CFP: Book Chapters on Ecocinema with Transgender Themes
Seeking chapters about ecocinema featuring transgender themes as part of a global survey for The Handbook of Trans Cinema. We already have over 70 confirmed chapters by prominent scholars exploring trans films from 6 continents. We still need the following high-priority chapters: “Climate Fiction as Trans Cinema,” “The Anthropocene and Trans Cinema,” “Ecology and Trans Cinema,” “Environment and Trans Cinema,” and “Nature and Trans Cinema.” Proposals are due April 17, 2025.
Call for chapter proposals for an edited volume titled Ecospirituality in Asia: Narratives of Care, Conservation, and Sustainability
Call for chapter proposals for an edited volume titled Ecospirituality in Asia: Narratives of Care, Conservation, and Sustainability
This edited volume draws upon the interconnected narratives of ecology and spirituality in Asia from the perspectives of care, conservation, and sustainability of the environment. The intersection between ecology and spirituality, which is exemplified through terms such as ecospirituality, ecological spirituality, and spiritual ecology—broadly conveys that ecology and spirituality are deeply connected and spiritual reverence to ecology or spiritualisation of ecology is a potential approach to ...
Call for Chapter Proposals: Sky Imaginaries in Latin American Literature, Film, and Art
Latin American skies are at the crossroads of multiple cultural, scientific, historical, and political tensions. Technologies of astronomical observation continue to expand in the Atacama Desert. At the same time, new satellite swarms threaten the Chilean dark skies. For centuries, Indigenous peoples of the Americas have examined the skies diligently. Today, contemporary Latin Americans turn to their screens to consume multimedia content about cosmic mysteries and visions of extraterrestrial life. Crashes between birds and planes across the region have become more frequent as ...
Environmentalisms: Latinx Catholicism and the Environment
In this episode, Alex sat down with Amanda Baugh to chat about her new book, Falling in Love with Nature: The Values of Latinx Catholic Environmentalism. An ethnographic study of Hispanic Catholics, Baugh’s book argues to widen the definition of environmentalism to include those who commit more sustainable actions (recycling, public transportation) not because of an express desire to be an environmentalist, but because of pious attention to loving nature in order to uphold one’s faith. Spurred by a Public Religion Research Institute survey ...