Format/Structure

The format is dependant on papers submited, however, we intend to have short paper presentations followed by roundtable and discussion on the topic

Long Abstract

Considering the recent unprecedented crises related to economics, politics, ecology and social reproduction, lives of people around the world have been transfigured. The impacts of climate change have been threatening not only human livelihoods, but human lives, while the capitalist system has shifted our relationship to nature through its logic of economic growth through exploitation and commodification of nature and human labour. While establishing the premise that ecological and labour systems are at the same time culturally specific yet also interlinked globally, this Panel makes a case for focusing on labour precarity and disparity in order to address the ecological crisis.

Considering labour as behaviours (waged or not) in which humans interact with the environment, this Panel proposes a discussion on the relationships that labour cultivates between humans, more-than-humans, the land and sea, and other parts of the natural environment. Employing a political ecology framework, focusing on issues of labour, dignity and sustainability, is crucial in order to use the privilege within academia to shed light on issues of social justice within several landscapes and contexts, integrating grassroots narratives of environmental degradation and resistance.

We encourage the submission of papers focusing on different global contexts, and we accept different formats going beyond traditional paper presentations, in order to bring forth different voices, from activists, locals and creators as well as researchers.

This Panel has 5 pending paper proposals.
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