POLITICAL ECOLOGY ACROSS BOUNDARIES

Hosted by Brock Bersaglio (University of Birmingham), Francis Massé (Northumbria University), Charis Enns (University of Manchester)

12-15 December 2022

WELCOME

The theme for the POLLEN 22/3 conference is Political Ecology, North South and Beyond; and there is a specific need to interrogate aspects of the ‘beyond’ – exploring ways in which political ecology approaches can be mobilised across boundaries, variously construed. Political ecology encourages critical reflection around the entanglements and encounters of political ecology with a variety of theories, approaches, and philosophies, and has been central to recent transdisciplinary debates about multi-species entanglements, biodiversity crisis, extinction, climate, racialisation, (de)coloniality, uneven and unequal geographical exchange, and the envisioning of alternative sustainability’s. This workshop brings together three sessions that in different ways speak to these themes and engage political ecology in ways that transgresses boundaries; be they disciplinary, epistemic, geographical, physical or structural. The sessions variously deal with spaces in which theoretical claims meet practical transdisciplinary challenges in Social-Ecological research, draw non-human entities into analysis of socio-ecological conflict, and reflect on political ecologies’ transformative role in repoliticizing spaces of technocratic power and marginalisation to pluralize roles, debates, and solutions to socio-ecological challenges. The result is a set of presentations and discussions which mobilise political ecology in novel and transformative ways and seek to expand discussions of its utility as a dynamic approach.

Session information

Session 1: Researching social-ecological conflicts – Bringing non-human entities into the analysis (Part 1 & 2)

Session organizer(s): Dr. Markus Rauchecker, Dr. Fanny Frick-Trzebitzky, Heide Kerber, ISOE – Institute for Social-Ecological Research, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Session 2: Synergy or contrast? When Political Ecology theoretical claims meet practical transdisciplinary challenges in Social-Ecological research projects

Session organizer(s): Dr. Fanny Frick-Trzebitzky, Heide Kerber, Dr. Markus Rauchecker, ISOE – Institute for Social-Ecological Research, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Session 3: Actualizing the potential of political ecology in transformative change I: Dismantling power

Session organizer(s):      Josephine Chambers, Utrecht University, Sierra Deutsch, University of Zürich

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