Dear all,
we are currently assembling a Special Issue on what we have come to call
environ|mental
urbanities. (You can find a detailed call in the attachment or here:
https://www2.hu-berlin.de/sts/2024/03/cfp-environmental-urbanities
)
We want to focus on ethnographic studies approaching dwellers attempting to
render their habitats inhabitable, making emerge a wide variety of ecological
relations between the mental and the environmental. This is the research arena
we wish to address as environ|mental urbanities, a denomination hopefully
guiding us to grasp the sometimes elusive or ungraspable aspects of both
mental and environmental practices and experiences in urban arenas. Beyond the
seemingly unmediated immersion of bodies in socio-material environments,
environ|mental urbanities urge us to ethnographically inquire into the
dynamic, shifting co-constitutive relations between subjective experiences,
bodies, material environments, cultural practices, urban infrastructures,
animals and other non-humans.
We invite contributions from anthropology, geography, sociology and adjacent
disciplines which provide inspiring ethnographic case studies, tinkering and
experimenting with methods and collaborative fieldwork and/or aim for situated
concept work that allow to problematize ‘the environ|mental’ while
simultaneously enriching our conceptualisation of ‘the urban’ beyond mere
material or geographic locality and stage for cultural practices.
Timeline & process:
Please submit abstracts of no more than 200 words, plus your institutional
affiliation(s) and a short biography (a few lines) to patrick.bieler@tum.de
, milena.bister@hu-berlin.de
and tomcriado@uoc.edu
by April 29nd, 2024.
We will notify acceptance by May 21st, 2024.
Abstracts of the selected contributions will be proposed as a special issue to
an international English-speaking multidisciplinary social sciences journal.
We aim for Open Access publishing. All contributors will meet online to pitch
and discuss their abstracts in June 2024. First drafts will be discussed in a
workshop in January 2025 (either in person or online). Final manuscripts will
be due in March 2025.
If you have any questions, please write the three of us.
We are very much looking forward to your contributions and to discuss thoughts
and papers with you in the coming months ahead!
All best,
Patrick Bieler (TU Munich), Milena Bister (HU Berlin) & Tomás Criado (Open
University of Catalonia)
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Prof. Dr. Milena D. Bister
Professor of Environmental Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies
Laboratory: Anthropology of Environment | Human Relations
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Institute of European Ethnology
Pronouns: she/her
+++ Latest publication +++
Bister MD 2023 Making un/equal: reassessing inequality and mental
health through a praxeographic approach
on welfare categorization processes
Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-023-02550-9
Realfiktion Klimarechnungshof
www.klimarechnungshof.jetzt
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