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Environment and Climate Politics Working Group @bisa-ecpwg.bsky.social · 1h

Planning an environment / climate politics panel for #BISA2026?

Send us your Call for Papers this week and we'll circulate them in a member email on Monday!

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Charlotte Weatherill @ckweatherill.bsky.social · 18h

delete and go again!

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Alex Heffron @alexheffron.bsky.social · 18h

Call for papers for POLLEN26: Returning to the Agrarian Question in the North

Any questions get in touch!

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Returning to The Agrarian Question in the North
Convenors:
Donatella Gasparro (Scuola Normale Superiore)
Alex Heffron (Lancaster University)
Format: Panel
Returning to The Agrarian Question in the North. Panel P090 at conference Pollen2026: Diverse Origins, Multiple Futures: The Stories of Political Ecology.
https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/pollen2026/p/17527
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Open panel. 10-15 minutes presentations plus ample time for discussion among panelists and with the audience.

Description
The agrarian question, in its plural articulations and reinterpretations, has been central to both critical agrarian studies and political ecology; yet, its contemporary understandings, analytics, and geographies tend to treat it as an almost Global South-exclusive problematique. As Global North scholars, activists and farmers, working on land, peasantries, agrarian economies and rural futures, we aim to contribute to the conversation that seeks to ‘reopen’ the agrarian question in the North, with a focus on European countrysides, but in radical alliance with majority world Indigenous, peasant and land struggles.

The intent is twofold: on the one hand, bringing back into the conversation European ruralities and agrarian economies, their crises, their politics and their potential for socio-ecological transformation; on the other, rethinking agricultural (re)production, dependencies, (agro)ecologies, and labour in the North in radical alliance with delinking, liberation, self-

We are interested in proposals that explore the agrarian question in Europe, starting from (yet not limited to) themes such as:

- Northern agrarian metabolisms and their colonial patterns: migrant labour, core-periphery relations (also with internal peripheries); dependencies in the agri-food system; global value, labour and care chains;

- Reclaiming rural Europe from the Right: reactionary politics versus ecosocialist potentials;

- Why are people “still” farming? Desire, affect, and the “peasant principle”;

- (Migrant) worker solidarity in the agri-food system;

- Property and its transformations;

- The “agrarian question of climate change” (as termed by Paprocki & McCarthy); green transitions and their impacts on agrarian communities;

- Political agroecology, socio-ecological reproduction and food sovereignty for the North, beyond localisms.

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Charlotte Weatherill @ckweatherill.bsky.social · 18h

Cool, see you there!

You've done the hard work, just c&p and chuck in the hashtag ;)

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Charlotte Weatherill @ckweatherill.bsky.social · 1d

Submissions invited for #POLLEN2026 for the panel: Colonial histories and climate futures: critical perspectives on vulnerability.

We are particularly interested in papers that draw together themes of climate-induced im/mobilities & vulnerabilisation.

nomadit.co.uk/conference/p...

Description
This panel brings together theoretical approaches and case studies at the intersection of climate change, human (im)mobility and vulnerability. We aim to critically discuss how colonial and neocolonial systems contribute to geographic, economic, and social inequalities in the context of increasing climate change impacts, thereby making a contribution to both climate justice and political ecology debates. We invite papers which critically examine dominant discourses that ascribe vulnerability to so-called “at-risk” populations and explore alternative epistemologies of survival, resistance and political agency. We are particularly interested in papers that draw together two themes: Climate-induced (im)mobilities, and vulnerabilisation.

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Charlotte Weatherill @ckweatherill.bsky.social · 7d

Everything is slightly out of hand right now. I'm circulating:

- Job ad for social media editor (15th Oct)
- Event for ECP WG (17th Oct)
- Two CfPs for BISA (24th Oct)
- CfP for POLLEN (1st Dec)

Going to put links and info on all of this below, partly so I don't lose track.

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Jasmine K Gani @jasminekgani.bsky.social · 1d

This Thursday 16th Oct I'll be speaking on my project on "Severing Colonial Relationality" for the ANU Cais public lecture series. (Online, all welcome).

📍5pm in Canberra (7am BST for early risers in the UK!)
Registration link below 👇 @lseir.bsky.social

cais.cass.anu.edu.au/events/cais-...

CAIS Public Lecture Series | Severing Colonial Relationality: Towards an Islamicate Theory of Autonomy and Refusal | Centre for Arab & Islamic Studies

In this paper I seek to bring to the fore the theological sources of everyday resistance in the Islamicate, focusing specifically on emancipatory detachment. In doing so, I think with anti-colonial th...

cais.cass.anu.edu.au

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Charlotte Weatherill @ckweatherill.bsky.social · 1d

Good thought Prakash, I'll look into it!

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Mat Paterson @matpaterson.bsky.social · 1d

PhD scholarship opportunity, to work with @sherilynmacgregor.bsky.social and myself on the 'local politics of climate backlash' at @uompols.bsky.social and @justcentre.bsky.social. Please circulate to anyone who might be interested! www.findaphd.com/phds/project....

