{"id":2768,"date":"2022-10-13T23:19:13","date_gmt":"2022-10-13T21:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afea.fr\/news\/cfp\/cfp-new-deadline-eaclals-conference-imagining-environmental-justice-in-the-postcolonial-world-sorbonne-nouvelle-6-10-june-2023\/2768\/"},"modified":"2022-10-13T23:23:04","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T21:23:04","slug":"cfp-new-deadline-eaclals-conference-imagining-environmental-justice-in-the-postcolonial-world-sorbonne-nouvelle-6-10-june-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afea.fr\/news\/cfp\/cfp-new-deadline-eaclals-conference-imagining-environmental-justice-in-the-postcolonial-world-sorbonne-nouvelle-6-10-june-2023\/2768\/","title":{"rendered":"CFP: new deadline, EACLALS conference, \u00ab\u00a0Imagining Environmental Justice in the Postcolonial World\u00a0\u00bb, Sorbonne Nouvelle, 6-10 June 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

EACLALS Triennial Conference 2023: 6-10 June 2023, Sorbonne Nouvelle University<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cImagining Environmental Justice in a Postcolonial World\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

CALL FOR PAPERS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

EXTENDED DEADLINE: 15 NOVEMBER 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Several colleagues who wish to participate have asked the committee for more time to submit proposals, so we are extending the deadline to 15 November 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the 2023 conference of EACLALS (European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies), we invite delegates to:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00b7      bring postcolonial literatures and arts into conversation with environmentalism; <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00b7      investigate the power of narratives in all literary genres, as well as images and artistic performances, to evoke environmental injustice; and <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00b7      explore the breadth of what environmental justice may mean in postcolonial contexts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We invite contributions for 20-minute papers or 90-minute panels addressing the conference topic. Please send a 300-word abstract for individual papers or 450-word abstract for panels, accompanied by a short biographical note on all speakers (100-150 words) and 5-6 keywords to EACLALS2023@sorbonne-nouvelle.fr<\/a> by 15 October<\/s> November 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We prefer that you participate in the EACLALS 2023 conference in person. However, we are scheduling some online sessions for scholars who can\u2019t afford to travel to Paris and to reduce the ecological impact of the conference. To privilege in-person interaction, we aim to limit the proportion of online participation to a third of all sessions. Speakers who wish to participate online should clearly indicate that in their proposal. Fees to register for the conference will be lower for online participants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Confirmed keynote speakers:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amanda Boetzkes (University of Guelph, Canada)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elizabeth DeLoughrey (University of California, Los Angeles, US)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Graham Huggan (University of Leeds, UK)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Claire Omhov\u00e8re (Universit\u00e9 Paul Val\u00e9ry \u2013 Montpellier 3, France)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Imre Szeman (University of Waterloo, Canada)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The global ecological and climate crisis is strongly linked to modernity and its history of imperialism, colonisation, capitalism, and exploitation of resources. Postcolonial literatures foreground these connections: key texts include Nadine Gordimer\u2019s The Conservationist<\/em> (1974), Judith Wright\u2019s \u201cFor a Pastoral Family\u201d (1985), Patricia Grace\u2019s Potiki<\/em> (1986), Thomas King\u2019s Green Grass, Running Water<\/em> (1999), Amitav Ghosh\u2019s The Hungry Tide<\/em> (2005), Alexis Wright\u2019s Carpentaria <\/em>(2006), Helon Habila\u2019s Oil on Water<\/em> (2011), Kathy Jet\u00f1il-Kijiner\u2019s \u201cTell Them\u201d (2012), Uzma Aslam Khan\u2019s Thinner than Skin<\/em> (2012), and Imbolo Mbue\u2019s How Beautiful We Were<\/em> (2021). These powerful stories reveal the colonial origins of ecological devastation and its dramatic consequences for the Global South. These texts have also prompted new theoretical concepts such as the \u201cslow violence\u201d of delayed destruction (Nixon 2013) and the \u201cplantationocene\u201d (Haraway 2015).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After a turn to ecocriticism developed in the anglophone world in the 1980s, with influential voices coming out of the Americas, a fruitful dialogue in the mid-2000s between the fields of postcolonialism and environmentalism (Huggan 2004, Nixon 2005) gave rise to postcolonial ecocriticism and its distinctive approach to environmental questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Postcolonial ecocriticism tends to focus on social ecology and its tensions, and considers nature in the contexts of human uses, built environments and degraded landscapes. Postcolonial ecocriticism sheds light on the links between colonisation and contemporary social, economic, and environmental issues. It pays heed to ways in which human exploitation transforms ecosystems, limits access to natural resources, and generates pollution and other hazards. It is wary of nostalgia for a pure landscape standing outside history, and conscious of the difficulty of representing the nonhuman environment (Cilano and DeLoughrey 2007).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To make these links between colonisation and environmental issues, postcolonial ecocriticism redirects customary postcolonial questionings by triangulating them with the relations between the human and the nonhuman. In doing so, it often favours a materialist approach, attempting to make sense of environmental issues by drawing on climate science, environmental law, geography, and other sciences, which it sometimes challenges. It is also aware of the local specificities of ecological issues linked to colonial history, while acknowledging their global context. As awareness spreads of the need to share the earth\u2019s resources sustainably and fairly, shifting perceptions of the environment are changing people\u2019s sense of responsibility and accountability, individual and collective. In this context, postcolonial ecocriticism reflects on better ways of inhabiting the world and promoting environmental justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In one of its best-known early formulations, environmental justice was what grassroots activists in the United States in the 1980s demanded in answer to the environmental injustice and racism that forces disadvantaged, vulnerable, racialised populations to bear the brunt of environmental degradation and pollution (Holifield, Chakraborty and Walker, 2018). Use of the notion of environmental justice then spread beyond the United States, in particular through the action of Indigenous peoples and the development of ideas related to social ecology, such as the \u201cenvironmentalism of the poor\u201d (Mart\u00ednez-Alier 2002), social justice, and climate justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Topics and approaches can include, but are not limited to:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

