We invite undergraduate students engaged in political ecology research to present academic papers as part of the Undergraduate Symposium at the eighth annual Dimensions of Political Ecology Conference, to be held February 22-24, 2018. The Undergraduate Symposium is an opportunity for young scholars to take part in important discussions within political ecology, and to have a forum to share their work and receive feedback from scholars in the field.
We encourage submissions to the Undergraduate Symposium from undergraduate students who are engaged in the ecological dimensions of political, economic, social, and scientific research regardless of their topical, theoretical, or methodological frameworks. This includes but is not limited to:
- Environmental justice
- Cultural ecology
- Ecological modernization
- Environmental history
- Environmental law
- Restoration ecology
- Political economy of nature
- Genetic technology
- Geospatial technologies
- Commons, enclosures, and land tenure
- Environmental risk
- Resource management and conservation
- Nonequilibrium ecology
- Landscape studies
- Environmental discourse and policy
- Sustainability
- Urban ecology
- Environmental sociology
- Food security and sustainable agriculture
- Critical science studies
- Knowledge production
- Feminist and heterodox approaches to environmental economics
THE UNDERGRADUATE SYMPOSIUM @ DOPE 2018
PAPER SESSION:
Undergraduate students are invited to submit a paper consisting of original nature/society research conducted by the undergraduate student presenting the paper. While coauthored works are eligible, all authors must be current undergraduate students. Paper submissions should be eight to twelve double spaced pages in 12pt font (approximately 2,500 to 4,000 words), which does not include references.
Participant(s) will be given 15 minutes to present research in the format of a paper or academic talk. A projector and computer will be available as presentation aids. Each session will have a graduate student or faculty discussant who will expand on key concepts and themes that appear across the session’s presentations.
REGISTRATION:
All participants in the Undergraduate Symposium must complete the online conference registration by December 1, 2017 (additional registration information can be found on our website: http://www.politicalecology.org/register). Instead of submitting an abstract, please state that you are submitting a paper to the Undergraduate Symposium. The conference fee is waived for all undergraduate participants. Students accepted for the Undergraduate Symposium must be able to attend the conference. Contact Undergraduate Symposium coordinator Rachel Grap (rachel.grap@uky.edu) with any questions.
UNDERGRADUATE PAPER COMPETITION:
In addition to completing the conference registration, students must submit a copy of their paper by January 15, 2018 to be considered for the Undergraduate Research Competition. All papers submitted by this deadline will be entered into the Dimensions of Political Ecology Undergraduate Research Competition. The winner(s) will receive a cash prize.
Please send documents in PDF format, and include a cover page with your name, college/university, year in school, and major. Your personal information should not appear on any page other than the cover page. Please send your paper via email with the subject line “DOPE 2018 Undergraduate Paper” to Undergraduate Symposium coordinator Rachel Grap (rachel.grap@uky.edu)
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