Edited Collection: Eco Culture: Disaster, Narrative, Discourse
The edited collection, Eco Culture: Disaster, Narrative, Discourse, seeks to open a conversation about the mediated relationship between culture and ecology. The dynamic between these two great forces comes into stark relief when a disaster—in its myriad forms and narratives—reveals the fragility of our ecological and cultural landscapes. Disasters are the clashing of culture and ecology in violent and tragic ways, and the results of each clash create profound effects to both. So much so, in fact, that the terms ecology and culture are past separation and coincide through a supplementary role to each other.
Narratives become the processes by which we witness, engage, and extract meaning of disasters in eco-cultural contexts. These contexts are always already mediated. Real-time, virtual, cinematic, TV, literary, print, and photographic forms create and shift the discursive core of eco-cultural disasters.
The essays in Eco Culture: Disaster, Narrative, Discourse address the parts and the whole of disasters, apocalypses, and catastrophes.
Douglas Vokach, the editor of the book series Ecocritical Theory and Practice, which is published by Rowman & Littlefield's imprint Lexington Books, expressed strong interest regarding an edited collection based on the PCA/ACA area Disasters, Catastrophes, and Apocalypses, which Robert Ficociello and Robert Bell chair. We would edit the collection.
The link to the series is here: https://rowman.com/Action/SERIES/LEX/ETAP
We are finalizing a book proposal and need 2-5 abstracts for a full proposal.
We envision 10-15 chapters/essays. If the proposal is viewed favorably, final drafts of your essays should average 3000-5000 words. We are not exactly sure when drafts of the essays would be due if your abstract is selected for the proposal, and subsequently, when we might be offered a contract. The editor assured us that a decision would be made within six weeks of the proposal submission. If you want to be considered for the edited collection, then we need additional information.
1. 300 word abstract to serve as a chapter summary. Please avoid too much jargon or textual references. One or two key quotations or texts is fine if these are germane to the argument of the chapter.
2. An academic biography [not your C.V.], which should include your affiliation, publications, and position.
3. Has your chapter been previously published or under consideration elsewhere?
4. Courses in which your essay would be valuable as a learning tool. One or two courses is adequate. Undergraduate or graduate.
5. Provide the abstract by 6/30/15. Email the abstract and information as a word document: disasterculture@yahoo.com. Please use the following subject line: Eco Culture Abstract. Questions can be addressed to the email above as well.
Robert Ficociello
Holy Family University
Robert Bell
Loyola University New Orleans