We will be hosting another Beyond Oil Conference in Bergen, October 25-27, 2017!
NB! Abstract submission deadline has been extended until May 15th 2017!
Call for papers:
Beyond Oil: mobilizing alternative futures.
Society is inevitably moving beyond oil. The direction that this transformation will take is still highly uncertain. Transformations to societies beyond oil involve deliberate choices that lead to different outcomes with regards to power, justice, inequality and human-nature relations. A task for social scientists is to analyze the structures of inertia and capacities for change in current societies, and highlight the multiple futures that these make possible.
As research moves from studying problems to proposing pathways and solutions, we therefore need to critically interrogate the particular solutions that are proposed and how they relate to the futures we wish to mobilize. As academics, we also need to consider our own role in transformations – whether as catalysts, participants, critics, or knowledge producers. We welcome researchers from a variety of research fields connected to the topics above.
Oct 25–27, 2017 in Bergen, Norway
Send your abstracts by May 15th, 2017
Karin Lillevold, karin.lillevold@uib.no
We welcome papers on the following themes:
Current strategies for research, education, and governance may be unsuitable to deal with the complexity and urgency of many social and environmental challenges. How does this affect the role of academia and researchers? We particularly invite contributions that discuss and/or demonstrate new methodologies for conducting research, facilitating learning and/or governance.