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Call for Papers: Energy, land and resource extraction in the Arctic. Towards a Political Ecology of the Arctic. (This session is sponsored by the Energy Geographies Research Group) Competition over resources, land and people in the Arctic have recently increased following the effects of climate change on local, regional and national political systems. Resource multinational corporations, national States as well as regional and local socio-economic actors are now competing for the right to access these ore-rich frozen landscapes. In practice, this has taken the form of geopolitical entities such as Canada or the EU actively seeking to claim and govern 'their' Arctic space. The organisers of this session call for a collection of papers that can help understand the interplay between the State (and/or States), multinational resource exploitation corporations, indigenous peoples and non-human actors in the shaping, implementation and functioning of sustainable energy production strategies. We hope to better understand the nexus between the political economy, geography and ecology of the Arctic in the context of these co-occurring material-semiotic systems. The main outcome of this session will be to develop a comprehensive account of power/knowledge dynamics related to resource extraction in the Circumpolar North. Key questions include: What practices of governance control resource extraction and energy supply in the Arctic? How are these practices conceived across time and space? Please send abstracts (max 100 words) including name and affiliation to convenors before 15th February 2016. Michael J Laiho — [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Department of Geography, Durham University. Brice Perombelon — [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford.