Hi all I am looking for presenters for a panel on Ecological Science Fiction and Sustainability Transitions for AESS 2015 San Diego in June). Also a discussant! I've copied in a panel abstract below my signature lines. Good papers on this exact topic stand a reasonable chance of being published: I am currently putting together a special feature for a peer-reviewed, open access journal, which will be on-line, and we have the option of adding articles on a rolling basis as they go through the peer-review process.
More about AESS: http://www.aess.info If you are interested please send me your name, your contact info, a paper title and a brief abstract of your paper (the abstract is for me, just need contact and title info for the panel proposal). Deadline for panel submission is January 30, so the sooner the better! Please reply to me directly [email protected] Thanks! Kate -- Kate O'Neill Associate Professor Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management University of California at Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720, USA Co-Editor, Global Environmental Politics Resident Faculty, Unit 2 E-mail: [email protected]; Skype: kmoneill2530; Twitter: @kmoneill2530 https://berkeley.academia.edu/KateONeill Environmentalists have become adept at critiquing society's prevailing direction. Large-scale, accelerating ecological decline is a telling sign, they say, that we are on the wrong path. But what does a sustainable transition look like? And what precisely will it take to put the world on such a path? It feels sometimes as though contemporary environmentalism is long on assessment but short on vision. If people are to take seriously the challenge of crafting a more humane, more resilient world, it must ultimately be on the back of compelling, achievable visions of our shared future. Where is one to look for inspiration? Science fiction authors have long concerned themselves with the effects of human actions on the earth's living systems. From richly-drawn eco-topian visions to prophecies of large-scale ecological collapse, speculative fiction offers a panoramic vista of future worlds. It also offers tools and ideas that can be used in our classrooms to engage students (often disillusioned by a world that seems stuck on a single track). As people strive at this crucial moment to produce a new ecological imaginary, never has the power of this "last great literature of ideas" to offer fresh insights and powerful visions of our future been so welcome, nor so important. The papers on this panel will delve into speculative fiction, to see what this literary tradition has to teach not just about the world's present environmental condition, but also about alternative futures, and about the kinds of actions that might get us from here to there. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
