Deadline: October 4, 2019
Proposal for a session at NESTVAL 2019 (Oct 18-19 in Framingham, MA), and
A special issue of The Northeastern Geographer (Volume 12, 2020)
Quebec Hydropower for a green Massachusetts? Connections, contradictions and contests of electricity
We invite paper proposals for an examination of the connections, contradictions and contests between the drive for low-carbon electricity in southern New England on the one hand, and the development, construction and marketing of hydropower in Quebec, on the other. We are interested in connections defined broadly, across the wide range of connections that may interest geographers, including material infrastructure, policy change, market development, investments and finance, environmental change, social and cultural interactions and transformations including issues of settler colonialism, political contest, and discourse. Papers should frame their topics within this interconnection but may focus on the connections either a) explicitly between or among different geographical sites, e.g. the impact of Massachusetts policy change on Hydro-Quebec policy; or b) on an individual site within this interconnected system, e.g. the development of Massachusetts low-carbon targets and policies; the development of Hydro-Quebec export marketing policies; the contests over development of a particular Quebec river or a specific proposed transmission line; or the social, cultural and environmental transformation experienced by First Nations before and following a particular hydrodevelopment. Papers may be entirely empirical or more theoretical.
Abstracts for NESTVAL due Oct 4
Abstracts for the special issue due November 15, 2019, for selection by December 1; final papers due May 31, 2020. Publication anticipated December 2020.
Please send abstracts to evev@umass.edu AND negeog@salemstate.edu
Eve Vogel, UMass Amherst, session organizer / issue editor
Steven Silvern, Salem State University; Editor: The Northeastern Geographer