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- Convenors:
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Ipshita Basu
(University of Westminster)
Sudheesh Ramapurath Chemmencheri (National Law School of India University)
Ekata Bakshi (Policy and Development Advisory Group)
Vinita Damodaran (University of Sussex)
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- Discussants:
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Aashish Xaxa
(Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar)
Sudheesh Ramapurath Chemmencheri (National Law School of India University)
Ipshita Basu (University of Westminster)
- Format:
- Paper panel
Short Abstract:
Conceptualise 'Just' Planetary Health by re-examining crisis management through the perspective of time: environmental histories of ecological degradation, and the perspective of depth: power relations which underpin changing landscapes and the way communities manage hidden uncertainty every day.
Long Abstract:
Natural hazards, epidemics and hunger deaths prompt urgent developmental action but what happens after the crisis recedes? News headlines blur, relief packages morph into dusty parcels and volunteers return home. However, causes of planetary ill-health are rooted in long histories of colonial and postcolonial environmental and social extraction- and its dire consequences are borne overwhelmingly by indigenous people and socially/spatially marginalised groups. Thus, while crisis management treats 'crisis' as compartmentalised phenomenon, the affected communities see crisis as absence of historical accountability for long-term environmental exploitation, while themselves dealing with the lingering, hidden consequences of crisis (trauma, migration, land/forest/water access, public health surveillance).
This panel aims to conceptualise 'Just' Planetary Health by re-examining crisis management through two perspectives, combined. The perspective of time: that is through environmental histories of how landscapes were changed for commercial/conservationist aims by reorganising social-environmental relations. The perspective of depth: that is power relations which produce environmental uncertainty and its management; and how communities make webs of connections to respond to the hidden, everyday consequences of living in fragile/marginal environments.
We invite papers that address the panel theme from different methodological and empirical standpoints. Selected papers will be published in a journal special issue. The 90-minute panel will be organised as: i) participants submit draft papers, which will be organised under 2-3 sub-themes. ii) paper presenters make a 5-minute intervention, followed by commentary by the discussant who will identify conceptual synergies between papers iii) panel participants discuss the cross-over themes and overarching contribution of the special issue.