{"id":3423,"date":"2026-04-13T03:13:55","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T00:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.abo.fi\/centre-for-sustainable-ocean-science\/?page_id=3423"},"modified":"2026-11-03T22:43:32","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T19:43:32","slug":"sessions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.abo.fi\/centre-for-sustainable-ocean-science\/yhys-colloquium-2026\/sessions\/","title":{"rendered":"SESSIONS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.abo.fi\/centre-for-sustainable-ocean-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2026\/04\/Banner_NEW-scaled.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3584\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.abo.fi\/centre-for-sustainable-ocean-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2026\/04\/Banner_NEW-scaled.png 2560w, 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style=\"border-style:none;border-width:0px;border-top-left-radius:0px;border-top-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;min-height:0px;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:0;padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);padding-bottom:0;padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);line-height:0.3\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/yhys.net\" style=\"color: black;text-decoration: none\">\n    <span style=\"font-weight: 600\">YHYS<\/span>\n  <\/a>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a style=\"color: black;text-decoration: none\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.abo.fi\/centre-for-sustainable-ocean-science\/yhys-colloquium-2026\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Colloquium<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.abo.fi\/centre-for-sustainable-ocean-science\/yhys-colloquium-2026\/facts-fictions-futures\/\" style=\"color: black;text-decoration: none\">\n    <span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Theme<\/span>\n  <\/a>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.abo.fi\/centre-for-sustainable-ocean-science\/yhys-colloquium-2026\/keynotes\/\" style=\"color: black;text-decoration: none\">\n    <span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Keynotes<\/span>\n  <\/a>\n<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.abo.fi\/centre-for-sustainable-ocean-science\/yhys-colloquium-2026\/phd-event\/\" style=\"color: black;text-decoration: none\">\n    <span style=\"font-weight: 600\">PhD Event<\/span>\n  <\/a>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.abo.fi\/centre-for-sustainable-ocean-science\/yhys-colloquium-2026\/call-for-abstracts\/\" style=\"color: black;text-decoration: none\">\n    <span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Calls<\/span>\n  <\/a>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.abo.fi\/centre-for-sustainable-ocean-science\/yhys-colloquium-2026\/facts-fictions-futures\/\" style=\"color: #000082;text-decoration: none\">\n    <strong>Sessions<\/strong>\n  <\/a>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.abo.fi\/centre-for-sustainable-ocean-science\/yhys-colloquium-2026\/program\/\" style=\"color: black;text-decoration: none\">\n    <span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Program<\/span>\n  <\/a>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<p class=\"has-theme-palette-1-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1 wp-block-paragraph\"><a style=\"color: black;text-decoration: none\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.abo.fi\/centre-for-sustainable-ocean-science\/yhys-colloquium-2026\/practicals\"><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Practicals<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.abo.fi\/centre-for-sustainable-ocean-science\/yhys-colloquium-2026\/organizers\/\" style=\"color: black;text-decoration: none\">\n    <span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Organizers<\/span>\n  <\/a>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-3423_5f5e90-fe .kt-block-spacer{height:20px;}.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-3423_5f5e90-fe .kt-divider{border-top-width:1px;height:1px;border-top-color:#eee;width:100%;border-top-style:solid;}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-spacer alignwide kt-block-spacer-3423_5f5e90-fe\"><div class=\"kt-block-spacer kt-block-spacer-halign-center\"><hr class=\"kt-divider\" \/><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading alignwide has-theme-palette-1-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-2\" style=\"padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);font-style:normal;font-weight:600\">Sessions<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide\" style=\"padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40)\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-15ad654e wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p style=\"font-size: 18px;text-align: justify\">The deadline for the submission of session proposals was Friday 29th May 2026.&nbsp;Decisions on the acceptance of session proposals were communicated by 30 June 2026.<\/p>\n\n<p style=\"font-size: 18px;text-align: justify\">\nSessions for the 2026 YHYS Fall Colloquium are listed here in alphabetical order. 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class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title\">JOINT PLENARY BRAINSTORM (Thursday 19.11 at 11:15 &#8211; 12:15)<\/span><\/span><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-icon-trigger\"><\/span><\/button><\/div><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel kt-accordion-panel-hidden\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel-inner\">\n<p class=\"has-theme-palette-1-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-3 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:20px\"><span id=\"Plenary\" style=\"font-size: 19px;font-weight:600\">How to increase collaboration among the environmental social science community and boost societal relevance and uptake of our research?<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;font-weight:600\">Convenors:<\/span><br>  \n<span style=\"font-size: 18px\">\nLasse Peltonen (University of Eastern Finland)<br> \nEeva Berglund (Aalto University)<br>\nTracy Hruska (University of Oulu) \n<\/span>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\"><\/p><p style=\"font-size: 18px;text-align: justify\">\n\nGiven the current state of the world, the need for environmental social science (ESS) is arguably greater than ever. But does the societal and policy relevance of ESS \u2013 and the capacity of the ESS community \u2013 match this challenge?<br><br>\n\nFollowing an inspirational keynote presentation at the 2025 YHYS Colloquium by Patrick Devine-Wright about the UK-based ACCESS project to better connect policy making, social science, and social scientists (in and out of academia, see: <a href=\"https:\/\/accessnetwork.uk\/about-access\/\">https:\/\/accessnetwork.uk\/about-access\/<\/a>), the YHYS Board began discussing how to launch a similar initiative for environmental social scientists in Finland. The aims of this effort would be to enhance the capacity of the environmental social science (ESS) community to work better together; to identify important research gaps in the field, and to increase the policy and societal relevance of environmental social scientists and their research. <br><br>\n\nIn this Plenary Brainstorm session, the YHYS Board wants to know if there is an interest among environmental social science for such ESS capacity-building actions \u2013 and what role YHYS could play here. Members of the Board have thus far identified potential actions to pursue in the coming year, as well as some possible funding sources for parts of this work. We want to hear from more people about what our priorities should be for action and what other initiatives we can link to. We will begin this session with a brief overview of the UK\u2019s ACCESS project and the Board\u2019s initial ideas on the topic. We will then engage the Colloquium plenary to brainstorm and prioritize capacity-building actions that we could collectively pursue in 2027.<br><br>\n\n\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;font-weight:600;color: #000082\">Apply to session<\/span>\n<p style=\"font-size:18px;text-align: justify\">\n<span style=\"font-weight:600\">No application required.<\/span> This plenary session is a part of the main program of YHYS 2026.\n<br><br>\nQuestions regarding the session can be addressed to <span style=\"font-weight:600\">corresponding convenor Lasse Peltonen<\/span> (<a href=\"mailto:lasse.peltonen@uef.fi\">lasse.peltonen@uef.fi<\/a>). <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-pane kt-accordion-pane kt-accordion-pane-2 kt-pane3423_21048e-65\" id=\"01\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-header-wrap\"><button class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-header kt-acccordion-button-label-show\" type=\"button\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title-wrap\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title\">01: Contested Environmental Knowledge: Epistemic Frictions in Interdisciplinary Sustainability Research<\/span><\/span><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-icon-trigger\"><\/span><\/button><\/div><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel kt-accordion-panel-hidden\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel-inner\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;font-weight:600\">Convenors:<\/span><br>  \n<span style=\"font-size: 18px\">\nEinat Amir-Ahola (\u00c5bo Akademi University)<br> \nAnna T\u00f6rnroos-Remes (\u00c5bo Akademi University)<\/span>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\"><\/p><p style=\"font-size: 18px;text-align: justify\">\n\nInterdisciplinary collaboration is increasingly positioned as essential for addressing complex sustainability challenges, from biodiversity loss and climate change to environmental governance and social transformation. Yet despite widespread agreement on the importance of interdisciplinarity, collaboration across disciplinary and methodological boundaries often remains difficult in practice. Environmental research frequently brings together researchers from diverse fields with different epistemic assumptions, temporalities, methods, forms of evidence, and expectations regarding what constitutes useful knowledge.<br><br>\nWhile sustainability research often examines engagement and knowledge co-production among researchers, policymakers, stakeholders, and citizens, this session turns attention inward to the interdisciplinary research community itself. It invites contributions examining epistemic frictions and bridging methods in interdisciplinary sustainability research: moments where different disciplinary epistemic cultures encounter tension, misunderstanding, and negotiation, as well as the conditions under which such encounters may become productive forms of exchange and knowledge integration. Drawing on STS, Team Science, and scholarship on interdisciplinary sustainability research, the session approaches collaboration not as a stable ideal but as an ongoing process of coordination across epistemic differences, shaped by epistemic cultures, boundary objects, temporalities, and institutional conditions.<br><br>\nWe welcome contributions addressing questions such as: What counts as valid environmental knowledge across disciplinary settings, and what can be done to overcome challenges? How are standards of evidence, usefulness, and legitimacy negotiated? How do differing temporalities, methods, and expectations shape collaboration? What roles do facilitation, mediation, boundary objects, or shared practices play in disciplinary translation and epistemic coordination? How do asymmetries of power, funding, disciplinary prestige, and institutional incentives shape possibilities for reciprocal epistemic exchange?<br><br>\nThe session welcomes empirical, methodological, and theoretical contributions from environmental social sciences, STS, sustainability studies, environmental humanities, marine studies, governance research, and related fields. We particularly encourage papers that critically reflect on interdisciplinary practice, including tensions, overlooked challenges, and experimental approaches to bridging epistemic differences, rather than accounts focused solely on success. We are especially interested in how interdisciplinary communities develop shared practices and interactional expertise over time, and in relational, institutional, and methodological infrastructures that support or constrain this process.<br><br>\nThe session will consist of individual paper presentations followed by a moderated collective discussion focused on connections across the cases, recurring epistemic challenges, and transferable bridging practices.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px;font-weight:600;color: #000082\">Accepted abstracts<\/span>\n<p style=\"font-size:18px;text-align: justify\">\n<\/p><span style=\"font-size: 18px\"><ul>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Anna T\u00f6rnroos and Einat Amir-Ahola (in person), Nina Tynkkynen:<\/span><br> Navigating the Epistemic Sea of Interdisciplinary Sustainability Research: Lessons from the Centre for Sustainable Ocean Science<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Mirjami Lantto Klein (in person), Alexandra Malmstr\u00f6m, Mia Pihlajam\u00e4ki, Marko Keskinen, Elizabeth Carter, Selen Eren, Jon Cranko Page, Pyry Kettunen, Simo Sarkki, Darrell Tang, Omer Abubaker, Lauri Ahopelto, Pertti Ala-Aho, Anna Autio, Marijke de Vet, Nora Fagerholm, Mohammad Imangholiloo, Ashvath Kunadi, Kseniia Kortunova, Xiao Lu, Hannu Marttila, Mourad Oussalah, Anna-Kaisa Ronkainen, Eliisa Lotsari:<\/span><br> To Twin or not to Twin? Navigating Epistemic Plurality in Developing Water Sector Digital Twins<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Selen Eren (in person), Anna W. M. Heerdink, Joseph Gent, Aminah Al-Attas Bradford, Mwazvita T. B. Dalu, Michiel P. Veldhuis, Anne Beaulieu, Luuk Siewers, Frederic Lens, Roderick W. Bouman, Gerard E. Breeman, Ana M. Delgado, F. Barona-Gomez, David Ehrhardt, Cornelia E. Nauen, Carol X. Garzon-Lopez, Renske E. Onstein, Angelica Cibrian Jaramillo, Margaret Gold, Yali Si, Roy P. Remme, Kathryn A. Stewart:<\/span><br> From nested to relational scales: identifying and addressing scale mismatches in transdisciplinary socio-environmental research and governance<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Laura S. Tuominen, Mikael Puurtinen, Teea Kortetm\u00e4ki:<\/span><br> JYU.Wisdom: How to build an interdisciplinary sustainability research community<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">David Schlosberg:<\/span><br> Reflection on 13 years of establishing and directing a university-wide multidisciplinary environment institute<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Suvi Vikstr\u00f6m, Aleksi Mikola, Heli Saarikoski:<\/span><br> Knowledge co-production in contested environmental governance: the cormorant-fishing conflict<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Ramcilovic-Suominen Sabaheta:<\/span><br> Who Gets to Imagine Bioeconomy Transformation? Epistemic Authority and the Containment of Alternatives in Europe<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Salovaara, Janne J. and Ratvio, Rami:<\/span><br> Empirical Frictions in the Foundations and Aims of Transformative Sustainability Science<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p><\/span>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-pane kt-accordion-pane kt-accordion-pane-8 kt-pane3423_921e36-25\" id=\"02\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-header-wrap\"><button class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-header kt-acccordion-button-label-show\" type=\"button\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title-wrap\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title\">02: Contested food system futures: Visions, tensions, and the role of research in Finland<\/span><\/span><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-icon-trigger\"><\/span><\/button><\/div><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel kt-accordion-panel-hidden\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel-inner\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;font-weight:600\">Convenors:<\/span><br>  \n<span style=\"font-size: 18px\">\nAnni Piiroinen (University of Oulu)<br> \nEmilia Laine (University of Helsinki)<\/span>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\"><\/p><p style=\"font-size: 18px;text-align: justify\">\n\nFood systems face intensifying pressures to transform, as ecological crises and geopolitical instability intersect with persistent concerns over producer livelihoods. Yet the pathways to transformation remain deeply contested: actors ranging from farmers and agri-food companies to researchers and policymakers hold divergent, and unevenly legitimised, visions of what a sustainable food system looks like. <br><br>\n\nThis session invites contributions examining the contested imaginaries, narratives, and ways of knowing that shape Finnish food system futures. Whose visions gain visibility and institutional resonance, and whose are marginalised? What tensions emerge between, for example, productivist efficiency logics and place-based food cultures, or market-driven sustainability and redistributive food politics? What ways of producing and consuming food are legitimised, problematised or ignored by different actors?<br><br>\n\nWe are equally interested in the reflexive questions this raises for researchers: What is our responsibility and capacity to contribute to food system transformation? How can we take our research beyond critique to support the efforts of sustainable farmers and other key actors? We welcome contributions engaging with food system transformation from, but not limited to, the fields of rural studies, science and technology studies, political ecology, sustainability science and sociology.<br><br>\n\nInstead of a conventional session format, the presenters are invited to share their observations, arguments and provocations in a condensed 10-minute presentation that is built around a) one slide including a single image, graph, or diagram, or b) a physical object of their choosing.