{"id":932,"date":"2021-07-06T11:38:14","date_gmt":"2021-07-06T09:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ilsileno.it\/geographiesoftheanthropocene\/?page_id=932"},"modified":"2022-02-14T17:40:49","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T16:40:49","slug":"call-for-book-chapters-2021","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ilsileno.it\/geographiesoftheanthropocene\/call-for-book-chapters-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for Book Chapters | 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"

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:
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E-mail:\u00a0geographiesofanthropocene@gmail.com<\/em><\/p>\n

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Call for Book Chapters<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cinema, Disasters and the Anthropocene<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Edited by<\/p>\n

Enrico Nicosia<\/em><\/p>\n

(Department of Cognitive Sciences, Psychology, Education and Cultural Studies,<\/p>\n

University of Messina, Italy)<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Lucrezia Lopez<\/em><\/p>\n

(Department of Geography, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain)<\/p>\n

Dear Colleagues,<\/p>\n

we would like to inform you that the call for chapter contributions to the \u201cGeographies of the Anthropocene\u201d book series for the collective volume titled: Cinema, Disasters and the Anthropocene <\/em><\/strong>(Language: English), edited by Enrico Nicosia (Department of Cognitive Sciences, Psychology, Education and Cultural Studies, University of Messina, Italy) and Lucrezia Lopez (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain) is now open. Proposals will be accepted until February 15, 2022.<\/p>\n

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Scope: <\/strong><\/p>\n

What kind of challenges does the future hold? Geography can play an important clarifying role to reduce the complexity of (today\u2019s) social, economic, political and technological reality, by presenting a much deeper vision of reality and at the same time offering us the means to navigate it. In the context of theoretical analysis and in the context of studies on the Geographies of the Anthropocene<\/em>, this call aims to provide empirical and concrete insights into geographical research regarding its recent developments, with a specific look at the challenges of the future.<\/p>\n

Jennifer Fay\u2019s\u00a0Inhospitable World: Cinema in the Time of the Anthropocene<\/em>\u00a0integrates the concept of the Anthropocene and the field of Cinema and Media Studies, probing the nexus where human-driven climate change meets film theory and aesthetics. For Fay, cinema bears a unique affinity with the Anthropocene, as a phenomena of the Industrial Revolution involved in the uncanny defamiliarization of the world: \u201cThe Anthropocene is to natural science what cinema \u2026 has been to human culture\u201d. The analogy is even more profound, however, because filmmaking also facilitates the creation of artificial worlds and catastrophic events, both in the movie studio and on location shoots.<\/p>\n

Following Fay, contributions to Cinema, Disasters and the Anthropocene<\/em> are invited to discuss, reconstruct and explore relevant themes as narrated and visualized by the cinematographic medium. \u00a0For many critical theorists, it has become second nature to hold some degree of suspicion towards \u201cscience\u201d. \u00a0Arguably as an accomplice to some of the most egregious crimes of the modern era, science has been identified with everything from positivism and instrumental reason to essentialism and biopolitical control. Skepticism towards science peaked in the late twentieth century, when leftist thinkers in the humanities sought to undermine empirical approaches to scientific knowledge. This transformation in social thought seemed to depend on the unsettling of epistemic certainty and the subversion of all normative, objectivist validity claims. Yet, as philosopher Bruno Latour has argued, the \u201cscientific wars\u201d appear outdated in light of geopolitical exigencies, particularly due to the accelerating process of climate change.\u00a0The language of social construction and cultural relativism must give way to an emphatic defense of scientific consensus and global truth, even if it is uncomfortable.<\/p>\n

A theoretical rapprochement with the natural sciences has been evidenced by the burgeoning literature on the Anthropocene. Popularized by the atmospheric chemist Paul J. Crutzen, the term \u201cAnthropocene\u201d designates the current geological epoch, in which humans exert a central impact on the global environment.\u00a0Dating back to the late eighteenth century, the Anthropocene is marked by an exponential increase in the human population, an unbridled exploitation of natural resources and an excessive increase in concentrations of greenhouse gases.<\/p>\n

In the Anthropocene era, the challenge of climate change is not a problem of science but rather a failure of politics. And politics, so to speak, fails because the Great Acceleration has led to a standard of living in the \u201cWest,\u201d unparalleled in history. Who is willing to give up the material benefits \u00a0of the Great Acceleration? What would a new, less affluent but more sustainable life look like? How are the alternative societies depicted? How are worlds where global warming is not mitigated and climate dystopias imagined? How does cinema portray the historical periods of the Industrial Revolution and Great Acceleration that created the \u201cAnthropocene\u201d? Indeed, how is the concept of the \u201cAnthropocene\u201d influencing the production and consumption of film? Representations, speculations, and questions on such phenomena are topics\u00a0 that film scholars and humanists, including geographers, \u00a0are more likely to explore.<\/p>\n

Editors will welcome proposals on practical and theoretical aspects, as well as on experimental studies. Topics of interest in the call include, but are not limited to:<\/p>\n