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Tom Carter-Brookes @tom-cb.bsky.social · 2d

Still time to get your abstracts in for this..... hopefully has the makings of a great session

Charlotte Weatherill @ckweatherill.bsky.social · 7d

Another Call for Papers for #BISA2026 (3rd-5th June, Brighton), this time for a panel I'm organising with @tom-cb.bsky.social. Deadline 24th Oct.

Gender and resistance in environmental politics: This panel will explore how gender relates to resistance against env harm AND resistance to transition.

We are putting out this Call for Papers for BISA2026 in search of people who are researching the connection between gender and resistance in the field of environmental politics.
This call comes at a time of (at least) two forms of gendered resistance:
1. Growing resistance to measures that combat climate change and environmental destruction, a form of resistance that is often masculinised
2. Ongoing resistance against environmental destruction, a form of resistance that is both discursively constructed as feminine and that manifests as a form of burden that is often borne by women and other marginalised peoples
Against a backdrop of the target of 1.5 degrees warming looking increasingly unlikely, and a ‘green’ transition currently reliant on new geographies of environmental and human harm and exploitation, any meaningful progress towards global environmental targets is stalling. Resistance to these forms of harm and efforts to transition away from fossil fuels are at a critical juncture. At the same time, there is a surging right-wing politics globally, part of which acts as a defence of industry and environmental harm. This form of resistance is directed at transition itself.
We invite papers which explore the intersections of gender and resistance in relation to environment or climate politics. Approaches might include ecofeminism, political ecology, and feminist political economy.
Some papers which participants might engage with:
• Petro-masculinity: Fossil fuels and authoritarian desire (Daggett, 2018)
• Feminist approaches to environmental politics (Lawrence et al, 2025)
• ‘Gender and climate change’: from impacts to discourses (MacGregor, 2010)
• Colonial erasures in gender and climate change solutions (Resurrección, 2024)
Please send your 200 word abstracts to t.n.brookes@keele.ac.uk and weatherillck@outlook.com by 24th October along with your name, affiliation, career stage and geographical location.

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Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 2d

📺 Really looking forward to this event organised by the terrific by @bisa-ecpwg.bsky.social team. The session will be especially useful for #ECRs in environmental research & thinking about different career pathways. It’s online and open to everyone @mybisa.bsky.social. Tune in on Friday ⬇️

Environment and Climate Politics Working Group @bisa-ecpwg.bsky.social · 2d

Event this Friday, 17th Oct!

Pathways for environment research: academia, activism, policy.

Three excellent speakers will talk about their different paths through environmental research.

Online - free - 1 til 2.30pm BST - register!

www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work...

Pathways for environment research: academia, activism, policy- Environment and Climate Politics | BISA

- Environment and Climate Politics Working Group

www.bisa.ac.uk

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Environment and Climate Politics Working Group @bisa-ecpwg.bsky.social · 2d

Event this Friday, 17th Oct!

Pathways for environment research: academia, activism, policy.

Three excellent speakers will talk about their different paths through environmental research.

Online - free - 1 til 2.30pm BST - register!

www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work...

Pathways for environment research: academia, activism, policy- Environment and Climate Politics | BISA

- Environment and Climate Politics Working Group

www.bisa.ac.uk

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Ebony Young @ebonyyoung.bsky.social · 6d

Call for Papers! Excited to be putting together a panel on more-than-human and posthuman IR for the BISA 2026 conference. Deadline Fri 24 Oct - details below. Please reach out with any queries

A screenshot of the Call for Papers - please message me for the text version

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Charlotte Weatherill @ckweatherill.bsky.social · 6d

Thanks! I'm a way off with it yet, but I'll get there.

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Environment and Climate Politics Working Group @bisa-ecpwg.bsky.social · 6d

What are you planning for #BISA2026 in Brighton?

Please consider submitting to our stream. You can submit an abstract for your paper, or a fully-formed panel / roundtable.

Deadline is November 3rd.

If you have a Call for Papers to share, tag us!

conference.bisa.ac.uk/call-papers-0

Call for papers

The call for papers for the BISA 2026 conference taking place in Brighton in June 2026.

conference.bisa.ac.uk

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Charlotte Weatherill @ckweatherill.bsky.social · 6d

On Monday I'm presenting virtually at the Adaptation Futures conference, on the 'Beyond Adaptation: Loss and Damage and Justice' panel. 8am BST / 8pm NZT.

My paper is titled 'Narrating climate un/futures through Loss and Damage and Reparations'. It'll be the first time I present on this new area.

breakdown of the panel, other panellists are Luka Hamel-Serenity, Alicia N'Guetta, Emily Boyd, and Lydia Pedoth.

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Charlotte Weatherill @ckweatherill.bsky.social · 6d

I'm accepting my limits for once, but it would make a great roundtable topic.

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Charlotte Weatherill @ckweatherill.bsky.social · 7d

I will contribute a paper on feminist resistance to vulnerability, Tom will present his work on farmers / masculinity / resistance to climate action in the UK.

