[ecrea] CFP: Imagining 'Environmental Collapse'

Call for Book Chapter Proposals: Imagining ‘Environmental Collapse’
Editors: Alison Vogelaar and Brack Hale, Franklin University Switzerland

We are daily reminded of the reality and potentiality of that ‘wicked 
problem’ (Rittel and Webber, 1973) called ‘environmental collapse.’ 
Indeed, everywhere you look, there is so-called ‘environmental 
collapse’—climates are changing, species are being driven to extinction, 
food systems are failing, ecosystems are deteriorating. But, what 
exactly is ‘environmental collapse’ and how do we know it has happened, 
is happening or will happen? And, more importantly, what are the 
functions and implications of thinking about environmental change and 
degradation in terms of collapse? Following biologist Jared Diamond’s 
popular and controversial, "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Succeed or 
Fail," ‘environmental collapse’ has become an important way of framing 
and imagining environmental change and destruction. This trend has 
recently been explored and critiqued in the fields of archeology 
(Lawler, 2010; Middleton, 2012) and the natural sciences (e.g. Constanza 
et al., 2012; Moyer, 2010). This volume is an extension of that 
conversation that coalesces, explores and critically evaluates the 
distinctive discursive contours, functions and implications of 
‘environmental collapse' as it has manifest in diverse discursive 
communities.

We are seeking contributions for an edited volume exploring the 
discursive contours of ‘environmental collapse’ that both (1) identify 
and describe the unique features of one modality/form/genre of 
‘environmental collapse’ and (2) critically evaluate its assumptions, 
functions, and implications. We are particularly interested in 
contributions that explore ‘environmental collapse’ in:

---literary fiction
---journalism
---cinema and blockbuster film
---documentary film/television
---pop science
---scientific writing and modeling
---science fiction
---and gaming

Please send 500 word abstracts by November 5th to Alison Vogelaar at 
(avogelaar /at/ fus.edu).

Important deadlines:
Submission of abstract: November 5, 2015
Notification of decisions: December 1, 2015
First draft chapters: May 1, 2016
Redraft chapters: August 15, 2016


Kind regards,

Alison E. Vogelaar


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