CfP: ISA 2025 panel " Global Environmental Politics: Learning from History"
Falkner,R
Dear GEP colleagues,
Michael Manulak and I are organising a panel for next year’s ISA Annual Convention in Chicago that brings together scholars working on the historical dimensions of GEP. The purpose of this panel is to showcase new research on GEP history and stimulate reflection on the role of historical research in the future development of GEP as an academic discipline. Please send us an email (to r.fa...@lse.ac.uk and Michael...@cunet.carleton.ca), ideally by 24th May, if you would like to be included in this panel. Below is the abstract for this panel proposal:
Panel title: “Global Environmental Politics: Learning from History”
Abstract: This panel explores the role that history and historical research can and should play in the study of global environmental politics (GEP). Historically informed scholarship has gained traction in International Relations in recent years but remains on the margins of the GEP research agenda. This panel explores why this is the case and what can be done to stimulate more extensive engagement with the fields of environmental history and global history. Bringing GEP and history together ought to shed new light on, inter alia, the historical roots of environmentalism and GEP; how understandings of global environmental problems have evolved over time; and what we can learn from past cases of environmental policy-making. This panel brings together scholars with an interest in the historical dimensions of the global environment and environmental politics, to explore different uses of history in the study of GEP.
Best wishes,
Robert
Robert Falkner
Professor of International Relations
Academic Dean, TRIUM Global EMBA
The London School of Economics and Political Science
Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, UK
w: https://www.robertfalkner.org
New book:
Barry Buzan and Robert Falkner (forthcoming), The Market in Global International Society: An English School Approach to International Political Economy. Oxford University Press.
Recent books:
Falkner, Robert and Barry Buzan (eds.) (2022) Great Powers, Climate Change, and Global Environmental Responsibilities. Oxford University Press.
Falkner, Robert (2021) Environmentalism and Global International Society (Cambridge Studies in International Relations, vol. 156). Cambridge University Press.