Dear All,
We are writing to circulate CFP as follows.
Please, see below and we are very much looking forward to your responses to this CFP.
Also we would appreciate very much if anyone on this list can pass this message to those who might be interested in this CFP, but not subscribing to this list.
Kind regards,
HG Park and Martin Skrydstrup
CFP for Special Issue on “Agriculture in the Anthropocene:
Local Models and Practices in Global Climate Change”
Our proposal to publish a Special Issue on the theme of ‘agriculture in the Anthropocene’ emanates from a panel convened by Dr. Hyun Gwi Park (University of Cambridge) with Dr. Martin Skrydstrup (University of Copenhagen) as discussant, entitled “Agriculture and Climate Change” at the Royal Anthropological Institute’s conference at the British Museum entitled Anthropology, Weather and Climate Change (27-29 May 2016). Based on this occasion, we are now inviting researchers doing empirical/ethnographic research on agriculture to join this exciting Special Issue publication project.
Agriculture is one of the largest contributors to climate change, but is also exposed to climate change. Thus we face the paradox of adaptive capacity on the one hand and the facts of GHG emissions contributing to the problem on the other hand. So far, anthropological work on agriculture and climate change has overwhelmingly focused on the multiple exposures of small-scale farmers in the Global South and largely ignored agriculture as a contributor to climate change. Accordingly, we know about the vulnerabilities that farmers face and how communities respond to climate change through their ingenuity, resilience and adaptive capacities. Yet, it was not only farmers but also anthropologists who need to work against the backdrop of global climate change, because anthropologists are required to take into account of global dimension in their research and description of agricultural practices. Anthropologists have shown how farmers by no means are ignorant of climate change, nor are they passive in shaping, interpreting and responding to the challenges and opportunities, that might arise with climate change. However, below and beyond this general insight, we know much less.
The objective of this Special Issue on “Agriculture in the Anthropocene” is to address the question of “adaptive capacity” in a much broader framework across a wide range of scales and empirical contexts. We would be interested in contributions to address the below in
· the form of the materiality of concrete adaptation measures to be found in local contexts from seeds to soils
· how socio-economic factors such as plot size, labor and markets map onto these
· the form of novel agrarian-governmentalities embodied in new relationships between extension officers distributing climate science to farming contexts, as well as
· new forms of weather based index insurance and new political participatory approaches
· the complex relationships between value and weather in agrarian products before they reach our tables and throughout storage, processing, packaging and transportation
· the agriculturalists’ weather perception and their responses to weather changes and its (non-)relevance with global climate change
The topics of contributing papers are not limited to the enlisted above and we welcome other avenues of investigations as well.
Ultimately, the SI will show how anthropology is capable of addressing the various scales of agriculture in the Anthropocene from crop ontologies to the carbon footprint of global supply chains. We are also considering to organize a workshop with the contributors selected (see below).
Time-schedule:
May 2016: The conference panel “Agriculture and Climate Change” was convened in London
Early December 2016: First call for papers
20 January 2017: Deadline for the submission of paper proposals
31 January 2017: All contributors are identified
May 2017: All manuscripts are received
June or July 2017: Workshop with contributors
September 2017: Revised papers are submitted
November 2017: Feed-back provided to authors
February 2018: All manuscripts are accepted
Spring 2018: publication
Interested potential contributors are asked to send their 350 words' abstracts to both [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> and [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>. It would be also helpful if you included a few lines about yourselves in email messages together with the abstract. The decision will be made by the end of January, 2017. Please, feel free to contact editors for any question you may have.
Sincerely yours,
Hyun-Gwi Park and Martin Skrydstrup
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