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</head><body><!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title></title><style>body{font-size: 14px;font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;}</style></head><body style="overflow: auto;"><div class="GroupWiseMessageBody" id="GroupWiseSection_1789375215301_8F7698A0174000009867776461663435_"><div><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;">Dear list,<br></span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;">(sorry for cross-posting)<br> </span><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:16px;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:11.0pt;margin:0cm;background:white;"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;">Please find attached, both as a PDF and below in this email, a <strong>Call for Papers for the 24th IMISCOE Annual Conference</strong>, which will take place in Brussels from 6–9 July 2027. The title of the call is:</span></p><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:16px;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:11.0pt;margin:0cm;background:white;"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;"> </span></p><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:16px;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:11.0pt;margin:0cm;background:white;"><strong><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;">Climate Belongings? Reconfigurations of Alterity and Belonging amidst the Climate Crisis, and Socio-Ecological Responses in Migration Societies</span></strong></p><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:16px;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:11.0pt;margin:0cm;background:white;"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;"> </span></p><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:16px;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:11.0pt;margin:0cm;background:white;"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;">The session asks:</span></p><ol style="list-style-type: decimal;margin-left: 26px;"><li><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;">How do climate change and its politics become “arenas” in which relations and categories of difference and belonging within migration societies are (re-)negotiated? To what extent do climate politics facilitate not only conflicts, but also the creation of transboundary alliances and new relationships within the context of diversity?</span></li><li><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;">How can these re-negotiations, in turn, shape climate politics and socio-political responses? What specific socio-ecological responses are emerging within the social realities of diverse migration societies?</span></li></ol><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:16px;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:11.0pt;margin:0cm;background:white;"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;" id="isPasted">I would be very happy to exchange ideas with you on this topics and would welcome <strong>short abstracts (150 words) by 22 September 2026</strong> at: jan.winkler@geo.uni-halle.de</span> </span></p><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:16px;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:11.0pt;margin:0cm;background:white;"><br></p><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:16px;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:11.0pt;margin:0cm;background:white;"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;">Best regards,<br> </span></p><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:16px;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:11.0pt;margin:0cm;background:white;"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;">Jan</span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Metric, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" id="isPasted"><span style="color: rgb(52, 73, 94);">...</span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Metric, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span style="color: rgb(52, 73, 94);"><strong>Dr. Jan Winkler</strong></span><br><span style="color: rgb(52, 73, 94);">Research Group Leader</span><br><span style="color: rgb(52, 73, 94);">European Centre of Just Transition Research and Impact Driven Transfer (JTC)</span><br><span style="color: rgb(52, 73, 94);">Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg</span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Metric, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span style="color: rgb(52, 73, 94);"><a href="https://jtc.uni-halle.de/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(52, 73, 94);">https://jtc.uni-halle.de/</a></span><br><br><span style="color: rgb(52, 73, 94);">Raum H4 2.24</span><br><span style="color: rgb(52, 73, 94);">Von-Seckendorff-Platz 4</span><br><span style="color: rgb(52, 73, 94);">06120 Halle (Saale)</span><br><span style="color: rgb(52, 73, 94);"><a href="mailto:Jan.Winkler@Geo.Uni-Halle.de" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(52, 73, 94);">Jan.Winkler@Geo.Uni-Halle.de</a></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Metric, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span style="color: rgb(52, 73, 94);">mobile: 0177/2488347</span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Metric, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><br></p><h3 style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:18px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;text-align:center;" id="isPasted"><span style="font-size:24px;font-family:"Garamond",serif;">Climate Belongings?