Dear colleagues,
Apologies for cross-posting. We are excited to announce this call for presentations for a panel that has been accepted for the upcoming *Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN 26)* that will take place in Barcelona, Spain 29 June – 3 July 2026. The conference theme for 2026 is *‘Diverse Origins, Multiple Futures: The Stories of Political Ecology’* <https://url.za.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/SaWlCVmZn1Fx5R3gpHGfKuEpeGD?domain=pollenpoliticalecology.network/> . The panel is co-convened by Amber Huff (IDS, [email protected]) and Adrian Nel (UKZN, [email protected]), and is titled, *‘What nature, whose solutions, repair of what? Political Ecologies of Nature-based Intervention in Southern African rangelands’*. Focusing on rangeland-based interventions, this panel seeks to bring together research and stories from diverse landscapes, frictional spaces and emerging ecologies of 'nature-based' restoration and repair from countries across Southern Africa. The panel abstract is pasted below, and we anticipate that the panel will be the basis of a special issue proposal. If you are interested in being part of this panel, please see instructions for submitting your title and abstract via the POLLEN26 online portal <https://url.za.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/sk5-CWnBo2f5PWODnixhruoUYWi?domain=pollenpoliticalecology.network/>. Submissions must be received no later than 23:59 CET on Friday 5th December 2025. There are limits on space, and accepted presenters will be contacted in January 2026. No submissions can be accepted by email, only through the online portal, but please do feel free to reach out to the panel convenors by email if you have any questions about the panel or submissions or experience any difficulties accessing the conference site. The panel description can also be accessed directly HERE <https://url.za.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/pKDICX6Vp3CXqz2OLTDi0uWQUkI?domain=nomadit.co.uk> . Warm regards, Amber and Adrian -- *CfP - The Political Ecology Network Biennial Conference (POLLEN26)* *‘Diverse Origins, Multiple Futures: The Stories of Political Ecology’* <https://url.za.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/SaWlCVmZn1Fx5R3gpHGfKuEpeGD?domain=pollenpoliticalecology.network/> *29 June – 3 July, Barcelona, Spain* *What nature, whose solutions, repair of what? Political Ecologies of Nature-based Intervention in Southern African rangelands* *Co-convenors* Amber Huff (Institute of Development Studies, United Kingdom, [email protected] <[email protected]?subject=POLLEN%2026%20Panel>) Adrian Nel (University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, [email protected]) *Abstract* Interest in so-called ‘Nature-based Solutions’ (NbS) has surged in recent years, framed by powerful organisations as the new panacea for reducing disaster risk, mitigating climate change and building climate resilience, enhancing biodiversity and addressing human development needs in integrated ways. But, beyond integrating existing ecosystem-based approaches to achieve multiple simultaneous goals, what NbS means – in concept and in practice – is contested across and within disciplines, practitioner and policy spaces, and, crucially in dynamic intervention landscapes. What ‘nature’ do we mean? Solutions to what problems, through whose labours, and for whose benefit? Restoration of what and to which ends? With a focus on the politics around nature-based intervention in Southern African rangelands, this session aims to bring together stories from frictional spaces and emerging ecologies of ‘restoration’ and ‘repair’. As such, the convenors invite contributions to ‘research storytelling’ and welcome both creative and conventional presentation formats. We welcome expressions of interest focusing on diverse rangeland ecologies and nature-based intervention settings from throughout the Southern Africa region. From approaches like ‘Herding for Health’ to fire suppression policies, efforts to curtail zoonotic disease transmission to tree planting and afforestation to livestock and carbon value chain approaches, we are interested in linking high level framings and frameworks to experiences from such places and spaces. Contributions may engage questions such as whether and how combinations of techniques and technologies (long-existing and novel) associated with various aspects of NbS interact with sedimented histories of