reviewer wanted - "Electric animal: toward a rhetoric of wildlife"

probably already taken, but possibly of interest...

MODERATOR'S NOTE: UMP is soliciting a reviewer for the book on the list.
If you are interested, let me know, and I will pass your name on to
them.--k
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From:    "Stacy Lienemann" 

A foundational exploration of the figure of the animal in modern culture

ELECTRIC ANIMAL: Toward a Rhetoric of Wildlife
Akira Mizuta Lippit
University of Minnesota Press | 296 pages | 2008
ISBN 978-0-8166-3486-6 | paperback | $25.00

NOW IN PAPER

Akira Mizuta Lippit shows us the animal as a crucial figure in the
definition of modernity‹essential to developments in the natural sciences
and technology, radical transformations in modern philosophy and literature,
and the advent of psychoanalysis and the cinema.

"In a dazzling interdisciplinary romp through Aristotle, Heidegger, Darwin,
Freud, and up to the present with a discussion of Kafka, photography, and
cinema, Lippit is keenly aware of how, throughout history, people have
condescended toward animals‹the flip side of valuing humanity above all
else. Lippit deconstructs the masking of animal consciousness in our
intellectual traditions." ‹Chronicle of Higher Education

"This book is, among other things, an extraordinarily promising preface to
a, perhaps the, theory of cinema." ‹MLN

For more information, including the table of contents, visit the book¹s
webpage:
http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/L/lippit_electric.html

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CFP: Graduate Student Research Conference on Latin America and the Caribbean

Note to self:

Marta, apply to this the Graduate Student Research Conference on Latin America and the Caribbean. It is only a grad conference and you'll feel bad when the time comes and you haven't applied and you realize that your abstract would have totally have gotten in. Don't delay, do it now.

2008 marks the 30th anniversary of the founding of York University's Centre for
Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC), Canada's oldest and
largest research group on the region. As part of a year-long series of events to
mark this achievement, CERLAC is hosting a Graduate Student Research Conference on Latin America and the Caribbean on November 7th and 8th, 2008, at York University in Toronto.

In recognizing the strength of diversity, papers and presentation proposals are
welcome on any aspect of study of Latin America and the Caribbean as a whole
and/or its constituent parts. We particularly seek, however, to attract
those contributors whose work can open fruitful dialogues and exchange across
disciplines. Consistent with CERLAC's long-standing spirit and practice of
collaboration, graduate students from other institutions are also invited to
submit abstracts to the conference and to share in this celebration of graduate
student scholarship.

Since its founding in 1978, the academic and institutional reputation of CERLAC and York University’s diverse graduate programs have attracted many students from Canada and abroad. This conference represents an outstanding opportunity to recognize, explore and build upon the work of the current generation of graduate students in all disciplines, including (but not limited to) the social sciences, humanities, fine arts, environmental studies, law and business.

Contact/Submissions:
To obtain the required conference application form, please click here. The form
includes a request for a 250-word (maximum) abstract for papers or alternative
presentations.

The deadline for applications is August 31th, 2008; however, those planning to present in artistic/alternative formats (e.g. film, dance, visual arts, music, etc.) are encouraged to contact us earlier for logistical/planning purposes. Inquiries and completed application forms may be sent to lacsconf@yorku.ca.

Applicants will receive confirmation of acceptance by October 1st, 2008. Those
students wishing to receive more detailed feedback from a panel discussant will
be asked to submit their full papers/presentation material by October 10th, 2008
to facilitate a thorough review.

CFP: Environment, Curriculum and Education

another one of interest, perhaps (oh, and no apparent deadline, since they want to publish it serially over the next few years?? not sure; here it is anyway):

The Journal of Curriculum Studies (JCS) welcomes submissions for a forthcoming special issue on "Environment, Curriculum and Education"

For full details please visit http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/cfp/tcuscfp1.pdf

Since the 1970s, the state of the environment and pathways toward sustainability have both emerged and been contested as onjects of political and pedagogic discourse in a range of institutions and places throughout the world. Often ties to shifts in and a broadening of ecological consciousness, it can also be noted that various attempts to "green" civil society and structures have led to mixed responses on the part of new social movements and formations, schools and communities, and business and governance, amongst others.

