Labnet: CFP: History, Politics and the Environment - Radical History Review, New York 10/08

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From:    Duane Corpis <djc222 at cornell.edu>

CFP: History, Politics and the Environment - New York 10/08

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Radical History Review
15.10.2008, New York
Deadline: 15.10.2008

Climate change has placed environmental concerns squarely within an
emerging political discourse that transcends national boundaries.
Indeed, the impact of climate change has called attention to the roles
nation-states play in dealing with domestic and international
environmental issues. As such, the Radical History Review seeks papers
that explore the intersection of politics and the environment from a
broad historical and transnational perspective. We encourage submissions
that investigate the politics and interconnections between nations and
environments.

We envision this issue to build on and argue with Donald Worster's
influential essay, "World without Borders: The Internationalizing of
Environmental History" (Environmental Review 6 fall 1982), which
encouraged historians to move beyond the nation as a way to explore and
explain human and nonhuman histories. Yet we take the position that
political borders do matter, but question to what degree they shape and
transform environments and the politics of nature. As such, this special
issue seeks to explore how changes to nature have engendered a range of
political responses within different spatial and temporal contexts. How,
for example, does nationhood and state formation affect the politics of
the environment? How do a state's natural resources shape the politics
of the nation within a global economy? How does conflict and power
between nations influence a state's environmental politics? How have
international governance institutions addressed these issues? How have
global economies changed the natural world and how have nations
responded to the transformation of nature? When and how do changes in
nature become politicized? Who does it include or exclude? How does it
change over time? 

We encourage potential contributors to explore the following issues,
among other possibilities:
- Environmental racism and injustice
- Colonialism and its impact on the natural world
- Nature and diplomacy, including, but not limited to international
environmental governance
- State power as a means of controlling people and nature
- The impact of war on nature
- Gender politics and the environment
- The politics of disease and disease transmission
- Food production and global trade
- Religion, politics and nature
- Economic development, nature and the significance of the market
- Labor, resource extraction, and environments
- Green Politics and social movements
- Political responses to environmental disasters
- The significance of the global commons as a political instrument

Radical History Review solicits article proposals from scholars working
in all historical periods and across all disciplines, including art
history, history, anthropology, religious studies, media studies,
sociology, philosophy, political science, gender, and cultural studies.

Submissions are not restricted to traditional scholarly articles. We
welcome short essays, documents, photo essays, art and illustrations,
teaching resources, including syllabi, and reviews of books and
exhibitions.

The editors of this special issue also envision a section exploring the
field of environmental history as it relates to transnational politics
and we welcome submissions that reflect, rethink and critique its
history.

Radical History Review publishes material in a variety of forms. We are
particularly interested in submission that use images as texts and
encourage materials with strong visual content. In addition to articles
based on archival research, we encourage submissions to our various
departments, including:

- Historians at Work (reflective essays by practitioners in academic and
non-academic settings that engage with questions of professional
practice)
- Teaching Radical History (syllabi and commentary on teaching)
- Public History (essays on historical commemoration and the politics of
the past)
- Interviews (proposals for interviews with scholars, activists, and
others)
- (Re)Views (review essays on history in all media--print, film, and
digital)

Potential contributors are encouraged to look at recent issues for
examples of these non-traditional forms of scholarship.

Procedures for submission of articles:
By October 15, 2008, please submit a 1-2 page abstract summarizing the
article you wish as an attachment to <rhr at igc.org> with "Issue 107
abstract submission" in the subject line. By November 30, 2008 authors
will be notified whether they should submit a full version of their
article for peer review. The due date for complete articles is January
30, 2009. Articles should be submitted electronically with "Issue 107
submission" in the subject line. For artwork, please send images as high
resolution digital files (each image as a separate file). Those articles
selected for publication after the peer review process will be included
in issue 107 of the Radical History Review, scheduled to appear in
Spring 2010.

Submission Deadline: October 15, 2008
Email: rhr at igc.org 

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David Kinkela and Neil Maher
Radical History Review
Tamiment Library, New York University
70 Washington Square South  
New York, NY 10012
E-mail: rhr at igc.org 

Homepage http://chnm.gmu.edu/rhr/rhr.htm 

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