Environmental Studies Section of the International Studies Association Newsletter May, 2021 ********************************************************************************** Editors: Richard Matthew, Evgenia Nizkorodov, Maureen J. Purcell, Sifat Reazi, Angela Yun, and Hannah Gorback. University of California, Irvine ********************************************************************************** The next edition will be in September, 2021. We follow a fall, winter, spring and summer schedule. The ESS newsletter is based at the Blum Center at the University of California, Irvine and is co-edited by Richard Matthew et al. To be included in the upcoming edition, please send relevant publication information, career resources, announcements such as calls for papers and resources, and events to [email protected]. *********************************************************************** Contents 1. New Publications 1.1 Books (Abstracts Included) 1.2 Journal Articles, Reports, White Papers, and Book Chapters 2. Career Resources – Faculty Positions, Workshops, and Professional Development Resources 2.1 Workshops, Webinars, and Courses 2.2 Research and Teaching Resources 3. Call for Submissions – Journals, Conferences, and Workshops 3.1 Call for Nominations 3.2 Call for Proposals - Conferences 3.3 Journal Submissions 4. Upcoming Events – Conference and Courses 4.1 Conferences 4.2 Workshopss, Webinars, and Courses 5. Awards 5.1 ISA 2021 Awards 5.2 Other Awards and Distinguished Honors ************************************************************************************* 1. New Publications ************************************************************************************* 1.1 Books (Abstracts Included) Bastos Lima, M.G. (2021). The politics of bioeconomy and sustainability: Lessons from biofuel governance, policies and production strategies in the emerging world. Springer. This book addresses the underexposed political dimensions of bioeconomy promotion. Who wins and who loses? How are institutions being shaped, and by whom? Drawing from experiences since the earlier days of biofuels promotion, it explores in unprecedented detail the global drive away from fossil fuels and towards a biomass-based economy. Multipurpose agriculture gains ever more traction as countries create new bio-based value chains – or, rather, value webs. Governance, in this regard, proves to be key for steering developments towards inclusive agri-food-biomass systems instead of fueling just a handful of “flex crops” ridden with social equity and other environmental issues. Based on a rich global-level analysis of bioeconomy promotion and three in-depth case studies of key emerging economies (Brazil, India and Indonesia), the book also innovatively examines sustainability politics in Global South democracies. Ultimately, this book is about finding the politics for a fairer bioeconomy in the years and decades to come. Benner, S., Lax, G., Crutzen, P.J., Lelieveld, J., Pöschl, U., & Brauch, H.G. (Eds.). (2021). Paul J. Crutzen and the Anthropocene – A new earth’s epoch. Springer International This book outlines the development and perspectives of the Anthropocene concept by Paul J. Crutzen and his colleagues from its inception to its implications for the sciences, humanities, society and politics. The main text consists primarily of articles from peer-reviewed scientific journals and other scholarly sources. It comprises selected articles on the Anthropocene published by Paul J. Crutzen and a selection of related articles, mostly but not exclusively by colleagues with whom he collaborated closely. • In the year 2000 Nobel Laureate Paul J. Crutzen proposed the Anthropocene concept as a new epoch in Earth’s history • Comprehensive collection of articles on the Anthropocene by Paul J. Crutzen and his colleagues • Unique primary research literature and Crutzen’s comprehensive bibliography • Paul Crutzen’s scientific investigations into human influences on atmospheric chemistry and physics, the climate and the Earth system, leading to the conception of the Anthropocene • Reflections on the Anthropocene and its implications • Bibliometric review of the spread of the use of the Anthropocene concept in the Natural and Social Sciences, Humanities and Law. Dauvergne, P. (2020). AI in the wild: Sustainability in the age of artificial intelligence. MIT Press. Looking around at the ingenious ways that artificial intelligence is fighting climate change, biodiversity loss, and global pollution, it might seem as if we are on the cusp of a sustainability revolution. Drones with night vision are tracking elephant and rhino poachers in Africa’s parklands. Smart submersibles are navigating Australia’s Great Barrier Reef to save the coral from carnivorous starfish. Cell phones, recycled into listening devices, are nestled in the rainforests of Indonesia and Brazil, automatically alerting rangers to the sound of illegal logging. Machine learning is refining wildlife mapping and climate modeling. Smart automation is enhancing the eco-efficiency of farms, cities, and global business. There are even self-learning robots conducting breakthrough research on solar energy. Great care is necessary, however, to avoid hyping artificial intelligence as the earth’s savior. As Peter Dauvergne argues in AI in the Wild, although AI is generating some environmental gains, powerful corporations and states are exaggerating the benefits, ignoring the risks, and deploying AI in ways antithetical to sustainability. Moreover, the competition to profit from artificial intelligence has the potential to entrench technocratic management, rev up resource extraction, and turbocharge consumerism. It has the potential to generate new forces of inequality and injustice. And it has the potential to empower big business and militarized states within international relations, posing grave threats to the global environmental movement. Hancock, K.J., & Allison, J.E. (Eds.). (2021). The Oxford handbook of energy politics. Oxford University Press. In many ways, everything we once knew about energy resources and technologies has been impacted by: the longstanding scientific consensus on climate change and related support for renewable energy; the affordability of extraction of unconventional fuels; increasing demand for energy resources by middle- and low-income nations; new regional and global stakeholders; fossil fuel discoveries and emerging renewable technologies; awareness of (trans)local politics; and rising interest in corporate social responsibility (CSR) and the need for energy justice. Research on these and related topics now appears frequently in social science academic journals in broad- based journals, such as International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, and Review of International Political Economy, as well as those focused specifically on energy (e.g., Energy Research & Social Science and Energy Policy), the environment (Global Environmental Politics), natural resources (Resources Policy), and extractive industries (Extractive Industries and Society). The Oxford Handbook of Energy Politics synthesizes and aggregates this substantively diverse literature to provide insights into, and a foundation for teaching and research on, critical energy issues primarily in the areas of international relations and comparative politics. Its primary goals are to further develop the energy politics scholarship and community, and generate sophisticated new work that will benefit a variety of scholars working on energy issues Hopewell, K. (2020). Clash of powers: US-China rivalry in global trade governance. Cambridge University Press. The US-China trade war instigated by President Trump has thrown the multilateral trading system into a crisis. Drawing on vast interview and documentary materials, Hopewell shows how US- China conflict had already paralyzed the system of international rules and institutions governing trade. The China Paradox – the fact that China is both a developing country and an economic powerhouse – creates significant challenges for global trade governance and rule-making. While China demands exemptions from global trade disciplines as a developing country, the US refuses to extend special treatment to its rival. The implications of this conflict extend far beyond trade, impeding pro-development and pro-environment reforms of the global trading system. As one of the first analyses of the implications of US-China rivalry for the governance of global trade, this book is crucial to our understanding of China's impact on the global trading system and on the liberal international economic order. Kröger, M.A. (2021). Iron will: Global extractivism and mining resistance in Brazil and India. University of Michigan Press. Iron Will lays bare the role of extractivist policies and efforts to resist these policies through a deep ethnographic exploration of globally important iron ore mining in Brazil and India. Markus Kröger addresses resistance strategies to extractivism and tracks their success, or lack thereof, through a comparison of peaceful and armed resource conflicts, explaining how different means of resistance arise. Using the distinctly different contexts and political systems of Brazil and India highlights the importance of local context for resistance. For example, if there is an armed conflict at a planned mining site, how does this influence the possibility to use peaceful resistance strategies? To answer such questions, Kröger assesses the inter-relations of contentious, electoral,