Dear Colleagues, Friends, Alumni
Running Grass and I have been invited to curate a special issue of the Contingencies Journal produced by New York University. Each of you has engaged in significant work that has stretched, provoked and/or shifted environmental studies, pedagogical approaches and contexts. We invite you to submit a proposal for this issue of Contingencies. Proposals are due March 1, 2024.
The full description of the Journal, this special issue and the requirements for submission are here: https://wp.nyu.edu/contingenciesjournal/call-for-papers/
The title of this special issue is Unsettling Environmental Studies.
To UNSETTLE is an active verb. It calls for disquiet and dissonance. It seeks to upend the predictable and to throw open concepts of where and when and how we engage in the environment, learn from it and expand our understanding. It pushes us to invite different perspectives and cultures, modes of learning, and ways of being in the world…to better understand our planetary ecosystem and its dynamic intersection with the built infrastructure and the people who live there. The purpose of this special issue is to provide space for discussions of new pedagogical approaches, practical and theoretical models for curriculum, instruction and the interdisciplinarity contexts for environmental studies.
Running Grass, Niesha Fort and I participated in a panel organized by Contingencies in the Spring of 2023 called Pedagogies for a Changing World: Environmental Studies and Anti-Racist Pedagogy. Our discussion focused on the multicultural pedagogical impact of the Urban Environmental Education Masters program through its immersion in diverse urban communities and actionable environmental justice. The strength of that panel discussion led to this special issue.
Please consider submitting a proposal that ‘unsettles’ traditional ways of learning about the environment in ways that open possibilities for actionable social justice, ecological survival and the reshaping of cities.
Submissions accepted on a rolling basis.
Proposals are due March 1st, 2024.
Full articles are due May 31st, 2024.
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