WPSA Environmental Politics Section Call for Papers - Submit by Fri, 9/27

[Jeff L Feng]

Hello!

I am the Environmental Politics Section Chair for the 2025 Western Political Science Association (WPSA) Annual Meeting in Seattle, Washington (April 17 - 19, 2025). 

Papers, panels, and other proposals are due by Friday, September 27th , 2024. Find the section call below and submit your proposals here: https://www.wpsanet.org/meeting/sectioninfo.php. 

I especially welcome papers and proposals on environmental and climate justice. 

Hope to see your submissions! Let me know if you have any questions. 

Best,

Jeff

Section 4 : Environmental Politics

Section Chair: Jeff Feng Northwestern University jeff...@northwestern.edu New Theme Statement for 2025. Environmental and climate justice movements and rhetoric have changed the landscape of environmental politics. In recent years, we saw the Biden Administration's Justice40 Initiative, the first ever Climate Justice Pavilion and breakthroughs in the "Loss and Damage" Fund at COP27, and victories across the globe in granting rights to Mother Earth, animals, plants, and other beings. Yet, environmental and climate catastrophes rage on, as they have for hundreds of years. Building upon the conference theme, we ask whether the planet and its inhabitants will race toward further catastrophes—or transformation—and what role environmental politics scholars play at this inflection point. This section invites proposals that foreground environmental and climate justice and grapple with ostensible wins while marginalized peoples continue to bear the brunt of environmental devastation. We seek proposals presenting environmental politics research with the potential and possibility of transforming how we think about and achieve environmental justice. Topics of interest may include Indigenous Peoples' sovereignty and self-determination in environmental governance, environmental social movements building durable and cross-cutting coalitions, power asymmetries between Global North and South nations and movements as barriers to environmental justice, representation and recognition of youth perspectives in climate justice movements and policy, experimentation and failures in abolitionist climate justice, queer and trans reckonings with the rigid affects of climate politics, and intersectional approaches and analyses of international climate policy. We especially welcome proposals that disrupt the boundaries of political science through activist-scholar engaged research, transdisciplinary collaborations, and ethnographic or interpretive methodologies. We are also interested in papers that address other core questions in environmental politics concerning Congress, public policy, rural and urban divides, methodological interventions, and climate change public opinion.