Themes | Dala Institute

In late June, a team from Dala traveled to Barcelona for the POLLEN Conference 2026, the biennial gathering of the Political Ecology Network. This year's theme, "Diverse Origins, Multiple Futures: The Stories of Political Ecology," drew over 850 participants across 134 panels. We were among them. POLLEN was our first time presenting as a research team drawing from shared fieldwork rather than as individual scholars shopping for feedback on separate projects. For me, it was the first academic co

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One Panel, Many Learnings: Dala at POLLEN 2026