Call for short-papers: ‘Emerging voices for the change making of food systems’
11-13 June 2025, Montpellier (France)
AESOP Sustainable Food Planning invites you to the upcoming Young Researchers and Professionals workshop (June 11-13, Montpellier, France)! This event offers a unique opportunity to bring together early-career researchers and professionals across Europe to share fresh ideas, build connections, and discuss ongoing work in food planning. Through a diversity of sessions and formats, participants will engage with peers in tackling urban-regional food planning challenges from diverse angles. The call for short-papers particularly welcomes work-in-progress!
Today, a growing consensus emphasizes the need to transform food systems, acknowledging their deep connection to the pressing socio-ecological challenges of our time. However, given the diversity of urban-regional contexts, strategies and methodologies for achieving that transformation and developing place-based alternatives are far from uniform. On the contrary, approaches to the changemaking of food systems are diverse, tailored to specific territorial realities, (power) dynamics, and problematics at play. This call for short papers therefore raises the question of how early-career researchers approach the urban-regional food system: What approaches do they mobilize? Are new methodologies necessary? What unconventional angles or unexplored lenses for the challenge of food system change? What methodologies or action-oriented approaches can be mobilised that account for the diversity of place-based contexts?
Examples can range from addressing food through the nexus with other ‘complex systems’ or policy fields (i.e. climate, logistics, housing, transport, health); or providing perspectives on fundamental questions such as the right to land for urban-peri-urban farmers, or urban food justice and socio-ecological justice; or action-research methodologies based on the blending of different actors, disciplines, and knowledges, among other perspectives.
Rather than polished scientific outputs, this call for short-papers particularly welcomes work-in-progress, to provide young scholars and professionals with the opportunity to discuss on-going work with peers, particularly focusing on problems and challenges encountered. We aim to publish short paper contributions in a book of proceedings, as well as to discuss further joint outputs to connect and valorise the work of young scholars and professionals in food planning.
Short paper submissions due: April 20, 2025
Acceptance notification: May 02, 2025
Submit your contribution to: aesopsustainablefoodplanning@gmail.com
All the info about application process and the format of short papers submissions can found via the link below.
