Opportunities for Special Issues

SCP23 aims to facilitate opportunities for special issues and paper submissions that originate from the conference. Journals that have expressed interest in considering proposals for special issues on topics related to the conference themes are listed below.

We invite colleagues who are interested in curating and guest editing a special issue to approach the editors of these journals with their ideas.  

• Environmental Sociology (Taylor & Francis)
• Consumption & Society (Bristol University Press)
• Sustainability: Science, Practice, and Policy (Taylor & Francis)*
• Cleaner and Responsible Consumption (Elsevier)

Authors of SCP23 conference papers, please note that the submission policies of all journals listed above state that your conference paper submissions on the Open Science Foundation repository (preprints) will not be counted as prior publications but considered original submissions. 

Confirmed special issues on SCP23 conference themes will be advertised on the conference website. The conference organizers will also promote these publication opportunities in their regular conference communications.  

* Note that SSPP is an open access journal and that Article Processing Costs  (APCs) will need to be secured.

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Eduruption: The disruptive potential of education for transforming consumerism 

Special issue in Cleaner and Responsible Consumption (Elsevier)

This special issue focuses on the role of education in transforming consumption and production systems towards sustainability. The issue explores how transformative and transgressive learning can enable a deeper critique of conditions and collective disruptive action to redesign ways of meeting needs beyond unsustainable consumption. The special issue invites short communications or original research articles that address concrete teaching-learning interventions as well as conceptual contributions to the development of relevant perspectives. The issue is open to all contributors and welcomes contributions from underrepresented geographies and backgrounds, critical and philosophical perspectives, and innovative and method-reflective approaches.

Guest editors: Daniel Fischer, Robert Didham, Ulf Schrader, Gregor Torkar, Renate Wesselink, Arjen EJ Wals

The submission period is from 1 August 2023 to 15 October 2023. 

For more information click here.