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Deadline extension for POLLEN 2022

From POLLEN website:

The Political Ecology Network (POLLEN) organising committee for POLLEN 2022 has made the decision to shift the conference to a virtual format. This decision takes into account the unlikelihood that the international participants will travel under prevailing Covid conditions, and also under advice from the host University of Kwazulu-Natal, in Durban South Africa, in terms of capacity restrictions under Covid protocols for an in-person event on campus.

The Pollen conference will be a fully virtual, interactive event and while we can’t replicate the in-person experience, we can maximise the virtues of technology to ensure we can still gather together in a virtual space to continue to share insights and grow the network. We will be adapting the programme to suit the virtual format and will include a variety of opportunities for interaction – among attendees and between attendees and speakers. The conference will also be extended from a three to a 4-day event, running from the 28 June – 1 July 2022.

Extended submission deadline for completed organised session proposals

In anticipation of further interest in the amended format, we have extended the call for organised session proposals till 31 January 2022.

The POLLEN 2022 Organising Committee is pleased to announce the second Call for Proposals for Organised Sessions, and an extended deadline for submission.

This Call encourages proposals for Organised Sessions in a variety of both conventional and novel formats, aspiring to bring together perspectives and ways of sharing from across disciplines and geographic traditions, and welcoming contributions from within and outside the academy.

To this end, this Call encourages proposals for Organised Sessions in a variety of both conventional and novel formats, aspiring to bring together perspectives and ways of sharing from across disciplines and geographic traditions, and welcoming contributions from within and outside the academy.

You can read the full Call for Proposals here.

“Ecología política feminista y ciudades vivibles: Diálogos transatlánticos” is now available online

If you missed the transatlantic edition of our series of “Feminist Political Ecology”-Dialogues, worry no more. Both sessions are now available online in our YouTube channel. The presentations and debates were held in Spanish.

The event, held online in November 4th, with scholars, activists and local government actors from Spain, Mexico, Chile and Uruguay discussed critically on the theme of “livable cities” from a feminist political ecology perspective and with a focus on socio-environmental justice. Topics such as water politics and integrated management, urban greening, food sharing and the commons, urban and planetary health in times of pandemic, and ‘right to the city’ approaches were discussed throughout two sessions: “Gobernanza y políticas públicas rumbo a las ciudades vivibles” and “Flujos entre territorios: el caso del agua”.

A few of the speakers at “Ecología Política Feminista y Ciudades Vivibles: Diálogos Transatlánticos”  were Silvana Pissano (mayor of Municipio B in Montevideo), Amaranta Herrero Cabrejas (strategic coordinator of Proyecto Barcelona Capital Mundial de la Alimentación Sostenible 2021), Blanca Valdivia (founding partner of Col·lectiu Punt 6). WEGO-ITN Early Stage Researchers Marlene Gomes, Nick Bourguignon, Anna Katharina Voss also presented their work, as well as our Panagiota Kotsila (BCNUEJ) and Sergio Villamayor Tomás (Autonomous University of Barcelona).

 

 

Regístrese ahora: “Ecología política feminista y ciudades vivibles: Diálogos transatlánticos”

¿Cómo podemos re-imaginar las “ciudades vivibles” desde una perspectiva feminista y a través de una mirada anclada en la justicia socio-ambiental?

En este evento en línea proponemos discutir críticamente el tema de las “ciudades vivibles” desde una perspectiva de la Ecología Política Feminista, poniendo énfasis en la justicia socio-ambiental.

Entre los/las invitados/as se encuentran activistas, académicos/as, actores/as gubernamentales y legisladores/as de Barcelona (España), Montevideo (Uruguay), México y Chile que compartirán sus perspectivas sobre este tema e intercambiarán ideas sobre desafíos comunes, visiones progresistas emergentes y estrategias para abordar las injusticias socio-ambientales en las ciudades.

Como investigadores/as jóvenes y senior de la red WEGO (Bienestar, Ecología, Género y Comunidad), enfocada en la Ecología Política Feminista, presentaremos y discutiremos a manera de introducción los hallazgos y experiencias de nuestras investigaciones relacionadas con la justicia social y ambiental desde una perspectiva crítica feminista.