intervention, self-organised and communal governance arrangements; place-based struggles around land, labour, subsistence; plural values in nature and place; and the social and ecological legacies such as of colonial, apartheid, and neoliberal social and agricultural policies. What ‘big’ stories – myths, received wisdoms, dogmas, value constructs – are shaping the global imaginaries, national policy fields and the lived terrain of nature-based intervention across the region, and what counter-narratives and contrasting imaginaries are emerging on the ground in a time of intensifying change, accelerating enclosures and multiplying uncertainties? What are the circulating stories from farmers and pastoralists, ecologists, politicians, and others about things like degradation and ecological change, markets and value, carbon and other intervention technologies, human-nature relationships and ‘solutions’? What do these stories and dynamics mean for re-thinking notions like equilibrium and resilience, scale, sustainability, nature and development? *Relevant links:* - POLLEN26 conference themes: https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-2026/diverse-origins-multiple-futures-the-stories-of-political-ecology/ <https://url.za.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/SaWlCVmZn1Fx5R3gpHGfKuEpeGD?domain=pollenpoliticalecology.network/> - Online submission instructions and links: https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-2026/call-for-presentations-posters/ <https://url.za.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/sk5-CWnBo2f5PWODnixhruoUYWi?domain=pollenpoliticalecology.network/> - Panel listing: https://pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-2026/programme/ <https://url.za.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/I7WXCY6Xq4CLN4MAyTVsouxqF2T?domain=pollenpoliticalecology.network/> - Panel description: https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/pollen2026/p/17417 <https://url.za.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/pKDICX6Vp3CXqz2OLTDi0uWQUkI?domain=nomadit.co.uk> On Thu, 6 Nov 2025 at 02:15, <[email protected]> wrote: > [email protected] > <https://groups.google.com/forum/?utm_source=digest&utm_medium=email#!forum/gep-ed/topics> > Google > Groups > <https://groups.google.com/forum/?utm_source=digest&utm_medium=email/#!overview> > [image: > Google Groups Logo] > <https://groups.google.com/forum/?utm_source=digest&utm_medium=email/#!overview> > Topic digest > View all topics > <https://groups.google.com/forum/?utm_source=digest&utm_medium=email#!forum/gep-ed/topics> > > - Alternative Ecological Futures - Art, Climate Change and the Radical > Imagination (online event, 4 Dec) > <#m_6453853381616988662_group_thread_0> - 1 Update > - EVENT: Dec. 3, AI & Environmental Politics Research Medley > <#m_6453853381616988662_group_thread_1> - 1 Update > - IBES VAP search: energy, sustainable design, the built environment, > and/or environmental justice <#m_6453853381616988662_group_thread_2> - 1 > Update > - Call for paper for the 2026 Bath Conference on Earth System > Governance <#m_6453853381616988662_group_thread_3> - 1 Update > > Alternative Ecological Futures - Art, Climate Change and the Radical > Imagination (online event, 4 Dec) > <http://groups.google.com/group/gep-ed/t/de620162b2c33876?utm_source=digest&utm_medium=email> > A M <[email protected]>: Nov 05 05:42PM -0500 > > Dear Colleagues > > Sharing this announcement for an event on *Dec 4th* on "*Alternative > Ecological Futures: Art Climate Change and the Radical Imagination > < > https://www.bisa.ac.uk/members/working-groups/ecp/events/alternative-ecological-futures-art-climate-change-and-radical-imagination > >" > *, organized by Charlotte Weatherill (U of Manchester) on behalf of the > BISA > Environment and Climate Politics Working Group. > <https://www.bisa.ac.uk/members/working-groups/ecp> Should be a rich > discussion! > > > This roundtable brings together four researchers and their perspectives to > a conversation about the role of art and creativity in imagining > alternative ecological futures. > > Building on the recent book by Carl Death, African Climate Futures, > < > https://global.oup.com/academic/product/african-climate-futures-9780198960744?cc=gb&lang=en&; > > > this roundtable will discuss questions including: Is art a distraction > given the urgency of the climate crisis? What are the ideological functions > of art and popular culture in the contemporary moment? Whose art