Call for papers: ‘The Return of Land Politics: New Imaginaries, Debates and Challenges’ ECPR conference
Adam Calo
I’m seeking individual paper proposals to the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) General Conference 2025 special Section ‘The Return of Land Politics: New Imaginaries, Debates and Challenges’.
You can review the Section abstract here. I was a part of this “deep politics of land” group last year and it was very helpful and interdisciplinary group.
I will be chairing a panel within the section with the provisional title “Agrarian Land Politics: Food (In)security and Rural Economies” that will feature 3-5 papers.
The 2025 conference will take place in Thessaloniki, 26-29th of August 2025. The deadline for submitting Panel and paper proposals is 6 January 2025.
Details about the process:
The call for Panels and papers is now open. You can access the ECPR guidelines here - but in summary:
- Panels need to be submitted with named papers and authors.
- Papers submitted as part of a Panel do not need to be resubmitted individually.
- Panels should include 3-5 Papers.
- Paper presenters are expected to serve as discussants for one paper within their Panel.
- If a Paper has more than one author, the person making the proposal will be listed as the Paper Presenter.
- Paper authors need to upload their full Paper to the ECPR website via their My ECPR profile or email it to the Panel Chair, Discussant and fellow Paper givers before 15 July to give their fellow Panellists time to read it.
- To make a proposal, Panel Chairs/Co-Chairs, Discussants, Paper Presenters and Co-Authors must have a My ECPR profile. If you don’t already have one, it takes just a few clicks to create.
- Individual papers can also be submitted to the Section directly (rather than as part of a Panel proposal). These can either be allocated by the Section chairs to an existing Panel, or used to assemble a new Panel – depending on capacity.
Please do not hesitate to get in touch with us should you have any questions about the Section. Any questions about the Panel and paper submission process should be directed to ECPR: generalc...@ecpr.eu
Assistant Professor of Environmental Governance and Politics
Radboud University, Netherlands
(2024). Transforming land for sustainable food: Emerging contests to property regimes in the Global North. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, 12(1).(2024) New Entrant Farming Policy as Predatory Inclusion. Agriculture and Human Values.
(2022). Using property law to expand agroecology: Scotland’s land reforms based on human rights. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 1-37.
(2020). The Yeoman Myth: A Troubling Foundation of the Beginning Farmer Movement. Gastronomica 20, 12–29.