The Journal of Curriculum Studies seeks to publish a series of scholarly articles and essays on "Environmental, Curriculum and Education". Papers might address, but are not limited to, inquiries about:

- the politics and philosophy of the environment and / or sustainability in teaching, learning and the curriculum
- contemporary and possible purposes, expectations and policies shaping formal education systems
- the relationship between academic environmental and sustainability research and scholarship and the curriculum

To read the full Special Call for Submissions please visit http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/cfp/tcuscfp1.pdf

For more information and the Journal of Curriculum Studies, please visit www.informaworld.com/jcs

Submissions should be sent to Alan Reid, special editor for the "Education, Curriculum and Education" strand of Journal of Curriculum Studies.

Alan Reid is Editor of Environmental Education Research. Please visit www.informaworld.com/eer for more details.

CFP: for Environmental Communication

Looks like a good call for some of us—anyone interested in a collaborative venture??
-k

Call for Papers

Discursive constructions of climate change: practices of encoding and decoding

Call for manuscripts for special issue of
Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture
Volume #3, Issue #2 (2009)

Editors: Anabela Carvalho, University of Minho; Tarla Rai Peterson, Texas A&M University

One of the biggest challenges of the current century for governments, corporations and citizens alike, climate change has gained a high political, social and symbolic status worldwide. While global greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise and proposals for mitigation are faced with many forms of resistance, polls show widespread concern with the issue. Over the last couple of decades, climate change has in fact acquired a quasi-paradigmatic character, often standing for a diverse range of problems in the relation between humans and nature. It is, therefore, a central problem to environmental communication, and consequently to research in this discipline.

At the core of climate change are political, social and ethical choices with implications for the future of all peoples and all other species in the planet. The paths ahead, the available options and the decisions on the issue have been subjected to multiple discursive constructions and contestations by a number of social actors. Understanding how the meanings of climate change are constructed, reconstructed, and transformed, and shedding light on the relation between discourses, interpretations and social practices, are key goals for communication scholars.

We invite researchers worldwide who are working in the topic area of climate change to submit manuscripts that analyze the meanings of the issue in the discourses of various social actors and/or the media, or that discuss the connections between discursive and social representations of climate change.

How is climate change represented in discourses across the world in its scientific, political, economic and social dimensions? To what extent do discursive categories and language practices shape perceptions of the problem, public engagement and political action? What can rhetorical analysis contribute to further our understanding of political and civic communication on climate change? These are examples of the questions that may be addressed in this special issue of Environmental Communication.

We seek manuscripts that analyze historical contexts, material and economic conditions, institutional settings, political initiatives, practices of resistance, and/or the theoretical significance of discursive formations surrounding climate change. Essays will be selected to be academically sound, self-reflexive, intellectually innovative, and conceptually relevant to communication on climate change.

Manuscripts should be formatted in Microsoft Word in a PC-compatible version (Mac users, please utilize the most current versions of Word and end your file names in ".doc") and submitted electronically as attachments. E-mail messages to which manuscripts are attached should contain all authors' name and affiliations. They should indicate a corresponding author, and include name, affiliation, e-mail address, postal address, and voice and fax telephone numbers for that person. Manuscripts should include an abstract of 150 words or less, including a list of five suggested key words. Manuscripts should be prepared in 12-point font, should be double-spaced throughout, and should not exceed 8,000 words including references. The journal adheres to APA Style. Manuscripts must not be under review elsewhere or have appeared in any other published form. Upon notification of acceptance, authors must assign copyright to Taylor and Francis and provide copyright clearance for any copyrighted material. For further details on manuscript submission, please refer to the 'Instructions for authors' on the journal's website.

The journal is published in English, and manuscripts must be submitted in English. Because climate change is a global phenomenon and issue, we are prepared to provide additional editorial assistance for manuscripts that examine the topic in non-English speaking regions. Manuscripts should be emailed to carvalho@ics.uminho.pt or raipeterson@tamu.edu by 29 August 2008.

Please disseminate this CFP to any colleagues that might be interested.

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Dr. Daniel J. Paré, Associate Professor
Department of Communication
University of Ottawa
554 King Edward Ave.,
Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N5, Canada
Tel: (613) 562-5800 ext: 2052
Fax: (613) 562-5240
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CFP: A Return to the Senses

sounds like an interesting multidisciplinary conference--at Trent, no less!
http://www.nocaptionneeded.com/?p=840

k

CFP: Active History - History for the Future

Deadline: March 31
for Sept. 27-28 @ York U.

