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February 6, 2024

Ecoadaptations: Mediating Nature and the Environment

Proposals are invited for an edited collection of essays that explore the relationship between adaptation studies and the environment. The editors of the Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture series have expressed interest in publishing this collection.

In his 2023 article, “Towards an Ecocritical Adaptation Studies,” Robert Geal argues persuasively that adaptation studies can “help address the fundamental ecocritical question—what is it about our culture(s) which cause(s) us to endanger our own survival by treating the biosphere with such contempt?—by outlining how human ...

Unearthed: Resurgence, Restoration, and Revival

See the full call here: https://unearthedesf.com/call-for-submissions-resurgence-restoration-and-renewal/

Unearthed Returns for Spring 2024

We’re thrilled to announce the revival of Unearthed. Like a field left fallow for a season to rest, the literary and art magazine published by the State University of New York College of Environmental Sciences and Forestry, is now ready for a fresh new editorial team to breathe new life back into its pages. And we can’t wait for you to join us!

We invite writers, poets, artists, and creatives to submit to our upcoming ...

Humanities Special Issue: “Care in the Environmental Humanities”

Call online: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/humanities/special_issues/0LNYE52731

Dear Colleagues, In her new book, Cannibal Capitalism (2023), Nancy Fraser connects the climate and ecological crises to a contemporary crisis of care. Both, she argues, are rooted in a voracious form of capitalism that consumes the resources upon which our lives depend. This Special Issue seeks to build on a wave of recent writing that explores care as a valuable concept for the environmental humanities. ‘What’, Maria Puig de la Bellacasa asks, ‘does caring mean when we go about thinking and ...