Sustainability and climate change.
Call for papers for a special issue of Journal of the History of the
Behavioral and Social Sciences, forwarded to MERSENNE by Roger Smith
(Editorial Board of JHBS).
Contact: Wade Pickren: [log in to unmask]
Call for Papers
Our Present Crises: Climate Change, Biodiversity Loss, and Social Inequality
A special issue of the Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
Special Issue Guest Editors: Graham W. Pickren and Wade E. Pickren
Dear XXXX [name of society or organization]:
We are pleased to announce a call for papers on the timely topics of
Climate Change, Biodiversity Loss, and Social Inequality. You can find
the complete call online at:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/pb-assets/assets/15206696/CallforPapers_OurPresentCrisis.pdf
.
Here is the first paragraph of our call:
Alarmed by the emergent links among climate change, massive
biodiversity loss, and rising social inequality, this special issue
will feature historical analyses of these links based in the social
and behavioral sciences, broadly defined. It is now clear that these
crises are connected – for example, the processes driving carbon
emissions and mass extinction are related to the vast accumulation of
wealth by an increasingly powerful global elite. These problems, both
individually and collectively, pose an existential threat to social,
political, and biological systems, both currently and with increasing
impact over the next half-century and beyond. Given that behavioral,
political, and economic processes are directly linked to our current
state of climate emergency, what can historical analyses of these
processes – including the role of the social sciences in shaping them
- contribute to our understanding and shape our responses?
We hope that those of you with interests in these linked issues will
consider contributing to this special issue. And we hope you will
circulate the call to your colleagues and your professional networks.
If you have questions or would like additional information, please do
not hesitate to email me directly at [log in to unmask]
Call for Papers
Our Present Crises: Climate Change, Biodiversity Loss, and Social Inequality
A special issue of the Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
Special Issue Guest Editors: Graham W. Pickren and Wade E. Pickren
Alarmed by the emergent links among climate change, massive
biodiversity loss, and rising social inequality, this special issue
will feature historical analyses of these links based in the social
and behavioral sciences, broadly defined. It is now clear that these
crises are connected – for example, the processes driving carbon
emissions and mass extinction are related to the vast accumulation of
wealth by an increasingly powerful global elite. These problems, both
individually and collectively, pose an existential threat to social,
political, and biological systems, both currently and with increasing
impact over the next half-century and beyond. Given that behavioral,
political, and economic processes are directly linked to our current
state of climate emergency, what can historical analyses of these
processes – including the role of the social sciences in shaping them
- contribute to our understanding and shape our responses?
At the most general level, this special issue seeks to understand how
we have arrived at this particular historical moment. Of particular
interest are papers that examine the ways in which certain concepts
and ideological constructs, such as modernity, liberalism, growth,
capitalism, patriarchy, race, and freedom have shaped socionatural
practices that have produced our current crises. Historically
unpacking the ontologies and epistemologies undergirding the
contemporary moment has tremendous value for identifying gaps and
alternative pathways in the possible futures that lie ahead. The
search for knowledge and praxes otherwise, that is, in addition to the
Western Enlightenment model of rationality, will help us create a
pluriversal approach to finding such futures (Escobar, 2017).
We invite contributions from scholars whose work is based in the
social and behavioral sciences, including geography, anthropology,
STS, sociology, economics, political science, psychology,
sustainability studies, communications, urban planning, public health,
and environmental history.
The special issue seeks to unpack the cultural and political histories
that undergird our present emergency, as well as the practices that
have come to define it. Within this broad framing, possible topics
include but are not limited to:
The genealogy/history of the idea of limitless growth embedded within
Western, settler colonial societies. How and why did concepts of
'freedom' as developed within the social and behavioral sciences
become tethered to notions of unfettered consumption and access to
natural resources?
The history of post-WWII development policies and their environmental impact.
Histories of patriarchy and the link to extractivist and exploitative
practices on the earth.
Modernity and the history of coloniality of knowledge of the
environment/earth/ecology.
· Histories of social movements, environmental activism,
indigenous worldviews, and utopian projects that run counter to modern
Western liberal environmentalism.
Histories of the study of biodiversity and cultural diversity.
The ecological impact of the ontological dualisms of Euro-modernity:
nature/culture, mind/body, woman/man.
The continued evolution of industrial agriculture and the application
of biotechnology in agrifood systems from a historical perspective.
Histories of Neo-Malthusian ideas such as the ‘population bomb’,
carrying capacity, and the tragedy of the commons.
Histories of neoliberalism that track how this particular ideology
lends itself to narrow forms of environmental action centered on
individual behavior changes and ‘greener’ consumption choices.
Histories of the scientific management of nature and culture that
replaced the complexities of the life sciences with practices that
served instrumental development and bureaucratic goals.
· The antecedents of modern paradigms of security and climate
change: the convergence between militarism and biological, climate,
and earth sciences.
Papers should examine the conceptual, analytic, historiographic,
ethical, contextual, cultural, and political factors that play a role
in how the issues presented are linked to our current crises.
We invite 500-word proposals to be submitted for review by September
15, 2020, with decisions and invitations for full manuscripts
completed by October 15, 2020. We anticipate that the special issue
would appear in the Summer 2021 issue.
Please submit questions and proposals directly to Wade Pickren: [log in to unmask]
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Bloomsbury, 2018.
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