SUSTAINABILITY: SOCIAL, ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL

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Category Sustainability, Anthropocene, development,

Deadline: September 30, 2018 | Date: September 30, 2018

Venue/Country: Italy

Updated: 2018-08-30 19:03:09 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

JOURNAL OF CULTURE, POLITICS AND INNOVATION

CALL FOR PAPERS

“Glocalism”, a peer-reviewed, open-access and cross-disciplinary journal, is currently accepting manuscripts

for publication. We welcome studies in any field, with or without comparative approach, that address both

practical effects and theoretical import.

All articles should be sent to: p.bassettiglobusetlocus.org and davide.cadedduunimi.it

Articles can be in any language and length chosen by the author, while its abstract and keywords have to be in

English.

Deadline: August 31, 2018. This issue is scheduled to appear at end-October 2018.

Website: http://www.glocalismjournal.net/

Direction Committee: Arjun Appadurai (New York University); Daniele Archibugi (Birkbeck University of

London); Seyla Benhabib (Yale University); Sabino Cassese (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa); Manuel Castells

(Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona); Fred Dallmayr (University of Notre Dame); David Held

(Durham University); Sheila Jasanoff (Harvard University); Alberto Martinelli (Università degli Studi di Milano);

Anthony McGrew (La Trobe University, Melbourne); Alberto Quadrio Curzio (Università Cattolica del

Sacro Cuore, Milano); Roland Robertson (University of Aberdeen); Saskia Sassen (Columbia University); Amartya

Sen (Harvard University); Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Columbia University); Salvatore Veca (Istituto

Universitario di Studi Superiori di Pavia).

the topic of this issue

SUSTAINABILITY:

SOCIAL, ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL

With the term “Anthropocene” scholars from various disciplines illustrate the idea of a recent geological

epoch in which human activity has made an unprecedented impact on the planet. Human modification of geological

and ecological processes has accelerated rapidly over the span of the twentieth century.

The expansion of industrial growth, especially in the “great acceleration” and the surge of energy use after

the Second World War, urbanization and the socio-cultural changes that accompany it, as well as the lifestyle

and mind-set of most people all over the world are factors contributing to what is happening to our planet.

In the past five decades, human activity has begun to change the earth at a rate and on a scale that is fundamentally

different from anything seen before in human history. Today, two-thirds of the world’s ecosystems

are degraded and being used unsustainably. The evidences of climate change are clear and so are its potentially

catastrophic results. Due to their extreme use, the reserves of traditional resources are declining, which will,

in turn, have a profound effect on the global economy.

All of these interdependent issues threaten the world and humankind’s wellbeing; their consequences already

affect food, water, energy, resource security and so forth. In order to reverse this trend, we need to develop

strategies for a peaceful and equitable relationship between humans and the earth. The only way to attain

a global equilibrium is through immediate and effective transition to sustainability – a transition to a

world that sustains abundant and diverse life, and does so humanely – which can be inspired by some local

experiences and original new conceptualizations.