Those wishing to propose a collective volume should prepare a 500 words abstract.
The proposal must seek to address the aims and scopes of the book series.
Normally, two collective volumes are published each year, in the months of April/May and November/December.
Those wishing to propose a monographic volume should prepare a 500 words abstract and a provisional index.
Proposals must be sent to the following address:
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Call for Book Chapters
Climate change related urban transformation and the role of cultural heritage
Edited by
Matthias Ripp
(Organisation of World Heritage Cities, Regensburg, Germany);
Christer Gustafsson
(Department of Art History, Uppsala University, Sweden);
Dear Colleagues,
We would like to inform you that a Call for Book Chapter to the “Geographies of the Anthropocene” book series for the volume titled: Climate change related urban transformation and the role of cultural heritage (Language: English), edited by Matthias Ripp (Organisation of World Heritage Cities, Regensburg) and Christer Gustafsson (Department of Conservation, Uppsala University) is now open.
Proposals will be accepted until February 15, 2023.
Scope:
The book’s focus and ambition is to integrate cultural heritage’s traditional narratives of conservation and preservation, with discourses about increasingly rapid urban transformations and developments caused by the global climate crisis and related disasters and risks. The idea is to embrace a systemic understanding of cultural heritage and analyze urban transformation through a multi-disciplinary lens and methods that blend the arts, humanities and sciences.
A bundle of diverse challenges and conflicts link urban transformation with cultural heritage. These challenges and conflicts can be related to the (unequal) distribution of wealth, health, access to common goods and different generations of users (McPhearson et al., 2016). The effects of various processes of urban transformation have been analyzed and described, for example, in McCormick’s “Advancing Sustainable Urban Transformation”, which serves as an analytical lens to describe and understand the continuous, complex and contested processes and dynamics in cities (McCormick et al., 2013).
In this book we want to focus on climate change as a meta-challenge and related risks and disasters and how these manifest in urban transformation processes. Cultural Heritage as an important resource not only for identification, well-being, quality of life and many other benefits (Ripp 2022) is understood here as a system and process that belongs to local communities (Ripp 2018). At the same time because of it’s highly relevant role for these communities Cultural Heritage is often heavily impacted and affected by unplanned urban changes. The purpose of this book is not to describe damage or deterioration of the physical heritage, but rather focus on how urban changes are affecting cultural heritage-systems and what this means for the people, be it local communities, other users like tourists and visitors and in addition to decision makers. Similar issues between the heritage sector and urban transformation and urban development have been raised by Gustafsson (2011), who suggests such challenges and conflicts can be overcome if stakeholders and decision-makers first enter a discussion “trading zone” from which all parties ultimately benefit. Many challenges and conflicts possess the potential to contradict the original objectives of preservation doctrines, for example the Venice Charter or the World Heritage Convention, sometimes even in an indirect way. While urban transformation is rooted in many different causes (Hölscher, K., & Frantzeskaki, N. 2021) our book’s objective is to focus on the global climate crisis. Indirect effects are also of interest, for example the impacts of weather patterns, extreme heat, drought, heavy rainfall, flooding, but also limited access to climate-change-prevention measures like bans on fossil fueled cars and heating systems, etc. Other topics of interest include urban heritage in relation to the U.N. SDGs, the New Urban Agenda, the New Green Deal, in addition to the New European Bauhaus; adaptive reuse of historic urban landscapes, and circular business models for conservation projects.
The editors welcome proposals focusing on empirical, theoretical, and methodological cases and discussion concerning how climate-crisis induced urban transformation relates to cultural heritage, and vice-versa. We are interested in contributions from the authors conducting empirical research within the urban transformation-cultural heritage nexus who adopt multidisciplinary perspectives, in addition to authors working with the theorization of related concepts. Topics of interest in the call include, but are not limited to:
- Focusing on urban transformation in relation to cultural heritage.
- Examining urban transformation from social science perspectives.
- Analyzing adaptation strategies in urban heritage environments.
- Presenting theories and theoretical reflections how urban transformation is impacting theories and definitions of cultural heritage.
- Focusing on changing values related to the the book’s topic.
- Focusing in generational conflicts and or conflicting values.
- Presenting the challenges and/or limitations that traditional urban development models are facing.
- Identifying qualities of built heritage that contribute to urban resilience.
- Focusing on the role of different disciplines, job definitions and skills in these related fields.
