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  • Re: [uu-klimatnatverk] NESS Gothenburg 2022: Workshop: Exploring grassroots initiatives for transitions

    from bazril on Nov 17, 2021 09:36 AM
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    Den ons 17 nov. 2021 10:19Set Lonnert <setlonnert@...> skrev:
    
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    > Hej!
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    >  Här kommer något som är kopplat till ”gräsrots initiativ” …
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    > mvh!
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    > Vidarebefordrat mejl:
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    > *Från: *Kristina Boréus <kristina.boreus@...>
    > *Ämne: **[uu-klimatnatverk] NESS Gothenburg 2022: Workshop: Exploring
    > grassroots initiatives for transitions*
    > *Datum: *16 november 2021 16:45:53 CET
    > *Till: *"allibf-l@..." <allibf-l@...>, "
    > staff@..." <staff@...>, "
    > uu-klimatnatverk@..." <uu-klimatnatverk@...>
    > *Svara till: *uu-klimatnatverk@...
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    > *Of possible interest for those of us interested in grassroots
    > organisations and in climate related transition. Please circulate.*
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    > *Best wishes,*
    > *Kristina Boréus*
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    > Call for Papers for Workshops
    > for the *Nordic Environmental Social Science Conference (NESS): Emergency
    > and transformation*, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, June 7-9, 2022. Link
    > to Conference site
    > <https://www.gu.se/en/globalstudies/ness-nordic-environmental-social-science-conference-emergency-and-transformation>
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    > *December 15, 2021*: D-line for submission of abstracts, max 300 words.
    > For details about the workshop, time line, submission format etc, see the
    > attached pdf.
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    > *Workshop session: Exploring grassroots initiatives for transitions*
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    > In the last years there has been an upsurge of different forms of
    > grassroots initiatives for transitions to more sustainable societies. There
    > are both established organisations as well as looser networks that are
    > engaged with alternative systems of provision of *food, energy *and
    > * housing*, like community supported agriculture, food sharing schemes,
    > renewable energy cooperatives, co-housing and co-building, or in the field
    > of *mobility* – Bike Kitchens, critical mass rides, other forms of *making
    > and consuming goods* - DIY repair cafés, free shops, or other forms of
    > sharing, reusing and making goods, *finance* – community currencies, peer
    > to peer lending, etc.
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    > These initiatives are less about campaigning and pushing for governments
    > or corporations to change, and more about *altering* *practices*,
    > building and engaging in alternative ways of living, and may be understood
    > as “lifestyle movements” (Haenfler et al, 2012), as practicing and
    > expanding “diverse economies” (Gibson-Graham, 2008), as “grassroots
    > innovation” (Seyfang & Haxeltine, 2012), or in other sociopolitical terms.
    > However, these “lifestyle movements” may well push for changes in policies
    > and influence or support decision-makers and politicians as well as other
    > citizens into more “radical” transitions. In this session we invite
    > contributions that explore questions like:
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    > -          What are the motivations for engaging in grassroots
    > initiatives like the abovementioned? And how may they this be
    > conceptualized?
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    > -          What type of change do these initiatives and groupings
    > contribute to? Whose practices do they alter? Who is included or excluded
    > in these initiatives?
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    > -          When and how do they have a wider societal impact, beyond the
    > engaged? How may or do already lifestyle movements like these influence
    > decisions at a societal level?
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    > -          How can “success” or impact of these forms of initiatives be
    > conceptualized? What are key enabling and inhibiting factors?
    >
    > -          What is the role of these initiatives in the overall societal
    > transition, in cooperation and/or conflict with other actors such as
    > governments, businesses, or other organisations?
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    > -          What strategies, or forms of organizing, cooperating, funding
    > and communicating – are being used and how may these be theoretically
    > conceptualized?
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    > -          What are the challenges and limitations of these forms of
    > initiatives?
    >
    > *References*
    > Gibson-Graham, J. K. (2008). Diverse economies: performative practices for
    > `other worlds'. *Progress in human geography*, 32(5), 613-632.
    > Haenfler, R., Johnson, B., & Jones, E. (2012). Lifestyle movements:
    > Exploring the intersection of lifestyle and social movements. *Social
    > Movement Studies*, 11(1), 1-20.
    > Seyfang, G., & Haxeltine, A. (2012). Growing grassroots innovations:
    > exploring the role of community-based initiatives in governing sustainable
    > energy transitions. *Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space*.
    > 30(3), 381-400.
    >
    > *Workshop chairs:*
    > Karin Bradley, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Department of
    > Urban Planning and Environment, karin.bradley@...
    > Erica Löfström, NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology,
    > Trondheim, Department of Psychology, erica.lofstrom@...
    > Sofie Tornhill, Linneaus University, Department of Social Studies,
    > sofie.tornhill@...
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    > Feel free to circulate!
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