Monday, November 19, 2007

Ecopolitics Online Journal Vol. 1 No. 1 from Greenhouse Press


Ecopolitics Online Journal Volume 1 No. 1 Winter 2007
http://www.ecopoliticsonline.com/
Utopias, Ecotopias and Green communities:
Exploring the Activism, Settlements and Living Patterns of Green Idealists
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Contents:
Articles:
1. Lucy Sargisson: ‘Imperfect Utopias: Green Intentional Communities’ …………………………………………………………………………………... 1 - 24
2. Marius De Geus: ‘Towards an Ecological Art of Living: On the Value of Ecological Utopias for our Future’…………………………………………… 25- 49
3. Peter North: ‘Alternative Currencies as Localised Utopias’………….…. 50- 64
4. Jon Anderson: ‘Elusive Escapes: Everyday Life and Ecotopias’ ………………………………….………………………………………….……. 64- 82
5. John Barry: ‘Towards a Concrete Utopian Model of Green Political Economy: From Economic Growth and Ecological Modernisation to Economic Security’ …………………………………………………………………………………. 83- 104
6. Liam Leonard: ‘Sustaining Ecotopias: Identity, Activism and Place’ ……………………………………………………………………………....... 105- 122
7. Laurence Cox: ‘Building Utopia Here and Now’ ……………………….123- 132
Conference Papers:
8. Mark Garavan: ‘Trying to make sense: Campaigns and the structure of discursive opportunities’. Paper from the 4th Ralahine Utopian Workshop, November 2 2007 …………………………………………………………….133- 137
Book Reviews:
10. Michael Ewing: Review: Power to the People? Assessing Democracy in Ireland TASC at New Island (2007) ………………………………………… 138
11. Liam Leonard: Review of Social Movements and Ireland by Linda Connolly and Niamh Hourigan (Eds) (2006) Manchester University Press………….. 139

Acknowledgements:
The editors of the Ecopolitics Online Journal would like to acknowledge the following: Marius DeGeus, Tom Moylan and the Rahaline Utopian Centre UL, Lucy Sargisson, Ollie Walsh and Micromarketing, Peter North, Jon Anderson, Laurence Cox, Ricca Edmondson, Mark Garavan, Michael Ewing, Henrike Rau, Peader Kirby, Joachim Fisher, Vincent Cunnane, Hilary Tovey, Anna Davies, Niamh Hourigan, Peter Doran, the Ecopolitics review panel, Fiona Bateman and the Social Science Research Centre NUIG, the Cloughjordan Ecovillage community, the Rossport community and all of the intentional communities, camps and ecotopias covered in this volume.

The Ecopolitics Online Journal is a double peer reviewed, indexed and abstracted journal. Editions are published bi-annually by Micromarketing in association with Greenhouse Press.
Liam Leonard & John Barry: Senior Editors. Copyright © 2007

Sunday, September 30, 2007

4th Ralahine Utopian Workshop Nov. 2nd 2007

Fourth Ralahine Utopian Studies Workshop
“Ecology and Utopia”
2 November 2007
Millstream Building, MC2-005
University of Limerick
10:30-10:45 Coffee/tea

10:45-11:00 Welcome and introduction: Tom Moylan (UL)

11:00-11:15 Ecopolitics Online Journal: Liam Leonard (NUIG)
Sustainability Research Network: Henrike Rau (NUIG)

11:15-12:15 John Barry (Queens-Belfast)
“Concrete Utopias, Sustainable Living, and Green Politics”

12:15-1:15 Marius de Geus (Leiden University,)
“Ecological Utopias”
1:15-2:30 Lunch

2:30-3:30 Mark Garavan (GMIT, Castlebar)
“Trying to Make Sense: Campaigns and the Structure of Discursive Opportunities”
3:30-4:30 Liam Leonard (NUIG)
“Sustaining Ecotopias: Habitus, Identity, and Place”

4:30-4:45 Davie Philip (Sustainable Living & Learning Centre)
Cloughjordan Ecovillage

4:45-5:00 Conclusion: Tom Moylan and Liam Leonard

5:15 --- Launch of Ecopolitics Online Journal
With Vincent Cunnane, Vice President Research
Mill Stream Commons



This Ralahine Workshop is sponsored by the Ralahine Centre for Utopian Studies, the COH Humanities Institute for the Study of the Knowledge Society, the Department of Sociology, the NUIG Social Science Research Centre, and Ecopolitics Online Journal.

Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Ecopolitics Online Journal

ECOPOLITICS ONLINE JOURNAL
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Call for papers: “Utopias, ecotopias and green communities:
Exploring the patterns of resettlement and living of green idealists”
Since the 17th century people have sought out utopias, establishing communities towards this aim. In the UK and US, educational institutions and planned communes were developed. Many were seeking to establish green alternative lifestyles or agrarian co operatives. Others reclaimed land or settled in areas once populated and then abandoned, providing a new lease of life for rural areas. Ireland has witnessed these patterns of utopian resettlement from the establishment of gaeltachts in the 1920s through to the influx of environmentally minded idealists from the UK or Germany to the west during the 1970s and 1980s. More recently, communities have emerged around protest sites in Rossport, the Glen of the Downs, Carrickmines and Tara and the ‘Ecovillage’ in Tipperary have been established.
This first edition of the Ecopolitics Online Journal will explore the issue of ‘seeking utopias’. Contributors should explore case studies from a broad and international range of community idealism and cooperative building. Rural resettlement, communes, syndicates, workers’ co ops, environmental communities and educational institutions are included within this broad thematic area of focus. Papers should be approximately 5,000 words with Harvard style referencing. The submission date for abstracts is September 1st 2007. Contributions to the following:
Dr Liam Leonard
Senior Editor, Ecopolitics Online
SSRC, St Declan’s Distillery Rd &
Dept. Sociology & Politics, Moyola House
National University of Ireland, Galway,
Rep. of Ireland
+353(0)91 492295 liam_leonard@yahoo.com,

