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Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2018 14:25:08 +0530

Might be of interest.

For YETI
Debabrata Phukon

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From: SHE Conference <sheconference@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2018, 1:27 pm
Subject: Call for Abstracts: Entangled Natures - A Conference on Human
Ecology (14 - 17 Feb 2019) at AUD | Deadline: 15 Jan 2019
To: SHE Conference <sheconference@xxxxxxxxx>

*Call for Abstracts: **Entangled Natures - A Conference on Human Ecology
<http://www.entanglednatures.com> *(14 - 17 Feb 2019) at the School of
Human Ecology, Ambedkar University Delhi (Kashmere Gate Campus)

*Deadline for Abstracts: 15 Jan 2019*

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For some years now, the post-monsoon season brings narratives of
environmental doom to conversations occurring in drawing rooms and
*chai *stalls
across the city of Delhi. The smog that envelopes the city and makes
breathing a difficult activity forces a flurry of activity and
finger-pointing. Farmers and fossil fuels, construction and climate change,
policy and profligacy, no one is spared. Issues like air pollution
demonstrate inescapably that environmental concerns are
*simultaneously *social,
technical and political in nature. For policymakers and practitioners, the
value of questioning the divide between natural and social sciences,
between the ontological realms of nature and culture has become more
apparent than ever. Within academic disciplines, these questions have been
raised for at least half a century since C.P. Snow’s publication of *The
Two Cultures*. Calls for collaboration across knowledge silos to study
multidimensional environmental issues have gained credence steadily in the
last thirty years. This can be seen in the emergence of sub-disciplines
within traditional disciplines, like environmental history, as well as new
areas like conservation biology and science and technology studies.

Human Ecology is an eclectic field of research within this tradition of
interdisciplinary knowledge endeavours. Research and teaching at the School
of Human Ecology (SHE) brings together philosophical frameworks,
methodologies and toolkits from natural and social science disciplines to
understand interactions between environment and society. There is a
distinctive emphasis on studying issues at smaller spatial scales and
focusing on complexity and causality in the intertwined lives of humans and
other species. Scholars at SHE are inclined towards the worm’s-eye view
while studying ‘big questions’ of justice, well-being and sustainability in
local, empirical contexts. Human and nonhuman agencies are explored in
ecological and social transformations in South Asia, in the present as well
as in the past.

The *Entangled Natures *conference invites scholars and students who are
engaged in research on such issues that are of interest to Human Ecology.
The five conference panels reflect thematic areas of research within SHE.
They discuss geographies that are marginal to mainstream concerns, such as
India’s islands and high-altitude rangelands, and heterodox approaches to
studying classic themes, such as cities, agriculture and environmental
governance. Contributions are invited from scholars and early career
researchers working on these themes, as elaborated in the panel abstracts.

*Panel 1: Agriculture in the Anthropocene*

*Panel 2: Hybridity, Power and Culture in Environmental Governance*

*Panel 3: Nature and the City*

*Panel 4: Tracing Continuities and Change in Pastoral **Systems*

*Panel 5: Islands in the Indian Ocean*

For details regarding panels and submission guidelines, please visit:
https://www.entanglednatures.com/call-for-abstracts

For enquiries, please email: sheconference@xxxxxxxxx

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