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