Kris says: a little outside of our areas, but in the interests of historicizing lit. reviews that we all want to do, maybe this is a useful prompt? (tho' maybe not...)

Call for presentations, panels and round tables:
We are seeking applications from historians with multiple perspectives on active history. We encourage both historians working inside and outside the academy to contribute to the symposium. This is a call for presentations, not papers, as we welcome different approaches to communicating ideas about active history. Please send a one page proposal for a presentation, panel or round table, along with a brief CV of the presenter or presenters, to Jim Clifford by March 31, 2008: cljim22@gmail.com or History Department, 2172 Vari Hall, York University, 4700 Keele St., Toronto, ON, M3J 1P3.

http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=161146

CFP: Race, Environment, and Representation - Deadline Apr. 15

“Race, Environment, and Representation”
Special issue of: Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture

Originally posted on H-Net: http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160956

This special issue of Discourse will present interdisciplinary scholarship that examines the intersection of the environment, race, and representational practices. It aims to redress the lack of conversation between critical race studies, ecocriticism, and media studies. This important conversation can be more fully opened by exploring some of the following questions: How are environment and race both, in the terms of Lawrence Buell, mutually constructed, shaped by the material world and the world of discourse? How does the concept of “environment” inform the work of ethnic authors who are often concerned with urban, industrial, and agricultural landscapes overlooked or shunned by conservation-oriented environmentalists? How have artists and critics responded to the emergence of a more socially oriented discourse and practice of environmental justice? What aesthetic forms and strategies can represent the burdens of pollution, health, and structural violence that are inflicted upon different groups, often with effects that seem invisible, temporally remote, or geographically removed?

We invite essays from a broad a range of scholars and methodologies on topics such as ethnic studies, cultural geography, visual culture, urban history, philosophy, literary criticism, American studies, environmental history, and anthropology. In bringing together diverse approaches to the problems posed by race, environmental justice, and cultural mediation, the issue will explore how attending to the uneven distribution of environmental burdens might enable political coalitions and aesthetic practices that move beyond, without leaving behind, local struggles and the politics of identity that have characterized many aspects of both environmentalism and antiracist discourses.

We understand the key terms of our title – race, environment, and representation – broadly. With respect to race we are interested in extending the critical conversation about the environment to more fully address how historically sedimented racial groups—including whites—intersect with issues of location (i.e., in environmentally impacted, disinvested urban areas or in overseas regions affected by toxic dumping) and access (i.e., to health care, education, and pesticide-free products). By environment we mean not only places commonly represented as “natural” and “wild” – thus the usual targets of environmentalism – but also cities, suburbs, and working landscapes. While we are convinced by poststructuralist arguments that understandings of nature are always matters of representation and not merely scientific fact, we are especially interested in how particular representational practices mediate experiences of nature and the environment.

Possible topics might include, but should by no means by limited to:
--visual representations of intangible, invisible environmental “body burdens”
--the racial politics of urban/suburban design
--how media have been mobilized to create translocal imagined communities among differently situated grassroots activists (and even across species lines)
--intersections between environmental justice and emerging scholarship on biopower, or, in Nikolas Rose’s phrase, “the politics of life itself”
--social aspects of environmental art or earthworks
--intersections of religion, environmentalism, and race
--Review essays on books such as The Environmental Justice Reader (ed. Adamson, Evans, and Stein); Race, Nature, and the Politics of Difference (ed. Moore, Pandian, and Kosek); The Quest for Environmental Justice (Bullard); Noxious New York (Sze); and The Future of Environmental Criticism (Buell).

Articles should be a maximum of 7,500 words in length, and formatted in Chicago style. Interested contributors please send an abstract (max. of 500 words) by 15 April 2008. The deadline for receipt of articles will be 15 July 2008. We welcome any questions. Please email all materials and queries to Discourse Guest Editors, Mark Feldman (markfeld@stanford.edu) and Hsuan L. Hsu (hsuan.hsu@yale.edu).

stream - sfu grad journal

description below; contact stream.journal@gmail.com for more info, or add the FB group:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=9901024427

Stream is an E-Journal. The goal is to create a peer-reviewed journal for graduate students to submit their work, which encompasses three often-overlapping ‘streams’ of concentration: Culture, Technology & Politics. We hope that this student initiative will become a space for graduate students to publish new work and expand upon new ideas, contributing to a thriving graduate intellectual culture.

