Call for Submissions: SustainE/Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Special Issue

Deadline: January 20, 2025

SustainE in collaboration with members of the Alexander von Humboldt basis’s 2024 Humboldt Residency Programme are inviting submissions for a particular situation on Bridging Power and Knowledge: Addressing Global Imbalances in Knowledge Systems for Sustainable Futures. The venture is the results of a collaboration between members of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation’s 2024 Humboldt Residency Programme and SustainE.

They encourage submissions from students, civil society organizations, and native collectives, that prioritize community-based participatory analysis and different collaborative fashions of information manufacturing. Submissions that deal with sustainability within the context of environmental stewardship, financial resilience, and social fairness are significantly welcome, with a particular give attention to contributions from LMICs within the Global South.

Theme and Scope

This particular situation will discover:

• Bridging Knowledge Worlds: The integration of conventional, native, and indigenous information methods with tutorial/scientific analysis in sustainability.
• Case Studies: Case research demonstrating how conventional and indigenous information can contribute to local weather motion and international sustainability, spotlight the significance and relevance of native options for the worldwide scale.
• Equitable Partnerships: Cross-cultural and cross-sectoral collaborations that deal with energy imbalances in international information methods, fostering inclusive and equitable approaches to environmental, social, and financial sustainability.

Prize

• The finest submission will obtain a prize of €1,000, awarded to probably the most impactful and progressive contribution.

Eligibility

• Submissions are inspired from researchers, civil society organizations, native collectives, and NGOs worldwide, significantly from LMICs within the Global South.
• Each submission should embody not less than one co-author from the area people concerned within the analysis or case research to make sure correct illustration and acknowledgment of their contributions.
• Submissions should instantly deal with points associated to sustainability, local weather motion, environmental justice, or information fairness, with a transparent give attention to bridging Global North-South information methods.
• Submissions should characterize unique, accomplished work, or analysis tasks. Proposals for future tasks won’t be thought of.
• A quick descriptive textual content (500-1000 phrases) should accompany non-text submissions (video, photograph essays, visualizations) explaining the context, analysis, and the position of native information methods.

Review Criteria

• Alignment with the theme of the particular situation.
• Contribution to bridging Global North-South information methods.
• Originality, rigor, and readability of analysis or storytelling.
• Evidence of neighborhood or native engagement within the analysis course of.
• Use of progressive or inclusive analysis strategies, codecs, or communication instruments.

Application

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For extra info, go to Special Issue.