Deals.

M.Phil in Environmental History at Trinity College Dublin

This course gives students a firm understanding of the interplay of, and feedbacks between, nature and culture over time. The taught full- or part-time degree has a strong methodological focus, including training in digital humanities technologies, mixed (quantitative-qualitative) methods and innovative assessment design, supplemented by an optional self-financed field trip to Iceland. The purpose of this M.Phil. programme is to train students in methods and themes that are directly relevant to the professional workplace at a time when there is an increasing awareness of the need to include the competencies and insights of the humanities in understanding and addressing environmental issues, not least climate change. Training in critical thinking and mixed methods research skills will open up students’ career perspectives in the public sector, media, private consultancies and NGOs, as well as being an excellent entry point for doctoral studies.

Relevant preparatory courses include NFQ level 8-degree courses in the Humanities (History, Political Science, History of Ideas, Cultural Studies or similar) or the Natural Sciences (Environmental Sciences, Geography, Ecology, Biology or similar). Applicants should normally have at least an upper second class (2.1) Honours Bachelor’s degree or equivalent (for example, GPA of 3.3) in a relevant discipline or specialisation.

Applications for the 2022/23 academic year are open until 30 June 2022.

Course website: https://www.tcd.ie/courses/postgraduate/courses/environmental-history-mphil–pgraddip/

Inquiries: Dr Katja Bruisch (BRUISCHK@tcd.ie)

May 2022 Updates

Dear POLLEN Members and Friends, 

As usual, this month we are delighted to feature the great work of another POLLEN node, Political Ecology Reading Group (PERG) at the University of Sheffield. If your node is keen to share your work in upcoming newsletters, please write to us at politicalecologynetwork@gmail.com.

We are pleased to share some recent publications, CfPs and more from our lively community. We also welcome proposals for blog posts on the POLLEN blog – please contact us at the same email address with any ideas!

Some news: POLLEN is running a fundraiser to support the POLLEN secretariat with its networking and knowledge sharing work. Please donate if you can at this link: https://gofund.me/79f7b227 . This will be our last newsletter for a couple of months as we wind down for the Northern summer – our twitter feed and other web activities will continue as usual.

With regards from your POLLEN Secretariat:
Sango Mahanty | Sarah Milne | Ratchada Arpornsilp

1. Getting to know your fellow POLLEN members

Each monthly newsletter includes a brief introduction to one of our many POLLEN nodes, to build connections across our community. This month we would like to introduce you to our node at the Political Ecology Reading Group (PERG) at the University of Sheffield.

Political Ecology Reading Group (PERG) at the University of Sheffield

Overview

The Political Ecology Reading Group brings together researchers, students and faculty from various departments and research centres across the University of Sheffield and beyond. Our colleagues’ interests span diverse issues, including biodiversity conservation, rural transformations, sustainability, wildlife crime, remote sensing, environmental politics and animal studies. The group convenes every two weeks for seminars, roundtables and other events and it is a safe space where its members present work in progress, engage in passionate discussions of essential political ecology texts, and serves as a platform for interdisciplinary collaborations. We welcome external guest speakers and actively encourage participation from students and early-career researchers.

Node members:

Teresa Lappe-Osthege works as Postdoctoral Research Associate on the Beastly Business Project in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Sheffield. She leads a project that examines the links between corporate businesses and green-collar crime in the illegal songbird trade in Europe, focusing on the Western Balkans and EU Member States (e.g. Cyprus and Italy). Her research is informed by political ecology and green political economy; she is particularly interested in exploring environmental politics and questions of (un)sustainability in post-conflict contexts, having completed her PhD on socio-ecological injustices and inequalities in EU peace-building in Kosovo.

Rosaleen Duffy is a professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations. Her work centres on the global politics of biodiversity conservation, and focuses on global environmental governance, wildlife trafficking, poaching, transfrontier conservation and tourism. Recently, her work has sought to understand the growing links between global security and biodiversity conservation and she just published a book ‘Security and Conservation: The Politics of the Illegal Wildlife Trade (Yale UP). From 2016- 2020 she was Principal Investigator on European Research Council Advanced Investigator Grant for BIOSEC – Biodiversity and Security: Understanding environmental crime, illegal wildlife trade and threat finance. She is currently PI on the ESRC funded Beastly Business project, which examines green crime, political ecology and illegal wildlife trade in European species.

George Iordachescu is a postdoc on the Beastly Business project which he co-designed with other team members. His project combines political ecology and green criminology approaches to investigate the hidden dynamics of brown bear trafficking in Europe. During his PhD he researched the emergence of wilderness protection in Eastern Europe, specifically the clashes between private protected areas and traditional forms of land governance in Romania (Conservation and Society, Open Book Publishers). He was part of the BIOSEC: Biodiversity and Conservation project, where he explored the impact of EU regulations on the illegal logging and timber trade in the Carpathian Mountains (Political Geography, Environment and Society: Arcadia). He is the co-convenor of the Political Ecology Reading Group at the University of Sheffield.

Jocelyne Sze is a PhD candidate in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology cluster, School of Biosciences. Her research looks at the contributions of Indigenous peoples’ lands to tropical forest conservation, using spatial maps and regression modelling. Her work seeks to support Indigenous and local communities in their land tenure and other rights recognition. She is broadly interested in convivial and decolonial approaches to conservation.

Judith Krauss is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Sheffield’s Institute for Global Sustainable Development (UK). Judith explored cocoa sustainability and especially its environmental dimension in Nicaragua and Colombia for her PhD (Geoforum, Global Networks, Journal of Political Ecology). During her post-doc, she has worked with great colleagues from diverse geographies and disciplines on convivial conservation (Conservation and Society, Globalizations, JPE), decolonizing the Sustainable Development Goals (Sustainability Science) and livelihoods in Mozambique under Covid (World Development). Judith is passionate about bringing together sustainability and solidarity in research, teaching and public engagement, and serves as an Associate Editor for JPE

2. PUBLICATIONS

Journal articles 

Apostolopoulou, E., Bormpoudakis, D., Chatzipavlidis, A., Cortés Vázquez, J., Florea, I., Gearey, M., Levy, J., Loginova, J., Ordner, J., Partridge, T., Pizarro, A., Rhoades, H., Symons, K., Veríssimo, C., and Wahby, N. 2022. ‘Radical social innovations and the spatialities of grassroots activism: navigating pathways for tackling inequality and reinventing the commons’, Journal of Political Ecology, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 144–188. <https://doi.org/10.2458/jpe.2292>.

Duffy, R. 2022. ‘Crime, security, and illegal wildlife trade: political ecologies of international conservation’, Global Environmental Politics, vol. 2, no. 2. <https://doi.org/10.1162/glep_a_00645>.

Duffy, R. and Brockington, D. 2022. ‘Political ecology of security: tackling the illegal wildlife trade’, Journal of Political Ecology, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 21-35. <https://doi.org/10.2458/jpe.2201>.

Dunlap, A. & Laratte, L. 2022. ‘European Green Deal Necropolitics: Degrowth, ‘Green’ Energy Transition & Infrastructural Colonization’, Political Geography, vol. 97, no. 1, pp. 1-15.  <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2022.102640>.

Dunlap, A. 2022. ‘I don’t want your progress, it tries to kill… me!’ Decolonial Encounters and the Anarchist Critique of Civilization’, Globalizations: pp. 1-26. <https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2022.2073657>.

Dunlap, A. 2022. ‘Weaponizing people in environmental conflicts: Capturing ‘hearts’, ‘minds’, and manufacturing ‘volunteers’ for extractive development’, Current Sociology, pp. 1-23.  <https://doi.org/10.1177%2F00113921221086828>.

Eversberg, D., and Fritz, M. 2022. ‘Bioeconomy as a societal transformation: Mentalities, conflicts and social practices’, Sustainable Production and Consumption, vol.30, pp. 973-987. <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spc.2022.04.009>.

Fougères, D., Jones, M., McElwee, P.D., Andrade, A., and Edwards, S.R. 2022. ‘Transformative conservation of ecosystems’, Global Sustainability, vol. 5. <https://doi.org/10.1017/sus.2022.4>.

Fritz, M., Eversberg, D., Pungas, L., and Venghaus, S. 2022. ‘Special issues: Promises of growth and sustainability in the bioeconomy’, Sustainable Production and Consumption, pp. 839-841. <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spc.2022.01.021>.

Helmcke, C. 2022. ‘Ten recommendations for political ecology case research’, Journal of Political Ecology, vol. 29, no. 1, pp.266–276. <https://doi.org/10.2458/jpe.2842>.

Koot, S., Hebinck, P. and Sullivan, S. 2022. ‘Conservation science and discursive violence: A response to two rejoinders’. Society & Natural Resources. <https://doi.org/10.1080/08941920.2022.2064023>.

