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SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION
Conference on Intersections of Rights and Laws: Environment, Livelihood,
and Self-Determination 12-13 January 2012 University of London
Sponsored by the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, Human Rights Consortium
and the UK Network on Minority Groups and Human Rights, all at the School
of Advanced Study, University of London, Social and Legal Studies, and St
Edmund's College, University of Cambridge.
Keynote Speaker: Professor Tania Murray Li, University of Toronto Invited
Speaker: Rosemary Coombe, York University In the contemporary world,
numerous different groups of people are laying claims to rights, struggling
to make their claims heard and recognized, working to construct and enforce
international conventions, as well as national and regional laws and
policies, and pressuring governments, as well as corporations to recognize
human rights. Since the demise of the European colonial projects, these
many diverse efforts have broadened, deepened, and creatively expanded the
range of rights included under the broad rubric of human rights. As such, a
plurality of rights discourses and practices that exceeds, but which also
exercises shaping effects on law, has emerged in practice. At the same
time, rights discourses and practices have become the focus of scholarly
analysis in legal, economic, social science and humanities disciplines.
While in practice, specific rights claimants borrow and creatively rework
rights discourses and practices from many different domains of rights,
scholarly research has tended to focus on specific rights domains rather
than on the interfaces and connections between these domains. In an effort
to expand our scholarly understanding of contemporary rights discourses and
practices, this conference aims to critically explore theories,
methodologies, discourses and practices found at the intersections of
environmental rights, rights to cultural autonomy, indigenous sovereignty
(which is to be treated as distinct from minority cultural autonomy), and
livelihood rights (including a right to a living wage, labor rights, rights
and development activities, and a right to a livelihood). We encourage
scholars to creatively and critically articulate the connections between
these various domains of rights.
Dr. Tania Murray Li, the Keynote Speaker, is renowned for her work on the
ways that ordinary people rework and utilize rights discourses in the
practice of self-governance. She will be joined by scholars from a range of
disciplines and perspectives who investigate the ways in which discourses
and practices are being engaged and changed by borrowings, creative
re-workings, and connections between different rights frameworks, rights
claims, and rights laws. Presenters are asked to address the intersection
of rights and laws while considering the ways in which conceptual
frameworks influence and shape the methodological and practical dimensions
of their work. Papers of interest might explore the following questions:
What is the relationship between cultural rights or indigenous sovereign
rights and large-scale environmental changes, such as climate change,
extensive drought, changes in fisheries habitats and species, changes in
forestry practices, the growth of industrialized agriculture and
aquaculture, etc.? What is the relationship between rights to cultural
autonomy or to indigenous sovereignty and claims on a right to a
sustainable livelihood? In what ways are development activities,
livelihoods and environmental rights linked through laws and through
practices? How have environmental laws and legal regimes been shaped by
activists? What kinds of alliances have emerged in efforts to press for
environmental and livelihood rights?
The conference will be organized around invited speakers and four paper
sessions that address central intersections of rights and laws.
Participants are asked to submit an abstract to a specific session. These
sessions are: I. Environmental rights and livelihood rights. II. Livelihood
rights, cultural autonomy, and\or indigenous sovereignty. III.
Environmental rights, cultural autonomy, and\or indigenous sovereignty. IV.
NGOs, legal frameworks and rights.
Please submit a paper title, and a paper abstract of 300-400 words to
Sandra Brunnegger and Kate Sullivan at [log in to unmask] or at
[log in to unmask] by November 25, 2011. Please include your full contact
details and note the session in which you are interested in participating.
Successful applicants will be notified by November 30, 2011. Please put the
words "Intersections Conference" in the subject line of your submission
email.
Key dates:
Deadline for abstract submission is November 25, 2011
Decisions will be sent by November 30, 2011
Circulation of papers and panels, January 7, 2012
Location:
University of London
Conference fee:
The standard fee is £30 and the reduced student fee is £15.
Please direct registration inquiries to Olga Jimenez at
[log in to unmask] or phone: 0207-78628871 Please direct program
inquiries to Kate Sullivan at [log in to unmask]
Organizers:
Sandra Brunnegger, St Edmund's College, University of Cambridge
Kate Sullivan, California State University, Los Angeles
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