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> On May 12, 2015, at 9:53 AM, "Stevis,Dimitris" > <[email protected]> > > In the meantime can you post the following call for papers for me? > > Take care, > > Dimitris > > Call for papers > Conference: Environmental Labour Studies > Looking back – looking forward: labour and nature through the lens of life > histories and prospective sustainability scenarios > 17th – 20th of September 2015, Stockholm, Sweden > > Organisers: Nora Räthzel, Department of Sociology, Umeå University > David Uzzell, School of Psychology, University of Surrey > > This conference aims to bring together scholars, trade unionists, and > environmentalists, who are forging the link between climate justice and > workers’ rights. It is meant to provide not only a learning space but a space > for exploration as well. The conference has three parts set up to enable > different forms of dialogue. > Part I: Looking back: > By ‘looking back’ at the life-trajectories of environmentally active > individuals in academia, labour movements, and environmental movements the > relationship between individual/collective practices and their historical, > organisational and spatial embeddedness will be discussed. This part will > consist of four sessions in which two people with different backgrounds will > interview each other about their life-histories The dialogue will develop > along the following questions: How did they become interested in > environmental issues? How were their actions received in their respective > communities? What were the main obstacles and what were the enabling > developments? How do they see the result of their work so far? > Part II: Paper presentations. > This part is open for paper submissions from scholars, unionists, or > environmentalists. We expect papers, which reflect on the relationships > between labour and the environment, e.g. environmental transformations of > production, alliances between labour and environmental movements, labour > campaigns against climate change, environmental representatives at plant > level and other issues. Depending on the number of papers received and > accepted, there will be parallel workshops around specific themes. > Part III: Looking forward: > The third part of the conference will be devoted to the development of future > scenarios. Small groups will be organised comprising scholars, trade > unionists and environmentalists, respectively to engage in the method > ‘IMAGINE’. This is an innovative method of deliberation devised by two of the > participants, Prof Stephen Morse, and Prof Simon Bell. Imagine requires no > lecturing or overt ‘teaching’; rather it is a process model which makes use > of the natural flows of facilitated group-work process. In a vigorous but > engaging thought experiment members of small groups gradually build up a > shared understanding of a problem and feed this back to the wider group. In a > form of fractal learning, the larger group then adopts the main themes agreed > by the smaller groups and with this, a rigorous understanding of the three > realities (where we are, where we want to be and how we want to get there) > develops. This understanding can subsequently be used as a blueprint for > agenda setting and the planning of strategies and research. > > Confirmed Participants so far are: > Simon Bell: Professor of Innovation and Methodology, Faculty of Mathematics, > Computing and Technology, Department of Engineering and Innovation, Open > University. > Jacklyn Cock: Professor Emerita of Sociology at the University of > Witwatersrand, (SWOP) > Alana Dave: Education Officer, International Transport Workers Federation > (ITF) > Stephen Morse: Chair in System Analysis for Sustainability, Centre for > Environmental Strategy, University of Surrey. > Joaquín Nieto: Director of the Spanish International Labour Office (ILO) > branch. Responsible for Environmental policies at the Comisiones Obreras > (CCOO) between 1992 and 2007 > Dimitris Stevis: Professor of Political Science, Colorado State University. > David Uzzell: Professor of Environmental Psychology, School of Psychology, > University of Surrey > > Abstracts for papers (not longer than half an A4 page) need to be submitted > until May, 30, 2015. Presenters will be informed about acceptance of their > paper until June, 30, 2015 > Registration: 50 Euros for employed participants, 20 Euros for PhD students, > unemployed/retired, etc. > Registration starts now and ends July 15, 2015 > > Since the conference will take place at a conference venue with limited > facilities, participation is limited and (apart from paper presenters) will > be decided according to the first come, first served principle. > > Abstracts, registrations, enquiries: > Nora Räthzel: [email protected] > > > > > > > > -- > Dr. Debra J. Davidson > Professor, Environmental Sociology > Department of Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology > University of Alberta > [email protected] > 780-492-4598 > > > > > Dimitris Stevis > Professor > Department of Political Science > Colorado State University > 200 West Lake Street > Fort Collins, Colorado 80523-1782 > USA > > phone (office): +970-491-6082 > fax: +970-491-2490 > [email protected] > http://central.colostate.edu/people/dimitris/ > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
