{"id":6644,"date":"2020-07-13T08:37:46","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T15:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.art.ucla.edu\/jobs\/?p=6644"},"modified":"2020-07-13T08:37:46","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T15:37:46","slug":"our-shared-planet-the-environment-issue-call-for-papers-deadline-august-31-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobs.art.ucla.edu\/?p=6644","title":{"rendered":"Our Shared Planet: The Environment Issue &#8211; Call for Papers Deadline: August 31, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Our Shared Planet: The Environment Issue<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Special Issue of\u00a0<em>American Studies<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Guest editors: Hee-Jung Joo (University of Manitoba), Pacharee\u00a0Sudhinaraset (NYU)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Call for Papers Deadline: August 31, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For people of color, the future has never been a given. Whether through the policies and practices of state-sanctioned genocide, enslavement, internment, or forced relocation and migration, racialized communities have survived their worlds ending, over and over. To cite the opening lines of Sun Ra\u2019s 1974 Afrofuturist film\u00a0<em>Space Is the Place<\/em>, \u201cIt\u2019s after the end of the world, don\u2019t you know that yet?\u201d This special issue critically interrogates the supposed universal notions of a shared planet, ecological demise, and what it means to be human in an era of climate change. The collection aims to center the perspectives of people of color historically and in our contemporary moment on how they envision(ed) \u201csurviving\u201d apocalypse. Instead of considering race as a peripheral or ancillary extension to notions of humanity, this special edition posits race as central to the project of rethinking the human and non-human relationships that form this planet. Indeed, scholars, artists, and activists engaged in what is often termed \u201crace work\u201d have never left the question of the human behind. We welcome submissions that position race (including whiteness) as a theoretical, aesthetic, and practical starting point at which to tackle a socially just version of climate change.<\/p>\n<p>We are especially interested in engagements with and entanglements amongst Afrofuturism, Indigenous Futurism, Latinx Futurism, and Asian American Futurism that might engage with but are not limited to the following questions:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What happens when people of color are centered in narratives of the future? How does this recentering reveal the limits of contemporary scholarship on climate change?<\/li>\n<li>How might alternative and queer spaces, epistemologies, timelines, histories, and cultural practices engage with notions of a \u201cshared\u201d planet?<\/li>\n<li>How do utopia and dystopia take on different meanings in the context of colonialism and white supremacy?<\/li>\n<li>What role does race play in cultural articulations of a \u201cshared\u201d planet rooted in critical animals studies and\/or critical plant studies?<\/li>\n<li>How do histories of settler colonialism, antiblack racism, and techno-orientalism cut through imaginations of a shared, or unshareable, planet from different racialized groups?<\/li>\n<li>What do notions of \u201csurvival\u201d and \u201cperseverance\u201d,as well as \u201cabundance\u201d and \u201cpermanence\u201d limit or yield for us?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We invite submissions from activists and independent scholars, as well as creative writers and artists, as some of the most visionary research on race and futurity is being articulated outside of academia. We stand by\u00a0<em>American Studies<\/em>\u2019 commitment to scholarship that is \u201caccessible to a variety of readers, not solely to academic specialists.\u201d The work around climate change requires this type of broad and creative engagement.<\/p>\n<p>The deadline for submission of complete articles and creative pieces is August 31, 2020. Original photography, artwork, and poetry are welcome.\u00a0Artistic submissions (.png or .tiff file) and written submissions (.doc, .docx, or .pdf file) should be sent to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:oursharedplanet@gmail.com\">oursharedplanet@gmail.com<\/a>. Articles should be no more than 25 double-spaced pages in length, excluding endnotes and images. Citations should follow the Chicago Manual of Style, 17th\u00a0edition. All article submissions will undergo an anonymous peer-review process. For more information on\u00a0<em>American Studies<\/em>\u2019<em>\u00a0<\/em>general submission guidelines, including graphic requirements for original artwork, please consult<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.ku.edu\/amerstud\/about\/submissions\">\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/journals.ku.edu\/amsj\">https:\/\/journals.ku.edu\/amsj<\/a>. Please address any other questions to guest editors Serenity Joo and Pacharee Sudhinaraset at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:oursharedplanet@gmail.com\">oursharedplanet@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Attachments area<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Shared Planet: The Environment Issue Special Issue of\u00a0American Studies Guest editors: Hee-Jung Joo (University of Manitoba), Pacharee\u00a0Sudhinaraset (NYU) Call for Papers Deadline: August 31, &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-calls","category-call-for-papers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobs.art.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobs.art.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobs.art.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobs.art.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobs.art.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jobs.art.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6645,"href":"https:\/\/jobs.art.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6644\/revisions\/6645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobs.art.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobs.art.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobs.art.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}