<br><br>\nPresentations are followed by a fishbowl conversation where presenters as well as audience members can delve deeper into the topics raised. The purpose of this format is to give enough space for dialogue and shared reflection about where the Finnish food system currently stands and what alternative futures lie ahead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px;font-weight:600;color: #000082\">Accepted abstracts<\/span>\n<p style=\"font-size:18px;text-align: justify\">\n<\/p><span style=\"font-size: 18px\"><ul>\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;font-weight:600;color: #000082\">Session I<\/span><br><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Anna Norberg (University of Helsinki):<\/span><br> Redesigning animal source food production systems for ecological sustainability in Finland \u2014 balancing production and environmental impact<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Annika Lonkila (Finnish Environment Institute) &amp; Minna Kaljonen (Finnish Environment Institute):<\/span><br> Moving beyond cognitive lock-ins: Discursive openings for more sustainable livestock systems<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Saana Hokkanen (University of Helsinki):<\/span><br> Knowing familial soils<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Anni Piiroinen (University of Oulu):<\/span><br> What is a field for? Hopes and challenges of cover cropping<\/li><br><br>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;font-weight:600;color: #000082\">Session II<\/span><br><br>\n\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Riikka Aro (University of Jyv\u00e4skyl\u00e4):<\/span><br> Future-making through grassroot food citizenship practices in and beyond gardens<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Sanna Luoto (Tampere University of Applied Sciences):<\/span><br> Modes of Urban Food Prosumerism: Practices and Actors for Sustainable Food Futures<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Vera Kauppinen (University of Jyv\u00e4skyl\u00e4):<\/span><br> Restructuring of food aid in Finland: Expectations and outcomes<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Emilia Laine (University of Helsinki):<\/span><br> From foods to ingredients, from disruption to co-existence: Establishing cellular agriculture in Finland<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p><\/span>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-pane kt-accordion-pane kt-accordion-pane-9 kt-pane3423_7638c2-da\" id=\"03\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-header-wrap\"><button class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-header kt-acccordion-button-label-show\" type=\"button\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title-wrap\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title\">03: Digitalisation, Green Transition and the Politics of Sustainable Futures: Data, Governance and Energy Systems in Europe<\/span><\/span><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-icon-trigger\"><\/span><\/button><\/div><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel kt-accordion-panel-hidden\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel-inner\">\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;font-weight:600\">Convenors:<\/span><br>  \n<span style=\"font-size: 18px\">\nPaul Arteaga (LUT University)<br> \nMashiur Rahman (JYU)\n<\/span>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\"><\/p><p style=\"font-size: 18px;text-align: justify\">\n\nThis session examines how European societies respond to overlapping environmental, democratic and security crises through the lens of the EU\u2019s twin transition (simultaneous green and digital transitions). It takes the European Green Deal, the EU Digital Strategy, multilevel governance and digitalised energy systems as starting points to open a broader discussion on how sustainable futures are imagined, governed and contested in Europe. The session foregrounds the tensions between policy narratives that present digitalisation and green transition as mutually reinforcing and the complex realities of data governance, energy security, platformisation and institutional trust in practice. It focuses on how sustainability futures are made credible, governable and actionable, and how they are challenged by political contestation, uneven trust in institutions and the material consequences of digitalisation.<br><br> \n\nWe invite contributions that critically examine intersections between digitalisation, energy systems and green transition, and analyse how policy documents, institutional narratives, expert knowledge and socio technical imaginaries construct sustainable futures and are translated into national, regional and local implementation. Papers may also explore tensions, misalignments and contradictions between EU level principles and concrete case studies, including questions of policy ownership, deliberation, data security, public trust, institutional responsibility and geopolitical risk.<br><br>\nWe invite individual paper proposals based on abstracts of no more than 250 words. Submissions may offer theoretical, empirical, or methodological contributions, provided that they engage directly with the session\u2019s central themes.. We welcome papers that:<br><br>\n\n\u2022\tCritically analyse the intersections between digitalisation, energy systems, and the green transition in European, national, regional, or local contexts;<br>\n\u2022\tExamine policy documents, institutional narratives, expert knowledge, or socio-technical imaginaries related to the European Green Deal, the EU Digital Strategy, or digitalised energy systems;<br>\n\u2022\tInvestigate governance gaps, contradictions, or tensions between EU-level objectives and their implementation, including policy ownership, deliberation, data security, public trust, institutional responsibility, and geopolitics; or<br>\n\u2022\tContribute to environmental social science, energy-transition research, digitalisation studies, governance and policy analysis, critical data studies, science and technology studies, or socio-technical transition research<br><br>\n\nResearchers and advanced practitioners working on environmental governance, energy transitions, digitalisation, public policy, critical data studies, science and technology studies, and socio technical transitions, particularly in European and Nordic\/Baltic contexts.<br><br>\n\nThis will be a 90-minute paper-presentation session. The session will normally include up to six presentations. Each presenter will be allocated approximately 15 minutes: 10 minutes for the presentation and 5 minutes for questions and discussion. The convenors may adjust the precise allocation of time depending on the final number of accepted papers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px;font-weight:600;color: #000082\">Accepted abstracts<\/span>\n<p style=\"font-size:18px;text-align: justify\">\n<\/p><span style=\"font-size: 18px\"><ul>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Topi Turunen (Finnish Environment Institute):<\/span><br> Circular Economy of Consumer Electronics: Analysing the Legal Barriers and Enablers of Their Life Cycle Extension<br> Other authors: Laura Sokka (Finnish Environment Institute), Tero Heinonen (Finnish Environment Institute), J\u00e0chym Judl (Finnish Environment Institute), Anssi Lintulampi (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland), Winnie Ruism\u00e4ki (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland), Veera Marttila (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland), Minna R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland)<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Lotta Staffans (LUT University):<\/span><br> Finnish energy flowing into international investment portfolios<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Sarah Tornberg (University of Jyv\u00e4skyl\u00e4):<\/span><br> From oil to renewable fuels: union strategies and just transition for oil refinery workers in Finland?<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Hanna Entsalo (Finnish Environment Institute Syke):<\/span><br> (Mis)matched objectives: Competitiveness, security, and environmental sustainability in Finnish and Dutch innovation policies<br> Other authors: Matthijs Janssen (Finnish Environment Institute Syke), Paula Kivimaa (University of Utrecht)<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Zifan Yang (Radboud University, University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences):<\/span><br> Contested Green Politics in the 10th European Parliament: The Conditional Influence of the Radical Right<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Conor Shaw (LUT University):<\/span><br> Beyond Technical Solutions: Tensions in Digitalising Environmental Governance<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Minna K. Havukainen (LUT University):<\/span><br> Future-oriented Social Life Cycle Assessment of Green Hydrogen production<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Ratih D. Adiputri (University of Jyv\u00e4skyl\u00e4):<\/span><br> EU Imagined Sustainable Future from critical minerals perspective<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Md Mashiur Rahman (University of Jyv\u00e4skyl\u00e4):<\/span><br> Mapping Out the Structural Gaps in Multi-Level Governance for the EU\u2019s Twin Transitions<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Paul Arteaga (LUT University):<\/span><br> Governing Energy Data in Practice: The Case of Fingrid Data Hub<br> Other authors: Rodrigo Santaella Goncalves (State University of Cear\u00e1), Matti Kojo (LUT University), Edemilson Parana (LUT University \u2013 University College Dublin)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p><\/span>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-pane kt-accordion-pane kt-accordion-pane-10 kt-pane3423_ad939d-6d\" id=\"04\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-header-wrap\"><button class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-header kt-acccordion-button-label-show\" type=\"button\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title-wrap\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title\">04: Disadvantaged households in sustainability transitions<\/span><\/span><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-icon-trigger\"><\/span><\/button><\/div><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel kt-accordion-panel-hidden\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel-inner\">\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;font-weight:600\">Convenors:<\/span><br>  \n<span style=\"font-size: 18px\">\nOuti Pitk\u00e4nen (University of Helsinki)<br> \nKaisa Matschoss (University of Helsinki)<br> \nSini Numminen (Aalto University)<br> \nSuvi Silfvenius (University of Helsinki)\n<\/span>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\"><\/p><p style=\"font-size: 18px;text-align: justify\">\n\nThe need for system transitions that make life on the planet more sustainable has become increasingly evident as today\u2019s societies are facing resource scarcity, battling the consequences of extreme weather events and struggling with dependence on fossil fuels and related geopolitics. In the field of energy, some progress has been made as European societies have increased the share of renewable energy sources and more consumption has been electrified to make use of renewable energy.<br><br>\nHowever, the worry that sustainability transitions have not been thought through from the just transitions perspective has grown as sustainability transitions have progressed (Abrams et al., 2022). The concern is that unless inequalities are addressed, system transitions make already disadvantaged households worse off by increasing their pre-existing burden. Scholars have noted that this is partly because plans for sustainability transitions do not take the needs of more disadvantaged groups into account (Tarasova &amp; Rohracher, 2023). If transitions are facilitated mainly by solving problems related to uptake of technologies that only wealthier parts of the population can afford, transitions end up being exclusionary. Therefore, action needs to be taken to adapt sustainability transition policies and innovation processes to the needs of more diverse groups, including vulnerable households (Solbu et al., 2024).<br><br>\n\nIn this session, we want to foster exchanges between researchers who strive to understand the relationship between disadvantaged groups and ongoing sustainability transitions. We welcome scholarly work that either unpacks the agency of disadvantaged households or the structural injustices that they already face or analyzes how vulnerabilities may be aggravated by ongoing sustainability transitions. Alternatively, submissions can either address how transition narratives portray vulnerable groups or provide insights on good practices for more inclusive transitions and ways to support disadvantaged groups through transitions.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-small-font-size\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;font-weight:600;color: #000082\">References<\/span><br>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;margin-bottom: 0.4em\"><span style=\"font-weight:600\">Abram, S., Atkins, E., Dietzel, A., Jenkins, K., Kiamba, L., Kirshner, J., Kreienkamp, J., Parkhill, K., Pegram, T., &amp; Santos Ayll\u00f3n, L. M. <\/span> (2022). Just Transition: A whole-systems approach to decarbonisation. <em>Climate Policy<\/em>, 22(8), 1033\u20131049. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/14693062.2022.2108365\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/14693062.2022.2108365<\/a><\/span><br><br>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;margin-bottom: 0.4em\"><span style=\"font-weight:600\">Solbu, G., Ryghaug, M., Skj\u00f8lsvold, T. M., Heidenreich, S., &amp; N\u00e6ss, R. <\/span>  (2024). Deep experiments for deep transitions \u2013 low-income households as sites of participation and socio-technical change in new energy systems. <em>Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions<\/em>, 22(8), 52, 100865. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.eist.2024.100865\"> https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.eist.2024.100865<\/a><\/span><br><br>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;margin-bottom: 0.4em\"><span style=\"font-weight:600\">Tarasova, E., &amp; Rohracher, H.<\/span> (2023). Marginalising household users in smart grids. <em>Technology in Society<\/em>. 72, 102185. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.techsoc.2022.102185\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.techsoc.2022.102185<\/a><\/span><br><br>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px;font-weight:600;color: #000082\">Accepted abstracts<\/span>\n<p style=\"font-size:18px;text-align: justify\">\n<\/p><span style=\"font-size: 18px\"><ul>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Jenni Viitala (Aalto University), Outi Pitk\u00e4nen (UH), Sini Numminen (Aalto University), Kaisa Matschoss (UH):<\/span><br> Energy poverty and energy agency in the Finnish rental sector<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Elina Turunen (UH) and Anna-Maria Isola (UEF):<\/span><br> Thoughts on ecological choices and experiences in poverty<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Sini Numminen (Aalto University), Tuija Kajoskoski (UH), Tuuli Hirvilammi (Tampere University), Eija Valkealahti (Aalto University):<\/span><br> Heating, eating and car-driving during economically hard times. How did vulnerable households save in consumption during the energy crisis in 2022 in Finland?<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Sam Gr\u00f6nholm, Taina Lahtinen, Jean Claude Mutiganda (\u00c5bo Akademi University, \u00c5AU):<\/span><br> Promoting social equity budgeting to enhance sustainability transitions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p><\/span>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-pane kt-accordion-pane kt-accordion-pane-11 kt-pane3423_e18ea0-a1\" id=\"05\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-header-wrap\"><button class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-header kt-acccordion-button-label-show\" type=\"button\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title-wrap\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title\">05: Environmental Security and Green Militarization<\/span><\/span><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-icon-trigger\"><\/span><\/button><\/div><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel kt-accordion-panel-hidden\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel-inner\">\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;font-weight:600\">Convenors:<\/span><br>  \n<span style=\"font-size: 18px\">\nLaura Puumala (University of Turku)<br>\nJuha M\u00e4kinen (National Defence University of Finland)<br>\nRaisa Foster (Taideyliopisto &amp; It\u00e4-Suomen yliopisto)<br>\nTeemu M\u00e4ki (Taideyliopiston Tutkimusinstituutti)\n<\/span>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\"><\/p><p style=\"font-size: 18px;text-align: justify\">\n\nThis session invites academic presentations on philosophical, ethical, social and political issues concerning environmental security, environmental wars and green militarization. Environmental security has emerged as a growing topic in academic, political and public discussions alike as anthropogenic environmental harms seriously endanger human, environmental and climate security. <br><br>\n\nBy 2070 3.5 billion people will live outside the \u2018human climate niche\u2019, and according to the \u20181,000-ton-rule\u2019, burning fossil carbon leads to one billion premature human deaths by 2100. Relevant discussions include exploring the relation between human, political and environmental or climate security, climate justice and environmental security as an ethical, societal and political concern. Contributions may explore anthropogenic environmental hazards intelligible as just causes for environmental war, environmental harms causing and escalating conflicts to armed violence, and environmental insecurity as an incentive to weaponize the environment as part of the war politics. Suitable topics may also explore the possibility of militarized climate action, and the deployment of geoengineering methods as a form of self- or planetary defense against climate change. We encourage critical and improving academic analysis on these and other related ideas.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;font-weight:600;color: #000082\">Apply to session<\/span>\n<p style=\"font-size:18px;text-align: justify\">\nPlease send your paper proposal (abstract of max. 250 words) to the corresponding convenor Laura Puumala <a href=\"mailto:lamakou@utu.fi\">lamakou@utu.fi<\/a> by 15 September 2026. Please note, due to issues with the previously included e-mail address &#8220;info@environmentalwar.fi&#8221; it has been changed. All submissions should be sent to <a href=\"mailto:lamakou@utu.fi\">lamakou@utu.fi<\/a>. <br><br>\n\nYour submission should present the field, methods and main research questions used and addressed in your presentation.\nEach presentation is allocated approximately 15 minutes and PowerPoint or other visual aids for the presentations are encouraged.