Dear all, The organisers of the European Workshops in International Studies (EWIS) 2017 have extended the deadline for submissions until January the 16th. Please see the CfP below:
EWIS workshop title: Exploring Methodological Frontiers in Global Environment Politics, Cardiff University, 7-10 June The global response to challenges like climate change and biodiversity loss are characterised by a complex range of actors, activities and arenas. These are producing new forms of political and economic relations and reproducing old patterns of inclusion and exclusion. Scholarly attempts to analyse these complexities have led to a number of important conceptual innovations. Attempts to understand the role of non-state actors and the power of knowledge in the construction of environmental problems have generated concepts such as epistemic community, knowledge brokers and discourse coalitions that have proven to have wider explanatory power for the study of IR. More recently, scholarship interested in the influence of international bureaucracies has clearly demonstrated that secretariats need to be understood as more than mere functionaries. As well as offering new conceptual tools for illuminating secretariats as actors in world politics, this scholarship highlights the significance of Global Environmental Politics (GEP) as a site for methodological innovation in international studies. However, there remains much work to be done to develop the conceptual apparatus required for untangling the myriad activities constituting the field of global environmental politics today. The aim of this workshop is to identify both new methodological approaches and popular research tools that have been adapted for study within GEP. The workshop will explore these innovations and adaptations in two directions. First, to what extent do these approaches provide an avenue for dealing with the complexities that the study of global environmental politics presents? Second, to what extent are these methodological innovations useful to the broader study of international relations? The workshop and papers aims to cover the following 4 broad themes: 1. What is wrong with the methods we have in GEP? 2. Methodological adoption and adaptation in GEP 3. Methodological and conceptual innovation in GEP 4. What more do we need? Convenors: Hannah Hughes (Cardiff University) and Alice Vadrot (Cambridge University) Participants include: Gabriela Kuetting (Cardiff University); Hayley Stevenson (University of Sheffield); Dana R. Fisher (University of Maryland); Philip Leifeld (University of Glasgow); Philipp Pattberg (VU University); Oscar Widerberg (VU University); Matthew Paterson (Manchester University); Steven Bernstein (University of Toronto); Matthew Hoffmann (University of Toronto); Frank Fischer (Rutgers University) For enquiries: Hannah Hughes ([email protected])<mailto:[email protected])> Please submit your abstract here: https://www.conftool.pro/ewis2017/index.php?page=login This workshop will be hosted at Cardiff University as part of the European Workshops on International Studies (for full listing, see: http://eisa-net.org/sitecore/content/be-bruga/eisa/events/ewis.aspx). -- 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.
