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Hi all, We welcome you to submit abstracts to the following CFP for the 8th Nordic Geographers Meeting, June 16-19, 2019, Trondheim, Norway: Forging sustainable spatialities: ruptures, fragments and relations Session organizers: Kristin Kjærås and Jakob Grandin, SpaceLab, University of Bergen The relational turn in geography has challenged how sustainability is understood, conceptualized and practiced. Scholarship has uncovered how sustainability can never be a geographically bounded venture, embedded as it is in dense and highly unequal relationships between different human and more-than-human worlds. It has revealed how purported sustainability projects in one place often depend on relations to unsustainable practices elsewhere, and the local drivers of global environmental and social change. To mobilize sustainable futures, we therefore need to scrutinize the particular geographies and spatial relations involved in sustainability projects. We already see a new geography of sustainability transformations emerging in practice. New scales (such as cities) and areas (eg., the global South) are surfacing as the locus of sustainability action. Sustainability is increasingly being produced through fragmented practices, where a multitude of different actors are involved in local experiments and time-limited projects, moving away from the ideal of complete, systemic and global solutions. In this session, we put particular attention on some of the emerging conceptual building blocks that may reframe how sustainability challenges are understood and, consequently, encountered. Ruptures provide a conceptual inroad for defining and discussing the imperfections and incompleteness of systems, projects and agendas. It also invites reflection on catalysts for change in incumbent systems. The incompleteness of systems, projects and agendas similarly motivates an avenue into the fragmentary work of sustainability transformations. Overall, a renewed conceptualization of the geographies of sustainability invites a discussion of the relations that potentially forge sustainable spatialities. We invite empirical and conceptual contributions. Potential contributors to this paper session should submit a maximum 250-word abstract. Abstracts should include title, and the names, affiliations and email addresses of all authors. Abstracts can be sent to [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> no later than December 15th Best, Jakob Grandin and Kristin Kjærås SpaceLab, Department of Geography Centre for Climate and Energy Transformation (CET) University of Bergen ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CRIT-GEOG-FORUM list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CRIT-GEOG-FORUM&A=1