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-pane kt-accordion-pane kt-accordion-pane-12 kt-pane3423_e63324-c5\" id=\"06\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-header-wrap\"><button class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-header kt-acccordion-button-label-show\" type=\"button\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title-wrap\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title\">06: Food crisis preparedness in turbulent times<\/span><\/span><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-icon-trigger\"><\/span><\/button><\/div><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel kt-accordion-panel-hidden\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel-inner\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;font-weight:600\">Convenors:<\/span><br>  \n<span style=\"font-size: 18px\">\n\nNina Janasik (University of Helsinki)<br>\nMaija Nikkanen (University of Helsinki)<br> \nTuuli Parviainen (University of Helsinki)<br>\nReetta Mietola (University of Helsinki)<br>\nPauliina Tomberg (University of Helsinki)<br>\nAntti Sukura (University of Helsinki)<br>\nHeli Nordgren  (University of Helsinki)<br>\nTuure Tammi (University of Oulu)<br>\nHelin\u00e4 \u00c4\u00e4ri (University of Oulu)<br>\nJanne Hukkinen (BIOS) <br>\nPaavo J\u00e4rvensivu (BIOS)\n<\/span>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\"><p style=\"font-size: 18px;text-align: justify\">\n\nThis session explores ways to update thinking of crisis preparedness in times of polycrisis, with a special focus on food security and the protein transition, i.e. rebalancing between animal and alternative proteins in diets. The world\u2019s social-ecological-technological conditions are changing, as reflected by the increasing popularity of the term polycrisis. This calls for a corresponding shift in our thinking. This session delves into the question of what the demand of updating the thinking of crisis preparedness in times of polycrisis could mean in the context of the protein transition. The context of the protein transition is particularly well-suited for the exploration of this question due to its highly multidimensional and interdisciplinary nature. There is evidence that the application and progress of the notion are hampered by high levels of uncertainty, diverse and often conflicting narratives among stakeholders, with the isolation of the underlying scientific evidence for those narratives nurturing a growing polarization of collective imaginations of protein safety and resilience. How can we update our thinking on food crisis preparedness given this multi-voiced and potentially fragmented setting?<br><br>\n\nTo explore this further, we will organize a so-called Industrial Foresight Studio (IFS) exercise, aimed at all conference participants interested in food security exercises. The workshop explores realistic pathways for protein transition that ensure long-term resilience of the food production system.<br><br>\n\nThe session is organized as part of False Sense of Protein Safety to Protein Resilience: Building Bridges for Protein Sustainability (ResPro) research project funded by Maj and Tor Nessling foundation (2026-2027). <br><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;font-weight:600;color: #000082\">Apply to session<\/span>\n<p style=\"font-size:18px;text-align: justify\">\nInstead of abstracts, we invite interested participants to submit a short text (max. 250 words) describing how the exercise topic relates to their work (for example, conducting research on food systems, societal tensions, or participatory methodologies), how they would contribute to the exercise, and what they hope to gain from participating.<br><br>\nSend your proposal (max. 250 words) to the <span style=\"font-weight:600\"> corresponding convenor Nina Janasik<\/span> (<a href=\"mailto:nina.janasik@helsinki.fi\">nina.janasik@helsinki.fi<\/a>) by 15 September 2026.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-pane kt-accordion-pane kt-accordion-pane-13 kt-pane3423_23f3e6-ab\" id=\"07\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-header-wrap\"><button class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-header kt-acccordion-button-label-show\" type=\"button\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title-wrap\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title\">07: From imaginaries to actions: co-creating sustainable futures (dialogical session)<\/span><\/span><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-icon-trigger\"><\/span><\/button><\/div><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel kt-accordion-panel-hidden\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel-inner\">\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;font-weight:600\">Convenors:<\/span><br>  \n<span style=\"font-size: 18px\">\nTanja Niemi (University of Jyv\u00e4skyl\u00e4)<br> \nKaisa Kurki (LUT University, University of Helsinki) <br>\nTarian Cai Jenkins (University of Turku) <br>\nJanna Jokela (University of Turku)<\/span>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\"><\/p><p style=\"font-size: 18px;text-align: justify\">\n\nThe ways we imagine our futures quietly shape the horizon of our efforts. Research in environmental social sciences has demonstrated that dominant imaginaries, paradigmatic assumptions, and future visions play a central role in stabilising or challenging the environmental status quo (e.g., Inayatullah, 2008; Milkoreit, 2017; Jasanoff &amp; Kim 2019). However, there is persistent challenge of translating insights from imaginaries and futures research into concrete and collective pathways for action (e.g., Stirling, 2015; Pereira et al., 2019).<br><br>\n\nThis solutions-oriented session addresses this challenge by exploring how insights from imaginaries research can be mobilised through feasible approaches. The session foregrounds environmental social sciences as not only interpretive but also interventionist, capable of supporting reflexive, participatory, and actionable processes for sustainable futures. We invite contributions that move beyond diagnosing imaginaries towards advancing tangible, co-created pathways for more sustainable futures.<br><br>\n\nMoving beyond traditional paper presentations, the session employs an interactive fishbowl discussion format to facilitate dialogue across disciplines. The session begins with short (approximately 5-minute) introductory presentations, selected through an abstract submission process. These initial inputs feed into a series of facilitated fishbowl discussions, the themes of which will be informed based on the selected abstracts. Two of the presenters at a time take part in each facilitated discussion, in which participants from the audience are invited to join as the conversation unfolds, enabling both listening and active, low-threshold contribution.<br><br>\n\nWe welcome empirical and conceptual contributions that explore co-creation, transdisciplinary collaboration, participatory futures methods, or real-world experiments, and that critically reflect on their potentials and limitations. We are especially looking for bold, transformative ideas that challenge the status quo!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-small-font-size\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;font-weight:600;color: #000082\">References<\/span><br>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;margin-bottom: 0.4em\"><span style=\"font-weight:600\">Inayatullah, S.<\/span> (2008). Six pillars: Futures thinking for transforming. <em>Foresight\u202f: The Journal of Futures Studies, Strategic Thinking and Policy, 10<\/em>(1), 4\u201321. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1108\/14636680810855991\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1108\/14636680810855991<\/a><\/span><br><br>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;margin-bottom: 0.4em\"><span style=\"font-weight:600\">Jasanoff, S., &amp; Kim, S. H. (Eds.).<\/span> (2019). Dreamscapes of modernity: Sociotechnical imaginaries and the fabrication of power. University of Chicago Press.<\/span><br><br>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;margin-bottom: 0.4em\"><span style=\"font-weight:600\">Milkoreit, M.<\/span> (2017). Imaginary politics: Climate change and making the future. Elementa, 5. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1525\/elementa.249\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1525\/elementa.249<\/a><\/span><br><br>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;margin-bottom: 0.4em\"><span style=\"font-weight:600\">Pereira, L., Nadia, S., Federica, R., Jimenez-Aceituno, A., &amp; Merrie, A.<\/span> (2019). Building capacities for transformative change towards sustainability: Imagination in Intergovernmental Science-Policy Scenario Processes. <em>Elementa, 7<\/em>. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1525\/elementa.374\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1525\/elementa.374<\/a><\/span><br><br>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;margin-bottom: 0.4em\"><span style=\"font-weight:600\">Stirling, A.<\/span> (2015). Emancipating Transformations: From controlling \u2018the transition\u2019 to culturing plural radical progress. In I. Scoones, M. Leach, &amp; P. Newell (Eds), The Politics of Green Transformations. Taylor &amp; Francis. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.4324\/9781315747378\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.4324\/9781315747378<\/a><\/span><\/p><p><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px;font-weight:600;color: #000082\">Accepted abstracts<\/span>\n<p style=\"font-size:18px;text-align: justify\">\n\n<\/p><span style=\"font-size: 18px\"><ul>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Eerika Albrecht:<\/span><br> Co-creating Nature Futures for Nuortti and Kemi Rivers<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">K. Tolvanen (University of Turku, Faculty of Science, Department of Biodiversity Sciences), M. Salo (Luke), I.E. S\u00e4\u00e4ksj\u00e4rvi (University of Turku, Faculty of Science, Department of Biodiversity Sciences), T. Luoma (Luke), J. R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen (University of Turku, Faculty of Science, Department of Biodiversity Sciences):<\/span><br> From Imaginaries to Future Images: Visualizing Biodiversity in Finnish Forest Environments<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Jean-Pierre Imbrogiano (University of Jyv\u00e4skyl\u00e4), Tiina Onkila (University of Jyv\u00e4skyl\u00e4), Elizabeth Nichols (University of Otago), and Lauri-Matti Palmunen (University of Turku):<\/span><br> Conceptual Change and Sustainable Business Transformation: A Phenomenon-Driven Review and Research Agenda<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Teea Kortetm\u00e4ki (University of Jyv\u00e4skyl\u00e4):<\/span><br> Cohabitability as a Framing for Co-creating Sustainable Futures<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Riina N\u00e4si and Hazel Salminen:<\/span><br> Role-play Workshops to Support Collaboratively Imagined Sustainable Futures<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Li Xi (Universiti Putra Malaysia) and Yao Yue (Universiti Putra Malaysia):<\/span><br> From Climate Awareness to Collective Action: Co-creating Sustainable Futures through Stakeholder Engagement and Strategic Communication<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-pane kt-accordion-pane kt-accordion-pane-15 kt-pane3423_6e0c67-4f\" id=\"08\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-header-wrap\"><button class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-header kt-acccordion-button-label-show\" type=\"button\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title-wrap\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title\">08: Instituutiot, valta ja yksil\u00f6n rooli ymp\u00e4rist\u00f6politiikassa<\/span><\/span><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-icon-trigger\"><\/span><\/button><\/div><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel kt-accordion-panel-hidden\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel-inner\">\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;font-weight:600\">Koollekutsujat:<\/span><br>  \n<span style=\"font-size: 18px\">\nLauri Lahikainen (Tampereen yliopisto)<br> \nAnni Arponen (Turun yliopisto) <br>\nOskari Hakala (Turun yliopisto) <br>\n<\/span>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\"><\/p><p style=\"font-size: 18px;text-align: justify\">\n\nPolitiikka on kompromissien taidetta, my\u00f6s ymp\u00e4rist\u00f6politiikka. Mutta ketk\u00e4 n\u00e4it\u00e4 kompromisseja tekev\u00e4t ja mink\u00e4laisin ehdoin? Mill\u00e4 kaikilla yhteiskunnan tasoilla ja millaisissa instituutioissa ymp\u00e4rist\u00f6politiikkaa tehd\u00e4\u00e4n? Millaisia toimijoita ovat ymp\u00e4rist\u00f6politiikan tehokkaimmat vallank\u00e4ytt\u00e4j\u00e4t? Miten yksitt\u00e4inen viranhaltija voi toimia ymp\u00e4rist\u00f6n kannalta eettisesti erilaisten intressiryhmien ja institutionaalisten roolien ristipaineessa? Mit\u00e4 mahdollisuuksia ja rajoitteita liittyy erilaisissa institutionaalisissa tai poliittisissa rooleissa toimimiseen ymp\u00e4rist\u00f6politiikassa? Millainen ymp\u00e4rist\u00f6eettinen vastuu on viranhaltijoilla, asiantuntijoilla, taloudellisen vallan k\u00e4ytt\u00e4jill\u00e4, poliitikoilla tai aktiivisilla kansalaisilla?<br><br>\n\nT\u00e4ss\u00e4 ty\u00f6ryhm\u00e4ss\u00e4 tarkastellaan ymp\u00e4rist\u00f6poliittista valtaa, vallank\u00e4ytt\u00f6\u00e4, valtakamppailuja ja vastuuta. Esitelm\u00e4t voivat olla empiirisi\u00e4, teoreettisia tai filosofisia tai tutkimuksellisesti informoituja k\u00e4yt\u00e4nn\u00f6llisi\u00e4 politiikkaehdotuksia. Esitelm\u00e4t voivat k\u00e4sitell\u00e4 esimerkiksi seuraavia teemoja:<br><br>\n\u2022\tYksil\u00f6iden rooli ymp\u00e4rist\u00f6politiikkaa tekeviss\u00e4 instituutioissa<br>\n\u2022\tErilaisissa yhteiskunnallisissa asemissa toimivien yksil\u00f6iden vaikutusmahdollisuudet <br>\n\u2022\tBiodiversiteettipolitiikan tai ilmastopolitiikan erityispiirteet suhteessa muihin poliittisiin kysymyksiin<br>\n\u2022\tYmp\u00e4rist\u00f6politiikan arki ja vallank\u00e4ytt\u00f6<br>\n\u2022\tAgendan asettamisen valta ymp\u00e4rist\u00f6politiikassa<br>\n\u2022\tLobbaamisen etiikka ja politiikka<br>\n\u2022\tTalouspoliittisen vallan ja ymp\u00e4rist\u00f6politiikan suhde<br>\n\u2022\tYmp\u00e4rist\u00f6politiikka ja eliitti<br>\n\u2022\tIdeologiat ymp\u00e4rist\u00f6politiikassa<br>\n\u2022\tValtasuhteet eri ymp\u00e4rist\u00f6poliittisissa kysymyksiss\u00e4, esimerkiksi luontokadon ja ilmastonmuutoksen hillinn\u00e4ss\u00e4 tai niihin varautumisessa<br>\n\u2022\tVapaaehtoisuuden ja pakkojen suhde ymp\u00e4rist\u00f6politiikassa\n<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px;font-weight:600;color: #000082\">Hyv\u00e4ksytyt abstraktit<\/span>\n<p style=\"font-size:18px;text-align: justify\">\n<\/p><span style=\"font-size: 18px\"><ul>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Uula Saastamoinen &amp; Jonne Hyt\u00f6nen:<\/span><br> Sitovat reunaehdot vai tapauskohtainen arviointi: valtion legitimiteettivaje uusiutuvan energian suunnittelussa ja yhteisvaikutusten hallinnassa<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Inari Gustafsson, Anna Kukkonen &amp; Maija Jokela:<\/span><br> Vanhojen metsien kriteerien m\u00e4\u00e4rittely Suomessa: kuinka vihre\u00e4 kritiikki haastoi teollisen logiikan mitata luontoa<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Kamilla Karhunmaa, Sampsa Hyysalo, Lasse Peltonen, Kaisa Schmidt-Thom\u00e9, Antti Silvast, Sahib Singh:<\/span><br> Energiapoliittisen osallistumisen pysyvyydet ja kansalaisten osallistumisen mahdollisuudet<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Sami Mustikkamaa &amp; Ari Nieminen:<\/span><br> Ecological Modernization or Treadmill of Production: Comparison of Finnish forest and energy sectors<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Anni Mustonen:<\/span><br> Luonnon puhevalta ja edustajuus maank\u00e4yt\u00f6n suunnittelussa<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Marjaana Sj\u00f6lund:<\/span><br> Kenen sanat p\u00e4\u00e4tyv\u00e4t mets\u00e4lakiin? Tekstien samankaltaisuus vaikutusvallan indikaattorina ymp\u00e4rist\u00f6oikeudellisessa lainvalmistelussa<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Miia Toikka &amp; Jari Autioniemi:<\/span><br> Virkamiesten kest\u00e4vyystoimijuuden j\u00e4nnitteet: relationaalinen n\u00e4k\u00f6kulma<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Lauri Lahikainen, Anni Arponen, Oskari Hakala, Suvi Elise Nurmi, Anna Salomaa:<\/span><br> Kompromissit ja eturyhmien valta biodiversiteettipolitiikassa<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p><\/span>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-pane kt-accordion-pane kt-accordion-pane-16 kt-pane3423_0c13cc-c3\" id=\"09\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-header-wrap\"><button class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-header kt-acccordion-button-label-show\" type=\"button\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title-wrap\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title\">09: Morbid symptoms in the era of ecological breakdown: from greenlash to the criminalisation of activism<\/span><\/span><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-icon-trigger\"><\/span><\/button><\/div><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel kt-accordion-panel-hidden\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel-inner\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;font-weight:600\">Convenors:<\/span><br>  \n<span style=\"font-size: 18px\">\nTuulia Reponen (University of Helsinki)<br> \nRiku L\u00f6f (University of Helsinki) <br>\nSonja Pietil\u00e4inen (University of Helsinki)\n<\/span>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\"><\/p><p style=\"font-size: 18px;text-align: justify\">\n\nFor a brief moment, scientifically necessary climate action seemed to become political common sense. Thanks to the unprecedented mobilisation of millions of people, political pressure amounted to emergency declarations, climate elections, new legislation and road maps to carbon neutrality. Enter pandemic, war in Europe, as well as energy and cost of living crisis and the momentum was quickly won by the climate obstructionist counter-mobilisation.<br><br>\n\nFor climate obstructionists and \u201cclimate realists\u201d alike, climate action should be done by somebody else somewhere else or at some other time when it is economically more feasible. A mixture of racist and techno-optimist hopium is politically sold as fossil capitalist realism. Anyone publicly disagreeing with this vision is a fair target of repression and criminalisation, ranging from stigmatisation to outright violence. Arguably, these are morbid symptoms of a fossil regime refusing to make space for sustainable futures.