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Panel: Unstable Environments. Health and Healing in Remote Places

Datum
15. April 2025 

Cfp for a Panel


CfP for Pan­el: „Unsta­ble Envi­ron­ments : Health and Heal­ing in Remote Places”
Con­ven­ers: Meoïn Hagège, Lau­ra Burke
Stream: Health and Environment 

Until April 15th, 2025, indi­vid­u­als can sub­mit pro­pos­als for pan­els and round­ta­bles via the SUBMISSION PORTAL.

Abstract: This pan­el takes remote island land­scapes of health and well-being as its start­ing point to dis­cuss how areas, which are geo­graph­i­cal­ly, logis­ti­cal­ly and polit­i­cal­ly mar­gin­alised, aban­doned or neglect­ed, expe­ri­ence ill­ness and heal­ing and encoun­ters with the State that emerge from seek­ing care. It explores the ‘envi­ron­ment’ as a wider social and phys­i­cal space per­me­at­ed by local and glob­al inequal­i­ties inher­it­ed by colo­nial his­to­ries. It draws on Street’s descrip­tion of ‘unsta­ble places’, which are char­ac­terised by poor health infra­struc­ture, insti­tu­tion­al insta­bil­i­ty and med­ical uncer­tain­ty (Street, 2014). In such areas, bio­med­i­cine comes up against the lim­its of its prac­tices and tech­nolo­gies (or lack there­of) and med­i­c­i­nal care must be con­tin­u­al­ly rein­vent­ed and reimag­ined (2014,12). Rather than receiv­ing life-sav­ing or life-mak­ing health­care, places might face ‘aban­don­ment’ rather than assis­tance (Munro and Wid­mer 2023) or (un)intentional neglect (Beal et al. 2025). Places of insta­bil­i­ty, mar­gin­alised by state care struc­tures and inter­na­tion­al assis­tance, logis­ti­cal dis­tance, and lack of tech­nolo­gies and human resources, rede­fine how ill­ness and heal­ing are expe­ri­enced. How do mar­gin­alised com­mu­ni­ties liv­ing in unsta­ble envi­ron­ments bal­ance health and well-being with the risks of reach­ing treat­ment? What hap­pens when treat­ment is out of reach due to long dis­tances, costs, weath­er, and risky jour­neys? How does access to or aban­don­ment from health and social care affect these spaces? Cru­cial­ly how are health and the envi­ron­ment being reen­vi­sioned in the process? Sub­mis­sions should be empir­i­cal stud­ies in the social sci­ences includ­ing but not lim­it­ed to field­work in remote island spaces or iso­lat­ed communities.

You can find the list of accept­ed pan­els and round­ta­bles, includ­ing yours, here: https://mae.univie.ac.at/scientific-program

Fur­ther­more, you can find the gen­er­al sub­mis­sion guide­lines here: https://mae.univie.ac.at/submission-guidelines