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Ebony Young @ebonyyoung.bsky.social · 22h

Call for Papers! Excited to be putting together a panel on more-than-human and posthuman IR for the BISA 2026 conference. Deadline Fri 24 Oct - details below. Please reach out with any queries

A screenshot of the Call for Papers - please message me for the text version

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Charlotte Weatherill @ckweatherill.bsky.social · 22h

Thanks! I'm a way off with it yet, but I'll get there.

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Environment and Climate Politics Working Group @bisa-ecpwg.bsky.social · 1d

What are you planning for #BISA2026 in Brighton?

Please consider submitting to our stream. You can submit an abstract for your paper, or a fully-formed panel / roundtable.

Deadline is November 3rd.

If you have a Call for Papers to share, tag us!

conference.bisa.ac.uk/call-papers-0

Call for papers

The call for papers for the BISA 2026 conference taking place in Brighton in June 2026.

conference.bisa.ac.uk

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Charlotte Weatherill @ckweatherill.bsky.social · 1d

On Monday I'm presenting virtually at the Adaptation Futures conference, on the 'Beyond Adaptation: Loss and Damage and Justice' panel. 8am BST / 8pm NZT.

My paper is titled 'Narrating climate un/futures through Loss and Damage and Reparations'. It'll be the first time I present on this new area.

breakdown of the panel, other panellists are Luka Hamel-Serenity, Alicia N'Guetta, Emily Boyd, and Lydia Pedoth.

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Charlotte Weatherill @ckweatherill.bsky.social · 1d

I'm accepting my limits for once, but it would make a great roundtable topic.

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Charlotte Weatherill @ckweatherill.bsky.social · 1d

Everything is slightly out of hand right now. I'm circulating:

- Job ad for social media editor (15th Oct)
- Event for ECP WG (17th Oct)
- Two CfPs for BISA (24th Oct)
- CfP for POLLEN (1st Dec)

Going to put links and info on all of this below, partly so I don't lose track.

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Charlotte Weatherill @ckweatherill.bsky.social · 1d

I will contribute a paper on feminist resistance to vulnerability, Tom will present his work on farmers / masculinity / resistance to climate action in the UK.

If you have questions, get in touch or just send us an abstract (see flyer).

@mybisa.bsky.social @bisa-ecpwg.bsky.social

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Charlotte Weatherill @ckweatherill.bsky.social · 1d

Another Call for Papers for #BISA2026 (3rd-5th June, Brighton), this time for a panel I'm organising with @tom-cb.bsky.social. Deadline 24th Oct.

Gender and resistance in environmental politics: This panel will explore how gender relates to resistance against env harm AND resistance to transition.

We are putting out this Call for Papers for BISA2026 in search of people who are researching the connection between gender and resistance in the field of environmental politics.
This call comes at a time of (at least) two forms of gendered resistance:
1. Growing resistance to measures that combat climate change and environmental destruction, a form of resistance that is often masculinised
2. Ongoing resistance against environmental destruction, a form of resistance that is both discursively constructed as feminine and that manifests as a form of burden that is often borne by women and other marginalised peoples
Against a backdrop of the target of 1.5 degrees warming looking increasingly unlikely, and a ‘green’ transition currently reliant on new geographies of environmental and human harm and exploitation, any meaningful progress towards global environmental targets is stalling. Resistance to these forms of harm and efforts to transition away from fossil fuels are at a critical juncture. At the same time, there is a surging right-wing politics globally, part of which acts as a defence of industry and environmental harm. This form of resistance is directed at transition itself.
We invite papers which explore the intersections of gender and resistance in relation to environment or climate politics. Approaches might include ecofeminism, political ecology, and feminist political economy.
Some papers which participants might engage with:
• Petro-masculinity: Fossil fuels and authoritarian desire (Daggett, 2018)
• Feminist approaches to environmental politics (Lawrence et al, 2025)
• ‘Gender and climate change’: from impacts to discourses (MacGregor, 2010)
• Colonial erasures in gender and climate change solutions (Resurrección, 2024)
Please send your 200 word abstracts to t.n.brookes@keele.ac.uk and weatherillck@outlook.com by 24th October along with your name, affiliation, career stage and geographical location.