<br><br>\n\nThis working group explores how different narratives and practices are employed to ensure the continuity of institutions, industries and imperial modes of living that are exacerbating the ecological breakdown. We welcome all contributions that help us learn what is truly new to this moment and what was there all along.<br><br>\n\nWe invite papers addressing how facts and fictions are mobilised to obstruct just environmental and climate action, including, but not limited to:<br> \n\u2022\tDenial and distortion of climate science<br> \n\u2022\tCriminalisation of environmental activism<br> \n\u2022\tObstructive appeals to \u201crealism\u201d in climate politics<br> \n\u2022\tForms of far-right ecologies<br> \n\u2022\tGreen colonialism and extractivism<br> \n\u2022\tObstructive strategies of fossil, forest and other industries, politicians, think tanks etc.<br>  \n\u2022\tIntersections between ecological crises and different forms of militarism, nationalism authoritarianism, sexism and racism etc.\n<br><br>\nThe format of the session includes up to six 15-minute-presentations (incl. discussion).\n<br><br><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px;font-weight:600;color: #000082\">Accepted abstracts<\/span>\n<p style=\"font-size:18px;text-align: justify\">\n\n<\/p><span style=\"font-size: 18px\"><ul>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Risto-Matti Matero:<\/span><br> Presenting alternatives or hijacking the conversation? \u201dClimate realist\u201d discourses and strategies in the Confederation of Finnish Industries, 1993-2008<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Anna Hausmann, Tuomas V\u00e4is\u00e4nen, Tuuli Toivonen, Gonzalo Cort\u00e9s-Capano:<\/span><br> Social media and the unequal visibility of climate-energy narratives<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Atalay Yavan:<\/span><br> Climate Shareholder Proposals in the U.S. Oil and Gas Industry: Influence Strategies and Corporate Responses<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Michiru Nagatsu:<\/span><br> Taking capitalism seriously, but perhaps not too seriously?<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Sonja Pietil\u00e4inen:<\/span><br> Gender, population control and the environmental crisis in the politics of the far-right women in Finland<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Tuulia Reponen:<\/span><br> Effective climate speech = crime against a climate obstructionist society?<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Riku L\u00f6f, Otto Snellman, Sakari S\u00e4yn\u00e4joki ja Amos Wallgren:<\/span><br> Climate Realism: A repertoire of obstruction in elite climate politics?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-pane kt-accordion-pane kt-accordion-pane-17 kt-pane3423_b9fa02-9b\" id=\"10\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-header-wrap\"><button class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-header kt-acccordion-button-label-show\" type=\"button\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title-wrap\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title\">10: Multispecies world politics as alternative imaginations<\/span><\/span><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-icon-trigger\"><\/span><\/button><\/div><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel kt-accordion-panel-hidden\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel-inner\">\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;font-weight:600\">Convenors:<\/span><br>  \n<span style=\"font-size: 18px\">\nMonica Tennberg (University of Lapland)<br>\nSanna Kopra (University of Lapland)<br>\nOuti Rantala (University of Lapland)<br>\nJuulia Tikkanen (University of Lapland)\n<\/span>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\"><\/p><p style=\"font-size: 18px;text-align: justify\">\n\nA multispecies approach seeks to break down the traditional human-nature dualism and to position humans as entangled within a broader community of living beings. Applied to the study of world politics, the multispecies approach problematizes human-nature separation in practices of imagining life, both human and non-human, as the focus of politics. Storytelling, speculative narratives, and imaginative frameworks provide tools for envisioning alternative futures in world politics in which diverse beings can flourish together, navigating complex, often entangled, and also conflictive multispecies relationships. The session welcomes presentations that discuss different multispecies \u201cworldings\u201d, onto-epistemological, ethical and methodological questions, as well as applications of the multispecies approach in narrating, speculating, and imagining alternative futures for world politics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px;font-weight:600;color: #000082\">Accepted abstracts<\/span>\n<p style=\"font-size:18px;text-align: justify\">\n\n<\/p><span style=\"font-size: 18px\"><ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Charlotta Holmstr\u00f6m, University of Helsinki:<\/span><br> Beyond the human-nature divide: Using holarchistic systems thinking to reframe sustainability narratives<\/li><br>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Sanni Hatakka, University of Helsinki:<\/span><br> Multispecies ethnography &#8211; Complicating multispecies relations on a dairy farm<\/li><br>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Niko V\u00e4ist\u00f6, University of Lapland:<\/span><br> Multispecies companionship in the Film Polar Night Light<\/li><br>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Joonas Vola, University of Lapland:<\/span><br> More-than-human guardianship? Environmental personhood, keystones species and tutelary deities<\/li><br>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Corinna Casi, COHAB research project, University of Jyv\u00e4skyl\u00e4:<\/span><br> Implications of conceptualizing multispecies cohabitable places<\/li><br>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Juulia Tikkanen, University of Lapland:<\/span><br> U(dys)topian play in a tourism resort<\/li><br>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Monica Tennberg, University of Lapland:<\/span><br> The Baltic Sea of emotions: Affective biopolitics on invasive alien species<\/li><br>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Satu Aavanranta, University of Helsinki:<\/span><br> Journey to the Futures: Embodied knowledge co-production for multispecies futures in policymaking<\/li><br>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Sanna Kopra, University of Lapland &amp; Liisa Kauppila, University of Lapland:<\/span><br> Imagining multispecies world politics: scenario-building process on the Planetocene<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p><\/span>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-pane kt-accordion-pane kt-accordion-pane-18 kt-pane3423_88c521-36\" id=\"11\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-header-wrap\"><button class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-header kt-acccordion-button-label-show\" type=\"button\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title-wrap\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title\">11: Non-Issues, Maintenance Backlogs, and Contested Progress: Exploring the Politics of Material Infrastructure<\/span><\/span><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-icon-trigger\"><\/span><\/button><\/div><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel kt-accordion-panel-hidden\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel-inner\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;font-weight:600\">Convenors:<\/span><br>  \n<span style=\"font-size: 18px\">\nErkki-Jussi Nyl\u00e9n (Finnish Environment Institute)<br> \nPekka Jokinen (Tampere University) <br>\nInkeri Saarenaho (Finnish Environment Institute)<\/span>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\"><\/p><p style=\"font-size: 18px;text-align: justify\">\n\nInfrastructures\u2014such as roads, power lines, sewer systems, and power stations\u2014constitute the metabolic foundation of contemporary societies. Beyond their material dimensions, these infrastructures are inherently social, as their construction, operation, and maintenance depend on expertise, regulatory frameworks, governance structures, and economic arrangements (Barry 2020).<br><br>\n\nDecisions regarding the construction of new infrastructure are often framed as indicators of progress. However, choices about what to build, where to build, and where not to build can also produce unintended consequences, including social inequalities, harm to livelihoods, and environmental impacts (Mwaura and Lawhon, 2024). Furthermore, some of these consequences may be further exacerbated by increasing land use driven by the transition to low-carbon societies (Naumann and Rudolph, 2020). Decisions over infrastructures may initiate heated public debate on pros and cons and how cons are compensated, but decisions may also remain apolitical despite of their magnitude (Ampe et al. 2020).<br><br>\n\nRegardless of the state of debate, decisions about infrastructure development tend to lock in particular operating logics, with significant material and social ramifications (Unruh, 2009). While infrastructures are often long-lasting, they are also subject to decay, breakdown, and malfunction. Addressing these issues requires substantial capital investment for repair and renewal; however, the political will to raise fees or allocate public funds for such purposes is often limited (Barry, 2020).<br><br>\n\nWe invite proposals for presentations on a wide range of topics related to the political dimensions of infrastructure. Relevant themes may include, but are not limited to, energy production and the green transition, waste management and resource recovery, and sanitation and wastewater treatment. While contributions grounded in Environmental Policy are particularly welcome, we also encourage the use of diverse theoretical frameworks.<br><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\"><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-small-font-size\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;font-weight:600;color: #000082\">References<\/span><br>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;margin-bottom: 0.4em\"><span style=\"font-weight:600\">\nAmpe et al.<\/span> (2020). <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/1523908X.2019.1680275\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/1523908X.2019.1680275<\/a><\/span><br><br>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;margin-bottom: 0.4em\"><span style=\"font-weight:600\">\nBarry<\/span> (2020). <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/978-3-030-43965-1_6\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/978-3-030-43965-1_6<\/a><\/span><br><br>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;margin-bottom: 0.4em\"><span style=\"font-weight:600\">\nMwaura and Lawhon<\/span> (2024). <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/02723638.2024.2387992\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/02723638.2024.2387992<\/a><\/span><br><br>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;margin-bottom: 0.4em\"><span style=\"font-weight:600\">\nNaumann and Rudolph<\/span> (2020). <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jrurstud.2019.12.011\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jrurstud.2019.12.011<\/a><\/span><br><br>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;margin-bottom: 0.4em\"><span style=\"font-weight:600\">\nUnruh<\/span> (2000). <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/S0301-4215(00)00070-7\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/S0301-4215(00)00070-7<\/a><\/span><br><br><p><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px;font-weight:600;color: #000082\">Accepted abstracts<\/span>\n<p style=\"font-size:18px;text-align: justify\">\n<\/p><span style=\"font-size: 18px\"><ul>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Inkeri Saarenaho, Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE):<\/span><br> Introduction to session<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Farid Karimi and Ehsan Marzban, Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of Jyv\u00e4skyl\u00e4:<\/span><br> Social Acceptance of Green Transition Megaprojects in Finnish Small Cities<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Panu Runko and Hanna Lempinen, Natural Resources Institute Finland (LUKE):<\/span><br> Large-scale solar power projects as transformative infrastructure on Finnish peatlands<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Venla Isom\u00e4ki, Department of Built Environment, Aalto University:<\/span><br> Hydro-Social Politics of Sustainability: Discursive Constructs and Material Outcomes in Finnish Water Governance<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Erkki-Jussi Nyl\u00e9n (Finnish Environment Institute, SYKE) and Pekka Jokinen (Faculty of Management and Business, Tampere University):<\/span><br> From nonissue to matter of concern? Wastewater treatment infrastructures under transition<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p><\/span>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-pane kt-accordion-pane kt-accordion-pane-19 kt-pane3423_4d63cd-94\" id=\"12\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-header-wrap\"><button class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-header kt-acccordion-button-label-show\" type=\"button\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title-wrap\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title\">12: Participation and co-production of knowledge in and for sustainability transformations<\/span><\/span><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-icon-trigger\"><\/span><\/button><\/div><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel kt-accordion-panel-hidden\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel-inner\">\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;font-weight:600\">Convenors:<\/span><br>  \n<span style=\"font-size: 18px\">\nSampsa\u00a0Hyysalo (Aalto University)<br>\nJani Lukkarinen (Suomen ymp\u00e4rist\u00f6keskus, SYKE)<br>\nSatu L\u00e4hteenoja (Demos Helsinki)<br>\nAntti Silvast (LUT University)\n<\/span>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\"><\/p><p style=\"font-size: 18px;text-align: justify\">\n\nThe participation of diverse actors \u2013 stakeholders and citizens alike \u2013 in sustainability transformations has gained increasing attention. The \u2019post-normal\u2019 nature of environmental problems has led to a surge in co-production of knowledge between scientists, policy makers and citizens. However, the bulk of research on co-production and participation in environmental governance has remained aspirational and methodological, although it is well established elsewhere that such approaches are mired by (participation) paradoxes that render multiple fronts of critique constitutive to their nature. For instance, engagement activities in public processes at different levels are viewed as policy failures or only achieving partial success rather than being taken to offer policy complements. Similarly, participation has been considered a privilege of engaged communities and citizens to pursue changes and geared towards those most interested in participating. Meanwhile, official roadmaps, policy scenarios, computer models, and many other decision-support tools shape what kind of participation is possible and which futures are plausible upstream before any participatory processes. As such, participation and co-production are not immune to routinisation and bureaucratisation and thus similar initiatives persist without broader learning on how to reorganise participation. Inspired by systemic and material approaches to participation, this workshop aims to address the question of participation and discuss diverse approaches to developing participation and knowledge co-production in the governance of sustainability transformations.<br><br>\nThis paper presentation session invites submissions of methodological, theoretical and empirical contributions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px;font-weight:600;color: #000082\">Accepted abstracts<\/span>\n<p style=\"font-size:18px;text-align: justify\">\n<\/p><span style=\"font-size: 18px\"><ul>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Wingstr\u00f6m, R., De Jonge, J., Varissaari, S., Fonseca, L., &amp; Vainio, T.:<\/span><br> How technologies shape the knowledge of urban space and stakeholder agencies in co creative planning<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Heli Saarikoski, Jani Lukkarinen, Salla Annala, Satu L\u00e4hteenoja, Kaarina Kaminen, Hanna-Liisa Kangas, Kaisa Matschoss, Outi Pitk\u00e4nen, Venla Riekkinen:<\/span><br> Co-creating flexible carbon-free energy systems\u2014experiences from a transition arena addressing demand response solutions<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Eva Heiskanen &amp; Ilona Kousa:<\/span><br> The role of materiality in polarization around the energy transition: contexts and artifacts<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Ketonen-Oksi &amp; Hilkka Lyd\u00e9n:<\/span><br> Ethical Canvas for Social Co-design: Integrating Futures Consciousness and Planetary Perspectives<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Lukkarinen:<\/span><br> Truck transitions: How knowledge co-production holds its shape<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Johanna Liipola, Annika Holmbom, Nani Pajunen:<\/span><br> Service design and co-learning as a tool for accelerating the Sustainability Transition in manufacturing companies<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Gailume-Zohara, Zanda Dina Bite:<\/span><br> \u201cWe know best how hospital works!\u201d Participation, situated knowledge and green transition in Latvian state-sector hospitals<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Silvikko, Marika:<\/span><br> \u2018Can you repeat the same experiment?