Call for Paper Proposals: Workshop on Radical Environmental Justice

The Environmental Studies Program at Hamilton College invites paper proposals for an upcoming workshop on Radical Environmental Justice, to be held on June 10-11, 2025 in Clinton, New York. This workshop seeks to critically explore approaches to environmental justice that not only resist the state but also actively challenge and force the state to renegotiate the logics and systems that justify environmental injustices. We are calling these approaches “radical environmental justice.” We are particularly interested in examining how anti-state actions, strategies that circumvent state control, and efforts that delegitimize state power compel governments to confront their complicity in environmental degradation and inequity. 

Workshop Theme

This workshop will focus on strategies that have disrupted, challenged, and reconfigured the state’s role in perpetuating environmental harm. We seek submissions that examine how radical movements have exposed the state’s failures, forced a reevaluation of state logics that normalize state violence at the intersections of environmental and social harm, and that disrupted the political and legal foundations that underpin state-sanctioned harm. The workshop will engage with a wide range of non-state interventions, decentralized frameworks, and grassroots movements that are transforming the pursuit of environmental justice by making the state’s continued control and participation untenable.

Submission Guidelines

Proposal Submission Deadline: December 15^st, 2024. Proposals should be about 300-words and must be submitted through this link. Participants will be notified by January 6, 2025. We look forward to your contributions as we collectively explore radical pathways to environmental justice that challenge, delegitimize, and reconfigure state, corporate, and institutional power towards the ends of environmental justice.