Special Issue CFP

[afmareck <afmareck@yahoo.com>]

Hello folks,

Thought perhaps some of you might be interested in the call below... 


Call for Proposals

for a Special Issue of The Community Literacy Journal: Sustainability, the Environment, and Community Literacy

The peer reviewed Community Literacy Journal invites articles for its Fall 2009 special issue on Sustainability, the Environment, and Community Literacy. Special issue guest editor Anne Mareck of the University of Kentucky, Lexington welcomes manuscripts that explore the interconnections among community literacy, sustainable practices, and cognizance of biospheric situatedness. 

Prominent thinkers such as David Orr, Arne Naess, Carolyn Merchant, and others have suggested that in order to create a truly sustainable society our fundamental conception of what it means to live on a planet must evolve. We must develop a ?biospheric literacy,? an understanding of ourselves as members of a global biotic community who are entirely dependent upon stable ecosystems for our continued existence. And as Paul Hawken wrote in Blessed Unrest, myriad efforts toward the creation of environmentally sustainable, socially just communities are already underway. 

Particularly welcomed for this issue are pieces co-authored in collaboration with community partners. Submissions of shorter and longer works (8-20 manuscript pages) including scholarly articles, essays, case studies, ethnographies, and reflective narratives are invited. Poems, drawings, photographs, and cartoons are invited as well. Topics might include:

?    Reflections on the notion of a Biospheric Community Literacy
?    Syntheses of Cultural, Functional, and Biospheric Community Literacies
?    Locavore, Walkshed, and 350: The Emerging Lexicon of Biospheric Community Literacy
?    Ecopedagogy and Biospheric Community Literacy
?    Activist-Intellectuals: Service Learning, Community Service, and Sustainable Practices
?    Ecocomposition, Sustainability, and Community Literacy
?    Nature Writing, Sustainability, and Community Literacy
?    Rhetoric, Sustainability, and Community Literacy
?    Professional Communication, Document Design, and Biospheric Community Literacy
?    Environmental Communication and Community Literacy
?    Conservation Psychology and Community Literacy
?    Ecological Education and Community Literacy
?    Experiential Education, Sustainability, and Community Literacy
?    Food Politics and Community Literacy
?    Creating and Living in Sustainable Community
?    Globalization, Localization, and Community Biospheric Literacy
?    Community and Individual Agency in Creating a Sustainable Human Society
?    Indigenous Perspectives on Biospheric Community Literacy
?    Cooperative and Grassroots Community Sustainability Ventures
?    Environmental/Social Justice and Community Biospheric Literacy
?    Community Conservation Strategies
?    Green Campus Community Organizing
?    Organizational Transformation and Biospheric Community Literacy
?    Dialogue in the Public Sphere: Democracy, Community, and Fast Change
?    Community Literacy, Climate Change, and Adaptation-Mitigation
?    Ethnographies and Case Studies of Sustainability Efforts
?    Social Networking and Climate Change
?    Species Interdependency and Biospheric Literacy
?    Celebration: Art, Music, and Dance as  Conveyors of Biospheric Community Literacy
?    Hope: Building the Sustainable Just Communities of the Future

Suggested reading: 
Peck, Wayne, Linda Flower, and Lorraine Higgins. ?Community Literacy.? College Composition and Communication 46-2 (May 1995): 199-222.

By July 15, 2008 please send your 500 word MS-Word proposal as an electronic attachment to special issue guest editor Anne Mareck   sustainable-CLJ@mtu.edu


Best,

Anne Mareck
http://communityliteracy.org/