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Critical Environmentalism is searching for engaging STS writers to review the following books:

- Alone Together: Why we expect more from technology and less from each other (Sherry Turkle)

- The Economics of Enough: How to run the economy as if the future matters (Diane Coyle)

- The End of Country (Seamus McGraw)

- The View from Lazy Point: A natural year in an unnatural world
(Carl Safina)

- World on the Edge: How to prevent environmental and economic
collapse (Lester Brown)

- Triumph of the City: How our greatest invention makes us richer, smarter, greener, healthier, and happier (Edward Glaeser)

- Cinderella Ate my Daughter: Dispatches from the front lines of the new girlie-girl culture (Peggy Orenstein) [For this title, we are searching for a writer who can prepare an analytical review situating this trade book among critiques of consumerism and gender roles/stereotypes]

** We invite guest editors (send CV or Bio link).
** We accept queries for reviews recent books with both academic and policy relevance.

If you’d like to prepare a review, please send:
1) Name & affiliation (if applicable)
2) Writing sample(s)
3) Title of the book you’d like to review
4) Your mailing address
To: [email protected]

Critical Environmentalism is a new interdisciplinary peer-review journal and review of books on the social studies of environmentalism. Critical Environmentalism publishes peer-review articles (launch forthcoming) and book reviews (launch summer 2011).