Gavin Co-Edits Special Issue on Materials Criticality: Justice, Equity and Governance

Gavin, with Felipe Irarrázaval, Bossissi Nkuba and Damien Short, is guest editing a special issue of Contemporary Social Science titled Materials Criticality: Justice, Equity, and Governance of Strategic Elements. The call for papers asks who a material is critical for, at what ecological cost and under whose authority, challenging approaches that centre on supply disruption and price volatility.

Themes include expanding criticality indicators to cover social vulnerability and human rights, decolonial and North-South dynamics, Indigenous sovereignty, policy and regulatory frameworks, circularity and demand reduction, and labour and environmental impacts. Full papers of 4,000 to 10,000 words and commentaries of 2,000 to 4,000 words are welcome.