CALL FOR PAPERS
SPECIAL ISSUE ON ENVORINMENTAL JOURNALISM
No 1 Feb 2012
Environmental issues breach some of
journalism?s established demarcations. Firstly,
such issues are rarely only national or
regional. Secondly, environmental issues, at
least in some measure, cut across established
editorial boundaries such as politics,
business, technology, consumer issues,
lifestyle and culture. And thirdly, since
climate change is threatening to inflict mass
mortality and species extinctions, the question
arises of whether traditional professional
dichotomies between ?objective? and ?balanced?
versus ?advocacy? journalism are adequate. In
any case, environmental journalism is a field
of knowledge production that is characterised
by interpretation and political strife ? which
is partly because it is heavily dependent on
journalistic translations of scientific data.
Thus, although the environment seemingly is
local and tangible, it is increasingly also about politics, science and risk.
This lack of clear geographical, topical,
political and moral demarcations is therefore
pushing environmental journalism to relate to
place, space and power in new ways. Yet, it is
still written from a specific place and
therefore inflected by local political,
economic, geographical, media-related,
professional and cultural factors in various
ways. A good starting point for dialogue is,
however, to focus on how larger, common issues
are envisioned in different ways.
The goal of the special issue of Journalism
Studies is therefore to bring out regional and
cultural differences in the construction of
environmental issues. In addition to
comparative aspects, the aim is also to
highlight some of the ways in which global
issues challenge and/or cements established
journalistic practices and their relations to
place, space, power, objectivity,
responsibility, accountability, risk etc. In
overall terms, the objective is to put together
a broad range of original and up-to-date
perspectives that illustrate differences across
geographical and disciplinary boundaries.
Articles, not exceeding 8000 words in length,
must be send to <mailto:(imvhb /at/ hum.au.dk)>(imvhb /at/ hum.au.dk)
no later than February 1, 2010.
Further instructions for authors can be found here:
<http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/journal.asp?issn=1461-670X&linktype=44>http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/journal.asp?issn=1461-670X&linktype=44
GUEST EDITORS:
Henrik Bødker, Associate Prof.,Ph.d.
Aarhus University, Denmark
&
Irene Neverla, Prof. Dr.
The University of Hamburg, Germany
