Local Culture seeks the submission of undergraduate essays for its upcoming edition. Submission length should range from 1,500 to 8,000 words (approximately 5 to 20 pages, double-spaced). We welcome discussions related to any issue of sustainability or ecology, including but certainly not limited to arguments favoring/opposing a piece of ecological legislation, commentaries on environmental writers or works, interviews with figures in the contemporary sustainability movement, personal or narrative essays, research essays on the ecological views of an historical or philosophical figure, accounts of the sustainable (or unsustainable) practices of foreign cultures, works on environmental/sustainable economics and politics, non-technical scientific essays, local histories, appreciation pieces on lesser-known writers or artists from your area, and pieces related to any question of sustainability generally.
Submissions should be consistently formatted and documented, conforming to the style manual appropriate to the discipline within which the work is written.
Submissions for the upcoming edition of Local Culture are due Sunday, May 23. Please email your submissions or queries to the editorial board of Local Culture at localculture@augustana.edu.
Click here to read the Winter 2009-10 Issue of Local Culture.
Editor-in-Chief: Nick Borchert
Editorial Board: Kate O’Connor, Katie Fick, Dana Swanson, Margaret Foley, Lindsey Haines, and Jaron Gaier
Advisor: Jason Peters
Featured in this issue:
“Mow Jobs, Monocultures, and Marking Turf: The Gendered and Ecologically Fragmented American Suburban Lawn”
Hannah Rivenburgh, Macalester College
“Destroying Ground-Landlord Spirituality: Implications of Modernism and Mobility on Place in Howards End“
Dana Swanson, Augustana College
“A Case Study: The Impacts of the James Bay Hydropower Complex”
Laurence Deschamps-Laporte, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“Revolutions of Destruction”
Tim Faith, Augustana College
Editor-in-Chief: Aaron Schroeder
Editorial Board: Emily Dunn, Megan Renne, Kathrine O’Connor, Ross Jallo, Kimberly Hernandez, Lindsey Haines, Margaret Foley
Advisor: Jason Peters
Papers:
How Local Can You Be?
Allissa Morson, Carleton College
Winter08 Morson.pdf
Desertification in the Western Sahel
Ashley Blazina, Knox College
Winter08 Blazina.pdf
The 1175
Benjamin Sanberg, Augustana College (IL)
Winter08 Sanberg.pdf
American Food Systems in Grinnell, Iowa
Sam Foreman, Grinnell College
Winter08 Foreman.pdf
Green School Design
Stephanie Dilling, Augustana College (IL)
Winter08 Dilling.pdf
