CFP: Pervasive Powers: Corporate Authority in the Shaping of Public Policy (Paris)
This conference is based on the idea that, not only has this power varied among industries, countries and different periods, but also …
CFP: Nuclear Waste and Deep Time (Amsterdam)
Nuclear Waste and Deep Time Friday 3 November 2017, 16:00-17:00hrs Deadline for submissions: November 1, 2017 …
CFP: Muddied Waters: Decomposing the Anthropocene
For its seventh issue, Pivot is calling for papers that not only critically address the Anthropocene as our current geological epoch but, in doing …
CPF: Shifting Baselines, Altered Horizons: Politics, Practice, and Knowledge in Environmental Science and Policy
Workshop – Call for Papers Shifting Baselines, Altered Horizons: Politics, Practice, and Knowledge in Environmental Science and Policy Max Planck Institute for …
CFP: Theorizing Harm
Whether focused on toxicity, disease, disaster, violence, or malfunction, STS scholars have long studied harm. Given the great diversity of approaches and …
CFP: Analytics for the Anthropocene: Socioecological futures and scale
We would like to bring political ecologists’ attention to (and questioning of) scale to the conversation on socioecological futures, and are interested …
CFP: Changing Secondhand Economies
This special issue aims to present the best of ongoing interdisciplinary scholarship on historical and contemporary processes involved in the flow of …
Workshop Circulaciones Icomodas (Mayo 19)
Perspectivas comparadas sobre la producción de jerarquías, fronteras y regulaciones sociales en torno al reciclado y reuso de materia descartada. Jueves 19 …
CFP: Towards an ecology of neglected things
Neglected things are pervasive in numerous contemporary practices and imaginaries. Our patchy knowledge about them is co-produced with a specific social order …
CFP: Timescales
Timescales explores the question of temporality in ecological crisis. Timescales is an interdisciplinary environmental humanities conference to be held on October 20-22, …
CFP: Transecology: Transgender Perspectives on the Environment
Chapter proposals are invited for the edited book Transecology: Transgender Perspectives on the Environment, due by May 15, 2016. This volume will …
CFP: Living and Dying with “Waste Infrastructure”: Affect and Practicalities (AAA)
This panel takes seriously the way of living or dying near the waste infrastructure, showing explicitly ethnographic inquiries of despair, anxiety, hope, …
CFP: Ambient Matter: Sensorial Engagements with a Toxic World (AAA)
CALL FOR PAPERS American Anthropological Association Meetings Minneapolis, MN. November 16-20, 2016 Panel title: Ambient Matter: Sensorial Engagements with a Toxic World …
CFP: Circles, flows and dead ends: re-calibrating socio-material relations and the rise of the ‘circular economy’ (3/11/16)
This session invites contributions that explore themes related to ideas of recalibrated material flows and their socio-political and geographical implications.
CFP: Pharmaceuticals out of Bounds
When birth control hormones are found in drinking water and fish in streams contain Prozac, it is time to acknowledge that pharmaceuticals …
Uneven Earth Writing Grants
Uneven Earth, a website that hosts articles, interviews, and other information about environmental and social justice conflicts around the world, is offering …
CFP for “Transecology: Transgender Perspectives on the Environment”
This volume seeks to provide novel insights into ecological and environmental issues by drawing on specifically transgender perspectives. Deadline for abstracts: March …
Four faculty job openings in Global Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene cluster (NC State)
North Carolina (NC) State University seeks candidates across multiple disciplines for four tenured or tenure-track faculty positions in the Global Water, Sanitation, …
CFP: Food waste scholarship: Recent advances and perspectives from a fragmented field of study
Organised by the International Food Waste and Food Loss Studies Group, this AAG session will: 1) Provide a forum for food waste …
PhD position: Turning Livelihoods to Rubbish (Aug 20 deadline)
The University of Manchester Department of Geography is pleased to announce a PhD studentship for the research grant ‘Turning livelihoods to rubbish? …
Canada’s Waste Network Launched!
Canada’s Waste Network has just launched! It aims to connect social science and humanities researchers interested in Canadian waste issues. Join now!
CFP: Dirty business: economies of the used, the used up, and the useless // SES 2015
Our panel for the annual meeting of the Swiss Ethnological Society will be structured around three questions: What paths do discards take? …
CFP: Envirotechnical Histories of Waste Management — ASEH 2016, Seattle
The papers in this panel will approach and explore solid waste management histories as enviro-technical systems riddled with political, social, economic, and …