<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Apologies for cross-postings.<div><br></div><div><img id="9d99a757-2d6c-4ece-97b0-78132eea675e" height="213" width="378" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:747ECA60-9093-48B7-8EC3-0257AF2EBE33@mun.ca"></div><div><br></div><div><div><div>AAG 2015 CFP – Discards, Diverse Economies, and Degrowth<br>Association of American Geographers<br>Chicago, IL<br>April 21-25, 2015<br>Session Organizers: Josh Lepawsky and Max Liboiron<br><br>Questioning growth is deemed to be the act of lunatics, idealists and revolutionaries. But question it we must.<br>--Tim Jackson, (2009, 14). Prosperity Without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet.<br><br>Discard studies, diverse economies, and degrowth are each areas of research and activism that question a variety of interrelated assumptions. Discard studies troubles presumptions about who makes what waste, where, how, and under what conditions. Diverse economies research, often based in participatory action approaches, disturbs capitalocentric thinking and demonstrates that other economic practices are not just possible, but already here. Degrowth sums up a complex set of action and research toward attaining truly sustainable and convivial economies. Despite the actual and potential resonances between these areas, little in the way of explicit discussion between them has occurred to date. We ask how insights in one area might inform, criticize, and compose with the insights of the others?<br><br>Topics may include, but are not limited to:<br>- The role of economics and/or accounting in global pollution and waste crises<br>- The materiality of diverse economies and/or degrowth in terms of waste and discards<br>- The economic histories and geographies of waste<br>- Critical case studies of waste practices under degrowth strategies or diverse economies<br>- Issues of scale between local diverse economies and global capitalism in terms of mitigating waste and pollution</div><div>-The geographic imagination of discards or waste in diverse economies and/or degrowth research and activism<br>- Methodologies for studying these questions</div><div>- Ways to link research and action to address these issues<br><br>The intent of this session is to bring together work in these areas for a productive conversation and cross fertilization of ideas. The organizers are approaching a journal with a proposal to publish papers from the session as a special issue. The AAG will provide the opportunity to present work publicly in the usual session format, accompanied by a workshopping event parallel to but outside of the formal AAG session for participants to comment on and collaboratively revise each other's research enroute to submission for the proposed special issue.</div></div><div><br></div><div>Expressions of interest should be sent in the text of an e-mail to:</div><div>Josh Lepawsky (<a href="mailto:jlepawsky@mun.ca">jlepawsky@mun.ca</a>). </div><div>Information on AAG submission process: <a href="http://www.aag.org/cs/annualmeeting/call_for_papers">http://www.aag.org/cs/annualmeeting/call_for_papers</a></div><div><b>Deadline for title and abstract (250 words max): October 5th, 2015.</b></div><div><b>Deadline for workshop version of paper: March 20th, 2015.</b></div><div apple-content-edited="true">
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; "><div>-----------------------------------</div><div>Josh Lepawsky<br>Associate Professor<br>Memorial University<br>Department of Geography<br><br>Phone: +1.709.864.3098<br>Fax: +1.709.864.3119<br><a href="http://www.mun.ca/geog/people/faculty/jlepawsky.php">http://www.mun.ca/geog/people/faculty/jlepawsky.php</a></div><div><br></div><div>You may like to read: </div><div><br></div><a href="http://flip.it/idlfh">Reassembling Rubbish</a> and <a href="http://scalar.usc.edu/works/reassembling-rubbish/the-rubbish-bin">The Rubbish Bin</a><div><br><br><br><br></div></span></div></div></div></div>
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