Dear all, We are very excited that the Feral online conference is starting this week (beginning Monday 12 November), and will run over a course of three weeks. With given the clear and present dangers of climate change, we believe that these types of academic engagements will need to become increasingly important in the foreseeable future.
Our amazing colleagues Nicholas Holm, Tony Carusi, Trisia Farrelly, Sy Taffel and Lisa Vonk of the Political Ecology Research Centre at Massey University in New Zealand (one of the POLLEN nodes<https://politicalecologynetwork.com/>) have put together a fantastic programme that can be followed if/when you have time in the next couple of weeks. We encourage you to share this with colleagues, students, family and anyone who is interested. Best wishes, Bram, Rob and Jessica (Wageningen University) Feral: An Online Conference (http://perc.ac.nz/wordpress/feral/) - November 12 – December 2 No registration required. Please join us for a free online conference examining the concept of the ‘feral’ through the lenses of political ecology and ecocriticism. The idea of the feral gestures towards forms of non-human life that have spurned human control or expectations: ‘bad’ forms of wilderness that are out of place and upset conventional thinking about the desirable or proper arrangement of nature. From biosecurity to so-called invasive species, ‘dead zones’ to re-wilding, urban pests to unwanted populations, the idea of the feral calls on us to interrogate our assumptions about how, what, where and why nature ought to be, how we draw those lines and distinctions and how they speak to wider structures of power, political economy and privilege. Featuring keynote presentations from · Fred Pearce (author of The New Wild and Fallout), · Professor Mark Davis (Macalester College, author of Invasion Biology) · And, Dr Arian Wallach (University of Technology Sydney, Centre for Compassionate, The Dingo for Biodiversity Project) As well as a range of online ‘panels’ on topics such as conservation, biopolitics, indigeneity, agriculture and art and other areas of feral concern. As the conference is entirely online, anyone is able to join in the discussions to help discuss and develop our presenters’ contributions. Hosted by the Massey University Political Ecology Research Centre (Aotearoa New Zealand) in conjunction with the Wageningen University Centre for Space, Place and Society (Netherlands). Please see http://perc.ac.nz/wordpress/feral/ for more details. -------------------------------- Prof. Dr. Bram Büscher Professor and chair, sociology of development and change, Wageningen University Visiting Professor, Department of Geography, Environmental Management and Energy Studies - University of Johannesburg Research Associate, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Stellenbosch University De Leeuwenborch, Hollandseweg 1, 6707 KN Wageningen, Netherlands. T: +31317482015 E: bram.busc...@wur.nl<mailto:bram.busc...@wur.nl>. I: http://brambuscher.com<http://brambuscher.com/> / http://www.wageningenur.nl/en/Expertise-Services/Chair-groups/Social-Sciences/sdc.htm Senior editor Conservation & Society: please consider submitting a paper! See: http://www.conservationandsociety.org/ For recent publications, see: https://brambuscher.com/publications/ [WageningenUR logo] -- 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.
