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March 24, 2025

Life After Life: Critical Plant Studies and Capitalist Waste

To close gaps in a special issue with South Atlantic Quarterly, we are seeking abstracts for papers that can respond to the critical studies turn in scholarship.

Abstract

Responding to the undeniable reality of the Anthropocene, academic discourses have tried to contest and decenter the figure of the anthropos as the subject and root cause of our climate scene. Consequently, the environmental humanities have proposed several theoretical turns from the recasting of matter and relational ontologies to the current plant turn. It is within and ...