ISA Panel on discarding and GEG - call for papers
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Lauren Baker
May 17, 2023, 11:53:34 AM5/17/23
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Dear colleagues,
Discarding and the aesthetic politics of global environmental governance
The emergence and development of global environmental governance regimes has relied on the valuation and normalization of certain “clean” and “green” aesthetic practices. By extension, this cleaning and greening, be it of global environmental summits, host cities, or even the reputations of corporate and state actors, also requires the devaluation and discarding of people, places, and things that do not align with dominant forms of environmentalism. Attention to wasting as a technique of power (Liboiron and Lepawsky 2022) illuminates these processes and enables us to interrogate naturalized norms and practices of GEG. This panel will investigate the relationships between the aesthetic politics of global environmental governance and systems of discarding. How does the construction of global environmental governance value some ways of being while enabling the destruction of other distinct lifeworlds through its discursive, aesthetic and calculative modes? What role do aesthetic and discursive practices play in the rebranding of waste and pollution as resources in GEG? How do locally disenfranchised actors such as informal waste pickers and frontline communities who bear the brunt of waste-related pollution, amongst others, leverage the discourse and spaces of global environmental governance to make political claims and reposition themselves as “environmental” actors? How are aesthetic performances in the negotiation of global environmental regimes used to gloss over ongoing injustices connected to systems of extraction and discard?
We welcome paper proposals utilizing a diverse range of methodologies and theoretical approaches that address these issues. We particularly welcome papers that integrate Indigenous, Decolonial, Black, Intersectional, Abolitionist, Queer, and Marxist Feminist lineages of thought, or incorporate activist and engaged research approaches into the work.
Manisha Anantharaman and I are organizing a panel for ISA 2024 exploring the intersection of discarding and global environmental governance. Please contact us if interested in joining or share with folks who may be working on relevant areas! See our working title and description:
Discarding and the aesthetic politics of global environmental governance
The emergence and development of global environmental governance regimes has relied on the valuation and normalization of certain “clean” and “green” aesthetic practices. By extension, this cleaning and greening, be it of global environmental summits, host cities, or even the reputations of corporate and state actors, also requires the devaluation and discarding of people, places, and things that do not align with dominant forms of environmentalism. Attention to wasting as a technique of power (Liboiron and Lepawsky 2022) illuminates these processes and enables us to interrogate naturalized norms and practices of GEG. This panel will investigate the relationships between the aesthetic politics of global environmental governance and systems of discarding. How does the construction of global environmental governance value some ways of being while enabling the destruction of other distinct lifeworlds through its discursive, aesthetic and calculative modes? What role do aesthetic and discursive practices play in the rebranding of waste and pollution as resources in GEG? How do locally disenfranchised actors such as informal waste pickers and frontline communities who bear the brunt of waste-related pollution, amongst others, leverage the discourse and spaces of global environmental governance to make political claims and reposition themselves as “environmental” actors? How are aesthetic performances in the negotiation of global environmental regimes used to gloss over ongoing injustices connected to systems of extraction and discard?
We welcome paper proposals utilizing a diverse range of methodologies and theoretical approaches that address these issues. We particularly welcome papers that integrate Indigenous, Decolonial, Black, Intersectional, Abolitionist, Queer, and Marxist Feminist lineages of thought, or incorporate activist and engaged research approaches into the work.
Please send an abstract to Manisha Anantharaman at ma...@stmarys-ca.edu and Lauren Baker at LMari...@u.northwestern.edu by Friday May 26.
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Lauren M. Baker (she/her)
PhD Candidate, Department of Political Science
Chicago Field Studies, Instructor
Northwestern University
Homelands of the Council of Three Fires*
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