Ollie Walsh Technical Editor Micromarketing: ollie@micromarketing.ie

ECOPOLITICS ONLINE REVIEW BOARD:
Dr Liam Leonard, NUI Galway: liam_leonard@yahoo.com (Founder & Senior Editor)
Dr John Barry, QU Belfast: j.barry@qub.ac.uk (Senior Editor)
Prof Chris Rootes, University of Kent, UK: c.a.rootes@kent.ac.uk
Prof Hilary Tovey: TC Dublin: toveyh@tcd.ie
Prof Lucy Sargisson Univ of Nottingham: Lucy.Sargisson@nottingham.ac.uk
Prof Tom Moylan, UL: tom.moylan@ul.ie
Dr Laurence Cox, NUI Maynooth: Laurence.cox@nuim.ie
Dr Marius DeGeus, Univ of Leiden: GEUS@FSW.leidenuniv.nl
Michael Ewing, Sligo IT: ewing.michael@itsligo.ie (Book Reviews Editor)
Dr Steve Breyman: Renesselaer Institute, New York: breyms@rpi.edu
Dr Niamh Hourigan, UC Cork: n.hourigan@ucc.ie
Dr Anna Davies, TC Dublin: daviesa@tcd.ie
Dr Peter North, Univ of Liverpool: P.J.North@liverpool.ac.uk
Dr Peter Doran, QU Belfast: p.f.doran@qub.ac.uk
Dr John Karamichas, QU Belfast: j.karamichas@qub.ac.uk
Dr Henrike Rau, NUI Galway henrike.rau@nuigalway.ie
Dr Su ming Khoo, NUI Galway: s.khoo@nuigalway.ie
Dr Martin Phillipson, University of Saskatchewan: martin.phillipson@usask.ca
Dr Martina Prendergast, ECI, NUI Galway: martina.prendergast@nuigalway.ie
Dr Mark Garavan, GMIT Castlebar: mark.garavan@gmit.ie
Vincent Salafia LL.M, TC Dublin: salafia@gmail.com
Anja Murray, An Taisce: anja.murray@antaisce.org
Helena Cruz Gallach, Autonoma Univ Catalonia: helcruz@yahoo.es
Dr Frances Fahey, Univ of Ulster: f.fahy@ulster.ac.uk
Dr Jon Anderson, Univ of Cardiff: andersonj@Cardiff.ac.uk
Joe Fenwick, NUI Galway: joe.fenwick@nuigalway.ie
Dr Denis Linehan UCC denis.linehan@ucc.ie
Dr Carmen Kuhling UL carmen.kuhling@ul.ie
Dr Ariel Salleh, U of W Sydney ecofeminism@arielsalleh.net

ECOPOLITICS ONLINE JOURNAL
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Notes for Contributors:
Irish Ecopolitics Online will publish a collection of papers from an international pool of environmental academics and researchers on a twice yearly basis. Peer reviewed with contributions from a diverse range of perspectives, Ecopolitics Online will address environmental issues with a multidisciplinary approach which incorporates politics, sociology, geography, globalisation, development, economics, philosophy, ecology, law and science. Submissions must be original and not currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. We aim to reach a decision on publication within three months of receipt of the submission. Ecopolitics Online is affiliated with the Sustainability Research Network and the Environmental Change Institute, NUIG.

Word Limit: Manuscripts should be between 5,000 and 7,000 words in length.
Format: Borders of 1 inch all round. Font Times Roman 12pt. Double spaced.
Anonymous Manuscript. To facilitate the refereeing process, please ensure that your paper is anonymous by including your name, contact details on a separate sheet. All contact details should also be given separately.
Abstract. A summary of around 150 words with a list of key words should be provided.
Footnotes should be included at the end of the article. These should be numbered consecutively through the text, and presented on a separate sheet of paper, typed with double spacing.
Bibliographic citations can appear in text or notes. These should include the author’s last name and the title or year of publication, and may include a page reference: (Leonard 2006 12). A separate list of references should be provided, in alphabetical order. Please do not abbreviate journal titles. The following style should be employed:
Copyright: The editors reserve the right to make editorial changes. Contributors are expected to assign copyright to the publisher; though they remain free to use material in subsequent publications provided Ecopolitics Online is acknowledged as the original place of publication.
Submission of papers: Contributors should submit papers by email, as a Microsoft Word document. Contributions should be sent to liam_leonard@yahoo.com

Ecopolitics Online is published by Greenhouse Publishing Ireland and Micromarketing, Galway Republic of Ireland.

Dr Liam Leonard
Editor, Irish Ecopolitics Online
Dept. Sociology & Politics NUI Galway
Ireland
+353 91 492295