CfP Politicizing Socio-Ecological Territories: Inquiries into place-based grassroots conflicts and organising Convenors: Salvatore Paolo De Rosa (Lund University) Giorgos Velegrakis (Harokopio University) Marco Armiero (KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory) UNDISCIPLINED ENVIRONMENTS International Conference of the European Network of Political Ecology (ENTITLE) Stockholm, 20-23 of March 2016 http://www.politicalecology.eu/news/item/entitleconference Within the current upsurge in social and environmental conflicts around the world, a heterogeneity of grassroots movements waging resistance in rural and urban environments is increasingly engaging in direct reappropriations and rearrangements of the spaces at stake. What these movements emphasize is the grounding of practices in the places of their political organising as a way to counteract the local manifestations of injustices and inequalities, as an approach to the recreation of communities’ identities, political and socio-economic structures, and as a strategy to advance projects of place remaking from below. From the long-standing caracoles of Zapatistas to the more recent cantons of the Rojava Revolution, from the self- demarcation of territories by indigenous people in the Amazon forest to the reclaiming of municipalities, neighbourhoods, squares and lands by activists within Turkey, Greece, Italy and elsewhere, the re-configurations of local socio-ecological relations by grassroots movements, and the political possibilities they open to, require a deeper theoretical and empirical attention. To tackle this multiplication of place-based grassroots organising, a renovated notion of territory stemming from the concerns of grassroots struggles seems particularly urgent. While (re)articulations of territoriality as a concept and as a practice have been for decades part of the Latin American social movements’ features and research, only recently ideas of territory in the West have gone beyond definitions of States’ spatial authority. By working closely with social movements, Arturo Escobar has theorized territory as a “multidimensional space fundamental