[ecrea] CFP: SFS Special Issue on Climate Crisis

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*Call for Papers.* /Science Fiction Studies /is planning a special issue 
on “Science Fiction and the Climate Crisis” that we see as part of an 
urgent and ongoing conversation with colleagues in the humanities, the 
social sciences, and the sciences. In the energy humanities and other 
interdisciplinary fields, the climate crisis unfolds differentially as 
description, allegory, abstract model, immanent materiality, slow 
apocalypse, and the end of humanist philosophy. We welcome submissions 
that address the intersections of science fiction and the climate crisis 
in historical and/or theoretical terms and in multiple media forms from 
the pulps to science-fiction media and art. We encourage papers that 
reflect on and explore genre hybridity, including modalities such as 
climate fiction, petrofiction, and slipstream.


What does one look for when science fiction overlaps with the climate 
crisis? Is it the punctual events of the thriller genre or the slower 
pacing of a carefully considered /longue durée**/that grabs critical 
attention? Moreover, how does climate figure in sf—as foreground or 
background? Which sf authors or texts stay nervous about the climate 
crisis? Is there a parallel between science-fictional estrangement and 
the defamiliarization of neologisms such as the Anthropocene, 
hyperobjects, necrocapitalism? Contributions might also consider how the 
climate crisis figures in sf in light of the energy regime. For 
instance, what differences obtain between figurations of coal crisis and 
depictions of nuclear disaster? How does the way we use energy affect 
the reach and scope of sf writing? Conversely, what impact, if any, does 
climate crisis have on our understanding of the role of science fiction 
in technoculture?


We are looking for submissions that contribute substantial overviews of 
the current situation and that explore a variety of sites and authors. 
In addition to papers focused on the ways in which sf engages the 
climate crisis, energy regimes, and multiple ecologies (real or 
imagined), we are interested in discussions that draw on feminist and 
queer futurities, swerve with the nonhuman turn, analyze the 
vicissitudes of capitalism’s secular crisis, and follow the utopian 
impulse. We see immediacy in climate crisis—we must act now—and yet we 
appreciate a long view of global warming as well—the slow accretion of 
carbon that has so recently tipped the atmospheric balance of the planet.


Please send proposals (300-500 words) by 1 Jun. 2017 to Brent Ryan 
Bellamy (<(bbellamy /at/ ualberta.ca) <mailto:(bbellamy /at/ ualberta.ca)>>) and 
Veronica Hollinger (<(vhollinger /at/ trentu.ca) 
<mailto:(vhollinger /at/ trentu.ca)>>) Completed papers (6000-8000 words) will 
be due by 1 Dec. 2017.



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