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*CALL FOR PAPERS*
*6th International Conference in Interpretive Policy Analysis: Discursive
Spaces. Politics, Practices and Power *(www.ipa-2011.cardiff.ac.uk)
Cardiff, Wales, UK, Thursday Jun 23 – Saturday Jun 25, 2011
Deadline for paper proposals *31 Jan 2011*
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*Panel 38 *
*Environmental Market Space(s): Discourse, Power, and Legitimacy***
*Convenors*
*Arno Simons*
Technische Universität Berlin
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*Aleksandra Lis*
Central European University Budapest [log in to unmask]
*Topic overview*
Around the world and in problem areas as diverse as climate policy, fishery
management, and biodiversity protection, markets have been developed as a
means of environmental governance – often replacing or pushing aside
alternative approaches.
The proliferation of environmental markets (EMs) has changed not only the
ways in which environmental action is perceive
d and practiced but also the identities of actors and the relations between
them.
Design and adequacy of EMs have triggered fierce political debates and
raised strong emotions. Sometimes such debates have attracted public
attention. More often, however, they have taken place within informal
networks of experts and policy makers – raising serious questions about the
democratic legitimacy of this process.
While EMs have been able to enroll heterogeneous interests and led to the
emergence of whole new sectors (like the “carbon industry”), they have also
provoked strong resistance, partly in reaction to specific design problems
or scandals, partly as an expression of fundamental critique. Interestingly,
we can find both proponents and opponents of EMs left and right of the
political spectrum, in the global North and South, and in different sectors
of society.
How are we to make sense of EMs from an interpretive policy analysis (IPA)
perspective? This panel seeks to investigate the highly political (but not
necessarily politi*cized*) terrains in which EMs are debated, constructed
and enacted – terrains that we might call “environmental market spaces”. We
invite contributions that analyze various aspects of these spaces such as
past or ongoing discourses, changing practices, contested meanings, emerging
identities, dynamics of actor networks, emerging resistance, the role of
critics, shifting (or non-shifting) power relations, the use of metaphors
and imagery, socio-technical set-ups etc. The idea is to bring together
international IPA scholars working on such issues from different theoretical
perspectives and employing different methodologies to see what is in there
for the interpretive analysis of environmental market spaces.
*Paper proposals*
All paper proposals should be sent as *Word file* to both panel convenors by
*31 Jan 2011* and contain
· Number and title of panel
· Title of paper
· Name, institutional affiliation and email of the presenter(s)
· Abstract (max 300 words)
· Up to five keywords
Please use Arial 11 to facilitate further processing.
Paper givers will be notified about acceptance of their papers by mid
February.
For those paper proposals that are accepted, full papers of no more than
6.000 words will be due one month prior to the conference date: *23 May 2011
*. They should be emailed to both [log in to unmask]* **and* the panel
convenors, writing “Full paper” in the subject heading. Submitted conference
papers will be accessible for registered participants through the conference
website.
Papers from the conference may be considered for a special issue of *Critical
Policy Studies*, Editors - Frank Fischer (Rutgers University, USA) and
Steven Griggs (De Montfort, UK); Forum Editors – Navdeep Mathur (Indian
Institute of Management, India) and Douglas Torgerson (Trent University,
Canada). To reach the editorial team of *Critical Policy Studies, *please
contact Helen Hancock at [log in to unmask]
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