Dear Colleagues,
I hope you will consider the following CFP for the AAG Annual Conference in New Orleans. Apologies for cross-posting.
CFP -- Extracting Eurasia: Power, nature, and space in regional context
AAG New Orleans, April 10-14, 2018
Sponsors: Eurasian, Political Geography, and Cultural & Political Ecology Specialty Groups
Organizer: Jesse Swann-Quinn, Syracuse University
Eurasia comprises vast populations, extreme geologic and ecological diversity, and some of the world’s most intractable geopolitical conflicts. The broad region also exhibits intense patterns and histories of resource extraction and capture, providing a cornerstone for many national economies and countless local livelihoods. From mineral and metal mining and fossil fuel drilling, to water use and forest harvesting, the arrangements that govern these extractive practices produce a wide spectrum of political, social, and environmental consequences.
This session brings together individuals whose scholarship contributes to regional understandings of these extractive patterns as they evolve across Eurasia. By encouraging contributions that incorporate political ecology, critical geopolitics, feminist methodologies and other grounded approaches to field work, this session contributes to efforts that encourage a more critical approach to the regional geographies of Eurasia. This call also acknowledges that while global networks of extraction may increasingly defy borders and challenge regional narratives, extraction and commodity chains still create numerous scales of activity from local to global, and beyond. Ultimately, these networks incorporate simultaneously local, national and transnational political and economic assemblages, and understanding the forces that produce these patterns in specifically Eurasian contexts requires a regional perspective grounded in rich, highly contextualized empirics.
This session welcomes contributions that are contemporary or historical, fieldwork driven or theoretical, and from a diversity of methodological practices. Possible topics may include, but are not limited to:
- Authoritarian or democratizing political environments
- Local conflict over resource management
- Corruption among state and corporate entities
- New materialisms in Eurasia
- Neoliberal environmental reforms
- Geopolitics of resource extraction and transport
- FDI flows across borders
- Environmental subjectivities and biopolitics
- Newly emergent international agreements and unions in relation to conservation, resource management, etc. (e.g. Eurasian Economic Union, the One Belt One Road Initiative, etc.)
- Shifting political identities and narratives of dis/interconnectivity
- Ecological regionalism
Interested participants should submit inquiries and abstracts for consideration (approximately 250 words) to Jesse Swann-Quinn <[log in to unmask]> by October 15th. Authors will be notified by October 20th.
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