Call for Submissions: Environmental Violence Collection
Jan 17, 2022
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Environmental Studies and Sciences (ESS) Forum
From climate change to toxic pollution and the interactive effects of multiple pollution streams, human health is under siege. Human-produced environmental risks to health and wellbeing are massive, violent and contributing to patterns of global morbidity, mortality, economic inequality, displacement, and insecurity. The implications of human-produced environmental harms to global health are complex just as are their causes.
Can we name this human-produced wave of change? Can its complexity be broken down into a tractable frame and model that can be employed to better understand, analyze, and address the myriad damages being produced? The ESS Forum proposes that at least a portion of this wave of change is and should be called environmental violence (EV), and offers a framework that can be applied across broad contexts to identify and parse its causes and consequences (see the Marcantonio and Fuentes pre-print, https://doi.org/doi:10.7274/4f16c250f4w, for a full discussion and outlay of the EV framework). This is a conference call for submissions in the hopes that the EV-work can be a jumping off point for a conversation by the multitude of stakeholders affected by EV. The ESS Forum's goal is to foster coalescence around, and engagement with, these issues and facilitate outcomes that can create change. You are invited to join this conversation and contribute to it in the way you feel is most meaningful or most fitting for you. Specifically, the ESS Forum seeks to gather an array of contributions—from research texts to symbolic artworks to digital media, or a combination of any of these modes of engagement—that help to refine thinking with and about EV, and that broaden the ways in which EV is described and addressed. By accumulating a diversity of perspectives, modes and methods, and cases of EV, the ESS Forum expects to produce a collection of voices and ideas that is accessible and appealing to a broad audience and rigorous in its evidencing the presence and extent of EV in all facets of everyday life. Included in this call is a list of potential sections for the collection, all of which should be broadly interpreted. Importantly, this is a draft list. The ESS Forum is open to amending it in order to accommodate the interests of contributors. The ESS Forum asks that if you are interested in contributing to this endeavor that you please submit a short but sufficient description of your proposed contribution for review by March 15, 2022. The ESS Forum leaders will review all contribution proposals and respond to you by March 29, 2022 (note, submissions will be reviewed on a rolling basis beginning immediately). Please send all submissions to rmarcant@nd.edu. The ESS Forum is planning a digital conference for all contributors to participate in to be held on 29-30 April, hosted by the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Full conference details will be provided once the proposed contributors list is developed. Notably, the ESS Forum is also in the process of building a public and private web-based portal for collaboration, data curation, public engagement, and other generative modes of engagement with the topic of EV. The portal will be available to all collaborators before and after the development of the edited collection, with the hope of maintaining it indefinitely in whatever form makes most sense for the community—e.g., an enduring consortium or similar. It is the expectation of the ESS Forum that the final collection will be published open access and is in the process of securing funds to that end. The ESS Forum has begun working with Cambridge University Press to publish the collection and will work to finalize the contract for publication once a proposed contributor’s list is developed. ______________________________ List of Potential Sections: Environmental Violence Collection working outline Introduction (by the editors): What is environmental violence? Definition and framework (with model figure) Section X Environmental Violence: a deeper dive More in-depth discussion of forms of violence and EV Section X Environmental Violence around the Globe Case studies in varied geographic and cultural contexts Section X Environmental Violence and Intersecting Marginalization Intersections of EV with other forms of marginalization (ethnic, religious, gender, socioeconomic, etc.) Section X Poetics (aesthetics) of Environmental Violence: Voices from beyond Experience and understandings of EV in poetry, performance art, and music Section X Environmental Violence and Harm Account for a multi-perspectival range of harms resulting from EV (physiological, NELD, early childhood exposure, wellbeing, identity formation, etc.) Section X Environmental Violence and Environmental Law, Policy, and Practice EV in international and domestic law, including human rights law, environmental management and practices, etc. Section X Environmental Violence, Conflict Connections, and Emanating Effects Secondary effects of EV to include violent conflict, intrapersonal conflicts, and other strife Section X Environmental Violence and Human Mobility Section X Environmental Violence and (Environmental) Peacebuilding and Alternative Pathways for an Equitable Future EV for peacebuilding Conclusion ______________________________