Call for Papers: RGS-IBG Annual International Conference
31st August – 2nd September 2016
Re-imagining
tree health and plant biosecurity: a more-than-human approach
Sponsored by the
Social and Cultural Geography Research Group of the RGS-IBG
Session conveners:
Dr
Hilary Geoghegan, University of Reading
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Mariella Marzano, Forest Research
Dr
Clive Potter, Imperial College London
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Julie Urquhart, Imperial College London
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Trees
and forests remain a source of interest for social and cultural geographers.
The growing incidence of new tree pest and disease outbreaks has the potential
to radically reshape woodlands and forests as well as interactions between citizens,
government, industry, NGOs, and researchers. An interdisciplinary response
incorporating social and cultural approaches is required to understand the
complex inter-relationships between humans and non-humans. Recent thinking around
concepts of the nexus and borderlands offer important launch points for
re-imagining biosecure futures, yet their value remains largely unknown to
funders, policymakers, and natural scientists. This session is an important
shift from ‘business as usual’, reinvigorating the traditional economic,
political and scientific landscape that surrounds tree health and plant biosecurity.
We
seek presentations from academic and applied researchers that adopt social and
cultural geography approaches to address research questions surrounding tree
and plant health, including but not limited to:
- Specific
tree and plant health issues, pests and diseases
- Planty
and more-than-human perspectives
- Affective,
emotional and embodied accounts of living with trees
- Impacts
of tree pests and diseases on social and cultural values
- Challenges
of regulative and economic frameworks and associated governance
- Implications
and learnings for researcher-policy interaction, risk communication, citizen
science
Please
submit your abstracts for consideration by Friday, 12th
February 2016. Send your Title, Abstract (no more than 250 words), Speakers (with affiliations and
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Conference
details can be found here: http://www.rgs.org/WhatsOn/ConferencesAndSeminars/Annual+International+Conference/Registration/Register+to+attend.htm
Best wishes,
Dr Hilary Geoghegan |
Lecturer in Human Geography
SAGES Equality Officer and Human Geography Research Cluster Leader
Department of Geography and Environmental Science
School of Archaeology, Geography and Environmental Science
University of Reading
Reading
RG6 6AB, UK
Tel: 0118 378 8915