Organization & Environment is an international forum for discussion of the complex social causes and consequences of environmental damage, restoration, sustainability, and liberation. In particular, O&E is focused on connections between the natural environment (including animals, plants, air, water, land, and other ecological entities and systems) and formal and informal patterns of organizing human production and consumption. O&E promotes environmentally sensitive reflection, inquiry, and practice by publishing work that problematizes domination by humans, that interrogates and investigates existing systems of organizing production and consumption, that develops transformative ideas, and that imagines and articulates ecotopian futures. The editors of O&E welcome for review work that provides a base of scientific understanding, ethical argumentation, aesthetic appreciation, spiritual inspiration, utopian imagery, and/or down-to-earth reality checks to inform and elevate discussion about organization and environment. This is achieved through a variety of regular features, including the following:
ACADEMIC RESEARCH ARTICLES: O&E promotes work that makes substantial empirical, theoretical, methodological, and/or philosophical contributions, underwritten by critical, interpretive, positivist, and other epistemological positions. Additionally, the editors encourage work that develops comprehensive frameworks (such as ecofeminism, environmental justice, and social ecology), that advances radically new conceptualizations and/or ways of researching organization and environment or that adds insight from empirical theory to the analysis of organizational and environmental issues.
AESTHETIC AND ARTISTIC CONTRIBUTIONS: O&E features artistic work focused on organizations and the natural environment. This includes photographic essays, original nature writings (narratives, poetry), and other forms of creative expression. It also includes critical interpretations of classic and contemporary artistic work from the fields of literary ecology and ecocriticism. The purpose of this section is to promote critical reflection and understanding and also, in an advocacy vein, to nurture respect for nature and to inspire a sense of deeper spiritual connection.
FUTURISTIC AND VISIONARY IMAGERY: O&E features work that presents alternative images of the future: (a) ecotopian images that emphasize more restorative, harmonic, and idealized patterns of living in nature; or (b) dystopian images that emphasize blighted, alienated, and antiutopian patterns of living in nature. The purpose of this section is to stimulate imaginative thinking and a richer range of possible futures. O&E also presents a variety of other features, including:
Commentaries on citation classics and foundational work
Book, film, music, and other media reviews
Archives of organizational and environmental literature
Reports and discussions of local environmental organizing
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: All submissions to O&E will be evaluated by the editors or feature editors and anonymous reviewers using a double-blind review process. The format and style of written works for publication should normally follow the guidelines of the
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (4th edition). (Some works may need to be formatted and stylized differently depending on the author's substantive and aesthetic objectives.) O&E's editors will use clarity, conciseness, and overall quality of writing as a criteria in determining the appropriateness of work for publication. Authors should strive to present their work succinctly and with a minimum of jargon. Normally, work submitted for review should not exceed 8,000 words; on some occasions, we will initiate review of works 10,000 words or longer. In such cases, the work must demonstrate unusual merit and serve as a model of in-depth research and thorough-going analysis. All submissions should be accompanied by a letter that briefly explains the nature of the contribution, an abstract of no more than 150 words, a biographical paragraph of 75 words or less, and a list of 6 key words. In addition to following APA style, manuscripts should generally conform--although exceptions will be made particularly in the case of artistic and creative work--to the following guidelines:
Everything (text, abstract, biographical paragraph, endnotes, block quotations, ect.) should be double-spaced. Underlining should be used for italics; no bolds should be used. Everything should be left-justified with a ragged right-hand margin (no full justification). All in-text citations should be included in the reference list; all references should have in-text citations. Each section (title page, abstract, text, appendix, notes, references, biographical, paragraph, table, figure) should begin on a separate page. Endnotes should be used instead of footnotes. Written signed permission for any copyrighted material incorporated into the manuscript should be obtained where necessary and should accompany the final manuscript. The title page should include all authors' names, mailing addresses, phone numbers, fax numbers, e-mail addresses, and any other pertinent contact information. Send 2 copies of all submissions to:
Dr. John M. Jermier, Co-editor, Organization & Environment
University of South Florida
COBA, BSN 3403
4202 East Fowler Avenue
Tampa, FL 33620-5500
Telephone: (813) 974-1757
Fax: (813) 905-9964
Email:
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