CfP: Special issue of Scientia Canadensis on Environment and Technology
Environment
and technology are broad rubrics, and historians have been
investigating their intersection for some time now. North American
envirotech scholars have examined, among others, such subjects as
hydroelectric mega-projects, urban sanitation, mining, wildlife
management, fisheries science, and agricultural biotechnology. This work
has sharpened our understanding of how environments and technologies
shape each other, and of the societies and polities that produce them.
To
further advance envirotech discussion, co-editors Daniel Macfarlane and
William Knight invite contributions for a special issue of Scientia Canadensis. To be published in 2018, this special issue seeks to further explore envirotech and push it in new directions. While Scientia Canadensis
is generally focused on Canadian history, the editors welcome
contributions that examine envirotech in the North American context, and
especially invite articles that consider envirotech in transnational
contexts.
Authors are invited to submit abstracts by June 1, 2017,
with final articles due December 1, 2017. Article-length is 8,000 to
10,000. Other types of contributions are welcome, including review
essays, roundtables, image galleries or research notes. Scientia Canadensis
is the journal of the Canadian Science and Technology Historical
Association and publishes twice a year. A peer-reviewed digital journal,
Scientia is published by the Erudit publishing consortium. https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/scientia/
Contact Info:
Daniel Macfarlane, Western Michigan University daniel.macfarlane@wmich.edu
William Knight, Canada Science & Technology Museums: wknight@techno-science.ca