Call for Papers – Environmental Intersections: Climate Change, Capitalism and Prospects for Change

CaptureAlternate Routes, a journal of critical social research, requests papers on the environment and prospects for social change. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

ongoing theoretical debates; increasing ocean acidity; species decline; rising carbon emissions; more intense natural disasters; deforestation; desertification; resources extraction; poverty; environmental migration and displacement; “overpopulation”; economy and ecology; the weakening of international and national environmental laws and protections; alternative technologies (e.g. solar, tidal, wind, biofuels); food and water security; lobbying efforts by oil and multi-national companies to counter climate science; alternatives to (neoliberal) capitalism; social justice activism and the prospects for change.

Deadline: May 31, 2013.

Submissions must be sent directly to editor[@]alternateroutes.ca. Please include an abstract no longer than 300-words and a short biography. im