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The Problem of the Problem of Environmental History: A Re-reading of the Field Sverker Sörlin and Paul Warde's article 'The Problem of the Problem of Environmental History: A Re-reading of the Field' was published in Environmental History, Volume 12, Number 1, January 2007. ASEH Offers Rothman Fellowship in Environmental History In recognition of Hal K. Rothman’s commitment to the American Society for Environmental History and to graduate education, the ASEH will offer a graduate student fellowship for dissertation research in the field of environmental history. The applicant should be a doctoral candidate who has completed comprehensive examinations for his or her dissertation subject. The student should submit a vita and a 500-word statement summarizing the project and the particular library or collection in which research would be completed. Additionally, the student’s graduate adviser should send a letter of recommendation. In this the inaugural year, and while fundraising efforts are ongoing, the fellowship will be for $1,000. In the future, once contributions sufficiently build the principal, ASEH will give this fellowship annually and in the amount of $1,500. The application deadline is December 15. The 2007 Hal K. Rothman Fellowship Committee: The student's vita and statement and the graduate advisor's letter should be sent to kbrosnan@uh.edu. For more information regarding donations to the Hal K. Rothman Fellowship Fund, please visit http://www.aseh.net/about-aseh/make-a-donation-to-aseh/rothmangrant.pdf. Call for Papers for Environmental Justice Book Editors Introduction On an international scale, environmental justice is a concept that has evolved over the past two decades to provide new, exciting and challenging directions for public policy and planning and social movements*. *Researchers are increasingly positioning social 'equity' as a building block of (or prerequisite for) sustainability, yet the relationship between social equity and the environmental aspects of sustainability is often implicit and under-analyzed, especially in environmentally focused scholarship. "Environmental justice" brings equity issues to the forefront. Unfortunately, equity concerns still do not receive adequate attention. In this book, we will draw on research and scholarship from Canada - First Peoples and Newcomers, of European and other backgrounds - to consider "environmental justice" in specifically Canadian contexts. In Canada, unlike its southern neighbour, there has been relatively little sustained scholarly activity focused on environmental justice. In the U.S., there is now abundant evidence of discrimination in the siting of "locally unwanted land uses" (LULUs) with a disproportionate number being placed in Native American, people of colour and low-income neighbourhoods and communities. In the U.S. there is an environmental justice movement (or more correctly /movements/), federal legislation, a presidential executive order, court victories and halted industrial projects. In Canada, a preliminary scan seems to show that the limited academic environmental justice scholarship is mostly related to Aboriginal peoples, though there is increasing scholarship in the areas of race and socio-economic inequities. In many cases these are rural struggles, whereas in the U.S. much of the 'EJ impetus' comes from disproportionate risks faced by African-Americans, Latin Americans and those in low-income communities in urban areas. Aboriginal Peoples in Canada have also faced resource management and land claim disputes that in many cases may be considered environmental justice concerns. More importantly however, these are political issues affecting Aboriginal Peoples in Canada in ways not faced by Native Americans in the U.S. Environmental inequities in Canada also appear to take different forms than in the United States due to the differing spatial structure(s) of Canadian cities (e.g., less segregated), racial dynamics, regional differences, and the social policy orientations of the Canadian polity. Finally, there has been relatively little writing on social organizing under the frame of "environmental justice" in Canada, although, among others, the Cree have organized against flooding of their lands in Northern Quebec, the Clayquot have successfully protested old growth logging and clear-cutting of their traditional lands in British Columbia, and the Inuit have begun to mobilize against impacts on the Arctic and traditional lifestyles by global climate changes (under the frame of "climate justice"). This book, for the first time, examines the multidimensionality and multivocality of environmental inequity and injustice in Canada. In the process, the contributors (both established 'expert' and new voices) will examine social-environmental relationships in the light of these Canadian cases. Many of the concepts involved in "environmental justice" are based in the European/Western tradition. For example, both 'environment' as a generalized concept and 'justice' as a notion of jurisprudence are western ways of knowing, that are not universal in understanding nor practice. Nevertheless, they are treated as default positions in the environmental justice literature. Aboriginal knowledge(s) and practice(s) have often approached these concerns in quite different ways. This text, based in Canadian cases, will deepen the environmental justice literature in Canada and globally, by, in part, showing how environmental justice is "constructed" in different ways in this nation's context. Please submit papers or abstracts which deal with one of the key questions to: Randolph Haluza-DeLay Exploring Environmental History Podcast Exploring Environmental