Increasing racism, xenophobia, transphobia, sexism, bigotry, and vitriolic speech are some of the critical conditions experienced during the Trump Era. In a country polarized along class lines, teaching in higher education has become a challenge and a political struggle for the inherent implications of a hostile living environment.

For this issue, we invite submissions that explore interdisciplinary techniques, strategies, modalities, theories, concepts, tactics, and antics for teaching in the wake of Trump. According to Christina Sharpe, being “in the wake” is a method for encountering a past that is not a past, one that insists on a “sitting with, a gathering, and a tracking of phenomena” for living blackness in the still unfolding aftermaths of slavery, a lived awareness of being in the wake of an unfinished project of emancipation (2010:13). We employ Sharpe’s multi-pronged definition of “wake: the track left on the water’s surface by a ship; the disturbance caused by a body swimming or moved, in water; … a region of disturbed flow” to explore the afterlives of slavery and racism as they appear in the wake of Trump, and the historical and modern conditions which produce this era as a symptom of a decaying U.S. Empire (2010:11). By integrating multidisciplinary approaches, we are seeking to unpack the economic, political, cultural, environmental, educational, and social implications of this catastrophic time which will leave
negative consequences for years to come. By highlighting pedagogical practices that uplift resistance, struggle, and movement building, we seek to document the many ways instructors, students, and community members are fighting back and building opposition to current conditions of ongoing state violence. We are seeking scholars, activists, artists, critical thinkers, and accomplices who wish to commune in the struggle for collective freedom. What shifts have you seen in your field? How are you resisting easy and superficial narratives about race, class, and gender in your classroom? How are you organizing against state violence in your field? We welcome your ideas, analysis, reflections, and proposals.

Key themes include, but are not limited to:

• Responses to free speech weaponized as a shield for hate speech
• Project and class module tool-kits beyond the traditional academic essay and lecture+think, pair, share format
• Resources for creating community safety networks, particularly for students, staff, and faculty of marginalized identities and communities
• Teaching in the Trump/COVID era--how do virtual modalities complicate or create possibilities for teaching about white supremacy
• Trump as the effect of neoliberal policies such as higher education corporatization, militarization of police (including campus police forces), exploitative immigration policies, etc.
• Community-Classroom Partnerships
• Community Organizing Efforts
• School-Based Resistance
• Critical University Studies
• Critiques of Performative Anti-Racism
• Backlash on Critical Race Theory
• Attempts to eliminate/restrict civil rights laws protecting transgender, non-binary, gender-noncomforming people

Submission Deadline: January 18, 2022

Environmental Science & Policy advances research in the intersections between environmental science, policy and society.

The journal invites scholarship within this broad thematic that fits with one or more of the following four focal areas:1) Studies of the relationship between the production and use of knowledge in decision making; 2) Studies of the relation between science and other forms of environmental knowledge, including practical, local and indigenous knowledge; 3) Analyses of decision making practices in government, civil society, and businesses and the ways that they engage environmental knowledge; or 4) Research that presents environmental research with a clear perspective on pathways towards policy action and impact.

Research can address a wide number of environmental issues, such as climate change, food systems, biodiversity loss, human and ecological well-being, resource use- and extraction, land use change, and sustainability more generally. The journal aspires to achieve an appropriate balance between perspectives from the global North as well as the global South and welcomes discussions of (environmental) justice, equity and inclusion. The journal is particularly interested in cutting edge developments in inter- and transdisciplinary work on co-production; arts-based research; integrated nexus and landscape approaches; the trade-offs and synergies between environmental issues and policies; innovations in integrated assessment, monitoring and evaluation; and transitions and transformative change

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The international conference will highlight issues arising from interaction between Amish communities and wider society, including those in areas such as public health, government regulation, business and economic development, charitable work, land use and environmental issues, tourism, and civic involvement.

Conference planners at the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown (Pa.) College welcome proposals from scholars and practitioners working in disciplines such as social science, public policy, health care, and human services. Planners also welcome proposals on other aspects of Amish life, as well as ones related to other traditional Anabaptist groups. Proposals for presentations as well as poster sessions are acceptable.

Specifications: A clear statement of topic, methods, and significance (350 words or fewer) and a one-page résumé of the presenter

Submission: By e-mail attachment to [email protected]

Deadline: November 1, 2021

Decisions: December 15, 2021