- Analyzing how urban governance models are related and transforming.
- Presenting case studies on urban heritage sites related to the concept of urban transformation.
- Discussing urban heritage in relation to the UN SDGs, the NEW Urban Agenda, the New Green Deal as well as the New European Bauhaus.
- Focusing on adaptive reuses of historic urban landscapes.
- Focusing on circular business models for conservation projects.
- Discussing the relation between cultural heritage, creativity and innovation.Keywords: Cultural Heritage, Sustainability, Climate Change, Resilience, Urban Transformation, Disaster Risk Management, Risk Preparedness
Critical Bibliography
Barthel-Bouchier, D. (2016). Cultural heritage and the challenge of sustainability. Routledge.
Bosselmann, P. (2012). Urban transformation: Understanding city form and design. Island Press.
Fatorić, S., & Seekamp, E. (2017). Are cultural heritage and resources threatened by climate change? A systematic literature review. Climatic change, 142(1), 227-254.
Foster, G. (2020). Circular economy strategies for adaptive reuse of cultural heritage buildings to reduce environmental impacts. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 152, 104507.
Gustafsson, C. (2011). The Halland model. A trading zone for building conservation in concert with labour market policy and the construction industry, Aiming at Regional Sustainable Development. University of Gothenburg. ISBN 978–91–7346-668-4.
Gustafsson, C., & Ripp, M. (2022). A metamodel for heritage-based urban recovery. Built Heritage, 6(1), 1-24.
Gustafsson, C., & Ripp, M. (2022). Urban Transformation and Related Conflicts at UNESCO World Heritage Sites. In 50 Years World Heritage Convention: Shared Responsibility–Conflict & Reconciliation (pp. 85-97). Springer, Cham.
Hölscher, K., & Frantzeskaki, N. (2021). Perspectives on urban transformation research: Transformations in, of, and by cities. Urban Transformations, 3, Article 2. https://urbantrans- formations.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s42854-021-00019-z
Holtorf, C. (2018). Embracing change: how cultural resilience is increased through cultural heritage. World archaeology, 50(4), 639-650.
McCormick, K., Anderberg, S., Coenen, L., & Neij, L. (2013). Advancing sustainable urban transformation. Journal of Cleaner Production, 50, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j. jclepro.2013.01.003
McPhearson, T., Iwaniec, D. M., & Bai, X. (2016). Positive visions for guiding urban transforma- tions toward sustainable futures. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 22, 33–40.
Ripp, M., & Rodwell, D. (2015). The geography of urban heritage. The Historic Environment: Policy & Practice, 6(3), 240-276.
Ripp, M. 2018. Heritage as a System and Process that Belongs to Local Communities. Fontecchio: Reframing the role of local communities and stakeholders Council of Europe / Faro Convention Workshop. https://rm.coe.int/heritage-as-a-system-and-process-that-belongs-to-local-communities-mr-/16807bc255. Accessed 29 Aug 2022.
Ripp, M. (2022). A Metamodel for Heritage-based Urban Development: Enabling Sustainable Growth Through Urban Cultural Heritage. Springer Nature.
Sesana, E., Gagnon, A. S., Ciantelli, C., Cassar, J., & Hughes, J. J. (2021). Climate change impacts on cultural heritage: A literature review. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 12(4), e710.
Important dates:
February 15, 2023: Book Chapter Proposal deadline
February 28, 2023: Acceptance/Rejection Notification
May 31, 2023: Full Chapter Submission
July 31, 2023: Review notification
October 15, 2023: Final version chapter submission
November/December 2023: Final e-book version available
Submission Procedure:
Interested authors should submit their proposals (max 500 words) by February 15, 2023, explaining the main topic and the objectives of the chapter.
The manuscript proposals (Word or PDF) must be sent to the following address: geographiesofanthropocene@gmail.com
Acceptance/Rejection notification will be sent to the authors by February 28, 2023. After the acceptance notification, authors should submit full chapters by May 31, 2023 formatting their manuscripts following the Editor’s guidelines.
The manuscript word count must be between 4500 – 6000 words. This includes tables, illustrations, references, etc. All submissions will be reviewed in a double-blind manner.
