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Call for Papers: Time and Globalization

Published on 23 April 2012 by ESAC Intern in Calls for Papers

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Workshop on Time and Globalization

October 19-20, 2012

McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

We are calling for the submission of paper proposals for an interdisciplinary workshop on Time and Globalization, to be held at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada, on October 19-20 (Friday & Saturday), 2012. The workshop is organized by the Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition (IGHC), which has focused on research and teaching on globalization and its social and cultural effects since its creation in 1998. There is a large literature on temporality, as there is on globalization. However, we think that it is important to bring insights from these two literatures into closer dialogue. A great many urgent problems involve complex interactions between temporality and globalization. These range from problems experienced in daily life to large epochal problems such as climate change. Much of the literature on temporality provides valuable philosophical and sociological insights into its general properties, its historical transformations, or its presence in daily life, without exploring the distinctive aspects of the interaction of temporality with globalization. Much the same could be said of the globalization literature’s relationship to temporality.

In this workshop we hope to build on work that is ongoing at the IGHC. We are particularly interested in proposals that focus on the (re)conceptualization of time, changing relationships among various temporalities, policy responses to temporal challenges, and relevant reflections on and implications for sustainability and social justice, in the ongoing processes of globalization. Among the themes that could be considered are:

Reconceptualizations of time in the context of globalization
Changing relationships between local and global temporalities and between various local temporalities
Contested globalization discourses and their temporal conceptualizations
Interplays of spatial and temporal logics in the context of globalization
The impact of global temporalities, for example acceleration or simultaneity, on democracy
Representations of globalization and temporality in literature, film, and popular and digital cultures
The relative importance of speed and space in global business and war
Differential collective and individual experiences of global temporalities
Rethinking the relationships between gender, sexualities, age, class, culture, ability, geography and global temporalities
Tensions between personal, corporate, governmental and environmental temporalities
The circulation and acceleration of new health risks and new public health challenges
Global public policies and changing temporalities
The role of activism in addressing the intersections of globalization and time, with regard to social justice, efficiency, productivity, speed, or sustainability

The workshop will bring together a small group of scholars from a variety of disciplines and perspectives, and aims to maximize the fruitfulness of our discussion by sharing and reading the papers in advance. We are interested in papers that focus on specific practices in which the interaction of temporal and global influences is evident empirically, as well as more theoretical papers, as long as they focus on the interaction of temporality and globalization and are not so embedded in particular disciplinary literatures that they cannot easily engage with insights from literatures in other disciplines. They will be circulated to participants a week in advance of the workshop, and should be 4000-6000 words, excluding endnotes and references. Our aim is to have some or all of the papers published in a special issue of a journal or an edited volume.

If this workshop interests you, please email us by May 1, 2012 at tempora@mcmaster.ca, with a title and 400-word proposal. We will notify potential participants by May 15.

Call for Submission: Postcolonial Ecocriticims

Published on 23 April 2012 by ESAC Intern in Calls for Papers

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CFP: Special Issue ARIEL: A Review of International Literature — Postcolonial Ecocriticisms among Settler-Colonial Nations

Both postcolonialism and ecocriticism are terms fraught with tensions. While they haven’t followed identical trajectories through time and criticism, both critical strategies nevertheless occupy similar modes and subjects of attention in contemporary literary theory. Yet, as Helen Tiffin and Graham Huggan suggest in Postcolonial Ecocriticism, approaching the two fields as correctives for one another perpetuates the assumptions that postcolonialism appeals only to anthropocentric values, while ecocriticism attends solely to eco-/bio-centric views. Postcolonial-ecocritical approaches have the capacity to work in complementary ways, illustrating the constitutive relations between social and environmental concerns.

We want to situate this special issue of ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature in the wake of recent critical efforts to engage the dynamic field of postcolonial ecocriticism such as Postcolonial Green, Postcolonial Ecologies, and Wilderness into Civilized Shapes. We seek articles that focus on contemporary cultural production from specific settler-colonial spaces: Aotearoa-New Zealand, Australia, Canada, and South Africa. Acknowledging the ways these regions have generally been considered together as “white settler colonies” with shared histories as Commonwealth nations, we are assuming, after Annie E. Coombes in Rethinking Settler Colonialism, that the similar “administrative structures and civic institutions” provide a basis from which to begin considering the heterogeneous ways in which settler colonials in “Australia,” “Canada,” “New Zealand,” and “South Africa” positioned themselves vis-à-vis Indigenous communities. In other words, the limited geographical scope of this special issue aims to both acknowledge the historical (if problematic) grouping of these nations as settler-colonial societies and encourage different strategies for thinking the connections between them.

