[Commlist] Call for Papers: Journal of Environmental Media 6.2

Call for Papers: Journal of Environmental Media6.2 📣


Special Issue: ‘Care-ful convening: towards low carbon and inclusive 
knowledge sharing’


View the full call here>>

https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-environmental-media#call-for-papers 
<https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-environmental-media#call-for-papers>


The consequences of human-induced climate change, the extinction of 
flora and fauna, pollution, environmental predation, and injustices are 
causing a spectrum of constraints, shrinkage, alteration and loss 
(Murphy, 2017; Elliott, 2018; Dokumaci, 2023). In response, people are 
figuring out how to think, communicate and act differently to account 
for damages done by systems whose human, more-than-human, and planetary 
harms are fueled by petrocultures (Chapman and Ahmed 2021; Gomez-Barris 
2018; Táíwò 2022). Carbon-concerned researchers, professionals, and 
citizens are advancing necessary shifts, including designing and 
implementing alternative communication and gathering forms. Our call 
invites scholars across disciplines to explore the articulation between 
media and new forms of collaborative and non-extractive ways of 
knowledge exchange and communication.


Alternative histories of digital networks and convenings invite us to 
radically recenter community, care and human needs and aspirations 
rather than capital accumulation, hyper-mobility, and efficiency. In 
addition to making arguments for what is needed and why, we are eager to 
illuminate what is being done and how. This callout seeks cracks and 
opportunities: what does care-ful convening look like considering the 
entanglement between platforms and the global supply chains, extractive 
industries and capitalist geopolitics that have led to climate breakdown?


How, to what extent and for whom do these digital technologies change 
knowledge sharing? We seek contributions, taking an intersectional 
perspective, which showcases creative possibilities of care-ful 
convening without romanticizing the constraint or the ability to thrive 
amidst institutional scarcity and political violence. This special issue 
will bring to the foreground questions about ethics and methodologies, 
such as: What technical, organizational, and communicative approaches 
will be restorative for living beings and the planet? Who needs to be in 
conversation with whom, and by what media? What types of new media 
platforms and offline programs will challenge uneven and oppressive 
power dynamics that contribute to environmental harm? How do we know 
when something ‘works’? And more broadly, how does care-ful convening 
probe taken-for-granted assumptions about the “contours of ‘media’” 
(Brodie et al. 2023) and open out to new possibilities?


Form and Format


We welcome diverse submissions from across disciplines and invite 
contributions to one of the three categories below. Authors are welcome 
to submit to multiple categories. We encourage collaborative 
submissions, particularly those that cross academic boundaries, 
institutional borders, and geographic locations. We are eager to accept 
pieces that: bring together the past, present, and future; hold complex 
tensions; showcase alternative value systems to challenge dominant modes 
of relating steeped in racism, patriarchy, capitalism, extractivism, and 
colonialism; provoke new ways of engaging with carbon, inclusivity, and 
knowledge exchange; and that that inspire reflectivity, justice-driven 
advocacy, and care. Black and white images of any kind are welcome, 
including photographs, sketches and drawings, graphs and charts.


If you are considering submitting an abstract, please read the full 
version of the Call for Proposals here.


Analyse– Articles (5000–7000 words)


These are research articles and/or critically reflective essays. We are 
open to articles written in traditional disciplinary writing styles as 
well as non-traditional formats and writing styles, including 
first-person prose and creative essays.


Submit to the Analyse section:


Please send us an abstract of up to 250 words and three keywords no 
later than 15 January 2024, via this submission form. Authors will be 
notified of the editorial team’s selections in February. Full drafts are 
due 1 July 2024for peer review. Please review the Journal of 
Environmental Media’s submission guidelines and submit via this form: 
https://forms.gle/eLh6sJCNHDsjVebc7 <https://forms.gle/eLh6sJCNHDsjVebc7>


Actualize– Fieldnotes (500–1500)


To examine and explore what is being done and how, these entries share 
documentation and reflections from media encounters that exemplify 
convening in more care-ful, equitable and environmentally conscious 
ways. Key takeaways from these experiences can be shared as instructions 
for alternative convenings, lessons learned, undergirding concepts, etc. 
Have you been to a gathering that inspired you, made you think 
differently and deserves some critical thought and attention? During the 
course of your research, have you had a convening of technology and 
people that surprised you, rearranged your thinking and opened up a new 
way to make and disseminate knowledge? We invite memories and 
reflections, sketches, field notes, portraits of software and diary entries.


Fantasize– Speculative Proposals (500–1500)


We welcome visions of future convenings and forms of convening. This can 
be grounded in something you’d like to implement right here, right now 
on earth or can suggest a speculative convening that takes place in a 
fantastical imaginary realm.


Submit to the Actualize or Fantasize section:


Please send the complete submission by 15 May 2024. Submit via this 
form: https://forms.gle/gEWGKMTobousTQQAA 
<https://forms.gle/gEWGKMTobousTQQAA>


Publication of Issue 6.2: October 2025


Guest editors:

Antoine Hardy (Centre Emile-Durkheim)

Shirley Roburn (York University)

Kate Elliott (Simon Fraser University)

Alexandra Lakind (American Council of Learned Societies)

Elizabeth Miller (Concordia University)


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