POLLENCon2023

For those still following us, tune in to @PolEcoNet and follow #POLLEN24 to see updates from this year’s conference on 10-12 June!

Announcement! The Call for Papers for the POLLEN24 Conference is officially out👏 We encourage the submission of individual articles, paper panels, debates, art, and other interventions. Deadline: December 15th, 2023 More info: pollen2024.brick.site/call #POLLEN24 #Callforpapers

BLOG: To think, feel and see otherwise: a report and mini-zine from #POLLEN23 futurenatures.org/to-think-feel-… by @nathan_oxley

📆 More info on the next POLLEN conference is out #POLLEN24 @PolEcoNet

At the #POLLEN23 closing session, @jefri_lund announces the next @PolEcoNet conference! In 2024 the event will be in 3 places - Lund, Lima, Dodoma - with an online element. See pollen2024.brick.site for more details

Convincing us about why we should pay more attention to atmospheres. Rebel Mole @YolandaAriadne @POLLENCon2023 presenting research on Atmospheric Commoning #POLLEN23

The environment and environmental issues are deeply political. My take home from @POLLENCon2023. Attending, participating and speaking at the amazing conference with scholars and practitioners from around the world shows that our social science perspectives are making waves.

Juan Sebastian Velez Triana from @IOBUA @Cealdes shares his research from Venecia in rural Colombia, experiments with peasant social-ecological struggles aligning with academic research @POLLENCon2023

The environment as a tool of control. Environmental restoration as a form of resistance to imperialism. @TeklehaymanotG presents on the civil war in Ethiopia and how the environment has always been political in the #Tigray region. @POLLENCon2023

Conservation labour: Tishant Simlai says he’s talked to forest workers in India who work with dogs - where the government investment in the dog is 100x what the human workers earn. #POLLEN23

Conservation labour: @GeoFrancisMasse looks at militarised conservation and talks with rangers who do things they don’t necessarily want to, but because it’s their ‘job’. The aim to ‘combat wildlife trafficking’ is a big part of how some rangers now see their role. #POLLEN23

The labour involved in conservation is itself used as a source of surplus value. And conservation that involves communities includes a lot of uncompensated labour too, says @Anthropogo. #POLLEN23

Plenary on ‘conservation labour’ - @anweshadatta says there’s a lot of *work* going on in conservation, but it’s not often thought about through the lens of ‘labour’. A new project, CONLAB, is looking into this. #POLLEN23

Debating and illustrating the political & analysis of power within more than human and multi-species approaches…..along with cute theory and psychoanalysis @jaredmargulies @Charisenns #POLLEN23 @POLLENCon2023 @PolEcoNet

Meenal Tula shares her work exploring the meanings that Indigenous people in Nagaland in the Himalayas ascribe to jhum (millet) in the face of global market forces @POLLENCon2023

Exciting new research from PhD student Andrea Stuit @ICTA_UAB on blockchain technologies in conservation. Finally someone has explained blockchain to me! @POLLENCon2023 @PolEcoNet #POLLEN23

@KlaraJFischer starting the conversation on multispecies entanglements of Bt maize at @POLLENCon2023; systemic, social-ecological challenges of agricultural "pests" won't be solved by targeting the individual pest

Morning! Here’s the programme for our third and final day at #POLLEN23 🐝

Simon Batterbury introduces @journalofpolit1, which aims to cross ‘North’ and ‘South’ boundaries and be a community of scholars. A section of the journal focuses on writing by activist scholars. #POLLEN23

“Existing commons are everywhere, but they’re often invisiblised by bigger institutions and the stories they tell.” @Anthropogo suggests that commons show that better worlds are possible: @PolEcoNet is itself a commons, but commons is just one word & way of seeing. #POLLEN23