History is the podcast about human societies and the environment in the past. The podcast features interviews with people working in the field, reports on conferences and research and discussions about the use and methods of environmental history. The latest episode of the Exploring Environmental History podcast reports from the recent joint meeting of the Forest History Society and the American Society for Environmental History held in St Paul. It includes summaries of some papers presented and interviews with Dr. Steven Anderson, President of the Forest History Society and with some participants and as well as a short report on one of the field trips. You can subscribe to the Exploring Environmental History podcast or download it at: Call for contributors – Environmental History Environmental History is introducing an annual section entitled "Innovative Sources for Environmental Historians," which will explore the use of evidence beyond the realm of traditional archival and field work. If interested, please contact: Waters of Rome THE WATERS OF ROME, an occasional on-line publication of refereed articles that investigate the history of water and its infrastructure in the city of Rome, is pleased to announce publication of "Restoring the ancient water supply system in Renaissance Rome: the Popes, the civic administration, and the Acqua Vergine", by David Karmon, Department of Art History, The Pennsylvania State University. http://www.iath.virginia.edu/waters/article.html. THE WATERS OF ROME is published by "Aquae Urbis Romae: the Waters of the City of Rome" - an interactive cartographic history of the relationship between hydrology and hydraulics and their impact on the urban development of Rome, Italy, from 753 BC to the present day. Aquae Urbis Romae examines the intersection between natural hydrological features including springs, rain, streams, marshes, and the Tiber River, and hydraulic infrastructure elements including aqueducts, fountains, sewers, bridges, conduits, etc., that together create a single integrated water infrastructure system for Rome. Scholars are invited to submit articles in English (or in another language with a publishable English translation provided by the author) on any aspect of the hydrological or hydraulic history of Rome. Articles that investigate water and water infrastructure within a social, cultural, technological, or administrative context are particularly welcome. All articles under consideration will be read by the editor and at least two outside reviewers who are experts in Roman topography, archaeology, history of technology, geography, urban or architectural history. Authors shall be responsible for obtaining copyright permissions for all maps and images included with their article, and each author retains copyright for any work published at "Aquae Urbis Romae: the Waters of the City of Rome". For further information, please contact us at Katherine W. Rinne Call for Contributors: Seas and Waterways of the World ABC-CLIO, a publisher specializing in historical reference works, is currently in the preliminary stages of planning an encyclopedia entitled: Seas and Waterways of the World: A Historical Encyclopedia of Transportation and Trade. This encyclopedia will approach the subject from a variety of perspectives and will be intended for use at both the university and advanced secondary school levels. The entries will take a multidisciplinary historical approach to sea-dependent commerce, covering the aquarium, cruise, energy, fishing, insurance, mining, trade, transportation, recreation, and sport industries. Included will be significant coverage of harbors, ports and coastal development since access to the waterfront has always had a significant influence on local and national economies. There also will be coverage of the more macro themes such as the rise and fall of the Erie Canal as the gateway to the Midwest, and the rise and recent problems faced by the Panama Canal. We are currently searching for the best group of contributors to give this set the high quality, broad coverage, and depth of interpretation necessary to produce a useful and groundbreaking encyclopedia. For more information regarding the encyclopedia, including a project description, list of entries to be written, compensation information and entry due dates, and sample entries, please visit the project website at: http://ed.abc-clio.com/contributor. When prompted, please enter - Entry Code: seawatc, Password: panama. If you are interested in contributing entries to the encyclopedia, please send a message with the titles of the entries you would like to write, along with a copy of your c.v., to: jzumerchik@peoplepc.com. Call for Collaboration: GEST-Group for the Study of Society and Territory, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil. GEST- The Group for the Study of Society and Territory, a research group based at UFRGS-The Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil, is interested in establishing agreements and collaborating with colleagues in other institutions, cities and countries. We can either be a South American and/or American "leg" of comparative research projects and/or have colleagues as partners in any of our projects. We are also willing to collaborate with other colleagues applying for NEH, and/or NSF grants as well as other funding agencies worldwide such as the European Science Foundation. For instance, I have just received a message from the NSF representative for international collaboration with Brazil saying that they are prepared to fund research here as long as there is/are USA-based colleagues willing to put research bids together with us at GEST. We have several research projects, many with a strong