</span></h3><h3 style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:18px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;text-align:center;"><span style="font-size:19px;font-family:"Garamond",serif;">Reconfigurations of Alterity and Belonging amidst the Climate Crisis, and socio-ecological responses in migration societies</span></h3><h3 style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:18px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:"Garamond",serif;font-weight:normal;">CfP– Panel Proposal for the 24th IMISCOE Annual Conference, Brussels, 6–9 July 2027</span></h3><h3 style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:18px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:18.0pt;text-align:center;"><em><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:"Garamond",serif;font-weight:normal;"> Jan Winkler (MLU Halle, Just Transition Center, Germany)</span></em></h3><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%;"><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:115%;font-family:"Garamond",serif;">Climate change is transforming societies in ways that reach far beyond environmental politics. It raises fundamental questions about responsibility and solidarity, redistributes vulnerabilities, and creates new political conflicts as well as negotiations over desirable futures. Yet we still know little about how these transformations intersect with the social realities of diverse migration societies. Moving beyond a focus on climate migration as such (e.g. Nash 2019; Waters 2025), this panel asks <strong>h<strong><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;">ow the climate crisis is shaping migration societies and their ongoing (re-)negotiations of belonging, difference and citizenship – including the very categories of “self/us” and “other(s)”? And how do, in turn, these re-negotiations – and thus the shifting relations of diversity inherent in migration societies – shape socio-ecological responses and ways of dealing with climate change? </span></strong></strong></span></p><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%;"><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:115%;font-family:"Garamond",serif;">The panel proposes the notion of <strong><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;">climate belongings</span></strong> to explore how climate change and its politics become ‘arenas’ in which social and political positions, relationships and identities are (re-)negotiated within the context of diversity and migration (Hills 2025; Turunen et al. 2026; Méndez-Barrientos et al. 2023; Verlie 2024; Turhan and Armiero 2019; Shokry et al. 2025). How are existing categories – self/other, (non-)migrant, minority/majority, North/South – reproduced or unsettled through climate politics?<strong> </strong>To what extent do (post-)migrant subjects and organisations become actors in socio-ecological transformations and just transitions (Fry et al. 2024)? Whose experiences, emotions and knowledge become visible and meaningful (Hernandez et al. 2022; Van Speybroeck et al. 2026)? Such questions also point towards central tensions of climate politics. The <strong>planetary character of climate change</strong> potentially invokes imaginaries of a shared world, and of responsibilities transcending national and culturalized borders (Roos & van der Sluijs 2025; Skrefsrud 2025; Smalen 2026). Debates around <strong>environmental, planetary </strong>or <strong>climate citizenship </strong>(Thompson 2001; Dobson & Derek 2006; Running 2013; Bauböck 2026) challenge territorially bounded understandings of political community – <strong>while little is known about how such imaginaries become operative within everyday contexts of difference and belonging</strong>. At the same time, the climate crisis unfolds within societies structured by unequal citizenship, racism, colonial legacies and contested migration (Baldwin 2022; Verlie 2024). Imaginaries of <em><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;">one planet</span></em> thus coexist with nationalism, racialized fears of climate migration and unequal exposure to environmental risks. In sum, the climate crisis and its politics can potentially both exacerbate social conflicts (Henrique 2024) and generate <strong>new transboundary alliances</strong> as well as <strong>new forms of post-migrant solidarity, visibility and political subjectivity </strong>(Muraca 2020; Turhan & Armiero 2019; Armiero et al. 2024; Neef and Sheller 2024; Hills 2025). </span></p><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%;"><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:115%;font-family:"Garamond",serif;">Migrant organisations, (inter-)religious communities, climate justice movements, neighbourhood initiatives and municipal actors increasingly encounter one another in local socio-ecological projects and struggles (Kieslinger 2023). <strong><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;">Intercultural networks for climate protection, initiatives linking climate justice with migration justice (Farbotko et al. 2022; Neef et al. 2024), and projects mobilising migrant subjects’ experiences of climate impacts in the Global South for political education in the North all display potential reconfigurations of belonging and alterity – pointing to the ways how diverse migration societies (re-)articulate