*apologies for the cross-posting*
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<br>Call for papers: RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, Cardiff University,
<br>2831 August 2018
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<br>Epistemic landscapes: Knowledge controversies over socio-ecological change
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<br>Session organisers: Nina Moeller (University of Manchester) and Aurora
<br>Fredriksen (University of Manchester)
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<br>The growth of the technosphere, anthropogenic climate change, loss of
<br>biodiversity and associated landscape transformations contribute to
<br>increasingly dramatic socio-ecological changes across the planet. Droughts,
<br>floods, resource shortages, mega-infrastructure, shifting species
<br>distributions, and other phenomena impact livelihoods and indeed survival
<br>opportunities. These changes are experienced, known and interpreted by a
<br>variety of actors, in a variety of sometimes overlapping, sometimes
<br>conflicting ways scientifically, practically, emotionally, informed by
<br>different ontologies, and so on with different ways of knowing suggesting
<br>different ways of being and different ways of responding to change (Castree
<br>2015).
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<br>Against the backdrop of accelerated socio-ecological transformation,
<br>controversies arising from different ways of knowing are (re)emerging as
<br>urgent social problems. With the livability of global futures in question and
<br>socio-ecological crises unfolding in many local places, questions concerning
<br>which forms of knowing are recognised as legitimate and which are not take
<br>on new political urgency. Whose knowledge sets the agenda? Which understanding
<br>frames the debate? What vision spawns policy? Who defines what is at stake?
<br>Why?
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<br>This session will explore novel research on knowledge controversies over
<br>socio-ecological change at different scales and across different landscapes
<br>and Earth systems. Potential themes include, but are not limited to:
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<br> social movements with and against environmental science
<br> embodied practicalities of knowing socio-ecological change
<br> epistemic injustice
<br> affect and/or emotions in and against scientific ways of knowing
<br> knowledge controversies between academic disciplines
<br> more-than-human relations and their knowledge implications
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<br>Please send abstracts of no more than 250 words to
<br>aurora.fredriksen@manchester.ac.uk
<br>andnina.moeller@manchester.ac.uk by 5th
<br>February 2018.
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<br>Dr Aurora Fredriksen
<br>Lecturer in Human Geography
<br>The University of Manchester
<br>Email: aurora.fredriksen@manchester.ac.uk
<br>https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/aurora.fredriksen.html
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<br>Fredriksen, A. (2017, in press) Valuing species: the continuities between
<br>non-market and market valuations in biodiversity conservation Valuation
<br>Studies 5(1).
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<br>Fredriksen, A. (2016) Of wildcats and wild cats: troubling species-based
<br>conservation in the Anthropocene Environment and Planning D: Society and
<br>Space, 34(4): 689-705
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