Swedish conference CFP on waste politics in April 2017

On our mailing list, Patrick Bond shared the following invitation to a the Swedish conference CFP on waste politics in April 2017.

Dear all,

Here is a call for paper to a workshop that may be of interest

ACADEMIC WORKSHOP: OPENING THE BIN:

NEW PERSPECTIVES ON WASTE, CULTURE AND SOCIETY FROM THE HUMANITIES AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES

HELSINGBORG, SWEDEN 27-28 APRIL 2017

The production and management of waste comprise a vast array of socio-material practices that together shape many aspects of contemporary culture and society. Simultaneously, the challenges of climate and environmental change and the contribution of society’s consumption to global warming and natural resource depletion make the issue of waste management crucial for contemporary societies and for their wider ecological footprints. Yet, despite its eminently social and cultural nature, waste often remains merely positioned in theoretical and practical discourses as a technical and natural scientific issue. Social scientific and humanist research on waste is alive and well, but splintered, and with a limited impact on what ends up in bins and dumpsters.

The purpose of this two-day transdisciplinary workshop is to gather scholars from the social sciences and the humanities together with practitioners to critically discuss the places, roles and trajectories as well as the meanings, practices, and vocabularies of waste in culture and society. Here are a few examples of questions that might emerge during the workshop: How can the humanities and the social sciences prompt new ways to imagine, conceptualize and characterize waste and its management? How do discourses on waste (and related discourses about de-growth or circular economy) travel as ideas and practices, and how are they translated and materialized in new contexts? What are the implications of waste production and management with regard to democracy, welfare and environmental justice?

Book the dates: April 27-28, 2017. Also feel also free to forward this invitation through your networks.

Submission of abstract: December 1st, 2016

Acceptance decision: December 15, 2016

Sending in full paper or work-in-progress: April 13, 2017

You can find more information at Opening the Bin | The Department of Service Management and Service Studies.