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Critical Geographies of Geoengineering Type: Paper Theme: Sponsor Groups: Organizers: Kevin Surprise Chairs: Kevin Surprise Description CFP: AAG 2021 – Critical Geographies of Geoengineering Geoengineering technologies that can potentially cool the planet by removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere or blocking incoming solar radiation are gaining traction in climate policy. Many leading climate scenarios for staying below 1.5°C by 2100 rely on large-scale carbon removal, while solar geoengineering research is receiving funding from governments and billionaires, and being prepared for outdoor field experiments. These sets of technologies portend vastly different technological and political questions. Yet, they both raise the prospect of direct intervention into the climate system, and pose new questions for longstanding debates in geography concerning struggles over place, space, and land use, spatio-temporality, capitalism and ecological crises, relationships between technology and power, nature-society theory, and beyond. Geographers and others in cognate fields have begun to grapple with these emergent questions (Bellamy and Palmer 2018). Some examples include scholarship on geoengineering in relation to governance and ethics (Hulme 2014; Szerszynski et al. 2013), spatio-temporal fixes (Carton 2019; Surprise 2018), ideology and models (Gunderson et al. 2019; McClaren 2018), geopolitics and geopolitical ecology (Corry 2017; Dalby 2015; Surprise 2020; Wainwright and Mann 2018), geologic politics (Clark 2013; Yussof 2013), and land use, colonialism, and climate justice (Buck 2019; Carton et al. 2020; Whyte 2018). How can critical geography inform debates over geoengineering technologies, and how do the prospects, processes, and politics of these technologies speak to central debates in geography, political ecology, and related fields? This session aims to bring together broad perspectives in critical geography to examine the emergence of geoengineering technologies. Topics include but are not limited to relationships between geoengineering and the following themes: - Space, place, and land use - Spatio-temporal fixes and “stop-gap” measures - Capitalism and climate crisis - Geopolitics and geopolitical ecologies - Colonialism and climate debt - Imperialism and “climate intervention” - Climate denial, obstruction, and delay - Climate emergencies and planetary sovereignty - Technology, governance, and the planetary scale - Gender, science, and power - Institutions, funding, and ideology - Models, scenarios, futures, and speculative politics - Climate justice and climate repair - Climate management and the Anthropocene Please send abstracts of no more than 250 words to Kevin Surprise: [email protected] by October 20th. Also open to those interested in participating in a panel or as a discussant. In person sessions are optimal, but we will develop plans for virtual participation or virtual sessions as necessary -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/geoengineering/CAJ3C-06g%3DUy2qP7C64N%3DzDwoszBLea4wYuZA2ubjPJRAd-XvRQ%40mail.gmail.com.
