Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce a call for contributions to a workshop on "Contested Societal Transformations: The Role of Conflict in Climate Policy Action" for the upcoming ECPR Joint Sessions. The workshop will be held in Lüneburg, Germany, 25-28 March 2024. Abstracts must be submitted to the ECPR website by 23 November 2023, midnight UK time (https://ecpr.eu/JointSessions).
If you are working on issues of contestation and crises around climate policy making, we would be delighted to hear from you and receive your abstract. You can read more about the workshop theme below and here: https://ecpr.eu/Events/Event/WorkshopDetails/14451. The Joint Sessions workshop format is a unique opportunity to discuss papers in depth while working on the common theme of crises and conflicts related to climate policy action and socio-ecological transformation. We encourage experienced and early-career scholars to apply with conceptually, empirically, or methodologically novel contributions. Following the acceptance of your abstract, we expect early full paper drafts (min. 3000-4000 words) before the workshop in March. Please feel free to be in contact with any questions. Best wishes, James Patterson & Jens Marquardt **** Contested Societal Transformations: The Role of Conflict in Climate Policy Action Societal transformations due to climate change are inevitable: growing climate change disruptions impose transformation on human societies, and rapid decarbonisation requires transformations in many areas of society (IPCC, 2022, 2018). Yet, such transformations are deeply contested triggering conflict over policy responses. While scholars have studied many forms of conflict over responses to climate change, these debates are fragmented, and the implications for policy action often remain ambiguous. This Workshop will bring together diverse lines of political research on contestation and conflict over responses to climate change to better understand their implications for policy action towards realising societal transformations. Questions: 1. What types of conflicts are salient in evolving climate policy making and why? 2. How and under what conditions do conflicts over policy action occur, both pre- and post-adoption? 3. How and to what extent does (or can) climate policy-making respond to conflict effectively? 4. What are the theoretical and empirical implications of a conflict-centered understanding? 5. What generalizable insights arise for the politics of policy-making more broadly? Possible paper contributions: 1. Conflicts and contestation in socio-ecological transformations 2. The interface between conflict and policy-making in climate and environmental politics 3. Concepts and theories for studying conflicts, across institutionalised and contentious politics 4. Policy-oriented perspectives (e.g., policy feedback, process, dynamics) on transformations 5. Empirical analysis of the interplay between conflict and policy-making 6. Critical reflection on the role of conflicts in environmental making and action 7. Methodological approaches and innovations to study climate/environmental conflicts 8. Different levels of conflict, spanning policy debates, antagonisms, ideologies and norms ***** Dr. James Patterson | Assistant Professor of Institutional Dynamics in Sustainability | Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development | Faculty of Geosciences | Utrecht University | Vening Meineszgebouw A, Princetonlaan 8A 3585CB Utrecht, The Netherlands | room 7.18 | T. +31 30 253 1509 | [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> | https://www.uu.nl/staff/JJPatterson/Profile | https://backlashproject.eu Recent publications: Patterson, J. (2023) Backlash to Climate Policy<https://doi.org/10.1162/glep_a_00684>. Global Environmental Politics. 23(1):1–23. [Open Access] Patterson, J.J. (2022) Culture and Identity in Climate Policy<https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.765>, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change. [Open Access] Patterson, J., Wyborn, C., Westman, L., Brisbois, M.C., Milkoreit, M., Jayaram, D. (2021) The Political Effects of Emergency Frames in Sustainability<https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-021-00749-9>. Nature Sustainability. [Open Access] Patterson, J. (2021) Remaking Political Institutions: Climate Change and Beyond<https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/remaking-political-institutions-climate-change-and-beyond/BEB70628E64C905677DF6C55AC84A461>. Elements in Earth System Governance series. Cambridge University Press. [Open Access]. -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gep-ed/AM9PR05MB76974AEF89186BB8D3359297A2A1A%40AM9PR05MB7697.eurprd05.prod.outlook.com.
