Please find below details of a current CFP for a Special Issue in the Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy, and Society

 

CFP: Riskscapes and the socio-spatial challenges of climate change

Edited by Anna Davies, Gregory Hooks, Janelle Knox-Hayes and Raoul S. Liévanos

 

Abstract (extended) deadline: 17^th May 2019

Full paper deadline: 1^st September 2019

Expected Publication date: July 2020

The goal of this special issue of the Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy, and Society is to enhance our understanding of the spatial, temporal, economic and sociological dimensions of climate change riskscapes. Riskscapes encompass different points of view on risk and space that highlight the “real-and-imagined geographies based on individual and collective experience, tradition and knowledge” (Müller-Mahn et al., 2013, 2025). The concept has been applied in a range of other contexts from locating nuclear facilities to air quality. However the spatial context and dimensions of climate change risk, while obviously important, are as yet understudied. The interaction between climate change and environmental riskscapes is even less understood.

Yet, in separate realms of inquiry (e.g., environmental studies, health disparities, economic geography, criminology, security and terrorism, disasters, and spatial inequality), scholars have documented that place matters. Exposure to risk and its consequences varies by where a social actor lives and works. Too often, however, these risks have been studied in isolation, e.g. heightened environmental exposure studied in isolation of elevated exposure to crime, elevated exposure to health risks without concern for heightened economic risks, and so forth (Muller et al. 2018). With this special issue focused on climate change riskscapes, the Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy, and Society continues its tradition of identifying forward-looking topics and seeking high quality, original and insightful scholarship on matters of crucial importance.

We welcome papers that refine and sharpen our understanding of climate change risk and riskscapes, especially conceptual syntheses that integrate understanding of risk across separate realms. We also encourage empirical papers that focus on climate change riskscapes which may include attention to matters of disaster risk management, forced migration, loss of ecosystems good and services, resource conflict, food production, coastal change and managed retreat, development of new insurance landscapes etc. Finally, we encourage detailed, forward-looking studies on the emerging risks and transformation of riskscapes.

Guidelines for Submissions

Authors interested in contributing to this special issue are invited to submit Abstracts of up to 400 words by email to Francis Knights at [log in to unmask] no later than 17^th May 2019. Selected authors will be invited to submit papers following the Editors’ selection from these initial Abstracts. Full papers would be due by 1^st September 2019, and all submissions will be subject to the normal peer review process. Accepted papers will be included in the Special Issue, scheduled for publication in mid 2020.

Full details of the call can be found here: https://academic.oup.com/cjres/pages/riskscapes_call_for_papers - please note the deadline has been extended to 17^th May

 

 

 

 

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Reminder that the Centre for Urban Research on Austerity (CURA) Urban Methodologies Summer School deadline for applications is this Friday 26 April.

 

It will be held at De Montfort University on 12 – 13 June 2019. Further information and the application form is available here: https://curaumss.wordpress.com/

 

The Summer School will feature leading academics delivering sessions on novel and innovative approaches to cities and urban politics. We are very pleased to have David Bailey (Birmingham), Sarah Hall (Manchester), Michael Hoyler (Loughborough) and Cristina Temenos (Manchester) who will be delivering masterclasses on researching urban policy mobilities, everyday austerity, disruption and resistance and world city networks. Selected participants will also be able to present their research in one of two Doctoral Student plenaries that will be attended by a CURA panel of researchers for feedback and wider discussion of their own research projects.

 

The Summer School is open to researchers based at any university or research institute, or without a current affiliation. There is no charge to attend and a limited number of bursaries are available for one night’s accommodation in Leicester. Early career academics, doctoral researchers and advanced postgraduate students working in or on any area of urban politics, policy, political economy, sociology and geography are eligible to apply.

 

Best wishes

 

Adam

 

 

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Dr Adam Fishwick

Senior Lecturer in Urban Studies and Public Policy (VC2020)

Department of Politics, People and Place & Centre for Urban Research on Austerity (CURA)

 

CURA Institute Head of Research Students and MA Programme Leader (Politics and International Relations Suite)

 

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Latest publications:

 

(2019) Workplace occupation and the possibilities of popular power in Chile and Argentina, 1972-6, Globalizations

 

(2018) El "socialismo cotidiano" de los trabajadores textiles chilenos: Trazando una política radical a través de la prensa obrera, 1936-1972, ASTROLABIO

 

(2018) Austerity and Working-Class Resistance: Survival, Disruption and Creation in Hard Times, Rowman and Littlefield International (co-edited with Heather Connolly)

 

 

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