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>Dear Administrator,
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>I would be grateful if you could circulate the conference announcement
>amongst staff and students.
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>With many thanks in advance,
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>Sandra Brunnegger
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>----- Dr Sandra Brunnegger
>St Edmund's College
>University of Cambridge
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>Call for Papers
>
>Conference on Intersections of Rights and Laws: Environment, Livelihood,
>and Self-Determination
>
>12-13 January 2012
>University of London
>
>Sponsored by the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, Human Rights Consortium
>and the UK Network on Minority Groups and Human Rights, all at the School
>of Advanced Study, University of London, Social and Legal Studies, and St
>Edmund's College, University of Cambridge.
>
>Keynote Speaker: Professor Tania Murray Li, University of Toronto
>Invited Speaker: Rosemary Coombe, York University
>
>In the contemporary world, numerous different groups of people are laying
>claims to rights, struggling to make their claims heard and recognized,
>working to construct and enforce international conventions, as well as
>national and regional laws and policies, and pressuring governments, as
>well as corporations to recognize human rights. Since the demise of the
>European colonial projects, these many diverse efforts have broadened,
>deepened, and creatively expanded the range of rights included under the
>broad rubric of human rights. As such, a plurality of rights discourses and
>practices that exceeds, but which also exercises shaping effects on law,
>has emerged in practice. At the same time, rights discourses and practices
>have become the focus of scholarly analysis in legal, economic, social
>science and humanities disciplines. While in practice, specific rights
>claimants borrow and creatively rework rights discourses and practices from
>many different domains of rights, scholarly research has tended to focus on
>specific rights domains rather than on the interfaces and connections
>between these domains. In an effort to expand our scholarly understanding
>of contemporary rights discourses and practices, this conference aims to
>critically explore theories, methodologies, discourses and practices found
>at the intersections of environmental rights, rights to cultural autonomy,
>indigenous sovereignty (which is to be treated as distinct from minority
>cultural autonomy), and livelihood rights (including a right to a living
>wage, labor rights, rights and development activities, and a right to a
>livelihood). We encourage scholars to creatively and critically articulate
>the connections between these various domains of rights.
>
>Dr. Tania Murray Li, the Keynote Speaker, is renowned for her work on the
>ways that ordinary people rework and utilize rights discourses in the
>practice of self-governance. She will be joined by scholars from a range of
>disciplines and perspectives who investigate the ways in which discourses
>and practices are being engaged and changed by borrowings, creative
>re-workings, and connections between different rights frameworks, rights
>claims, and rights laws. Presenters are asked to address the intersection
>of rights and laws while considering the ways in which conceptual
>frameworks influence and shape the methodological and practical dimensions
>of their work. Papers of interest might explore the following questions:
>What is the relationship between cultural rights or indigenous sovereign
>rights and large-scale environmental changes, such as climate change,
>extensive drought, changes in fisheries habitats and species, changes in
>forestry practices, the growth of industrialized agriculture and
>aquaculture, etc.? What is the relationship between rights to cultural
>autonomy or to indigenous sovereignty and claims on a right to a
>sustainable livelihood? In what ways are development activities,
>livelihoods and environmental rights linked through laws and through
>practices? How have environmental laws and legal regimes been shaped by
>activists? What kinds of alliances have emerged in efforts to press for
>environmental and livelihood rights?
>
>The conference will be organized around invited speakers and four paper
>sessions that address central intersections of rights and laws.
>Participants are asked to submit an abstract to a specific session. These
>sessions are:
>
>I. Environmental rights and livelihood rights.
>II. Livelihood rights, cultural autonomy, and\or indigenous sovereignty.
>III. Environmental rights, cultural autonomy, and\or indigenous sovereignty.
>IV. NGOs, legal frameworks and rights.
>
>Please submit a paper title, and a paper abstract of 300-400 words to
>Sandra Brunnegger and Kate Sullivan at [log in to unmask] by November
>25, 2011. Please include your full contact details and note the session in
>which you are interested in participating. Successful applicants will be
>notified by November 30, 2011. Please put the words "Intersections
>Conference" in the subject line of your submission email.
>
>Key dates:
>Deadline for abstract submission is November 25, 2011
>Decisions will be sent by November 30, 2011
>Circulation of papers and panels, January 7, 2012
>
>Location:
>University of London
>
>Conference fee:
>The standard fee is £30 and the reduced student fee is £15.
>
>Organizers:
>Sandra Brunnegger, St Edmund's College, University of Cambridge
>Kate Sullivan, California State University, Los Angeles
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>School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies (SPAIS)
>University of Bristol, 4 Priory Road, Bristol  BS8 1TY
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