What, when & where
Defending the Land: Socio-Environmental Conflicts in the Americas
April 22 – 23
The conference aims to examine from an interdisciplinary perspective how the transformation and degradation of the environment caused by the colonial enterprise that began in 1492 have shaped human ecologies across the Americas. To that end, the conference will open up a discussion of how colonialism, the commodification of nature, and economies of extraction and dispossession, frame discourses and practices immersed in the web of life.
The conference is planned to be an in-person event, however, if the evolution of the global health situation does not allow this face-to-face meeting, we will move to online or hybrid participation.
The Organizing Committee welcomes individual papers, panel proposals, artists’ projects, and community-based initiatives in English and Spanish that engage with questions such as:
• What do current and past social-environmental conflicts say about the future of ecology and the environment in the Americas?
• How can grassroots movements as well as cultural, educational, and socio-political initiatives generate possible alternative futures?
• What are the different social responses to environmental degradation?
The aim of this conference will thus be to reflect on and discuss the relationship between human ecology and planetary crisis. Possible topics of the conference include but are not limited to:
• Ecologies of Hope and/or Environmental Initiatives for Reparation
• Extraction and Dispossession in the Americas
• Climate and Ecological Disasters
• World-Ecology and Social Ecology: Dialogues
• Women and Labor in a Time of Ecological Crisis
• Environmental Justice & Environmental Racism
• Climate and Environmental Refugees
• Anthropocene/Capitalocene
• Native American Activism and Social Movements
Deadline & how to apply
Proposals should include a name (or names), a title, a short description of the proposed activity (200-250 words), and the institutional affiliation of the participants. The Organizing Committee strongly encourages submissions for panel proposals of three to four participants.
The deadline to submit proposals for individual presentations and panels is Jan. 31, 2022. Please send proposals to defendingtheland2022@gmail.com.
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