Köpke, S. 2022. ‘Interrogating the Links between Climate Change, Food Crises and Social Stability’, Earth, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 577-589. <https://doi.org/10.3390/earth3020034>.

Leder, S. 2022. ‘Beyond the “Feminisation of Agriculture”: Rural out-migration, changing gender relations and emerging spaces in natural resource management’, Journal of Rural Studies, vol. 91. pp. 157-169. <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2022.02.009>.

Lunden, A., and Tornel, C. 2022. ‘Re-worlding: Pluriversal politica in the anthropocene’, Nordia Geographical Publications, vol. 51, no. 2. <https://nordia.journal.fi/issue/view/51-2>.

Moreno-Quintero, R., Córdoba, D., and Acevedo, R., 2022. ‘Decolonizing local planning through new social cartography: making Black geographies visible in a plantation context in Colombia’, Third World Thematics: A TWQ Journal. <https://doi.org/10.1080/23802014.2022.2061724>.

Moseley, W.G. and Ouedraogo, M., 2022. ‘When Agronomy Flirts with Markets, Gender and Nutrition: A Political Ecology of the New Green Revolution for Africa and Women’s Food Security in Burkina Faso’, African Studies Review, vol. 65, no. 1, pp. 41-65. <https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2021.74>.

O’Lear, S., Massé, F., Dickinson, H. and Duffy, R. 2022. ‘Disaster making in the capitalocene’, Global Environmental Politics, pp. 1-10. <https://doi.org/10.1162/glep_a_00655>.

Watkins, C., and Judith, A. C., 2022. ‘Amplifying the Archive: Methodological Plurality and Geographies of the Black Atlantic’, Antipode. <https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/anti.12838>.

Books

Bluwstein, J. 2022. Historical Political Ecology of the Tarangire Ecosystem: From Colonial Legacies, to Contested Histories, towards Convivial Conservation?  In Kiffner, C., Bond, M., and Lee, D. (eds), Tarangire: Human-Wildlife Coexistence in a Fragmented Ecosystem. Springer. <https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93604-4_2>.

Chao, S. 2022. In the Shadow of the Palms: More-Than-Human Becomings in West Papua. Duke University Press. <https://dukeupress.edu/in-the-shadow-of-the-palms>. [Special offer: Use coupon codeE22CHAO to save 30% when you order from dukeupress.edu]

Duffy, R. 2022. Security and Conservation: The Politics of the Illegal Wildlife Trade. Yale University Press. <Security and Conservation by Rosaleen Duffy – Yale University Press (yalebooks.co.uk)>

Turner, S., Derks, A. and Rousseau, J-F. 2022 (Eds) Fragrant Frontiers: global spice entanglements in the Sino-Vietnamese Uplands. Copenhagen: NIAS Press. <Open access at this link: https://www.niaspress.dk/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Turner-OA-edition.pdf>.

3. Calls for paper

3.1 International Conference of the Center for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies (ZtG) at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Nature-Society Relations and the Global Environmental Crisis –
Thinking on Climate Change and Sustainability from the Fields of Intersectional Theory and Transdisciplinary Gender Studies

From Thursday, 4th May to Saturday, 6th May 2023 at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Senate Hall)

Human-made climate change has been a subject for science and politics for decades – and is more and more becoming one for the law. Society’s relations to the natural world have changed so much since the start of industrialization that global survival and life on Earth are being called into question. As early as the 1970s, the report for the Club of Rome highlighted the “limits of growth” for humankind. Almost from the outset of such research, the organization of the capitalist economy was identified as driving the ecological crisis. Sociological analyses identified the process of societal modernization as being fundamental to the collapse of our environment. Feminist positions understand the gendered hierarchies underlying the relationship between humans and the more-than-human world as being both the basic cause and the concrete expression of the global environmental crisis. These hierarchies extend to climate policy and law. At the same time, feminist perspectives offer visions of how this relationship can be rethought.

We invite contributions from all fields of study, in particular those that take intersectional approaches and investigate the complexities of nature-society relations and the global environmental crisis. We welcome abstracts for papers of 20 minutes length. Abstracts should not exceed 400 words. Please also include a short biography (50-100 words) with your submission.

Please submit your abstract and short bio by 11 July 2022 in English or German to:  ztg-sekretariat@hu-berlin.de

3.2 International virtual workshop: “Etosha-Kunene Conservation Conversations: 
Knowing, Protecting and Being-with Nature, from Etosha Pan to the Skeleton Coast” 

The Etosha-Kunene Histories research project invites contributions / participations in an online workshop bringing together researchers and conservation practitioners with diverse perspectives on environmental and conservation concerns in north-west Namibia. The workshop aims to provide a platform for a conversation on conservation policies and practices in ‘Etosha-Kunene’, taking historical perspectives and diverse natural and cultural histories into account. We envisage an open access edited volume to be one of the main outcomes of the workshop. 

The workshop will be held on 5-6 July 2022. Deadline for abstracts is 6 June.

For more information, please see the full Call for Papers linked here:https://www.etosha-kunene-histories.net/post/etosha-kunene-conservation-conversations-a-forthcoming-project-workshop   

4. Vacancies

4.1 Postdoc in Sustainable Societal Transformation and Industrial Change at Karlstad University, Sweden

We are hiring a Postdoc to work on the project ‘Changing Places of Work’. Based in the Department of Political, Historical, Religious and Cultural Studies, you will work alongside geographers and historians in Sweden and England to investigate how green (low-carbon) transitions in the steel industry interact with worker- and place-based identities in industrial communities, and how these interactions affect possibilities for successful and just low-carbon transitions. 

This is a full-time position for a period of two years. We particularly welcome applications from candidates with experience in researching processes of societal change, using qualitative fieldwork such as interviews or workshops.  

Enquiries: please contact Dr. Bregje van Veelen, bregje.vanveelen@geo.uu.se, or Dr. Stefan Backius, stefan.backius@kau.se /+ 46 (0)54-7002084.

Applications close 5 June 2022.
More information can be found here: https://kau.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:504900/

4.2 Postdoc/Researcher post at SLU, Uppsala, Sweden

Would you like to take part in revealing why practices of natural resource management that threaten biodiversity remain in place despite direction provided by science and policy? We invite applications for a postdoc position linked to a research project on barriers to and motivations for societal transition towards management of natural resources that reverses decline of biodiversity, in particular pollinating insects. The project is a close collaboration between social scientists and ecologists and provides an ideal opportunity to develop your inter- and transdisciplinary research capacity.

The position is based at the Department of Ecology of the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala (SLU) in Sweden and is in close collaboration with the Department of Urban and Rural Development at SLU. The postdoc will join an interdisciplinary team of social and natural scientists. You will be part of a stimulating, dynamic and collaborative research environment with colleagues who conduct high calibre research in nature conservation, agriculture, wildlife management and forestry.

Application deadline: no later than 10 June 2022.
See more info:
https://www.slu.se/en/about-slu/work-at-slu/jobs-vacancies/?rmpage=job&rmjob=6652&rmlang=UK

4.3 PhD Position, the Department of Geography, University of Bergen

The position is linked to the Department of Geography´s focus area on environmental sustainability and societal change. Research issues within the broad theme of human-environment interactions, global environmental change ecology and consequences for nature protection and food production are welcome. Candidates with theoretical interests in environmental geography fields such as political ecology, sustainable land-use, socio-ecological systems and environmental governance, are very welcome to apply.

The position is for a fixed-term period of 4 years, of which 25% will be dedicated to teaching, supervision and administrative tasks in the Department.

The application and appendices with certified translations into English or a Scandinavian language must be uploaded at Jobbnorge following the link on this page marked “Apply for this job”.

Closing date: 12 August 2022. The application has to be marked: 22/6180
See more info: PhD position (226085) | University of Bergen (jobbnorge.no)
For political ecology-related supervision inquiries, feel free to contact Associate Professor Connor Cavanagh (connor.cavanagh@uib.no).

4.4 Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor – Environmental Policy, Fenner School of Society and Environment, The Australian National University

We are seeking to appoint an outstanding mid-career academic to contribute to the School’s research, education and impact in the field of environment policy. The Senior Lecturer will contribute to curriculum renewal and lead courses relevant to environment policy. This position has been reserved for female identifying candidates, in order to increase employment opportunities for women in a workplace where they continue to be underrepresented.

