Regarding ISA 2015, this is to solicit interest in participating on a panel (i.e., papers) or a roundtable (i.e., focused discussion) on THE POLITICS OF URGENT TRANSITION.
Among the premises of the session would be: *the world is undergoing a fundamental shift, a discontinuous change, a long-term transition, punctuated by crises that are largely unpredictable and unprecedented; *the biophysical basis of the change is, at a minimum— i. the end of cheap energy—cheap economically, energetically, environmentally; ii. rising defensive expenditures for past environmental abuses and social debts; *modes of organizing and communicating for the transition are unlike that of the 20th century; *the politics will play out at all levels but are likely to be led by “the local” and “the transnational.” Presentations could focus on resource extraction (especially fossil fuels), food, water, finance. The central question, however, would be, What are, or might be, the politics of the transition, both positive and negative. Please respond directly to me (not to this list serve) with a few sentences of an expected contribution (again, either paper or discussion point). Also, please indicate why this panel is of particular interest, professional or otherwise. Tom Princen ********************************************************** Thomas Princen, Ph.D. Carson Fellow, 2014 Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society 11a Leopoldstrasse D-80802 Munich, Germany (ph) +49 (0) 89 / 2180-72392 email: tprin...@umich.edu ********************************************************** -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to gep-ed+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
