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Stefanie Rixecker
ECOFEM Coordinator
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Date sent: Thu, 05 Jun 2003 16:09:33 -0700
From: J Poxon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CFP: Ethics and the Environment
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From: Mona Freer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CALL FOR PAPERS
Special Issue of ETHICS & THE ENVIRONMENT
Guest Editors: Kevin DeLuca and Christine Harold
ETHICS OF SEEING: CONSUMING ENVIRONMENTS
The title of this special issue was carefully chosen. "Consuming
environments" can be taken at least two ways. First, it addresses a
tendency for those of us living in industrialized cultures to visually
and materially consume the natural world. That is, "nature" often serves
the dual roles of providing the raw materials of industry as well as
providing the beautiful scenery in which laborers (as consumers) spend
their leisure time. Second, the phrase simultaneously addresses the ways
in which our cultural environments (largely visual in character) promote
ane intensify our roles as consumers. These cultural environments can
include commercial media ecologies (e.g., television, Internet) as well
as physical public landscapes which are increasingly saturated by
commercial messages and imagery.
"Ethics of seeing" was carefully chosen as well. As many contemporary
philosophers have asserted, unlike "morals" which describes an a priori
commitment to a somewhat static set of principles, "ethics" must
necessarily emerge out of specific situations. With this in mind, we
encourage papers that resist the urge to condemn this or that
environment or practice as "right" or "wrong" and instead explore the
different constraints, effects. affects, and provocations they produce.
"Seeing" can be taken both as an inquiry into theoretical questions of
ethics (taking seriously the classical sense of "theory" as a way of
seeing) and as the cultural and material process of "taking in" an
object in a particular way.
This special issue of ETHICS & THE ENVIRONMENT seeks papers from a
variety of disciplinary perspectives. We especially encourage work
addressing the issue's themes in the areas of philosophy, rhetoric,
cultural studies, history, cultural geography, media ecology,
communication studies, political science, sociology, psychology, and art
history. Among the questions this issue will consider are:
Both marketers and environmentalists tend to promote their "causes" by
inviting primarily a visual engegement with the world. How is that
engagement configured and with what ends?
Given the increasingly intensified role of the visual in contemporary
life, an important question is what are the ethical implications and
obligations of the ways we are conditioned to see?
How has consumerism changed the way we view nature?
How has the urbanization and commercialization of the landscape changed
what counts as the "environmment," and with what ethical and political
effects?
What are the different modes of ethical response made available by
"natural" environments and/or "cultural" environments? What are the
costs and/or benefits of the various strategies now being deployed (say,
by environmentalists, anti-corporate activists, artists, academics,
etc.).
What are the kinds of the affective force produced in the act of
engaging different landscapes and mediascapes?
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CHRISTINE HAROLD ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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Department of Speech Communication
The University of Georgia
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Athens, GA 30602 (Tel: 814/542-3259)
J Poxon wrote:
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> Mona,
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> I'll be happy to post your cfp if you'll resubmit it within the text
> of your message. I have a policy of not posting messages with
> attachments in word processor formats--too many people can't deal with
> them, and there's an increased risk of spreading viruses.
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> Thanks for your cooperation.
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> Judith
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> Judith Poxon
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> > Please post the following Call for Papers on the list, if possible.
> Thank you,
> > Mona Freer
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> > J Poxon wrote:
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> >> Judith
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> >> Judith Poxon
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Dr. Stefanie S. Rixecker, Director
Environment, Society and Design Division
Lincoln University, Canterbury
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