Paper sessions

A1- Challenging Growth

1) Filipe Alves "Monetary transformation: a priority for sustainability"

2) Jonathan Feldman "State and Corporate Failure as Barriers to a Green Economy:The Case of the Budd Company’s Exit from the Mass Transit Industry"

3) Nathalie Spittler / Ganna Gladkykh "Feedbacks, Causalities and Controversies within Steady State Economy"

 B1- Global challenges and internatonal treaties

1) Alejandra Mancilla: "Antarctic treaty system"

2) Dorothy Dankel / Rachel Tiller: "A systemic alternative to the present science-public-policy interface and practice in Norway: An urgent Arctic case of a changing climate and changing ecosystem goods and services" 

3) Eliane Liddell: "Deforestation in Indonesia: Changing the Narrative"

C1- Criticizing contemporary views of nature

1) Emelie Danielsson/Luregn Lenggenhager: ʺNature as a trophy- A discourse on trophy hunting from ecocentric and anthropocentric worldviewsʺ

2) Adam Krause: ʺBuy the land then buy the light: the emergence of private property and the purchase of starsʺ

3) Anandarup Biswas: "(In)glorious Defeat: Rethinking Humanity’s Victories Against Nature in Literature"

D1- The ecological crisis

1) Saladdin Ahmed: "Will the ecological crisis end capitalism?"

2) Héctor Vielva: "The eco-dictatorship: a potential political reality?"

3) George Poulados: "The politics of the eco-crisis"

A2- Ecology and the Workers' Movement

1) Camilla Houeland "Oil, labor and the environment. A case study from the Niger Delta"

2) James Nugent "Movements for “Green Jobs” and Struggles for Democratic Infrastructure Governance"

3) Andreas Ytterstad/Gunnar Steinsholt "Green shift for oil workers?

B2- Ecology in conflicts

1) Kavya Michael: "The Political Ecology of Climate Change in India"

2) Siri Eriksen and Andrea Nightingale: "Conflict, Violence and Environmental Change: Investigating resource governance and legitimacy under political transformation"

3) Yagmur Savran: "Connecting Social Ecology and Positive Peace"

 C2- Nature and society

1) Odin Lysaker: ʺEcological sensibility: Problem of nature in critical theoryʺ

 2) Timothy J. LeCain: “The Power of Things: Can We Change Ourselves by Changing Our Environments?”

3) Dan Chodorkoff: "Utopia and the Ecological Crisis"

D2- Ecology and struggles in the global South

1) Siddhart Sareen: "Politics, procurement, bail-out and buy-in: Woes and ways for Rajasthan’s distribution sector"

2) Roy Krøvel: "Environmentalism, the struggle for indigenous autonomy and the possibility of global solidarity"

3) Sebastian Purwins: "Too hot to handle? Simultaneity as Key Challenge for Transformations in the Global South"

A3- Agriculture and the commons

1) Brian Morris: ʺMurray Bookchin and radical agricultureʺ

2) Ana Margarida Esteves: "Deep ecology and "commoning": A social ecology perspective on the synergies between ecosystem regeneration and social governance developed at Tamera ecovillage, Portugal"

3) Christine Hvitsand: "Community supported agriculture- Spearhead for transitions towards sustainable food systems" 

B3- Media and movements

1) Sarah I. Parker: "The media, climate change and sustainability: what role does, could and should it play?"

2) Joanna Österblom: "The materiality of social media"

3) Elin Selboe/Milda Nordbø: ʺDynamics of youth engagementʺ

C3- New Ecological Values

1) Ole Andreas Kvamme: "Universality and context: Values in education for sustainable development"

2) Ronald Badru: "Contemporary Nigeria and Environmental Deficit: Evolving an African Political Philosophy for a Sustainable Ecological Democracy" 

3) Ersilia Verlinghieri: "Beyond sustaining and resisting the current system: a resourcefulness-based worldview for ecological futures"

D3- New forms of global politics

1) Morgan Scoville-Simonds: "Climate and development aid"

2) Zaid Nasution: "AMAN, Ostrom-ists and Indigenous People: Potential Strategic Allies in Building Libertarian Municipalism"

3) Ben O'Heran: ʺDecolonial Confederalism: Social Ecology as Decolonial Movement Buildingʺ

A4- Alternative values and economics

1) Denise Margaret S. Matias: "Indigenous livelihood Portfolio as an economic framework for an ecological society"

2) Fredrik Bjørk: ”Gross National Happiness” 

3) Theo Rouhette / Cecilia Portillo: “Decolonization and alternatives to economic valuation systems”

B4- Envisioning social change

1) Mari Kuukkanen: "Democracy and social transformation: reading Murray Bookchin with Chantal Mouffe"

2) Sonali Narang: "Geographies of dispossesion to 'Bhoodan' repossession-climate displacements"

C4- Culture and Social Change

1) Fotis Pontikakis: "New social ecological agenda and Environmental Education"

2) Maria A. Dias: "The bottom-up culture of sustainability in ecovillages"

D4- The New commons

1) Marco Rosaire Rossi: "Global Urbanity: Dilemma or Promise for Eco-Socialism"

2) Peter Hagerrot: "Ecovillages, as a resurrection of the commons!"