POLLEN, the Political Ecology Network, is calling for its third Biennial Conference, taking place in Brighton, UK, 24-26 June 2020. The conference theme is ‘Contested Natures: Power, Possibility, Prefiguration. Proposals for sessions can be submitted until 31 Oct 2019.
Archiv der Kategorie: Calls for Papers
Making sense of climate change in North Africa and the Middle East
Update: The deadline has been extended until November 15, 2019 – find now also a french version of the call here.
We welcome contributions to our workshop on climate change in the Middle East and North Africa (and beyond) next june in Berlin! Feel free to forward our call to more people who might be interested.
Call for Papers „Making Sense of Climate Change – Models, Cosmologies and Practices from North Africa and the Middle East”
8–9 June 2020, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin
The Middle East and North Africa are, according to recent predictions, one of the regions most affected by global warming (IPCC 2014). Nonetheless, although some social scientists focusing on the MENA have addressed the issue (Sowers 2011, 2013; Barnes 2015), climate change is still widely absent in Middle Eastern studies and other disciplines relating to the region.
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CFP: Conservation, Climate Change And Decolonisation
Just a few days left until the deadline for abstracts: a workshop in Barcelona bringing together social science research on climate change and conservation, Institute of Environmental Science and Technology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB), 29-30 October 2019:
CFP: Bridging research, policy and activism for environmental justice
In June 2019, the EnJust network – a new network dealing with questions of environmental justice – organized its first workshop on “Narratives and Practices of Environmental Justice” in Kiel, Germany (see a report here). Now, the call for the next meeting in 2020 is out:
“Bridging research, policy and activism for environmental justice in times of crises”
Freiburg, Germany, 27 –29 May 2020, organized by the Institute of Environmental Social Sciences and Geography, University of Freiburg, and the EnJust Network for Environmental Justice. Find the full CfP here.