[Themaintainers] CFP: 'Resourcing Love'

[Jada Ach]

Dear Maintainers,

Please consider contributing to an edited collection titled *Resourcing
Love: Land Management in North American Literature and Culture*, edited by
Kristen Brown (kristen.brown at northern.edu) and Jada Ach (jada.ach at asu.edu).
See the CFP below, and let us know if you have any questions. Thank you!

Best wishes,
Jada Ach

*CFP:* *Resourcing Love: Land Management in North American Literature and
Culture*

*Chapter or Keyword Abstract due*: April 1, 2024

*Abstract length*: 300-500 words



What does it mean to manage public lands, environmental resources,
waterways, and marine environments? How does the language of management
situate people in relation to the ecosystems upon which they depend? What
technologies, affects, aesthetics, environments, individuals, power
dynamics, poetics, or practices come to mind when we think about land and
water management? And how might the arts and humanities enable us to create
a more inclusive discourse that envisions new management practices and
policies that center justice, environmental attunement, good relations, and
even love?

*Resourcing Love: Land Management in North American Literature and Culture*
seeks to explore the ongoing histories of human-centered ecosystem
management in the lands and waters that comprise what is now known as North
America by tracking the divergent ways in which human-environmental
relations have been articulated, experienced, understood, represented,
and/or regulated. This edited collection, consisting of chapters ranging
from 6,000-8,000 words, encourages us to reimagine what it means to manage
environmental elements beyond the limits of utility, commodification, and
control. The word "management" itself may be interrogated and is used
rather expansively in this project to embrace all kinds of
human-environmental engagements, ranging from constructing dams and
removing invasive grasses, to gathering corn pollen and resting in the
shade of a mesquite tree. We are particularly interested in essays that
highlight BIPOC and queer approaches to managing lands as they are
diversely represented in literature, film, visual arts, performing arts,
park interpretive materials, or other diverse forms of media.

Additionally, we envision the project beginning with a “Keywords” section
with brief (2,000-3,000 words) entries that detail a word’s history,
outline its role in various discourses, and/or suggest possibilities for
future research. Terms may include* natural resource, nature, environment,
sustainability, reciprocity, the commons, property, wilderness/wildness,
conservation, *and *preservation,* to name a few. In the spirit of
collaboration and co-management, we warmly welcome ideas that can further
nourish this project.

Please submit an abstract (300-500 words) and bio (100-200 words) to
Kristen Brown (kristen.brown at northern.edu) and Jada Ach (jada.ach at asu.edu)
 by *April 1, 2024.* Accepted essays will be due *September 30, 2024*.


 *Topics might include:*

-traditional ecological knowledge (TEK)

-Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS)

-land management and situated knowledges

-storytelling as land management

-management’s settler colonial legacies

-national parks and forests in literature

-Indigenous-led land management and stewardship

-Indigenous fire science

-managing borderlands

-land management and embodiment

-new archives in land management

-(counter)mapping public lands

-Latinx relations to land

-park interpretation

-oceanic management in literature or film

-wildlife management in literature or film

-maintenance and repair in literature

-managing energy and infrastructure

-water rights and histories

-managing (urban) deserts

-queering land management, queer ecology

-land management theories and futures

-Indigenous sovereignty and nationhood

-ceremony as land management

-management and elemental ecocriticism

-women and land management history

-feminist approaches to land management

-management as worldbuilding

-land management and Black futures

-managing “waste,” wastelanding

-critical theories for land management

-gray literature and concepts of use (ethical, multiple, beneficial)
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