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SUMMARY:Paper discussion - Wild peripheries and green growth visions - tow
 ards a political ecology of conservation frontiers in Europe - George Iord
 achescu (Wageningen)
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CONTACT:Tom Fry
DESCRIPTION:George will be discussing a paper with the group. If you requi
 re a copy of the paper please email tjf46@cam.ac.uk. The abstract for the 
 paper is below: \n\nThe ongoing incorporation of southern and eastern Euro
 pe (SEE) within global green capitalism is an underexplored phenomenon. Th
 is paper argues that SEE is being redefined as a green internal periphery 
 of the European Union\, where biodiverse but marginal areas framed as newl
 y discovered wilderness are emerging as a new resource instrumental in the
  EU’s strategies for promoting green growth and addressing climate chang
 e mitigation. The paper integrates environmental history and world-ecology
  perspectives to investigate recent processes of frontier-making associate
 d with the strict protection of nature. Part of the global effort to secur
 e extensive land areas for green growth\, this wilderness momentum emerges
  as a process of re-territorialization\, raising significant questions abo
 ut environmental and social injustices. On the ground\, conservation inter
 ventions that advance capital accumulation by offsetting environmental cos
 ts\, such as rewilding\, restoration\, and expanding protected areas\, are
  intimately connected with land abandonment and depopulation. They trigger
  transformations of traditional agricultural landscapes\, a decline of syl
 vo-pastoral systems\, and an imminent demise of local ecological knowledge
 . This frontier shift is an abrupt phenomenon and involves processes of cr
 iminalization where states' attempts to tackle illegal logging\, mining\, 
 or hunting lead to new forms of violence and marginalization of the most v
 ulnerable.
LOCATION:Department of Geography\, Small Lecture Theatre
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