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October 18, 2022

Political Animals: Reclaiming the Politics Beyond Humans

Panel proposed at the 2023 ASLE + AESS Conference: “Reclaiming the Commons”

July 9-12, 2023 in Portland, Oregon

“Hence it is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal.” This statement of of Aristotle is often interpreted as nonhumans not being concerned with politics and that politics is a prerogative of humans only. Political associations in a human society are often restricted to humans. However, contemporary research in ethology suggests that nonhuman communities and their ...

Call for proposals for topical issues – Open Cultural Studies

CALL FOR PROPOSALS FOR TOPICAL ISSUES of OPEN CULTURAL STUDIES vol. 2023

Open Cultural Studies (https://www.degruyter.com/journal/key/culture/html) invites groups of researchers, conference organizers and individual scholars to submit their proposals of edited volumes to be considered for publication as topical issues of the journal.

To submit your proposal please contact Dr Katarzyna Tempczyk at katarzyna.tempczyk@degruyter.com Proposals will be collected by October 31, 2022.

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Open Cultural Studies is a peer-reviewed, scholarly journal that explores the fields of Humanities, Social Sciences and Arts. It interprets culture in an inclusive sense, in different ...

Storying the Plantation(ocene) Otherwise

Panel proposed at the 2023 ASLE + AESS Conference: “Reclaiming the Commons”

July 9-12, 2023 in Portland, Oregon

Co-organised by Dr. Jill Didur (Concordia University, Montreal) and Priscilla Jolly (Concordia University, Montreal)

This panel examines how the ongoing legacy of plantation epistemologies and violence are made visible, critiqued, resisted, and imagined ‘otherwise’ through different modes of storytelling (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, visual culture, digital culture, popular media, and policy documents). Taking up Haraway’s call to ‘story otherwise’ for ‘Earthly survival’ (2016), we invite papers that explore ...