is made > visible and whose art is marginalised or hidden? Is it still true, as > Amitav Ghosh (2016) warned, that “most forms of art and literature” are > part of “modes of concealment that prevented people from recognising the > realities of their plight”? Is the role of artists to better communicate > future climate scenarios? What can critical perspectives on “the radical > imagination” contribute to environmental politics? How can art and > aesthetic theories and methods – across different forms including music, > literature, film and theatre – help us teach and research climate politics? > In what ways can stories help us to understand different perspectives on > the possible futures of global politics? > > Chair: > > - > > Hannah Hughes (Aberystwyth University) > > Speakers > > - > > Carl Death (University of Manchester) > - > > Audra Mitchell (Balsillie School of International Affairs) > - > > Farai Chipato (University of Glasgow) > - > > Cara Berger (University of Manchester). > > > > *Professor Audra Mitchell* > Canada Research Chair in Global Political Ecology > Balsillie School of International Affairs/Wilfrid Laurier > University/University of Waterloo > Email: [email protected] > Website: www.audramitchell.org > < > https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.audramitchell.org%2Fabout&data=05%7C02%7Camitchell%40wlu.ca%7C4cec63defdf145bc8ded08de19b75cfa%7Cb45a5125b29846bc8b89ea5a7343fde8%7C1%7C0%7C638976472827924780%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=B%2FafV9eajngpXYFMOZhS2oaq%2FiNKzb8MWdb66HxXANw%3D&reserved=0 > > > Back to top <#m_6453853381616988662_digest_top> > EVENT: Dec. 3, AI & Environmental Politics Research Medley > <http://groups.google.com/group/gep-ed/t/868c6cb3e0d4d669?utm_source=digest&utm_medium=email> > van der Ven, Hamish <[email protected]>: Nov 05 09:21PM > > Dear Colleagues, > > I’m writing to share an update on the second virtual research medley on AI > and environmental politics. > > > 1. The session will now take place on Wednesday Dec. 3, 16:00 CEST (10:00 > EST / 07:00 PST) for one hour and will feature short presentations (~10 > minutes) followed by Q&A and discussion. > 2. Zoom details: > https://ubc.zoom.us/j/64629650176?pwd=bXre7UlvVa5MsPhfJoJHbjUtudXfnM.1 > > Meeting ID: 646 2965 0176 > > Passcode: 063857 > > 1. Confirmed Presentations > > * Dr. Paulan Korenhof (Wageningen University): Destination Earth as > world-making. An inquiry into the socio-technical imaginary of Europe's > Digital Twin of the Earth project > * Dr. Myanna Lahsen (Center for Earth System Science, Brazilian Institute > for Space Research (INPE), Brazil): Pitfalls in Machine-Assisted Analyses > of Political Communication > * Ms. Zane Šime (Norwegian University of Science and Technology): The Role > of Artificial Intelligence in Shaping the Public Space and Multi-Level > Governance Modalities > * Dr. Hamish van der Ven (University of British Columbia): The Ideational > Implications of Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Governance > I hope to see many of you there! > > All the best, > Hamish > > -- > Hamish van der Ven > Assistant Professor, Sustainable Business Management of Natural Resources > Faculty of Forestry | Wood Science > The University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus > 4644 - 2424 Main Mall | Vancouver BC | V6T 1Z4 Canada > Phone 604 822 4142 > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > [signature_2657229168] > Back to top <#m_6453853381616988662_digest_top> > IBES VAP search: energy, sustainable design, the built environment, and/or > environmental justice > <http://groups.google.com/group/gep-ed/t/bf728b757b7ffafc?utm_source=digest&utm_medium=email> > Roberts, J. Timmons <[email protected]>: Nov 05 09:54AM -0500 > > FYI, please direct questions to Mindi. And share with your great grad > students/recent PhDs. Thanks! Timmons > > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > From: Schneider, Mindi Leigh <[email protected]> > > IBES just launched a Visiting Assistant Professor search in the areas > of energy, sustainable design, the built environment, and/or environmental > justice. This is a two-year termed appointment with the possibility of > renewal. The Interfolio job ad is here < > https://apply.interfolio.com/176395>. > Please spread the word in your networks. > > All the best, > Mindi > (as Chair of, and on behalf of, the hiring committee) > > Mindi Schneider, PhD (she/her; settler) > > Associate Teaching