CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS 2010 – WOMEN, ENVIRONMENT AND LABOUR (Working title)
DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 15, 2011
Women and Environments International Magazine (WEI) is seeking submissions for its upcoming issue on Women, Environment and Labour for publication in Spring/Summer 2011. The objective of this issue is to critically examine women’s labour (paid and unpaid) in the context of the environment - natural, built, social. Contributors are invited to explore gender perspectives including, but not limited to, the following topics:
- Climate and environmental change and its impact on women’s labour
- Changes in women’s labour resulting from natural disasters, environmental degradation and othermajor environmental events
- Intersections of gender, labour, and environments in particular marginalized communities, such asindigenous communities
- Local, national, or regional level perspectives on economic recovery policies and fiscal austerity
- measures in relation to women, labour, and environments
- Industrialization and economic change in developing country contexts and its impacts on women,
- labour and environments
- Social and environmental determinants of women’s health related to labour or workplace environments
- Labour activism (e.g. labour unions, transnational labour movements etc.) on women and
- environmental issues
- Labour unions and/or organizing on women’s health in the workplace
- Migration – urban, rural, economic, conflict-related, other – and its impact on women’s labour
- Women’s labour in the context of refugee or internally-displaced persons (IDP) environments
- Impact of environmental factors on women’s unpaid labour
- Labour laws and practices relating to women and environments
- Environmental laws and practices relating to women and labour
WEI aims to gather content from both the North and the South. Submissions may be in the form of critical studies,essays, case studies, book or film reviews, poetry, photography, and or visual art. While we appreciate every submission to WEI, only contributors whose work has been selected will be contacted.
Submissions: Send submission(s) electronically to weimag@yorku.ca using “Women, Environment and Labour” as your subject heading. Please refer to the Editorial guidelines at http://www.weimag.com
General Information: WEI is a magazine that examines women's relations to their natural, built, and social environments from feminist and anti-racist perspectives. It has provided a forum for academic research and theory, professional practice and community experience since 1976. Like most scholarly publications, WEI does not pay for contributions but retains a high-quality wide readership so your contribution will reach a wide audience. Upon publication, WEI assumes a non-exclusive, worldwide, and perpetual right to publish and reproduce contributions in any format in and outside the magazine context. This does not preclude contributors from granting permission to publish their materials after publication in WEI provided WEI is acknowledged as the original publisher.
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