\u2019: Heat Pump Users as Knowledge Producers in the Energy Transition<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Tikkanen, Taika:<\/span><br> From Decades of Conflict to Constructive Collaboration \u2013 A Case Study of the Mediation Process regarding the Kvarken nature conservation area<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Katriina Kentt\u00e4mies, Satu L\u00e4hteenoja, Kaisa Schmidt-Thom\u00e9, Sampsa Hyysalo:<\/span><br> Whose voice counts? Civil servants, NGOs and activists in Finnish climate governance participation<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Matti Kojo, Maare K\u00e4is, Heppu-Eemeli Honkanen, Niina Kiviluoma:<\/span><br> Co-creating pathways for change: Deliberative process in a small modular reactor case study<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Pauliina Lehtonen (Tampere University), Kirsikka Kaipainen (Tampere University), Silja Kostia (Tampere University of Applied Sciences), Riina Lundman (Tampere University) &amp; Maria \u00c5kerman (Tampere University of Applied Sciences):<\/span><br> Community funding as an infrastructure of participation in climate-neutral urban transitions<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Kamilla Karhunmaa, Sampsa Hyysalo, Lasse Peltonen, Kaisa Schmidt-Thom\u00e9, Antti Silvast, Sahib Singh:<\/span><br> Energiapolitiisen osallistumisen pysyvyydet ja kansalaisten osallistumisen mahdollisuudet<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Lehtim\u00e4ki, Tomi (Aalto University), Karhunmaa, Kamilla (Aalto University), Kentt\u00e4mies, Katriina (Aalto University), Huovila, Helmi (Demos Helsinki), Hautam\u00e4ki, Lotta (LUT University), Schmidt-Thom\u00e9, Kaisa (Demos Helsinki), L\u00e4hteenoja, Satu (Aalto University, Demos Helsinki), Saad-Sulonen, Joanna (Aalto University), Hyysalo, Sampsa (Aalto University):<\/span><br> Mapping engagements with energy and climate in Finland<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Ojala, Jussi R:<\/span><br> Participation as an evolving practice: understanding teleo-affective orientations in a sustainability intervention<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p><\/span>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-pane kt-accordion-pane kt-accordion-pane-20 kt-pane3423_3ec56a-06\" id=\"13\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-header-wrap\"><button class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-header kt-acccordion-button-label-show\" type=\"button\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title-wrap\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title\">13: Providing facts and imaginaries for ecological restoration: towards environmental justice or legitimate territorialization?<\/span><\/span><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-icon-trigger\"><\/span><\/button><\/div><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel kt-accordion-panel-hidden\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel-inner\">\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;font-weight:600\">Convenors:<\/span><br>  \n<span style=\"font-size: 18px\">\nOssi Ollinaho  (University of Helsinki)<br> \nSophia Hagolani-Albov (University of Helsinki)\n<\/span>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\"><\/p><p style=\"font-size: 18px;text-align: justify\">\n\nThe mainstream narrative around ecological restoration holds that damaged ecosystems can be rehabilitated to address environmental crises while improving local livelihoods and advancing environmental justice. This narrative, however, blends solid empirical grounding with aspirational imaginaries that warrant closer scrutiny.<br><br>\n\nOn the factual side, the political ecology of ecosystem degradation is well-documented. Decades of experience with restoration through agroforestry also demonstrate that meaningful transformation of degraded landscapes \u2014 transformation that creates sustainable livelihoods \u2014 is genuinely achievable. These are not empty promises; the evidence base is real.<br><br>\n\nYet the claim that restorative schemes deliver environmental justice is better understood as an imaginary: a set of assumptions and aspirations that, in practice, tends to legitimise territorial control exercised under the banner of restoration. The dominant narrative positions the global North as initiator and funder, and large international NGOs as coordinators, primarily in service of carbon credits and other compensation mechanisms. Livelihood improvements are possible, but they may carry little weight for project funders whose priorities lie elsewhere. And when restoration efforts remain narrowly focused at the local level, the broader political and economic structures driving degradation are left unexamined and intact \u2014 precisely the structures, and the exploitative relations they sustain, that produce local environmental predicaments in the first place.<br><br>\n\nThis working group is anchored in the Trees for Development project (treesfordev.fi), but we welcome contributions from beyond it. We invite research that explores alternative narratives opening different pathways for restoration and lending legitimacy to locally grounded approaches. We are particularly interested in research that foregrounds counter-narratives -cases where restoration is initiated, defined, and led by local actors themselves. We also welcome work that critically examines the assumptions embedded in the claims of funders and other proponents of ecological restoration schemes.<br><br>\nThis session will be convened by Ossi Ollinaho and Sophia Hagolani-Albov, both from Global Development Studies at the University of Helsinki. Each presenter will get approx. 12 mins to present their research (final time depending on number of presenters). After all participants have presented, we will open the floor for a discussion with the audience participants that is centred on the presentations.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px;font-weight:600;color: #000082\">Accepted abstracts<\/span>\n<p style=\"font-size:18px;text-align: justify\">\n<\/p><span style=\"font-size: 18px\"><ul>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Maria Ehrnstr\u00f6m-Fuentes, Markus Kr\u00f6ger, Ossi Ollinaho, Marketta Vuola, Sophia Hagolani-Albov, Linda Annala-Tesfaye &amp; Sergio Sauer:<\/span><br> Ecological Restoration as a Contested Field of Action: Between Green Extractivism and Transformative Restoration<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Markus Kr\u00f6ger &amp; Ossi Ollinaho:<\/span><br> Towards a Socio-Tree Planting turn? New tree-planting initiatives in the Brazilian Amazon by socio-ecological movements<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Katherine Hall:<\/span><br> Nature&#8217;s actors in the spotlight: investigating conservationist actor roles and influence on ecological restoration in authoritarian Central and Western Asia<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Matthieu Pierre, Marketta Vuola and Sophia Hagolani-Albov:<\/span><br> Hybrid institutions and environmental governance: The role of dina in ecological restoration in Madagascar<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p><\/span>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-pane kt-accordion-pane kt-accordion-pane-21 kt-pane3423_c7ca84-af\" id=\"14\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-header-wrap\"><button class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-header kt-acccordion-button-label-show\" type=\"button\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title-wrap\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title\">14: Regenerative organizing: A new narrative for a better future or a case of emperor\u2019s new clothes?<\/span><\/span><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-icon-trigger\"><\/span><\/button><\/div><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel kt-accordion-panel-hidden\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel-inner\">\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;font-weight:600\">Convenors:<\/span><br>  \n<span style=\"font-size: 18px\">\nKirsi Salonen (LUT University &amp; Maastricht University)<br> \nAnna H\u00e4rri (Aalto University)\n<\/span>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\"><\/p><p style=\"font-size: 18px;text-align: justify\">\n\nRegenerative organizing has gained traction in both scholarly and practitioner discussions on sustainability, promising a shift from minimizing harm to actively restoring and renewing socio-ecological systems (Hahn &amp; Tampe, 2021). Yet it remains unclear whether regeneration represents a genuine paradigm shift (Taveras-Dalmau, 2025) in how organizations operate, or whether it risks becoming another aspirational but underspecified buzzword that is difficult to implement and prone to corporate capture and greenwashing (Levelt et al., 2026; Salonen et al., 2025).<br><br>\n\nRecent literature suggests that the concept of regeneration could help advance positive and transformative visions on how to re-build a world that is dominated by regenerative rather than degenerative dynamics (Fischer et al., 2026). When applied to business organizations, however, such visions challenge conventional assumptions about purpose, value creation, and human\u2013nature relations, making regeneration difficult to integrate into existing organizational contexts. At the same time, the concept remains theoretically fragmented. For example, despite its emphasis on place and ecological systems, key issues like ecological dynamics and biodiversity are often not included in discussions on regeneration (Veijalainen et al., 2026).<br><br>\n\nThis session invites critical and constructive engagement with regenerative organizing across different sectors of society, with particular interest on empirical business and organization studies. We welcome contributions that explore, for example, but not limited to:<br>\n\u2022 How regeneration is interpreted, translated, and contested in organizational contexts<br>\n\u2022 How organizations experiment with regenerative practices, and with what outcomes or unintended consequences<br>\n\u2022 What kinds of capabilities, collaborations, and governance arrangements regenerative organizing involves<br>\n\u2022 How systems thinking, place-based perspectives, and ecological considerations are integrated into organizing.\n<br><br>\nWe invite contributions from various theoretical and disciplinary perspectives. The session includes 10-minute presentations followed by a short discussion, plus a summary discussion\/Q&amp;A at the end of the session.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-small-font-size\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;font-weight:600;color: #000082\">References<\/span><br>\n\n<span style=\"margin-bottom: 0.4em;font-size: 18px\"><span style=\"font-weight:600\">Fischer, J., Farny, S., Abson, D. J., Zuin Zeidler, V., von Salisch, M., Schaltegger, S., &#8230; &amp; K\u00fcmmerer, K.<\/span> (2024). Mainstreaming regenerative dynamics for sustainability. Nature Sustainability, 7(8), 964-972.<\/span><br><br>\n\n<span style=\"margin-bottom: 0.4em;font-size: 18px\"><span style=\"font-weight:600\">Fischer, J., Farny, S., Pacheco-Romero, M., &amp; Folke, C.<\/span> (2026). Resilience and regeneration for a world in crisis. Ambio, 55(1), 24-34.<\/span><br><br>\n\n<span style=\"margin-bottom: 0.4em;font-size: 18px\"><span style=\"font-weight:600\">Hahn, T., &amp; Tampe, M.<\/span> (2021). Strategies for regenerative business. Strategic Organization, 19(3), 456-477.<\/span><br><br>\n\n<span style=\"margin-bottom: 0.4em;font-size: 18px\"><span style=\"font-weight:600\">Levelt, L., Chevrollier, N., &amp; Argyrou, A.<\/span> (2025). Regeneration, sufficiency and degrowth: an integrative review of organising in a strong sustainability era. Sustainability Science, 1-23.<\/span><br><br>\n\n<span style=\"margin-bottom: 0.4em;font-size: 18px\"><span style=\"font-weight:600\">Salonen, K., Ritala, P., &amp; Bocken, N.<\/span> (2025). Emerging regenerative business paradigm: Narrative review, synthesis, and research agenda. Journal of Circular Economy, 3(3).<\/span><br><br>\n\n<span style=\"margin-bottom: 0.4em;font-size: 18px\"><span style=\"font-weight:600\">Taveras-Dalmau, V., Becken, S., &amp; Westoby, R.<\/span> (2025). From paradigm blindness to paradigm shift? An integrative review and critical analysis of the regenerative paradigm. Ambio, 54(12), 1985-2004.<\/span><br><br>\n\n<span style=\"margin-bottom: 0.4em;font-size: 18px\"><span style=\"font-weight:600\">Veijalainen, A., Salo, M., Rouhiainen, H., R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen, J., &amp; S\u00e4\u00e4ksj\u00e4rvi, I. E.<\/span> (2026). Bridging biodiversity and regenerative development: Conceptual groundwork for life-affirming relationships. Ambio, 1-10.<\/span><p><\/p><p><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<br>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px;font-weight:600;color: #000082\">Accepted abstracts<\/span>\n<p style=\"font-size:18px;text-align: justify\">\n<br>\n<\/p><span style=\"font-size: 18px\"><ul>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Mathilda Esmeralda Spira:<\/span><br> Regenerative knowledge integrity: a systematic review of knowledge processes in regenerative entrepreneurship<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Katri Einola:<\/span><br> &#8220;Your clients are the birds&#8221; \u2013 Re-thinking Urban Development for Regenerative Futures<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Ari Jokinen, Helena Leino, Markus Laine* and Pekka Jokinen:<\/span><br> Regenerative agency: Transformation through radical contextuality and co-agency<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Korey Wetherell:<\/span><br> From Aspiration to Structure: More-Than-Human Relations and the Limits of Regenerative Organizing<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Anu Veijalainen:<\/span><br> Integrating regenerative tourism into nature-positive municipal development: Early stages of co-creation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p><\/span>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-pane kt-accordion-pane kt-accordion-pane-22 kt-pane3423_2d8cdc-8f\" id=\"15\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-header-wrap\"><button class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-header kt-acccordion-button-label-show\" type=\"button\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title-wrap\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title\">15: Resistance against acceleration in academic work &#8211; pathways for sustainability in sustainability research?<\/span><\/span><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-icon-trigger\"><\/span><\/button><\/div><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel kt-accordion-panel-hidden\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel-inner\">\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;font-weight:600\">Convenors:<\/span><br>  \n<span style=\"font-size: 18px\">\nKatri Weckroth (Tampere University)<br>\nHenna Juusola (University of Jyv\u00e4skyl\u00e4)<br> \nKatariina Buure (LUT University) <br>\nLinda Majander (University of Jyv\u00e4skyl\u00e4) <br>\nHanna Paulom\u00e4ki (LUT University) <br>\nPasi Takkinen (University of Jyv\u00e4skyl\u00e4) <br>\nKirsi Salonen (LUT University) <br>\n<\/span>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\"><\/p><p style=\"font-size: 18px;text-align: justify\">\n\nAcademic work is often valued through quantitative indicators such as publications and external funding, which align with global ranking systems that prioritise speed and productivity (Mannevuo &amp; Valovirta, 2022). This is linked to broader societal acceleration and growth logics, creating a contradiction for sustainability researchers: their work aims for transformation within planetary boundaries, yet it is often produced in academic environments that normalise constant output and expansion (Houtbeckers, 2024). Recent research, however, suggests resistance can be nourished, for instance, in communities that question the logic of acceleration from within and foster collective slowness and imaginaries of alternative academic practices (Juusola et al., 2026). <br><br>\n\nThis session invites submissions across different fields within environmental social science that explore, broadly considered, <span style=\"font-weight:600\"> the connections between sustainability research, values, practices and agency in academic work, and societal transformations toward good life within planetary boundaries.<\/span><br><br>\n\nWe invite submissions from various fields, also beyond conventional research approaches. The aim is to co-create a workshop <span style=\"font-weight:600\"> (including short presentations, comments and a joint discussion)<\/span> on sustainability research where unfinished ideas, imaginaries as well as critique and disagreements can be explored in a safe space. We welcome abstracts (in English or Finnish) outlining your research and the key questions you would like to explore together in the session \u2014 nothing has to be finished, we value works-in-progress.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-small-font-size\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;font-weight:600;color: #000082\">References<\/span><br>\n<p style=\"font-size: 14px;text-align: justify\">\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;margin-bottom: 0.4em\"><span style=\"font-weight:600\">Houtbeckers, E.<\/span> (2004). Should I Stay or Should I Go? Academic Tempered Radicalism in the Era of Ecological Crisis. In At the Frontiers of Everyday Life: New Research in Cramped Spaces (pp. 19\u201335). Springer Nature Switzerland.<\/span><br><br>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;margin-bottom: 0.4em\"><span style=\"font-weight:600\">Juusola, H., Buure, K., Majander, L., Paulom\u00e4ki, H., Salom\u00e4ki, S., Salonen, K., et al.<\/span> (2026). Hidas akateemisuus ja kest\u00e4vyystutkijuus Puistokatu 4 -yhteis\u00f6ss\u00e4, Tiedepolitiikka, 51(1): 24\u201336. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.58957\/tp.164033\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.58957\/tp.164033<\/a><\/span><br><br>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;margin-bottom: 0.4em\"><span style=\"font-weight:600\">Valovirta, E., &amp; Mannevuo, M.<\/span> (2022). Affective academic time management in the neoliberal university: From timeliness to timelessness. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 25(5), 1307\u20131323.