CALL FOR PAPERS

Issues 46 & 47 / "World-Ecology, Capitalocene and Global Accumulation"

To be published in February & June 2021

The call for papers of volumes 46 & 47 of the journal takes as its main objective a contribution to the global discussion on world-ecology, capitalocene and processes of global accumulation.

Since Jason W. Moore published his text Capitalism as World-Ecology: Braudel and Marx on Environmental History in 2003, the theoretical framework of world-ecology has been creating spaces inside academia, and more precisely, the structuralist schools, becoming one of the most prominent theories to explain the evolution of global capitalism at present. Starting from a perspective that pursues a break with the Cartesian dualism that permeates the social sciences, world-ecology proposes a single framework to understand how the processes of appropriation-exploitation of human and extrahuman nature converge in favour of a logic of the infinite accumulation of capital, contributing in this way to a reinterpretation of the traditional structuralist frameworks, such as the ‘world-system’.

Situating, therefore, the socioecological relations as the epicentre of the development of global capitalism —understood by this theory as the socioecological system that has governed international relations since the 16th Century i.e world-ecology— this framework will not only allow for carrying out novel research on social and political phenomena, but will open up a new theoretical window to an infinity of areas of investigation. On the basis of this holistic perspective, both historical and transnational, world-ecology is offered as a new paradigm suitable to explain such diverse global phenomena as climate change, capitalist economic crises, extractivism or human mobility. With good reason it is one of the leading schools calling into question the concept anthropocene, which struggles to suggest that humanity is responsible for global warming, when for the theorists of world-ecology it would be more correct to speak of capitalocene, attributing the responsibility in this way to the true cause of the destruction of the planet: global capitalism.

The objective of this volume of the journal Relaciones Internacionales will be to add to the global discussion on world-ecology through publication of research that contributes both to expand and deepen the theory in the various debates surrounding it.

Therefore, priority will be afforded those offerings from the world-ecology or structuralist paradigm that make critical theoretical contributions to the discussion, analysing, discussing or extending the following dimensions, categories and concepts:

• Capitalocene vs. anthropocene.
• Convergences and divergences between the perspectives world-ecology, world-system or metabolic rift, among others.
• Human mobility and migrations.
• Global economic, ecological and systemic crises.
• Extractivism and neoextractivism.
• Global supply chains.
• Centre-periphery dynamics.
• Production boundaries.
• Capitalist phases of accumulation.
• Colonialism and neocolonialism.
• Imperialism.
• Socioecological conflicts.
• Socioecological movements and resistance.
• Possible alternatives to the capitalist world-ecology.

Although these lines of investigation will be prioritized, the acceptance of contributions won’t be exclusively limited to the axes previously indicated.

The volumes 46 & 47 of Relaciones Internacionales will be published in February & June of 2020; the Editorial Team and the Coordination of the volume have established the following dates:

 

DUE DATE

ABSTRACT:
It should be a text of between 500 and 1000 words that displays concisely and with clarity the fundamental aspects to be developed in the later article. The date of delivery ends on the 1st of June of 2020 (day included). The proposal must be sent in a PDF document indicating the authors, institution affiliation, provisional title of the article and abstract of the text, with copy sent to the following three email addresses:

• yoan.molinero@cchs.csic.es
• gavallone@unisa.it
• jwmoore@binghamton.edu

Communication of ACCEPTANCE:
The coordinators of the journal will analyse the abstracts sent to check if the proposals of the authors conform to the lines of investigation set out in the present call for papers, and they will notify by email the acceptance or rejection of the proposals on the 15th of June of 2020.

ARTICLES:
The full text of the article shall be sent by the authors to the coordinators before 15th of September of 2020. The article must conform wholly and meticulously to the Style Manual of the Relaciones Internacionales journal.

The delivery of the article should be made on the web site of the journal, through its administration platform OJS (Open Journal System), so it will be essential that the authors —all of them, in the event that there is more than one— are registered on the web by completing the requested data on the platform registration page with the highest level of detail and updating:
https://revistas.uam.es/relacionesinternacionales

EVALUATION process:
Once the article is sent correctly through the web-site platform, the double blind evaluation process begins, which will take between three and six months, depending on the case, which could include the return of the text to the authors for revision or correction in accordance with the changes and suggestions made by the anonymous reviewers. During the evaluation process, the reviewers will be tasked with certifying the quality of the work of the authors, as well as the adequacy of the definitive texts for the topic proposed in the Call for Papers.

• IMPORTANT NOTICE: suggestions of possible reviewers by the authors are allowed to evaluate their texts. With the abstract of your proposal, you can send us by email the names of academics with extensive knowledge about the aspects researched in your work; if the Coordination team considers it appropriate, they will contact these reviewers.

DEFINITIVE ACCEPTANCE:
Throughout the evaluation process (between October 2020-February 2021), those authors whose text receives the complete approval of the assigned reviewers will be notified of the definitive acceptance of their article, the moment in which they will have absolute certainty that it will be published in the journal; the article will be published in the volume of October 2020 as is scheduled —and not in a prior volumen— is subject to the complete conformation of the text to the instructions indicated in the Style Manual of the journal, or any other eventualities that will be duly communicated to the authors.

EDITING process:
During the month of January & May of 2021 the journal will proceed to the definitive editing of the text to be published in February & June of 2021. The obligatory nature of fulfilling thoroughly the indications in the Style Manual of the journal should be stressed again, with a view to avoiding delays that could postpone the publication of the text to a later volume.

PUBLICATION OF THE VOLUME:
Throughout the months of February & June, volumes 46 & 47 of the journal Relaciones Internacionales will be published in digital format, online, open, and free, carrying the title “World-Ecology, Capitalocene and Global Accumulation”. All of the articles that have fulfilled the requirements of the stages indicated above will be included.

LANGUAGES:

Proposals in Spanish, Portuguese, French and English will be accepted, but the articles will be translated into Spanish for publication. Whenever possible, it will be the authors themselves who send the translated articles in Spanish; the journal does not guarantee the translation of all texts.

COORDINATION OF THE VOLUME
Yoan MOLINERO GERBEAU  – yoan.molinero@cchs.csic.es
Gennaro AVALLONE – gavallone@unisa.it
Jason W. MOORE – jwmoore@binghamton.edu