Further details here: https://fennerschool.anu.edu.au/news-events/news/were-hiring-senior-lecturerassociate-professor-environmental-policy

5. Other news items

EXALT webinar: “Green Extractivism & Violent Conflict”

EXALT hosts a one-day webinar conference “Green Extractivism & Violent Conflict” on 17 June 2022. This exciting conference features three plenary speakers, and 16 exciting papers across 4 panels. There is no fee to participate, but registration is required. Please click here to register for the conference

This webinar conference will explore the multifaceted connections between ‘green extractivism’ and violent conflicts. The speakers will offer fresh empirical and theoretical insights into the ways ‘decarbonization’, ‘green growth’ and climate change mitigation policies shape and are shaped by dynamics of conflict and violence.

If you have any questions about the conference or the EXALT Initiative, please contact us at exalt@helsinki.fi
Follow us on Twitter: @ExaltResearch
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March 2022 Newsletter

Dear POLLEN Members and Friends, 

This month we are delighted to feature the great work of another POLLEN node, the Division of Rural Development at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU). If your node is keen to share your work in upcoming newsletters, please write to us at politicalecologynetwork@gmail.com.

As always, we are pleased to post the latest publications, CfPs and more from our lively community. We also welcome proposals for blog posts on the POLLEN blog – please contact us at the same email address with any ideas!

Last, we would like to share an important announcement on the change in POLLEN 2022/2023 conference format from the POLLEN2022 Local Organising Committee. Please scroll below.

With regards from your POLLEN Secretariat:
Sango Mahanty | Sarah Milne | Ratchada Arpornsilp

Announcement: Change in POLLEN 2022/3 conference format


Dear Pollinators.

We, as the POLLEN 2022 Local Organising Committee (LOC) have been pleased to accept session and paper proposals, and inform the approximately 460 participants of their prospective participation in the event. However, we have also had to inform them of an enforced format change for the conference, and would like to take this opportunity to inform the broader network of the same.  Members will recall that, as a covid mitigation the conference was moved to a virtual format with verbal assurances of funding from the South African National Conference Bureau. As a reminder this funding was ringfenced for conference delivery by a professional conference organiser partner, African Agenda to deliver an international conference to SANCB standards. This also funded administrative support which the LOC lacks. However, after announcing the shift, the SANCB informed African Agenda that it could not honour the funding in the case of a fully virtual conference. This has precipitated the aforementioned shift in to a dual delivery format.

The first aspect of delivery is to delay the primary conference till the same time in 2023. This will allow us to maintain our funding and deliver the best conference experience we can; in Durban. We hope that tenured staff and those willing and able to travel will join us. We know from advisory collective feedback that many will welcome this change as a chance to reconvene in person, and will allow session and presentation amendments closer to the time. However, we are also acutely aware that there will be attendees who may not be able to travel, or need to present and get feedback on their work this year. We are currently soliciting information from session organisers as to the extent of this group, which may include postgraduate students, members in tenuous employment, or members finalising special issues drawing on conference sessions. We have undertaken to co-organise a series of asynchronous pre-conference workshops with willing POLLEN nodes, to accommodate as many of these individuals and sessions as we are able. Asynchronous delivery will included pre-recorded presentations organised around conference themes, with opportunities for facilitated written discussion, as well as limited live discussion aspects, as appropriate. The content from these sessions will be uploaded to the conference website, and allow engagement by conference participants and the broader POLLEN network and beyond.

We hope that with this two pronged approach for POLLEN2022/3 will be workable compromise to an unforeseen challenge. We also hope the asynchronous conferencing will provide engagement opportunities with conference content for the broader network, as well an learning opportunity for the expanding network in anticipation of similar asynchronous, or distributed events In the future.

Many thanks

Adrian, Shauna and the LOC

Getting to know your fellow POLLEN members

Each monthly newsletter includes a brief introduction to one of our many POLLEN nodes, to build connections across our community. This month we would like to introduce you to our node at the Division of Rural Development at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU).

The Division of Rural Development at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

Overview

The Division of Rural Development at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences engages in multi-disciplinary social science research on issues relating to rural development in the global North and South. We have expertise that spans across the critical social sciences, while also engaging with other fields within the natural sciences and humanities to make sense of rural and agricultural dynamics. With particular strengths in qualitative, participatory, local level, in-depth studies, we draw on a wide variety of methods and theoretical orientations. Our research and teaching engage with justice, knowledge and power in agriculture, forestry, development and environmental politics. Our strength lies in our commitment to probing how development processes unfold through interdisciplinary conceptualisations and participatory methodologies.

Node members 

Flora Hajdu
Flora Hajdu is an associate professor working on rural development in South Africa, Lesotho, Malawi, Uganda and Tanzania. Her work looks at power relations and discourses in various local, national and global processes that impact on local level livelihoods in these countries. This includes agricultural development and carbon forestry/restoration projects driven by outside interests as well as impacts of national and donor-funded social cash transfer programmes. She has also engaged with literature on the livelihoods of children and youth, the effects of AIDS on livelihoods and African degradation narratives.
 
Harry Fischer
Harry Fischer is an associate professor, who works on natural resource governance and rural development in India and Nepal. He has active projects on the role of local and subnational democratic politics in shaping adaptive responses to climate risk and change, and on the institutional drivers of joint human and environmental outcomes from forest and landscape restoration.
 
Klara Fischer
Klara Fischer is associate professor and acting subject chair of Rural Development in the global South. Klara specialises on the relations between smallholders’ farming practices and agricultural discourses, policies and technologies targeted at smallholders. Empirically Klara’s research concerns 1) smallholders’ experiences with new biotechnologies, 2) smallholders’ knowledges and practices in crop and livestock farming and the interaction between local and formal knowledge and 3) local livelihood effects of climate compensation technologies and policies. Geographically most of Klara’s research is located in Uganda and South Africa.
 
Linda Engström
Engström’s overall research focus is the politics of development and its impacts on rural populations in East Africa. Trends of privatisation in (rural) development and the frequent gap between development policy versus practice constitute main elements. Her analyses of development policy explore the intersection between how development policy frames problems, how it is enacted, perceived by and impacting rural residents. Engström’s current research focuses on local effects of carbon forestry in East Africa and the (re)distribution and land justice for rural smallholders and herders, following cancelled large-scale agro-investments in Tanzania.
 
Noémi Gonda
Noémi Gonda, researcher at the Department of Urban and Rural Development, holds a PhD from Central European University (Budapest, Vienna). She is currently doing research on justice and conflict resolution in resource management as well as on the linkages between natural resources depletion and authoritarian populist regimes in Nicaragua and Hungary. Previously to becoming a researcher, she worked in Nicaragua, Honduras and Guatemala with smallholder farmers, Indigenous groups, and development organisations. Noémi is interested in exploring how radical social and environmental transformations towards justice and equity can emerge, and the role of scholar-activists in supporting the emergence of such transformations.
 
Patrik Oskarsson
Patrik Oskarsson works as teacher and researcher on resource politics. His present research projects seek pathways to justice for Indian coalfield communities as mining inevitably comes to an end, and the possibilities to tackle environmental pollution via participatory environmental monitoring. His broader research interests include changes to land and resource uses and what these mean to rural populations in the Global South. His analysis of large-scale extractive projects has often explored the intersection of the natural resource base with the way that the politics of knowledge work to frame such problems and shape them into particular, often technical, solutions.
 
Stephanie
Stephanie is a researcher at SLU interested in feminist political ecology, water management, agrarian change, gender and development research and Education for Sustainable Development. She received a four-year Mobility Grant of FORMAS for the project “Revitalizing community-managed irrigation systems in contexts of out-migration in Nepal”. 2014-2017 she was a Postdoctoral Fellow for Gender, Poverty and Institutions at the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) in Nepal, and led studies in inter- and transdisciplinary projects within the CGIAR Program “Water, Land and Ecosystems” in India, Nepal and Bangladesh. She holds a PhD in Human Geography from the University of Cologne, Germany.

PUBLICATIONS

Journal articles 

Brock, A., Stephenson, C., Stephens-Griffin, N., and Wyatt, T. 2022. ‘Go home, get a job, and pay some taxes to replace a bit of what you’ve wasted’: Stigma power and solidarity in response to anti-open-cast mining activism in the coalfields of rural county Durham, UK. Sociological Research Online. <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/13607804211055486>.

Calvário, R. 2022. ‘The making of peasant subalternity in Portugal: histories of marginalisation and resistance to agrarian modernisation’. The Journal of Peasant Studies. <https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2021.2020256>.

Cattaneo, C., Kallis, G., Demaria, F., Zografos, C., Sekulova, F., D’Alisa, G., Varvarousis, A., and Conde, M. 2022. ‘A degrowth approach to urban mobility options: just, desirable and practical options’. The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability. <https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2022.2025769>.

Chakraborty, R., Sadeepa J., Hirini P.M., Shannon D., Lizzie M., James E., and Pablo G. 2022. ‘Pursuing plurality: Exploring the synergies and challenges of knowledge co-production in multifunctional landscape design’. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. <https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2021.680587>.