<\/span><br><br><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px;font-weight:600;color: #000082\">Accepted abstracts<\/span>\n<p style=\"font-size:18px;text-align: justify\">\n<\/p><span style=\"font-size: 18px\"><ul>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Henna Juusola (University of Jyv\u00e4skyl\u00e4), Katariina Buure (LUT University), Linda Majander (University of Jyv\u00e4skyl\u00e4), Hanna Paulom\u00e4ki (LUT University), Pasi Takkinen (University of Jyv\u00e4skyl\u00e4), Kirsi Salonen (LUT University), Katri Weckroth (Tampere University):<\/span><br> Entanglements of acceleration, sustainability and academic work &#8211; reflections from the Hidas Akatemia (Slow Academia) collective<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Minna Santaoja (Tampere University):<\/span><br> The power and burden of persistence<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Delphine Rumo (Aalto University):<\/span><br> Postpartum and Artificial Intelligence: complacency of acceleration in academia<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Ilona Steiler (Tampere University):<\/span><br> The Great Time Robbery or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love AI<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p><\/span>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-pane kt-accordion-pane kt-accordion-pane-23 kt-pane3423_65fb08-b8\" id=\"16\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-header-wrap\"><button class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-header kt-acccordion-button-label-show\" type=\"button\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title-wrap\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title\">16: Sensing sustainability? Exploring sensory ways of knowing in environmental social sciences<\/span><\/span><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-icon-trigger\"><\/span><\/button><\/div><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel kt-accordion-panel-hidden\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel-inner\">\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;font-weight:600\">Convenors:<\/span><br>  \n<span style=\"font-size: 18px\">\nGalina Kallio (University of Helsinki)<br>\nWill LaFleur (University of Helsinki)<br>\nEerika Koskinen-Koivisto (University of Turku)\n<\/span>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\"><\/p><p style=\"font-size: 18px;text-align: justify\">\n\nSensory knowledge is an irreducible aspect of all scientific research. Although by convention the sensory experiences of scientists are typically invisible in scientific publications, and sustained attention to the senses in ethnographic research has historically gone in and out of vogue, the \u2018sensory turn\u2019 in social sciences and the development of sensory ethnography has redrawn scholars\u2019 attention to these critical aspects of socio-environmental life; urging explicit reflection on the sensory ways in which they attend to and interpret the world they study. <br><br>\n\nThis session aims to deepen and extend the methodological ethics of sensory ethnography to other, not-necessarily-ethnographic research approaches in pursuit of a rigorous science that represents the world as sensory, material and relational. In what ways does attending to ours and others\u2019 (including other-than-human beings) sensory practices in research change the ways in which we come to know the studied phenomenon? How could we communicate more-than-visual ways of being and knowing in our writing or other modes of representation? How to tell powerful stories that reach not only other academics, but also wider publics in ways that are affectively charged while being scientifically robust?<br><br>\n\nThis workshop seeks submissions that address the intricacies, difficulties, and successes of incorporating sensory methods and practices into research designs and processes. Rather than presenting what is conventionally referred to as a &#8220;paper\u201d \u2014 whether a manuscript in progress or a published article \u2014 participants are encouraged to share their research context through ethnographic or other types of texts (e.g., fieldnotes, ethnographic fiction, or analytical writing), photographs, soundscapes, film, drawings, or other creative modes of (re)presentation. Through these materials, participants should introduce a question, a challenge, or an insight that troubles or inspires them. Each presentation will follow a joint discussion. Power Point-only presentations will not be accepted.<br><br>\n\nThe workshop seeks to create a supportive space for collective reflection and experimentation, encouraging dialogue on how attending to sensory ways of knowing can enhance our understanding of both (un)sustainable living and the sensory, embodied, and relational processes through which research is conducted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-small-font-size\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;font-weight:600;color: #000082\">References<\/span><br>\n<p style=\"font-size: 14px;text-align: justify\">\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;margin-bottom: 0.4em\"><span style=\"font-weight:600\">\nClassen, C. <\/span> (1997). Foundations for an anthropology of the senses. <em>International Social Science Journal<\/em>, 49(153), 401\u2013412.<\/span><br><br>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;margin-bottom: 0.4em\"><span style=\"font-weight:600\">\nClifford, J., &amp; Marcus, G. (Eds.). <\/span> (1986). <em>Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography<\/em>. University of California Press.<\/span><br><br>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;margin-bottom: 0.4em\"><span style=\"font-weight:600\">\nFeld, S., &amp; Basso, K. H. (Eds.). <\/span> (1996). <em>Senses of Place<\/em>. School of American Research Press.<\/span><br><br>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;margin-bottom: 0.4em\"><span style=\"font-weight:600\">\nHowes, D. (Ed.). <\/span> (1991). <em>The Varieties of Sensory Experience: A Sourcebook in the Anthropology of the Senses<\/em>. University of Toronto Press.<\/span><br><br>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;margin-bottom: 0.4em\"><span style=\"font-weight:600\">\nHowes, D. (Ed.). <\/span> (2005). <em>Empire of the Senses: The Sensual Culture Reader<\/em>. Berg.<\/span><br><br>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;margin-bottom: 0.4em\"><span style=\"font-weight:600\">\nIngold, T. <\/span> (2000). <em>The Perception of the Environment: Essays on Livelihood, Dwelling &amp; Skill<\/em>. Routledge.<\/span><br><br>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;margin-bottom: 0.4em\"><span style=\"font-weight:600\">\nIngold, T. <\/span> (2011). <em>Being Alive: Essays on Movement, Knowledge and Description<\/em>. Routledge.<\/span><br><br>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;margin-bottom: 0.4em\"><span style=\"font-weight:600\">\nIngold, T. <\/span> (2022). <em>Imagining for Real: Essays on Creation, Attention and Correspondence<\/em>. Routledge.<\/span><br><br>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;margin-bottom: 0.4em\"><span style=\"font-weight:600\">\nPink, S. <\/span> (2015). <em>Doing Sensory Ethnography<\/em> (2nd ed.). Sage Publications.<\/span><br><br>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;margin-bottom: 0.4em\"><span style=\"font-weight:600\">\nRoberts, L. <\/span> (2019). The senses in philosophy and science: Blindness and insight. In A. C. Vila (Ed.), <em>A Cultural History of the Senses in the Age of Enlightenment<\/em> (Vol. 4, pp. 109\u2013131).<\/span><br><br>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;margin-bottom: 0.4em\"><span style=\"font-weight:600\">\nStoller, P. <\/span> (1989). <em>The Taste of Ethnographic Things: The Senses in Anthropology<\/em>. University of Pennsylvania Press.<\/span><br><br>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;margin-bottom: 0.4em\"><span style=\"font-weight:600\">\nStoller, P. <\/span> (1997). <em>Sensuous Scholarship<\/em>. University of Pennsylvania Press.<\/span><br><br>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;margin-bottom: 0.4em\"><span style=\"font-weight:600\">\nVannini, P. (Ed.). <\/span> (2024). <em>The Routledge International Handbook of Sensory Ethnography<\/em>. Routledge.<\/span><br><br>\n\n<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px;font-weight:600;color: #000082\">Accepted abstracts<\/span>\n<p style=\"font-size:18px;text-align: justify\">\n<\/p><span style=\"font-size: 18px\"><ul>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Ephraim Daka, University of Turku:<\/span><br> Listening to Spoilage: Sensory frictions and everyday acts of knowing in food\u2010system fragility<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Joss Allen, University of Warwick:<\/span><br> When I sing, I feel larger than the limits of my body: learning from collective singing as research<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Maarit Forde, University of Helsinki:<\/span><br> Tidal Relations, Submerged Ethnography<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Tiia Tuomisto, University of Helsinki:<\/span><br> Sensing in Nature \u2013 Doing Sensory Ethnography Among Contemporary Hunter-gatherers<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Karoliina Kikuchi, University of Oulu:<\/span><br> Restorated peatlands and multispecies sensory knowledge<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Riikka Armanto, University of Turku:<\/span><br> What can research be?<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Jenny Rinkinen, University of Lappeenranta:<\/span><br> Living at the thresholds: sensing limits<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Galina Kallio, Will LaFleur ja Eerika Koskinen-Koivisto (session vet\u00e4j\u00e4t):<\/span><br> Closing session<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p><\/span>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-pane kt-accordion-pane kt-accordion-pane-24 kt-pane3423_682778-eb\" id=\"17\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-header-wrap\"><button class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-header kt-acccordion-button-label-show\" type=\"button\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title-wrap\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title\">17: Sufficiency and sustainable futures<\/span><\/span><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-icon-trigger\"><\/span><\/button><\/div><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel kt-accordion-panel-hidden\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel-inner\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;font-weight:600\">Convenors:<\/span><br>  \n<span style=\"font-size: 18px\">\nSenja Laakso (University of Helsinki)<br> \nTeemu Koskim\u00e4ki (University of Eastern Finland) <br>\nTina Nyfors (University of Helsinki)<\/span>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\"><\/p><p style=\"font-size: 18px;text-align: justify\">\n\nSufficiency is a resurgent concept increasingly recognized as a necessary approach for reducing human pressure on the environment. It is connected to ideas of what is \u2018enough\u2019 versus \u2018excess\u2019 and how to define a \u2018good life\u2019 within environmental limits. As such, sufficiency has been defined as a principle of enoughness (Princen, 2005), \u201cthe space above the floor of necessity but below the ceiling of excess\u201d (Gough, 2023), and sufficiency policies as \u201ca set of measures and daily practices that avoid demand for energy, materials, land and water while delivering human wellbeing for all within planetary boundaries\u201d (IPCC, 2022).<br><br>\n\nSufficiency solutions, which seek to adjust both demand and supply, can be applied at various levels and sectors, encompassing government policies (Nyfors et al., 2020) and novel business practices (Beyeler and Jaeger-Erben, 2022). In addition, everyday practices and consumption patterns should evolve in a manner that is both just and acceptable (Sahakian et al., 2021). However, many challenges of implementing such solutions as part of a just sustainability transformation remain to be explored and the \u201cuntapped sufficiency potential\u201d (IPCC, 2022) remains to be fully charted.\n<br><br>\nWe welcome presentations addressing the potential of sufficiency solutions and the challenges related to their implementation. Contributions could include, but are not limited to: What factors could drive widespread implementation of sufficiency? How can sufficiency be applied in different sectors and across consumption-production systems? What could be the potential economic impacts of implementing sufficiency? How to imagine futures based on the principle of enoughness? How can policy visions and frameworks be designed to integrate sufficiency with other sustainability goals?<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-small-font-size\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;font-weight:600;color: #000082\">References<\/span><br>\n<p style=\"font-size: 14px;text-align: justify\">\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;margin-bottom: 0.4em\"><span style=\"font-weight:600\">\nBeyeler, L., Jaeger-Erben, M. <\/span> (2022). How to make more of less: Characteristics of sufficiency in business practices. <em>Frontiers in Sustainability<\/em> 3. <\/span><br><br>\n\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;margin-bottom: 0.4em\"><span style=\"font-weight:600\">Gough, I.<\/span> 2023. Sufficiency as a Value Standard: From Preferences to Needs. <em>Ethics, Policy &amp; Environment<\/em> 0, 1\u201322.<br><br> \n\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;margin-bottom: 0.4em\"><span style=\"font-weight:600\">\nIPCC <\/span> (2022). Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change. Contribution of Working Group III to the <em>Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change<\/em> [P.R. Shukla, J. et al., (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK and New York, NY, USA.<\/span><br><br>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;margin-bottom: 0.4em\"><span style=\"font-weight:600\">\nNyfors, T. et al. <\/span> (2020). Ecological Sufficiency in Climate Policy: Towards Policies for Recomposing Consumption. Tulevaisuuden tutkimuksen seura.<\/span><br><br>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;margin-bottom: 0.4em\"><span style=\"font-weight:600\">\nPrincen, T. <\/span> (2005). <em>The logic of sufficiency<\/em>. Mit Press.<\/span><br><br>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;margin-bottom: 0.4em\"><span style=\"font-weight:600\">\nSahakian, M. et al. <\/span> (2021). Advancing the concept of consumption corridors and exploring its implications. <em>Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy<\/em> 17, 305\u2013315.<\/span><\/span><\/p><br><br>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px;font-weight:600;color: #000082\">Accepted abstracts<\/span>\n<span style=\"font-size:18px;text-align: justify\">\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px\"><\/span><\/p><ul>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Essi Nuorivaara, University of Helsinki:<\/span><br> Sufficiency in the margins of Finnish policy, everyday understandings and practices<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Heta Leinonen, Roni Lappalainen, Mikael Nurminen, Tampere University:<\/span><br> Sufficiency or green growth? Stakeholder perspectives on the purpose of the circular economy in EU policymaking<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Myele Rouxel, University of Eastern Finland:<\/span><br> A Cornerstone for the Sufficiency Transformation of the EU\u2019s Common Agricultural Policy: Dispelling Two Persistent Fallacies<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Fatemeh Jouzi, Lassi Linnanen, LUT:<\/span><br> Could AI offer an emergent opportunity for postgrowth policies?<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Oskari Meht\u00e4talo, University of Turku, University of Tampere:<\/span><br> Why don&#8217;t we see political discussion about degrowth?<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Miika Marttila, LUT:<\/span><br> Imagining Sufficiency: Individual Abilities and Societal Structures for Sustainability Transformation<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Rasmus Sihvonen, University of Eastern Finland:<\/span><br> What is enough? \u2013 Sufficiency Dialogues in search of sustainable well-being<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Kaisa Kurki, LUT:<\/span><br> From excess to well-being: Sufficiency in food consumption<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Vilija Satiene, Genovaite Liobikiene, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania:<\/span><br> From Intention to Impact: Promoting Sufficiency in Household Consumption in Lithuania<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Mirja K\u00e4lvi\u00e4inen, LAB:<\/span><br> Provisioning sufficient consumption \u2013 service journeys with consideration of planetary boundaries<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Tutta Oittinen, Annukka N\u00e4yh\u00e4, Venla Wallius, Jyv\u00e4skyl\u00e4n yliopiston kauppakorkeakoulu; Resurssiviisausyhteis\u00f6 JYU Wisdom:<\/span><br> Sufficient futures of Finnish forests: empirical findings of a backcasting study<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Minna Kanerva, University of Bremen, Germany:<\/span><br> Grief and human-nature connection as a route through soft denial to acceptance of sufficiency<\/li>\n<\/ul><p><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-pane kt-accordion-pane kt-accordion-pane-25 kt-pane3423_c72def-5b\" id=\"18\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-header-wrap\"><button class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-header kt-acccordion-button-label-show\" type=\"button\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title-wrap\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title\">18: Sustainability Transitions: Bridging Knowledge, Policy and Practice in Contested Futures<\/span><\/span><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-icon-trigger\"><\/span><\/button><\/div><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel kt-accordion-panel-hidden\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel-inner\">\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;font-weight:600\">Convenors:<\/span><br>  \n<span style=\"font-size: 18px\">\nKristel Edelman (\u00c5bo Akademi)<br>\nWilma Henning (\u00c5bo Akademi, University of Gothenburg)\n<\/span>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\"><\/p><p style=\"font-size: 18px;text-align: justify\">\n\nSustainability transitions are unfolding in a context marked not only by environmental crises, but also by increasing contestation over knowledge, narratives and political priorities. Knowledge production plays a pivotal role in shaping how environmental issues are perceived and which solutions and actions are seen as suitable. Environmental action today must navigate tensions between long-term goals and short-term pressures, alongside policy backlash, competing interpretations of evidence, and struggles over whose knowledge counts.<br><br>\n\nAt the same time, the European Green Deal promises to \u201cleave no one behind\u201d, yet gender equality and intersectional perspectives remain insufficiently integrated into environmental policy, research, and practice. This gap is critical: environmental change is experienced unevenly, shaped by gender alongside other intersectional dimensions, meaning more vulnerable groups are disproportionately affected while remaining underrepresented in shaping dominant narratives, expertise, and policy agendas. <br><br>\nEnvironmental social sciences highlight that sustainability transformations are not only technical or institutional processes, but also struggles over meaning, knowledge production, and imagined futures. Persistent divides remain between science and policy, knowledge and practice, and dominant and marginalised perspectives, i.e. divides closely linked to power and inequality.