CALL FOR PROPOSALS! “Just Transitions: How Can We Fight the Climate Crisis and Achieve Economic and Social Justice?” April 3-5, 2025 University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME 04103 Event Overview: The urgency of the climate crisis has sparked movements calling for the immediate shut down of polluting industries such as coal plants, pipelines, and refineries while promoting green infrastructure and electric vehicles, thus ushering in a new, “green economy.” Proponents of the “green economy” often discuss public health
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2025 International i-Rec conference and student competition! (Santiago and Valparaíso, Chile, May 27-29)
The 11th i-Rec conference (workshop, student competition and fieldwork) explores processes, actors, initiatives, and decisions in three main areas: disaster risk reduction, climate action, and post-disaster reconstruction. The event, titled (in)formalities, recognizes that multiple forms of agency with different levels of legitimacy, influence, and recognition coexist and must be understood and coordinated to produce positive, sustainable change. The 2025 edition of the i-Rec conference seeks to understand relationships between top-down and bottom-up actions, and different forms of “formality”
CFP: Katrina’s America; A Special Issue of Southern Cultures (Deadline: 16 December, 2024)
Call for Papers: Katrina’s America Guest Editor: Andy Horowitz (University of Connecticut) Katrina’s America,” a special issue of Southern Cultures considering Katrina 20 years after the flood Southern Cultures, the award-winning, peer-reviewed quarterly from UNC’s Center for the Study of the American South, encourages submissions from scholars, writers, and artists for a special issue, Katrina’s America, to be published Fall 2025. We will accept submissions for this issue through December 16, 2024. Nearly twenty years ago, Hurricane Katrina sent a storm
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57th ITH Conference: The Political Ecology of Work in Times of Disaster
Submission Deadline: 01/31/2022 — The Political Ecology of Work in Times of Disaster Linz/Austria, 22–24 September 2022 The 2022 ITH conference takes from the present epidemiological crisis to reflect on other times of disaster and their implications for workers, organised labour and labour relations. This includes ecological disasters like earthquakes, floods or droughts; technological disasters such as Fukushima in 2011 or the Bhopal gas tragedy in 1984; medical crises like epidemics or pandemics, such as the Black Death,
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Climates and Cultures in History
Submission Deadline: 03/15/2022 — In 2022, ‘Climates and Cultures in History’ (CCH) will publish a special issue (1 or 2) on anthropogenic climate change. This call invites proposals for contributions on all aspects relating to anthropogenic climate change in history. The ‘early anthropogenic hypothesis’ (EAH), introduced by William Ruddiman, allows for the discussion of several periods in the long Holocene. However, the EAH remains controversial. We welcome proposals for reviews on the state of the art of debates
UCL Open: Environment Special Series: Community Responses to Climate
Submission Deadline: 12/31/2025 — A special series of research articles, case studies and commentaries focusing on responses to climate change taking place in, and / or led by, non-traditional ‘research’ communities. The Editorial Board are inviting submissions on an ongoing basis from people at any research or knowledge-based organisations (including NGOs, Think Tanks, IGOs/UN) and at all career stages, including early career researchers, mid-career professionals, and senior scholars. Papers should be strongly inter- or multi-disciplinary either in terms
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