FW: [gender_cc] Race, Gender, Class, Climate Change (Call for Papers)
Rachel Harris
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Rachel T. Harris
Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO)
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[mailto:gend...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Ilan Kelman
Sent: Monday, January 04, 2010 2:46 PM
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Subject: [gender_cc] Race, Gender, Class, Climate Change (Call for
Papers)
[I am not involved in this initiative in any
way, so if you wish to be involved, please follow the submission instructions
below. Ilan]
Special Issue of Race, Gender, Class focusing on Climate Change. In the wake of
Hurricane Katrina and the IPCC’s (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change)
most recent report on climate change it behooves academics and activists to
ensure that the interrelated issues of race, gender and class are not further
obscured but become as central to combating climate change as the policy that
enforces corporate reductions in carbon emissions. In his New York Times Op-Ed
piece on 8 / 22 / 2009 writer Thomas Friedman planted an intriguing analytical
seed that nevertheless needs much more ‘water’ and ‘light’ if it is to
illuminate more than it obscures. He stated that “We’re trying to deal with a
whole array of integrated problems — climate change, energy, biodiversity loss,
poverty alleviation and the need to grow enough food to feed the planet —
separately.” He then goes on to say that the key to addressing one is to
address them all
simultaneously in an integrated manner as observable with any ecosystem.
Freidman’s observation is certainly correct that climate change (as with so
many other issues) is being discussed in a social, political and economic
vacuum with little or no reference to the contributing issues such as poverty,
food production, energy creation and consumption…etc. However, his analysis
likewise does not go deep enough in that he overlooks the systemic and endemic
forces that are creating the “whole array of integrated problems” that he
himself mentioned. Such structural forces are of course the social, political
and economic articulations of unequal power relations as created by the
ideologies and practices of racism, sexism, classism, nationalism,
ethnocentrism, speciesism …etc. Thus, the need for more inclusive, interrelated
and complex analyses of climate change is dire.
For this special issue of Race, Gender, Class we seek articles that take on
this challenge in their approach to climate change by including the
interrelated and integrated layers of race, gender and class. Submissions may
focus on any aspect of climate change (legal, political, social, educational,
agricultural, economic, religious, sexual, ideological, international,
local…etc) but the analysis must be multifaceted in terms of race, gender and
class, bringing to the fore a complexity that has been sorely lacking.
Approaches may be empirically or theoretically based, may be qualitative or
quantitative and may represent a variety of styles and perspectives but they
should be well supported by argument and / or data and should attempt to bring
new and provocative insight to the discussion of climate change.
Abstracts (500 words) should be sent by April 1st, 2010 to the address below.
Selected authors will be notified by May 1st 2010, and the deadline for
submission of the final paper (8000 words) will be June 1st, 2010. For further
information or submission of abstracts, please contact by email phoebe....@uconn.edu or by
snail mail: Phoebe C. Godfrey Assistant Professor-in-Residence, Department of
Sociology, 344 Mansfield Rd., University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06226-2068.
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