Final CfP POLLEN18: Political Ecology, the Green Economy, and Alternative Sustainabilities

[Connor Joseph Cavanagh]

**With apologies for cross-posting***
Dear All, 
A final CfP for the Second Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology
Network (POLLEN) is below. We have already received many excellent
abstracts, and a number of very interesting panel proposals are now in
circulation. An overview of sessions already proposed is available here:
https://politicalecologynetwork.com/pollen-biannual-conference/pollen18-cfps
/
The deadline for submitting both individual abstracts and complete session
proposals is 15 December. Presenters and session organizers will be notified
of their acceptance as soon as possible thereafter, and we expect conference
registration to open in January. For more information, or to sign up for
(free!) membership in the network, please visit
https://politicalecologynetwork.com/ or contact politicalecolog...@gmail.com
 
Second Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN)
POLLEN18: Political Ecology, the Green Economy, and Alternative
Sustainabilities
When: 20-22 June 2018
Where: Oslo and Akershus University College, Oslo, Norway
Organised by: The Political Ecology Network (POLLEN) Secretariat; Oslo and
Akershus University College; Centre for Environment and Development (SUM),
University of Oslo; Noragric, Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Abstract/Panel Submission Deadline: 15 December 2017
Conference Website:
https://politicalecologynetwork.com/pollen-biannual-conference/
Contact: politicalecolog...@gmail.com  
Twitter Hashtag: #pollen18

Over the past two decades, political ecologists have provided extensive
critiques of the privatization, commodification, and marketization of
nature, including of the new forms of accumulation and appropriation that
these might facilitate under the more recent guise of the so-called green
economy. These critiques have often demonstrated that such approaches can
retain deleterious implications for certain vulnerable populations across
the developing world and beyond, including in urban centres and within the
interstices of the ‘Global North’. With few exceptions, however, political
ecologists have paid decidedly less attention to exploring, critically
engaging, and ‘planting the seed’ of alternative initiatives for pursuing
both sustainability and socio-environmental justice. Surely, many scholars
have begun to both support and study movements pursuing alternative
socio-ecological relations rooted in critical traditions such as degrowth,
postcolonialism, feminism, anarchism, and eco-Marxism. Yet much more could
be done to understand and illuminate the prospects for these movements, as
well as potential sources of tension and synergy between and amongst them.
Accordingly, this second biennial conference of the Political Ecology
Network (POLLEN) aims to engage the emergence of the green economy or green
growth in their various iterations explicitly as a terrain of struggle. In
doing so, we invite empirical, conceptual, political, and methodological
contributions appraising the ways in which there are many potential
‘alternative sustainabilities’ for pursuing human and non-human well-being
in the context of global economic and ecological crises. Each of these
reflects often quite variable constellations of social, political, and
economic relations. However, there are also diverse efforts underway to
pre-empt or to foreclose upon these alternatives – as well as tensions,
contradictions, and fissions within movements aiming to actualize or enact
them – highlighting an implicit politics of precisely whose conception of
sustainability is deemed to be possible or desirable in any given time and
place.
In pursuit of this objective, proposals for papers and panels are invited
that address one or more of the following themes and issues:
*  Concrete forms and effects of green economy practices including the
translation of global discourses into place-based projects and programmes
for – inter alia – carbon pricing and forestry schemes or other payments for
ecosystem services (PES) initiatives; diverse urban socio-ecological
metabolisms in the form of ‘green’ gentrification, resilience, or
‘sustainable cities’ planning arrangements; mobilities related to
ecotourism, refuge-seeking, and/or environmental displacement; biofuels and
renewable energy; ‘climate smart agriculture’ and landscape conservation
approaches; ‘neoliberal’ conservation or environmental governance
strategies.
*  Drivers and consequences of the emergence of green capitalism, such
as effects on socioeconomic inequality; conflict, contestations, and ‘green
violence’; environmental securitization or militarization; altered patterns
of resource access, including along class and gender lines; shifting
relations between capital, civil society, and the state; financial crises
under conditions of global environmental change; dynamics of land, ‘green’
and water ‘grabbing’ or acquisition; intersections between past and 

CFP - Business services in financial globalisation (5th GCEG, Cologne 2018)

[Lai Peak Yue Karen]

CALL FOR PAPERS 

Business services in financial globalisation
 
Fifth Global Conference on Economic Geography 2018
(Cologne, Germany, 24-28 July 2018)
 
Session Chair: James Faulconbridge (Lancaster University) 
Co-Chair: Karen Lai (National University of Singapore)
 
Work on financial geography recognises the important ‘compact’ between financial services and advanced business services (ABS; such as accountancy, law and management consultancy). Put simply, financial globalization is not possible without this finance-ABS
 nexus. Yet in recent years the work that business services do within financial globalisation processes has been given less attention than the work of financial institutions themselves. Illustrative of this is the way the growth in interest in theorizing markets
 has occurred with limited concern for the role of ABS. In this session we seek to extend discussion of the work that business services do in financial globalisation. We are particularly interested in understanding the relationships between financial institutions
 and other business services, the flows of people, knowledge and market-making devices between these sectors, and the material and institutional effects of the work of business services in the production of global financial architectures. Studies outside of
 the Anglo-American sphere are especially welcome.
 
We welcome paper that might address topics such as:
·       The nature of relationships between financial institutions and  ABS and the way these ‘lubricate’ or enable financial globalisation
·       The role of ABS in financialization, markets and/or financial crises
·       The work of ABS in the creation of global financial architectures
·       The significance of ABS activities in reproducing institutional contexts and varieties of capitalism
·       The maturation of ABS firms in Asia-pacific and interactions between Anglo-Saxon global business services and Asian business services firms
·       The way technology is changing the role of business services in financial globalisation (including but not limited to FinTech)
 
Please submit your abstract at https://www.gceg2018.com/nc/call-for-sessions-and-papers/submit-an-abstract.html and select this session
 (‘Business services in financial globalisation’) as your session choice, from now until 15 March 2018. We will finalise acceptance of abstracts before the end of March 2018.
 
For queries or expressions of interest, please contact:
- James Faulconbridge (j.faulconbri...@lancaster.ac.uk) 
- Karen Lai (karen...@nus.edu.sg) 











Dr Karen P.Y. Lai (黎碧瑶)
Assistant Professor
Department of Geography and Global Production Networks Centre (GPN@NUS), National University of Singapore, 1 Arts Link, Block AS2 #03-06, Singapore 117570 
Tel: (+65)
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