Anybody going to @pollenetwork.bsky.social #POLLEN2026 got tips for getting to Barcelona by train (from the UK)? Looks simple enough, but budgeting tips maybe, or a good place to stop half way? OR can it be done in a day..?
A bright new day in Barcelona and #POLLEN2026 has moved on a stage. Of nearly 2000 (!) submissions, panel convenors have chosen nearly 1400. Registration is open. Given the demand we will begin with presenters first. Many thanks to all for their incredible efforts in making this happen.
don’t forget the deadline for submitting #POLLEN2026 abstracts is 5 dec!
pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-2026/...
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There are three more days to submit your ideas for papers to #POLLEN2026 panels. The last day is 5th December. We will not be extending the deadline.
Here is the link to send in your submission:
tinyurl.com/yumc2tsx
Excited that our session — 'Cyborg rivers and riverhood movements: potentials of re-imagining, re-politicizing and re-commoning relations between rivers, nonhumans and people' — was accepted for #POLLEN2026. Call for papers is open until 5th December! 🦦
pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-2026/
#CallForContributions ⎮
For the upcoming #POLLEN2026 conference. Contribute to debates on energy transitions, land use reforms, #FoodSovereignty, and #agroecology; labor rights and social inclusion in the shift from fossil fuel
www.siani.se/opportunity/...
Closing date: 5 December 2025
We've received some great abstracts for our #POLLEN2026 panel on Animal Waste/Waste Animals! We may be able to run it as a double session if we receive a couple more submissions.
In recent years, rights have become a prominent focus of environmental governance. From human rights-based approaches to conservation aiming to redress power relations between duty bearers and rights-holders, to the Rights of Nature invoked by local governments, international organizations and some Indigenous representatives, rights are gaining popularity as an avenue through which environmental governance is conceived and enacted. Part of the appeal of incorporating rights into environmental governance is their embeddedness in discourses, legal structures and normative frameworks centered around an individualistic concept of legal personhood, the protective role of the state, and a formalistic perspective that often obscures underlying power asymmetries. Rights are borne out of specific legal, epistemic and governance traditions and thus are not neutral ground on which to reshape environmental governance. Therein lies a tension which brings into question their transformative potential. This panel presents a cross-disciplinary dialogue on rights and their interactions with the environment in an attempt to unpack this tension. Political ecology provides tools to investigate these dynamics, which can be complemented by insights from other disciplines. We aim to bring political ecology and environmental justice into dialogue with law, policy and practice, to highlight the ways in which different perspectives on rights and justice have implications for environmental governance. We invite presentations from researchers, practitioners and activists that address the following: ● What, and whose, perspectives on rights are recognised in environmental discourses? ● How are rights invoked, by whom, and to what ends? ● How are rights conceived in different fields and by different “rights-holders”? ● How can alternative perspectives on justice and rights inform rights-based practice? ● What lessons can we learn from different disciplinary perspectives?
Myself, @mpetel.bsky.social and Allison Bishop are seeking presentations for our panel on rights in environmental governance at #POLLEN2026 in Barcelona, June 29th - July 3rd 2026. Fancy joining us? Submit your abstract here by 5th December: nomadit.co.uk/conference/p... @pollenetwork.bsky.social
Invitation to submit at #POLLEN2026 for the session: "A Patchwork of Care as Resistance, Resilience, and Transformation: Mending Territories, Bodies, and Knowledges”.
More details on -https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/pollen2026/p/17564
Call for Papers!
The DIVERSE project is excited to host Panel P058, exploring how digitalisation shapes environmental justice and biocultural diversity worldwide at #POLLEN2026 @pollenetwork.bsky.social.
We welcome speakers from academia and beyond.
Panel information: nomadit.co.uk/conference/p...
My people have a call for papers up for #POLLEN2026 on
Waste and Environmental Justice. Check it out here: nomadit.co.uk/conference/p... and feel free to reach out with questions! @pollenetwork.bsky.social
Looking for papers to join our panel on 'Animal Waste/Waste Animals' at #POLLEN2026 @pollenetwork.bsky.social
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.
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...
Really looking forward to co-hosting this panel at #POLLEN2026 with @hannahdcknsn.bsky.social and Larissa Fleischmann - we'd love to see your abstract submissions!
(1/2) Excited to co-organizie a #POLLEN2026 panel:
“Time is of the essence: Temporal (in)justice, extractivisms, and dispossession in the ‘green transition.’”
This panel explores how extractive industries and “green” transitions reshape not only land and resources, but time itself.
V excited to see #POLLEN2026 sessions being advertised. Myself, @guillemrubio.bsky.social and Larissa Flesichmann are delighted that our session on 'Political Ecologies of Animal Waste/Waste Animals' has been accepted. And we would like to invite you to submit an abstract (see below!) 🐕🦺🐟💩🪶🥚🦴🐚🐌🐖
DESCRIPTION In this proposed session, we welcome papers related to present currents and critiques of political ecology's engagements with Achille Mbembe's theory of necropolitics. Necropolitics, the “…contemporary forms of subjugation of life to the power of death” (Mbembe, 2005: 39), powerfully shows how politics becomes "the work of death" (Ibid., pg. 16). Necropolitics is a welcome antidote to Foucault's theory of biopolitics and its relatively anemic approach to race, the postcolony, and active geographies of death-making practices ranging from overt-geographies of violent confinement and killing such as in Palestine, to the spatial logics of the plantation and its ghostly afterlives (Mbembe, 2003). Necropolitics has quickly emerged as a powerful analytical theory embraced by political ecologists examining subjects ranging from spaces of killing in postcolonial landscapes (Cavanaugh and Himmelfarb, 2015), to climate change (deBoom, 2015), to state practices reconfiguring human relations with ecologies and nonhuman life (Adolfi and Fleishmann, 2024; Bluwstein and De Rosa, 2024; Margulies, 2019). More recently, several critiques have questioned and raised concerns about the theoretical reading of Mbembe's necropolitics within political ecology (Gibson, 2024; Peters et al., 2024), as well as the political and theoretical consequences of a necropolitical turn away from historically more popular engagements with Foucauldian biopolitics and what might be pursued otherwise as a kind of 'anti-necropolitics' (Strange, 2024). With an openness to critique, generous dialogue, and debate in mind, our session proposes to develop a timely discussion around the (mis)uses of necropolitics in political ecology, welcoming both empirically-driven papers that productively engage with necropolitics as framework and mode of analysis, as well as more theoretically-oriented works that critique or demonstrated the place of necropolitical theory in political ecology today.
The #POLLEN2026 prelim program looks amazing! With that in mind, John Casellas Connors and I are going to be looking for paper submissions for our accepted session "Critical engagements in necropolitical ecologies" -check it out!
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I am thinking of proposing a panel at #POLLEN2026 on the extraction-conservation nexus, broadly defined. I will share a blurb soon. Feel free to DM me if you might be interested in participating. #extraction #conservation