Submissions will be selected through a double-blind review process, and should be submitted electronically to facilitate the editing and publishing process. Papers should fit into one of the proposed streams, but we invite contributors to challenge their conceptions of these subjects with innovative takes on these fields.

Notes to Contributors:

Papers should be 15-20 pages in length and submitted via email in Word (.doc) or RTF (.txt) format. Manuscripts are expected to be the original work of the author and should use Canadian English, be double spaced and cited according to APA style.

Although the purpose of the journal is to encourage academic dialogue between streams, we ask that authors select between culture, politics, and technology, when submitting manuscripts in order to facilitate the editing process.

As this journal will be housed exclusively online, we encourage authors to include images, videos, sound and any other electronic media in their submissions. Please contact our Production Manager to check the compatibility of our programs with your particular media needs.

CFP: The Journal of Ecopedagogy

Green Theory & Praxis

The Journal of Ecopedagogy is proud to announce both a general Call for Papers for its upcoming June and December issues and its recent move from California State University,Fresno to a new home as the flagship journal of the Ecopedagogy Association International. Please visit us at http://greentheoryandpraxis.org.

Green Theory & Praxis represents a scholarly effort to present research papers and essays at the transformative nexus of ecological politics and culture, social structures, sustainability education and ecocriticism. The editorial board of the journal takes the position that many human societies and their attendant political economy and cultural norms depart strikingly from what is needed to maintain ecological harmony and planetary/species flourishing. The journal seeks to offer a forum for careful study of the theoretical and rhetorical positions, political and economic adjustments, behavioral and institutional alterations, pedagogical and cultural mobilizations, and spiritual emergences that will or should emerge in response to increasing ecological damage of both a physical and psychic nature. We seek critical analysis of the root causes of various ecological crises and to link theory to concrete prospects for social change through pedagogy broadly conceived. Given the scope and complexity of our approach, we anticipate transdisciplinary research papers, and we invite scholars and activists from countries throughout the world to submit manuscripts for peer review.

CFPs a plenty

thinking about how to find out about calls for papers (CFPs) that i might not otherwise hear about. searched google and, apart from a number of links to pages about "certified financial planners" or "canadian family physician," came up with the wikipedia article on the subject. in it's infinite wisdom (no reification intended), i was externally linked to eventseer.net.

good lord! never more for want of a CFP any day of the year, any place in the world, methinks...

all kinds of disciplines, all kinds of minds: positivists and relativists, ethnographers and ecologists, Marxists and neo-luddites, Baudrillardians and Benjaminians alike.

trouble is to search through it all for something relevant (as nice as adaptive hypermedia systems and adaptive information agents sound as categories, i think i'd have better luck with adaptive learning—then again, maybe not).

ugg—what a headache. here's one for humanities/social sciences... http://www.h-net.org/announce/

Get them while they are hot

The Canadian Journal of Environmental Education is currently looking for book reviews for the following titles. This merits a CFP label, I believe.

1. Fennell, David. (2008). Ecotourism (3rd ed.). London: Routledge. 282 pp.

2. Henderson, Bob, & Vikander, Nils (Eds.). (2007). Nature First: Outdoor Life the Friluftsliv Way. Toronto: Natural Heritage Books. 322 pp.

3. Hutchison, David. (2004). A Natural History of Place in Education. New York: Teachers College Press. 170 pp.

4. Moore, Ronald. (2007). Natural Beauty: A Theory of Aesthetics Beyond the Arts. Peterborough: Broadview Press. 272 pp.

5. Reid, Alan, Jensen, Bjarne Bruun, Nikel, Jutta, & Simovska, Venka (Eds.). (2008). Participation and Learning: Perspectives on Education and the Environment, Health and Sustainability. Dordrecht: Springer. 346 pp.

6. Ricou, Laurie. (2007). Salal: Listening for the Northwest Understory. Edmonton: NeWest Press. 263 pp.

7. Strauss, Rochelle. (2007). One Well: The Story of Water on Earth. Toronto: Kids Can Press. 32 pp.

8. Wals, Arjen E.J. (Ed.). (2007). Social learning towards a sustainable world. Wageningen: Wageningen Academic Publishers. 540 pp.

For more information and to get copies of the books: http://cjee.gavan.ca/

I don't know who Chrissy Snow is

SAGE Magazine seeks submissions of environmental-themed writing and art for its upcoming spring issue (#5)! SAGE is a student-run publication based in the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. Its mission is to expand notions of environmentalism and mainstream communication about environmental issues.

