Those wishing to propose a collective volume should prepare a 500 words abstract.
\nThe proposal must seek to address the aims and scopes of the book series.<\/p>\n
Normally, two collective volumes are published each year, in the months of March\/April and November\/December.<\/p>\n
Proposals must be sent to the following address: E-mail: geographiesofanthropocene@gmail.com<\/em><\/p>\n EXPIRED<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Earthquake risk perception, communication and mitigation strategies across Europe<\/p>\n Edited by<\/p>\n Piero Farabollini<\/p>\n (University of Camerino, Italy),<\/p>\n Francesca Romana Lugeri<\/p>\n (ISPRA, University of Camerino, Italy),<\/p>\n Silvia Mugnano<\/p>\n (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy);<\/p>\n Dear Colleagues,<\/p>\n We would like to inform you that the third Call for Book Chapters of \u201cGeographies of the Anthropocene\u201d series is intended to become a collective volume titled \u201cEarthquake risk perception, communication and mitigation strategies across Europe\u201d (Language: English).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Scope:<\/strong><\/p>\n Increasing risks and socio-natural disasters are the effects of an unsustainable interaction between human beings and environment. The current scientific debate underlines that earthquake hazards do not only create damages and destruction but also show the difference vulnerabilities and exposures to risk to the societies. The capacities of a community to respond to earthquakes do not only depend on the emergency conditions created by the impact, but they are also correlated to the pre-disaster settings and circumstances. Therefore, the common perception, according to which human being are victims of the extreme nature events, is only partially true. Socio-natural disasters and even those related to earthquakes might even be the consequences of policy and political decisions.<\/p>\n From the agricultural revolution onwards, human beings have adjusted and shaped the earth to their own needs and comforts. Definitely, our quality of live, heath and habitat conditions have improved. Our societies are leaving longer, better but this does not mean they are less expose to risks and vulnerabilities. Actually, the territories are more and more affected by socio-natural disasters. The profound changes in environmental cycles has brought our societies into a new time and space: the geographies of the Anthropocene.<\/p>\n The book will aim to investigate how socio-natural risks are perceived and communicated and which strategies different communities are implementing to mitigate the seismic risk.<\/p>\n Different experiences and theoretical debate might help to understand how to prevent and protect communities from risk and hazard, however, as the issue is not easy to tackle, a multidisciplinary and cross-national approach is needed. Furthermore, given that the territory is the combination of natural, social and cultural environment, the only and best way through which it can be managed and protected is by exploring its anatomy and physiology. The most recent earthquakes have unequivocally shown the complexity of the phenomena and its multi-scale dynamics. It is then important for the scientific communities to encourage an interdisciplinary collaboration which can provide the general public with correct and clear information on the complex scenario. The book will be partially the outcome of the discussion that took place in Malta at the 36th General Assembly of the European Seismological Commission, in the context of the Session S41; however, we are warmly welcoming other contributions that will enrich the debate.<\/p>\n Important Dates<\/strong>:<\/p>\n January 30, 2019: Book Chapter Proposal deadline;<\/p>\n February 15, 2019: Acceptance\/Rejection Notification;<\/p>\n May 15, 2019: Full Chapter Submission;<\/p>\n July 15, 2019: Review notification;<\/p>\n October 15, 2019: Final version chapter submission;<\/p>\n November 2019: Final e-book version available.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Submission Procedure:<\/strong><\/p>\n Interested authors should submit their proposals (max 500 words) by January 30, 2019, explaining the main topic and the objectives of the chapter. The manuscript proposals (Word or PDF) must be sent by email to the following address: geographiesofanthropocene@gmail.com. Acceptance\/Rejection notification will be sent to the authors by February 15, 2019. After the acceptance notification, authors should submit full chapters by May 15, 2019 formatting their manuscripts following the Editor\u2019s guidelines:<\/p>\n Editorial guidelines for authors<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n Download Call<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Call for Chapter Proposals<\/strong><\/p>\n Disasters in popular orality<\/strong><\/p>\n Edited by\u00a0Domenica Borriello Elisabetta Dall\u2019O\u2019 Giovanni Gugg <\/p>\n Dear Colleagues, Scope: I disastri nell\u2019oralit\u00e0 popolare (Italian language) Secondo Italo Calvino, le fiabe e le leggende sono