Exploring the relationship between imperialism, coloniality and environmental degradation
Joint Call for Papers from the Colonial, Postcolonial, and Decolonial Working Group and Environment and Climate Politics Working Group
We are putting out this joint call in recognition that many researchers are working at the intersection of our two working groups - and during a time when the realities of this intersection between colonialism, empire, and the environment have never been more clear. This moment makes evident the interconnections between militarism and settler colonialism and genocide and ecocide, and therefore the need to situate our knowledge and approaches within anticolonial, indigenous and translocal perspectives.
Recognising the importance of scholarship that addresses these issues, we are calling for papers for BISA2026 that are related to the topics of how imperialism / colonialism / extraction / capitalism are in relationship with environmental degradation. This can be on a material level, where the functions of occupation and extraction lead to environmental destruction, or on a more discursive level, where hierarchies of life are used to justify and naturalise ongoing violence against people and places.
Whilst we are keeping this Call quite broad to encourage wide-ranging submissions, some paper topics or research areas might include:
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Genocide and its links to environmental destruction, for example in Palestine, DR Congo, and Sudan, to name a few.
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Ecological imperialism – theoretical contributions or case studies
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Reparative justice and climate change
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The construction of new ‘frontiers’ – how imperialism and extraction is moving to new areas such as the deep sea or space
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Anticolonial and anti-extractive organising and decarbonization and fossil fuel phase outs
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Indigenous approaches on relationality, connectedness and climate justice
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The role of academics in perpetuating or resisting these forms of harm
Please send your 200-250 word abstrac…
Call for Papers for #BISA2026!
Exploring the relationship between imperialism, coloniality and environmental degradation.
This is a joint call with Colonial, Postcolonial & Decolonial WG, recognising that important work is being done at the intersection of our groups.
Deadline Friday 24 October.
08.10.2025 06:49 — 👍 6 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 3
Early-Career Environment and Climate Politics Paper Prize- Environment and Climate Politics | BISA
- Environment and Climate Politics Working Group
Announcing our first winner of the Early-Career Environment and Climate Politics Paper Prize!
Congratulations to John Donovan (OU), for his winning paper 'Commercial Gains, Climate Losses: Unpacking the Environmental Costs of Lunar Industrialisation'.
www.bisa.ac.uk/news/early-c...
23.09.2025 06:49 — 👍 6 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 1
Pathways for environment research: academia, activism, policy- Environment and Climate Politics | BISA
- Environment and Climate Politics Working Group
The latest event for @bisa-ecpwg.bsky.social is now open for registration:
'Pathways for environment research: academia, activism, policy' will have three speakers: @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social ; @kaiheron.bsky.social and Jane Clarke.
@mybisa.bsky.social
www.bisa.ac.uk/events/pathw...
03.09.2025 12:19 — 👍 21 🔁 14 💬 1 📌 2
Delighted to see this paper published, co-authored with my excellent friend and colleague Patrick Teed!
'Dissonant Seas' examines the actively un-thought antiblackness at the heart of new materialist debates in critical ocean geography.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
26.08.2025 08:15 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
the one where christopher mcateer and i argue that oceans are racist (new materialist geographies structurally unthink antiblackness) t.co/42AFyZrqQn
25.08.2025 21:46 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Spotlight on: Meredith Warren- Environment and Climate Politics | BISA
- Environment and Climate Politics Working Group
New Spotlight!
PhD candidate Meredith Warren (QMUL) shares her research interests and future plans.
Meredith's research sits at the nexus of socio-legal studies and global environmental politics scholarship.
www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work...
05.08.2025 07:27 — 👍 3 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
Early-Career Environment and Climate Politics Paper Prize- Environment and Climate Politics | BISA
- Environment and Climate Politics Working Group
🏆New @bisa-ecpwg.bsky.social prize🏆
'Early-Career Environment and Climate Politics Paper Prize'
To honour the best environment or climate politics postgraduate / early-career paper presented at the BISA Annual conference.
details - buff.ly/yYqV0eZ
@ckweatherill.bsky.social @ctmcateer.bsky.social
08.05.2025 12:45 — 👍 7 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
Deadline extended!
Still one space left on our BISA Belfast 2025 panel on the 'two green questions' in Ireland: reunification & environment/climate.
'No united Ireland on a dead planet'.
DM or email your abstracts and ideas. Deadline is now 18th Nov! @bisa-ecpwg.bsky.social @mybisa.bsky.social
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