Calls for Papers / Proposals: Art, Activism, and EcoJustice Education, Eastern Michigan University, College of Education, March 19-21, 2015

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Calls for Papers / Proposals

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1. Art, Activism, and EcoJustice Education

Eastern Michigan University
College of Education
March 19-21, 2015

Join us for the Fourth Annual EcoJustice and Activism conference and
workshops March 19-21, 2015 at Eastern Michigan University in
Ypsilanti, MI.

EcoJustice Education is an approach that analyzes the deep cultural
roots of intersecting social and ecological crises, focusing
especially on the globalizing cultural, economic and political forces
of Western consumer culture. EcoJustice scholars and educators also
study, support, and teach about the ways that various cultures around
the world actively resist these colonizing forces by protecting and
revitalizing their commons—that is, the social practices and
traditions, languages, and relationships with the land necessary to
the healthy regeneration of their communities. By emphasizing the
commons (and its enclosure or privatization), EcoJustice perspectives
understand social justice to be inseparable from and even imbedded in
questions regarding ecological well-being.

This conference was organized to engage activists, educators,
students, and scholars in deep and meaningful discussion around what
we can do together to address and organize actions aimed at
alleviating and/or eliminating current social and environmental
injustices occurring in our local, national, and international
communities.

This year’s theme, Art, Activism, and EcoJustice Education aims to
explore the ways the arts can focus public attention and
responsibilities toward developing eco-ethical consciousness and
action that challenges devastating social and ecological degradation
occurring both locally and globally. We encourage a wide range of
critical perspectives from within artistic, scholarly, and activist
traditions and groups. These could include presentations,
performances, or exhibitions around site specific art, insurgent art
education, place-based art education, performance art, radical and
guerrilla art, eco-art education, sustainable art, indigenous arts,
anarchist arts and more.

We also welcome related presentations on animal welfare, environmental
philosophy, climate change, ecofeminism and other gender studies,
critical race theory, eco-pedagogy, eco-ability, post-humanism,
anarchist studies, place-based education, critical animal studies,
critical cultural studies, political ecology, peace studies, critical
geography, indigenous studies, indigenous education,
post/anti-colonial studies, critical literacies, critical pedagogy,
urban studies, eco-philosophy, eco-democratic reforms, EcoJustice
education, and critical disability studies. Questions? Contact
Co-Chairs, Rebecca Martusewicz, rmartusewicz@gmail.com, or Monica
Shields Grimason mshield1@emich.edu

Proposals are due January 15, 2015 to Rebecca Martusewicz,
rmartusewicz@gmail.com

Please note that we are using a peer review process this year. See the
Guidelines for Proposals at http://ecojusticeconference.weebly.com/