APRIL 2025
Dear subscribers,
Below is a selection of articles and events that may be of interest to you. The list of subscribers continues to grow, so a big thanks to everyone who is spreading the word and sharing their inspiring work with everyone in the network.
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This month we would like to draw your attention to the website of the Nyéléni Global Forum, which has a whole host of exciting events, calls and articles focused on supporting and galvanising the global struggle for food sovereignty.
ACADEMIC ARTICLES
Mezzadri, A., Rai, S.M., Stevano, S., Alessandrini, D., Bargawi, H., Elias, J., Hassim, S., Kesar, S., Thiyaga Lingham, J., Natile, S. and N, N., 2025. Pluralizing social reproduction approaches. International Feminist Journal of Politics, pp.1-28.
Adriaensens, J., Dessein, J. and Adam, J., 2025. Science as a territory in dispute: an analysis of power and paradigms in the conceptualization of agroecology. Agriculture and Human Values, pp.1-15.
Ume, C., Nuppenau, E., and Domptail, S. E., 2022. A Feminist Economics Perspective on the Agroecology-Food and Nutrition Security Nexus. Environmental and Sustainability Indicators 16:100212. doi:10.1016/j.indic.2022.100212.
MEDIA ARTICLES
Agroecología en América Latina-Un Futuro Necesario, Heinrich Böll Stiftung: https://cl.boell.org/es/agroecologia-en-america-latina-un-futuro-necesario (in English and German here: https://tinyurl.com/ynztwmbt)
EVENTS & TRAINING
Master Class on Nature, Agri Culture & the Quest for Sustainable Food Systems (28-30 May 2025) by The American University of Rome's Center for Food Studies . The deadline for applications has been extended to April 20, 2025. Find more details & apply here: https://aur.edu/node/4897 [aur.edu]
Cuerpo territorio. A methodological workshop to reflect upon and explore embodied feelings on extractivism
When: August 20th, 2025
Where: Human Geography Department, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
Organizers:
Vasna Ramasar & Martina Angela Caretta, Lund University, Sweden
Sofia Zaragocin, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
Kamila Torres, Universidad de Azuay, Ecuador
Cuerpo territorio is a method that emerged from Latin American communitarian feminism and that is increasingly being used by critical scholars across the globe. In this one-day workshop we want to bring together scholars that are applying this method to their research. The goal with the workshop is to critically reflect on the value and challenges of this method, particularly when it pertains its usage in relations to unveiling lived experiences and embodied feelings related to extractivism.
We are looking for contribution that will share original data gathered through this method and will critically examine how this method acted as a boundary object and made emerge new knowledge in different contexts.
The workshop is capped at 25 participants, and we do not offer financial support for travel nor accommodation. The night before the workshop Dr. Sofia Zaragocin will give a keynote on the topic.
Send your contribution – max 200 words - to Martina Angela Caretta martina_angela.caretta@keg.lu.se by April 19th . You will receive a notification of acceptance by mid-May.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Unruly Ecologies: Reconfiguring Climate Knowledge through Refusal, Resistance, and (Dis)Rupture
Weather Matters is an independently-edited publication fostering conversation on the human dimensions of climate change across anthropology, geography, the environmental humanities and other social sciences. We are currently welcoming contributions for our Spring/Summer 2025 Series ‘Unruly Ecologies: Reconfiguring Climate Knowledge through Refusal, Resistance, and (Dis)Rupture [weathermatters.net].’ Perspectives should be a maximum of 1,500 words (or less) and must be submitted by Monday, March 24, 2025. For the full call for papers, please visit https://www.weathermatters.net [weathermatters.net].
Abbreviated information:
This issue of Weather Matters orients towards moments and movements that resist hegemonic discourses of the environment and climate. We invite works that explore moments of unruliness, rupture, and resistance as they relate to climate and human-environment relations. Possible topics may include, but are not limited to:
How do “extreme” climate events (e.g. heat, tropical storms, wildfires, droughts) challenge, disrupt, or reshape dominant social, political, and economic paradigms?
How do landscapes/ecologies/non-human actors resist and/or frustrate projects of environmental governance (e.g. enclosures, canals/dams), extraction (e.g. mining, large-scale agriculture), and knowledge production (e.g. map-making and surveillance)?
What challenges and possibilities arise in writing from and within climate pluralities, e.g. coexistent climate worlds, relationalities, and imaginaries?
How do histories and ethnographies of collective movements of refusal/resistance render alternative stakes and narratives of climate change?
What tools/devices help mediate and produce knowledge about human-environment relations? What do their malfunctions – failures of mediation and failures of knowing – reveal about norms of expectation, prediction, and safety?
Please share submissions with the editorial team at: contact.weathermatters@gmail.com, and feel free to reach out if you have any questions. We look forward to receiving your contributions.