Grabbing ‘Green’: Questioning the Green Economy
Nov 7th, 2012
Grabbing ‘Green’: Questioning the Green Economy
Students and faculty are encouraged to submit abstracts to , a conference that will be held at the University of Toronto May 17-19, 2013. The deadline for abstract submission has been extended to Wednesday, November 21.
This conference will explore themes related to “The Green Economy�, such as international environmental governance and environmental management and conservation. Suggested topics listed in the call include (but are not limited to):
- Accumulation by dispossession, property regimes, and "new" enclosures
- The role of institutions in the production of “The Green Economy�
- Alignment and articulation in environmental governance
- Spatial variations in market relations
- Scales of environmental governance and biodiversity conservation
- Configurations of Transnational Institutional Space
- The green economy and spectacular consumption
- Points of friction in the circulation and implementation of market mechanisms
- Strategies and practices of organizational alignment
- Practices of institutional enrollment and capture
- New conceptualizations of property and waste
- Financialization and performativity in producing markets for nature.
- The production of metrological regimes for ‘natural capital’.
The full call for papers can be found .
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