We are particularly interested in comparative papers about contemporary/emergent writers and authors/texts not commonly studied either beyond their nations’ respective borders or from within the merging perspectives of postcolonialism and ecocriticism. A focus on contemporary writers, in particular young/emerging writers, stems precisely from the fact of their contemporaneity, which enables them to deal with and challenge “postcolonial” and “ecocritical” issues and concepts that have themselves emerged out of decades of postcolonial and ecocritical studies.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

environmental justice

nonhuman animals

ecologies of war/animals at war

eco-cosmopolitanism

Truth & Reconciliation

spatial organization

resource extraction/depletion

SF/speculative fiction

science (western and non-western)

poverty

ecological/environmental diaspora

ecological imperialism

food systems/agribusiness

biopolitics/biotechnologies

water

ecopoetry

national parks/conservation areas

narratives of retreat/back to the land

human-animal relations

homecoming/notions of belonging

coastlines/oceans

desertification

Please send 250-word proposals to guest editors Travis V. Mason, Elzette Steenkamp, and Lisa Szabo-Jones at PocoEcoIssue@gmail.com. Deadline for submissions is 13 July 2012.

Call for Papers: Urban Forests and Political Ecologies

Published on 23 April 2012 by ESAC Intern in Calls for Papers

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Source: http://webpages.scu.edu/ftp/mmooney/urbanforest.htm

Urban Forests & Political Ecologies: Celebrating Transdisciplinarity
Toronto, ON – April 18-20th, 2013
Submission Deadline: 15 October 2012

This three-day conference will cover a wide range of issues related to urban ecologies and political transgressions. It is designed for students, faculty, practitioners, community members, artists and researchers of all disciplines who are interested in enhancing their understanding of the various narratives that shape urban green spaces and the pedagogies that contribute to engaging with those diverse perspectives.

We encourage the submission of proposals that examine a variety of subjects relating to urban forests and culture broadly conceived within one of the six panel themes: a) Historical Narratives; 2) Urban Tree Cultures: Identities and Perspectives; 3) Social Inclusion in the Urban Forest: Scalar injustices and community connections; 4) From Government to Governance: Redefining politics; 5) Urban Ecology Pedagogies: Innovative approaches to education; 6) Adaptation and Vulnerability in the Urban Forest.

We welcome submissions from academics, graduate students, professionals, practitioners and artists. We are particularly interested in inter-and-transdisciplinary approaches and encourage artistic expressions and performance pieces.

Submission Guidelines: There are three categories for submission: 1) Oral Presentations; 2) Poster Presentations; and, 3) Art Exhibition.

Call for Oral Presentations: Each panel will include five speakers: a keynote speaker, an academic paper presentation, a student paper presentation, a practitioner and case study, and an artistic expression or reflective piece (ie. illustration, performance, short film, poetry) discussing how this area has been impacting society at large (outside of academic research). Abstracts should clearly indicate your preferred panel theme, as well as what speaker category for which you wish to be considered.

Call for Poster Presentations: Posters will be displayed for the first two days of the conference. Dimensions: 2×3 feet

Call for Visual Art Representations and Photo Essays (Art Exhibit): If submitting for the art exhibit, please send a photograph of your artwork along with your abstract.

Abstracts should be no longer than 300 words and are accepted until October 15th, 2012.
To propose a paper, a poster or an artistic expression or performance, please send all submissions via email to: submissions@ufpe.ca

Further information is available at the conference website: www.ufpe.ca

Call for Papers: Native Agriculture and Food Systems Initiative Grants

Published on 23 April 2012 by ESAC Intern in Calls for Papers

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First Nations Development Institute (First Nations) is now accepting proposals for its Native Agriculture & Food Systems Initiative (NAFSI). Through the generous support of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, First Nations plans to make six grant awards averaging $45,000 to support projects working to address food systems, food insecurity and food deserts in Native communities.

