{"id":5136,"date":"2011-08-02T12:35:45","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T17:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/?p=5136"},"modified":"2011-08-02T12:36:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-02T17:36:00","slug":"wasting-nature-ecocriticism-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2011\/08\/02\/wasting-nature-ecocriticism-photography\/","title":{"rendered":"Wasting Nature: Ecocriticism &amp; Photography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bergpublishers.com\/BergJournals\/PhotographyandCulture\/tabid\/3257\/Default.aspx\">Photography &amp; Culture<\/a> is calling for submission proposals for a special issue on ecocriticism and photography. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bergpublishers.com\/BergJournals\/PhotographyandCulture\/tabid\/3257\/Default.aspx\">See further details here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Henry Fox Talbot famously described photography as the \u201cpencil of  nature.\u201d Although this metaphor refers to photography\u2019s special  relationship to the real, to the indexicality that makes it suited for  naturalist representation, Talbot\u2019s evocative phrase also raises  important questions about photography\u2019s relationship to nature. Beyond  naturalism and nature appreciation, however, how has photography  approached nature?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><!--more-->The editors of Photography and Culture invite submissions that  explore the theoretical, historical and interdisciplinary dimensions of  ecocriticism and photography. In what ways has photography participated  in conservation movements? How have photographers contributed to  ecological consciousness? Has an attention to aesthetics helped or  hindered this project? To what extent might photography be complicit in wasteful practices?  We are interested in papers that consider the ecocritical implications  of photography from the perspectives of the media, artists, and  activists. Possible topics could include, among others: the  documentation of nuclear catastrophe and global warming; the visual  vocabulary of ecological consciousness; the photographic practices of  the green movement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Abstracts of no more than 500 words, along with a short cv (maximum 1  page), should be sent by 1 September, 2011, to the following address:  pceditors@gmail.com. Notification regarding the abstracts will be sent  by 1 October 2011. Articles of 7000- 9000 words will be required by 1  December 2011 and will be submitted to an external peer-review process.  The special issue will appear in Spring 2012.<\/p>\n<p>(Hat tip to Max at the wonderful <a href=\"http:\/\/discardstudies.wordpress.com\/\">Discard Studies <\/a>blog.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photography &amp; Culture is calling for submission proposals for a special issue on ecocriticism and photography. See further details here. Henry Fox Talbot famously described photography as the \u201cpencil of nature.\u201d Although this metaphor refers to photography\u2019s special relationship to the real, to the indexicality that makes it suited for naturalist representation, Talbot\u2019s evocative phrase [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[203,689354],"tags":[25058],"class_list":["post-5136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academe","category-image_nation","tag-calls"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4IC4a-1kQ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1084,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2009\/06\/05\/asles-rabbits-cougars-or-whither-ecocriticism\/","url_meta":{"origin":5136,"position":0},"title":"ASLE&#8217;s rabbits &amp; cougars, or whither ecocriticism?","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"June 5, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rR8mJQ29coo&hl=en&fs=1& There are rabbits all over the lawns of the University of Victoria campus. 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