– eco-injustice and race \/ ethnicity<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– eco-injustice and indigeneity<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– eco-injustice and poverty \/ marginality<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– environmental justice discourse and literary genre<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– the language of environmental justice discourse<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– the rhetoric of \u201ctoxic discourse\u201d \/ \u201ctoxic politics\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– environmental justice, monolingualism, and translation issues<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– environmental justice in relation to local and global contexts<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– environmental justice in comparative context<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– environmental justice and: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

aesthetics<\/p>\n\n\n\n

affect<\/p>\n\n\n\n

artistic activism (\u201carctivism\u201d)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

capitalism<\/p>\n\n\n\n

climate justice<\/p>\n\n\n\n

conservation \/ discourses of purity \/ \u201cpostcolonial pastoral\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

decoloniality<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ecofeminism<\/p>\n\n\n\n

human rights<\/p>\n\n\n\n

interdisciplinarity<\/p>\n\n\n\n

intersectionality<\/p>\n\n\n\n

materialist approaches<\/p>\n\n\n\n

multispecies justice<\/p>\n\n\n\n

nature protection<\/p>\n\n\n\n

neocolonialism \/ \u201ctoxic imperialism\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

pedagogy<\/p>\n\n\n\n

petrocultures<\/p>\n\n\n\n

science<\/p>\n\n\n\n

the nonhuman<\/p>\n\n\n\n

the writer activist<\/p>\n\n\n\n

tourism<\/p>\n\n\n\n

transnationalism<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Organising committee: Aline Berg\u00e9 (Sorbonne Nouvelle), Kathie Birat (U. of Lorraine), Jaine Chemmachery (Sorbonne U.), C\u00e9dric Courtois (U. of Lille), Xavier Garnier (Sorbonne Nouvelle), Fiona McCann (U. of Lille), Marie Mianowski (U. Grenoble Alpes), Claire Omhov\u00e8re (U. Paul Val\u00e9ry \u2013 Montpellier), Alexandra Poulain (Sorbonne Nouvelle), Sandrine Soukai (U. Gustave Eiffel), and Kerry-Jane Wallart (U. of Orl\u00e9ans).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Information about the conference is available (and will be updated) at: http:\/\/www.univ-paris3.fr\/eaclals-2023-imagining-environmental-justice-in-a-postcolonial-world-746756.kjsp?RH=ACCUEIL<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you have any questions, please contact Christine Lorre (Sorbonne Nouvelle, convener) at: EACLALS2023@sorbonne-nouvelle.fr<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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