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Case study presentations

Long Abstract

Built on sharp theoretical insights and critical empirical studies interrogating grave odds around rights, justice, identity, and agency across scales, PE has reflected on ideas, events, perceptions, processes which relate the questions of power. But who are the listeners? How does the concept of praxis, aligning with community participation and engagement beyond academia, as well as responses from more-than-human beings, interact with methodological experiments? How can key challenges at the intersection of PE and transdisciplinary research be addressed? In fact, disciplinary barriers at the academic level and the transdisciplinary need at the practical level pose major challenges to socio-ecological research, especially in addressing ‘wicked problems’ today.

This panel invites submissions on inclusive, innovative, participatory methodological experiments to better recognize, ascribe meanings to and actively respond against power equations entrenched in social-ecological systems. We seek cutting-edge, creative approaches—from participatory cartography, sensory ethnography, photovoice to transdisciplinary collaborative practices—that challenge traditional research hierarchies and foster engagements. We provoke conversations about how such methodological approaches, by blurring the boundaries between the researcher and the researched, can reimagine and reframe the notions of participation, accountability, entitlement within the framework of PE and thereby, can become ‘acts’ for social-environmental justice. We invite researchers, practitioners and transdisciplinary consortiums to share experiences of their methodological experiments and critically reflect on how those experiences can craft the pathways of PE research. The panel is interested in exploring challenges, possibilities, apprehension, and impediments surrounding the experiments and engagements to have ideas about the efficacy of transdisciplinarity in PE. It aims to create a space, crafting a dialogue between transdisciplinarity and political ecology through critical reflections on the challenges of transdisciplinary praxis (institutional barriers, epistemic conflicts, and ethical dilemmas), while assessing its potential to deepen PE’s transformative impact.

This Panel has 6 pending paper proposals.
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