[ecrea] NECSUS call for papers, #3, Spring 2013, 'Green'

#3, Spring 2013, ‘Green’ -- Call for papers

The Spring 2013 issue of NECSUS_European Journal of Media Studies will 
explore ‘green issues’ in a variety of ways related to media studies. In 
the book Greening the Media, Richard Maxwell and Toby Miller address the 
media’s complicity in environmental pollution and also make suggestions 
for more sustainable media production and usage. The direct link between 
media, ecology, and/or sustainability is an important strand that we 
want to address in this special section. This may include reflections on 
sustainable practices for cultural production and dissemination, as well 
as philosophical uses of eco-critical tools to deconstruct cultural 
practices, applying concepts from eco-critical thinking to existing 
texts. In line with the issues of eco-criticism and sustainability, we 
also welcome contributions that deal with vegetal or botanical life, 
either as a media discourse or as aesthetics.

Green is also a non-primary colour, a mixture of yellow and blue. We 
suggest extending the ecological conception of green to more aesthetic 
and symbolic takes on the colour. This includes contributions that 
address the colour green in any mediated form in nature (emeralds, 
frogs, lizards, insects, birds, grass, forests), the military (green as 
camouflage), religion (the colour of paradise in Islam, or the fourth 
hearth chakra in Hinduism), symbolism (green as a metaphor for the 
inexperienced, as well as for envy and illness), or as a hue in 
television and new media aesthetics. Furthermore, there is a diverse 
tradition of the value of green in film, from the French New Wave 
filmmakers François Truffaut with The Green Room and Eric Rohmer with 
The Green Ray, to the American science-fiction film Soylent Green, the 
Iranian documentary The Green Wave, to the current comic book superhero 
spectacles Green Lantern and The Incredible Hulk.

Topics may include (but will not be limited to) the following:

- media ecology (including contributions that address the ‘three 
ecologies’ of the mind, the social, and the environment)
- sustainability of ecologically-valid cognitive schemes and procedures
- sustainability and green media activism
- (media) technology and nature
- botanical aesthetics in television or cinema
- colour coding in media
- global green issues on the web
- green celebrities
- green film festivals

NECSUS is also considering submissions on a wide variety of issues 
related to media studies, in addition to reviews of all types 
(conferences, festivals, exhibits, books, websites, etc.). We look 
forward to receiving abstracts of no more than 300 words and a short 
biography of no more than 150 words by 1 October 2012 at the following 
address: (g.decuir /at/ aup.nl).

NECSUS is an international, open access, peer-reviewed journal of media 
studies published by Amsterdam University Press in partnership with NECS 
(European Network for Cinema and Media Studies). The journal is 
multidisciplinary and strives to bring together the best work in the 
field of media studies across the humanities and social sciences. Find 
us online at: www.necsus-ejms.org


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