Dear all,
We're excited to invite submissions for our workshop taking place on 30
November - 01 December 2021 via Zoom:
Environment(s) of Migration?Political Ecology, Territoriality, and
Migration Processes
When in the summer, hundreds of thousands of Pacific salmon migrate to
their spawning pools in the rivers of the United States and Canada,
they are enmeshed in an assemblage spanning from fishing gears and
technologies of measurement to legal prescriptions, administrative
practices, and settler colonial histories of dispossession and
capitalization (cf., e.g., Harris 2001; Wadewitz 2012). During those
same months, migrant workers from across Southeast Asia toil on oil
palm plantations on Borneo, clearing vast tracts of tropical forest for
the production of highly versatile vegetable oil used in the chemical
industry, as biofuel and for food consumption (cf., e.g., Pye and
Bhattacharya 2012; Kelley et al. 2020, 27-29). These are just two
examples of the enormous plurality of configurations of human and non-
human migration embedded in socio-political, economic, historical and
ecological relations (cf., e.g., Demuth 2019; Blavascunas 2020).
In this context, exploring the intersection, commonalities as well as
differences between the movement of human and non-human subjects, their
entangled histories and joined, though not necessarily equal,
production of future ecologies, landscapes and indeed forms of life,
can provide a fruitful approach for understanding the dynamics of
migration (cf., e.g., Jónsson 2010; De León 2015; Lynteris 2016;
Elmhirst 2017). At the same time such an approach promises novel
insights into the workings of governmental institutions and the
landscapes and ecologies they produce (cf., e.g., Anderson 2019;
Hetherington 2020; Swanson 2019), as well as the impact of diverse
forms of ecological change in relation to old and new kinds of mobility
(cf., e.g., Paprocki 2020; Peluso and Purwanto 2018).
This workshop seeks to address these issues highlighting the diverse
character of processes of migration in a broad, experimental manner to
stimulate a discussion that, we suggest, proves especially significant
given that non-human entities remain largely peripheral to research
conducted in the fields of Border and Migration Studies. It aims to
bring together scholars working on a wide variety of approaches,
providing a space for critical exchange and collaborative thinking for
a diverse group of scholars. Accordingly, we do not provide
geographical, disciplinary or topical limitations for submissions aside
from the thematic framework outlined above. Guiding, but by no means
delimiting questions, include:
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To
what extent are contemporary borderlands conditioned and questioned
by the multiplicities of relationships between human and non-human
entities?
*
How
are these relations and practices related to histories of
colonization and capitalist development?
*
How
are contemporary forms of human migration related to environmental
change(s) and socio-ecological transformation(s)?
*
What
new political and economic formations emerge at the intersection
between migration and environmental transformation?
The workshop is primarily addressing early career scholars in the
Social Sciences and the Humanities; in light of the ongoing disruption
of research plans due to the COVID19 pandemicthat many early career
scholars experience, submissions exploring envisioned, future research
endeavors are, of course, as much welcome as contributions based on
actual fieldwork experience. Applications for participation should
include an outline of the paper to be presented at the workshop, not
exceeding 300 words, and a bio. The deadline for applications is the
31stof October 2021 and they should be sent by email to
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The workshop is hosted by CEIFO at the Department of Social
Anthropology, Stockholm University,andwill take place online via Zoom
on 30 November 2021 2pm-6pm & 01 December 2021 2pm-6pm.
https://www.socant.su.se/english/about-us/events/ceifo-workshop-environment-s-of-migration-1.570427
Looking forward to your submissions!
Best,
Jonathan Kraemer (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Halle &
Stockholm University) & Andreas Womelsdorf (University of Vienna)
References
Anderson, Zachary R. (2019): “Mainstreaming Green: Translating the
Green Economy in an Indonesian Frontier.” In Frontier Assemblages: The
Emergent Politics of Resource Frontiers in Asia, edited by Jason Cons
and Michael Eilenberg, 83–98. Antipode Book Series. Hoboken, NJ: John
Wiley & Sons.
Blavascunas, Eunice (2020): Foresters, Borders, and Bark Beetles: The
Future of Europe’s Last Primeval Forest.Bloomington, IN: Indiana
University Press.
De León, Jason (2015): The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the
Migrant Trail.Berkeley et al.: University of California Press.
Demuth, Bathsheba (2019): Floating Coast: An Environmental History of
the Bering Strait.New York & London: W.W. Norton & Company.
Elmhirst, Rebecca (2017): 18 Migration and the Environment. In: Hirsch,
Philip (ed.): Routledge Handbook of the Environment in Southeast Asia.
New York et al.: Routledge, pp. 298-311.
Harris, Douglas C. (2001): Fish, Law, and Colonialism: The Legal
Capture of Salmon in British Columbia.Toronto et al.: University of
Toronto Press.
Hetherington, Kregg (2020): The Government of Beans: Regulating Life in
the Age of Monocrops. Durham: Duke University Press.
Jónsson, Gunvor (2010): The Environmental Factor in Migration Dynamics:
A Review of African Case Studies.IMI Working Papers 21. International
Migration Institute.
Kelley, Lisa C., Nancy Lee Peluso, Kimberly M. Carlson, and Suraya
Afiff (2020): “Circular Labor Migration and Land-Livelihood Dynamics in
Southeast Asia’s Concession Landscapes.” Journal of Rural Studies73:
21–33. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2019.11.019.
Lynteris, Christos (2016): Ethnographic Plague: Configuring Disease on
the Chinese-Russian Frontier.London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Paprocki, Kasia (2020): “The Climate Change of Your Desires: Climate
Migration and Imaginaries of Urban and Rural Climate
Futures.”Environment and Planning D: Society and Space38 (2): 248–66.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0263775819892600.
Peluso, Nancy Lee, and Agus Budi Purwanto (2018): “The Remittance
Forest: Turning Mobile Labor into Agrarian Capital.” Singapore Journal
of Tropical Geography39 (1): 6–36. https://doi.org/10.1111/sjtg.12225.
Pye, Oliver and Bhattacharya, Jayati (eds., 2012): The Palm Oil
Controversy in Southeast Asia: A Transnational Perspective.Singapore:
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.
Swanson, Heather Anne (2019): “Patterns of Naturecultures: Political
Economy and the Spatial Distribution of Salmon Populations in Hokkaido,
Japan.” In Frontier Assemblages: The Emergent Politics of Resource
Frontiers in Asia, edited by Jason Cons and Michael Eilenberg, 117–30.
Antipode Book Series. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.
Wadewitz, Lissa K. (2012): The Nature of Borders: Salmon, Boundaries,
and Bandits on the Salish Sea.Vancouver & Toronto: University of
British Columbia Press.
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Jonathan Kraemer
Visiting Fellow / Researcher
Department Anthropology of Economic Experimentation
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
PhD Student
Department of Social Anthropology
Stockholm University
SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
Visiting address: Universitätsvägen 10b
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https://www.socant.su.se/english/research/our-researchers/jonathan-krämer
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