Call for papers:

In 2006, Stephen Harper touted Canada as “an emerging energy superpower”. Since then, a new politics of resistance, such as Idle No More, the Anti-Fracking movement, and Stop Line 9, has rallied to oppose this agenda and offer alternatives. In Problématique issue 14, we want seek answers to the following questions: How do these new politics of resistance help us question the current direction of economic, social and environmental development in Canada? How do they help us reimagine our role as academics, and in particular the often assumed relation between theory and practice? What alternatives do such movements suggest? With these questions in mind, we invite papers from a variety of disciplines and methodologies that touch on any of these questions or address themes such as:

• The ethics of energy extraction, production, and consumption
• Political ecology perspectives
• Emerging social movements
• New politics of resistance
• Indigenous self-determination and radical politics
• Land-based politics
• Neoliberal policy and development in Canada
• Corporate power and responsibility
• Corporate and state repression of dissent

We welcome previously unpublished academic articles of 4000-6000 words, photo-essays, interviews, or reviews of up to 1000 words that address the problématique of alternative/radical perspectives on the intersections of politics, economics, the environment, and new subjectivities in Canada.

Please submit to problematique.yorku@gmail.com by March 1st 2014