THEMATIC NOTEBOOK ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM AND THE RE-EXISTENCE OF BLACK TERRITORIES WORLDWIDE

ABPN Magazine Edition (Brazil)| April 2022

Special Edition Scientific Journal UEM (Mozambique) | May 2022

ABOUT THE THEMATIC NOTEBOOK

Today, the global population fights for life, crediting Science with ensuring that humanity survives COVID-19. However, even in the midst of the pandemic outbreak, which brought with it the distance and isolation between people in the last sixteen months, the world continued to document the persistent violence configured in racism against peoples on the African continent and in the diasporas. It is understood that economic growth projects — in cities and countryside, under the responsibility of states and private companies — have impacted and relegated the lives of native and black peoples around the world to serious threats.

These impacts and violations have been analyzed in academic research for decades and denounced by victims who are exposed to toxic waste from monocultures, mining, industrialization, landfills, housing projects, expropriation of public lands and by the lack of services that promote the health of communities. In this bias, it is observed that determinants of color, race, ethnicity, gender and class are related to disturbances in life and territorialities.

Aiming to contribute to the understanding of this local, communitarian, territorial, regional and global context, the special edition of the ABPN Journal (Brazil) and the Scientific Journal of the Eduardo Mondlane University (Mozambique) invite authors to share contemporary knowledge about forms and structures of environmental racism in the 21st century.

From a critical and constructive perspective, we suggest to those interested in the publication three questions of approaches:

What is environmental racism in your body, communitarian and territorial reality?
What are the forms, structures and processes in which environmental racism takes place?
What strategies and approaches (popular, communitarian and territorial) are being used for resistance and re-existence against environmental racism?

THEMATIC TOPICS OF THE SPECIAL EDITION

─ Environmental racism and the rights of Ordinary and Black People in the original and ancestral territory;

─ Environmental racism and struggles for rights in the city and in the countryside;

─ Ancestral ecological and communitarian practices and well-being;

─ Food sovereignty and re-existence of urban, rural, indigenous, quilombola and traditional communities;

─ Media, narrative and art in confronting environmental racism and re-existence tactics;

─ Environmental racism and health in black communities of African immigrants and refugees;

─ Environmental racism, climate and energy justice;

─ Gentrification and housing insecurity in historically black communities;

─ Living conditions in prisons and detention centers;

─ Racism, precarious work and informality;

─ Faith practices based on nature and black and indigenous religious traditions;

─ Environmental racism and re-existence of black women;

KEYWORDS: environmental racism, environmental justice, black communities, gender, race, ethnicity, urbanity, black territories, African diaspora, resilience, re-existence, structural racism, slow violence, decolonization, 21st century and intersectionality.

ABOUT THE AUTHORAL TEXTS

The special edition “Environmental Racism Thematic Notebook and the Re-Existence of Black Territories around the World” will receive manuscripts in the following languages: Portuguese, English, Spanish and French.

Manuscripts may focus on experiences lived or perceived in built spaces, urban and rural, impacted by environmental racism in the 21st century, understood as fields of knowledge and knowledge encouraged by the critical and interdisciplinary perspective on human life in motion in the global space, its struggles and possibilities.

Manuscripts sent by teachers of traditional knowledge, subjects of law, researchers, community leaders, activists, militants and professionals will be accepted. We especially encourage the participation of first authors who identify themselves as Africans, native people, black or Afro-descendants.

ABOUT FORMATTING AND SUBMISSION

Texts for evaluation must be submitted through registration in the ABPN Journal (https://abpnrevista.org.br/index.php/site/login) and must be submitted to the guidelines for authors (https://abpnrevista.org. br/index.php/site/information/authors ).

Only texts with a maximum number of 20 pages will be accepted, including: abstract, introduction, development, figures, tables, graphs, photos and references. Abstracts must have a maximum number of 500 characters with spaces.

ABOUT THE PUBLICATION

The Special Editions Editorial Committee is responsible for the approval of 15 (fifteen) unpublished articles for publication in the ABPN Magazine (Brazil) and 10 (ten) unpublished articles for publication in the Scientific Magazine of UEM (Mozambique).

The Editorial Committee will classify 15 (fifteen) articles for publication in the second edition by the ABPN Magazine.

The texts published in the ABPN Magazine will have a version in the original language and in Portuguese.

Texts published in the Scientific Magazine of UEM (Mozambique) will be published in Portuguese (http://www.revistacientifica.uem.mz/revista/).

EDITORIAL COMMITTEE OF SPECIAL EDITIONS

Sandra Manuel, PhD (Eduardo Mondlane University, Mozambique)

Homepage: https://eduardo-mondlane.academia.edu/SandraManuel

Courtney G. Woods, PhD (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)

Homepage: https://sph.unc.edu/adv_profile/courtney-g-woods/

Diosmar Santana Filho, Doctoral Student (Fluminense Federal University, Brazil)

Homepage: https://uff.academia.edu/DiosmarFilho

Nicea Quintino Amauro, PhD (Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil)

Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/2868011234412385

Gabriela Leandro Pereira, PhD (Federal University of Bahia, Brazil)

Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/9916943655624465

CONTACT FOR MORE INFORMATION

E-mail: revistaabpn@gmail.com