CfP: Modernization by the State and its Ecological Consequences Conference 2023 - “THE STATE AND PLANETARY BOUNDARIES”
ABOUT THE CONFERENCE:
MOSEC 2023 or Modernization by the State and its Ecological
Consequences Conference 2023 is an interdisciplinary online conference for the
environmentally focused humanities and social sciences, organized by the Center
for Economic and Social History, University of Ostrava, Czechia. MOSEC 2023
aims to explore, discuss and disseminate new cross-disciplinary scientific
knowledge about the global environmental crisis with a particular focus on the
role of the state and state institutions.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
BART ELMORE, Associate professor of Environmental History at
the Ohio State University. Author of the praised Citizen Coke: The Making of
Coca-Cola Capitalism and Seed Money: Monsanto’s Past and Our Food Future.
Recipient of the Dan David Prize in 2022.
ZSUZSA GILLE, Professor of Sociology at the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prize winning author of the highly influential
From the Cult of Waste to the Trash Heap of History most recently co-editor of
the Routledge Handbook of Waste Studies.
ANNUAL CONFERENCE
THEME: “THE STATE AND PLANETARY BOUNDARIES”
Anthropogenic forces have reduced ecosystem resilience by
decreasing biodiversity, altering the physico-chemical environment via climate
change, pollution, and land clearance. Today, the global environmental crisis
is the single most important challenge humanity faces. Regarding sustainable
development, the sovereign nation-state has been the most important actor and
stakeholder. Essential part of state sovereignty is the ownership of resources,
which often have been sources of conflict and violence, as well as ecological
degradation.
Critics of the modern
state pointed out that the ecological impact of bureaucratic regimes has been
substantially contributing to the worsening of the global environmental crisis.
Modern states organized their societies according to the technocratic
principles of “high modernism” and have failed to take local knowledge into
account thus amplifying the forces of ecological homogenization and uniformity.
In 2023, the Center for Economic and Social History at the
University of Ostrava cordially invites contributions from all social sciences
and humanities disciplines as well as adjacent scientific fields to explore,
discuss and disseminate new cross-disciplinary scientific knowledge about the
global environmental crisis with a particular focus on the role of the state
and state institutions.
MOSEC 2023 welcomes papers with all geographical-, and
thematic focuses.
Recommended themes, however include to explore and reflect
on the role of the state with regard to climate change, biodiversity loss,
resource-, and energy scarcity, toxic emissions, environmental diseases, marine
pollution, urban congestion, and sustainability from the perspective of human values,
stories, qualitative reasoning, case studies, and traditional-, and sensory
knowledge.
SUBMISSIONS DEADLINE - 31.3.2023
Individual paper proposals should consist of 300-word
abstracts accompanied with brief, approximately 50-word long bios of the
contributor.
Complete panel proposals consisting of three to four papers
should consist of a 500-word panel-abstracts which include the overall themes
of the panel and papers presented as well as brief, approximately 50-word long
bios of all contributors.
Roundtables, posters and unconventional formats are also
welcome. For details please contact organizers.
All proposals should be sent by 31 March 2023 to organizers
at cesh@osu.cz
POST-CNFERENCE PUBLICATION ACTIVITY:
Selected papers will be invited to take part in edited
volume collections published by leading global academic presses and / or
journal special issue projects in academic journals featured in the SCOPUS and
WoS databases. Earlier conferences produced multiple publications projects for
example with Routledge, the Global Environment journal, Journal for
Contemporary History and other prestigious academic outlets.
REGISTRATION INFORMATION FOR ACCEPTED PRESENTATIONS:
50 EUR/ 1250 CZK (regular registration fee*)
40 EUR/ 1000 CZK (discounted registration fee**)
90 EUR/ 2250 CZK (solidary registration fee***)
Free participation (limited availability****)
*Full registration fee: participants with income above 1,000
euros a month
**Discounted registration fee: available for participants
with income below 1,000 euros a month
*** Solidarity registration fee: participants with income
above 3,000 euros a month. Paying a solidarity fee enables the participation of
another scholar from the Global South and Ukraine (recommended to scholars
based in United States, Canada, UK, Norway, Iceland, Singapore, Japan, South
Korea, Australia, and New Zealand, as well as selected EU countries: Austria,
Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, Netherlands,
Sweden.)
****Free participation: University of Ostrava employees and
students, limited number of selected participants from war zones and the Global
South.
Contact Email: cesh@osu.cz