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<div align="center">Call for papers: “Utopias, ecotopias and green
communities:<br>
Exploring the patterns of resettlement and living of green
idealists”<br><br>
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Since the
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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 an ‘Ecovillage’ in Tipperary has been
established.<br><br>
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
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2007. Contributions to the following:<br><br>
Dr Liam Leonard <br>
Editor, Ecopolitics Online<br>
SSRC, St Declan’s Distillery Rd &<br>
Dept. Sociology & Politics, Moyola House<br>
National University of Ireland, Galway, <br>
Rep. of Ireland<br>
+353(0)91 492295
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ONLINE <i>REVIEW BOARD:</i>Dr Liam Leonard, NUI Galway:
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John Barry, QU Belfast:
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Dr John Karamichas, QU Belfast:
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Dr Peter Doran, QU Belfast:
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Dr Henrike Rau, NUI Galway
</font><font face="Verdana" size=1 color="#0000FF"><u>henrike.rau@nuigalway.ie</u></font><font face="Verdana" size=1 color="#333333">,Dr
Su ming Khoo, NUI Galway:
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Dr Martin Phillipson, University of Saskatchewan:
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Dr Laurence Cox, NUI Maynooth:
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Dr Mark Garavan, GMIT Castlebar:
</font><font face="Verdana" size=1 color="#0000FF"><u>mark.garavan@gmit.ie</u></font><font face="Verdana" size=1 color="#333333">,Dr
Michael Ewing, Sligo IT:
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Vincent Salafia LL.M, TC Dublin:
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Dr Steve Breyman:</font><font face="Verdana" size=1>
</font><font face="Verdana" size=1 color="#333333">Renesselaer Institute,
NY
</font><font face="Verdana" size=1 color="#0000FF"><u>breyms@rpi.edu</u></font><font face="Verdana" size=1 color="#333333">,Anja
Murray, An Taisce:
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</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica">Notes for Contributors:<br>
</i></b> <b><i>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.<br><br>
Word Limit: Manuscripts should be between 5,000 and 7,000 words in
length.<br>
Format: Borders of 1 inch all round. Font Times Roman 12pt. Double
spaced. <br>
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.
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Abstract. A summary of around 150 words with a list of key words should
be provided.<br>
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. <br>
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: <br>
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.
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Submission of papers: Contributors should submit papers by email, as a
Microsoft Word document. Contributions should be sent to
liam_leonard@yahoo.com <br><br>
Ecopolitics Online is published by Greenhouse Publishing Ireland and
Micromarketing Ltd. <br><br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=2>Dr Liam Leonard <br>
Editor, Ecopolitics Online<br>
Dept. Sociology & Politics NUI Galway<br>
Ireland<br>
+353 91 492295<br>
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