Apologies for cross-posting Making a Resource: Science, Legal Frameworks, and Political Economies of Shale Fuels
Jennifer Baka, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Penn State University Elvin Delgado, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Central Washington University Matthew Fry, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of North Texas Arielle Hesse, PhD Candidate, Department of Geography, Penn State University CfP sponsored by Energy and Environment Specialty Group “Resources are not: they become.” In only a few words Erich Zimmerman (1933) captures the objective of contemporary resource geography: to study how resources emerge from a multitude of forces that intersect at certain moments in particular places and across specific regions to produce goods and services for society. However, how these environmental, technological, legal, social, and political economic forces coalesce around shale fuel deposits has yet to be fully explored. Despite a decade of commercial scale production and a growing body of social science literature within cognate disciplines, to date, few geographers have extended a particularly geographic and empirical analysis of how such forces converge to make shale resources. In particular, few studies have examined the role of science, technology and legal frameworks in enabling (or constraining) the commodification of shale. The goal of this paper session is to address these research gaps by examining: 1) the ways in which shale deposits are territorialized and commodified; 2) how commodification processes differ across shale basins and/or from past instances of energy resource commodification; 3) how science and new technology contribute to making shale, including the role of reserve estimates, hydro-fracturing technology, waste production and disposal, and science communication; 4) how legal frameworks and emerging laws and regulations utilize scientific knowledge to enhance or limit shale commodification; 5) how commodification processes, laws, and science influence shale governance and territorializing processes; and 6) the political economic implications associated with the commodification of shale deposits. We welcome contributions from all theoretical perspectives. Priority will be given to empirical case studies. Please send abstracts (300 word max) to Jennifer Baka (jeb...@psu.edu <mailto:jeb...@psu.edu>) by Friday, October 14, 2016. Decisions will be made by Friday October 21, 2016 (in advance of the abstract submission deadline on October 27, 2016). Dr. Jennifer Baka Assistant Professor Department of Geography The Pennsylvania State University 317 Walker Building University Park, PA 16802 Tel: 814-865-9656 Email: jeb...@psu.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.
