5th Nordic Geographers’ Meeting, Reykjavik, 11-14 June 2013 http://conference.hi.is/ngm2013/
List of sessions: http://conference.hi.is/ngm2013/list-of-sessions-2/ Session 11 – Enclosing resources: financializing (second) nature Oceans, rivers, fertile lands and the atmosphere are being enclosed at a disquieting rate. Spaces of commons of all kinds, ‘natural’ and ‘articial’, are being privatized, commodified and financialized in a global frenzy of accumulation by dispossession. The sheer volumes of recent and ongoing land grabs – and ‘resource grabs’ more generally – entail staggering transfers of wealth and displacement of whole communities and previous resource managers. In urban contexts, comparable processes take the form of privatization and financialization of built environments and social institutions for education, health and various social services. This stream of sessions invites papers that contribute to understanding these processes, the driving forces and the social and environmental consequences. Empirical analyses of enclosures (privatization, commodification, financialization) of ocean space, rivers, agricultural lands, mineral resources, the atmosphere (pollution rights and CO2 trading schemes) and various forms of urban commons are invited, as are theoretical interventions, action-oriented papers and film documentaries. Session organisers: Eric Clark, Lund University, Sweden Mine Islar, Lund University, Sweden Anders Lund Hansen, Lund University, Sweden Submit an abstract for this session<http://conference.hi.is/ngm2013/abstract-submission-form-enclosing-resources/>