Deutsch, S., and Fletcher, R. 2022. ‘The ‘Bolsonaro bridge’: violence, visibility, and the 2019 Amazon fires’. Environmental Science & Policy, vol. 132, pp. 60-68. <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2022.02.012>.

Fisher, K., Jakobsen, J., and Westengen, O.T., 2022. ‘The political ecology of crops : From seed to state and capital’. Geoforum, vol. 130, pp. 92-95.
<https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2021.12.011>.

Hamidov, A., Daedlow, K., Webber, H., Hussein, H., Abdurahmanov, I., Dolidudko, A., Seerat, A.Y., Solieva, U., Woldeyohanes, T., and Helming, K., 2022. ‘Operationalizing water-energy-food nexus research for sustainable development in social-ecological systems: an interdisciplinary learning case in Central Asia’. Ecology and Society, vol. 27. <http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-12891-270112>.

Haverkamp, J. 2021. ‘Where’s the Love? Recentering Indigenous and Feminist Ethics of Care for Engaged Climate Research’. Gateways: International Journal of Community Research and Engagement, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 1–15. <http://dx.doi.org/10.5130/ijcre.v14i2.7782>.

Hung, P.-Y. and Lien, Y.-H. 2022. Maritime borders: A reconsideration of state power and territorialities over the ocean. Progress in Human Geography. <https://doi.org/10.1177/03091325221074698>.

Nost, E., and Colven, E. 2022. ‘Earth for AI: A political ecology of data-driven climate initiatives’. Geoforum, vol. 130, pp. 23-34.
<https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2022.01.016>.

Revista Ambiente e Sociedade (bilingual Portuguese and English), 2021. Applied Social Sciences, Biological Sciences, Human Sciences. vol. 24.  <https://www.scielo.br/j/asoc/i/2021.v24/>.

Vojno, N., Horst, R., Hussein, H., Nolden, T., Badawy, A., Goubert, A., Sharipova, B., Pedrero, F., Peters, S., and Damkjaer, S., 2022. ‘Beyond barriers: the fluid roles young people adopt in water conflict and cooperation’. Water International. <https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2021.2021481>.

Blog

Vonk, L. 2022. ‘Historic commitment to tackle plastic pollution’. Political Ecology Research Centre, 4 March, <https://perc.ac.nz/wordpress/historic-commitment-to-tackle-plastic-pollution/&gt;.

Calls for contribution

Paul Foley (Memorial University of Newfoundland) and Jennifer Silver (University of Guelph) are excited to be launching a co-edited book project, The Routledge Handbook on Critical Ocean Studies, and are seeking contributors! If you would like more information or be interested in participating, please see: bit.ly/3HLXcj6

Calls for participation

Reframing Water and Climate Resilience – online symposium
Organised by the University of Reading and the Institute of Development Studies (Sussex)

Event: May 27th, 2022

This symposium aims to bring together the overlapping conversations around resilience, climate, water, communication and politics in order to advance social justice and reduce climate-induced water vulnerability. Throughout our one-day symposium we will engage with the following questions: How can we put social justice at the core of climate and water resilience practice? How can water and climate resilience be imagined, communicated, represented and visualised differently? And, what can we learn from over a decade of critical resilience research that can help us to confront the water and climate challenges which lie ahead? With this call for contributions, we hope to find scholars, studies and practice-based knowledge which acknowledge that building climate/water resilience is a profoundly socio-political challenge. Moreover, we are looking for interdisciplinary approaches and perspectives on the diverse framing and discourses of resilience promoted by local and global networks of actors. 

Deadline – April 15th, 2022
For more information:  Reframing Water and Climate Resilience call for papers

Vacancies

1. Assistant Professor in European/Latin America: Contemporary Illiberal and Authoritarian Regimes, Faculty of Humanities, University of Amsterdam
We seek an Assistant Professor in European and/or Latin American Studies to provide education in a dynamic context with ample opportunities for the development of innovative teaching methods. Your research will be part of the Amsterdam School for Regional, Transnational and European Studies (ARTES), one of the five research schools of the Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research.

The position will be embedded within the Department of History, European Studies and Religious Studies and Hermetica, in the capacity group European Studies or in the capacity group Latin American Studies (CEDLA).

Applications close: 3 Apr 2022
More information, please click here.

2. Lecturer/ Senior Lecturer (Environmental Policy/ Governance; 5-year fixed term contract) at the Crawford School of Public Policy, College of Asia and the Pacific (CAP), Australian National University

We are seeking a candidate that has a strong passion for teaching, an excellent capacity for collaborative research and outreach, and an entrepreneurial approach to building partnerships and resourcing their research and impact. Expertise in one or more of the following areas will be highly valued: oceans and fisheries, Indigenous environments, urban environments or climate change. Experience in the Asia-Pacific and/or Australia is important, with an emphasis on complementing the group’s existing geographic strengths. Ideas for new course offerings are welcome. Increasing the representation of women and academics from culturally or linguistically diverse backgrounds is a strategic priority for the Crawford School. We strongly encourage applications from these groups.

Enquiriesplease contact Professor John McCarthy T: +61 2 6125 0494 or E: John.McCarthy@anu.edu.au

Applications close: 29 Apr 2022 11:55:00 PM AUS Eastern Standard Time
More information, please click here.

3. Lecturer/ Senior Lecturer (Environmental Economics; continuing position) at the Crawford School of Public Policy, College of Asia and the Pacific (CAP), Australian National University

We are seeking to appoint an outstanding early to mid-career academic to contribute to the School’s research, education and policy impact in the field of environment management and development. The Lecturer/Senior Lecturer will contribute to curriculum renewal and lead courses relevant to the Masters in Environmental Management and Development (MEMDV), the Masters of Climate Change, and that will contribute to other Crawford and ANU teaching programs. Expertise in one or more of the following areas will be highly valued: environmental valuation, cost-benefit analysis, environmental policy choice and design, implementation and evaluation of environmental policy. Applications of environmental economics to fields such as land use, agriculture, biodiversity or climate change are desirable, building on READ’s existing strengths in the economics of water and energy. Experience in Australia and/or the Asia-Pacific region that complements the group’s existing geographical coverage will be valued. Ideas for new course offerings are welcome. Increasing the representation of women and academics from culturally or linguistically diverse backgrounds is a strategic priority for the Crawford School. We strongly encourage applications from these groups.

Enquiriesplease contact Associate Professor Keith Barney T: +61 2 6125 4957 or E: Keith.Barney@anu.edu.au

Applications close: 15 Apr 2022 11:55:00 PM AUS Eastern Standard Time
More information, please click here.

Other news items

The STEPS Centre has updated its free online course on Pathways to Sustainability with new lectures, reading lists and questions for 2022. Please visit https://steps-centre.org/online-course-pathways-to-sustainability/

The course includes a section on Resource Politics led by Amber Huff, which explores how resources and ‘nature’ are framed and understood, questions in political ecology, crisis, plural stories and pathways, and other issues.
The course is open access, and includes six lectures recorded at last year’s virtual STEPS Summer School, along with new Open Access reading lists and suggested questions. STEPS Centre is especially keen to spread the word to those who might want to use the course in their own teaching programmes, or share it with student communities for their own use.

February 2022 Updates

Dear POLLEN Members and Friends, 

This month we are delighted to feature the great work of another POLLEN node, the Political Ecology and Landscape Governance research group at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). If your node is keen to share your work in upcoming newsletters, please write to us at politicalecologynetwork@gmail.com.

As always, we are pleased to post the latest publications, jobs, CfPs and more from our lively community. We also welcome proposals for blog posts on the POLLEN blog – please contact us at the same email address with any ideas! Do check out our latest blog post on “How EU public money finances environmental sacrifice: A call for change” by Alexander Dunlap here.

With regards from your POLLEN Secretariat:
Sango Mahanty | Sarah Milne | Ratchada Arpornsilp

Getting to know your fellow POLLEN members

Each monthly newsletter includes a brief introduction to one of our many POLLEN nodes, to build connections across our community. This month we would like to introduce you to our node at The Political Ecology and Landscape Governance research group at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).

The Political Ecology and Landscape Governance research group at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)

Overview

The Political Ecology and Landscape Governance research group at NTNU works across this geographical sub-field, with multi-scalar research on power relations, knowledge systems, conservation science and politics, environmental governance, and policy. We have a particular emphasis across our projects on identifying and challenging how parallel debates about the local and the global, materiality and representations, knowledge, power, justice, and democracy can mutually inform both political ecology and critical landscape research.