historic component. I would like to say that I do accept new partners in these projects, where we have several undergraduate research assistants, the so-called "estagiários de iniciação científica" in the Brazilian research system. This is to say that if you want to propose your own project, I am "here" to discuss possibilities and if you want to become a partner in a comparative study with any of the projects below, which are obviously in different degrees of completion, we can also explore options together. Please find below our GEST-Group for the Study of Society and Territory. GEST is an interdisciplinary research group based at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil; composed of professors, researchers, graduate and undergraduate students. GEST members work on subjects ranging from the History and Geography of Housing and Cities in South America to the Spatial Dynamics of Crime in the Metropolitan Region of Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil. Other research interests in the group include economic restructuring, spatial cycles and their spatial impacts; residential and intra-metropolitan mobility; and the grape and the colonization of the Brazilian territory: A Geography of wine. GEST members have done empirical work in places such as Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Recife, Porto Alegre, and Buenos Aires, and in several libraries and universities in Europe (Paris, Oxford, Cambridge, London, Stockholm, Copenhaguen, Turim), Latin America), and the USA (Chicago, Washington, Milwaukee, New York, and Boston). We are also interested in receiving foreign scholars to give lectures here. We recently received Prof. Shaul Krakover who gave a set of lectures on Spatial Cycles. We have no funds to pay travel expenses from abroad at the moment, but we might pay your travel from any point in Brazil and we will provide accomodation here for sure. Please get in touch if you want to lecture or do research here. GEST research projects include:
If you would like to establish any kind of collaboration with GEST and/or discuss possibilities, please write to me. Please forward this message to interested parts. Thank you for your time and consideration. Joel Outtes Call for Grant Proposals: National Science Foundation and Environmental History Through its Science and Technology Studies program (STS), the National Science Foundation has been a traditional supporter of research in the history, philosophy, and social studies of science. However, many members of the American Society for Environmental History may not realize that this program has also supported many grants in environmental history. It might be helpful to provide some information about the STS program to ASEH members. As a result of these new directions, the STS program has identified environmental history as part of a NSF sub-priority area, "Spatial Social Sciences," in its new initiative, "Human and Social Dynamics." While future funding of the initiative (with its sub-priority areas) remains unclear, NSF has responded positively to the role that environmental history may play in it. Thus, scholars in environmental history are encouraged to consider the STS program at NSF as a potential source of support for their research. Ronald Rainger Call for Book Proposals: LSU Press LSU Press has recently appointed a new geography and environmental studies acquisitions editor. Therefore, as part of their interest in these broad fields, they are keenly interested in environmental history. They are especially interested in topics set in the US South and Latin America. If anyone is working on such topics, LSU Press would be very pleased to consider your proposal or finished manuscript. Contact: Call for Submissions: Left History Left History an interdisciplinary journal featuring radical political and theoretical perspectives, invites submissions for upcoming issues. A refereed bi-annual publication, Left History features articles with feminist, Marxist, and postmodernist approaches on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, the environment, theory, and method. Original articles, theoretical pieces, reviews, and document analyses are all welcome as are submissions from new and established scholars. For more information on previous issues and submissions please consult our website at www.yorku.ca/lefthist. Or contact the editors at lefthist@yorku.ca. RECLIDO RECLIDO, the Spanish network of climate reconstruction from documentary sources, has recently launched their website. Visit their website at: http://www.ucm.es/info/reclido/ New book series: History of the Urban Environment The University of Pittsburgh Press is pleased to announce a new series: History of the Urban Environment, Edited by Martin V. Melosi History of the Urban Environment will feature books that examine the historical impact of urbanization, showcasing the best scholarship within the field of urban environmental history and presenting issues that matter most to general readers interested in the environment. As the world becomes increasingly urbanized, we must continually devise ways to deal with the consequences of this development, among them the proliferation of human waste; pollution of the air, water, and land; "natural" disasters such as fire and flood, and diminishing natural resources. Books in the series will consider the history of the human-built environment from a broad range of perspectives--geographical, technological, ecological, cultural, and social--in both domestic and international contexts. They will present studie that highlight the environmental challenges faced by specific urban centers, as well as works that combine theoretical and practical approaches to important topics in urban environmental history. These include, but are not limited to:
