*For geographers with an interest in climate change and/ or labour. With the

usual apologies for cross-posting!*

Dear Colleagues,

Please see the following call for papers for RGS/ IBG 2018: Geographies of Labour in a Changing Climate

Climate change is now a firm part of global consciousness. However, critical perspectives have shown how the discourse surrounding it runs counter to the rights and interests of the world’s most vulnerable workers by eliding contemporary differences between North and South in deference to the rights of ‘apolitical, placeless, future citizens’ (Chaturvedi and Doyle, 2015: 46). Seeking to oppose this grand narrative of climate change, climate justice scholars draw economic and social inequalities into its analysis in a manner that the “objective” discourse of climate change scholarship has often failed to address.

From this position, changes to the climate – both long and short term – are not experienced en masse, but through the lens of working life. Those experiencing climate change are not atomistic entities, but connected agents, deeply embedded within global systems: as market traders or factory workers; rural farmers or civil servants. The changing climate does not therefore mean changing weather, but changing terms of work. What was once sufficient for personal and family needs may no longer be so in a new environment, meaning reduced quality of livelihoods, longer working hours and a greater vulnerability to exploitation by employers.

This panel aims to bring together insights from a range of contexts to explore this situated experience of climate change, highlighting how life and work within global production networks combine to determine its experience. Abstracts are invited which provide cutting-edge research in the Global North and/or South. Themes could include (but are not limited to):

•       The experience of work in a changing climate

•       Labour rights and the climate

•       Justice, legality and the changing climate

•       Climate change and global production networks

•       Climate change and uneven development

We are looking for titles and abstracts of 300 words to be sent to Laurie Parsons ([log in to unmask]) by Friday 2^nd of February 2018. A short bio is also appreciated if possible.

I look forward to hearing from you!

Best,

Laurie.

Dr. Laurie Parsons
British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Co-investigator, Project Blood Bricks

Department of Geography
Royal Holloway University of London