Symposium järjestetään 12.–13. lokakuuta Rovaniemellä. Tapahtuma järjestetään hybridimallilla, joka mahdollistaa osallistumisen paikan päällä ja verkossa.

Tapahtuman teema on tänä vuonna “How to govern change in the Arctic? Are
transformations governable?”

Määräpäivä
esitelmäehdotuksille on 24.9.2021. Tapahtuman kieli on englanti. 

Call
for papers:

Theme 

The theme of this
year’s symposium is How to govern change in the Arctic? Are
transformations governable?

”Arctic change” is a popular
way to frame current developments and to discuss the future of the region as a
complex set of interconnected environmental, social and economic changes taking
place in the region and leading to its fundamental transformation. Different
forms of governance to guide and govern these changes is yet another topical but
a complex set of issues connecting different levels of societal actors, forms of
action, and concerns, such as sustainability and equity. Also, the question
remains whether these transformations are in anyway governable, and what are the
possible unintended and unwanted effects of any efforts of governance.
Consequently, it becomes evident that governance in Arctic regions goes far
beyond the schemes of regional authorities and the policies of few supranational
bodies (e.g. Arctic Council). This topical diversity will be addressed at the
symposium. 

In recent years, social science-based research has
produced a myriad of concepts, approaches and methodologies to understand
societal transformations and their governability, such as collaborative
governance, interactive governance, metagovernance, governmentality and global
governance, to name just a few. In order to understand better (un)governability
of Arctic change, we invite critically oriented presentations to the Northern
Political Economy Symposium 2021 to discuss governance of Arctic transformations
as well as examples of empirical research into different processes of societal
transformations and their governability. 

Key note
speaker

The event will start with a key note speech by Professor
Olaf Corry, University of Leeds, UK. His talk is titled Conceptions of ’nature’
in International Relations: where from and where next?

Olaf
Corry is Professor of Global Security Challenges at Leeds University, UK. His
research and teaching is centred on how natural and social phenomena,
traditionally studied separately, might be grasped together; in particular, how
global and planetary environmental systems interact with the fragmented and
uneven international system. His current project ’iSPACE’ focuses on the
security implications of climate engineering technologies (‘geoengineering’). He
has published on climate security, the politics of global risks, social
movements and geopolitics, and IR theory and global objects. His book
’Constructing a Global Polity: Theory, Discourse and Governance’ theorises the
emergence of global objects of governance (such as the climate) and how they
structure and shape world politics.

Submission of abstracts

The deadline
for abstracts of proposed presentations is 24 September 2021.
The abstract should include 200-300 words with the name(s) of the presenter(s),
affiliation(s) and contact information for the presenter(s). The accepted
abstracts and symposium program will be announced online by 1 October 2021.
Abstracts should be sent to research professor Monica Tennberg, Arctic Centre,
University of Lapland (monica.tennberg@ulapland.fi). 

The
event is one of the activities of the UArctic thematic network “Critical
Arctic Studies” (CAS) and organized in collaboration with the doctoral
programme of the University of Lapland “The Arctic in a Changing World”. 
Doctoral candidates should consult their supervisors about receiving credits for
presenting and participating in the event.  
   
                     
                     
                     
                  

Warmly welcome!

Northern Political Economy Symposium 2021
12-13.10.2021 Rovaniemi, Finland 
(in a hybrid mode via Teams)

More
information:
Research professor Monica Tennberg 
Arctic Centre, University of Lapland
monica.tennberg@ulapland.fi
+358 400 192 005

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