The goal of the NAFSI project is to build local and systemic infrastructure in Native American communities to address food system control, food insecurity and food deserts, thereby benefiting Native American communities with increased access to healthy and fresh foods, greater awareness of and control over where their food comes from, while expanding knowledge of the linkages between food and Native cultures and between families’ income and entrepreneurially-related food ventures.

Native American-controlled, nonprofit 501(c)(3), tribal organizations designated as §7871 under the Internal Revenue Code, or community-based groups such as community garden projects, food banks and/or food pantries that serve Native communities are eligible to apply. Priority will be given to projects aimed at increasing the availability of healthy, locally-produced foods in Native communities, reducing food insecurity, entrepreneurship and/or programs that create systemic change by increasing community control of local food systems. Moreover, this project will give priority to organizations that can assist and contribute to the development of emerging and promising practices in strengthening Native food systems.

Proposals will be accepted online and must be submitted by 5 p.m. Mountain Time on May 11, 2012.

First Nations Development Institute will host two conference calls for interested applicants. Conference calls provide an opportunity for applicants to ask questions about the application, proposal criteria or other proposal related questions before the application deadline. Participation IS NOT mandatory; however applicants are encouraged to participate. Applicants can participate in one or both calls.

• The first call will be held on Monday, April 23, 2012 at 11 AM MT.
• The second call will be held on Wednesday, May 2, 2012 at 2 PM MT.The call in number for both calls is: 1-877-427-7602 (toll-free). The Conference Code is7315891721.

For additional information about this program, please email Raymond Foxworth, Program and Research Officer, at rfoxworth@firstnations.org Click here for information on eligibility and to begin the application.

Call for Submissions: Robert M. Netting Award

Published on 12 April 2012 by ESAC Intern in Calls for Papers

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Netting Award for Graduate and Undergraduate Student Papers

Please see the information below concerning Robert M. Netting Award for graduate and undergraduate student papers on the topic of culture and agriculture, forestry, fisheries, and related fields. Culture & Agriculture, the AAA section that sponsors the paper contest, will be handing out two awards, one for a graduate paper and one for an undergraduate paper. This is a great opportunity for students to get recognized and start preparing their work for publication! The due date is May 12, 2012.

C&A invites anthropology graduate and undergraduate students to submit papers for the 2012 Robert M. Netting Award in Culture & Agriculture. The Graduate and Undergraduate winners will receive cash awards of $750 and $250, respectively, and have the opportunity for a direct consultation with the editors of our section’s journal, CAFE (Culture, Agriculture, Food and Environment), toward the goal of revising the paper for publication. Submissions should draw on relevant literature from any subfield of Anthropology, and present data from original research related to livelihoods based on crop, livestock, or fishery production and forestry and/or management of agricultural and environmental resources. Papers should be single-authored, limited to a maximum of 7,000 words, including endnotes, appendices, and references, and should follow American Anthropologist format style.

Papers already published or accepted for publication are not eligible. Only one submission per student is allowed. Submitters need not be members of the American Anthropological Association but they must be enrolled students. (Students graduating in the Spring of 2012 are eligible). The submission deadline is May 12, 2012.The winner will be announced at the C&A Business Meeting at the 2012 AAA meetings in San Francisco. Please submit papers electronically to Joan Mencher at joan.mencher@gmail.com

For more information on Culture & Agriculture, please visit http://www.aaanet.org/sections/cultureandagriculture/about/

Call for Papers: Eric Wolf Prize

Published on 12 April 2012 by ESAC Intern in Calls for Papers

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Announcement for the 2013 Eric Wolf Prize

The Political Ecology Society (PESO) announces the 2013 Eric Wolf Prize for the best article-length paper. We seek papers based in substantive field research that make an innovative contribution to Political Ecology. To be eligible for the competition, scholars must be ABD or have received their Ph.D. within the three years prior to publication of this announcement. A cash prize of $500 accompanies the award, which will be presented at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology. The paper will be published in the Journal of Political Ecology.

The preferred format for papers is electronic, but CDs and paper will also be accepted. Please use the style guidelines provided on the Journal of Political Ecology webpage: http://jpe.library.arizona.edu/. Electronic copies should be sent to Dr. María L. Cruz-Torres (maria.Cruz-torres@asu.edu) and paper and CD copies to María L. Cruz-Torres:The School of Transborder Studies, Arizona State University, Po Box 876303, Tempe, AZ 85287-6303. The deadline for submission is August 1 2012.

