Dear EASST members,
Please find below the call for papers for our organised session at the RBS-IBG
annual conference to be held in London from August 29-Sept 1, 2023. We welcome
STS oriented papers engaging with the themes below.
Deadline this Friday March 17th.
Best wishes,
Matt
Toward a Political Ecology of Volume
Session organisers: Ariadne Collins (University of St Andrews); Lydia Cole
(University of St. Andrews); Theo Reeves-Evison (Birmingham School of Art);
Matt Barlow (University of St Andrews)
Call for papers
Following Eldens call to secure the volume (2013), there has been a turn in
critical geography, the social sciences and the environmental humanities more
broadly toward three-dimensional volumes rather than two-dimensional areas.
Much of these studies aim to critique, or better understand, state based
surveillance and security measures above and below the ground (Bill 2020).
While these studies advance volumetric analysis in a number of generative
ways, they leave aside an analysis that engages with a political ecology of
volume. What we propose here, is a political ecology that is attendant to the
ways in which both extraction and conservation are increasingly realised
through volumetric practices. Such a political ecology of volume would extend
current research on volumes, while simultaneously moving political ecology
further beyond its terrestrial bias (Mostafanezhad and Dressler, 2021). These
expanding geographies call for a milieu specific analysis that is attuned to
volume and questions the materiality and territoriality of spatial claims (Jue
2020). For example, how might a volumetric analysis of fracking help to
uncover the ways it threatens underground aquifers that move far beyond
territorialised allocations of Earths surface at the same time as it
contributes to climate change?
We put forward this call as the global commons, such as outer reaches of the
Earths atmosphere and the deep seas, become increasingly appropriated in ways
that often reproduce colonial asymmetries (Blount 2018, Hung and Lien 2022).
All this at a time when governments are adopting new spatial and temporal
arrangements in attempts to offset the accumulation of atmospheric carbon.
Amid these interwoven and unevenly distributed localised, international,
planetary, subterranean and atmospheric practices, a renewed volumetric
analysis is crucial for a political ecology within climate changed
geographies. We welcome papers from any discipline engaged with these themes,
but especially those that engage critically with a political ecology that is
committed to addressing the historically embedded asymmetries of colonial and
capitalist frontiers. Some examples of relevant themes are:
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Volumetric approaches to extraction and/or conservation
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Geographies of outer space
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Oceanic geographies
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Three dimensional cartographies and visual cultures of volume
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Methods and technologies of atmospheric apprehension
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Atmospheric and/or volumetric governance
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Political ecologies of volume and the global commons
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Three dimensional borders and zones
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Offsetting and volumetric approaches to climate change
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Inter-scalar geographies
- Voluminous frontier geographies
If you are interested in presenting a paper at this session, please send a 250
word abstract, including your name, affiliation, and preferred presentation
mode (in-person/hybrid) to Matt Barlow (mpb28@st-andrews.ac.uk) by Friday 17th
of March, 2023.
References
Bill, F. 2020. Voluminous States: Sovereignty, Materiality, and the
Territorial Imagination. Durham and London: Duke University Press.
Blount, P.J. 2018. Outer Space and International Geography: Article II and
the Shape of Global Order. New England Law Review. 52(2): 95-124.
Elden, S. 2013. Secure the volume: Vertical geopolitics and the depth of
power. Political Geography. 34: 35-51.
Hung, Po-Yi and Yu-Hsiu Lien. 2022. Maritime borders: A reconsideration of
state power and territorialities over the ocean. Progress in Human Geography.
46(3): 870889.
Jue, M. 2020. Wild Blue Media:Thinking Through Seawater. Durham and London:
Duke University Press.
Mostafanezhad, M. and Dressler, W., 2021. Violent atmospheres: Political
ecologies of livelihoods and crises in Southeast Asia. Geoforum, 124,
pp.343-347.
[University of St Andrews]
Matt Barlow
Research Fellow
School of International Relations
The Arts Faculty Building, The Scores,
St Andrews, Fife, KY16 9AX
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mpb28@st-andrews.ac.uk
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