{"id":1619,"date":"2023-03-23T07:50:02","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T11:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/?p=1619"},"modified":"2023-03-23T08:23:15","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T12:23:15","slug":"cfp-ukrainian-wartime-reimaginings-for-a-habitable-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/2023\/03\/23\/cfp-ukrainian-wartime-reimaginings-for-a-habitable-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"CFP: Ukrainian wartime reimaginings for a habitable Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

CALL FOR PROPOSALS\/SUBMISSIONS<\/strong>: Creative writing, theoretical\/scholarly writing, experimental text\/image works from Ukrainian writers\/artists and humanities scholars<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Terra Invicta: <\/em><\/strong>Ukrainian Wartime Reimaginings for a Habitable Earth<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Creative visions from Ukrainian artists and humanists articulating what in the world is worth fighting for<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In an Anthropocenic context of intensifying climate change, exploding migration crises, and anticipated future wars over land, resources, and borders, Ukraine\u2019s recent experience is hardly peripheral. It is in fact central to geopolitical, economic, and sociocultural processes at large in the world, and becoming more pressing year by year. Just as the 1986 Chornobyl nuclear accident placed Ukraine on the map of the world\u2019s socio-ecological \u201csacrifice zones,\u201d so has Ukraine\u2019s invasion by Russia\u2014an authoritarian petro-state poised to decline as its fossil-fuel economy depreciates\u2014made it central to the global crises expected to arise on a climate-destabilizing planet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

As Slavoj \u017di\u017eek recently wrote, Vladimir Putin\u2019s \u201cstrategic plan\u201d has been \u201cto profit from global warming: control the world\u2019s main transport route, plus develop Siberia and control Ukraine. In this way, Russia will dominate so much food production that it will be able to blackmail the whole world. This is the ultimate economic reality beneath Putin\u2019s imperial dream.\u201d Ukrainians have resisted this \u201cplan\u201d with their bodies, their (and others\u2019) weapons, and their minds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This volume will present scholarly and creative writing and art embodying visions of what Ukrainians are fighting for within an expanded horizon of what is possible. Beyond merely defending nationhood and self-determination, the volume articulates, in a range of creative and theoretical formats, \u201cfuturisms\u201d rooted in the value of reviving multispecies relations with land, and of positively transforming multicultural relations with history. Like the late Bruno Latour\u2019s calls for \u201cbecoming earthbound,\u201d these Ukrainian voices will ask us to imagine what a new \u201cearthbound identity\u201d might look like in a climate-altered world. At the same time, contributions will draw on existing traditions of art and thought that relate Ukrainian contemporaneity to deeper histories of ecological relationality, cultural practice, and intercultural cohabitation. Potential themes include, but are not limited to: environmental history, urban ecology, popular mobilization and grassroots self-organization, the politics of reconstruction, post-traumatic recovery, cultural geographies of land, water, and soil (black earth), civic and ecocultural identities, energy transition, ecological restoration, new media ecologies, and traditional\/folk epistemologies and cultural practices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The volume aims to introduce Ukrainian eco-artistic and environmental humanities themes to a wide readership, thus its style will be \u201cpara-academic,\u201d incorporating the scholarly (but not too<\/em> scholarly) and the visionary (but reality-based). Publication will be in English; proposals and submissions should also be in English (though Ukrainian and other translations may be pursued at a later date). Contributors should either be born and\/or raised in Ukraine or have longstanding professional and\/or personal relationships with Ukraine. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This call is for brief initial proposals<\/strong> (150-450 words) outlining works of writing (literary, poetic, or critical\/theoretical) or text-image pieces that address these issues of Ukrainian futurity, ecology, and habitability. Final written contributions should aim for a length of no more than 8,000 words (plus references where applicable). If you have a finished but unpublished piece that addresses these issues, you may send it in for consideration in place of a proposal. Previously published work may be considered under special circumstances if it directly responds to the themes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Proposal submissions received by April 30, 2023, <\/strong>will be given full consideration. Tentative acceptance of proposals will be announced by June 1. Complete drafts will be due in late 2023, with final acceptance depending upon editorial\/peer review.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please send<\/strong>\u00a0all proposals, contributions, or questions to:\u00a0Adrian Ivakhiv, Professor of Environmental Thought and Culture, University of Vermont; Fulbright Scholar, Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin. E-mail<\/strong>:\u00a0aivakhiv@uvm.edu<\/a>. Please include the words \u201cTerra Invicta<\/strong>\u201d in the Subject line of your e-mail.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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