SSCI专刊征稿：解构与重塑：为社会生态正义与替代性社会生态未来而努力

期刊信息

期刊名称：

Environmental Science & Policy (SSCI)

影响因子：

6.0

JCR分区：

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES，Q1，71/334

中科院分区：

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES 环境科学 2区 

期刊平均接收率：

15.1%

审稿周期：

208天

There is an increasing awareness about (and a critique of) the role the Eurocentric Modernity and universalistic Science play in defining sustainability pathways in policy and research, delegitimizing and erasing other ways of knowing, being and relating. In particular, Modernity perceives humans as separate from nature, denies the full humanity of some people and the existences of their ways of being and knowing (that do not separate between people and the lands), and finally it uses the European or Western economic development as a yardstick for universally desirable constructs. To this day, the dominance and hegemony of these anthropocentric, colonial, hetero-patriarchal, capitalist, and linear onto-epistemic assumptions over other ways of knowing and being continues to (re)produce epistemic, cognitive, and ontological violences, threatening place-based ancestral knowledges, and practices that are vital for sustaining healthy relations towards the natural world.We argue and argue for a collective unlearning that can shake the pervasive onto-epistemic assumptions underlying Eurocentric Modernity to their core; undoing the current onto-epistemic violences towards other ways of being, knowing, and doing ‘sustainability’ on the ground.

This call for papers calls for theoretical, methodological, and empirical contributions that explore: (i) what dominant mindsets, assumed scientific truths or myths, and ontological logics require unlearning and undoing, (ii) the multiple and diverse processes of unlearning Eurocentric truth claims and/or undoing Modernity, and (iii) the methodological implications for epistemic and ontological justice and/or for transformations towards just socioecological futures, and finally (iv) the implications for science and policy and the science-policy interface. We call for contributions engaging ontological and relationality shifts, Indigenous, anti-colonial, decolonial, feminist, degrowth thinking. 

Manuscript submission information:

You are invited to submit your manuscript at any time before the submission deadline. For any inquiries about the appropriateness of contribution topics, please contact Managing Guest Editor: Prof. Sabaheta S. Ramcilovic-Suominen.

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Keywords:

Transformations, Pluriverse, Relationality, Socioecological justice, Epistemic and ontological justice, Ways of knowing and being, Power politics and resistance, Eco-feminism, Degrowth, More-than-human, Alternatives