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*Call for Papers: Nature, Violence and Property* AAG Meeting in Los Angeles; April 9-13, 2013 Sponsored by the Cultural & Political Ecology Specialty Group (CAPE) *Organizers*: Alice B. Kelly (UC Berkeley) & Megan Ybarra (Willamette University) *Discussants*: Rod Neumann (Florida International University) & Nancy Peluso (UC Berkeley) As struggles over nature are increasingly understood “green grabbing” (Fairhead, Leach, and Scoones 2012), scholars are rethinking the relationship between violence and the nature of nature. A political ecology approach has centered critiques of conservation as coercion, focusing on the role of dispossession and criminalization of resource-dependent livelihoods (Thompson 1975; Peluso 1993; Neumann 1998; West, Igoe, and Brockington 2006; Agrawal and Redford 2007). Conservation practice often expels one set of forest residents, only to foster new communities of criminals, poachers and rebels (Greenough 2003). Increasingly, protected areas have also become modern landscapes of social wars, such as the “war on drugs” and the “war on terror.” In this double panel, we invite submissions that consider how conceptions of nature and property are produced through violence.* *Potential topics include, but are not limited to: · Territorialization and violence · Militarization and securitization of protected areas · Border creation and control · Policing and criminalization If you are interested in joining the session, please submit your proposed title and abstract by *Sunday, September 30th* to Alice B. Kelly ( [log in to unmask]) and Megan Ybarra ([log in to unmask]). We will try to confirm participation by October 10th. *References* Agrawal, A., and K. Redford. 2007. Conservation and displacement: An overview. *Conservation and Society* 7 (1):1-10. Fairhead, J., M. Leach, and I. Scoones. 2012. Green Grabbing: a new appropriation of nature? *Journal of Peasant Studies* 39 (2):237-261. Greenough, P. 2003. Bio-Ironies of the fractured forest: India's tiger reserves. In *In Search of the Rain Forest*, ed. C. Slater, 167-203. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Neumann, R. 1998. *Imposing Wilderness: Struggles over livelihood and nature preservation in Africa*. Berkeley: University of California Press. Peluso, N. L. 1993. Coercing Conservation? The politics of state resource control. *Global Environmental Change* 3:199-217. Thompson, E. P. 1975. *Whigs and Hunters: the origin of the Black Act*. London: Allen Lane. West, P., J. Igoe, and D. Brockington. 2006. Parks and peoples: The social impact of protected areas. *Annual Review of Anthropology* 35 (1):251-277. (apologies for cross-posting) Megan Ybarra Assistant Professor of Politics Willamette University http://www.willamette.edu/~mybarra/ Geógrafa y catedrática Universidad de Willamette Oficina (EEUU): 001.503.370.6664 Celular (Guatemala): 4696.7092