[Commlist] CfC – The Literary Journalist as Naturalist

Call for Contributions from Pablo Calvi at SUNY Stoneybrook, who is 
editing a collection on "The Literary Journalist as Naturalist". 
Deadline for proposed chapters is end-April. His address is 
<(pablo.calvi /at/ stonybrook.edu)>

Here is a summary:

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Nature --or perhaps the way modern capitalism objectifies and destroys 
nature-- is the topic of our time. It has, thus, been the at the core of 
an extensive list of long form journalistic narratives in the past 
century and has spun hundreds more in the past decade. With the 
narrative of the Green New Deal as a background, the May, 2018 United 
Nation report about a million species at risk of extinction due to human 
activity, and the unstoppable increase in global temperatures as a 
result of human activity, matched with the inaction and incapacity of 
world governments to stop this process, “The Literary Journalist as 
Naturalist” aims at compiling a thorough, academically entertaining and 
comprehensive snapshot of long journalistic narratives about nature in a 
time of drastic change.

Bill McKibben, Rebecca Solnit, John McPhee, Carl Safina, Elizabeth 
Kolbert, David Wallace-Wells, some of the names you will read about in 
this anthology, followed the visionary steps of Rachel Carson, the 
pioneering environmental journalist and picked up the mantle delivering 
the harrowing narratives of our dire times.

By discussing the multiple ways in which narrative journalism has 
portrayed nature, our interactions with it, and our politics towards it 
for decades, maybe even centuries, this anthology will try to give an 
academic framework for these narratives of finality, finitude, atonement 
and conquest, which reached a crucial point of self-awareness in 1962 
with Carson’s masterpiece, /Silent Spring/.

These narratives not only deal with the environment considered as an 
object removed from us, humanity. They re-insert men and women into 
nature, and show how our cultures act as one of nature’s many agents.

The text aims to be international in focus and innovative in its 
approach. New areas of research will be not only welcomed but encouraged.

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