Brock Bersaglio
(University of Birmingham)
Mikkel Funder
(Danish Institute for International Studies)
Charis Enns
(University of Manchester)
Clare Barnes
(University of Edinburgh)
Harriet Croome
(University of Birmingham)
Format:
Panel
Streams:
Climate & ecosystems
Rural & agrarian spaces
(Im)mobility, The Environment, and Development in a More-Than-Human World.
Panel XP54 at conference DSA2022: Just sustainable futures in an urbanising and mobile world.
This panel seeks to engage with the interplay between (im)mobility, the environment, and development, with consideration for the value of more-than-human perspectives.
Long Abstract
The global COVID-19 pandemic challenged mobility in ways many around the world never before experienced. International travel came to a halt; the daily movements of people, animals, and goods were disrupted; and flows of people returning to countryside homes and rural spaces increased with economic hardships and public health concerns in urban environments. While these (im)mobilities were new to many, for others the pandemic enabled powerful actors to reinstate and reenforce longstanding patterns of mobility and immobility. Highly mobile populations that have long evaded or frustrated states - such as migrant workers, swidden farmers, and transhumance pastoralists - faced new barriers and harsher consequences for their movements. The pandemic also enabled governments to crack down on protests and social mobilisation deemed a threat to public health. In short, the pandemic highlighted just how central (im)mobility remains to livelihood adaptation in response to crises, access to natural resources, and the pursuit of justice and wellbeing.
This paper-based panel seeks contributions that engage with the relationship between (im)mobility and the environment, natural resources, and climate change in ways that either draw from or have the potential to speak to more-than-human analyses of development. Broadly speaking, this means presentations should involve consideration for interactions between humans and animals, plants, and other life forms. This could include topics such as livestock and wildlife movements, flows of animal and agricultural goods, ecotourism and mobile labour economies, or any other relevant cases from the past or present.
Methodology: Panellists will upload pre-recorded presentations (e.g. video, video with slides, slides with audio, etc.) three weeks before the conference. Uploaded content should be between 8 and 12 minutes. Convenors will ask panellists to watch other people's presentations in advance of the synchronous discussion session(s). The convenors will also share in advance what they think are the key questions emerging from the recorded presentations which will be prompts for the synchronous discussion. The convenors will start the synchronous session outlining these questions. Then, each presenter will give a 2min pitch summarising their key argument and another 2min in which they address one of the key questions from the convenors. After this, the discussion will be open to the audience with convenors' moderation.
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Mikkel Funder (Danish Institute for International Studies)
Charis Enns (University of Manchester)
Clare Barnes (University of Edinburgh)
Harriet Croome (University of Birmingham)
Short Abstract
This panel seeks to engage with the interplay between (im)mobility, the environment, and development, with consideration for the value of more-than-human perspectives.
Long Abstract
The global COVID-19 pandemic challenged mobility in ways many around the world never before experienced. International travel came to a halt; the daily movements of people, animals, and goods were disrupted; and flows of people returning to countryside homes and rural spaces increased with economic hardships and public health concerns in urban environments. While these (im)mobilities were new to many, for others the pandemic enabled powerful actors to reinstate and reenforce longstanding patterns of mobility and immobility. Highly mobile populations that have long evaded or frustrated states - such as migrant workers, swidden farmers, and transhumance pastoralists - faced new barriers and harsher consequences for their movements. The pandemic also enabled governments to crack down on protests and social mobilisation deemed a threat to public health. In short, the pandemic highlighted just how central (im)mobility remains to livelihood adaptation in response to crises, access to natural resources, and the pursuit of justice and wellbeing.
This paper-based panel seeks contributions that engage with the relationship between (im)mobility and the environment, natural resources, and climate change in ways that either draw from or have the potential to speak to more-than-human analyses of development. Broadly speaking, this means presentations should involve consideration for interactions between humans and animals, plants, and other life forms. This could include topics such as livestock and wildlife movements, flows of animal and agricultural goods, ecotourism and mobile labour economies, or any other relevant cases from the past or present.
Methodology: Panellists will upload pre-recorded presentations (e.g. video, video with slides, slides with audio, etc.) three weeks before the conference. Uploaded content should be between 8 and 12 minutes. Convenors will ask panellists to watch other people's presentations in advance of the synchronous discussion session(s). The convenors will also share in advance what they think are the key questions emerging from the recorded presentations which will be prompts for the synchronous discussion. The convenors will start the synchronous session outlining these questions. Then, each presenter will give a 2min pitch summarising their key argument and another 2min in which they address one of the key questions from the convenors. After this, the discussion will be open to the audience with convenors' moderation.