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* Apologies for cross-posting * In June 2017, Wageningen University in the Netherlands will be hosting a Centre for Space Place & Society international conference under the title "The Value of Life: Measurement, Stakes, Implications". See below for our call for papers. Please send a 150 word abstract to [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> before December 24, 2016 if you would like to participate! CALL FOR PAPERS CSPS CONFERENCE JUNE 28-30, 2017 The production and use of citizen science and academic knowledge in political grassroots movements: Perspectives from civil society and academia Convenors: Michiel Köhne, Monique Nuijten, Elisabet Rasch, SDC (WUR) Over the past decades, multiple critical grassroots initiatives have emerged around topics such as food, energy and housing. These initiatives reflect a widespread discontent across the globe with respect to the dominant economic and political order and the human and environmental damage it produces and aim at achieving fundamental political change. Grassroots movements against hydraulic fracturing all over the world, the platform of mortgage victims that arose in Spain after the economic crisis in 2008 and tree sitters that oppose mining in Germany are just a few examples. The political character of such grassroots movements puts researchers that study these processes in a political place as well. This raises questions about our position as researchers, but also about how the knowledge that we produce plays a role in the social and political change that grassroots movements envision. At the same time, many grassroots movements are also actively involved in the production of knowledge, to build up evidence in order to strengthen their point or to gain credibility pursuing inclusion in the political decision making processes. Anti-fracking movements for example gather information on the consequences of fracking for these reasons, whereas the platform of mortgage victims in Spain collects data about the laws and procedures reigning banking practices. Producing knowledge then, also becomes a way of transforming existing power relations. For this panel we invite papers that discuss one or more aspects of this use and production of academic knowledge and citizen science in and for grassroots movements. We wish to bring together different actors that engage in these processes of knowledge construction: engaged or activist academic researchers, people that work in NGO’s and activists. As such we hope to initiate fruitful discussions about, and active interchange of, knowledge between civil society and academia. Please send a 150 word abstract to [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> before December 24, 2016! ************************************************************* * Anthropology-Matters Mailing List * http://www.anthropologymatters.com * * A postgraduate project comprising online journal, * * online discussions, teaching and research resources * * and international contacts directory. * * To join this list or to look at the archived previous * * messages visit: * * http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/Anthropology-Matters.HTML * * If you have ALREADY subscribed: to send a message to all * * those currently subscribed to the list,just send mail to: * * [log in to unmask] * * * * Enjoyed the mailing list? Why not join the new * * CONTACTS SECTION @ www.anthropologymatters.com * * an international directory of anthropology researchers * * To unsubscribe: please log on to jiscmail.ac.uk, and * * go to the 'Subscriber's corner' page. * * ***************************************************************