<div dir="ltr">Dear colleagues,<br><br>With apologies for cross-posting.<br><br>This is the second call for papers for this year's Nordia Geographical Publications theme issue: <b>Re-worlding: Pluriversal politics in the Anthropocene</b>. Please feel free to get in touch with any questions and proposals that you might have. We would also appreciate it if you could forward it to anyone who might be interested to contribute.<div><br></div><div>Deadline to send the abstracts is March 31st.<br><br><b>The full call with instructions for submissions can be accessed here: <a href="https://nordia.journal.fi/announcement/view/337" target="_blank">https://nordia.journal.fi/announcement/view/337</a></b><br><br>Best wishes,<br><br>C.<div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:16px;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="margin:8px 0px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:0.875rem;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:small;line-height:1.5;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;overflow:hidden"><div dir="ltr" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><b><font size="4" color="#0b5394"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">Call for Papers </span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"> </span></font></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><font size="4" color="#0b5394"><b>Nordia Geographical Publications Theme Issue 2021</b></font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-right:1.5pt;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:italic;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><font size="4" color="#0b5394"><b>Re-worlding: Pluriversal politics in the Anthropocene</b></font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="4" color="#0b5394"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"> </span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"> </span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><font color="#0b5394" size="4">Aapo Lunden (Oulu) & Carlos Tornel (Durham) (eds.)</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><font size="4" color="#0b5394"> </font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-he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 such realities, or pluriversal politics, means engaging with multiple dialogic methods to ‘enhance appreciation of multiple ways of knowing and being in the world (...)</span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"> that decenters models of science and development that have been portrayed as universally true and good</span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"> (Paulson, 2018: 85).</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><font size="4" color="#0b5394"> </font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><font size="4" color="#0b5394">Moreover, we aim to depart from recent debates seeking to ”name the system” in academic discussion mainly between framing our current epoch as the Anthropocene (Moore 2015; Boneuil and Fressoz, 2016). While we see these discussions as a fruitful starting point, we instead turn our interest to the multiple scales of change and follow Hylland Eriksen’s approach in scaling down to the middle-ground. Here we are interested in conceptualizations that provide stronger multi-scalar linkages between the macro and micro, the global and the local (Hylland Eriksen, 2018) to analyse environmental and social changes in times of increasing shared and particular planetary vulnerabilities (Mbembe, 2020). </font></span></p><font size="4" color="#0b5394"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="4" color="#0b5394"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">We invite authors to contribute in populating the</span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:italic;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">middle-ground</span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"> and discuss the</span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:italic;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">pluriversal and ontological politics of the Anthropocene</span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">. We welcome the conceptual and theoretical, as well as empirical examples that describe living and thinking in times of environmental and social change, linking macro-micro level changes to specific contexts and geographies. The topics of the contribution include, but are not limited to:</span></font></p><font size="4" color="#0b5394"><br></font><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;font-family:"Times New Roman""><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><font size="4" color="#0b5394">Multiple scales or multi-scalar clashes in the Anthropocene (Hylland Eriksen, 2016);</font></span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;font-family:"Times New Roman""><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><font size="4" color="#0b5394">Strategies, case studies and the politics of reclaiming the commons, resisting terricide (Escobar, 2020) and ecocide in the content of new and old forms of extractivisms (Dunlap, 2020); </font></span></p></li><li dir="l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000 words).</span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;font-family:"Times New Roman""><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="4" color="#0b5394"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:italic;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">Editorially reviewed</span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"> interventions and discussions (ca. 2000–4000 words).</span></font></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>