Elifcan Celebi, University of Oxford

Rossella Ciccia,

Ayşe Dursun, University of Vienna

David Palomera, University of Southern Denmark

The global care sector faces intensifying challenges from demographic changes, the pandemic, and fiscal constraints, resulting in overburdened systems and widening inequalities. Market-based and government responses have increasingly transformed care through commodification, financialisation, digitalization, and platformisation, with varied consequences across different regions and economies.

This special issue seeks empirical research exploring how care governance is being reshaped by economic, social, and technological changes, and how new political movements are mobilizing around care issues. The editors welcome studies using diverse methodologies and approaches—including feminist, intersectional, and postcolonial perspectives—that examine actors driving these transformations, institutional alternatives emerging across geographies, and policy innovations that might address the care crisis.

Appel publié par Gender Work and Organization. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• How do ongoing processes of commodification, financialisation, digitalization and (in)formalisation transform care? What roles do markets and financial actors, as well as international organizations, governments, feminist movements, labour organisations, play?
• How are new and old actors (such as care workers, social movements, care platforms, cooperatives, financial organisations, or public–private and public-communitarian partnerships) reshaping care infrastructures, practices, and labour across the Global North and Global South?
• How are emerging social, economic and technological processes reconfiguring the relationship between states, markets, families, and communities in different contexts? How do gender, race, care, labour, and migration regimes become entangled in new or altered ways at global, national and local scales? And how do these processes affect gender, class, race, nation hierarchies and intersecting inequalities across caregivers and care receivers?
• What kind of policy innovations offer promising alternatives to the structural crisis of care? Which proposals in diverse geographies (e.g., communitarian services, caring cities or care commons) from social movements, international organizations, experts, or local initiatives show promise to offer a pathway to a more caring society?

Timeline

• April 1, 2026: Submissions open
• October 30, 2026: Submission deadline

Anastasios Xepapadeas, Athens University of Economics and Business

Simone Marsiglio, University of Pisa

Luca Gori, University of Pisa

The special issue examines anti-environmentalism—opposition to environmental regulation, renewable energy expansion, and climate mitigation efforts—and its implications for achieving green growth and sustainable development. It addresses how public attitudes, political polarization, and institutional factors shape the feasibility and design of environmental policies in the context of escalating climate risks and planetary boundaries.

The collection seeks research across environmental economics, macroeconomics, political economy, and behavioral economics that explores the causes, dynamics, and consequences of anti-environmental movements for sustainable economic transitions. It welcomes diverse methodological approaches, with particular emphasis on studies that clarify the complex relationships between anti-environmentalism, economic incentives, and policy effectiveness in facilitating low-carbon development.

Appel publié par Environmental and Resource Economics. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Economic, social and political determinants of anti-environmental attitudes and behavior
• The impact of populism, misinformation, and lobbying on climate and environmental policy outcomes
• Public perception and resistance to carbon taxation, green industrial policies, and regulation
• Distributional and equity aspects of green growth as sources of policy backlash
• The role of institutions and governance in shaping environmental resistance
• International and comparative analyses of anti-environmental movements and climate cooperation
• Behavioral and cultural dimensions of environmental skepticism and pro-growth narratives
• Policy strategies for overcoming anti-environmentalist sentiment and fostering green, just and inclusive transitions
• Economic growth under increasing climate-related extreme event risk, and the costs of climate skepticism

Timeline

• March 31, 2027: Submission deadline