2021 CFP
The ENVIRONMENT, SPACE, AND PLACE (ESP) Working Group of the Cultural Studies Association invites submissions for the 19th Annual Meeting of the Cultural Studies Association (U.S.), which will be held virtually, June 10-12, 2021.
The theme for the 2021 CSA Conference is Anti-Bodies. As we develop conversations from last year’s conference on bodily sovereignty, how might we extend this interrogation to the “anti-body?” How does the theme of anti-bodies intersect with conversations on spatial sovereignty or environmental justice? In the midst of a global pandemic, we also witness the urgent rise of new urban and spatial forms of resistance in response to the murder of George Floyd, including the takeover of highway systems, the forced removal of confederate and colonial statues, and the painting of Black Lives Matter in block letters in multiple cities around the world. What new forms of space are newly possible and impossible amidst the pandemic? We encourage submissions that explore intersections of space and power.
The ESP Working Group welcomes work grounded in traditional disciplinary approaches, including anthropology, geography, and environmental history, as well as interdisciplinary frameworks that gesture towards dialogue between cultural studies and such inter-disciplines as eco-criticism, urban studies, political ecology, science and technology studies, and environmental humanities.
The ESP highlights scholarly and activist work that illuminates the workings of nature and power -- particularly submissions that bring such explorations to bear upon contemporary concerns of environmental and social justice.
Some topics that papers may address include, but are not limited to:
● Enviropolitics of COVID bodies and “anti-bodies”
● Collective environmental action and the rights of nature
● Urban interventions and the politics of spatial strategies and tactics
● Bio-politics, orientalism, and representations of global pandemic
● Black Lives Matter and the Right to the City
● Institutional spaces: carceral centers of care, nursing homes and prisons
● Environmental disparities of epidemics
● How institutional structures and spaces are shaped by “anti-bodies.”
● Geographies of (anti)bodies and power.
● The home office and privatization of the public sphere
● State brutality, surveillance, and social control of spaces
● Blank spaces, erasure and hidden agendas
● Spaces of conspiracy
● Incarceration, detention and immigration
● Spaces of lockdown and protest
● COVID in the environmental imaginary
● Intersectional geographies
● (anti)Bodies and of environmental justice
● (anti)suffrage and suspicious minds
● Out of place: spaces of exclusion and anti-places
● Permeable boundaries and liminal Spaces
300 word abstracts should be submitted by Tuesday, December 15, 2020.
SUBMISSION PROCESS
All proposals should be submitted through Easy Chair using the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=csa2021. If you deferred your accepted 2020 conference paper, please resubmit to ensure it is included in this year’s conference. Please prepare all the materials required to propose your session according to the given directions before you begin electronic submission. All program information--names, presentation titles, and institutional affiliations--will be based on initial conference submissions. Please avoid lengthy presentation and session titles, use normal capitalization and standard fonts, and include your name and affiliations as you would like them to appear on the conference program schedule.
Questions should be directed to the co-chairs of Environment, Space, and Place Working Group Co-Chairs Ned Randolph at [email protected] and Rich Simpson at [email protected].
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The theme for the 2021 CSA Conference is Anti-Bodies. As we develop conversations from last year’s conference on bodily sovereignty, how might we extend this interrogation to the “anti-body?” How does the theme of anti-bodies intersect with conversations on spatial sovereignty or environmental justice? In the midst of a global pandemic, we also witness the urgent rise of new urban and spatial forms of resistance in response to the murder of George Floyd, including the takeover of highway systems, the forced removal of confederate and colonial statues, and the painting of Black Lives Matter in block letters in multiple cities around the world. What new forms of space are newly possible and impossible amidst the pandemic? We encourage submissions that explore intersections of space and power.
The ESP Working Group welcomes work grounded in traditional disciplinary approaches, including anthropology, geography, and environmental history, as well as interdisciplinary frameworks that gesture towards dialogue between cultural studies and such inter-disciplines as eco-criticism, urban studies, political ecology, science and technology studies, and environmental humanities.
The ESP highlights scholarly and activist work that illuminates the workings of nature and power -- particularly submissions that bring such explorations to bear upon contemporary concerns of environmental and social justice.
Some topics that papers may address include, but are not limited to:
● Enviropolitics of COVID bodies and “anti-bodies”
● Collective environmental action and the rights of nature
● Urban interventions and the politics of spatial strategies and tactics
● Bio-politics, orientalism, and representations of global pandemic
● Black Lives Matter and the Right to the City
● Institutional spaces: carceral centers of care, nursing homes and prisons
● Environmental disparities of epidemics
● How institutional structures and spaces are shaped by “anti-bodies.”
● Geographies of (anti)bodies and power.
● The home office and privatization of the public sphere
● State brutality, surveillance, and social control of spaces
● Blank spaces, erasure and hidden agendas
● Spaces of conspiracy
● Incarceration, detention and immigration
● Spaces of lockdown and protest
● COVID in the environmental imaginary
● Intersectional geographies
● (anti)Bodies and of environmental justice
● (anti)suffrage and suspicious minds
● Out of place: spaces of exclusion and anti-places
● Permeable boundaries and liminal Spaces
300 word abstracts should be submitted by Tuesday, December 15, 2020.
SUBMISSION PROCESS
All proposals should be submitted through Easy Chair using the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=csa2021. If you deferred your accepted 2020 conference paper, please resubmit to ensure it is included in this year’s conference. Please prepare all the materials required to propose your session according to the given directions before you begin electronic submission. All program information--names, presentation titles, and institutional affiliations--will be based on initial conference submissions. Please avoid lengthy presentation and session titles, use normal capitalization and standard fonts, and include your name and affiliations as you would like them to appear on the conference program schedule.
Questions should be directed to the co-chairs of Environment, Space, and Place Working Group Co-Chairs Ned Randolph at [email protected] and Rich Simpson at [email protected].
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