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CALL FOR PAPERS
Political Ecologies of Social Movements
2012 Dimensions of Political Ecology Conference, Lexington, KY; April 13-15, 2012
Organizer: Eric Nost (University of Kentucky, Geography)
Discussant: Dr. Bradley Wilson (West Virginia University, Geography)
For this session we seek papers that address the ways landholders, indigenous groups, the urban poor, consumers, and others aim to contest and rework social and ecological relations. From political ecology’s beginnings, scholars interested in the political economy of nature have studied collective responses to the unequal distribution of both ecological change and natural resources. Researchers here have well articulated the ways marginalized peasants and indigenous groups in the developing world challenge the environmental policies of NGOs and the state. With a turn to the “first world”, political ecologists are finding that developed world environments can be marginalizing and degraded too and that individuals and groups there also participate in the struggle over nature’s definition and management. From urban consumers’ farmers market purchases to rural peasants’ protests at climate change treaty negotiations, the forms and aims of environmental movements around the world vary greatly. We hope this session will bring together an interdisciplinary group of scholars with theoretically-informed papers whose overlaps and divergences point the way to new understandings of power and nature.
Paper topics might include:
Alternative food movements (e.g. fair trade, organic, local)
Opposition to "new land grabs"
CO2lonialism and climate justice
Environmentalisms
"Green" consumption
Environmental justice
Energy politics (e.g. hydraulic fracking, tar sands oil, mountain top removal mining)
Peasant and indigenous movements (e.g. La via campesina)
Theories of social change
Environmental identities
Environmentality and its discontents
Social movements and the state
Please send a title and abstract of no more than 250 words to Eric Nost ([log in to unmask]) by January 15, 2012. For more information about the conference and to register, see http://www.politicalecology.org
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