Call for Papers for Military/Science/Ecology Panel Next Year

[robert marzec]

Dear War and Peace Studies Caucus Folks,

Here’s a rough draft of the “Military Ecology and the Sciences” call
for papers. Please feel free to suggest additions/revisions.

Panel Proposal for ASA War and Peace Caucus:
“Military Ecology and the Sciences”
Seeking papers that would explore, theorize and critique, from a
variety of disciplinary perspectives, recent developments between the
sciences, the military, and ecology. If customary wisdom suggests that
only the sciences and engineering fields of study can provide the
American citizenry with “solutions” to climate change, and that only
the military can “control” an event now seen to be inevitable
(manifested in terms of “US Energy Security” and “adaptation measures”
to the coming climate change crisis—dwindling resources, border
degradation in the face of millions of climate change refugees, etc.),
then how might the various disciplines of critical American Studies
interrupt this discourse and the alliances it forms? Possible topics
might include: connections between scientific/engineering engagements
with ecology and military engagements with ecology; the military’s
approach to impending climate change and energy policy; the
relationship between the environmental movement, the sciences, and the
military; connections between the university, scientific/engineering
fields of ecological study and the military; the scramble for funding
by both the military and the sciences; the twentieth century history
of military ecology and its function in our current historical
occasion; grass roots movements and their relation to the sciences and
the military. Please send proposals to: Robert P. Marzec,
rma...@purdue.edu.


Dave: Please let me know if I need to do anything else at this point.
We’ll need to decide on the panel’s moderator/respondent.
Anybody want to volunteer?

Best,

Bob