Green Theory & Praxis: The Journal of Ecopedagogy (ISSN 1941-0948)

CFP: 7th Annual Conference for Critical Animal Studies (April 25th, 2009; Yale University)

7^th Annual
Conference for Critical Animal Studies

Theme:
Transforming Higher Education Into an Ethical Space and Place for Learning

Saturday April 25, 2009
Yale University

Hosted by:
Yale Affiliates Animal Rights Network

Co-Sponsored by:
Ecopedagogy Association International
Institute for Critical Animal Studies
Transformative Studies Institute
University of Connecticut Vegan Huskies
Wooden Man Records
Outdoor Empowerment
Hartford Food Not Bombs
Hog River Collective

Call For Papers

We welcome proposals from all community members, including but not limited to nonprofit organizations, political leaders, activists, professors, and students. We are especially interested in topics such policy reform and activism in higher education in relation to critical animal studies, animal rights, and/or animal liberation. We are also interested in reaching across the disciplines and movements of environmentalism, education, poverty, feminism, LGBTQA, animal advocacy, globalization, prison abolition, prisoner support, disability rights, indigenous rights/sovereignty, and other peace and social justice issues. Paper presentations should be fifteen to twenty minutes in length.

We are receptive to different and innovative formats, including, but not limited to roundtables, panels, community dialogues, theatre, and workshops. You may propose individual or group ‘panel’ presentations, but please clearly specify the structure of your proposal. Preference will be given to papers focusing on the program theme, linking environmental and nonhuman animal advocacy.

Please send proposals or abstracts for panels, roundtables, workshops, or paper presentations no more than 500 words. Please send with each facilitator or presenter a 100 maximum word biography.

The Deadline for Submissions is March 1, 2009

Accepted presenters will be notified by e-mail by March 15, 2009

Please send proposals, abstracts, and biographies electronically to:

Deric Shannon
Conference Director
propaganarchy@hotmail.com

Welcome to the New Home of Green Theory & Praxis

Welcome to the journal's new home as the flagship journal of the Ecopedagogy Association International. Our journal also has a new URL: http://greentheoryandpraxis.org. We seek to build on the good work that has been done to help establish Green Theory & Praxis and to make of it something of a chrysalis for the journal's present and future form and reputation.

Since being housed at California State University, Fresno, Green Theory & Praxis has been committed to publishing peer-reviewed essays on ecological politics and critical book reviews of recent relevant literature. In our last issue, we expanded upon the format to include multimedia video interviews.

Green Theory & Praxis remains committed to being a high-quality, academic journal publishing papers and reviews on more radical ecological matters that will seldom if ever be found in many of the journals now publishing pieces on environmental ethics and sociology. However, with its new home at the Ecopedagogy Association International, we have taken the opportunity to transform the journal from being 'A Journal of Ecological Politics' to 'The Journal of Ecopedagogy.' Green Theory & Praxis is now the world's first and only journal committed to evaluating and theorizing the political, cultural and social issues of sustainability and other ecological movements through the lens of their pedagogical potential to evoke new moral sensibilities, practices and consciousness for a more harmonious planetary experience. We continue the lineage of GTP's former mission, then, but now evolve and broaden it to more appropriately tether the political to the pedagogical and vice-versa. In forthcoming issues, we seek nothing less than to develop transformative pathways that will allow for the forms of intervention and imagination that are necessary if ecology is to have an ethics and the rising wave of green theory is to exhibit a praxis-oriented approach to the real moral crises facing planetary life today.

Editors Wanted

Green Theory & Praxis is looking to augment its editorial collective with the addition, at least, of:

1) A general Editor:

GTP could use another Editor whose specialty is in Environmental Politics/Theory or Environmental Sociology. This position requires outreach to scholars associated with this subject to solicit and assure the publication of two essays per year.

2) Book Review/Conference Editors:

GTP is always looking for Review Editors to join the review collective. Review Editors will oversee an area specialty relevant to the journal that augments our present collective team expertise, and are responsible for overseeing 2 reviews for publication per year in the area specialty. Our present review collective includes area editors in: Ecoliteracy, Ecocriticism, Environmental Communication, and Environmental Politics. We especially desire Review Editors to oversee film and conference reviews, but are open to any and all applications for unduplicated review areas on a rolling basis.

Pay is volunteer combined with the potential for mountains of free literature and texts that you will get to keep (we can't review them all!).

Interested? Contact: richard.kahn@und.edu. Thanks!

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