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Call for Book Chapters
Human Mobility, Migration and Tourism in the Anthropocene
Edited by
Gian Luigi Corinto
(Department of Education, Cultural Heritage and Tourism Sciences, University of Macerata, Italy)
Glen Farrugia
(Institute of Tourism Studies, Triagon Academy Ltd., Malta)
Dear Colleagues,
We would like to inform you that the Call for Book Chapters of the “Geographies of the Anthropocene” book series for the collective volume titled “Human Mobility, Migration and Tourism in the Anthropocene” (Language: English), edited by Gian Luigi Corinto (Department of Education, Cultural Heritage and Tourism Sciences, University of Macerata, Italy), Glen Farrugia (Institute of Tourism Studies, Triagon Academy Ltd., Malta) is now open. Proposals will be accepted until July 31, 2022.
Scope:
Motivations concerning human mobility are complex and intertwined, dependent upon socio-economic and environmental issues that intersect at global, regional, and local scales. Ongoing global changes in societies will induce much more powerful economic, political, social and geographical drivers of human mobility. Mobility may be voluntary and involuntary, as people move for leisure or are forced by social-environmental conditions, prompting discussions on human behavior. On one hand, capitalism in developed countries has given workers more free time for leisure in travel and tourism activities. On the other hand, migration is likely to increase regardless of climate change, attracting people from less developed areas of the world.
This renewed social science emphasis on mobility has far-reaching implications for tourism research. People are more mobile than ever in today’s world. Not everyone has the freedom to travel, and many physical, economic, political, and other constraints affect some people more than others. Such mobility also intersects with the circulation of goods, capital, information, and ideas. The uneven distribution of traditional and new mobility channels affects the asymmetry of possible routes and destinations. Tourism studies -a specific topic for geographers-, is also the focus of other disciplines, such as anthropology, sociology, psychology, and economics, which are necessary to provide a wider picture, and necessary to understanding an issue which boundaries are blurry and overlapping.
Contemporary tourism activities are highly globalized while inexplicably remaining linked to local cultures. The globalization debate is not exclusive to tourism studies, and have highlighted how the simple global-local dichotomy is not exhaustive. The local is not separately constituted, but is shaped by continuous interaction with the global in specific places. The scale of tourism phenomena is of interest as the continuous scaling of governance and the development of multi-level policies are shaping power relations. Places comprise spatial relations of social networks that express identity meaning. In phenomenon of tourism, such networks are affected by flows of visitors, so that at least temporally, guest-guest, host-guest and guest-guest relationships are formed and recreated. These entanglements construct tourist spaces and places. Central to the research devoted to tourism has been the focus of the relationship between tourism and the environment, especially in terms of sustainability and less so in terms of social and territorial justice and on spatial diffusions of power and democracy. Given this, the definition of responsible tourism requires more exploration through the application of localized case studies on the impact of tourism on the environment. The impacts of tourism affects all other industries and overall socioeconomic changes, therefore, studies on how tourist behavior changes local labor markets and local relationships between businesses in different tourism and non-tourism sectors are worth attention. Finally, it is necessary to understand how tourism can help alleviate divisions of all kinds, including countering wars and conflicts. Such divisions are social and spatial, detectable in the gap between North and South, and between developed and developing regions, as well as class, gender, race, and age.
Topics of interest for this CFP include, but are not limited to:
1) Globalized tourism and local culture;
2) Global-local touristic interactions;
3) Human performances and social networks in making tourist spaces and places;
4) Tourism and inequalities of economic development;
5) Environmental and socioeconomic sustainability of tourist destinations;
6) Responsible tourism, theory and practice;
7) Tourism for peace.
Important dates:
July 31, 2022: Book Chapter Proposal deadline
August 22, 2022: Acceptance / Rejection Notification;
October 31, 2022: Full Chapter Submission;
December 31, 2022: Review notification;
February 28, 2023: Final version chapter submission;
April / May 2023: Final e-book version available
Submission Procedure:
Interested authors should submit their proposals (max 500 words) by July 31, 2022, explaining the main topic and the objectives of the chapter.
The manuscript proposals (Word or PDF) must be sent to the following address: geographiesofanthropocene@gmail.com.
Acceptance/Rejection notification will be sent to the authors by August 22, 2022. After the acceptance notification, authors should submit full chapters by October 31, 2022, formatting their manuscripts following the Editor’s guidelines.
The manuscript word count must be between 4500 – 6000 words. This includes tables, illustrations, references, etc. All submissions will be reviewed in a double-blind manner.
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