Dear Colleagues, We would like to invite you to submit your proposals to the Environmental Politics Section at the next ECPR General Conference in Dublin (12-15 August 2024). You can either submit an individual paper proposal, which we will match after the call with other thematically related papers into a joint panel. Or you can submit your paper proposal as part of a full panel proposal. The deadline for submissions is *18 January*.
See this webpage <https://ecpr.eu/Events/Event/SectionDetails/1432> for more information. Section overview: In many ways, environmental concerns have become mainstream. Major actors from the public, private, and research sectors now all declare their commitment to reducing carbon emissions, biodiversity loss, and achieving a sustainability transition. Yet, there are important differences in visions of sustainability, priorities, and proposed solutions. At the same time, it is also increasingly evident that such a transition will also impose costs, and this has resulted in social protests and political backlash. In this evolving political context, this section aims to run ten in-person panels plus up to ten virtual panels focusing on current issues in and approaches to environmental politics and policy. We especially seek to put together panels that address interlinkages of environmental, social, and economic problems and their governance with the different ongoing, and lingering, crises (e.g., territorial war, energy, food, biodiversity, climate) at different levels (e.g., global, regional, sub-/national). This includes particular attention to environmental diplomacy and international relations, which has been little discussed at Environmental Politics Sections in previous years, as well as the analysis of democratic and populist backlash and eco-fascism against transformative politics and policies. Moreover, in order to capture these highly dynamic developments better, we welcome perspectives that transcend classical political science boundaries, such as the growing interest in sufficiency approaches; and we welcome the application of and reflection on new frameworks and methodologies, for instance the use of imaginaries or the perspective of eco-emotions which are becoming increasingly prominent. Kind regards, Karen Siegel, Carolin Zorell, Louise Knoops and Lisanne Groen *Steering Committee members of the ECPR Standing Group on Environmental Politics* -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to gep-ed+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gep-ed/323b1492-bd48-4fd0-be4b-28e6a1b6bd24n%40googlegroups.com.
