[Commlist] Call for Papers: Environment, Nature and Communication in the Anthropocene Era

Call for papers :“Environment, Nature and Communication in the 
Anthropocene Era” - extension

The closing date of the call for papers for a special issue of the 
French Journal of Information and Communication Sciences (RFSIC), 
entitled "Environment, Nature and Communication in the Anthropocene 
Era", has been extended to 31 August 2020.

The issue is coordinated by Céline Pascual Espuny (Univ. 
d'Aix-Marseille, France) and Andrea Catellani (UCLouvain, Belgium).

Call for papers (English version):
https://doi.org/10.4000/rfsic.9301

Some excerpts from the appeal:

Inscribed in the international public space since the 1970s, the 
environment is today the source of many communication practices in our 
societies. It covers a broad and matrix-like discursive perimeter, where 
notions such as ecology, ecological transition, sustainable development, 
corporate social responsibility (CSR, which includes an environmental 
dimension), Anthropocene, and even collapse, reflect physical, economic, 
political, scientific, but also cultural and symbolic realities that are 
related but different.

In view of these constraints and tensions, what can information and 
communication sciences say today, in a critical and scientific way, 
about this polymorphous reality constituted by environmental 
communication practices? How are the links between Nature and Ecology 
grasped, as soon as the practice of communication is practiced? Does 
environmental communication present a different profile within the vast 
field of objects analysed by information and communication sciences, 
given their particularly “trivial”nature as places of intersection of 
all tensions, expectations and disappointments?

This issue aims to be open to the different trends and theoretical and 
methodological approaches of information-communication researchers 
dealing with environmental themes related to communication. 
Contributions may fit into one or more of the following areas, or be of 
a cross-cutting nature.

Main thematic areas (see the complete call for papers for the details) :
Controversies, polemics and media forms
Social and environmental actors: companies, activists, associations, 
governments
Popularization of science and its challenges
Media, journalism, environmental media coverage
The living, its representation and its communication
Communication and ecological transition, between criticism and 
instrumentalization
Speeches and environmental narratives

Practical information :

     Issue published in n° 20, scheduled for release: December 2020

     Articles are expected by: last week of August 2020

     Back to authors: last week of October

     Return of final articles: last week of November

Proposals for papers (between 30,000 and 40,000 characters including 
spaces, bibliography and footnotes), in English or French, should be 
sent to :

     Céline Pascual Espuny: (celine.pascual /at/ univ-amu.fr)

     Andrea Catellani : (andrea.catellani /at/ uclouvain.be)

The guide for writing articles can be found at the following link: 
https://journals.openedition.org/rfsic/401



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