Abordaremos temas como la política del agua y la gestión integrada, el enverdecimiento urbano, los bienes comunes, la salud urbana y planetaria en tiempos de pandemia y los enfoques del ‘derecho a la ciudad’. Temas que hemos estado investigando en Barcelona y en otras regiones de España y de Europa y también en otras regiones del mundo.

Nuestro objetivo es estimular un pensamiento crítico que cuestione y subvierta el imaginario omnicomprensivo de la “ciudad sostenible global neoliberal” impulsado por el desarrollo y el neodesarrollismo. Así, la discusión girará en torno a enfoques radicales, situados y justos del urbanismo sostenible.

Fecha: 4 de Noviembre de 2021
Hora: 14:00 – 16:00 & 18:00 – 20:00
Regístrese ahora: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_yLXN892FRvueWXThn-5QSQ 

 

Consulte el programa y las/los ponentes:

 

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Register now: “Ecología política feminista y ciudades vivibles: Diálogos transatlánticos”

How can we re-imagine ‘livable cities’ from a feminist perspective and through a social and environmental justice lens?

With this one-day online event we aim to bring together researchers, activists and local government actors, to discuss critically on the theme of “livable cities” from a feminist political ecology perspective and with a focus on socio-environmental justice. We invite activists, academics, government actors and policy makers from Barcelona (Spain), Montevideo (Uruguay) and beyond, to share their perspectives on these issues and exchange ideas on the common challenges, emerging progressive visions and strategies for addressing socioenvironmental injustices in cities.

We, research fellows from the WEGO_ITN network on FPE will also present and discuss our research findings and experiences relating to social and environmental justice from a feminist perspective. We will touch on topics such as water politics and integrated management, urban greening, food sharing and the commons, urban and planetary health in times of pandemic, and ‘right to the city’ approaches, as those were studied in Barcelona and other regions in Spain, Europe, and beyond.

Our aim is to ignite thinking that questions and breaks away from the all-encompassing imaginary of the neoliberal and growth-driven “global sustainable city”, to open the discussion on radical, situated and just approaches to sustainable urbanism. The discussions will be held in Spanish.

Date: November 4th 2021
Time: 14:00 – 16:00 & 18:00 – 20:00 CET
Register now: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_yLXN892FRvueWXThn-5QSQ

 

Take a look at the program:

 

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Register now: “Towards Climate Summit-COP26: Capitalocene, Climate Change & Ecofeminism”

ECOFEMINIST LEARNING, October 23rd, 2021

The Anthropocene marks changes in the earth by humans, one of which is the climate crisis. However, the Anthropocene emphasizes that the cause of destruction is “humanity as a whole,” not a force and power system that Moore (2015) calls the Capitalocene. As a result, solutions to climate change are dominated by economic discourse and green lifestyles, not changing the system.

 Approaching the 26th year of the Climate Change Summit-COP26 in Glasgow, Ruang Baca Puan  invites you to reflect and discuss the relationship between capitalocene, climate change and ecofeminism with:

  1. Fathun Karib (Sociology Lecturer at UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Indonesia and Binghamton Ph.D. Sociology Candidate)
  2. Siti Maimunah (Ruang Baca Puan and PhD Candidate, The University of Passau, Germany)

Moderator: Sapariah Saturi from Mongabay.id

 This Discussion is open to the public; please register yourself at https://bit.ly/DiskusiRBPmenujuCOP26

If you still have questions, please get in touch with Beng +628970005629

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UNDANGAN NGAJI EKOFEMINIS, 23 Oktober 2021

MENUJU KTT IKLIM-COP26: Kapitalosen, Perubahan Iklim & Ekofeminis

Anthropocene menandai perubahan bumi oleh manusia yang salah satu penandanya adalah krisis iklim. Namun anthropocene menekankan penyebab kerusakan adalah “kemanusiaan secara keseluruhan”, bukan sebuah kekuatan dan sistem kuasa yang disebut Moore (2015) sebagai Capitalocene. Akibatnya solusi merespon perubahan iklim lebih banyak didominasi wacana  ekonomi dan gaya hidup hijau, bukan mengubah sistem.