Call for Papers: World Forest History Series

Published on 15 March 2012 by ESAC Intern in Calls for Papers

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Graeme Wynn and David Brownstein have been confirmed as the editors of the Canadian contribution to the World Forest History Series.

The volumes are intended to address inter alia the “rise of state and scientific forestry and the evolution of environmental land management practices, with a special focus on colonial forestry and its legacy,” and to ”feature a substantial section of primary sources related to the history of humans and forests.” Recognizing the scale and importance of forest history in Canada, the series editors, Gregory Barton and Brett Bennett have suggested two volumes on Canada, one of essays and the other of primary source documents. Wynn and Brownstein are developing outlines/ preferred emphases for the volumes, but would appreciate hearing from anyone interested in contributing at their earliest convenience.

This is also a formal call for proposed papers (of approximately 8-10000 words in length). Proposals (of 500 words or so) may be chronological, historiographical, thematic or regional in focus and should be sent to both wynn@geog.ubc.ca and david.brownstein@geog.ubc.ca by 1 May 2012.

Please consider the following:
1- the volumes should be readable and coherent for all readers, not just geographers and historians. This means, among other things, writing in plain language and avoiding overly partisan language. We hope to make the volumes specialized enough to draw audiences from the scholarly community but broad enough to interest non-scholarly readers.

2- we would like to involve foresters and scientists in this project, especially with a view to offering some current perspectives on forestry.

3- There should be some historiographical analysis, such as an overview of shifting interpretations of forest history.

4- The series seeks to integrate national histories into both imperial and world histories. This implies that contributions should attend, as appropriate, to the relations between Canada and the British Empire and the world.

Workshop on Time and Globalization: Call for Papers

Published on 08 March 2012 by ESAC Intern in Calls for Papers

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Workshop on Time and Globalization

October 19-20, 2012

McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

Call for Papers

We are calling for the submission of paper proposals for an interdisciplinary workshop on Time and Globalization, to be held at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada, on October 19-20 (Friday & Saturday), 2012. The workshop is organized by the Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition (IGHC), which has focused on research and teaching on globalization and its social and cultural effects since its creation in 1998. There is a large literature on temporality, as there is on globalization. However, we think that it is important to bring insights from these two literatures into closer dialogue. A great many urgent problems involve complex interactions between temporality and globalization. These range from problems experienced in daily life to large epochal problems such as climate change. Much of the literature on temporality provides valuable philosophical and sociological insights into its general properties, its historical transformations, or its presence in daily life, without exploring the distinctive aspects of the interaction of temporality with globalization. Much the same could be said of the globalization literature’s relationship to temporality.

In this workshop we hope to build on work that is ongoing at the IGHC. We are particularly interested in proposals that focus on the (re)conceptualization of time, changing relationships among various temporalities, policy responses to temporal challenges, and relevant reflections on and implications for sustainability and social justice, in the ongoing processes of globalization. Among the themes that could be considered are:

Reconceptualizations of time in the context of globalization
Changing relationships between local and global temporalities and between various local temporalities
Contested globalization discourses and their temporal conceptualizations
Interplays of spatial and temporal logics in the context of globalization
The impact of global temporalities, for example acceleration or simultaneity, on democracy
Representations of globalization and temporality in literature, film, and popular and digital cultures
The relative importance of speed and space in global business and war
Differential collective and individual experiences of global temporalities
Rethinking the relationships between gender, sexualities, age, class, culture, ability, geography and global temporalities
Tensions between personal, corporate, governmental and environmental temporalities
The circulation and acceleration of new health risks and new public health challenges
Global public policies and changing temporalities
The role of activism in addressing the intersections of globalization and time, with regard to social justice, efficiency, productivity, speed, or sustainability

The workshop will bring together a small group of scholars from a variety of disciplines and perspectives, and aims to maximize the fruitfulness of our discussion by sharing and reading the papers in advance. We are interested in papers that focus on specific practices in which the interaction of temporal and global influences is evident empirically, as well as more theoretical papers, as long as they focus on the interaction of temporality and globalization and are not so embedded in particular disciplinary literatures that they cannot easily engage with insights from literatures in other disciplines. They will be circulated to participants a week in advance of the workshop, and should be 4000-6000 words, excluding endnotes and references. Our aim is to have some or all of the papers published in a special issue of a journal or an edited volume.