tutte vere, perch\u00e9 \u00absono il catalogo dei destini che\u00a0possono darsi a un uomo e a una donna\u00bb. Lungi dall\u2019essere invenzioni scollegate dalla realt\u00e0, le opere\u00a0dell\u2019oralit\u00e0 popolare rappresentano, pertanto, il caleidoscopio di un certo modo di stare al mondo, di\u00a0guardare al territorio, di relazionarsi alla natura, di affrontare la vita e la morte. In questo senso non\u00a0sono \u201cstorie del passato\u201d, bens\u00ec specifiche modalit\u00e0 con cui la memoria collettiva seleziona e\u00a0tramanda ci\u00f2 che vale la pena essere ricordato: sono racconti dalla funzione pedagogica e di\u00a0interpretazione dei luoghi, come ad esempio le sirene identificate con determinati scogli, che indicano\u00a0la pericolosit\u00e0 di certi fondali o di specifiche correnti marine; una carpa gigante che ricorda ai\u00a0giapponesi la sismicit\u00e0 del loro arcipelago e un drago che per secoli ha rappresentato sulle Alpi la\u00a0minaccia dell\u2019avanzata glaciale; il pifferaio che, invece, funge da allegoria della possibile drammatica\u00a0epidemia (o frana) ad Hamelin\u2026 Les catastrophes dans l\u2019oralit\u00e9 populaire (French language)<\/em><\/p>\n Selon Italo Calvino, les contes de f\u00e9es et les l\u00e9gendes sont tous vrais, car \u00abils sont le catalogue des\u00a0destins qui peuvent \u00eatre donn\u00e9s \u00e0 un homme et \u00e0 une femme\u00bb. Loin d’\u00eatre des inventions d\u00e9connect\u00e9es\u00a0de la r\u00e9alit\u00e9, les \u0153uvres d’oralit\u00e9 populaire repr\u00e9sentent donc le kal\u00e9idoscope d’une certaine mani\u00e8re d’\u00eatre au monde, de regarder le territoire, de se rapporter \u00e0 la nature, de faire face \u00e0 la vie et \u00e0 la mort. Important Dates: Submission Procedure: Acceptance\/Rejection notification will be sent to the authors by July 31, 2018. Editorial guidelines for authors<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n The manuscript word count must be between 4500 – 6000 words. This includes tables, illustrations,\u00a0references, etc. All submissions will be reviewed in a double-blind manner.<\/p>\n Download Call<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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. 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\nwe would like to inform you that the second Call for Book Chapters of \u201cGeographies of the\u00a0Anthropocene\u201d<\/strong> book series is intended to become a collective and multilingual volume titled\u00a0\u201cDisasters in popular orality\u201d (Languages: English, Italian and French).<\/p>\n
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\nAccording to Italo Calvino, fairy tales and legends are all true, because \u00abthey are the catalog of\u00a0destinies that can be given to a man and a woman\u00bb. Far from being inventions disconnected from\u00a0reality, the works of popular orality represent, therefore, the kaleidoscope of a certain way of being\u00a0in the world, of looking at the territory, of relating to nature, of facing life and death. In this sense,\u00a0they are not \u201cstories of the past\u201d, but specific ways in which collective memory selects and transmits\u00a0what is worth remembering: they are stories providing a pedagogical function and an interpretation\u00a0of places, as for the sirens identified with certain rocks, which indicate the danger of some seabeds\u00a0or specific marine currents; a giant carp that reminds the Japanese of the seismicity of their\u00a0archipelago and a dragon that for centuries has represented in the Alps the threat of glacial advance;\u00a0the pied piper that, instead, acts as an allegory of the possible dramatic epidemic (or landslide) in
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\nThis call intends to collect contributions that, by investigating popular and oral literature, focus on\u00a0narratives related to risk and disasters (\u201cnatural\u201d, \u201ctechnological\u201d, \u201chealth\u201d, \u201cecological\u201d…), as\u00a0described in the social imaginary, from the most remote eras to the most stringent current affairs. The\u00a0book will be a precious element for a comprehensive reconstruction of cultural resources that in Italy\u00a0and Europe (or elsewhere, depending on the contributions) have allowed to face and manage material\u00a0and spiritual concerns and problems arising from disasters.
\nConsidering the heterogeneity of sources, cases, origins, epochs and narrative modalities, the volume\u00a0is to be considered an interdisciplinary work; through highly significant case studies, it analyzes the\u00a0modes of representation of the disaster in a vast corpus of \u201cpopular\u201d texts, collected in the archive or\u00a0ethnographically, but all referable to natural disasters, epidemics and disastrous events related to\u00a0wars, invasions and political upheavals. In this sense, the emotional and private dimension of the\u00a0catastrophe, the superstitions and the fantastic figures that often populate fairy tales and legends will\u00a0assume a new and surprisingly \u201crational\u201d appearance.