Menjelang tahun ke 26 KTT Perubahan Iklim-COP26 di Glasgow, Ruang Baca Puan mengundang kalian melakukan refleksi dan mendiksusikan hubungan kapitalosen, perubahan iklim dan ekofeminis Bergama:

  1. Fathun Karib ( Dosen Sosiologi FISIP UIN Syarif Hidayatullah dan  Kandidat PhD Sosiologi Binghamton )
  2. Siti Maimunah ( Ruang Baca Puan dan Kandidat PhD Universitas Passau, Jerman )

Moderator: Sapariah Saturi dari Mongabay.id

Ngaji ini terbuka untuk umum, silahkan daftarkan dirimu di https://bit.ly/DiskusiRBPmenujuCOP26

Jika masih ada pertanyaan, silahkan hubungi Beng +628970005629

The 8th International Degrowth Conference starts today

The 8th International Degrowth Conference, in The Hague, starts today. With dozens of academic sessions, plenaries, workshops and artistic contributions, the event aims to strengthen the debate not only on degrowth, but also on feminist political ecology, care, decolonialities, urban-rural dialogues and social movements.

To help navigate the extensive program, we prepared a selection of activities in which WEGO-ITN members  are involved, and also more highlight from today to Saturday, August 28th. You can see them all on this Twitter thread:

Collective Building of a Mycelium Pigeon Tower, by Arne Hendriks. Photo by Anna Katharina Voss

‘Despite Extractivism’ Exhibition – Open call for Contributors

Now in its third year, the team behind the ‘Extracting Us’ exhibitions are calling for works which bring attention to aspects of resistance to extractivism that sometimes slip from view. 

The ‘Despite Extractivism’ exhibition will continue the journey of activist/academic/artistic inquiry towards understanding the differentiated but connected ways extractivism impacts communities across multiple contexts. The project is also motivated by exploring how the exhibition format can be a way of fostering active solidarity.

Building on the connections between extractivism and care that emerged from bringing together the works of thirteen artists working in different extractive contexts, the new exhibition aims to further explore how everyday and creative ways of caring for each other and the environment can also be subversive acts of resistance which challenge the very logics underpinning extractivism. In these cracks in the concrete of extractivism, what kinds of fertile alternatives might be cultivated and enabled to flourish? How do acts of caring and resistance counter – and sometimes risk reproducing – extractivism? 

The exhibition and accompanying programme of events will be aligned with the  International Degrowth Conference in the Netherlands in August which will be exploring the theme of ‘Caring Communities for Radical Change’, and the COP26 Climate Change Conference in the UK in November in the run up to which we will amplify the connections between extractivism and the demands of environmental and climate justice. 

Contributions are invited from communities, creatives and campaigners working in places affected by the extractive industry anywhere in the world. With the ongoing pandemic context, all digital formats will be considered (visual, audio, text, video). 

Please see here for the full call including the exhibition themes and curatorial principles. We look forward to expressions of interest by 7th August. 

This exhibition is co-curated with the ONCA gallery in Brighton (UK) and researchers associated with the University of Brighton and the WEGO_ITN research network. 

Registrations are open for ‘FPE Dialogues on Re-thinking Food’

Registrations are now open for our ‘Feminist Political Ecology Dialogues on Re-thinking Food’ on July 1st & 2nd at University of Passau. Register via the following link: https://bit.ly/2TUaoPp

About Rethinking Food Passau

Food is essential to sustaining relational webs of life. Difficult times around the world have only further demonstrated this interdependence and the need to think differently about food systems. To attend to the question of what constitutes alternative agriculture and food practices, and why it is important, the “Feminist Political Ecology Dialogues on Re-thinking Food” has been organized by the University of Passau. It is part of a series of events organized by  WEGO-ITN. The two-day event will be held online on Zoom on the 1st and 2nd of July from 16:00 to 18:00 CEST. Since this is an international event, translation from English into German and Indonesian Bahasa will be provided.

