Global Environmental
Histories from Below
Call for Papers
Special Issue of
Resilience: A Journal of
the Environmental Humanities
Robert Morrissey and Roderick Wilson, editors
We
seek submissions for a special, peer-reviewed issue focusing on “Global
Environmental Histories from Below” -- by which we mean historical work that
tells the history of environmental, social, and cultural change from the bottom
up. Aiming for a truly global
conversation, we hope to bring together scholars with a broad range of
geographical and temporal concerns for a mix of essays that will be both
methodological and topical. Digging
below the level of empire and nation-state, this special issue will draw on
local case studies from around the world to imagine and develop a set of
frameworks for telling global environmental histories from a grassroots
perspective.
Submissions
should feature the viewpoint of the voiceless, underrepresented, or socially
marginalized wherever possible. They might come at “the below” from a variety
of angles, including but not limited to the following:
Indigenous environmental
histories: work
that addresses the intersection of native peoples and their historical
relations with local, regional and interregional environments;
Environmental histories of
agriculture and fishing:
work that might range from agronomy to farming the sea to explore the long and
complex history people have shared with plants, animals, and other historical
actors at a variety of scales;
Vernacular knowledges: work that explores how tacit
knowledge of the environment is learned and transmitted and how local bodies of
knowledge have been changed or lost with the introduction of scientific management
of natural environments.
Submissions
should be no more than 7000 words, including notes.
Deadline for submissions is May
15, 2015.
For
further information please contact Bob Morrissey at rmorriss@illinois.edu and
Rod Wilson at riwilson@illinois.edu.
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