\nBesides passing from generation to generation a specific selection of the memory of what happened\u00a0– that is, the salvation from the catastrophe despite the destruction and continuity of the community\u00a0despite the fracture brought by the calamity -, oral \/ popular literature acts as \u201cmemory of the lived\u00a0experience\u201d, that is, conveys a story of the present that is measured day by day with forms of\u00a0existential precariousness, in a vision of risk – personal and collective – which is now conceived as a\u00a0perennial societal state. The need for reassurance is therefore also entrusted to narratives that, acting\u00a0as a mediator between an uncertain present and a selected and sweetened, but in any case \u201cknown\u201d,\u00a0past are used as conventional and formalized methods in which to express specific communication\u00a0emotions and relief, protection and continuity. As Gilbert Keith Chesterton reminds us, \u00abfairy tales\u00a0tell children the dragons can be killed\u00bb.<\/p>\n
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\nLa presente call intende raccogliere contributi che, indagando la letteratura popolare e orale, si\u00a0focalizzino sulle narrazioni riconducibili al rischio e ai disastri(\u201cnaturale\u201d, \u201ctecnologico\u201d, \u201csanitario\u201d,\u00a0\u201cecologico\u201d\u2026), cos\u00ec come declinati nell\u2019immaginario collettivo, dalle epoche pi\u00f9 remote all\u2019attualit\u00e0\u00a0pi\u00f9 stringente. Il volume rappresenter\u00e0 un tassello prezioso per una complessiva ricostruzione delle\u00a0risorse culturali che in Italia e in Europa (o altrove, a seconda dei contributi) hanno permesso di far\u00a0fronte e gestire i problemi e le inquietudini materiali e spirituali derivanti dalle catastrofi.
\nConsiderando l\u2019eterogeneit\u00e0 delle fonti, dei casi, delle provenienze, delle epoche e delle modalit\u00e0\u00a0narrative, il volume \u00e8 da considerarsi un lavoro interdisciplinare che, attraverso dei case-studies\u00a0altamente significativi, analizzi i modi di rappresentazione del disastro in un vasto corpus di testi\u00a0\u201cpopolari\u201d, raccolti in archivio o etnograficamente, ma tutti riconducibili a delle calamit\u00e0 naturali,\u00a0delle epidemie e degli eventi disastrosi connessi a guerre, invasioni e rivolgimenti politici. In questo\u00a0senso, la dimensione emotiva e privata della catastrofe, le superstizioni e le figure fantastiche che\u00a0sovente popolano fiabe e leggende assumeranno una veste inedita e sorprendentemente \u201crazionale\u201d.
\nAccanto al tramandare di generazione in generazione una specifica selezione della memoria di quel\u00a0che accadde \u2013 cio\u00e8, la salvezza dalla catastrofe nonostante le distruzioni e la continuit\u00e0 della comunit\u00e0\u00a0nonostante la frattura apportata dalla calamit\u00e0 \u2013, la letteratura orale\/popolare funge da \u201cmemoria\u00a0dell\u2019esperienza vissuta\u201d, ossia trasmette un racconto del presente che si misura giorno dopo giorno\u00a0con forme di precariet\u00e0 esistenziale, in una visione del rischio \u2013 personale e collettivo \u2013 che \u00e8\u00a0concepito ormai come uno stato perenne in cui riversa la societ\u00e0. L\u2019esigenza della rassicurazione \u00e8\u00a0affidata dunque anche a narrazioni che, svolgendo una funzione di mediazione tra un presente incerto\u00a0e un passato selezionato ed edulcorato, ma comunque \u201cnoto\u201d, si pongono come modalit\u00e0\u00a0convenzionali e formalizzate in cui esprimere delle emozioni specifiche di comunicazione e sollievo,\u00a0di protezione e continuit\u00e0. Come ci ricorda Gilbert Keith Chesterton, \u00able favole servono a spiegare ai\u00a0bambini che i draghi possono essere sconfitti\u00bb.<\/p>\n
\nEn ce sens, ils ne sont pas des \u00abhistoires du pass\u00e9\u00bb, mais des fa\u00e7ons sp\u00e9cifiques par lesquelles la\u00a0m\u00e9moire collective s\u00e9lectionne et transmet ce qui m\u00e9rite d’\u00eatre rappel\u00e9: ces histoires ont une fonction\u00a0p\u00e9dagogique et peuvent offrir une interpr\u00e9tation des lieux. C\u2019est le cas, par exemple, des sir\u00e8nes, qui\u00a0indiquent le danger de certains fonds ou courants marins ; de la carpe g\u00e9ante qui rappelle aux Japonais\u00a0la sismicit\u00e9 de leur archipel ; du dragon qui pendant des si\u00e8cles a repr\u00e9sent\u00e9 dans les Alpes la menace\u00a0de l\u2019avanc\u00e9e glaciaire; ou encore du joueur de fl\u00fbte qui agit comme une all\u00e9gorie de l’\u00e9ventuelle\u00a0\u00e9pid\u00e9mie dramatique (ou glissement de terrain) \u00e0 Hamelin…
\nCet appel vise \u00e0 recueillir des contributions qui, en \u00e9tudiant la litt\u00e9rature populaire et orale, se\u00a0concentrent sur des r\u00e9cits li\u00e9s aux risques et aux catastrophes (\u00abnaturel\u00bb, \u00abtechnologique\u00bb,\u00a0\u00absanitaires\u00bb, \u00ab\u00e9cologiques\u00bb…) tels que d\u00e9crits dans l’imaginaire collective, \u00e0 partir des \u00e9poques les\u00a0plus anciennes jusqu\u2019\u00e0 l\u2019actualit\u00e9. Le livre sera un \u00e9l\u00e9ment pr\u00e9cieux pour une reconstruction compl\u00e8te\u00a0des ressources culturelles qui, en Italie et en Europe (ou ailleurs, selon les contributions), ont permis\u00a0de faire face et de g\u00e9rer les probl\u00e8mes mat\u00e9riels et spirituels ainsi que les pr\u00e9occupations d\u00e9coulant\u00a0des catastrophes.