Professor in Environment and Society > > Director of Undergraduate Studies - Environmental Sciences and Studies > > 85 Waterman Street, Room 202 > > 401-863-5909 > > > Click here > < > https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/appointments/schedules/AcZssZ1Xc07ubr-Yl0UGkbkU6cEPMEYaARdgVSHypqgMiuDuAE54dEQ4VUSzdZoPW9Wt00XgdJvJ1oTd > > > to > make an Office Hours appointment > > > Commodity Frontiers Initiative <https://commodityfrontiers.com/> > > Visiting Assistant Professor, Environment & Society > Brown University: DOF: Environment and Society > Location > Providence, Rhode Island > Open Date > > Oct 31, 2025 > Description > > Topic Areas: Energy, sustainable design, the built environment, > environmental justice > > > > Position Description: The Institute at Brown for Environment and Society > (IBES) invites applications for a Visiting Assistant Professor for the > 2026-2027 and 2027-2028 academic years with the possibility of renewal. > IBES faculty have training across a wide variety of disciplines, from > humanities to natural sciences, to social sciences, and public health. > While the Visiting Assistant Professor position is open to scholars in any > discipline, candidates with expertise in one or more of the following are > particularly encouraged to apply: energy, sustainable design, the built > environment, and/or environmental justice. The successful candidate will > teach two (2) courses per semester and contribute to student advising and > university service. Principal criteria for evaluating performance are based > on teaching excellence. However, the Visiting Assistant Professor is also > expected to make other professional contributions, for example, through the > development of advanced pedagogical approaches, community engagement, or > research. > > > > *Note: *For this position, Brown does not sponsor the H-1B visa > classification to scholars who need immigration sponsorship in order to > enter the U.S. and commence lawful employment under the terms of their > appointment. > Qualifications > > PhD in relevant field. > Application Instructions > > Please submit the following: > > - Curriculum vitae (CV) > - Coverletter > - Three Reference Contacts > - Teaching Statement > > > Candidates should address in their materials (cover letter or statements) > how they would contribute to the research and/or teaching missions of our > diverse and inclusive university community. > Back to top <#m_6453853381616988662_digest_top> > Call for paper for the 2026 Bath Conference on Earth System Governance > <http://groups.google.com/group/gep-ed/t/7bf403f2e4d64698?utm_source=digest&utm_medium=email> > Yixian Sun <[email protected]>: Nov 05 08:52AM > > Dear GEP-ed colleagues, > > > > Hope this email finds you well. I would like to draw your attention to the > Bath Conference on Earth System Governance to be held on 8-10 September > 2026. This will be one of the largest annual gatherings for environmental > governance researchers and I hope many of you can join. > > > > The next year's conference is under the theme of “Building Just and > Sustainable Futures for Planetary Integrity.” It will have six streamsthe > including five analytical lenses of the ESG Project (Architecture and > Agency; Democracy and Power; Justice and Allocation; Anticipation and > Imagination; Adaptiveness and Reflexivity) and a sixth stream on the future > of earth system governance, inviting participants to explore governance > gaps and reforms across scales. > > > > The call for papers is now open until 15 January 2026. We welcome > submissions of individual papers, organised panels and also innovative > sessions. Please find more details on the call and how to submit on this > page: https://www.earthsystemgovernance.org/2026-bath/call-for-papers/. > > > > I look forward to seeing you in our beautiful historical city in September > 2026! > > > > Best, > > > Yixian > -- > Dr Yixian Sun > Associate Professor in International Development > Department of Social and Policy Sciences > University of Bath > www.yixiansun.com > https://researchportal.bath.ac.uk/en/persons/yixian-sun > <https://researchportal.bath.ac.uk/en/persons/yixian-sun> > Please check our SGAIN Project's website > <https://researchportal.bath.ac.uk/en/persons/yixian-sun> > https://sgain.org/ > Back to top <#m_6453853381616988662_digest_top> > You received this digest because you're subscribed to updates for this > group. 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