Dear GEPer,
please find below a CFP for ISA 2016, which I am circulating for two
colleagues.
Best, Katharina
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*CfP ISA 2016: Re-evaluating the Food, Land and Resources Nexus in the
Global Agri-food System from a Waste-Perspective*
/Call for papers for the Annual Conference of the**International Studies
Association (ISA) 2016*, *March 16^th -19^th , Atlanta, Georgia/
Within various disciplines, the production and distribution of waste and
its socio-economic and ecological effects has gained momentum, focusing
predominantly on debunking global waste streams and „following objects“
from North to South. Yet, waste not only refers to material remainders
but also to the social and economic practices that lead to its
production.It is therefore increasingly important how waste is
perceived, defined and acted upon in global politics and economics.
This becomes apparent when looking at current processes within the
global agri-food system, where the loss of food, land and other natural
resources appear to be a negative side-effect of general global economic
activity. From a producing perspective, certain levels of waste cannot
be averted. Turning attention towards waste, however, helps to rethink
the intensification of agricultural production, the degradation of
soils, the overproduction and overconsumption of food products etc. from
a ‘consuming angle’. That is, in terms of material throughput, the using
up of non-renewable resources such as fossil fuels and fertile land, but
also the ‘using up’ of prospects for a good life of current and future
generations, and situates these processes in the context of necessary
transformations. It helps thus to evaluate economic processes in light
of planetary boundaries and to make a case for absolute reductions (the
implementation of “less” on every level), and also to recapture the
social foundations - questions of access to resources and the protection
of sustainable livelihoods. Thinking about waste leads us straight to
the current food, energy and financial crises that severely affect the
worldwide socio-economic situation and increase the pressure on global
food (in)security and fuel political instability. While global
strategies of waste regulation and management may enhance food security
and mitigate climate change effects in the short run, these strategies
may in fact also accelerate already existing social and political
conflicts, especially if practices, such as the increasing demand for
and unsustainable use of land areas in Africa, Latin America and
Southeast Asia, are linked to processes of waste generation.
We want to encourage scholarship that tries to identify a common ground
in contemporary politics and economics of waste that gives rise to
universal notions of and strategies to dealing with waste that may be
problematic in social and ecological terms. Thus a waste-lens opens up
the debate of current trends in the food system for debating practices
of distribution vis-à-vis production, unequal relations of the Global
North vis-à-vis the Global South, issues of power, justice and
(in)equality. In this regard, we welcome conceptual and empirical
contributions adding to the debates on (global) externalities of
overusing land, water and energy resources as well as reflections on
food and waste governance. We invite papers that critically explore
involved actors, structural prerequisites or relevant discourses within
the politics and economics of waste within the food system.
The panel will be chaired by *Doris Fuchs* (University of Muenster), who
is an expert on issues of power and sustainability within the global
agri-food system, and the papers will be discussed by *Thomas Princen*
(University of Michigan), who is a leading author on the politics of
urgent transition and the ethics of resource use.
Please send your abstracts (max. 200 words) by _25 May 2015_ to Anne
Hennings ([email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>) and Tobias
Gumbert ([email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>).
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Katharina Glaab, M.A.
University of Muenster
Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics"
Scharnhorststrasse 100
48151 Muenster
Germany
Phone: +49 251 83-25341
Fax: +49 251 83-25383
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