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A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2022.
Special Issue Editors
Interests: current research interests include environmental change and public health; health behaviour and behaviour change; socioeconomic inequalities in health
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Climate change is increasingly shaping people’s everyday lives, particularly in communities that have contributed least to it. Scientific research provides the primary source of evidence on the drivers and impacts of climate change; it is also being used to inform policies on mitigation and adaptation. Critical voices have argued both that this research often moves from informing to limiting public discussion (Blue, 2016), and that the language and practices of science obscure the attribution of responsibility for climate change: ‘we’ are not all climate change actors, and many communities leave small anthropogenic footprints (Jacquet, 2013; Molek-Kozakowska, 2018). Science can also be mobilized in ways that legitimate approaches to adaptation that focus not on societal transformation, but on the adaptative capacities of affected communities (Mikulewicz, 2020). In this privileging of scientific knowledge, other forms of experience, other ways of knowing, and other ways of living with climate change are marginalized.
This Special Issue invites papers from a range of disciplines that turn the spotlight on everyday knowledge and everyday lives. Articles that explicitly engage with social inequalities and the legacies of colonialism are welcome. We are looking for both original research articles and comprehensive reviews.
We invite submissions and abstracts in the following areas:
- Indigenous ecological knowledge of climate change and its integration into cultural values and heritage;
- Climate change futures, particularly as understood and experienced by those most affected; this includes, among other groups, young people, people with disabilities, and climate vulnerable communities in the Global South;
- Studies of climate change risk, loss and resilience that foreground people’s circumstances and cultures;
- Studies of community experiences of climate change mitigation and adaptation, including how policy-making processes connect (or fail to connect) with community experiences;
- Overviews/studies of the intersecting impacts of climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic on people’s everyday lives;
- Critical perspectives on climate change science and its representations in policy-making and the media.
References
Blue, G. (2016). Framing Climate Change for Public Deliberation: What Role for Interpretive Social Sciences and Humanities? Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, 18(1), 67-84. https://doi.org/10.1080/1523908X.2015.1053107
Jacquet, J. (2013) The Anthropocebo Effect. Conservation Biology 27, 5:898-899. https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/cobi.12097.
Mikulewicz, M. (2020) The discursive politics of adaptation to climate change, Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 110, 6: 1807-1830, DOI: 10.1080/24694452.2020.1736981
Molek-Kozakowska, K (2018) Popularity-driven science journalism and climate change: A critical discourse analysis of the unsaid, Discourse, Context & Media, 21: 73-81, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcm.2017.09.013.
Prof. Dr. Hilary Graham
Dr. Pete Lampard
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.
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Keywords
- climate change
- knowledge production
- cultural values
- lived experience
- narrative analysis
- Indigenous knowledge
- colonial and postcolonial studies
- qualitative research
- everyday lives
- social sciences
- sociology
- anthropology
- cultural studies
- science and technology studies
- psychology
- subaltern studies