BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//EuroSEAS 2026//EN X-WR-CALNAME:EuroSEAS 2026 BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Madrid X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Madrid BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 DTSTART:19700329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 DTSTART:19701025T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260604T083500 UID:euroseas-2026-eating-the-earth-and-consuming-futures-food-systems-climate-governance-and-environmental-justice-at-southeast-asia-s-frontiers SUMMARY:Eating the Earth and Consuming Futures: Food Systems, Climate Governance, and Environmental Justice at Southeast Asia's Frontiers LOCATION:Sala J. J. Linz DESCRIPTION:Southeast Asia’s frontier zones, where industrial agricul ture meets indigenous territories, carbon offset projects reshape landscape s, and global supply chains intersect with local livelihoods, reveal the pr ofound contradictions of contemporary climate governance. This panel examin es how food security narratives, climate mitigation technologies, and devel opment interventions converge to produce new forms of environmental violenc e that unfold across temporal and spatial scales, while interrogating the c ritical yet contested role of local governments as frontier mediators who t ranslate global climate imperatives into district-level realities through l and use policies, conservation\nprograms, and budget allocations.\nMoving b eyond conventional food security frameworks, we interrogate how climate  220;solutions” from large-scale oil palm plantations, marketed as bio fuel alternatives to carbon sequestration projects in peatlands, fundamenta lly reorganize socio-ecological relations. These interventions, while promi sing planetary salvation, often accelerate dispossession, biodiversity loss , and the erosion of indigenous food systems that have sustained communitie s for generations. Our panel brings together scholars examining the diverse frontiers of Southeast Asia, where the metabolic rift between human societ ies and nature manifests through competing claims over land, resources, and futures. We examine how green grabbing is facilitated through narratives o f sustainability, how land grabbing is facilitated by narratives of food se curity and food selfsufficiency, how agrarian transitions are reconfigured through climate finance mechanisms, and how communities navigate the balanc e between adaptation and resistance.\nWe also examine how local governments serve as both implementers and gatekeepers of climate governance, influenc ing the materialization of global climate agendas through their everyday ad ministrative decisions, which shape land access, resource distribution, and community participation. Particular attention is given to the temporalitie s of violence from the spectacular clearing of forests to the slow poisonin g of waterways by agrochemicals, from immediate displacement to intergenera tional loss of ecological knowledge.\nBy analysing case studies from Indone sia and other countries in Southeast Asia, we demonstrate how the region 217;s frontiers serve as laboratories for global climate interventions whil e bearing their harshest consequences. The panel contributes to critical de bates on environmental justice by revealing how climate action, when divorc ed from questions of power and equity, can perpetuate the very crises it pu rports to solve. We ultimately argue for alternative pathways that center i ndigenous knowledge, food sovereignty, and genuine ecological regeneration over market-based solutions that commodify both nature and survival. URL:https://euroseas2026.org/panels/eating-the-earth-and-consuming-futures-food-systems-climate-governance-and-environmental-justice-at-southeast-asia-s-frontiers DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260903T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260903T133000 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR