Selin, Co-editor of MIT’s Global Environmental Politics Journal, Pens Article for Special 25th Anniversary Issue
Professor Henrik Selin who serves as the co-editor of Global Environmental Politics (GEP), an MIT journal along with colleagues Susan Park and D.G. Webster co-authored the opening article — “Introduction to the 25th Anniversary Special Issue: Continuity and Change in Global Environmental Politics.”
In the article, Selin and his colleagues reflected on and celebrated the first 100 issues of the journal. The editors also collected data on the contributing authors and reviewing scholars of GEP to determine collaboration and diversity trends in journal’.
“The journal is home to a thriving—and growing—community of scholars who interact through its pages and in the real world via conferences and workshops,” said Selin, Park, and Webster. “Indeed, GEP would not have achieved success as a journal without the contributions of this community, including as editors, authors, and reviewers.”
While emphasizing the growing diversity in authorship, Selin and fellow editors acknowledged that more work remains so that GEP can truly claim the status of a cosmopolitan publication in the intellectual community.
“For us as editors, putting together this special issue has been a great opportunity to reflect on our practices as scholars producing knowledge of global environmental politics and to consider how our editorial decisions impact the field. … In this special issue, we have curated what we consider an outstanding collection that not only considers major contributions and important blind spots in the field but will also guide our research on global environmental politics for the rest of the 21st century.”
The full article by Professor Selin and his colleagues can be accessed here.
To peruse the new GEP issue, click here.
Henrik Selin is a Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies. He is a prolific author and researcher with an extensive body of work focused on environmental politics and policy. Professor Selin is currently the editor of the journal Global Environmental Politics. To learn more about his work and achievements in academia, visit his faculty profile.