Insurgent Infrastructures
Insurgent Infrastructures Special Issue Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction
Whether it is pipeline protests, collapsed global supply chains, or fights for equitable housing, the invisible infrastructures that underpin our lives have gained an increasing vitality and presence as both bogeyman and rainmakers. More than just an increased visibility of the physical and ethereal infrastructures that compose our world, then, infrastructure itself, for all intents and purposes, has critically been weaponized over the past decade. From the insidious harvesting of digital data to the Polish/Belarusian border, ...
FEMINIST ECOLOGICAL CITIZENSHIP AND THE POLITICS OF CARE
Call for papers for the JoE’s fourth issue Special Issue
FEMINIST ECOLOGICAL CITIZENSHIP AND THE POLITICS OF CARE
At the “Women and Environment Conference” at UC Berkeley in 1974, convened by Sandra Marburg and Lisa Watson, the connection between women and environment was officially registered for the first time. The early ecofeminists like Vera Norwood find the association of women with nature and the efforts of the women in preserving the environment. They observe that, promoting its own history, and recognising the contribution of women in ...
Journal of Ecohumanism General Call
Journal of Ecohumanism invites contributors to submit their articles. Submission Deadline: throughout a year
Journal of Ecohumanism aims to open up new possibilities in reconfiguring the multidimensional interplays among humans and the more-than-human world by focusing on the structure, mechanics, functionalities, and representations of this interplay manifested across ecohumanist and civil contexts. Since Environmental Humanities ample research has looked at variable aspects of ecological citizenship, we have to focus on globalization’s temporality in the rise of Citizen Humanities. In this sense, we are in the midst ...
The Nature of Things: Ecology, Philosophy, and Poetics
Panel at NeMLA 2023
NIAGARA FALLS, NEW YORK March 23-26, 2023
What does it mean to write and think about nature? Do language, thought, and mimesis ultimately have the capacity to impact (and possibly cultivate) our natural environments, and do these environments in turn have the capacity to impact (and possibly cultivate) our words and ideas? Taking such questions as a starting point, this panel aims to explore how the relationship between the human community and the environment has occupied a central space within literature and ...