CfP: Journal of Energy History / Revue d'histoire de l'énergie Section ‘Energy Sources: new collections and heritage’
The Journal of Energy History is a bi-annual, open access academic journal, the first dedicated entirely to energy history. It is published online in English and French; from the autumn of 2023, it will be accessible through the editorial platform Cairn.info
Contributions are currently being sought for the column titled 'Energy Sources: New Collections and Heritage,' which aims to explore primary resources and collections dedicated to energy.
The selected contribution will appear on the December 2023 issue of the journal.
Contributions are currently being sought for the column titled 'Energy Sources: New Collections and Heritage,' which aims to explore primary resources and collections dedicated to energy.
The selected contribution will appear on the December 2023 issue of the journal.
Contributions shall come in the form of short papers, between 3000 words (20,000 characters) and 6000 words (40,000 characters). Papers can be written in French or English; if written in French, the journal will provide a free professional translation in English for double publication.
Papers can focus on any aspect of primary sources and methodologies for the study of energy in a historical perspective. Examples of topics are (without being restricted to):
The deadline to submit the abstract is the 1st September 2023; if selected, the first draft of the article should be submitted by the 15th October 2023, and the final draft should be presented by the 30th November 2023. Papers should be submitted directly to the editor of the column, Marta Musso. Potential contributors are welcome to discuss their ideas with Dr Musso before submitting.
Papers can focus on any aspect of primary sources and methodologies for the study of energy in a historical perspective. Examples of topics are (without being restricted to):
- Presentation of archives or collections related to energy (from companies’ archives to government energy departments, NGOs, think tanks, oral history collections, etc)
- Presentation of art works (in any form) dedicated to energy
- Description of quantitative dataset on energy with a historical component (consumption, production, etc.) or presentation of projects dedicated to the gathering of data on energy
- Presentation of methodologies for energy studies in a historical framework, from any discipline of social science
- Critique of the methodologies adopted for the production of knowledge in energy studies, whether past or contemporary
- Assessment of the methodologies adopted in published studies on energy history
- Description of endangered, preserved, and reconverted industrial facilities that are or could be incorporated in the architectural heritage of an area
- Analysis of how energy heritage can help to understand the present and past relations between societies and energy structures
The deadline to submit the abstract is the 1st September 2023; if selected, the first draft of the article should be submitted by the 15th October 2023, and the final draft should be presented by the 30th November 2023. Papers should be submitted directly to the editor of the column, Marta Musso. Potential contributors are welcome to discuss their ideas with Dr Musso before submitting.