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March 26, 2024

ARIEL Special Issue on Decolonizing Asian Diasporic Ecocriticism

ARIEL Special Issue Call for Papers: Decolonizing Asian Diasporic Ecocriticism

Guest Editors: Emily Yu Zong, Assistant Professor, Hong Kong Baptist University Jeffrey Santa Ana, Associate Professor, Stony Brook University

In Decolonial Ecology, Malcom Ferdinand argues that modernity has wrought a double crisis: environmental devastation by capitalist and technocratic forces, and colonial legacies of Western imperialism marked by systemic racism and Indigenous erasure. This double crisis helps us to see that human emancipation alone cannot be the only goal in envisioning a decolonial future. Rather, a world that ...