CfP International Relations in the Anthropocene, Pan-European Conference on International Studies, Athens 1-4 September 2022

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CfP International Relations in the Anthropocene, Pan-European Conference on International Studies, Athens 1-4 September 2022

The Standing Section International Relations in the Anthropocene (ST09) invites paper and panel/roundtable proposals for the 15th Pan-European Conference on International Relations in Athens, 1-4 September 2022.

The EISA standing section ST09 is devoted to the multiple engagements of IR scholars with the notion of the Anthropocene. It provides a space to think through the new forms of political agency and governance that we see emerging in the Anthropocene. It fosters critical discussions of the concept – for example from decolonial, queer, feminist, critical black studies and/or poststructuralist perspectives – and invites proposals for thinking the Anthropocene differently. It reflects upon the technological dimension of the Anthropocene and engages with the implications of posthumanism beyond the realm of ecology (for example in the realm of AI and other emerging technologies). Finally, it includes methodological discussions and fosters new and creative approaches to studying international politics.

This year we are particularly interested in papers and panels that explore the multiple dimensions and aspects of violence that characterize international relations in the Anthropocene. This includes both conceptual work on forms of violence – including for example slow violence, posthuman violence, colonial violence, extractivist violence, ontological and epistemic violence – as well as empirical investigations of the complex manifestations of violence in relation to global anthropogenic changes.

Possible themes include:

Temporalities and spatialities of violence in the Anthropocene
Security, digital technologies and algorithmic violence
Knowledge production and epistemic violence
Extractivist violence and the “plantationocene”
The violence of im/mobility in the Anthropocene
Apocalyptic imaginaries and political eschatology

Please submit your abstract via the conference online platform no later than 16 March 2022.

For information on the conference visit http://pec2022.eisa-net.org

Please get in touch if there are any remaining questions: ro...@ifsh.de or d.cha...@wmin.ac.uk