<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri">Hi there,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br><span style="font-family:Calibri"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri">I wonder if you could circulate this CFP with a slightly revised submission process and deadline. Thanks!<br>
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">Nicole<br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri"></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri"><br></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri">Call for papers: <br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri">Nature strikes back! Genres of
<span class="">revenge</span> in the anthropocene</span></b><b><span style="font-family:Calibri"> - extension of submission deadline<br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri"><br></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri">Special issue of "Australian Humanities Review", due for publication 2014<br>
</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:Calibri">Edited by Dr Catherine Simpson and Dr
Nicole Matthews</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri">300 word abstracts should be sent to <a href="mailto:Nicole.Matthews@mq.edu.au" target="_blank">Nicole.Matthews@mq.edu.au</a>
with the subject line “Nature Strikes Back” by Feb 14, 2014. Full papers should be submitted by March 15, 2014.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri">Cli-fi
(or climate fiction) has recently emerged as a new subgenre describing tales of
imminent disaster as a consequence of anthropogenic climate change. <span> </span>If Rachel Carson’s <i>Silent Spring</i> invoked nature extinguished, passive or defeated, these
narratives of environmental change present an unexpectedly feral, unpredictable
world where an aggressive nature runs rampant. In this special issue we hope to
excavate the resources of popular genres for talking about risk, causality and
the unintended consequences of human action. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri">This
issue will interrogate the ways we narrate non-human agency.<span> </span>How do these stories revisit the spectacle
and power of the sublime? Can popular culture help us re-imagine environments,
objects and non-human animals in a time of rapid ecological change? What is the
affective potentiality of narratives of hubris, <span class="">revenge</span> and fear?<span> </span>And how are whiteness, colonial politics of
‘natives’ and ‘non-natives’, and border policing restaged across these diverse
and composite bodies?<span> </span>We invite
theoretically, empirically and/or textually grounded articles and welcome
articles that locate Australia in comparative or international contexts.<span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri">Topics
might include:</span></p>
<p style="text-indent:0cm"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family:Calibri">Comedy,
tragedy, farce? Genres of <span class="">revenge</span> and reaction</span></p>
<p style="text-indent:0cm"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family:Calibri">You couldn’t
make it up: fiction, non-fiction and environmental horror</span></p>
<p style="text-indent:0cm"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family:Calibri">Animals:
dangerous, vulnerable, feral, vengeful?</span></p>
<p style="text-indent:0cm"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family:Calibri">Storying the
human biome</span></p>
<p style="text-indent:0cm"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family:Calibri">New formations
of the disaster movie: back to the 1970s?</span></p>
<p style="text-indent:0cm"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family:Calibri">Zombies,
whiteness and climate disaster</span></p>
<p style="text-indent:0cm"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family:Calibri">Actor-network theory
and pulp fictions</span></p>
<p style="text-indent:0cm"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family:Calibri">Climate change
war stories</span></p>
<p style="text-indent:0cm"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family:Calibri">The non-human
point of view in documentary </span></p>
<p style="text-indent:0cm"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family:Calibri">Cycles of
destruction: reassuring mythologies of ecological renewal?</span></p>
<p style="text-indent:0cm"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family:Calibri">Gaia and
global catastrophe</span></p>
<p style="text-indent:0cm"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family:Calibri">Frightening
the children: apocalyptic children’s tales</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri">Papers
should be 5-7,000 words in length and should be in MLA format (the AHR
styleguide is here: <a href="http://www.australianhumanitiesreview.org/about.html#submission" target="_blank">http://www.australianhumanitiesreview.org/about.html#submission</a>
) . All papers will be subject to peer review and will be published at the
discretion of the <i>AHR </i>editors.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri"> </span></p><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 1:13 AM, Nicole Matthews <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nicole.matthews@mq.edu.au" target="_blank">nicole.matthews@mq.edu.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I wonder if it would be possible to circulate the attached call for papers below. Thanks!<br><br>Nicole<br>
<br>**<br><br>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri">Call for papers: <br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri">Nature strikes back! Genres of
revenge in the anthropocene</span></b><b><span style="font-family:Calibri"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri">Special issue of "Australian Humanities Review", due for publication 2014<br>
</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:Calibri">Edited by Dr Catherine Simpson and Dr
Nicole Matthews</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri">Cli-fi
(or climate fiction) has recently emerged as a new subgenre describing tales of
imminent disaster as a consequence of anthropogenic climate change. <span> </span>If Rachel Carson’s <i>Silent Spring</i> invoked nature extinguished, passive or defeated, these
narratives of environmental change present an unexpectedly feral, unpredictable
world where an aggressive nature runs rampant. In this special issue we hope to
excavate the resources of popular genres for talking about risk, causality and
the unintended consequences of human action. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri">This
issue will interrogate the ways we narrate non-human agency.<span> </span>How do these stories revisit the spectacle
and power of the sublime? Can popular culture help us re-imagine environments,
objects and non-human animals in a time of rapid ecological change? What is the
affective potentiality of narratives of hubris, revenge and fear?<span> </span>And how are whiteness, colonial politics of
‘natives’ and ‘non-natives’, and border policing restaged across these diverse
and composite bodies?<span> </span>We invite
theoretically, empirically and/or textually grounded articles and welcome
articles that locate Australia in comparative or international contexts.<span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri">Topics
might include:</span></p>
<p style="text-indent:0cm"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family:Calibri">Comedy,
tragedy, farce? Genres of revenge and reaction</span></p>
<p style="text-indent:0cm"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family:Calibri">You couldn’t
make it up: fiction, non-fiction and environmental horror</span></p>
<p style="text-indent:0cm"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family:Calibri">Animals:
dangerous, vulnerable, feral, vengeful?</span></p>
<p style="text-indent:0cm"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family:Calibri">Storying the
human biome</span></p>
<p style="text-indent:0cm"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family:Calibri">New formations
of the disaster movie: back to the 1970s?</span></p>
<p style="text-indent:0cm"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family:Calibri">Zombies,
whiteness and climate disaster</span></p>
<p style="text-indent:0cm"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family:Calibri">Actor-network theory
and pulp fictions</span></p>
<p style="text-indent:0cm"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family:Calibri">Climate change
war stories</span></p>
<p style="text-indent:0cm"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family:Calibri">The non-human
point of view in documentary </span></p>
<p style="text-indent:0cm"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family:Calibri">Cycles of
destruction: reassuring mythologies of ecological renewal?</span></p>
<p style="text-indent:0cm"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family:Calibri">Gaia and
global catastrophe</span></p>
<p style="text-indent:0cm"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family:Calibri">Frightening
the children: apocalyptic children’s tales</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri">Papers
should be 5-7,000 words in length and should be in MLA format (the AHR
styleguide is here: <a href="http://www.australianhumanitiesreview.org/about.html#submission" target="_blank">http://www.australianhumanitiesreview.org/about.html#submission</a>
) . All papers will be subject to peer review and will be published at the
discretion of the <i>AHR </i>editors.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri">Articles
should be sent to <a href="mailto:Nicole.Matthews@mq.edu.au" target="_blank">Nicole.Matthews@mq.edu.au</a>
with the subject line “Nature Strikes Back” by March 8, 2014.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<br></div>
</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Dr Nicole Matthews<br>Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies<br>Macquarie University, Sydney<br>
</div>