<br><br>\nThis session invites <span style=\"font-weight:600\">theoretical, conceptual,<\/span> and <span style=\"font-weight:600\">empirically informed <\/span> contributions that advance debates on the relationships between knowledge, power, and inequality in sustainability transformations, and explores how gender equality and intersectionality can help bridge these divides. We examine how knowledge is produced, contested and mobilised, and how narratives and imaginaries can both constrain and enable gender-sensitive sustainability transitions. <br><br>\nWe ask: <br>\n\u2022\tHow can feminist, intersectional, or critical approaches advance understandings of sustainability transitions? <br>\n\u2022\tHow can gender-sensitive and intersectional research inform environmental knowledge and policy in contexts of contested facts? <br>\n\u2022\tHow do narratives and imaginaries shape inclusion, resistance and policy outcomes? <br>\n\u2022\tHow can co-production across science, policy, and practice address both inequalities and sustainability goals? <br><br>\nWe welcome submissions addressing sustainability transitions through gender, intersectionality, knowledge politics, and interdisciplinary collaboration.<br><br>\nThis 90-minute session will feature a series of presentations, with each presenter allocated approximately 15 minutes, comprising a 10-minute presentation followed by discussion and questions. The session will conclude with a broader exchange among participants to reflect on common themes, emerging insights, and future research directions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px;font-weight:600;color: #000082\">Accepted abstracts<\/span>\n<p style=\"font-size:18px;text-align: justify\">\n<\/p><span style=\"font-size: 18px\"><ul>\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;font-weight:600;color: #000082\">Session I<\/span><br><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Genovait\u0117 Liobikien\u0117, Renata Dagili\u016bt\u0117, Vilija \u0160atien\u0117 (Vytautas Magnus University):<\/span><br> Gender and Climate Change Policy<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Safiya Adejoh (University of Abuja):<\/span><br> Whose Transition Counts? Gender, Knowledge and the Politics of Nigeria\u2019s Energy Transition<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Inna Perheentupa (University of Helsinki):<\/span><br> Mapping the Politics and Related Future Imaginaries of Sustainability Consultation<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Gonzalo Cort\u00e9s-Capano, Anna Hausmann, Jacqueline Loos, Marcela Brugnach, Noelia Zafra-Calvo (University of Jyv\u00e4skyl\u00e4; Basque Centre for Climate Change; University of Helsinki; Vienna University):<\/span><br> Narrating Plural Democratic Landscape Transformations in Contested Transitions: a Needs-Care-Justice Framework<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Enerelt Enkhtuya (LUT University):<\/span><br> From Climate Policy to Practice: Can Social Innovation Help Overcome Implementation Gaps?<\/li><br><br>\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;font-weight:600;color: #000082\">Session II<\/span><br><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Minna K\u00e4yr\u00e4 &amp; Marileena M\u00e4kel\u00e4 (University of Jyv\u00e4skyl\u00e4):<\/span><br> Measuring the Unmeasurable? Footprints as Contested Guides for Sustainability Transformation<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Anna Norberg (University of Helsinki):<\/span><br> Harnessing Ecological Predictions<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Titta Tapiola, Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke):<\/span><br> Agricultural Innovations for Public Purpose: The Role of Public Research Institutes<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Tuija Kajoskoski &amp; Eva Heiskanen (University of Helsinki):<\/span><br> Engaging \u2018Unlikely\u2019 Participants in Hands-on Climate Action to Develop More Inclusive Climate Policy?<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Antti Saarelainen, Mikko Piltonen, Lasse Peltonen (University of Eastern Finland):<\/span><br> Sustainability Transition on Local Scale \u2013 Case North Karelia Region<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Matias Sivonen (University of Eastern Finland):<\/span><br> The Reflexive Performativity of \u2018Favorable Conservation Status\u2019 in Saimaa Ringed Seal Protection<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p><\/span>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-pane kt-accordion-pane kt-accordion-pane-26 kt-pane3423_821829-ff\" id=\"19\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-header-wrap\"><button class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-header kt-acccordion-button-label-show\" type=\"button\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title-wrap\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title\">19: The good, the bad, and the ugly of Imagined Sustainable Energy Futures<\/span><\/span><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-icon-trigger\"><\/span><\/button><\/div><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel kt-accordion-panel-hidden\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel-inner\">\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;font-weight:600\">Convenors:<\/span><br>  \n<span style=\"font-size: 18px\">\nThaysa Portela de Carvalho (\u00c5bo Akademi)<br>\nJohan Malmberg (\u00c5bo Akademi)\n<\/span>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\"><\/p><p style=\"font-size: 18px;text-align: justify\">\n\nThe future holds a central role in sustainability transitions research, which aims to make sense of and navigate the changes necessary for societies to attain sustainable futures (e.g. K\u00f6hler et al., 2019). Imagined futures serve as the underlying frameworks through which we engage with the pervasive uncertainty and complexity associated with the problems on a collective and individual level (Friedrich and Hendriks, 2024). However, sustainability transitions are dependent on interpretations and social acceptance, hence they are fundamentally open-ended. Surprises and unintended outcomes are to be expected. Transitions are also conflictual and deeply political, producing trade-offs, winners and losers, and related struggles, as politically influential and well-resourced incumbents often resist change (Geels et al., 2019).<br><br>\n\nWe welcome both empirical research and conceptual submissions, as full paper or work-in-progress papers. Questions include (but not limited to): How are imagined sustainable energy futures constructed, by whom, and in whose interests? How do imagined sustainable energy futures meet friction, failure, or resistance? How do imaginaries of sustainable energy futures translate (or fail to translate) into policies, infrastructures, and the lives of the people and communities they intentionally (or unintentionally) affect? How do affected communities negotiate, resist, or reimagine dominant transition pathways? What new frameworks for future-making (including its accompanying narratives) are needed to grapple honestly with the complexity and conflict inherent in transitions? <br><br>\n\nSession consists of oral presentations (power-point may be used but not mandatory) followed by reviwe comments and discussion with the whole group. The presentations should be limited to 10 min, followed by 20 min of peer discussion. The peer discussion starts with the assigned reviewer, and then to host organizers, and then to whole group.<br><br>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;font-weight:600;color: #000082\">References<\/span><br>\n<p style=\"font-size: 14px;text-align: justify\">\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;margin-bottom: 0.4em\"><span style=\"font-weight:600\">\nFriedrich, J.; Hendriks, A. <\/span> (2024). Imagined futures in sustainability transitions: Towards diverse future-making. <em>Futures<\/em>, 164.<\/span><br><br>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;margin-bottom: 0.4em\"><span style=\"font-weight:600\">\nGeels et al. <\/span> (2019). <em>Sustainability transitions: Policy and practice<\/em>. European Environment Agency.<\/span><br><br>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;margin-bottom: 0.4em\"><span style=\"font-weight:600\">\nK\u00f6hler et al. <\/span> (2019). An agenda for sustainability transitions research: State of the art and future directions. <em>Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions<\/em>.<\/span><br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px;font-weight:600;color: #000082\">Accepted abstracts<\/span>\n<p style=\"font-size:18px;text-align: justify\">\n\n<\/p><span style=\"font-size: 18px\"><ul>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Viliina Kaikkonen:<\/span><br> The politics of lithium in Portugal: exploring frictions, contradictions, and disputes in speculative resource-making<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Raakel Vuojolainen:<\/span><br> Failing better for just and sustainable futures: Embracing failure as a feature of sustainability transformations<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Thaysa Portela de Carvalho:<\/span><br> Fair winds? Emerging policy contradictions for offshore wind power expansion in Finland&#8217;s EEZ<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Kristina Lepp\u00e4l\u00e4, Mariana Lyra, Hanna Lehtim\u00e4ki:<\/span><br> Imagining Just Energy Futures: Sociotechnical Imaginaries in Finland\u2019s Peat Transition<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Maria Bellou:<\/span><br> The Capture of Greek Energy Communities: Regime Resistance against Social Innovation Niches in the Energy Democracy Circuit<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Sanni Sipinen:<\/span><br> The roles of the state in green transition: The Finnish battery and extractive industries<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Hanna Lempinen, Pia Smeds &amp; Michael Kull:<\/span><br> Imagining (energy) futures through a rural energy community<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Safiya Adejoh:<\/span><br> Competing Imaginaries of Nigeria\u2019s Sustainable Energy Future: From Gas Bridge to Net Zero<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Johanna Ahola-Launonen:<\/span><br> When epistemic-affective resources become excessive: Reflexivity and closure in technological orientations<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Markku Lehtonen, Tapio Litmanen, Mika Kari, Matti Kojo:<\/span><br> Modernist and presentist technoscientific promises: Media reporting on small nuclear modular reactors in Finland and Sweden<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p><\/span>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-pane kt-accordion-pane kt-accordion-pane-27 kt-pane3423_d252eb-d2\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-header-wrap\"><button class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-header kt-acccordion-button-label-show\" type=\"button\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title-wrap\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title\">20: Too good to be true or a lack of imagination? Exploring radical ideas for a future of sustainable work<\/span><\/span><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-icon-trigger\"><\/span><\/button><\/div><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel kt-accordion-panel-hidden\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel-inner\">\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;font-weight:600\">Convenors:<\/span><br>  \n<span style=\"font-size: 18px\">\nJing Ding (Tampere University)<br> \nOssi Laaksamo (Tampere University) <br>\nTuuli Hirvilammi (Tampere University) <br>\nEeva Houtbeckers (Tampere University of Applied Sciences, University of Eastern Finland)<\/span>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\"><\/p><p style=\"font-size: 18px;text-align: justify\">\n\nThe organization of work plays a pivotal role in sustainability transformations. In the context of welfare states, work determines what goods and services are produced and how, how much material and energy is used, and to what extent individual, collective, and planetary well-being are ensured. <br><br>\n\nThis session invites contributions that explore future visions of work in a more sustainable world. What are the socio-ecological impacts of work? What kinds of work are urgently needed to safeguard social and ecological sustainability? What kinds of work need to be scaled down? How can social and ecological work be organized beyond formal employment to encompass meaningful activities in socially reproductive spheres? <br><br>\n\nWe are interested in how different actors, such as researchers, policymakers, activists, workers, citizens, labor market organizations, and civil society members, envision the content, format, and cultural recognition of socio-ecological work. How do these imaginaries support or change existing narratives about sustainability transformations? What public policies are compatible with and tailored to these visions? Additionally, we are interested in how the massive spread of AI use in workplaces is attached to the imaginaries in relation to the future of sustainable work.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;font-weight:600;color: #000082\">Apply to session<\/span>\n<p style=\"font-size:18px;text-align: justify\">\nWe invite conceptual, empirical, and\/or policy-focused presentations from various fields. We highly encourage interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary perspectives, as well as a broad range of theories and methodological approaches to studying work-focused future imaginaries.<br><br>\n\nThe session lasts 90 minutes. It consists of a 5-minute opening, five 15-minute presentations (10 minutes for presentation and 5 minutes for comments), and a 10-minute joint thematic discussion at the end.<br><br>\n\nPlease send your paper proposal (abstract of max. 250 words) to the <span style=\"font-weight:600\">corresponding convenor Jing Ding<\/span> (<a href=\"mailto:jing.ding@tuni.fi\">jing.ding@tuni.fi<\/a>) by 15 September 2026.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-pane kt-accordion-pane kt-accordion-pane-28 kt-pane3423_249985-cb\" id=\"21\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-header-wrap\"><button class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-header kt-acccordion-button-label-show\" type=\"button\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title-wrap\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title\">21: Transformers in Disguise: Railway Vicinity Imaginations for Sustainable Futures<\/span><\/span><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-icon-trigger\"><\/span><\/button><\/div><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel kt-accordion-panel-hidden\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel-inner\">\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;font-weight:600\">Convenors:<\/span><br>  \n<span style=\"font-size: 18px\">\nZeynep Ceren Correia (\u00c5bo Akademi)<br>\nJason Finch (\u00c5bo Akademi)<br>\nNirali Joshi (\u00c5bo Akademi)<br>\nAdam Borch (\u00c5bo Akademi)<br><br>\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs2.abo.fi\/railimage\/\"> RAILIMAGE PROJECT<\/a><\/span>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\"><\/p><p style=\"font-size: 18px;text-align: justify\">\n\nRail is a key infrastructure within global mobility systems, accounting for approximately 9% of freight and 8% of passenger transport while using only around 3% of energy used in transportation. Beyond its environmental efficiency, long-haul rail is increasingly positioned as a driver of sustainable transition due to its low-carbon performance, space efficiency, and central role in inter- and co-modality across freight and passenger systems. It also carries significant but underexplored potential for social transformation, including improved accessibility and emerging, yet unrealised, forms of gender-inclusive employment.  <br><br>\n\nThe session begins from the recognition that railway governance provides a formally defined boundary of the railway vicinity, typically understood as the infrastructure and its immediate operational and safety surroundings. However, while this definition clarifies where railway vicinity begins in regulatory terms, it remains insufficient for capturing how railway space is lived, represented, and historically produced. Building on this, the session critically rethinks railway vicinity as a relational concept, developed through an analysis of twentieth-century railway representations.  <br><br>\n\nRailway representations, encompassing people, spaces, and practices, open up a broader understanding of what counts as \u2018near\u2019, \u2018connected\u2019, or \u2018inside\u2019. Drawing together representations, including textual, literary, cartographic, visual and audio based art, as well as other cultural forms, from across the world, the session will bring shifting urban\u2013rural relations, moral economies, and care relationships into the discussion. We will further explore, among other areas, racialized mobilities, partnerships for collective infrastructural goals, and processes of professional transformation, including de-staffing, to inform debates on just transitions.<br><br>\n\nUltimately, the session aims to foreground what is disguised within representations by demonstrating how the railway vicinity expands into a relational field, offering new ways to understand mobility, infrastructure, and sustainable futures. The session forms part of the RAILIMAGE project (2024\u20132027; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs2.abo.fi\/railimage\/\"> (https:\/\/blogs2.abo.fi\/railimage\/)<\/a>, contributing to an urgently needed humanisation of transport studies through the reconstruction of the global qualitative and imaginative history of long-distance rail journeys.<br><br>\n\nWe hope to foster critical dialogue by encouraging comparative analyses across diverse geographical and historical contexts and engaging with a wide range of themes that challenge established assumptions, question dominant frameworks, and explore new questions and methodologies within humanistic traditions. To this end, we invite philosophical, theoretical, conceptual, empirical, and policy-oriented contributions from diverse disciplines that engage with railway vicinities.<br><br>\n\nWe welcome proposals for 15-minute in-person presentations in our session.