We are an interdisciplinary team conducting research in countries around the world, including Norway, Tanzania, Ecuador, Indonesia, the United States, and Finland; our networks extend within and beyond these locales. Our group is actively involved in the POLLEN network, the Cultural and Political Ecology specialty group of the American Association of Geographers, and the Nordic Geography community. Our research engages across the Department of Geography’s four strategic areas: Nature, resource management and landscape, Natural hazards and effects of climate change, Globalization, mobility and citizenship; and Innovation and regional changes. 

NTNU Node members

Node members 

Dr. Elizabeth Barron
Dr. Barron’s research interests are broadly on understanding different knowledge systems for addressing human-environment challenges in the areas of conservation and resource management, alternative economics, and sustainability. She worked extensively on social and institutional dimensions of fungal conservation as part of her PhD and postdoctoral work. Her current research is on place-based sustainability theory and practice, where she is developing the concept of emplaced sustainability and the associated emplacement framework. She also serves as the group leader for the Political Ecology and Landscape Governance research group in the department. From 2018-2022 she is a coordinating lead author for the IPBES Assessment on the Sustainable Use of Wild Species. 

Professor Karoline Daugstad
Karoline Daugstad is professor in social geography with landscape geography as a focus area. Her research interests cover representations of landscape, landscape policies and management, cultural heritage in tourism, mountain farming, protected landscapes, and natural resource management. Perspectives of landscape governance is included in her research. The research has mainly taken place in a Norwegian context, but she has also undertaken studies in mountain communities in Austria and northern Spain.

Dr. Jørund Aasetre
Dr. Jørund Aasetre is an Associate Professor at Department of Teacher Education (70%) and Department of Geography (30%), at NTNU. At Geography Aasetre teaches Environmental Geography and co-ordinates their part of the international master program on nature resources management (MSNARM). At Department for Teacher Education, he teaches new geography teachers. As a researcher Aasetre has worked with several issues on nature management in Norway, such as forest recreation and forest history, nature restoration, conservation management, large predators as well as Salomon fjords. In addition, he does research on Environmental Education in Ethiopia and South Sudan in cooperation with PhD candidates.

Professor Gunhild Setten
Gunhild Setten is a professor of human geography at NTNU. Her research interests include human-nature relationships, moral geography, environmental practices, plants and alien species, outdoor recreation, social cohesion, and community dynamics. Her research works have been published in journals such as Cultural Geographies, Geoforum, Landscape Research, Geografiska Annaler Series B, Land Use Policy, Gender, Place and Culture, Norwegian Journal of Geography, Environment and Planning A, and International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. Professor Setten has also published with Routledge, Elsevier, Ashgate and Springer. Her professional networks are mainly based in Australia, Sweden and the UK.

Professor Haakon Lein
Haakon Lein is a professor in human geography at the department of geography NTNU. His main research interests are related to rural livelihoods and access to natural resources especially water and land/biodiversity. This has mainly been explored based on experiences from fieldwork in communities in Bangladesh, China (Xinjiang) and Tanzania. He is currently involved in research on climate change and environmental risks in highland communities in Norway and East Africa.

Professor Ståle Angen Rye
Professor Ståle Angen Rye is a human geographer, and his works focuses on globalization and innovation studies. His teaching and research focus on (i) citizens involvement in natural resource governance and (ii) youth’s participation in urban and societal development. Globalization, transnational relations, and citizenship are all central dimensions. The empirical foundation for his work is Norway and Indonesia, but he also has field experiences from several African countries. In addition to political participation, He has researched international higher education and the use of Internet in transnational knowledge networks.

Dr. Diana Raquel Vela Almeida
Diana is a senior researcher in the Department of Geography at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and a member of the Collective of Critical Geography in Ecuador. Diana has written on extractivism and social transformations, resource geography, austerity and political ecology, ecological struggles and territorial defense from feminism, local reproductive economies and a critique of the green capitalism of the new green transition proposals globally. She is currently working on the project “Environmental Policy Instruments across Commodity Chains (EPICC): Comparing multi-level governance for Biodiversity Protection and Climate Action in Brazil, Colombia, and Indonesia” to map the governance and power links that connect the multiple territories of production of mineral and food commodities in Brazil, Colombia and Indonesia exported to Europe and their plural legal systems with the European regulatory, political and socio-economic space. Diana also is an associate editor of Uneven Earth media and an International Board member of the Journal of Latin American Geography. 

Dr Teklehaymanot G. Weldemichel
Teklehaymanot G. Weldemichel is human geographer with a research interest in topics around political ecology, environmental justice, conservation and development politics and policies, state violence, and the broader discourses of sustainable development. Teklehaymanot has written and published research works on Kenya, Tanzania, and Ethiopia. His current research work, among others, focuses on the analysis of the translation of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals into urban planning and practice in Norway.

Michael Ogbe
Michael Ogbe is a PhD Candidate at the Department of Geography, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). His PhD is within the fields of Geographic Information Science and Natural Resource Management. Specifically, he is researching Spatial Crowdsourcing and Citizen Participation in the management of Petroleum revenue in Ghana. He has a Master of Philosophy (MPhil) in Development Studies, specializing in Geography from NTNU, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Geography and Resource Development from the University of Ghana, Legon.

Professor Päivi Lujala
Päivi Lujala is Professor of Human Geography and Academy of Finland Research Fellow at the University of Oulu, Finland, and Adjunct Professor at the Norwegian School of Economics, Norway. Her research focuses on two broad topics: management of valuable natural resources in the Global South and adaption to climate (change) related natural hazards. She has led several multidisciplinary projects on the links between primary commodity sector, development, and security, and she has published widely on these topics in top journals. Her current research on climate change focuses on climate migration in the Global South.

Dr. Sabrina Scherzer
Sabrina Scherzer has a background in economics and geography and is now a postdoctoral researcher at the Geography Research Unit at the University of Oulu, Finland. Her current research focuses on participation and accountability in the management of high-value natural resources and their revenues. During her doctoral research at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), she looked into community resilience to natural hazards in Norway. Sabrina also holds two master’s degrees from UK universities, one in Development Finance from the University of Reading and one in International Development from the University of Bath.

Ritah Kigonya
Ritah Kigonya is a doctoral candidate at the Department of Geography, NTNU. She has a background in forest sciences. Her research revolves around financial conservation measures including Payments for Ecosystem Services and Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation. Her PhD study explores the use of biodiversity offsetting to finance protected area management. Her broader topics of interest are neoliberal conservation and natural resource management, especially incentive based conservation, and protected area management.

Dr. Solomon Zena Walelign
Solomon Zena Walelign is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Norwegian University of Science and Technology, consultant at the World Bank, and Adjunct Assistant Professor at University of Gondar. He completed a double Ph.D. in Environmental and Resource Economics at University of Copenhagen and in Forest Sciences at Georg-August University of Göttingen in January 2017. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Copenhagen, Visiting Scholar at the University of South Carolina, and University of California Berkeley. Solomon’s research is on livelihoods, poverty, natural resource management, land transaction, and climate change resettlement.

PUBLICATIONS 

Book

Mahanty, S. 2022. Unsettled Frontiers: market formation in the Cambodia-Vietnam borderlands. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. <https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501761485/unsettled-frontiers/#bookTabs=1>. (enter 09BCARD for a 30% discount)

Blogs

Bori, P. J. and Gonda, N. 2022. ‘Hungary: The last smallholders Part I and II’. Agricultural and Rural Convention, 15 and 22 February, <https://www.arc2020.eu/hungary-the-last-smallholders/> <https://www.arc2020.eu/hungary-the-last-smallholders-part-ii/>.

Chambers, J. M., Massarella, K. and Fletcher, R. 2021. ‘How sharing and learning from failures can transform conservation’. Mongabay, 18 November, <https://news.mongabay.com/2021/11/not-sharing-and-learning-from-conservation-failures-ensures-future-mistakes-commentary/>.

Dunlap, A. 2022. ‘How EU public money finances environmental sacrifice: A call for change’. POLLEN, 27 February,
<https://politicalecologynetwork.org/2022/02/27/how-eu-public-money-finances-environmental-sacrifice-a-call-for-change/>.

Hecken, G.V. and Kolinjivadi, V. 2021. ‘The “White Saviour” deal for nature’. Green European Journal, 30 December,<https://www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/the-white-saviour-deal-for-nature/>.

Kolinjivadi, V. 2021. ‘Subverting imperial greenwashing: Thinking with and beyond “A People’s Green New Deal” for anti-imperialist organizing’. Uneven Earth, 30 December, <http://unevenearth.org/2021/12/subverting-imperial-greenwashing/&gt;.

Morrison, R. 2022. ‘Three climate change futures: Could we be heading for a dystopian polar existence?’. Wall Street Science and Technology, 1 February, <https://wsimag.com/science-and-technology/68244-three-climate-change-futures&gt;.