\nConsid\u00e9rant l’h\u00e9t\u00e9rog\u00e9n\u00e9it\u00e9 des sources, des cas, des origines, des \u00e9poques et des modalit\u00e9s narratives,\u00a0le volume doit \u00eatre consid\u00e9r\u00e9 comme un travail interdisciplinaire ; par des \u00e9tudes de cas tr\u00e8s\u00a0significatifs, il analyse les modes de repr\u00e9sentation du d\u00e9sastre dans un vaste corpus de textes\u00a0\u00abpopulaires\u00bb, recueillis dans les archives ou ethnographiquement, mais tous se rapportant \u00e0 des\u00a0catastrophes naturelles, des \u00e9pid\u00e9mies et des \u00e9v\u00e9nements d\u00e9sastreux li\u00e9s aux guerres, aux invasions\u00a0et aux bouleversements politiques. En ce sens, la dimension \u00e9motionnelle et priv\u00e9e de la catastrophe,\u00a0les superstitions et les figures fantastiques qui peuplent souvent les contes de f\u00e9es et les l\u00e9gendes\u00a0prendront une allure nouvelle et \u00e9tonnamment \u00abrationnelle\u00bb.
\nEn plus de transmettre de g\u00e9n\u00e9ration en g\u00e9n\u00e9ration une s\u00e9lection sp\u00e9cifique de la m\u00e9moire de ce qui\u00a0s\u2019est pass\u00e9 – c’est le salut par la catastrophe, malgr\u00e9 la destruction et la continuit\u00e9 de la communaut\u00e9\u00a0malgr\u00e9 la fracture caus\u00e9e par la catastrophe -, la litt\u00e9rature orale \/ populaire agit comme une \u00abm\u00e9moire de l’exp\u00e9rience v\u00e9cue \u00bb, qui transmet une histoire de ce qui est mesur\u00e9 tous les jours avec\u00a0des formes d’existence pr\u00e9caires et par une vision du risque – personnelle et collective \u2013 consid\u00e9r\u00e9\u00a0comme un \u00e9tat permanent dans lequel la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 se d\u00e9verse. La n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 de rassurer est donc confi\u00e9e\u00a0aussi aux narrations qui, en exer\u00e7ant une fonction de m\u00e9diation entre un certain pr\u00e9sent et un pass\u00e9\u00a0choisi et \u00ab connu \u00bb, sont pr\u00e9sent\u00e9es comme modalit\u00e9s conventionnelles et formalis\u00e9es pour exprimer\u00a0des sp\u00e9cifiques \u00e9motions de communication et soulagement, de protection et continuit\u00e9. Comme le\u00a0rappelle Gilbert Keith Chesterton, \u00ables contes disent aux enfants que les dragons peuvent \u00eatre\u00a0vaincus\u00bb.<\/p>\n
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\nJuly 15, 2018:<\/em> Book Chapter Proposal deadline;
\nJuly 31, 2018:<\/em> Acceptance \/ Rejection Notification;
\nOctober 31, 2018:<\/em> Full Chapter Submission;
\nDecember 31, 2018:<\/em> Review notification;
\nFebruary 28, 2019:<\/em> Final version chapter submission;
\nApril 2019:<\/em> Final e-book version available.<\/p>\n
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\nInterested authors should submit their proposals (max 500 words) by July 15, 2018, explaining the\u00a0main topic and the objectives of the chapter. The manuscript proposals (Word or PDF) must be sent\u00a0by email to the following address: geographiesofanthropocene@gmail.com.<\/p>\n
\nAfter the acceptance notification, authors should submit full chapters by October 31, 2018 formatting\u00a0their manuscripts following the Editor\u2019s guidelines:<\/p>\n