Re: ASLE CFP

[Jeri Pollock <jeri.pollock@canteiros.org>]

CFP: ASLE Conference Proposed Panel (Deadline 10/20/2008)

June 3-6, 2009 
University of Victoria 
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada 

Panel Proposal: Transnationalism and Environmental Justice 


While the "fate of place" (see   http://asle.uvic.ca/ ) remains a crucial area of inquiry for ecocriticism, the field is beginning to theorize the relationship between global mobility, the environment, and environmental discourse. How might the recent transnational turn in fields such as postcolonial studies and human geography expand the field of ecocriticism to address global environmental justice movements and texts? This panel will engage with new work in the field on globalization with a focus on the stakes of transnational culture for environmental justice.  Paper topics might include the following: 


•       The globalization of environmental justice 
•       Expressions of transnational resistance or counter-networks 
•       (Trans)local places and geopolitical discourses 
•       National security and environmental justice (e.g., food security, nuclear security, environmental security, etc.) 
•       Postnationalism and place 
•       Movement, mobility, root/routedness, place-making, identity 

Please send a 600-word maximum abstract for a fifteen- to twenty-minute scholarly presentation by Monday, October 20th.  A copy of your CV as a separate attachment would be appreciated.  Email materials to panel organizer Sarah Jaquette Ray,   sjaquett@uoregon.edu , with "ASLE" somewhere in your subject line. 

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Sarah Jaquette Ray
Doctoral Candidate
Environmental Sciences, Studies, and Policy Program
University of Oregon