CANADIAN JOURNAL OF HISTORY

ANNALES CANADIENNES D’HISTOIRE

The Material Realities of Energy Histories

A Call for Proposals for a Special Issue of the Canadian Journal of History/Annales canadiennes The Canadian Journal of History/ d’histoire (CJH/ACH) Annales canadiennes d’histoire lance un

appel à contributions sur les croisements Annales canadiennes d’histoire actively The appropriation and control of the flow of energy from the sun and stocks of energy beneath populistes the surface entre le sexe et lesstored politiques seeks submissions concerned with of the Earth influenced changes to human societies in the past. Ideology, cultural norms, scientific knowledge, and 1945. gender and informed popularhow politics 1945.and the use of energy transformeddepuis technology people since used energy, relationships between people, and between humans and the natural world. Over time, people devised more efficient ways of harnessing and

La récente aux États-Unis a mise The most recent US presidential highlighted directing energy, while at theelection same time breaking the constraints of older élection patterns présidentielle of use by adopting new energy en relief les croisements entre le sexe et les politiques in exceptional ways theAnd connection betweenofgender sources and fuels. despite moments scarcity or crisis, the scale of energy used by humans has always populistes. Comment les identités politiques sont-elles politics and populist politics. How do queer, race, and tended toward ever-greater amounts. formées par les théories queer, raciale et féministe? feminist theories shape emerging political identities Energy history has grown considerably from a largely overlooked sub-field to anintéressés importantàand relevant linearticles qui Nous sommes valoriser des in diverging ways? Topics need not be focused on of historical enquiry. Responding to the realization that humanexplorent energy usedes has bouleversements been directly responsible historiques qui ont American history, rather guided by how greateconomic, historic and environmental changes, such as industrialization, for monumental social, cultural, political, modifié les relations entre l’électorat, les élites socioshifts urbanization, have altered global the dynamic between electorates, warming, and the onset of the Anthropocene, historians et have to embrace Par the need to la économiques lesbegun gouvernements. exemple, socio-economic For example, understandelites, betterand howgovernments. energy structured human societies. fin de la guerre froide; la guerre contre le terrorisme; the end of the Cold War; the war on terrorism; the la crise financière de 2008-2009; l’échec des régions The Canadian of History/Annales is pleased to welcome abstracts of articles financial crisis of Journal 2008-2009; the downfallcanadiennes of the d’histoire de l’industrie lourde (la rust belt) et des économies du for a special issue on energy history. The proposed essays should explore topics that address the transnational rustbelt and coal economies; hardening of borders charbon; le reserrement des et la xénophobie dimensions and multiple scales of the material realities and environmental consequences offrontières energy production, and xenophobia in light of the Syrian refugee crisis; provenant de la will crise réfugiés; et full Brexit et le distribution, and consumption in any time period. Authors of accepted abstracts be des invited to submit Brexitarticle and changing attitudes toward Globalization. changement d’attitudes face à la mondialisation. Dans manuscripts for double-blind peer review. quelle mesure les nouvelles technologies des médias et To what extent have new media technologies and Possible themes may include, but are not limited to: la résurgence des phénomènes médiatiques façonnentresurgent media phenomena shaped debates about elles les discussions sur les questions sexospécifiques gender publics within nations, • among energyvarious sources/fuels/commodities entre différent publics au sein des nations, entre les • nations, energy networks/infrastructure between and across the globe? nations et à travers le monde? • efforts to connect sites of energy production and consumption This is• an open call for papers and is nottransportation, on a fixed resource development, agriculture industrialization, urbanization, Ceci est un appel ouvert sans délai fixé. Les articles ne • energyshould abundance/scarcity deadline. Articles not exceed 10,000 words, doivent pas dépasser 12 000 mots, y compris les notes. • energy including notes. Asjustice/inequality a rule, footnotes should make En règle générale, les notes de bas de page ne doivent up no• moreenergy than regimes/transitions 20 percent of the article’s total pas dépasser vingt pour cent du nombre total de word •count. households/consumer Please submit your culture work through our mots. Veuillez soumettre votre article à notre système • transformations of environment/landscape ScholarOne portal where you can also find our current ScholarOne, où vous trouverez également notre guide style guide: https://mc04.manuscriptcentral.com/cjh. Those interested should send a 250-300 word abstract by 2 June 2017https://mc04.manuscriptcentral.com/cjh. to the attention of guest editor Andrew de style: Watson ([email protected]). Invited authors will be asked to submit a full article manuscript for peer review by 15 September 2017.

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canadian journal of history annales canadiennes d’histoire 52.2 autumn | automne 2017

52.2 autumn | automne 2017