Ouma, S., Pissarskoi, E., Schopp, K. and Singo, L. 2022. ‘Beyond productivity: Reimagining futures of agriculture and bioeconomy’. Review of African Political Economy, 17 February, <https://roape.net/2022/02/17/beyond-productivity-reimagining-futures-of-agriculture-and-bioeconomy/&gt;.

Paolini, M. 2022. ‘Decrecimiento o ecoinmovilismo. Notas al margen sobre movilidad urbana’. Decrecimiento, 13 February, <https://www.elsaltodiario.com/perspectivas-anomalas/decrecimiento-o-ecoinmovilismo-notas-al-margen-sobre-movilidad-urbana>.

Journal articles 

Chambers, J. M., Massarella, K. and Fletcher, R. 2022. ‘The right to fail? Problematizing failure discourse in international conservation’. World Development. <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2021.105723>.

Dunlap, A., and Marin, D. 2022. ‘Comparing coal and ‘transition materials’? Overlooking complexity, flattening reality and ignoring capitalism’. Energy Research & Social Science, Vol. 89, No. 1, pp. 1-9. <https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1eXc9_oMjTCLtc>.

Fiasco, V. and Massarella, K. 2022. ‘Human-wildlife coexistence: business as usual conservation or an opportunity for transformative change?’. Conservation and Society. <https://conservationandsociety.org.in/preprintarticle.asp?id=337338>.
 
Hamidov, A., Daedlow, K., Webber, H., Hussein, H., Abdurahmanov, I., Dolidudko, A., Seerat, A.Y., Solieva, U., Woldeyohanes, T., and Helming, K., 2022. ‘Operationalizing water-energy-food nexus research for sustainable development in social-ecological systems: an interdisciplinary learning case in Central Asia’. Ecology and Society, Vol. 27. <http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-12891-270112>.
 
Kabra, A., and Das, B. 2022, ‘Aye for the tiger: hegemony, authority, and volition in India’s regime of dispossession for conservation’. Oxford Development Studies. <https://doi.org/10.1080/13600818.2022.2028134>.

Ramcilovic-Suominen, S. 2022. ‘Envisioning just transformations in and beyond the EU bioeconomy: inspirations from decolonial environmental justice and degrowth’. Sustainability Science. <https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11625-022-01091-5>. <https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-022-01091-5>.

Ramcilovic-Suominen, S., Carodenuto, S., McDermott, C., and Hiedanpää, J., 2022. ‘Environmental justice and REDD+ safeguards in Laos: Lessons from an authoritarian political regime’. Global Forest Environmental Frontiers. <https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13280-021-01618-7> <https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-021-01618-7&gt;.

Vojno, N., Horst, R., Hussein, H., Nolden, T., Badawy, A., Goubert, A., Sharipova, B., Pedrero, F., Peters, S., and Damkjaer, S., 2022. ‘Beyond barriers: the fluid roles young people adopt in water conflict and cooperation’. Water International. <https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2021.2021481>.

Calls for proposals

The 17th European Association of Social Anthropologists Biennial Conference – EASA2022: Transformation, Hope and the Commons

Organized by the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics at Queen’s University, Belfast

Date: 26-29 July, 2022

The 17th EASA Biennial Conference focuses on the entanglements of transformation, hope and the commons. The global Covid19 pandemic, and societal responses to it, have transformed the societies in which we live and work. Media and political discourses deploy a rhetoric of rupture, facilitating shifts in governance and bio-politics that mask and widen existing inequalities. Instead of the ‘crisis-thinking’ that abstracts current events from broader and historical continuities, we invite anthropologists to make connections through sustained ethnographic and anthropological inquiry.

Deadline: 21 March, 2022

More information: Call for papers – EASA2022 (easaonline.org) and Programme – EASA2022 (easaonline.org)

Calls for participation

After Growth: A Symposium on Post-Capitalist Imaginaries

Free: Booking required

After Growth is a symposium, a gathering of bodies and minds, but it is also an invitation to construct another future. At its core is the belief that prosperity does not depend on economic growth, and that – in the face of ongoing climate catastrophe – there is an urgent need to find new ways of living within planetary boundaries.

The concept of ‘degrowth’ emerges from the confluence of activism, ecology and economics, though it also sits within a larger cultural field of creative and artistic practice. Rather than producing blueprints of utopian visions, many of the contributors to this symposium work towards the creation of spaces where post-capitalist forms of life can be incubated.

Taking place both online and in-person, After Growth assembles a diverse array of visions, organisations and initiatives. Together, they will speculate on the possibility of life after growth, placing these at the heart of a city with increasingly green ambitions.

Programmed by Theo Reeves-Evison and Canan Batur. Funded by the University of Nottingham, Nottingham Trent University, and the Leverhulme Trust. This symposium is part of our upcoming research strand Emergency & Emergence, which will be made public in March.

Sat 19 March, 2 – 5.30pm, online

Sun 20 March, 11am – 6pm, The Space at Nottingham Contemporary

For reservation, please visit After Growth: A Symposium on Post-Capitalist Imaginaries – Nottingham Contemporary

Vacancies

1. Research professor at the Institute of Development Policy, University of Antwerp

The vacancy is for Tenure-Track Research Professor (TTZAPBOF – Assistant Professorship) or Research Professor (ZAPBOF – Associate Professor, Professor or Full Professor). As a member of the Senior Academic Staff (Dutch: Zelfstandig Academisch Personeel, ZAP), you will contribute to the University of Antwerp’s three core tasks: research, services and education. Your role may also include organisational and managerial aspects. As a research professor during a 5-year-period, your role will consist primarily of academic research with some limited involvement in the educational programmes.

Application process: Through the University of Antwerp’s online job application platform up to and including 24 March 2022 (by midnight Brussels time). 
More information, visit: Research professor (TT)ZAPBOF, The political economy of globalisation and inclusive development | University of Antwerp (uantwerpen.be)

2. Lecturer/ Senior Lecturer (Environmental Policy/ Governance; 5-year fixed term contract) at the Crawford School of Public Policy, College of Asia and the Pacific (CAP), Australian National University

We are seeking a candidate that has a strong passion for teaching, an excellent capacity for collaborative research and outreach, and an entrepreneurial approach to building partnerships and resourcing their research and impact. Expertise in one or more of the following areas will be highly valued: oceans and fisheries, Indigenous environments, urban environments or climate change. Experience in the Asia-Pacific and/or Australia is important, with an emphasis on complementing the group’s existing geographic strengths. Ideas for new course offerings are welcome. Increasing the representation of women and academics from culturally or linguistically diverse backgrounds is a strategic priority for the Crawford School. We strongly encourage applications from these groups.

Enquiriesplease contact Professor John McCarthy T: +61 2 6125 0494 or E: John.McCarthy@anu.edu.au

Applications close: 29 Apr 2022 11:55:00 PM AUS Eastern Standard Time
More information, please click here.

3. Lecturer/ Senior Lecturer (Environmental Economics; continuing position) at the Crawford School of Public Policy, College of Asia and the Pacific (CAP), Australian National University

We are seeking to appoint an outstanding early to mid-career academic to contribute to the School’s research, education and policy impact in the field of environment management and development. The Lecturer/Senior Lecturer will contribute to curriculum renewal and lead courses relevant to the Masters in Environmental Management and Development (MEMDV), the Masters of Climate Change, and that will contribute to other Crawford and ANU teaching programs. Expertise in one or more of the following areas will be highly valued: environmental valuation, cost-benefit analysis, environmental policy choice and design, implementation and evaluation of environmental policy. Applications of environmental economics to fields such as land use, agriculture, biodiversity or climate change are desirable, building on READ’s existing strengths in the economics of water and energy. Experience in Australia and/or the Asia-Pacific region that complements the group’s existing geographical coverage will be valued. Ideas for new course offerings are welcome. Increasing the representation of women and academics from culturally or linguistically diverse backgrounds is a strategic priority for the Crawford School. We strongly encourage applications from these groups.

Enquiriesplease contact Associate Professor Keith Barney T: +61 2 6125 4957 or E: Keith.Barney@anu.edu.au

Applications close: 15 Apr 2022 11:55:00 PM AUS Eastern Standard Time
More information, please click here.

Other news items

The II SIMGAT (II Symposium Geography, Environment and Territory) will take place in Belém (state of Pará, Amazon, Brazil) in November this year. The exact dates are yet to be determined. The event is organised by the Brazilian Network of Researchers on Environmental Geography. The event languages will be Portuguese and Spanish, but we will be delighted to welcome participants from all over the world! 

Further information: mlopesdesouza@terra.com.br (Prof. Marcelo Lopes de Souza)

January 2022 Updates

Dear POLLEN Members and Friends, 

We hope that you have started 2022 renewed and well.