If this workshop interests you, please email us by May 1, 2012 at tempora@mcmaster.ca, with a title and 400-word proposal. We will notify potential participants by May 15. Please feel free to circulate this invitation to others who may be interested.

Environmental Humanities: Call for Submissions

Published on 08 March 2012 by ESAC Intern in Calls for Papers, Latest News, Resources

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Environmental Humanities is a new journal, launching on November 2012. It is an international, open-access journal that aims to invigorate current interdisciplinary research on the environment. In response to a growing interest around the world in the many questions that arise in this era of rapid environmental and social change, the journal will publish outstanding scholarship that draws humanities disciplines into conversation with each other, and with the natural and social sciences.

In anticipation for their upcoming launch, they are searching for article submissions. Further information can be found here.

Call for Papers: Alternatives Journal “Education and Careers”

Published on 01 March 2012 by ESAC Intern in Calls for Papers

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Proposals due Monday March 26, 2012 at 9am EST

ALTERNATIVES’ final issue of 2012 will explore the next generation of job opportunities and identify how to choose an environmentally conscious career path right now. To complement our annual Canadian Environmental Education Directory (which compiles post-secondary degree program details from across the country), we are seeking feature stories and smaller articles that deliver insights about the evolution of learning and employment.

What industries will need a big influx of new workers before 2020 (and why)? What fields or modes of study are making vital contributions to the planetary future (and how)? Which educators are teaching principles or deploying tools that could radically improve our relationships with nature and each other? What are the most exciting new careers in ecological stewardship and social justice? What small-footprint skills and disciplines are resurging? What environmental learning opportunities are out there that everyone should be plugged into? What should both teachers and students be focused on in order to build a more sustainable future?

Story possibilities could also include the following:
* Profiles of businesses/industries/workers that deliver a lot of benefits to the planet (restoring degraded environments, providing livelihoods for the jobless, reducing energy and resource demand, empowering the voiceless, building understanding …)
* Creative examples of grassroots and community-based education and learning initiatives that tackle specific local environmental issues, either in Canada or abroad;
* Profiles of people who hold key positions in an emerging field of environmental science, policy or advocacy which has a lot of near-future growth potential;
* A discussion of how indigenous perspectives on the natural world could (and should) be integrated with mainstream science to promote stewardship;
* A brief analysis of a trend or research in environmental education and jobs.

To submit your proposal, please follow the proposal guidelines and checklist that appear below.

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Alternatives combines the learned rigour of an academic journal with the breezy style of a magazine. We aim to publish the best environmental writing in the country – writing that is engaging, thought-provoking and insightful. Before responding to this call, please read several back issues of the magazine so that you understand the nature of our publication. We also
suggest you go through the detailed submission procedures on our website to understand the types and lengths of articles we accept.
In about 300 words, proposals should explain the content and scope of your article, as well as convey your intended approach, tone and style. Please include a list of people you will interview, potential image sources and the number of words you propose to write. We would also like to receive a very short bio. If you have not written for Alternatives before, please also include other examples of your writing.
Keep in mind that our lead time is several months. Articles should not be so time-bound that they will seem dated once published.
A registered charity, Alternatives has a limited budget of 10 cents per word for several articles. This stipend is available to professional and amateur writers and students only. Please indicate your interest in this funding in your proposal.
Send proposals electronically (with “38.6 pitch” in your email subject line) in word format (not pdf) to Eric Rumble, Editor (editor @ alternativesjournal.ca) by first thing Monday March 26, 2012 at 9am Eastern Standard Time.

*Check List*
PLEASE FOLLOW THIS TEMPLATE EXACTLY WHEN PREPARING YOUR PROPOSAL:
1. Name
2. Phone, address, email, Skype
3. Do you request a stipend?
4. Length of article
5. One paragraph bio
6. 300-word-long description of your article
7. List of people you will interview
8. Ideas for images to accompany your article
9. Sample of your writing for those who have not yet written for Alternatives.

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Eric Rumble | Editor
Alternatives Journal | Canada’s environment magazine
P: 519 888 4505 | F: 519 746 0292 | E: eric@alternativesjournal.ca