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Tom Carter-Brookes @tom-cb.bsky.social · 2d

Academic milestone day.....my first ever CFP, alongside the fantastic @ckweatherill.bsky.social We're putting together a panel looking at Gender and resistance in environmental politics for the @mybisa.bsky.social conference next June. Please share away and get in touch if it's of interest

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Charlotte Weatherill @ckweatherill.bsky.social · 1d

Great!

Charlotte Weatherill @ckweatherill.bsky.social · 1d

@joshkirshner.bsky.social although actually, POLLEN does have a weblink...
nomadit.co.uk/conference/p...

P029: Colonial histories and climate futures: critical perspectives on vulnerability

Panel with four 10 min presentations and focus on critical discussion among presenters and audience

nomadit.co.uk

Charlotte Weatherill @ckweatherill.bsky.social · 1d

Hi! Thanks for the interest. There aren't weblinks for these really, but you could share the social media posts? I'll link to some options below:

www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

bsky.app/profile/bisa...

bsky.app/profile/ckwe...

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Charlotte Weatherill @ckweatherill.bsky.social · 1d

OH. And I'm presenting at Adaptation Futures on Monday 13th October (virtually). I hoped to have developed a paper by now (lol) but instead it's going to be quite speculative...

Title: Narrating climate un/futures through Loss and Damage and reparations.

Introduction

This paper will draw on a new research project that uses storytelling and narrative techniques to disentangle the conceptualisation and political implications of Loss and Damage (L&D) and reparations. These concepts are rising in importance in climate politics but whilst L&D has become part of the official UNFCCC process, reparations has been excluded. This is because L&D is a specific and bounded climate concept, whilst reparations claims hold broader historical implications that many states are eager to avoid. However, the obvious entanglement of the two creates a space of contestation that this project identifies as a key moment in the narration of climate un/futures.
The Pacific is an important site for understanding and exploring these ideas. Pacific actors have been central in pushing the L&D conversation, and they also use the concept in a way that draws on reparations narratives, as part of ongoing efforts to contextualise climate change alongside other forms of colonial violence, in particular nuclear testing and ruinous extractivism (Maurer 2024; Teaiwa 2014). This project builds on work that explores different socio-climatic imaginaries, viewing climate politics as a site of contested futures (Death 2022). This work identifies how dominant climate politics reproduces coloniality, and finds alternative futures in the counternarratives and storytelling of places that have already experience the ending of their worlds, and have a history of anticolonial resistance (Mitchell and Chaudhury 2020; Maurer 2024). This is important in the Pacific as its islands are usually assumed to be doomed to uninhabitability (Weatherill 2023) whereas both L&D and reparations are concepts which suggest a future of survival and change.

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Charlotte Weatherill @ckweatherill.bsky.social · 1d

Call for papers for POLLEN which has just been released, for a panel I'm organising with Alina Kaltenberg.

Colonial histories and climate futures: critical perspectives on vulnerability.

This panel brings together theoretical approaches and case studies at the intersection of climate change, human (im)mobility and vulnerability. We aim to critically discuss how colonial and neocolonial systems contribute to geographic, economic, and social inequalities in the context of increasing climate change impacts, thereby making a contribution to both climate justice and political ecology debates. We invite papers which critically examine dominant discourses that ascribe vulnerability to so-called “at-risk” populations and explore alternative epistemologies of survival, resistance and political agency. We are particularly interested in papers that draw together two themes: Climate-induced (im)mobilities, and vulnerabilisation.

The process of identifying “the vulnerable” as an inherently fragile population in the Global South neglects the historical economic path-dependencies and power-asymmetries that created vulnerabilities in the first place. Instead, vulnerability should be understood as the “imaginative line drawn to separate what and who is expected to be in danger, and what and who is expected to be safe” (Weatherill 2023 p.12), thereby enforcing “politics of disposability” (p.12). Furthermore, Farbotko et al. (2023) argue that unequal colonial structures render some places “inevitably uninhabitable”, thus legitimizing the abandonment of some territories, while others continue to be seen as habitable in the context of climate change.

