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Hi all, Just a quick reminder that the deadline to submit an abstract for our SS&M special issue on health-environment research is next *Monday, August 27*. See full CFP below. Please be in touch if you have any questions, With best wishes, Carly, Brian and Nari On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 2:40 PM, Carly Nichols <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Usual apologies for cross-posting. Please do consider submitting and > definitely feel free to reach out with any questions > ------------------------------------------------------- > > *CFP: Special Issue: New directions in health-environment research* > > For publication in: *Social Science & Medicine:* > > > *Co-editors:* Brian King (Penn State University), Carly Nichols > (University of Arizona) & Nari Senanayake (University of Kentucky) > > > > *Abstract submission deadline:* August 27, 2018 > > > > In the last 15 years, scholars have bridged interests in > bodies, health/disease, and environments to form a broad, loosely defined, > body of scholarship on health-environment interactions. This literature > extends work by nature/society geographers on the sociality of nature, and > conceptualizes (un)healthy bodies as ‘environments’ or ‘socio-biological’ > phenomenon that warrant greater attention and interest from the > sub-discipline. Thus feminist insights that a critical scale of analysis is > the body and its own set of situated knowledges has come to be a defining > feature of this work (Parr 2002; Hayes-Conroy 2015; Jackson and Neely > 2016). Consequently, scholars have endeavored to situate health outcomes as > important (yet often overlooked) nature-society issues (Mansfield 2008). > Together, this research positions environmental, health, and bodily > ‘states’ as dynamic entities that are iteratively constituted by everything > from political economies to discourses, to lively, material and affective > happenings. Clearly, this work has been defined by theoretical and > methodological pluralism, and we seek to further widen these engagements in > this special issue of *Social Science & Medicine*. > > > > We are specifically looking to round out a set of papers from the > Association of American Geographer’s 2018 Annual Meeting with a few more > articles that advance health-environment studies by drawing on innovative > methods, theoretical frameworks, and/or underexplored themes/empirics. We > encourage pieces that either use established approaches in new ways or > develop new approaches by marshalling insights from fields such as STS, > medical anthropology, histories of science/medicine, and feminist science > studies. We also push contributors to explore the points of encounter and > contradiction between different approaches such as production > of health/disease, social constitutions of nature/biology, > affect/non-representational theory, and relational ontologies/socionatural > bodies. More importantly, we hope to further discussions of how > methodological and theoretical pluralism in health-environment studies > might be more effectively deployed to create socially and environmentally > just geographies. > > > > Potential papers could explore areas that have been relatively > undertheorized in health-environment studies, including but not limited > to: > > · Subjectivities and assemblages of well-being and dis-ease > > · Mental health/emotional geographies > > · Chemical landscapes and contested environmental illnesses > > · Epigenetics, gene-environment interactions, and plastic/permeable > bodies > > · The politics of (biomedical and bodily) knowledge and politics of > diagnosis > > · Post-human dynamics and relational ontologies > > · Unpredictable, non-linear and/or contingent health-environment > interactions > > · Uncertainties about health risks and how this mediates knowledges, > experiences and outcomes > > · Intra-corporeal biology and body ecologies > > · “Disease bundles” and lived experiences of disease > > > > We invite all interested candidates to submit an abstract of no more > than 300 words to Carly Nichols (*[log in to unmask] > <[log in to unmask]>*), Nari Senanayake ([log in to unmask]), and > Brian King ([log in to unmask]) by Monday August 27th. > > > > We will review abstracts and respond to submissions within one week. We > are submitting the full proposal in mid September and expect a decision > from the editorial board 3 weeks after submission. Authors will then have > 3.5-4 months to submit their final manuscript via the *Social Science > &Medicine *online author portal. The papers will then be sent out for the > standard double-blind peer review. The goal is to have all revisions of > accepted manuscripts submitted by August 2019. Important dates in the > tentative timeline are: > > > Abstract submissions: August 27, 2018 > > Proposal submission: September 14, 2018 > > Decision on acceptance: October 5, 2018 > > Final Manuscripts Due: No later than February 5, 2018 (or 4 months from > notification of decision) > > > -- > Carly Nichols > PhD Candidate, School of Geography and Development > University of Arizona > > > ------------------------------ > > To unsubscribe from the CRIT-GEOG-FORUM list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CRIT-GEOG-FORUM&A=1 > -- Nari Senanayake Doctoral Candidate, ABD Department of Geography The Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA 16802 ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CRIT-GEOG-FORUM list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CRIT-GEOG-FORUM&A=1