Environmental Justice, Political Resistance, and Social Movements: Defying Ecological Degradation in Latin America
Type: Call for Papers
Date: August 20, 2016
Location: California, United States
Subject Fields: Cultural History / Studies, Environmental History / Studies, Indigenous Studies, Latin American and Caribbean History / Studies
UC DAVIS BRÚJULA JOURNAL CALL FOR PAPERS
VOLUME 11
Environmental Justice, Political Resistance, and Social Movements:
Defying Ecological Degradation in Latin America
Throughout
Latin America, disenfranchised communities continue to mobilize and
engage in social movements against governmental institutions and
international corporations responsible for the ecological degradation
and exploitation of natural resources in cities, small towns and rural
communities. Brújula invites scholars and activists to examine
modes of resistance by communities whose livelihoods have been
compromised due to the destruction and exploitation of resources vital
to their survival. We welcome manuscripts that discuss the relevance of
these social movements taking place throughout Mexico, the Caribbean,
Central and South America, in addition to Equatorial Guinea and
Lusophone Africa with a special focus on environmental destruction and
its impact on cultural continuity in the era of post-colonialism. We
especially welcome interdisciplinary research reflective of the many
approaches this subject matter evokes such as: social; economic and
racial inequality; historical; corruption; consumerism; displacement;
gender; technology; health; indigenous movements; spirituality; land
rights and workers’ rights.
Topics may include but are not limited to:
Water rights (against the privatization and harmful mining practices, fracking, and hydroelectric practices)
Ecosystems (deforestation, irresponsible management of waste, lack of stewardship towards the land)
Agrarian rights and land grabbing
Toxins and air pollution; climate changes
Transportation
Occupational health rights
Environmental illness
Indigenous rights and identity
Rights of nature, rights to good living-- Buen Vivir
Biodiversity, protected areas and indigenous peoples
Soil, food diversity and access
Medicinal herbs and ethnobotany
Alternative healing practices
Song, art, literature and performance as forms of environmental resistance
Ecofeminism
Histories of environments and societies
SUBMISSIONS
▫ Please
submit your essay along with a cover letter that includes a brief
(50-75 words) professional statement (name, academic
affiliation/community organization, and standing [Community
Leader/Activist, Graduate Student, Assistant/Associate/Full Professor],
research interests, and or a few relevant publications), the title of
your paper, and a 100-word abstract
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Brújula is a peer-reviewed journal therefore manuscripts should be
submitted without names. Names and email addresses should only appear on
the cover letter.
▫ Essays should be written in English, Spanish, or Portuguese.
▫ Papers should be no more than 15-20 pages, double spaced including endnotes in addition to the bibliography.
▫ Send manuscripts via email to: submitbrujula@ucdavis.edu. Please use Windows 1997-2004 or higher.
▫ All articles should be formatted using the most current MLA guidelines.
▫ Tables, diagrams, maps, photographs and artwork is the author’s responsibility and must comply with copyright laws.
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Brújula only accepts original contributions. Translations of articles
previously published or articles published in the same language will not
be accepted.
The deadline to submit articles is: August 20, 2016.
Contact Info:
David Tenorio - Managing Editor
Brújula: revista interdisciplinaria sobre estudios latinoamericanos (ISSN 1542-5045) is published annually by graduate students of the University of California, Davis, under the auspices of the Hemispheric Institute on the Americas.
This journal seeks to foster a dialogue between established academics
and a new generation of scholars, while including original essays from a
variety of fields such as Anthropology, History, Art, Music,
Linguistics, Comparative Literature, Sociology, and Native American
studies. With each issue, Brújula intends
to highlight a theme of relevance in current debates and to create a
forum that explores transnational perspectives to critical approaches.
Brújula is indexed in the MLA Index.