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Find our upcoming events and blog series via our website https://www.bisa.ac.uk/members/working-groups/ecp

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Environment and Climate Politics Working Group

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Call for Papers for #BISA2026!

Exploring the relationship between imperialism, coloniality and environmental degradation.

This is a joint call with Colonial, Postcolonial & Decolonial WG, recognising that important work is being done at the intersection of our groups.

Deadline Friday 24 October.

Exploring the relationship between imperialism, coloniality and environmental degradation
Joint Call for Papers from the Colonial, Postcolonial, and Decolonial Working Group and Environment and Climate Politics Working Group
We are putting out this joint call in recognition that many researchers are working at the intersection of our two working groups - and during a time when the realities of this intersection between colonialism, empire, and the environment have never been more clear. This moment makes evident the interconnections between militarism and settler colonialism and genocide and ecocide, and therefore the need to situate our knowledge and approaches within anticolonial, indigenous and translocal perspectives.
Recognising the importance of scholarship that addresses these issues, we are calling for papers for BISA2026 that are related to the topics of how imperialism / colonialism / extraction / capitalism are in relationship with environmental degradation. This can be on a material level, where the functions of occupation and extraction lead to environmental destruction, or on a more discursive level, where hierarchies of life are used to justify and naturalise ongoing violence against people and places.
Whilst we are keeping this Call quite broad to encourage wide-ranging submissions, some paper topics or research areas might include:
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Genocide and its links to environmental destruction, for example in Palestine, DR Congo, and Sudan, to name a few.
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Ecological imperialism – theoretical contributions or case studies
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Reparative justice and climate change
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The construction of new ‘frontiers’ – how imperialism and extraction is moving to new areas such as the deep sea or space
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Anticolonial and anti-extractive organising and decarbonization and fossil fuel phase outs
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Indigenous approaches on relationality, connectedness and climate justice
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The role of academics in perpetuating or resisting these forms of harm
Please send your 200-250 word abstrac…

October 8, 2025 at 6:49 AM

Environment and Climate Politics Working Group

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It's October, and we have an event coming up!

Pathways for environment research: academia, activism, policy. A conversation for ECRs about post-PhD research between 3 people who have taken different paths.

17th October, online & free, 1pm-2.30pm BST.

Register here

www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work...

Aimed at PhD and ECR researchers who are thinking about their future in environmental research, this roundtable brings together three researchers who have taken different pathways with their PhDs. Professor Rosaleen Duffy, Chair of International Politics at the University of Sheffield, will speak to her academic career as a researcher and teacher of global environmental change and governance. Dr Jane Clarke, Principal Analyst at the Office for Environmental Protection, will discuss her experience working on environmental policy across both non-government and government sectors. And Dr Kai Heron, Lecturer in Political Ecology at Lancaster University and co-director of the progressive policy platform Abundance, will share his experience as an activist researcher and using academia to further social movement goals.

The discussion will shed light on different ways to use your environment PhD, what different career pathways can offer, and opportunities for intersections between them. We hope you can join us!

October 1, 2025 at 6:53 AM

Environment and Climate Politics Working Group

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We're delighted to support this @psaenvironmental.bsky.social event being held at the University of Manchester, on the 17th September.

'Environmental Politics in an Age of Insecurity'. Keynote by @matpaterson.bsky.social

Register for the workshop here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/workshop-e...

Poster for the workshop includes details such as the date: 17th September, and contact email of psa.environment@gmail.com

July 28, 2025 at 7:33 AM

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New blog!

Can we imagine what a future climate-changed world will be like? Dr Carl Death discusses climate fiction in the context of his new book: African Climate Futures.

@mybisa.bsky.social @uompols.bsky.social @fromagehomme.bsky.social ‪

www.bisa.ac.uk/articles/can...

Cover for African Climate Futures, Oxford University Press

July 25, 2025 at 6:42 AM

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Finally, Jan Selby is presenting (sans slides) on climate politics in the context of genocide.

June 20, 2025 at 8:44 AM

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Next up is @lauracon.bsky.social presenting, 'Waste Matters: Nuclear Technopolitics and Futures at the Waster Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico'.

June 20, 2025 at 8:30 AM

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Panel: War and Nature III.

Kacper Przyborowski starts us off with 'Performing Alternative Worlds through Struggle: Black communities, conflict, and the pluriverse in Colombia'.

photo of front of room of panel and speaker one's first slide

June 20, 2025 at 8:12 AM

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We had our Brink event yesterday, and it went really well. Thanks to all who came. We hope you enjoyed engaging with the work being done in the city.

Brighton next year, and we're definitely going to be repeating the exercise! @mybisa.bsky.social @notesnthemargin.bsky.social @ebonyyoung.bsky.social

A picture of our group in the tree circle!

one angle of the site, featuring some attendees talking, and some of the murals done by the Brink group, who are artists and community activists

A building opposite the site, featuring Brink's guiding question: What can / should / will, a / this / every, city do?

A board printed with work by the artist Kasper Benjamin Reimer Bjørkskov, next to one of the bath-ponds

June 20, 2025 at 5:47 AM

Environment and Climate Politics Working Group

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Leah Owen (Swansea) now talking about Frontex and 'the armed lifeboat' - how risk analyses are engaging with climate as a migration threat to be securitised against.