The process of vulnerabilisation is therefore particularly relevant for the issue of climate-induced displacement. Who has to (be) move(d) and who gets to stay in the face of increasing climate impacts is deeply hierarchical and embedded in (neo)colonial inequalities.

This panel asks:

• What changes about climate politics if vulnerability is understood as a constituted process, rather than a natural condition?

• What potential does resistance hold to change this conversation?

We use climate-induced displacement as an …

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Charlotte Weatherill @ckweatherill.bsky.social · 1d

Call for papers for BISA:

Call for exploring the relationship between imperialism, coloniality, and environmental degradation

Call for Gender and resistance in environmental politics

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Charlotte Weatherill @ckweatherill.bsky.social · 1d

Event for BISA ECPWG:

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

Pathways for environment research: academia, activism, policy- Environment and Climate Politics | BISA

- Environment and Climate Politics Working Group

www.bisa.ac.uk

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Charlotte Weatherill @ckweatherill.bsky.social · 1d

Social media editor position for Environmental Politics: environmentalpoliticsjournal.net/editorial-an...

Call for Social Media Editor – Environmental Politics Journal

environmentalpoliticsjournal.net

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Charlotte Weatherill @ckweatherill.bsky.social · 1d

Everything is slightly out of hand right now. I'm circulating:

- Job ad for social media editor (15th Oct)
- Event for ECP WG (17th Oct)
- Two CfPs for BISA (24th Oct)
- CfP for POLLEN (1st Dec)

Going to put links and info on all of this below, partly so I don't lose track.

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Charlotte Weatherill @ckweatherill.bsky.social · 1d

I will contribute a paper on feminist resistance to vulnerability, Tom will present his work on farmers / masculinity / resistance to climate action in the UK.

If you have questions, get in touch or just send us an abstract (see flyer).

@mybisa.bsky.social @bisa-ecpwg.bsky.social

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Charlotte Weatherill @ckweatherill.bsky.social · 1d

Another Call for Papers for #BISA2026 (3rd-5th June, Brighton), this time for a panel I'm organising with @tom-cb.bsky.social. Deadline 24th Oct.

Gender and resistance in environmental politics: This panel will explore how gender relates to resistance against env harm AND resistance to transition.

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Jannis J Grimm @jannisgrimm.bsky.social · 6d

Criticism of biased media coverage of Gaza is often discarded as baseless..

so we set out to study the coverage of Palestinian and Israeli victims by German press systematically!

The resulting study 'Hierarchies in Death' was just published #OA by Peacebuilding www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

www.tandfonline.com

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 2d

Yet more proof that despite our romantic idealisation of universities, in practice they are run by people who volunteer to call the cops on their own students and staff. I say this as someone given a written warning for a tweet about what seagulls and managers have in common.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

UK universities offered to monitor students’ social media for arms firms, emails show

Loughborough, Heriot-Watt and Glasgow corresponded with companies concerned about campus protests Universities in the UK reassured arms companies they would monitor students’ chat groups and social media accounts after firms raised concerns about campus protests, according to internal emails. One university said it would conduct “active monitoring of social media” for any evidence of plans to demonstrate against Rolls-Royce at a careers fair. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Charlotte Weatherill @ckweatherill.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, sorry. From conversations I've had, the problem is the venues. It is something that is being raised and talked about.

Charlotte Weatherill @ckweatherill.bsky.social · 2d

Okay, I've done a call for papers for the working group, and call for papers for myself with a pal. Now do I push it and do a call for papers just called 'Fuck AI' and see what happens...

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Charlotte Weatherill @ckweatherill.bsky.social · 2d

If like me you feel torn between submitting to an environment panel or a colonial, postcolonial, decolonial panel, this Call for Papers is for you.

Work being done at this intersection is vitally important, and I'm really grateful that CPD have joined with us for this.

Environment and Climate Politics Working Group @bisa-ecpwg.bsky.social · 2d

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…

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