To submit a manuscript, please send a letter of inquiry describing the subject of your work, the approach you have taken, its contribution to contemporary scholarship, and its intended audience(s). Please include a current c.v., a book outline or table of contents, and a sample chapter, if available. If the manuscript is not yet finished, include a projected timetable, an estimate of final length, and the amount of illustrative material to be included, if any. Send your inquiry to: Kendra Boileau Stokes Archiv zur Geschichte der Kernenergie in der Schweiz (ARK) ETH Zürich, Zürich The Historical Archive of Swiss Nuclear Power has been opened at the ETH Zürich. In the last two years many important private archives on the history of nuclear power in Switzerland have been collected and integrated in the archives of the ETH Zürich. The project of the historians Patrick Kupper and Tobias Wildi has been sponsored by the ETH Zürich, the Paul Scherrer Institut, the Swiss Nuclear Power Industry, the Schnitter-Fonds für Technikgeschichte, and privates. The documents kept at the ARK originate from enterprises, research centres, federal bodies and private persons and testify the development of civil nuclear research and economy in Switzerland after WWII. Among the documents we may find letters, protocols, reports, gray literature, and annotated books. Beside the written documents there are many photographs, audio cassettes, videos, microfiches, and even x-ray images of welds. The oldest documents are from 1941, the latest from 1998. The archive reaches a length of 214 linear meters. More information (in German) may be obtained on the website www.tg.ethz.ch/forschung/projektbeschreib/ The single documents may be searched online on the ETH Zürich Archive database www.ethbib.ethz.ch/eth-archiv/dachs.html Homepage: http://www.tg.ethz.ch Call for Papers for Globalization Globalizations is a new journal, edited by Barry Gills, and supported by the Globalization Research Network. With an editorial board consisting of active globalization scholars, the journal will seek to publish the best work exploring new meanings of globalization, bringing fresh ideas to the concept and contributing to debates that shape the future. The conventional use of 'globalization' understood narrowly as neoliberal economics and free trade, is being challenged from many directions. The journal is dedicated to opening the widest possible space for discussion of alternatives to a narrow economic understanding of globalization. The move from the singular to the plural is deliberate and meaningful. Moving to the plural 'globalizations' signifies a serious skepticism of the idea that there can ever be a single theory or interpretation of globalization. Rather, the journal will seek to encourage the exploration and discussion of multiple interpretations and multiple processes that may constitute many possible globalizations, many possible alternatives and futures. Globalizations encompasses global processes as well as global problems, and the nature and means of global solutions. In order to pursue such a wide range of possibilities, the journal will be open to all fields of knowledge, including the natural, environmental, medical, and public health sciences, as well as the social sciences. Globalizations will normally consider papers from any relevant disciplinary background, but we will especially encourage multidisciplinary research, as well as transnational research involving participants from more than one country. Globalizations sees its role as contributing to building the emergent field of Global Studies and Critical Globalization Studies, in pursuit of new modes of global education and action. The journal will not confine itself to publishing only critiques of existing economic or neoliberal globalization, although such critique will always be a feature. Globalizations will engage with social, cultural, political, and ideological debates on the nature and practices of global change. The journal hopes to establish a real bridge between the academic world and the world of practice, the world of action. We want to publish work that is relevant and accessible to a wide public, including non-governmental organizations and policy-making communities in addition to university teachers, researchers, and students. All articles should be submitted typed (three copies) and double-spaced, using the Harvard system of referencing along with a 150 word abstract, and sent by hard copy to: Barry Gills, The School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 40/42 Great North Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK. Themes of the journal will include:
More information about submission of papers can be found at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/authors/rglocfp.asp and http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/Leaflets/RGLO.pdf Environmental History of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands The aim of the Environmental History of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands will be to explore the interaction of peoples and environments along one of the sharpest economic dividing lines in the world. The series will publish provocative environmental histories that challenge entrenched assumptions and inform current controversies by examining them in historical perspective. The border itself will not necessarily be the focus of all series volumes. Nonetheless, the presence of the border will allow scholars from both sides to examine the interpenetration of the cultural and the natural in cross-cultural and transnational perspective.
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