Panel: Political Ecology of Glacierized Environments (POLLEN 24)

About the conference

The unfolding and entwined social-ecological crises make the challenge of how to move towards more plural and just futures more pressing than ever. Political ecology provides an important toolbox to explore the unjust and colonial power relations that condition global flows of material resources, money, ideas and people. Yet, the field itself is shaped by inequalities when it comes to the engagement of researchers from different locations, the distribution of research resources and how different ways of knowing and being are circulated, represented and recognized. POLLEN24 is a conference aiming to provide a platform to discuss these and other issues by organizing a distributed, yet connected, conference with physical hubs in Peru, Tanzania and Sweden. With its cross-continental format, we seek to facilitate inclusive and participatory exchange on the role of political ecology in nurturing plural and just socio-ecological futures.

Panel: Political Ecology of Glacierized Environments 

As part of the POLLEN Conference, SASNET is co-hosting a panel on political ecology and glacierized environments.

Glaciers are not just geographical features; they are integral components of global ecosystems and sociopolitical landscapes. The political ecology of glacierized environments represents a multidisciplinary domain where environmental changes intersect with societal structures and power dynamics. 

Speakers:

1. From frames of apocalypse to gains for economic growth: glacier melt in popular media discourses 
Mine Islar, Sahana Subramanian and Carmen Marigotta, LUCSUS- Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies

2. Conservation & adaptation minus rights: Contestations around commons in a Trans-Himalayan valley of Himachal Pradesh 
Manshi Asher, Himshi Singh and Prakash Bhandari, SASNET and Environment Research and Action Collective

3. Exploring land in refugee resettlement: perspectives from the Himalayas
Hanna Geschewski, Human Geography at the Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) and the University of Bergen, Norway.

4. Scaling Pastoruri: Claiming Justice in a Fragmented landscape
Mattias Borg Rasmussen, Copenhagen University
 

Read more about the conference and how to attend here.