If you have questions, get in touch or just send us an abstract (see flyer).

@mybisa.bsky.social @bisa-ecpwg.bsky.social

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Charlotte Weatherill @ckweatherill.bsky.social · 7d

Another Call for Papers for #BISA2026 (3rd-5th June, Brighton), this time for a panel I'm organising with @tom-cb.bsky.social. Deadline 24th Oct.

Gender and resistance in environmental politics: This panel will explore how gender relates to resistance against env harm AND resistance to transition.

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Tom Carter-Brookes @tom-cb.bsky.social · 7d

Academic milestone day.....my first ever CFP, alongside the fantastic @ckweatherill.bsky.social We're putting together a panel looking at Gender and resistance in environmental politics for the @mybisa.bsky.social conference next June. Please share away and get in touch if it's of interest

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Charlotte Weatherill @ckweatherill.bsky.social · 7d

Great!

Charlotte Weatherill @ckweatherill.bsky.social · 7d

@joshkirshner.bsky.social although actually, POLLEN does have a weblink...
nomadit.co.uk/conference/p...

P029: Colonial histories and climate futures: critical perspectives on vulnerability

Panel with four 10 min presentations and focus on critical discussion among presenters and audience

nomadit.co.uk

Charlotte Weatherill @ckweatherill.bsky.social · 7d

Hi! Thanks for the interest. There aren't weblinks for these really, but you could share the social media posts? I'll link to some options below:

www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

bsky.app/profile/bisa...

bsky.app/profile/ckwe...

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Charlotte Weatherill @ckweatherill.bsky.social · 7d

OH. And I'm presenting at Adaptation Futures on Monday 13th October (virtually). I hoped to have developed a paper by now (lol) but instead it's going to be quite speculative...

Title: Narrating climate un/futures through Loss and Damage and reparations.

Introduction

This paper will draw on a new research project that uses storytelling and narrative techniques to disentangle the conceptualisation and political implications of Loss and Damage (L&D) and reparations. These concepts are rising in importance in climate politics but whilst L&D has become part of the official UNFCCC process, reparations has been excluded. This is because L&D is a specific and bounded climate concept, whilst reparations claims hold broader historical implications that many states are eager to avoid. However, the obvious entanglement of the two creates a space of contestation that this project identifies as a key moment in the narration of climate un/futures.
The Pacific is an important site for understanding and exploring these ideas. Pacific actors have been central in pushing the L&D conversation, and they also use the concept in a way that draws on reparations narratives, as part of ongoing efforts to contextualise climate change alongside other forms of colonial violence, in particular nuclear testing and ruinous extractivism (Maurer 2024; Teaiwa 2014). This project builds on work that explores different socio-climatic imaginaries, viewing climate politics as a site of contested futures (Death 2022). This work identifies how dominant climate politics reproduces coloniality, and finds alternative futures in the counternarratives and storytelling of places that have already experience the ending of their worlds, and have a history of anticolonial resistance (Mitchell and Chaudhury 2020; Maurer 2024). This is important in the Pacific as its islands are usually assumed to be doomed to uninhabitability (Weatherill 2023) whereas both L&D and reparations are concepts which suggest a future of survival and change.

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Charlotte Weatherill @ckweatherill.bsky.social · 7d

Call for papers for POLLEN which has just been released, for a panel I'm organising with Alina Kaltenberg.

Colonial histories and climate futures: critical perspectives on vulnerability.

This panel brings together theoretical approaches and case studies at the intersection of climate change, human (im)mobility and vulnerability. We aim to critically discuss how colonial and neocolonial systems contribute to geographic, economic, and social inequalities in the context of increasing climate change impacts, thereby making a contribution to both climate justice and political ecology debates. We invite papers which critically examine dominant discourses that ascribe vulnerability to so-called “at-risk” populations and explore alternative epistemologies of survival, resistance and political agency. We are particularly interested in papers that draw together two themes: Climate-induced (im)mobilities, and vulnerabilisation.

The process of identifying “the vulnerable” as an inherently fragile population in the Global South neglects the historical economic path-dependencies and power-asymmetries that created vulnerabilities in the first place. Instead, vulnerability should be understood as the “imaginative line drawn to separate what and who is expected to be in danger, and what and who is expected to be safe” (Weatherill 2023 p.12), thereby enforcing “politics of disposability” (p.12). Furthermore, Farbotko et al. (2023) argue that unequal colonial structures render some places “inevitably uninhabitable”, thus legitimizing the abandonment of some territories, while others continue to be seen as habitable in the context of climate change.

The process of vulnerabilisation is therefore particularly relevant for the issue of climate-induced displacement. Who has to (be) move(d) and who gets to stay in the face of increasing climate impacts is deeply hierarchical and embedded in (neo)colonial inequalities.

This panel asks:

• What changes about climate politics if vulnerability is understood as a constituted process, rather than a natural condition?

• What potential does resistance hold to change this conversation?

We use climate-induced displacement as an …

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