Deadline: 1/29/24 for peer reviewed feature article abstracts; rolling basis for non-peer reviewed feature and column abstracts
Contact: Laurie Moberg, Editor, Open Rivers, University of Minnesota
Email: mober079@umn.edu
Open Rivers: Rethinking Water, Place, and Community seeks abstract submissions for features or columns for our 2025 issue on Rights, Conflict, and Water. We seek contributions that foreground the complexities and intersections of water rights and water conflicts. How is the right to water enacted in different contexts? How do “rights” and practices reciprocally inform each other? How are water rights allocated? How is water mobilized in sociopolitical practices and how is it weaponized? How does water contribute to larger social discord? How can our sociopolitical structures facilitate better relationships with people and place? What do we learn about water rights and conflicts from history? From art? And what are the rights of water itself?
We invite proposals from scholars, activists, artists, professionals, policymakers, community members, scientists, and practitioners who offer insight on rights, conflicts, and water broadly conceived. We encourage prospective authors to share work that furthers our understanding of the intersections of ecological and sociopolitical systems. We aim to publish content that will provoke thoughtful reflection, meaningful action, and ongoing public discussion. Open Rivers is an open-access digital journal of public scholarship published by the Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Minnesota.
Posted on December 18, 2023