climate politics (</span></strong>Roos & van der Sluijs 2025)<strong><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;">. These dynamics may also take place in everyday settings and through more mundane practices (Liedholz 2020) – for instance, when a local mosque installs solar panels on its roof and thereby, almost incidentally, becomes visible as an actor in the socio-ecological transformation of the city; or when residents of diverse neighbourhoods share different experiences with climate change and heat in everyday encounters. </span></strong>These practices, whether explicitly political or more mundane, can subtly reposition actors within local contexts: <strong><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;">organisations perceived through the lenses of migration or integration may become visible as actors of socio-ecological transformation, reshaping public perceptions.</span></strong></span></p><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;text-align:justify;line-height:115%;"><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:115%;font-family:"Garamond",serif;">Finally, this also opens up reflections on <strong><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;">climate knowledge(s)</span></strong>. Experiences and practices shaped by migration and<strong> transnational lives (</strong>Van Holstein & Walker 2023; Ou-Salah & Van Praag 2025) increasingly enter climate debates in European societies, shaping socio-ecological alliances and responses (Van Praag 2023). For example, initiatives encouraging migrant subjects to act as ‘witnesses’ regarding climate impacts in the Global South (e.g. “Klimagesichter”; W<span style="color:black;">inkler 2026</span>), or initiatives that strengthen (post-)migrant experiences of belonging and exclusion as an intersectional contribution to climate movements (e.g. “Klima.Gerecht.Machen”, Munich; “queerstadtein”, Berlin, Germany) make this particularly visible (<span style="color:black;">Garcia & Tschakert 2022; Daniel 2025)</span>: they raise questions about how <strong><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;">migrant experiences or transboundary (e.g. intercultural) relations are translated into climate (justice) knowledge (Klocker et al. 2018; Walker 2020; Mascia 2020; Kotsila 2024; Fry et al. 2024; Smalen 2026)</span></strong><strong>.</strong> Whose experiences are recognised as relevant knowledge for understanding and responding to climate change? How do they interact with dominant forms of climate expertise? And how does the recognition – or marginalisation – of (post-)migrant perspectives affect who can speak and act as a legitimate ‘climate subject’? (Baldwin 2022; Verlie 2024; Winkler 2026). At the same time, such initiatives themselves require critical scrutiny as they may reproduce paternalistic notions of integration (Nies et al. 2015), victimize migrant subjects or reproduce processes of othering. </span></p><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;text-align:justify;line-height:115%;"><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:115%;font-family:"Garamond",serif;">The session invites <strong>theoretical and empirical papers</strong> examining these dynamics as they play out within the <strong><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;">postmigrant and diverse societies of the Global North</span></strong><strong>.<strong><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;"> It asks:</span></strong></strong></span></p><ul style="list-style-type: disc;margin-left: -2.9000000000000004px;"><li><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Garamond",serif;font-size:15px;">What climate-political practices, knowledges, claims and socio-ecological responses emerge from the experiences, relations and struggles of diverse migration societies?</span></li><li><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Garamond",serif;font-size:15px;">How do climate politics reshape positions, relations and forms of recognition within diverse migration societies (e.g. Kieslinger 2023)? </span></li><li><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Garamond",serif;font-size:15px;">How do these intersections and negotiations become manifest in and through mundane and everyday practices, material transformations and changing forms of visibility?</span></li><li><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Garamond",serif;font-size:15px;">What happens <em><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;">within migration societies</span></em> when climate change becomes an increasingly pervasive horizon of everyday life, politics and social transformation? How does the climate crisis reconfigure the ways in which <strong><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;">belonging, citizenship, participation and political community are imagined, practised and lived</span></strong>?</span></li></ul><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:16px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;text-align:justify;line-height:115%;"><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:115%;font-family:"Garamond",serif;">Both traditional paper presentations and short inputs followed by questions for the audience are welcome, as are creative and multimedia formats. I look forward to receiving <strong>short abstracts (approx. 150 words) by 22 September 2026</strong> at: <strong>jan.winkler@geo.uni-halle.de</strong></span></p></div></div></body></html></body></html>