Dear colleagues,
Pleae find attached a Call for Papers (Journal Social Networks, guest edited by David Tindall, John McLevey and Nina Kolleck):
Call for Paper Proposals for a Special Issue or Section
of Social Networks on Climate Change.
This is a call for manuscripts on social networks and climate change that will appear in a special collection in
Social Networks
(either as a section, or a special issue, depending on the number of high quality papers).
Anthropogenic global warming, and consequent climate change, are amongst the biggest challenges facing
humankind. Early research on anthropogenic climate change, understandably, was mostly conducted by natural
scientists, who analyzed the origins of climate change and its potential impacts on the earth system. The effects
of individuals, societies and policies – key drivers of climate change – and the social dimensions of climate
change were given secondary emphasis for a significant period of time. Since the beginning of the 1990s, due to
the increasing awareness of both the significant social consequences and the impacts of human behavior and
social structures on climate change, social researchers have begun investigating the social scientific aspects of
this problem. However, while a variety of social dimensions of climate change issues have been studied for
several decades, it is only recently that a growing number of scholars have started to analyze the role that social
networks play in anthropogenic climate change. These works constitute the beginnings of a significant body of
work by social network scholars, contributing crucial insights by looking beyond actor attributes and placing a
focus on the relations amongst actors, and shedding a light on network dynamics.
A voluntary one-page abstract describing your proposed paper is due on January 21st, 2019.
We will endeavor to provide feedback within six weeks of the deadline. This proposal is voluntary in the sense
that one can still submit a paper for consideration for the special issue without first submitting a proposal. But
we encourage the submission of proposals in advance of a final paper.
Please send your one-page abstract to:
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The deadline for the completed papers will be January 21st, 2020.
The completed paper will need to be submitted on the journal website. Details about this will be given at a later
date.
The scope for potential papers is quite broad, and could include but is not restricted to topics involving climate
change and networks with regard to any of the following: discourse networks, policy networks, political
polarization, social movements, network analyses of social media, analyses of networks, attitudes, values, and
opinions, networks and community resilience, carbon emissions and the world system. Diverse network
methodologies are welcomed.
David Tindall, Department of Sociology, University of British Columbia.
Nina Kolleck, Freie Universität Berlin.
John McLevey, Department of Knowledge Integration at the University of Waterloo.