Our proposal to organize a section at the EISA PEC (European International Studies Association, pan-European conference) has been accepted to the conference program.
The conference will be held in Lille, France at the end of August 2024.
Deadline for abstract submission 13th of March 2024.
The section: S18- Spaces of Sustainabilities, Struggles of Transition in the (European) Arctic and Beyond
The (European) Arctic is perceived as an empty space, a wilderness area, a home of indigenous peoples, and a place to be developed. Amid rising geopolitical tensions, the region serves the implementation of EU’s Green Deal policies through the intensification of renewable energy and mineral production in the region. With the impacts of such policies on environmental and social sustainability, its peoples and environments, the European Arctic may, at the same time, be seen as an example of (EU’s) green colonialism in practice. In this section we aim to discuss policies and practices for sustainability transitions in the Arctic and beyond.
This section will explore the politically complex, ethically controversial, contingent processes of sustainable development, green transition, and geopolitical rivalry as well as investigate the multiple dimensions in these processes in the (European) Arctic and beyond. The planned section foresees ten panels that correspond to (but are not limited to) the following topics: Governance of oceans and lands; the law, responsibility and ethics of green transition; rights of indigenous and local peoples; race for resources, securitisation and militarisation of the environment; onto-epistemological, normative, and methodological questions about post-human IR; emotional politics regarding land use, resources, green transition, contemporary colonialism.
This section is organized by the UArctic Thematic Network on Critical Arctic Studies and aims to enable cross-issue and cross-regional comparative analyses. The panel foresees papers by established scholars and early career researchers as well as by PhD candidates.
More information: https://mailchi.mp/…/eisa-pec-2022-conference-programme…
Thematic Network on Critical Arctic Studies 