Call for papers / RGS-IBG Annual International
Conference 2016
Title: Geopolitics and geopower: rethinking the links between space and life in the anthropocene
(This session is sponsored by the History and Philosophy of Geography Research Group)
Abstract:
Climate change has transformed the nature of the relationships between the environment and human security. Here, geopolitics is being rekindled into a system of political practices that aim to control geophysical processes. It has become as such a narrative
that enable the use of nature against and for peoples. It is indeed now not only an instrument of domination (epitomised in the debate which identifies climate change as a security threat) but also a medium for future emancipation (as underpinned by the literature
on ecological-postcolonial geopolitics). For some, geopower, has thus become a trademark of the anthropocene, embodying the ability of the earth to influence societies but also to be shaped and transformed by human activities. This papers’ session will seek
to understand this new reality. Drawing from an interdisciplinary approach, It seeks to bring together scholars in political, social, environmental and anthropological geography to investigate how geopolitics can be thought in terms that better suit and respond
to the challenges brought by environmental change. Presentations that offer alternative understandings of geopolitics, particularly from post/de/anti-colonial and non-western epistemologies, are encouraged.
Contact:
Please send your abstract (~150-200 words), including your name and affiliation to
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before the 15/02/2016.
Organiser:
Brice Perombelon
School of Geography and the Environment
Environmental Change Institute
University of Oxford