SAGE offers a delightfully non-exclusive approach to environmental information, incorporating humor, art, culture, and cleverness in a way that engages those beyond the traditional "environmental movement." It is journalistic, chatty and creative, and appeals to anyone who cares about the world. WritingThe content of SAGE is eclectic, with articles about food alongside technology and politics. The magazine needs short and long works for its six departments (listed below). Sample story ideas are also included as suggestions; feel free to select a topic from the list or craft your own. Check out some previous issues online to get a better sense of the departments (http://environment.yale.edu/sagemagazine).

If you have a story idea and you're wondering where it might fit, or if you have any other questions about writing for SAGE, please email the editors at sagemagazine@gmail.com.
Art SAGE seeks original photography, drawings, painting, collages, digital art, poetry, or whatever else your imagination can produce. Art is sprinkled throughout the written content of the magazine, but SAGE may also profile artists by combining several works into a short feature.

If you have artwork to submit, please email art editor Kate Boicourt ( katharine.boicourt@yale.edu) with your original creations. You may submit low-res jpg, pdf, or tiff versions initally; if commissioned, our preferred format is a 300 dpi CMYK TIFF file.
The final deadline for all submissions of writing and artwork is Friday, March 29.

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Departments:

Out and Around: 500-700 words, lively and concise. Stories on newsy current events, local and global in scope. Inspiration: The Talk of the Town from The New Yorker.

Past examples: China's eco-cities, a profile of No Impact Man, California's climate change initiative.

Story ideas: 1. BioSub: profile of a man who built a sustainable submarine from a recycled train car. 2. Air pollution abatement at the Beijing Olympics: The challenge and the politics. 3. Case study of a greening city. 4. Water shortages in the southeastern U.S.

Materials: 600-700 words. An engaging look at the environmental implications of basic, pervasive materials.

Past examples: jatropha, plastic, diamonds, açaí.

Story Ideas: 1. Nano-composites: They promise miniscule computers and self-washing clothes. But just how green is minitech? 2. Copper: Ubiquitous but increasingly costly. How much do we have left? 3. Uranium and its depleted stepsister: where does it come from and where does it go?
4. Bisphenol-A and other hormone disruptors: That plastic water bottle may be doing more than just storing your water. 5. Building materials and/or insulation: Leaky houses, lax standards. How can materials help improve efficiency? 6. Cosmetics: How luscious is your lipstick? How "eco" is your eyeliner? Dive into the eco-histories of modern cosmetics, perhaps focusing on a particular product and its green alternative.

Innovations: 600-700 words. A look at the environmental implications of human technological experimentation. Past examples: biomimicry, toilets, mycorrhizal fungi, nanotech.

Story Ideas: 1. Computer chips made of chicken feathers. 2. Designed for reuse: Wal-Mart builds a store to later become an apartment building. 3. Floating on the wind: Turbines tethered at sea. 4. Green cemeteries: Who said death wasn't sustainable? 5. Light bulbs: The next generation.

Food for Thought: 450-550 words. Examining the connections between environmental trends and food production, marketing, and consumption.

Past examples: seasonal foods, organics go corporate, farm subsidies and the WTO.

Story Ideas:1. Palm oil in prepared foods: Local health, global emissions.2. Biotechnology: What's really in your corn, and who owns it?3. Trans-fat: The health and politics of partially hydrogenated oil.3. Urban farming/vertical farming initiatives.

Features: 1200-6000 words. An in-depth exploration of a current environmental challenge, trend or story.

Past examples: greening a Palestinian refugee camp, the life cycle of high tech waste, wood-burning stoves in developing countries, environmental destruction in Kashmir, transnational traffic of hazardous waste.

Story Ideas:1. Recycling: Where do those blue boxes send your trash when it leaves the curb?2. Politics: The environmental truth behind the glossy rhetoric.Photo Essays: 600 words (120 words/photo). Feature topics can also take the form of photo essays if you have striking images to go along with your (shortened) narrative.

The Cabbage: Up to 500 words. One of the best sources for 100% fabricated environmental news, according to the American Academy of American Academies! No relation at all to any other pungent vegetables.

Past examples: Corporate toxins rescue the planet from climate change, Donald Rumsfeld starts whale conservation non-profit, scientists solve climate change problem by making name way scarier.

http://environment.yale.edu/sagemagazine