EMOTIONAL ECOLOGIES

Convened by Alice Beban (Massey University), Sango Mahanty (The Australian National University) and Sopheak Chann (Royal University of Phnom Penh)

WELCOME

Although emotions are a central facet of lived experience, they have been under-explored in the processes of dispossession, power and capital intensification that political ecologists study. The “affective turn” in feminist geography, feminist political ecology and anthropology underpins a flourishing of work and insights on emotions within social movements (Ruiz-Junco, 2012), in state-society relations (Beban, 2021) and in lived experiences of nature-society disruption (González-Hidalgo and Zografos, 2020). This burgeoning scholarship shows how emotions influence resource access, use, and control, and shape people’s everyday lives and relationships with each other and with the state (Nightingale, 2011; Sultana, 2015). Yet, the emotional is often not regarded as a core concern in political ecology.

The Emotional Ecologies event aims to explore the possibilities that working with emotions offers for advancing the broader field of political ecology. Working with emotion opens possibilities for imagining new kinds of human-non-human relations, more deeply theorising power and resistance, and centering lived experience and relational subjectivities to go beyond binary ways of thinking about development and nature.

The event kicks off with a Keynote panel featuring Professor Andrea Nightingale (University of Oslo), Dr. April Bennett (Massey University) and Dr. Sochanny Hak (Auckland University).

Following the Keynote, three panel streams comprising pre-recorded presentations will be available from the PERC Emotional Ecologies web page:

With presentations by: 

Lisa Trogisch, Wageningen University, Paola Solis, Justus-Liebig-Universität, Daniel Read, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Josie Wittmer, Queen’s University 

Discussants: Kanokwan Manorom

Chair: Alice Beban

Live session for this panel: Monday 5th September, 20:00 UTC (Monday 10pm Amsterdam/Berlin; Monday 4PM NY; Tuesday 6am Canberra; Tuesday 8am Auckland)

With presentations by:

Maureen W. Kinyanjui, University of Edinburgh , Sony RK, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment ,Karen Kinslow, University of Kentucky

Discussant: Sango Mahanty

Chair: Sopheak Chann

Live session for this panel: Wednesday 7th September, 10:00 UTC  

(Wednesday 6am NY; Wednesday 11am Edinburgh; Wednesday 3:30pm Bengaluru; Wednesday 5pm Jakarta; Wednesday 8pm Canberra; Wednesday 10pm Auckland) 

With presentations by: 

Anna Sturman and Blanche Verlie, University of Sydney ; Noémi Gonda, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences; and Andrea J. Nightingale, University of Oslo ; Sango Mahanty, Australian National University; and Sopheak Chann, Royal University of Phnom Penh 

Discussant: Laura McKay

Chair: Sango Mahanty

Chair: Alice Beban

Live session for this panel: Friday 9th September, 10:00 UTC  

(Friday 6am NY; Friday 11am Edinburgh; Friday 12pm Oslo/Berlin/Amsterdam; Friday 3:30pm Bengaluru; Friday 5pm Jakarta; Friday 8pm Canberra/Sydney; Friday 10pm Auckland)  

Convened by Leola Meynell and Matt Peryman

Political ecology of emotions masterclass with Professor Sango Mahanty

(Thurs 9am-10:30am UTC – Thurs 11am-12:30pm Amsterdam/Berlin – Thurs 4pm-5:30pm Jakarta – Thurs 7pm-9:30pm Canberra – Thurs 9pm-10:30pm Auckland)

Postgraduate discussion seminar:

(Thurs 10:30am-11am UTC – Thurs 12:30pm-1:30pm Amsterdam/Berlin – Thurs 5:30pm-6:30pm Jakarta – Thurs 8:30pm-9:30pm Canberra – Thurs 10:30pm-11:30pm Auckland)

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