<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div>Rachel DiNitto has asked me to share this call for papers:</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class="">Call for Proposals:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">Eco-Disasters in Japanese Cinema</i><o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class="">I am seeking original articles for an edited<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">Asia Shorts</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>volume titled<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">Eco-Disasters in Japanese Cinema</i>. The<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">Asia Shorts</i>book series, published by the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) and distributed worldwide by Columbia University Press, offers concise, engagingly-written titles by highly-qualified authors that appeal to broad audiences with up-to-date scholarship on important, timely topics in Asian Studies. Topics are intended to be substantive, generate discussion and debate within the field, and attract interest beyond it.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class="">Cinema is an important and powerful venue for addressing environmental crises in Japan.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">Eco-Disasters in Japanese Cinema</i></span><b class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class="">analyzes this</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>environmental commentary<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class="">as it coalesces<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class="">around cinematic representations of disaster</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class="">. Japanese cinema is filled with images of destruction. While the most obvious examples are the catastrophic spectacles of monster films, Japanese directors have also used images of disaster and destruction to produced pertinent and timely visual commentary on a multitude of environmental threats. These films exceed the bounds of any single genre or approach and range in scale from the individual to the planetary: the nuclear bombs, radiation, and oceanic pollution in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">Godzilla<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></i></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class="">films</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class="">; the rising waters of climate change in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">Weathering with You</i>; and the slow violence of industrial pollution in Tsuchimoto Noriaki’s oeuvre on Minamata disease. This volume focuses the analysis on cinematic representations of disaster widely defined, as a means to examine the evolving environmental discourse in Japan, including the pollution crises of the 1970s and the Fukushima nuclear disaster of 2011. The volume welcomes films produced during or depicting any era, with particular interest in films that have not been analyzed in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class="">an environmental</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>context or that challenge clichéd representations of disaster in Japanese cinema via<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class="">an ecocritical approach</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class="">. There are currently a number of confirmed contributors.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class="">Potential topics include but are not limited to:<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in;" class=""><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class="">All genres of film—documentary, live action, animated, monster films, etc.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class="">Independent cinema and large studio productions<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class="">How different genres visualize environmental messages<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class="">All historical time periods depicted in film<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class="">Environmental harm from nuclear/radiation, industrial pollutants, or other acts of human violence or natural disasters: e.g., asbestos, mining, chemical pollution, deforestation, war, climate change, etc.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class="">The uses of landscape and space in environmental film<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class="">Realistic/documentary films about historical environmental harm<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class="">Science fiction/speculative cinema of imagined destruction or environmental harm<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class="">Spectacular, catastrophic destruction as well as slow and often invisible violence<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class="">Disaster victims as environmental refugees<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class="">Colonial/postcolonial environmental destruction<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class="">Comparisons between/across different eras or genres of Japanese cinema<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class="">Cultural specificity of Japanese cinematic responses to environmental harm<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li></ul><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class="">Given the aim of the series, all submissions should be written in jargon-free prose that is easily accessible for non-specialist. The number of endnotes should be minimal compared to more traditional scholarly publications. The word count for each article is 6,000 words inclusive of notes and bibliography. Prospective authors should email me a 250-300 word abstract and brief bio by March 31, 2022. Full papers for approved abstracts will be due on or before August 15, 2022. All submissions will be blind reviewed before being published.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class="">Prospective authors are welcome to contact me at:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="mailto:rdinitto@uoregon.edu" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: windowtext;" class="">rdinitto@uoregon.edu</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: windowtext;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class="">Rachel DiNitto<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class="">Professor of Japanese Literature<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class="">East Asian Languages & Literatures<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class="">301 Friendly Hall<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; 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