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Dear all,
Please consider submitting an abstract to our session on "*Embodied
knowledge, national politics, and global environmental imaginaries
<https://www.politicalecology.org/single-post/2018/12/02/Embodied-knowledge-national-politics-and-global-environmental-imaginaries>*"
for the *Dimensions of Political Ecology conference (DOPE) 2019 *(Lexington,
Kentucky, Feb 21-23, 2019).
*Deadline for submissions*: December 28th, 2018.
*Embodied knowledge, national politics, and global environmental
imaginaries *
Contemporary political, popular, and scientific narratives are haunted by
crisis: existential risks of food and water insecurity, systemic economic
instability, and climate change. From the perspective of organizations for
global governance, such “grand challenges” demand that scientific research
and technology development be set free to produce “solutions.” Agendas for
research and innovation aimed at addressing globally imagined risks (Miller,
2015), whether or not they ultimately deliver on their promise, necessarily
impose logics and frameworks for resource allocation and rule-making in the
here and now. Broadly speaking, these are sites at which universal
technoscientific and governing agendas are coproduced (Jasanoff, 2004).
Despite the widely shared sense of urgency for significant change in the
ways that human beings understand and form part of the natural environment,
the appropriate scale and tools for such an imagined transformation remain
contested. Projects of global scientific knowledge production and
intervention are presented in visions of climate change remediation, energy
transitions and bioeconomic reconfiguration as the only hope for an ailing
and over-burdened planet, while coming up against anti-globalist political
uprisings, food sovereignty movements, localist rejection of large-scale
top-down energy systems, and consumer opposition to genetic engineering.
Given the widely acknowledged high stakes, advocates of global
environmental governance often frame dissent as regressive and
anti-scientific (e.g. Juma, 2016; Specter, 2009), and call into question
the capacity of democracy to meet the challenge of averting crisis (e.g.
Beeson, 2010). Thus, advocates for transforming human-environment
relationships through science and innovation tend to position scientific
and technical expertise not only as a source of know-how, but as an agent
of governance: authorized to declare how technological innovation and
economic reform should together re-order human-environment relationships in
the name of security; social, political and economic stability; and human
wellbeing.
This session seeks contributions that examine sites where
particular forms of knowledge and expertise are called upon and challenged
in efforts to transform the relationship between human beings and the
global environment. Further, we seek to explore the politics whereby
particular groups at different scales of knowledge and governance are
authorized to envision and pursue new modes of human-environmental
relations through creating and capitalizing knowledge and artifacts. We
hope to build understandings of the ways that political questions about
agendas to reform the human-environment relationship are asked and
answered, at what scale, and how credibility for such projects of
(re)imagination is produced.
*Please submit a presentation proposal including a title and abstract of
no more than 300 words to the session organizers: Tess Doezema
([log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>) and Carlo
Altamirano ([log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> ) by no
later than December 28th, 2018.*
References
Beeson, M. (2010). The coming of environmental authoritarianism. *Environmental
Politics*, *19*(2), 276–294. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644010903576918
Jasanoff, S. (Ed.). (2004). *States of knowledge: the co-production of
science and social order*. London ; New York: Routledge.
Juma, C. (2016). *Innovation and Its Enemies: Why People Resist New
Technologies*. Oxford University Press.
Miller, C. (2015). *Globalizing Security: Science and the Transformation of
Contemporary Political Imagination*. (Jasanoff, Sheila & S.-H. Kim, Eds.).
Specter, M. (2009). *Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific
Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives*. Penguin Press.
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*Carlo Altamirano*
Human and Social Dimensions of Science and Technology <http://hsd.asu.edu/>
School for the Future of Innovation in Society <https://sfis.asu.edu/>
Arizona State University <http://www.asu.edu/>
Local to Global Justice <http://www.localtoglobal.org/>
Email <[log in to unmask]> | LinkedIn
<http://www.linkedin.com/in/carloaltamirano> | Twitter
<https://twitter.com/carloaltamiran0>
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