*Call for papers for a panel at the 2017 Conference The Value of Life:
Measurements, Stakes, Implications of the Centre for Space, Place and
Society (CSPS), 28-30 June 2017, Wageningen, the Netherlands*
*Socio-environmental crises: Valuing human and non-human life under
pressure*
Convenors: Stasja Koot, Emile Smidt and Bram Büscher
As is repeated often, we live in a time of multiple, overlapping
environmental and social crises that influence the lives of many human and
non-human beings. Global climate change, wildlife crime, intensified
extraction and many other dynamics continue to increase the pressure on
important ecosystems and species, and the people that live with them.
Recent literature has pointed out that these pressures often may lead to
violence, evictions or otherwise harmful effects. Yet, exactly how to
conceptualize the notions of ‘pressure’ and ‘crisis’, and what impact
different conceptualizations have, has only recently started. One central
consequence of ones choice for particular conceptualization of crisis or
pressure relates to how human and non-human life are valued. Indeed, value
seems to become a central element of the political ecology of environmental
crises, and in this panel we want to investigate these value dimensions and
dilemmas.
For this panel, we are looking for papers about socio-environmental crises
situations that engage with the ways in which the pressure that such crises
instigate work out in the daily lives of human and non-human actors. We ask
the following questions: in which ways do these crises influence how actors
value their lives and that of others, including non-human actors? What role
does technology, including new online, surveillance and security
technologies, play in this valuation? To what types of violence,
contestation and conflict do these value judgements lead and how are these,
in turn, addressed? How does the valuation of life relate to broader
political economic contexts, cultural and social considerations, including
race and gender, and issues of identity, belonging and resistance?
If interested, please send your abstract, with a maximum of 250 words, to
Stasja Koot, in a Word document, *latest by 10 December 2016*:
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For more information about the conference please click here
<https://centreforspaceplacesociety.wordpress.com/events/2017-conference/>.
Best wishes,
Stasja, Emile and Bram
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Latest publications:
White Namibians in tourism and the politics of belonging through Bushmen
<http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/23323256.2015.1011343>, Koot,
Stasja (2015), *Anthropology Southern Africa*
Contradictions of Capitalism in the South African Kalahari: Indigenous
Bushmen, their Brand and Baasskap in Tourism
<http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09669582.2016.1158825?journalCode=rsus20>,
Koot, Stasja (2016),
*Journal of Sustainable Tourism*
Ju/’hoansi lodging in a Namibian Conservancy: CBNRM, tourism and increasing
domination, Koot, S.P. & Van Beek, W.E.A. (in press) *Conservation and
Society*
The Khwe of Namibia: Foragers between game, tourism and politics, Koot, S.,
Van Beek, W. & Diemer, J. (in press). *Anthropos*
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