Deadline: 1 March 2015
Individuals are invited to submit the papers/proposals for the World Society, Planetary Natures Conference to be held in 10-11 July, 2015 at Binghamton University (USA).
World Society, Planetary Natures seeks to bring together scholars of global social change and global environmental change. The conference is thus focuses upon 1) the core concerns of world-historical and global studies; and 2) multi-disciplinary community focused on global environmental change, past and present.
Outstanding conference papers will be published in a conference volume.
Conference Objectives
The conference pursues three major goals.
- A serious intellectual cross-fertilization between scholars engaged in the study of global social change and those engaged in the study of global environmental change.
- To facilitate a sustained exploration of the relations unifying the differentiated moments of 21st century crisis. These include not only the “triple crisis” argument, but comprise a wide range of crisis tendencies – such as food, inequality, employment, and social reproduction – as well as to the emergent possibilities of “commoning.”
- To welcome creative elaborations of globalization – in its manifold historical and contemporary expressions – as “ways of organizing nature.”
Thematic Areas
Papers, panels, and proposals should relate – but not restricted to – the following topics:
- The Financialization of Nature: Commodities, Carbon markets, Conservation, etc.
- One, Two, Many “Sovereignties”: Food, Land, Energy, and Beyond
- Planetary Urbanization
- Cheap Labor, Unpaid Work, and the Crisis of Human Natures
- Green Catastrophism and the Theory of Global Crisis
- Narratives of Nature, Crisis, and Capitalism
- Modernity and Climate Change
- Scientific Revolutions and Capitalist Natures
- Class Dynamics of Agro-Ecological Change, North and South
- Crises: Social, Ecological, or World-Ecological?
- Ecology and Imperialism
- The ‘Long’ Green Revolution: Renewal or Demise?
- Culture as Ecology
- Green Keynesianism and the Myth of Sustainability
- Industrialization and the Production of Natur
- Anthropocene or Capitalocene?
- New (and Old) Practices of Commoning
- World-Literature and World-Ecology
- Value, Nature, and Ontological Politics
- Environmental Histories of Capital, Empire, and Commodities
- Commodity Frontiers, Past and Present
- The Environment-Making State
- Markets, Trade, Investment: Does Nature Matter?
- Nature as Accumulation Strategy
- Crises of Social Reproduction
- Neoliberalism’s Crises… or Not?
- Surplus Humanities
- Climate and Capitalism: Two Crises or One?
- Nature and Hegemony
- Ecological Exhaustion and War
Travel grants
- The World Society Foundation also sponsors a small number of travel grants for students and for participants from Africa, Asia, Latin-America and Eastern Europe.
- Travel grants are allocated on the basis of a competitive assessment of full papers.
- Interested applicants can submit the Full papers (of about 8,000 words) online to receive travel grants.
How to apply?
Inquiries and proposals can be sent via email.
For more information about the conference, visit World Society Foundation.