This month we are delighted to feature the great work of another POLLEN node, the Urban Ecologies Project at the National Institute of Advanced Studies in Bangalore, India. If your node is keen to share your work in upcoming newsletters, please write to us at politicalecologynetwork@gmail.com.

As always, we are pleased to post the latest publications, CfPs and more from our lively community. We also welcome proposals for blog posts on the POLLEN blog – please contact us at the same email address with any ideas! Do check out our latest blog post on “Privatisation and commodification: Ecotourism as capitalist expansion in Sumatra, Indonesia” by Stasja Koot and other colleagues here.

With regards from your POLLEN Secretariat:
Sango Mahanty | Sarah Milne | Ratchada Arpornsilp

Getting to know your fellow POLLEN members

Each monthly newsletter includes a brief introduction to one of our many POLLEN nodes, to build connections across our community. This month we would like to introduce you to our node at the Urban Ecologies Project at the National Institute of Advanced Studies in Bangalore, India.

The Urban Ecologies Project at the National Institute of Advanced Studies

Overview

The Urban Ecologies Project is committed to both theoretical advancement and methodological innovation in political ecology, especially in four novel directions. Some of the epistemic centres for Political Ecology, typically in the Global North, have tended to dominate how the political and ecological ought to be studied and parsed. In our work, first we are committed to taking ‘nonhuman lifeworlds seriously, developing methods that combine ethology and ethnography to push for a more ‘ecological’ political ecology. A second commitment is to move from discourse and representation to affect and the politics of knowledge. A third strand, rethinking planetary transformations from India, foregrounds colonial history and post-colonial economy to provide counter-narratives to questions of wildlife in the Anthropocene. Lastly, we are committed to questions of environmental justice in ways that attend to existing practices and the lived experiences of subalterns, drawing on sustained engagement and ethnographic work. 

Node members 

Anindya “Rana” Sinha
Rana, primarily based at the National Institute of Advanced Studies in Bangalore, has previously studied the molecular biochemistry of yeast metabolism, social biology of wasps and the classical genetics of human disease. His principal research, over the last three decades, has been on the behavioural ecology, cognitive ethology, population and behavioural genetics, evolutionary biology and conservation studies of primates. His current research in natural philosophies, animal studies, art heritage and performance studies involve etho-ethnographic explorations of nonhuman synurbisation, human–nonhuman relations and the lived experiences of non/humans, promising unique insights into more-than-human lifeworlds – of the past, today and in the future.

Maan Barua
Maan Barua is a social scientist working on the ontologies, economies and politics of the living and material world. His research develops conversations between posthumanist, postcolonial and political economic thought in three arenas: urban ecologies, relations between nature and capitalism, and more recently, the Plantationocene as an alternative analytic for understanding planetary change. Maan is a University Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Cambridge, and an Adjunct Faculty at the National Institute of Advanced Studies in Bangalore. He is also the Principal Investigator on the ERC Horizon 2020 uEcologies Starting Grant.

Anmol Chowdhury
Anmol is currently a doctoral student with the uEcologies project, funded by an ERC Horizon 2020 grant, at the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore. Their study is trying to understand the lives of rhesus macaques, as they live, across cities in India. Through their work, they are attempting to expand urban political ecology by building conversations between ethnographic and ethological perspectives of thinking about animals. Their other major interests include gender and queer theory, and the geopolitics, folk music and traditional foods of Kashmir.

Ashni Kumar Dhawale
Ashni, a doctoral scholar at the National Institute of Advanced Studies in Bangalore, has been documenting the current lifeworlds of a typically rainforest nonhuman primate, the lion-tailed macaque, as it has begun to recently explore and exploit anthropogenic habitats and interact with local human communities. Her attempts to capture the novel, emergent reactions of both macaques and humans, has demanded a repurposing of theory and method in both ethology and political ecology, and an articulation of the socio-political atmospheres that determine and influence the changing dynamics of the synurbisation processes being experienced by nonhuman species in the Anthropocene.  

Sayan Banerjee
Sayan Banerjee, a doctoral research scholar at the National Institute of Advanced Studies, is examining behavioural and feminist political ecologies of human–elephant interactions in rural, northeastern India. He is deeply interested in human–wildlife relations, interdisciplinary conservation science and socio-ecological studies of Indian forestry. His various projects have documented indigenous hunting in Nagaland state, explored gendered implications of human–elephant interactions, and identified the nature and patterns of community participation in wildlife conservation projects, all in northeastern India.

Shruti Ragavan
Shruti Ragavan is a fourth-year doctoral scholar at the National Institute of Advanced Studies in Bangalore. Her research has been exploring the natures, cultures, and politics of bovines in the cities of Delhi and Guwahati in India. Certain themes that she engages with are bovine ethnographies, writing more-than-human histories of cities, infrastructures, commons, and smellscapes amongst others. Her broader research interests include human–animal relationships in the urban and the impact of planning and design on nonhuman lives. 

Shubhangi Srivastava
Shubhangi Srivastava is a doctoral research scholar on the ERC-funded Horizon 2020 grant on uEcologies at the National Institute of Advanced Studies in Bangalore. With a strong interest in nonhuman lives in the urban, her doctoral research, over the past three years, has centred around studying the ecological, political and socio-economic dimensions of human–dog relationships in urban India. She has been using a combination of ethnographic and ethological methods to study human–dog interactions, driven by her motivation to document the establishment of beastly places and the politics surrounding human/nonhuman cohabitation in the Global South.

Sneha Gutgutia
Sneha Gutgutia, a doctoral scholar on an ERC-funded Horizon 2020 project on uEcologies at the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, has been rethinking urban marginality by examining human–animal relations in informal settlements across India. Her current work focusses on the more-than-human ethnographies of nonhuman animals, primarily pigs, in marginalised human/ nonhuman communities in the urban. Having completed her master’s degree in social work from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai, she has earlier worked as a researcher and activist on issues of conservation and livelihoods at the Kalpavriksh Environment Action Group in Pune.

Promoting POLLEN collaboration 

Do you write with other members of POLLEN?
To gain visibility for collaborations across our network, we invite you to consider adding something along these lines to your acknowledgments: 
“This paper represents collaborative work with colleagues in the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN).”

PUBLICATIONS

Books

Buran, S., and Dedeoğlu, Ç. (eds.) 2021. Dossier: Philosophical Posthumanism Session at the 42nd Annual KJSNA Meeting. Vol. 1 No. 2. London: Transnational Press. <Vol. 1 No. 2 (2021): Dossier: Philosophical Posthumanism Session at the 42nd Annual KJSNA Meeting | Journal of Posthumanism (tplondon.com)>.

Fayed, I., and Cummings, J. (eds.) 2021. Teaching in the Post COVID-19 Era: World education dilemmas, teaching innovations and solutions in the age of crisis. Springer. <Teaching in the Post COVID-19 Era | SpringerLink>.

Tanasescu, M. 2022. Understanding the rights of nature. Transcript. <Understanding the Rights of Nature bei Transcript Publishing (transcript-publishing.com)>.

Blogs

Hecken, G.V. and Kolinjivadi, V. 2021. ‘The “White Saviour” deal for nature’. Green European Journal, 30 December,  <https://www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/the-white-saviour-deal-for-nature/>.

Kolinjivadi, V. 2021. ‘Subverting imperial greenwashing: Thinking with and beyond “A People’s Green New Deal” for anti-imperialist organizing’. Uneven Earth, 30 December, <http://unevenearth.org/2021/12/subverting-imperial-greenwashing/&gt;.

Koot, S., Ni’am, L., Wieckardt, C., Buiskool, R., Karimasari, N., and Jongerden, J. 2022. ‘Privatisation and commodification: Ecotourism as capitalist expansion in Sumatra, Indonesia’. POLLEN, 26 January, <https://politicalecologynetwork.org/2022/01/26/privatisation-and-commodification-ecotourism-as-capitalist-expansion-in-sumatra-indonesia/>.

Journal articles 

Bori, P. J., and Gonda, N. 2022, ‘Contradictory populist ecologies: Pro-peasant propaganda and land grabbing in rural Hungary’. Political Geography, <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2021.102583>.
 
Branch, A., F. Agyei, J. Anai, S. Apecu, A. Bartlett, E. Brownell, M. Caravani, C.J. Cavanagh, S. Fennell, S. Langole, M.B. Mabele, T.H. Mwampamba, M. Njenga, A. Owor, J. Phillips, N. Tiitmamer. 2022. From crisis to context: Reviewing the future of sustainable charcoal in Africa. Energy Research & Social Science 87, <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2021.102457>.
 
