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Dear all,
Please find underneath the last POLLEN newsfeed, with news from the various POLLEN nodes.
Enjoy!
Blog posts
Save cultural studies in the age of Brexit
By Students and Alumni of the Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths
By Stefania Barca
The Trump moment in environmental conservation
By Bram Büscher and Robert Fletcher (https://entitleblog.org/2017/
Beyond the limits of nature: a social-ecological view of growth and degrowth
By Eleanor Finley (https://entitleblog.org/2017/
Did we accomplish the revolution in geographic thought?
By Joaquin Villanueva
Capitalism, democracy, and the degrowth horizon (Part I)
By Leandro Vergara-Camus
Tracing narratives and perceptions in the political ecologies of health and disease
By Creighton Connolly
Imagining a transformative environmental justice research agenda
By Hannah Gray
Vacancies
The Department of Food and Resource Economics at the
University of Copenhagen invites applications for a position as Professor in
political ecology. The Professor will develop, manage and participate in
existing research projects and will develop the field of political ecology in
the research group, Global Development. For more information see http://jobportal.ku.dk/alle-
In Norway, there are 3exciting new PhD positions available in International Environment and Development Studies, you can read more here.
A Tenure track position has opened up in Oulu,
Finland: Assistant Professor or Associate Professor in Geography, Specialisation on Political Ecology, for more information see: https://rekry.saima.fi/
Events
PhD Summer School:
Before the conference The Value of Life: Measurement, Stakes, Implications, the Centre
for Space, Place and Society, Wageningen University, organizes a PhD Summer
School from 21 to 27 June 2017: Political
Ecologies in/of the Anthropocene: Value, Life and Critique. For more
information please see: http://www.wur.nl/en/activity/
Paul Robbins will visit Taiwan from March 12-18, 2017. On March 14 (10am-12pm) in National Taiwan University, he will give a public lecture, titled New Geographies of Biodiversity: Conservation in a Humanized World, and participate in a forum (1pm-3pm) titled, Anthropocene and Political Ecology: Limitation and Potential. On March 16 (10am-12pm) in National Cheng Kung University, he will give another public lecture, titled No Going Back: The Ethic of Environmental Science in the Psychozoic. For more information, please contact Po-Yi Hung at [log in to unmask]
Publications
A (Spanish) special issue of Ecología Política on the
political ecology of tourism has been published:
http://www.ecologiapolitica.
Symposium on radical urban politics, coordinated by Erik Swyngedouw and
Mustafa Dikeç in International Journal of Urban and Regional Research http://onlinelibrary.wiley.
A special section on “Political ecologies of the green economy”, edited
by Conor Cavanagh and Tor A. Benjaminsen, appeared in the Journal of Political
Ecology http://jpe.library.arizona.
Calvario, R. 2017 Food sovereignty and new peasantries: on
re-peasantization and counter-hegemonic contestations in the Basque territory. The
Journal of Peasant Studies http://www.tandfonline.com/
Cortes-Vazquez, J. 2017. The end of the idyll? Post-crisis conservation
and amenity migration in natural protected areas. Journal of Rural Studies, 51:
115-124. DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2017.02.005 (free
download:
https://authors.elsevier.com/
Cortes-Vazquez, J; Jimenez-Esquinas, G. and Sanchez-Carretero, C. 2017.
Heritage and participatory governance. An analysis of political strategies and
social fractures in Spain. Anthropology Today 33 (1): 15-18. DOI:
10.1111/1467-8322.12324
(Open access: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.
Dikeç, M. and
Swyngedouw, E. 2017. Theorizing the Politicizing City. International Journal
of Urban and Regional Research http://onlinelibrary.wiley.
García-Lamarca, M. 2017 From Occupying Plazas to Recuperating Housing: Insurgent Practices in Spain. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.
Hung, P.-Y. and I. Baird, 2017. From Soldiers to
Farmers: The Political Geography of Chinese Kuomintang Territorialization in
Northern Thailand. Political Geography 58: 1-13. http://www.
Kotsila, P., & Saravanan, V. S. 2017. Biopolitics Gone to Shit? State Narratives versus Everyday Realities of Water and Sanitation in the Mekong Delta. World Development.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/
Other
There is a new newsletter by sENT (January #6), you can read it here.
Call for book chapters:
We are preparing an edited book in connection with the
‘Rights to Nature: Tracing alternative political ecologies against the
neoliberal environmental agenda’ Conference that was organized at the
University of Cambridge last June. This Book will report work that explores
different forms of contesting neoliberalism within the broad field of political
ecology. We would like to invite scholars and activists to send us an
expression of interest if they would like to take part to this publication. For
more information please see our website: https://
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Thank you!
Stasja Koot, Bram Büscher and Rob Fletcher
The POLLEN Secretariat
Wageningen University
The Netherlands
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