Unruliness and the Socioenvironmental State 1: Governing Uncertainty and Change
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Date: 3/23/2023
Time: 8:30 AM - 9:50 AM
Room: Agate A, Hyatt Regency, Third Floor
Type: Paper,
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Sponsor Group(s):
Feminist Geographies Specialty Group
Organizer(s):
Andrea Nightingale University of Oslo
Kathleen Epstein Cornell University
Chair(s):
Andrea Nightingale University of Oslo
Description:
Efforts at governing change, including development, climate change adaptation and renewable energy systems, are never freed from the politics of their making, nor are they independent of long-term justice questions about how the world is being transformed, for whom, over different time and spatial scales (Forsyth, 2020; Gergan & Curley, 2021; Gyawali et al., 2016). Recent research notes how attempts at managing uncertainty through linear, progressive understandings of change inadvertently fix infrastructures and social-material relations, erasing history and reproducing inequity and injustice in both rigid and consequential ways (Ahlborg, 2017; Bastian, 2012; Gergan and Curley 2021). On the ground, rules are broken, infrastructures fail, and socionatures “bites back” defying expectations and producing unanticipated effects (Chakraborty et al., 2021; Corner et. al. 2013; Hulme, 2021), which here we capture through the notion of ‘unruliness’. Taking seriously the coproduction of the social, ecological, and political in the context of uncertain futures means viewing these effects not as aberrations but as fundamental characteristics of global environmental change and our institutional positionalities towards it. To identify the crucial linkages between the social-political questions and material possibilities over time and space, this session brings together contemporary perspectives on the actions and effects of institutional/governance approaches to uncertainty and socioenvironmental change. Our discussions center on a core set of questions related to the uncertain and unexpected effects of attempts to govern change: What efforts emerge to govern uncertainty and unruliness? Who becomes authorised to govern change? Who is required to make changes on the ground? And, what subjectivities and pathways emerge? (Nightingale 2018, 689). This discussion, we believe, is critical to supporting scholarly communities to better account for justice issues across species, countries, and time.
Presentations (if applicable) and Session Agenda:
Veronica Jacome, Temple University |
Unpacking (Un)reliability and Access in the Electrical World |
Brian Klein, University of Michigan |
Beyond Enclosure: Strategies of Exploitation and Accumulation in Madagascar’s Mineral Commons |
Andrea Nightingale, University of Oslo |
Unruly Energy Frontiers: rethinking power, temporality and governing uncertainty |
Series Discussion and Introduction |
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Unruliness and the Socioenvironmental State 1: Governing Uncertainty and Change
Description
Type: Paper,
Date: 3/23/2023
Time: 8:30 AM - 9:50 AM
Room: Agate A, Hyatt Regency, Third Floor
Contact the Primary Organizer
Andrea Nightingale University of Oslo
a.j.nightingale@sosgeo.uio.no
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