Hey majors,
See below for a great place to think of publishing a research or creative piece you had a lot of fun with this last year.
~Salma
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Subject: [asle] Call for Submissions - UnderCurrents
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UnderCurrents Volume 18: End Times and Beginnings
Call for Submissions
The UnderCurrents editorial collective is happy to announce that, after a
four-year hiatus, the student-run journal of critical environmental studies
will be re-launched in the spring of 2013. As such, we invite visual and
text-based contributions for our upcoming issue, fittingly titled “End Times
and Beginnings.” We are seeking scholarly and artistic work that critically
engages with ideas of environmental restoration, regenesis, and utopia, on the
one hand, and post-apocalyptic narratives, responses to and causes of
environmental crisis and catastrophe, historic accounts of other apocalypses,
and imaginings of the end of days on the other. As we find ourselves in a
world that is, as Stephen Lewis asserts, “facing the possible catastrophic
implosion of humankind” where scientists predict unprecedented environmental
change of apocalyptic scale on the immediate horizon, where might we find hope
for our future? This issue solicits work that challenges current climate
change, environmental disaster, and environmental activist rhetoric, attempts
to come to terms with despair over massive species extinctions and widespread
suffering, and, perhaps most importantly, imagines different possibilities for
the future.
Possible topics include but are not limited to:
Postapocalyptic literature and film
Hope and environmental activism
Melancholy and mourning
Restoration ecology
Environmental disaster management
Utopian environmental movements
Climate change fiction, poetry, and theory
Critical perspectives on climate change, sustainability, and resilience
Environmental history and historic accounts of environmental disaster and
apocalypse
The possibility and promise of hybrid natures
Critiques of green is the new black and green washing,
Dark ecology
Slow apocalypse/slow violence
Posthumanism as an antiapocalyptic (or apocalyptic) gesture
Disarticulations neoliberalisms
Militarization of nature
Time and temporality
Electronic submission preferred.
Include name, address, brief bio, email, and phone number.
Please submit artwork in black and white, at least 5x7, 600 dpi., tiff files,
and text (maximum 6000 words) in .doc to:
currents@yorku.ca Deadline for submissions is September 17, 2012.
The editorial collective will work closely with authors whose work has been
selected. UnderCurrents encourages authors to engage in anti-discriminatory
discourse. Please visit our website
http://www.yorku.ca/currents/ for more
details. Submissions that do not meet these requirements will not be
considered.
References
Stephen Lewis, “The Health Impact of Global Climate Change.” Our Schools/Our
Selves: Divided We Stand, United We Fall 19.1 (Fall 2009): 25-35.