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This presentation situates Southeastern Europe as a rich vantage point for theorization in political ecology.

Presentation long abstract

Drawing on our ongoing work as editors of a special issue on the political ecology of Southeastern Europe (SEE), we present this geographical region as a rich vantage point for theorization. SEE’s complicated history of imperial and post-imperial, socialist and post-socialist regimes has left a legacy of infrastructures, contracts, breeds, knowledges, and ruins that challenges simple accounts of linear historical development. Contemporary transformations reveal incomplete and contested governance as new practices of relating to the environment encounter layered histories and local knowledges. SEE intellectual traditions and situated ecological knowledges, we contend, will be generative resources for future thinking in political ecology.