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Beschreibung
Brill / Shöningh
Call for articles for the special issue of Southeastern Europe
Political Ecologies of Southeastern Europe:
Legacies, Transformations, and Futures
Guest editors: Dženeta Hodžić, Ognjen Kojanić, Katarina Kušić
Political ecology—understood as an interdisciplinary endeavor to examine and theorize relations between societies and non-human environments—has not been central to scholarly discussions about Southeastern Europe. And yet, there are plenty of rich studies conducted in the region that shed light on the interplay between sociopolitical factors, economic forces, cultural practices, and the ecologies in which humans live. This special issue will bring together scholarship that enriches our understanding of the entangled political, economic, and social-ecological dynamics shaping Southeastern Europe in the hope of unifying a scholarly field within regional studies. We ask: What do the political ecologies of Southeast Europe look like? What are the legacies that the field draws on, how is the field transforming, and what are its possible futures?
A political ecology approach can help us understand the role of the natural environment as a foundation of political formations, an object of governance, and a mobilizing resource. Nature has always been at the foundation of political orders: Austro-Hungarian forestry, Ottoman land tenure systems, and socialist modernist projects of environmental management shaped political regimes, landscapes, ecologies, and people. As an object of governance, both nature and environmental activism are crucial dimensions of the Europeanization process and post-accession economic development. And, finally, nature has also been a mobilizing resource at least since it served as a rallying point for East European dissidents. More recently, lithium mining in Serbia, the boom of small hydropower plants in Bosnia-Herzegovina, flooding and earthquakes in Croatia, illegal logging in Romania, and opposition to windmills in Greece have reordered and politicized human-nature relations across Southeastern Europe.
We draw inspiration from existing articulations of political ecologies of Eastern Europe (Rajković and Vasiljević, forthcoming; Dorondel and Şerban, 2022; Kovács, 2021; Fagan and Sircar 2015). Building on those foundational contributions, we are interested in examining specifically Southeastern European phenomena and processes. We welcome contributions inspired by morethan-human, intersectional, and feminist perspectives on the following (non-exclusive) list of possible topics:
- Political ecology readings of classical works (e.g., Jovan Cvijić in Yugoslavia; Simion Mehedinti and Vintilă M. Mihăilescu in Romania);
- Environmental histories in Southeastern Europe (e.g., continuities and ruptures in the Balkan wars, the two world wars, the interwar period, the Cold War);
- Statehood and environmental governance (e.g., in their relation to concepts of progress, modernization, state-building);
- Urban and rural infrastructures (e.g., landscape transformations due to irrigation or energy infrastructures);
- Environment, citizenship, and socioeconomic formations (e.g., in environmental activism, climate crisis and the green transformation, (eco)tourism development);
- More-than-human relations (e.g., with animals, forests, water sources, landscapes, the underground);
- Environmental knowledge and the role of (scientific) expertise concerning ecological issues (e.g., in NGOization, state agencies, citizen-science programs);
- The environment in cultural production (e.g., films, poetry, novels, travelogues);
- Conceptual, methodological, and ethical issues and debates in regional political ecology (e.g., the Anthropocene, research collaborations between scientific or non-scientific actors, applied ecological knowledge).
Planned timeline:
- 31 January 2025: Abstract (max. 300 words) and short biography sent to Dženeta Hodžić (hodzic[ at ]isoe.de), Ognjen Kojanić (ognjenkojanic[ at ]gmail.com), and Katarina Kušić (kusic[ at ]univie.ac.at).
- 28 February 2025: Authors of conditionally accepted contributions notified.
- May 2025: Authors’ “writeshop” in Vienna.
- July 2025: Articles submitted for peer review. - 2026: Publication of the special issue.
References:
Dorondel, Ștefan, and Stelu Șerban, eds. 2022. A New Ecological Order: Development and the Transformation of Nature in Eastern Europe. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press.
Fagan, Adam, and Aron Buzogány. 2022. “Beyond Europeanization: Political Ecology and
Environmentalism in Central and Eastern Europe.” Environmental Politics 31 (7): 1203–13.
Kovács, Eszter Krasznai, ed. 2021. Politics and the Environment in Eastern Europe. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers.
Rajković, Ivan and Jelena Vasiljević. Forthcoming. “Semiperipheral Natures: Environmental Reverberations in the Balkans. An Introduction to the Special Section.” (Journal information omitted).
