Dear all,
Below please find a call for papers for a workshop on global
environmental justice.
Best wishes,
Ina
*Global Environmental Justice*
Workshop to be held at the Universität Bremen, Germany
26/27 April 2013
*Call for Papers*
In recent years, global environmental politics and its study have
increasingly engaged with normative questions, including global justice.
Justice and equity norms have been on the agenda of international
environmental politics ever since the latter's emergence in the 1970s,
but gained much prominence in the context of more recent debates about
global climate change, the conservation of the world's natural resources
(e.g. forests, fisheries or biological diversity) or the international
trade in hazardous wastes. Core questions include: Who should contribute
how much to the avoidance of future environmental harm? Who ought to pay
the costs incurred by the need to adapt to a changing natural
environment? Which obligations do current generations have towards
future ones in preserving the integrity of the natural environment?
So far, two strands of literature seem to address global environmental
issues from different angles. First, there is a broad range of
philosophically informed writings that focus on what an appropriate
conception of global (environmental) justice would entail and seek to
derive broad principles of global environmental justice. Second, the
more empirically minded writings have thus far primarily been concerned
with how (global) justice norms emerge and develop and how they affect
policy-making at different scales.
The workshop is guided by the notion that it is useful to bridge this
gap and to engage political and legal philosophy and empirical social
science research -- most notably from political science, geography and
sociology -- in a more encompassing and multi-faceted debate. The kind
of questions we are interested in include (but are not limited to)
questions such as:
* What are the practically relevant differences und conflicts between
different concepts of global environmental justice discussed in the
literature? Would different theories of justice lead us to
fundamentally different assessments of real-world institutions? Or
are the differences mainly a matter of degree?
* How can we recognize and 'measure' global environmental (in)justice?
* How and why do different kinds of international or transnational
environmental regimes differ in their distributive consequences at
different scales? And what does that mean for global environmental
justice?
* How is global environmental justice conceptually and empirically
related to the broader field of global justice? And where and how
are global environmental justice concerns in conflict with other
values such as ecosystem preservation, the conservation of
biodiversity, self-determination, institutional effectiveness, or
(legitimate) self-interest?
We welcome papers from different disciplinary backgrounds, including
political philosophy, political science, geography, sociology and law.
The substantive focus may be on climate change, but given the
fast-growing literature on this particular topic we would also greatly
welcome papers that address other environmental issues.
Abstracts of proposed papers should be up to 500 words; they can be
submitted to [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>. The deadline for submitting
abstracts is Friday, 07 September 2012.
The workshop will be jointly hosted by the Research Group on Changing
Norms of Global Governance and the Institute for Intercultural and
International Studies (InIIS) at the Universität Bremen. Reimbursement
of travel costs will be available for a limited number of participants.
_Workshop organizers:_
Klaus Dingwerth, [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>
Darrel Moellendorff, [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
Ina Lehmann, [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>
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_Timeline: _
Deadline for abstract submissions: 07 September 2012
Notification of selected papers: 15 October 2012
Papers due: 8 April 2013
Workshop date: 26/27 April 2013
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Ina Lehmann
Universität Bremen
Institut für Interkulturelle und Internationale Studien (InIIS)
Mary-Somerville-Straße 7 (Haus "Wien")
28359 Bremen
Tel: +49 (0) 421-218-67469
Fax: +49 (0) 421-218-67491
E-mail: [email protected]