Food production and supply has changed dramatically over the past few decades, contributing to unjust processes of production and distribution of food around the world. The global food industry is also closely interrelated with climate change. In addition, the homogenising effects of factory farming and monocultures mean that regional suppliers find it increasingly difficult to participate in food markets. These inter-related concerns make the need for alternative forms of agriculture and food consumption ever more visceral. The aim of the FPE Dialogues is to share insights from ongoing research projects and engagements with alternative food and economic practices in Indonesia, India and Germany; with the hope to stimulate conversation about what constitutes “alternative” agriculture or food consumption and why it matters.

The keynote speaker for the first day will be Dr Parto Teherani-Krönner. She will speak about her concept of ‘meal cultures’ and its relevance in re-thinking the multiple layers of food relations. We very much look forward to welcoming her to Passau via zoom, and hope to see some of you there.

Day 1
Dr Parto Teherani-Krönner on ‘Meal Cultures’
Followed by questions and discussion with the audience
16.00-18.00 CEST

Day 2
Roundtable on Re-thinking Food
Dimas Dwi Laksmana, Patrick Keilbart, Marlene Gómez Becerra, Siti Maimunah and Enid Still
16.00-18.00 CEST

Presenters will share perspectives from research on organic agriculture in Indonesia, community kitchens in Berlin, the relationship between food security and coal extraction in Indonesia and agricultural collectives in India.

The roundtable will then reflect with the audience on questions of inclusivity and the meaning of alternative in food systems.

 

Information provided by: Passau University

Register now for ‘Feminist political ecology and the economics of care’ at IAFFE

WEGO-ITN’s coordinator Prof. Dr. Wendy Harcourt will be speaking on June 17th at the 29th international conference of the International Association for Feminist Economists, in Quito, Ecuador. The preconference lecture – ‘Feminist political ecology and the economics of care’ – will be online, 16:00 (Quito time) and 23:00 (Amsterdam time).

Registration for English speaking public

Registration for Spanish-speaking public

About the lecture:

Caring for climate, caring for earth and caring for people should be at the centre of economic value, not at the margins. What is required is to build caring communities for change based on solidarity economies. Such economies would value care work in all areas of live with the creation of new job sectors and climate-friendly livelihoods which challenge the gendered composition of today’s neoliberal, androcentric and capitalocentric economy.

In her lecture, Professor Wendy Harcourt will discuss how different notions of care from feminist political ecology, feminist economy and feminist degrowth profoundly challenge the neoliberal capitalist focus on growth, the free market and technological efficiency and the inadequate lip service paid to notions of gender, empowerment and inclusion. 

Feminist Political Ecology Dialogues on Re-thinking Food at Passau University

The Feminist Political Ecology (FPE) dialogues at Passau University aims to share insights from research projects and engagements with alternative food and economic practices in Indonesia, India and Germany; with the hope to stimulate conversation about what constitutes ‘alternative’ agriculture or food consumption and why it matters. Ideas and voices from ongoing field research will give a glimpse into the multitude of alternatives that are responding to unjust food systems, and challenging dominant modes of consumer and market-driven food production and consumption. Through a critical FPE lens we aim to discuss the power dynamics within socio-ecological relations of food production and consumption, and how this shapes what constitutes an ‘alternative practice’, whilst also showcasing the knowledges of farmers and food activists.

Dates: 1 – 2 July 2021, 16.00-18.00 CEST each day

Language: English with German and Indonesian translation

Format: Online via zoom

Content: Each event will consist of a presentation or provocation, followed by an interactive session, where we think through FPE, food relations and the lessons to be learnt from the alternative practices being discussed.

Aim: to share insights from research projects and engagements with alternative food and economic practices in Indonesia, India and Germany; with the hope to stimulate conversation about what constitutes ‘alternative’ agriculture or food consumption and why it matters.