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💡 CALL FOR SESSION PROPOSALS 💡
Contested Natures: Power, Possibility, Prefiguration 🌿💥
POLLEN 2020 conference @PolEcoNet
Conference: 24-26 June 2020
Session proposal deadline: 31 Oct 2019
pollen2020.wordpress.com

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@PolEcoNet @IDS_UK @SPRU @SussexUni @uniofbrighton @SIIDgroup @biosec_erc QUESTIONS:

1) What is the nature of ‘crisis’ ? How and by whom are natures being (re)made through and against the language, politics and materiality of crisis at different scales?

@PolEcoNet @IDS_UK @SPRU @SussexUni @uniofbrighton @SIIDgroup @biosec_erc 2) What tools do we have at hand and what tools are needed to make sense of evolving society-nature relationships in different contexts?

@PolEcoNet @IDS_UK @SPRU @SussexUni @uniofbrighton @SIIDgroup @biosec_erc 3) How is the coloniality of knowledge, technology, being and power at play in contestations and struggles over nature and possible futures? How are diverse values and ways of being entangled in these struggles?

@PolEcoNet @IDS_UK @SPRU @SussexUni @uniofbrighton @SIIDgroup @biosec_erc 4) When we speak of ‘alternatives’, what distinguishes alternatives in versus alternatives to dominant regimes of truth, power and accumulation, in theory and practice?

5) What does ‘de-centring’ and ‘disorienting’ Anglo-Euro-American political ecology mean in practice?

@PolEcoNet @IDS_UK @SPRU @SussexUni @uniofbrighton @SIIDgroup @biosec_erc 6) Considering coloniality, racism and hetero-patriarchy as constitutive elements of modernity, what does the call to decolonize political ecology require?

@PolEcoNet @IDS_UK @SPRU @SussexUni @uniofbrighton @SIIDgroup @biosec_erc 6 (continued): What can be learned from ‘walking with’ and exploring, in solidarity, emplaced and embodied modes of resistance, insurgent imagination, experimentation and prefiguration, about ways of knowing and ‘doing’ transformation?

@PolEcoNet @IDS_UK @SPRU @SussexUni @uniofbrighton @SIIDgroup @biosec_erc 7) What political ecologies and future natures are emerging, or might be just on the horizon ? What practices of knowledge, creation, doing and sharing could nurture the futures we want?

@PolEcoNet @IDS_UK @SPRU @SussexUni @uniofbrighton @SIIDgroup @biosec_erc Themes:
- Political ecologies of agrarian and environmental change
- Production of capitalist natures
- Feminist, queer and trans political ecologies
- Radical ecologies and future natures

@PolEcoNet @IDS_UK @SPRU @SussexUni @uniofbrighton @SIIDgroup @biosec_erc Possible formats:
- Regular sessions (90 minutes)
- Workshops and skill-shares (3 hours)
- Multimedia sessions (e.g. film screenings, photo or art exhibitions with discussion) of up to 3 hours
- Displays, exhibitions or installations

@PolEcoNet @IDS_UK @SPRU @SussexUni @uniofbrighton @SIIDgroup @biosec_erc Full call for proposals: pollen2020.wordpress.com/call-for-sessi…

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