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Grabbing ‘Green’: Questioning the Green Economy

Nov 7th, 2012

D. Bavington

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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 Economyâ€�
  • 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 .

For more information, please check the or .