Call for Papers - Arcadia: Explorations in Environmental History
Type: Call for Papers
Date: August 1, 2016
Location: Germany
Subject Fields: Environmental History / Studies, Digital Humanities, Atlantic History / Studies, European History / Studies, Humanities
Become part of the Arcadia network!
Founded
as a partnership between the European Society for Environmental History
(ESEH) and the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (RCC), Arcadia
is an online, peer-reviewed publication platform for short,
illustrated, and engaging environmental histories. Arcadia’s goals are
to promote visibility and connections in global environmental history
and historically minded cognate disciplines and to make original
research accessible for general audiences.
Arcadia (ISSN 2199-3408) features now 92 articles and is archived and catalogued by the Bavarian State Library. We are currently seeking submissions for our Autumn 2016 volume.
We will also evaluate proposals for multiple, inter-connected
contributions by both individual authors and research groups. All
articles will be considered for inclusion in one of our current Arcadia
collections: National Parks in Time and Space, Global Environmental
Movements, Water Histories, The Nature State, and Rights of Nature
Recognition.
Articles from our Spring 2016 volume display a wide variety of topics:
- Piccioni, Luigi. “Nature, Beauty, Tourism: The Concurrent Roots of Abruzzo National Park.” Environment & Society Portal, Arcadia Spring 2016, no. 3.
- Splechtna, Bernhard E., and Karl Splechtna. “Rothschild's Wilderness.” Environment & Society Portal, Arcadia Spring 2016, no. 4.
- Brara, Rita. “Animal Rights vs Bullfights: The Horns of an Indian Dilemma.” Environment & Society Portal, Arcadia Spring 2016, no. 5.
- Goldstein, Jenny. “Carbon Bomb: Indonesia’s Failed Mega Rice Project.” Environment & Society Portal, Arcadia Spring 2016, no. 6.
What to submit: Arcadia
articles tell short (about 750 words) focused, engaging environmental
histories about any site, event, person, organization, or species as it
relates to nature and human society. Your text should focus on a
specific problem/case and refer to a specific place and time. You should
include 2-5 digital objects (images, video/audio, or other materials).
Please also provide a short bio (including research and publications
related to your article) and a profile photo. The complete guidelines
for contributors can be accessed here.
How to submit: Simply send an email with your draft submission to the Arcadia curator, Dr. Wilko Graf von Hardenberg (arcadia@carsoncenter.lmu.de).
Once your draft is accepted for consideration it will be read by two
anonymous peer reviewers (ideally within two weeks). If they recommend
acceptance, we will ask you to respond to their feedback within two
weeks. At that point the resubmitted manuscript will be copy-edited and
uploaded for publication. Review of the submissions will start on 1 August 2016.
Please submit by then for full consideration. While submissions can
still be made at any time, we are concentrating the review process for
our three yearly volumes around 1 April, 1 August, and 1 December.
Starting
in Autumn 2016, new Arcadia articles will be assigned a Creative
Commons CC BY license. This Creative Commons license will ensure that
you are always credited for your work, while encouraging its reuse and
distribution (“Why CC BY?”).
The Rachel Carson Center retains the right to make final edits to
Arcadia articles to improve readability. It also retains the right to
add, at any time, inline links to further content, to include your
contribution into current or future collections, and to change any
metadata you provide (e.g., keywords and related links) to ensure smooth
and continued functioning of your Arcadia article within the
Environment & Society Portal.
For submissions and further information please email arcadia@carsoncenter.lmu.de.
We look forward to your contribution!
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