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;font-weight:600;color: #000082\">References<\/span><br>\n<p style=\"font-size: 14px;text-align: justify\">\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;margin-bottom: 0.4em\"><span style=\"font-weight:600\">\nAdair, R., &amp; Martin, A. <\/span> (2018). A Driving Bloomsbury: Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, and the Meaning of the Motor-Car. <em>Woolf Studies Annual<\/em>, 24, 75-100.<\/span><br><br>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;margin-bottom: 0.4em\"><span style=\"font-weight:600\">\nBr\u00f6mmelstroet, T., Mladenovi\u0107, M., Nikolaeva, A., Gaziulusoy, \u0130., Ferreira, A., Schmidt-Thom\u00e9, K., &#8230; &amp; Bergsma, B. <\/span> (2022). Identifying, nurturing and empowering alternative mobility narratives. <em>Journal of Urban Mobility<\/em>, 2, 100031.<\/span><br><br>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;margin-bottom: 0.4em\"><span style=\"font-weight:600\">\nErkan, Y. <\/span> (2018). Viewpoint: Historic Urban Landscape Approach for Sustainable Urban Development. <em>The Historic Environment: Policy &amp; Practice<\/em>, 9(3\u20134), 346\u2013348. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/17567505.2018.1517192\"> https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/17567505.2018.1517192<\/a><\/span><br><br>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;margin-bottom: 0.4em\"><span style=\"font-weight:600\">\nFinch, J. <\/span> (2016). <em>Deep Locational Criticism: Imaginative Place in Literary Research and Teaching<\/em>. Routledge.<\/span><br><br>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;margin-bottom: 0.4em\"><span style=\"font-weight:600\">\nFraser, B. and S. Spalding (eds). <\/span> (2022). <em>Transnational Railway Cultures<\/em>. Berghahn.<\/span><br><br>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;margin-bottom: 0.4em\"><span style=\"font-weight:600\">\nGeels, F. W., &amp; Verhees, B. <\/span> (2011). Cultural legitimacy and framing struggles in innovation journeys: A cultural-performative perspective and a case study of Dutch nuclear energy (1945\u20131986). <em>Technological Forecasting and Social Change<\/em>, 78(6), 910-930.<\/span><br><br>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;margin-bottom: 0.4em\"><span style=\"font-weight:600\">\nGibson, A. G., &amp; Bengtsen, S. S. <\/span> (2024). Who is \u2018society\u2019 in the societal impact debate?\u2013A critical discussion of policies of closure. <em>Educational Philosophy and Theory<\/em>, 1-14.<\/span><br><br>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;margin-bottom: 0.4em\"><span style=\"font-weight:600\">\nHess, D. J. <\/span> (2014). Sustainability transitions: A political coalition perspective. <em>Research Policy<\/em>, 43(2), 278-283.<\/span><br><br>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;margin-bottom: 0.4em\"><span style=\"font-weight:600\">\nKim, Taehee. <\/span> (2024). &#8220;An Anthropological Approach to Mobilities: Noel B. Salazar.&#8221; <em>Mobility Humanities<\/em>, 3(1), 149-157.<\/span><br><br>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;margin-bottom: 0.4em\"><span style=\"font-weight:600\">\nK\u00f6hler, J., Geels, F. W., Kern, F., Markard, J., Onsongo, E., Wieczorek, A., &#8230; &amp; Wells, P. <\/span> (2019). An agenda for sustainability transitions research: State of the art and future directions. <em>Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions<\/em>, 31, 1-32.<\/span><br><br>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;margin-bottom: 0.4em\"><span style=\"font-weight:600\">\nMcCluskey, M. and L. Seaber (eds). <\/span> (2020). <em>Aviation in the Literature and Culture of Interwar Britain<\/em>. Palgrave Macmillan.<\/span><br><br>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;margin-bottom: 0.4em\"><span style=\"font-weight:600\">\nMcNees, E. <\/span> (2010). \u201cPublic Transport in Woolf\u2019s City Novels: The London Omnibus\u201d. In E. F. Evans and S. C. Cornish (eds), <em>Woolf and the City<\/em>. Liverpool UP: 31-39.<\/span><br><br>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;margin-bottom: 0.4em\"><span style=\"font-weight:600\">\nRyghaug, M., Suboti\u010dki, I., Smeds, E., von Wirth, T., Scherrer, A., Foulds, C., &#8230; &amp; Wentland, A. <\/span> (2023). A Social Sciences and Humanities research agenda for transport and mobility in Europe: key themes and 100 research questions. <em>Transport Reviews<\/em>, 43(4), 755-779.<\/span><br><br>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;margin-bottom: 0.4em\"><span style=\"font-weight:600\">\nSalazar, N. B. <\/span> (2013). Imagining Mobility at the \u201cEnd of the World.\u201d <em>History and Anthropology<\/em>, 24(2), 233\u2013252.<\/span><br><br>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;margin-bottom: 0.4em\"><span style=\"font-weight:600\">\nSheller, M. <\/span> (2015). Racialized mobility transitions in Philadelphia: connecting urban sustainability and transport justice. <em>City &amp; Society<\/em>, 27(1), 70-91.<\/span><br><br>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;margin-bottom: 0.4em\"><span style=\"font-weight:600\">\nEuropean Union Agency for Railways (ERA). <\/span> (2018). Final report on Facilitation of Combined Transport. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.era.europa.eu\/content\/final-report-facilitation-combined-transport_en\"> https:\/\/www.era.europa.eu\/content\/final-report-facilitation-combined-transport_en<\/a> (Accessed 11 February 2025).<\/span><br><br>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;margin-bottom: 0.4em\"><span style=\"font-weight:600\">\nEuropean Union Agency for Railways (ERA). <\/span> (2022). Game Changer for Carbon Neutral Economy. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.era.europa.eu\/system\/files\/2022-11\/game_changer_for_carbon_neutral_economy_presentation_en.pdf\"> https:\/\/www.era.europa.eu\/system\/files\/2022-11\/game_changer_for_carbon_neutral_economy_presentation_en.pdf<\/a> (Accessed 11 February 2025).<\/span><br><br>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;margin-bottom: 0.4em\"><span style=\"font-weight:600\">\nGlobal Rail Review. <\/span> (2024). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalrailwayreview.com\/article\/169874\/women-transport\/\"> https:\/\/www.globalrailwayreview.com\/article\/169874\/women-transport\/<\/a> (Accessed 11 February 2025).<\/span><br><br>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;margin-bottom: 0.4em\"><span style=\"font-weight:600\">\nUNESCO. <\/span> (2011). Recommendation on Historic Urban Landscape. <a href=\"https:\/\/whc.unesco.org\/en\/hul\/\"> https:\/\/whc.unesco.org\/en\/hul\/<\/a><\/span><br><br>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;margin-bottom: 0.4em\"><span style=\"font-weight:600\">\nUnited Nations (UN). <\/span> (2022). \u201cSustainable Development Goals\u201d. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/sustainable-development-goals\/\"> https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/sustainable-development-goals\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px;font-weight:600;color: #000082\">Accepted abstracts<\/span>\n<p style=\"font-size:18px;text-align: justify\">\n<\/p><span style=\"font-size: 18px\"><ul>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Adam Borch, \u00c5bo Akademi University:<\/span><br> Stimulating A Modal Shift from Plane to Train: Findings from Literary Tourism, Slow Tourism and Railway Tourism<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Nirali Joshi, \u00c5bo Akademi:<\/span><br> On edge<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Mikko Manka, Tampere University:<\/span><br> The Railway Beyond the Frame: Interrail Photography and Relational Railway Space, 1972\u20131993<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Jason Finch, \u00c5bo Akademi:<\/span><br> Across the Tracks in Twentieth-Century African American Literature and Culture: Rail Vicinity Term as Urban Imaginative Border<\/li><br>\n  <li><span style=\"font-weight: 600\">Zeynep Ceren Correia, \u00c5bo Akademi University:<\/span><br> Human Agency at the Near Point of Bike-Train Multimodality<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p><\/span>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-pane kt-accordion-pane kt-accordion-pane-29 kt-pane3423_71756d-3c\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-header-wrap\"><button class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-header kt-acccordion-button-label-show\" type=\"button\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title-wrap\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title\">22: Working the Green Transition 1: Screening and discussion of Lessons from Hanasaari (2026, 18 min)<\/span><\/span><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-icon-trigger\"><\/span><\/button><\/div><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel kt-accordion-panel-hidden\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel-inner\">\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;font-weight:600\">Convenors:<\/span><br>  \n<span style=\"font-size: 18px\">\nJanette Kotivirta (University of Helsinki)<br> \nVivian Price (California State University, Dominguez Hills and University of Helsinki)<br>  Anna Korpikoski (Trade Union for the Public and Welfare Sectors JHL, University of Helsinki)<\/span>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\"><\/p><p style=\"font-size: 18px;text-align: justify\">\n\nEnd Coal! Growing awareness of climate change led to international campaigns to phase out coal. In Finland, the local branches of Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth and others mobilized public support to shut down coal plants in the capital. In 2021 the City of Helsinki announced the decision to end coal use and close the Hanasaari power plant even earlier than originally planned. The municipal utility abruptly outsourced a notable part of its workforce, and unions were unprepared to respond, lacking preparation to make demands for a just transition. The workers resented the actions while the environmentalists were pleased with the cut in emissions. There had been no communication between them. What if there had been?<br><br>\n\nThis film project is a collaboration with the Trade Union for the Public and Welfare Sectors (JHL) and environmental groups to explore the tensions, contradictions and unity between environmentalist and labour perspectives through film. Documenting the story of the closure of the Hanasaari coal power plant in Helsinki, the film asks what role could workers and unions play in determining a transition away from fossil fuels? <br><br>\n\nWith an approach informed by praxis, video dialogue is a participatory visual method that elicits and records thoughts from diverse actors, letting different realities and actors encounter each other through film, reflection, and later through discussion. Through this method, the project aims to bring union members and environmental civil society actors together, with the short film as a means to understand each other\u2019s perspectives and foster a deeper exchange.<br><br>\n\nThis session invites scholars to take part in the video dialogue method through a viewing of the short film \u201cOppitunteja Hanasaaresta\u201d (2026, 18 min, Finnish with English subtitles) and facilitated discussion to reflect on the role of labour within environmental politics and environmental social sciences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;font-weight:600;color: #000082\">Apply to session<\/span><br><br>\n<p style=\"font-size:18px;text-align: justify\">\n<span style=\"font-weight:600\">No application required.<\/span> Participation is dependent on the availability of seats in the screening room.\n<br><br>\nQuestions regarding the session can be addressed to <span style=\"font-weight:600\">corresponding convenor Janette Kotivirta<\/span> (<a href=\"mailto:janette.kotivirta@helsinki.fi\">janette.kotivirta@helsinki.fi<\/a>). <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-pane kt-accordion-pane kt-accordion-pane-30 kt-pane3423_3d3da2-a9\" id=\"20-22-23\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-header-wrap\"><button class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-header kt-acccordion-button-label-show\" type=\"button\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title-wrap\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title\">23: Working the Green Transition 2: Intersections of Labour and Nature<\/span><\/span><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-icon-trigger\"><\/span><\/button><\/div><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel kt-accordion-panel-hidden\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel-inner\">\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;font-weight:600\">Convenors:<\/span><br>  \n<span style=\"font-size: 18px\">\nJanette Kotivirta (University of Helsinki)<br>\nVille Kellokumpu (University of Oulu)<br> \nVivian Price (California State University, Dominguez Hills and University of Helsinki)<br>  Anna Korpikoski (Trade Union for the Public and Welfare Sectors JHL, University of Helsinki)<\/span>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\"><\/p><p style=\"font-size: 18px;text-align: justify\">\n\nLabour\u2019s role has been increasingly explored as a key actor in the midst of the ecological crisis (Feltrin, 2026). Varying from ecomodernist accounts (Huber, 2022) to ones advocating for \u201cwages for earthwork\u201d (Temin, 2025) labour\u2019s centrality can no longer be dismissed. Offering a counterforce to the \u201ctransition from above\u201d (Leonardi &amp; Feltrin, 2025), scholars argue, a just ecological transition would need to center the demands of the working class. When capital is shaping and constructing the environment (Battistoni, 2025; Barca, 2024) according to its own image, the spectrum of workplaces ranging from the factory, the\nplantation to the service sector and the home become battlegrounds for more ecologically just futures.<br><br>\n\nThis session recenters workers and unions as potential strategic actors in the context of the climate crisis. It further asks why labour and the working class are almost entirely absent from the analytical register of Finnish environmental social science (Lempinen et al. 2025; Kellokumpu, 2025). We aim to develop this connection in conversation with the growing international scholarship exploring the contradictory nature of workers\u2019 ecological agency and the labour movement\u2019s environmental tendencies. <br><br>\n\nBy combining theory, grassroots organizing and union practice, the session also asks what kind of changes and accommodations would be needed on the part of organized labour itself in order for it to have a role in advancing more just futures globally?<br><br>\n\nThe session is open to proposals from scholars, organizers, activists and unions alike and accepts presentations that go beyond the regular academic paper format.<br><br>\nWe invite proposals on the following non-exhaustive topics:<br>\n\u25cf Ecological agency of workers and unions (and NGOs where relevant)<br>\n\u25cf Entanglements of labour, nature and imperialism<br>\n\u25cf The changing role of unions in the time of ecological catastrophe<br>\n\u25cf Role of labour in degrowth\/Tensions between labour and degrowth<br>\n\u25cf Political economy and labour environmentalism<br>\n\u25cf Trade union organizing and labour organizing experiences with\/around environmental actors and issues<br>\n\u25cf Social Reproduction and the environment<\/p>\n\n\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;font-weight:600;color: #000082\">Apply to session<\/span>\n<p style=\"font-size:18px;text-align: justify\">\nPlease send your paper proposal (abstract of max. 250 words) to the <span style=\"font-weight:600\">corresponding convenor Janette Kotivirta<\/span> (<a href=\"mailto:janette.kotivirta@helsinki.fi\">janette.kotivirta@helsinki.fi<\/a>) by 15 September 2026. Include the subject line <span style=\"font-weight:600\">\u201cYHYS abstract 2026\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;font-weight:600;color: #000082\">References<\/span><br>\n<p style=\"font-size: 14px;text-align: justify\">\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;margin-bottom: 0.4em\"><span style=\"font-weight:600\">\nBarca, S. <\/span> (2024). <em>Workers of the Earth\u202f: labour, ecology and reproduction in the age of climate change<\/em>, Pluto Press.<\/span><br><br>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;margin-bottom: 0.4em\"><span style=\"font-weight:600\">\nBattistoni, A. <\/span> (2025). <em>Free gifts\u202f: capitalism and the politics of nature<\/em>, Princeton University Press.<\/span><br><br>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;margin-bottom: 0.4em\"><span style=\"font-weight:600\">\nFeltrin, L. &amp; Leonardi, E. <\/span> (2023). Working-class environmentalism and climate justice : Strategic converging for an ecological transition from below. <em>RELA\u00c7\u00d5ES INTERNACIONAIS Special Issue<\/em>, 49-061. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.23906\/ri2023.sia05\"> https:\/\/doi.org\/10.23906\/ri2023.sia05<\/a><\/span><br><br>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;margin-bottom: 0.4em\"><span style=\"font-weight:600\">\nFeltrin, L. <\/span> (2026). <em>Workers and the world : fighting ecological crisis from within. <\/em>. Verso.<\/span><br><br>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;margin-bottom: 0.4em\"><span style=\"font-weight:600\">\nHuber, M. T. <\/span> (2022). <em>Climate change as class war\u202f: building socialism on a warming planet.<\/em>. Verso.<\/span><br><br>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;margin-bottom: 0.4em\"><span style=\"font-weight:600\">\nLempinen, H., Parks, V., &amp; Korpikoski, A. <\/span> (2025). Unions, fossil fuel workers, and the energy transition: learning from plant closures in Finland and the US. <em>Climate Policy<\/em>, 1-13.<\/span><br><br>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;margin-bottom: 0.4em\"><span style=\"font-weight:600\">\nKellokumpu, V. (postdoctoral researcher). <\/span> (2025). <em>\u201cEnvironmental awareness fails to reach the working class.\u201d <\/em> Maj and Tor Nessling Foundation <a href=\"https:\/\/nessling.fi\/en\/postdoctoral-researcher-ville-kellokumpu-environmental-awareness-fails-to-reach-the-working-class\/\"> https:\/\/nessling.fi\/en\/postdoctoral-researcher-ville-kellokumpu-environmental-awareness-fails-to-reach-the-working-class\/<\/a><\/span><br><br>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;margin-bottom: 0.4em\"><span style=\"font-weight:600\">\nTemin, D. M. <\/span> (2015). 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