Büscher, B., Stasja, K., and Thakholi, L. 2022. ‘Fossilized conservation, or the unsustainability of saving nature in South Africa’. Environment and Planning E, <https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486211062002>.
 
Büscher, B. 2021. ‘The dangerous intensifications of surplus alienation, or why platform capitalism challenges the (more-than) human’. Dialogues in Human Geography, <https://doi.org/10.1177/20438206221075710>.
 
Büscher, B. 2021, in press. ‘The nonhuman turn: critical reflections on alienation, entanglement and nature under capitalism’. Dialogues in Human Geography, <https://doi-org /10.1177/20438206211026200>.
 
Fischer, K., Jakobsen, J., and Westengen, O.T. 2021. ‘The political ecology of crops: From seed to state and capital’. Geoforum. <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2021.12.011>.
 
Flood Chávez, D.I., and Niewiadomski, P., 2022. ‘The urban political ecology of fog oases in Lima, Peru’. Geoforum. Vol. 129, pp. 1–12.<https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2022.01.001>.

Jakobsen, J. 2022. ‘Beyond subject-making: Conflicting humanisms, class analysis, and the “dark side” of Gramscian political ecology’. Progress in Human Geography. <https://doi.org/10.1177/03091325211056442>.

Klepp, S., and Fuenfgeld, H. 2021. ‘Tackling knowledge and power: an environmental justice perspective on climate change adaptation in Kiribati’. Climate and Development.<https://doi.org/10.1080/17565529.2021.1984866>.

Sullivan, S. 2021. ‘Cultural heritage and histories of the Northern Namib: historical and oral history observations for the Draft Management Plan, Skeleton Coast National Park 2021/2022-2030/2031’. Future Pasts Working Paper Series 12. <https://www.futurepasts.net/fpwp12-sullivan-2021>.

Sullivan, S.,!Uriǂkhob, S., Kötting, B., Muntifering, J., and Brett, R. 2021. ‘Historicising black rhino in Namibia: colonial-era hunting, conservation custodianship, and plural values’. Future Pasts Working Paper Series 13. 
<https://www.futurepasts.net/fpwp13-sullivan-urikhob-kotting-muntifering-brett-2021>. 

Thakholi, L., and Büscher, B. 2022. ‘Conserving Inequality: how private conservation and property developers deepen spatial injustice in South Africa’. Environment and Planning E, <https://doi-org/10.1177/25148486211066388&gt;.

Vega, A., Fraser, J.A., Torres, M., and Loures, R. 2022. ‘Those who live like us:
Autodemarcations and the co-becoming of indigenous and beiradeiros on the Upper Tapajós River, Brazilian Amazonia’. Geoforum, Vol. 129, pp. 39–48. <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2022.01.003>.

Weldemichel, T.G. 2021. ‘Making land grabbable: Stealthy dispossessions by conservation in Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania’. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, <https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486211052860>.

Calls for proposals

The Journal of Posthumanism welcomes proposals for a special issue on a theme related to posthuman international relations and security (broadly defined).

Special Issues would normally be between 40,000 and 50,000 words, the equivalent of approximately 8 articles of 5000-6000 words, excluding the footnotes and references. We would be amenable to fewer or more articles if remaining within the overall word length, as well as Dossiers that include commentaries and roundtable discussions.

The guest editor/s must ensure that all contributions adhere to the style of the journal (https://journals.tplondon.com/jp/about/submissions) and commit to appropriate peer review of all contributions. This may be coordinated by the guest editor/s or through the journal’s normal (double-blind) peer review system.

The guest editor/s must also ensure that final iterations of all contributions are submitted to the journal no later than May 5, 2023.

Please note that acceptance of a proposal does not guarantee publication of the Special Issue, either in whole or in part.

The special issue proposal should be submitted as a word document to co-editor Dr. Çağdaş Dedeoğlu at posthumanism@tplondon.com by April 15, 2022. A decision will be made within 2 weeks by members of the editorial board, and proposal guest editor/s will be notified by April 29.    

Prospective guest editor/s must provide a detailed proposal that includes:

· List of all proposed article titles and authors, along with their institutional affiliation/s,

·  200-300 word abstract of each proposed article,

· Overview outlining the purpose of the special issue, its rationale, and the anticipated contribution to existing literature/debate (up to 1000 words),Short CV of guest editor/s (no more than 3 pages each).

Calls for applications

MA in Political Ecology at Lancaster University

•The only one of its kind in the UK: dedicated to understanding how the environment and politics intersect with issues of power and justice

•You will work with and learn from one of the largest political ecology research groups in the UK

•You will directly engage with both academic and non-academic practitioners of political ecology, including environmental activists and film-makers

•You will take your learning into the ‘real world’ through innovative teaching sessions that move outside the classroom

Brief description:

Interested in challenging the status quo of the environment and its politics?

Come and join us at Lancaster for our recently launched MA in Political Ecology!

We are the only programme of its type in the UK, offering the conceptual tools and practical skills to ask the difficult questions of human-environment relations and drive transformative action. You will be immersed in one of the UK’s largest and dynamic political ecology research groups, which draws upon diverse and interdisciplinary perspectives. These address and analyse critiques, debates and actions related to environmental concerns over local to global scales. Key themes include the politics of resource extraction, water, climate politics and the green economy. We offer novel approaches to our teaching, engaging our students in creative classes that provide tools to understand a complex planet and the challenges of our living with it.  

For more information, please see: 

https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/postgraduate-courses/political-ecology-ma/ or contact John Childs at j.childs@lancaster.ac.uk 

Calls for participation

IV Congreso Latinoamericano de Ecología Política (Latin-American Congress on Political Ecology)
Ecología política y pensamiento crítico latinoamericano: raíces, trayectorias y miradas al futuro
Ecuador | 19-21 de octubre de 2022 (salidas de campo 22 de octubre)

Página web:www.4congresoecologiapolitica.org
Correo electrónico:congreso4.ecologiapolitica@gmail.com
| Formato híbrido |
El Colectivo de Geografía Crítica del Ecuador, el Instituto de Estudios Ecologistas del Tercer Mundo, con el apoyo del Grupo de Trabajo Ecología(s) política(s) desde el Sur/Abya-Yala de CLACSO invitan a la comunidad académica y a los movimientos sociales a participar en el IV Congreso Latinoamericano de Ecología Política.

El tema central del Congreso es “Ecología política y pensamiento crítico latinoamericano: raíces, trayectorias y miradas al futuro”. Pueden leer más sobre la convocatoria al congreso, los Ejes temáticos y Líneas de discusión aquí.

El congreso mantendrá un formato híbrido, con algunas actividades solamente presenciales y otras solamente virtuales, en virtud de lo inestable aún de los viajes internacionales y de las restricciones de aforos para un evento presencial en Ecuador, bajo los protocolos de Covid-19. Con esta decisión buscamos garantizar la participación de investigadorxs y estudiantes que buscan compartir los resultados de sus investigaciones con la comunidad académica de la ecología política, así como de los y las activistas y personas de comunidades en resistencia que buscan crear redes de apoyo y reconocimiento mutuo.

Modalidades de participación:
Presentaciones individuales (virtual), Paneles armados (virtual), Talleres de creación colectiva (presencial), Rodas de diálogo (presencial), Formatos artísticos (presencial).

Inscripciones a todas las modalidades aquí.
Plazo de envío de propuestas: 1 de Marzo, 2022
Plazo de inscripción y pago: 15 de julio, 2022

Vacancies

Campaigner (military and climate change) at the Conflict and Environment Observatory
Contract: Until December 2023, Full-time

Position overview
Militaries are major polluters but it’s unclear how large their emissions are. Until last year, their emissions had been off the global climate change agenda for 25 years. Now NATO, and the UK, US and some other militaries are pledging reduction targets. The tide has begun to turn but we cannot leave militaries to dictate the pace of change or the level of ambition.

At COP26 in Glasgow we launched military emissions dot org, together with academic partners. Its aim is to communicate the huge gaps in the reporting of military emissions. We also began collaborating with a diverse range of civil society organisations. We now need someone to work with us as we build on this momentum ahead of COP27 and COP28.

The role
You will work with our Environmental Policy Officer, Research and Policy Director and academic partners to translate their research on military emissions into accessible advocacy materials. You will develop advocacy campaigns that will align with key events and develop and build a global network of civil society partners and the communication tools to support it. 

Application Instructions
Send a CV and covering letter in Word or PDF format, with your name as the filename for both documents. We expect your covering letter to clearly outline your suitability for the role, and directly address the requirements of the person specification above. Closing date 18th February, interviews are expected to take place before March 10th.

To apply, please visit: Campaigner (military and climate change) | The Conflict and Environment Observatory | | CharityJob.co.uk