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Political Ecology, Geopolitics and the International Panel proposal and CfP for POLLEN 2024: The 5th Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network, 10-12 June 2024, Lund. Organised by: Jan Selby (University of Leeds) and Rosaleen Duffy (University of Sheffield) This panel will explore the intersection between political ecology and International Relations (IR). Political ecology as a field and approach typically combines a ‘place-based’ approach to socio-ecological relations (Blaikie 1985) with analysis of how these locally specific relations are shaped by global resources, financial and epistemic structures and flows, thus operating with what might be called a 'global-to-local’ ontology (Selby, Daoust & Hoffmann 2022). By contrast, political ecologists have traditionally not paid great attention either to the ways in which inter-state, inter-societal and geopolitical dynamics shape patterns of environmental degradation and environment-related vulnerabilities and inequalities, or to the theoretical or normative implications thereof; political ecologists often speak of ‘global political ecology’ (Peet, Robbins & Watts, 2011) but only rarely of an ‘international’ or ‘geopolitical’ equivalent. Yet recent research on ‘geopolitical ecology’ (Bigger & Neimark 2017; Masse & Margulies 2020) and ‘international political ecology’ (Selby, Daoust & Hoffmann 2022) suggests that fuller consideration of international and geopolitical dynamics is crucial both to understanding contemporary environmental crises and vulnerabilities, and to thinking through how they might be addressed, especially in an era of renewed geopolitical rivalries and ailing multilateralism. This panel will build upon this recent work, as well as on intersecting work within international environmental politics and critical geopolitics (Dalby 2020,; O'Lear, 2018; Dickinson, 2022), and on ‘environmental multiplicity’ (Corry 2020), to examine substantive, theoretical, methodological and normative issues at the intersection of political ecology and IR. The panel will ask a series of key questions including, but not limited to: - What alternative or additional substantive insights on environmental crises and insecurities are generated by adopting a ‘geopolitical’ or ‘international’ approach to political ecology? - What, in theoretical terms, might such an approach involve? How should we simultaneously theorise global capitalist and inter-state political ecology dynamics? - What methodological strategies are appropriate to analysing the geopolitical or international dimensions of political ecology? - What are the normative implications of taking geopolitics and the international seriously, for instance for the idea and possibility of degrowth? - What are the limits to or limitations of a geopolitical or international approach to political ecology? Please submit proposals no later than 12 December 2023, to allow for final submission to the conference organisers by 15 December. Please send a 250-300 word proposal, with title, contact information, and three keywords as a Word attachment to j.se...@leeds.ac.uk<mailto:j.se...@leeds.ac.uk> References Bigger, P. & B. Neimark (2017), ‘Weaponizing nature: the geopolitical ecology of the US Navy’s biofuels program’, Political Geography, 60, 13-22. Blaikie, P. (1985), The Political Ecology of Soil Erosion in Developing Countries (Longman). Corry, O. (2020), 'Nature and the international: towards a materialist understanding of societal multiplicity’, Globalizations, 17: 3, 419-35. Dalby, S. (2020), Anthropocene Geopolitics: Globalization, Security, Sustainability (University of Ottawa Press). Dickinson, H. (2022), ‘Caviar matter(s): the material politics of the European caviar grey market’, Political Geography, 99, 102737. Masse, F. & J. Margulies (2020), 'The geopolitical ecology of conservation: the emergence of illegal wildlife trade as national security interest and the re-shaping of US foreign conservation assistance’, World Development, 132, 104958. O’Lear, S. (2018), Environmental Geopolitics (Roman and Littlefield). Peet, R., P. Robbins & M. Watts, eds. (2011), Global Political Ecology (Routledge). Selby, J., G. Daoust & C. Hoffmann (2022), Divided Environments: An International Political Ecology of Climate Change, Water and Security (Cambridge University Press). Jan Selby Professor of International Politics and Climate Change School of Politics and International Studies University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK Tel: +44 113 343 3525 Office: 14.29 Social Sciences Building Home page<https://essl.leeds.ac.uk/politics/staff/2557/professor-jan-selby> Personal website<https://wordpress.com/view/politicsecology.wordpress.com> Latest publications: Divided Environments: An International Political Ecology of Climate Change, Water and Security (Cambridge, 2022; with Gabrielle Daoust and Clemens Hoffmann) here<https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/divided-environments/0621F20A4464C4E05BF76980BBF25D3F> ‘International/inter-carbonic relations’, International Relations (2022) here<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/00471178221116015> ‘Climate change and conflict’, Nature Reviews Earth and Environment (2023; with Cullen Hendrix, Vally Koubi, Ayesha Siddiqi and Nina von Uexkull) here<https://www.nature.com/articles/s43017-022-00382-w> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. 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